Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Life is such that the sound of an unfamiliar outsider makes their presence known, we can often be forgiven for recoiling at the outlandish oddity of their voice, the startle in which the mind refuses to comprehend, the feeling of disconcertment when their phrases shake your beliefs and the shutters and the walls start to begin to appear between you and them.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Your Place, or even mine, wherever your place, your particular safe space in which you are either welcomed in to, or in which you make others comfortable and relaxed, that is the level of friendship that we perhaps aspire to, that we can invite someone from a thousand miles or more away and feel the contented ease of their presence sit alongside ours.
There was a time,
I remember it well,
that I loved you
so much that I was willing
to forget everything else you did.
There was a time,
I remember it well,
that all you were
to me was pain and suffering,
I vowed to recall every second.
There was a time,
I remember it well,
I swore I would
die for you, to find you
placed me in the firing line.
There was a time,
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We are granted so little in this world, some perhaps more than others but the basics that come to us should be held on to with dear life, with purpose and with dignity. Our senses for one, if we are fortunate enough to see, hear, touch, speak, then we are indeed blessed, we have the freedom to wonder, to imagine, the liberty of speech, and the freedom of sound; a freedom we should never allow to be taken from us, a freedom that is as beautiful as one day of Sunshine in a month of rain.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
We all seek the sense of foresight, a possibility of fortune and the hope that once in a while we may enjoy being held by Providence tightly, that she may whisper in to our ears, “That the journey from somewhere like Rhode Island to the historic passion of Nashville will come for you, just hold on.”
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No matter where we believe we are from, the sound of Africa still resonates deep in our soul and in our species’ memory, we find ourselves looking to that continent with awe and with trepidation. It should be argued more vigorously that we have all been party to its suffering, that it still, despite its natural beauty and deep secrets, has scars that potentially will never heal, not properly, not with the sense that right minded people would like it be, more than bountiful, more than flourishing, it should be lauded and prized as a beacon of that is good and beautiful.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
History always recalls the large moments, the seemingly unshakeable facts that we repeat and regurgitate in class or in film, the presence of the figures that have shaped the world, for good, for their own nefarious reasons. History always understands that we are defined collectively by those instances, but for the individual the moment seems greater, the recollection arguably clearer, for they have no distraction, unlike the cheering crowd revelling in the Aut Pax Aut Bellum…either peace or war.
Remember when you sat
on worn down Time, and looked
only to the blue horizon
and wished for tomorrow
to come, worn down by the time
it arrives and lost
in the dream of another day,
eroded stone cast possibilities,
gone forever, now turned to worn down Time,
on which summer days
hold only the pleasure of ice cream drip
and the blue horizon
of tomorrow.
Ian D. Hall 2018
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
The air and atmosphere inside the Echo Arena was still, a feeling arguably of the uncertainty of time in which the overbearingly hot, sweat-filled and almost distaste of a lack of summer breeze coming off the Mersey, ran riot with the emotions of the thousands who were there, milling around, some hand in hand, others clutching the only means of cooling down they could find, a full circle reached, in a way that only Roger Waters perhaps could achieve.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
All your prayers are answered, the conversation with the gods has been noted and the outcome is one in which the incredible Liverpool band, The Mono LPs, return in the robes of a messenger having visited a wise Oracle, guarding a proclamation so deep, so meaningful, that the response from the Heavens is one that is earth shattering, upbeat and full of the exuberance you would need to shout, Hell, Save My Soul.