Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
You only notice the heat of your life when The Wind Blows By to shake the feeling of emotional swelter from what has been your existence so far; a cool wind of realisation, or rationale and the chance to savour the cordiality with one’s soul, it is all that is required to feel the calm breeze lift your spirits and reflect upon what is important and what is but a tempest you cannot control.
I stroked the palm
of my hand gently,
and I saw you watching me,
not yet introduced, a fumbled attempt
in truth, to make friends.
I had made an H, crude,
followed by the easier e
and a couple of l’s and o
Hello, I signed silently,
mouthing it as if an unsure echo
would clarify my delight
in speaking to you with slow insecure fingers.
You smiled, a moment and a barrier broken.
You then asked me a question,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
People pay thousands for therapy, some rattle on whilst the world pretends to take notice for a while, and then, when it is all over, they complain that nothing has changed, that somehow just talking to a pair of ears can ever find a way to lose the spectres and phantoms we carry round with us in our hearts. The point that could be argued, that whilst it is good to talk, it is far better to listen, sometimes even more enjoyable in some certain scenarios, to understand the restless spirit, to be thrilled with Living With Your Ghost.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The lifestyles of the rich and famous, the glitz and the sparkling glamour, it is, in the eyes of many, the way to be remembered, to have a good time, it is born perhaps out of jealousy, out of desperation even, it is the longing that sits buried in the heart of the human sea and one that grows with speed and unfulfilled desire; to have a First Class Life, they believe involves a greater degree of hedonism, perhaps bordering on the selfish and the unrepentant.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
You can paint words onto a canvas and take the chance that you will, artistically, be recognised and that your sentence is long and fruitful, that even the deaf value your voice and the blind seek out comfortably your vision, that in an age where the artist can no longer rely on being heard or their story told in later years, that the allusion to the greats such as Goya, Rubens or Constable, are not in vein when thinking of the art held aloft.
We grew tall in the shadow of nuclear burn
but inside, as we made these Bicester country
lanes our buffeted fortresses,
our escapes
from those that lied to us from
the outlook of swinging sixties leaflets
and paraphernalia of a golden age
in which they now stood as kings,
taking apart, bit by bit…nothing,
only adding to our insecurities and rage
and swipe back fear
of the errant cuffed ear,
inside we withered, fed on difficult calories
that added little to the nourishment
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Adam Leyland, Laura Connelly, Adam Nicholls, Liam-Powell-Berry, Callum Forbes, Daniel Hubbard, Thomas Galashan, Warren Kettle, Faye Caddick, Megan Bond, Thomas Heyes, Sam Brown, Mike Manning, George Wills, Aaron Cork, Jacob Simpson.
Genius is not a word to bandy round like a bag of sweets that has been pinched from the local shop and sucked to death by a gang of young tearaways determined to have something on their resume to take onto adult hood, the moment of defiance was born, when being the daring mastermind behind such a great plan was the moment the intellect was sealed.
The fear of ridicule,
of hate disguised as passive aggressive
jealousy, of mockery, of animosity,
should I dare to expose the feeling
that Roger described as naked,
that I see as part of my soul unguarded
and alone in the exposed light
of bitterness; or should I stop,
just stop, for a moment and understand
that by the pronouncement of this bound
birth, I am only fulfilling an obligation
to myself, nobody else, just me,
the fear of ridicule and sneering mosquito
is there to keep me sane.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Colin Morgan, Emily Watson, Tom Wilkinson, Anna Chancellor, Edwin Thomas, Beatrice Dalle, Julian Wadham, John Standing, Andre Penvern, Tom Colley, Stephen M. Gilbert, Alister Cameron, Benjamin Voisin, Antonio Spagnuolo, Franca Abategiovanni, Joshua McGuire, Ronald Pickup.
It takes a fearless and heroic person to bring a legend to the screen, to attempt, to undoubtedly crack, the enigma that lay behind their story, be it in the fascinating, gruesome, indecorous or the beautiful; or in the case of one of the more celebrated writers of the time, Oscar Wilde. It could be argued that all four states of human feeling and postured masks can be seen than in perhaps anybody else who strode across the world’s stage in an era which was harsh, unforgiving, brutal and by today’s standards ruthlessly riddled with toxic masculinity.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
When you are a Queen, a public proclaimed member of musical royalty, almost anything is possible, no song is out of touch, no struggle in the search for a tune that is deemed brave, beautiful or positively full of bounce, is never going to be cast aside and dismissed as out of bounds, for a Queen, especially one who has done so much to bring Calypso to an even greater audience, a woman who broke the domination of the genre and gave it a distinctly female voice.