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Entebbe. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Rosamund Pike, Daniel Brühl, Eddie Marsan, Kamil Lemieszewski, Ben Schnetzer, Nonso Anozie, Mark Ivanir, Juan Pablo Raba, Denis Ménochet,   Andrea Deck, Brontis Jodorowsky, Lior Ashkenazi, Peter Sullivan, Angel Bonanni,  Natalie Stone, Vincent Riotta,      Laurel Lefkow, Yiftach Klein,  Flynn Allen, Gabriel Constantin, Uriel Emil, Laurence Bouvard.

The trouble with history is that it is only in retrospect do you begin to understand how the series of connections fell into place, that the burden we carry for finding that one moment which defines the whole historical fact in an nutshell and the cry of desperation when we find it would be easier to wipe everything away, dismiss all that went before and start again, to wipe away all the accounts and narration away, over and over again.

Entebbe. Film Review. full post

(522 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

A Man Of Such Stature.

Many names I have carried,

sometimes in burden, often

in indifference, hatred, spoken

in anger and the eye soaked

in blood, a few times my name

has, surprisingly, carried warmth, pride,

the feeling of recognition and despite

it all, one in which I cling to,

finger nails clawing at the driven old by time rocks

and smashed by heaving water,

I retain my name, e, simple, easy to remember,

My promise to myself

when I hear it that I shall live-up

to all honour I believe, I hope, I possess,

A Man Of Such Stature. full post

(318 words, estimated 1:16 mins reading time)

Joe Bonamassa, British Blues Explosion Live. Album/ D.V.D Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

In the meeting of majesty, one must always surely pay homage and reflect the dignity with honour, when that majestic is two-fold, when it is the sublime and stately holding the imposing and grand, then that forbearance of respect is duty bound, it is the principal of having witnessed a privileged performance and acting upon it accordingly.

Joe Bonamassa, British Blues Explosion Live. Album/ D.V.D Review. full post

(502 words, 1 image, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

Villy Raze, Gig Review. Craft Taproom, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

A festival isn’t a festival unless you have Villy Raze somewhere in the vicinity, the marked poetic aggression, the sincerity of overthrowing the often deemed conventional, but one that is delivered with respect and the smile of a thousand Irish heartbeats making music in unison, no matter the place or venue, it has always been a pleasure to catch the live performance of this genial giant of music in full throw.

Villy Raze, Gig Review. Craft Taproom, Liverpool. full post

(430 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Daniel And Emma Reid, Life Continuum. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It never matters what song is sung, or if the world is vocally silent whilst the humility of the performance is evident, what matters is that the tune carries the listener off to another place and allows them the privilege of thoughtful introspection, of wondering in the face of no lyric, what words they can conjure up themselves that would be fitting to the feeling they are experiencing.

Daniel And Emma Reid, Life Continuum. Album Review. full post

(393 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

The Slow Readers Club, Build A Tower. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

A deep and electronic heart, in the darkness the lights flicker, the wires that criss-cross and connect, flash, start to pulse and come alive, an eye opens, it looks towards where the sound is coming from and then with a distant memory of what may have tantalised the human brain before, the smile of recognition, a dream that once turned to faded brown, suddenly bursts into a living, breathing, cascading abundance of colour and sharp definition and the electronic heart whispers Build A Tower, build a monument because The Slow Readers Club have come to reclaim what went before.

The Slow Readers Club, Build A Tower. Album Review. full post

(422 words, 1 image, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

The Bicester Dance Hall.

Under the orange

glow of the back street

light, she wanted to hold

my hand, grip it tight,

and talk of the future,

I wanted

to live in the present,

I gingerly told her I wanted to kiss her

rouged red lips

and tell her I loved her,

we compromised

and that night

as the glow died down

at just before dawn,

we learned to dance.

 

Ian D. Hall 2018

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The Waterboys, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. (2018).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Anniversaries are special, they remind us just how far we have come in the search for ourselves and our time at the helm of our own personal blues, our backdrop of the fiddle pulsating away between the lyrics of the song we sing, as we take a pen to the wall and cross off yet another year, another celebration in the pursuit of an added dream. We cross off the years and then we look back, we survey the happiness and sometimes sour and we revel in them, for it is in the life we live that makes the anniversary special.

The Waterboys, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. (2018). full post

(430 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

I, The Lion. Gig Review. Craft Taproom, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There in the deep heart of England’s countryside town of Cheltenham, a place that holds secrets and listens in to the chatter, gossip and state sponsored espionage, a town surrounded by the thought of the country’s green and pleasant land, is the roar of the unexpected, of the disquiet and arguably unrest against the rule of tyranny dressed in shining suits and old school money; there is bellow calling out in this heart land of conservatism and rigid social structure and one that has I, The Lion as the leader of this surprising, but ultimately welcome, fight back against pre-conceived ideas and demanding social inequality.

I, The Lion. Gig Review. Craft Taproom, Liverpool. full post

(487 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)