Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
We all cannot be rock stars, we all can not all be heroes to the world, yet we do something that is heroic and takes real guts and determination, it can be a rock star choice, we can stop the hate, not just on certain genres but on people too, countries, individuals, we can bring an end to the practise of self proclaimed abhorrence to that which we either don’t understand or which we confess to never listening to in the first place.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9.5/10
We search all our lives for People Like Us, for those we see in the everyday, the faces that melt and merge with the one after another and the slow dawning that our standards are normally too high, that what we seek is impossible to define, all that we can hope for is that somewhere in the world the search is being undertaken, the same snapshot with an instant Polaroid result, that someone out there is looking for a person like you.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Jessie Buckley, Ben Hardy, Olivia Vinall, Art Malik, Ricardo Scamarcio, Sonya Cassidy, Joanna Scanlan, Ivan Kaye, Ruth Sheen, Dougray Scott, Charles Dance, Nicholas Jones, Vicki Pepperdine, Kerry Fox, Christopher Fairbank, Clare McMahon, James Flynn, Cathy Belton, Jesse Magee, Matthew Lawson, Frankie McCafferty, Cole Currin, James Flynn, Carla Bryson, Frankie McCafferty.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Embrace the change of revolution, the quake of personal transformation, for if you look closely under the skin, what you find is not conversion but innovation, an advancement in the original and yet one with all the attributes, positivity and panache that first came along and made you sit up and take notice of the uniqueness in the initial meeting.
It is to one of the much loved performers that has lit up the Liverpool scene in the last decade, Natalie McCool, that innovation, change, revolution has come along and gone on to prove that form is always temporary, and that class is permanent.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
There are some people on this planet to whom the gift of a smile in their direction is not enough to display the gratitude we owe them for making us happy, for giving us a gift of happiness that can never be fully repaid; some artists, family and friends deserve the longest of hugs and the full appreciation of a room of warm and loving applause, some will never perhaps know just how the simple act of a single song written means the world to thousands.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Nathan McGowran, Duncan Riches, Stephen Smith.
Life feels like just an act, a play in which we are duty bound to perform at all times, in which the moment we forget our lines, someone else is apt to dive straight in and take over, receiving the glory, the adulation from the press and the crowds who stopped to look our way, and the wry comments of speculation of what they are going to do next. Meanwhile, we stand there shouting to the world, finding the place in which we can rejoin the pace and the set down words; but knowing we will now forever be playing catch up.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There is nothing wasted when it comes to the energy of The Boston Shakers, there is enough raw power and passion to make the natural flow of volcanic lava that heats the Icelandic homes and business feel as though it is superfluous to the public need; such has been the immensity of the music performed and captured by the Liverpool based band that the thought of anything wasted is be dismissed as folly.
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Whether you rain on someone’s parade or spoil the day’s mojo, to bring someone down is perhaps the most injurious of crimes you can inflict upon another person’s mood or psyche; occasionally you might need to commit such an act to prevent harm from coming to them, from stopping them making the absolute fool of themselves, but that is always acceptable, welcome in some cases, but you should never go out of your way to make someone else feel bad about themselves just so that you can smile, smile and yet be a villain.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The comrades in arms, the unifying force that drives and spurs any band on, it is, in essence, or at least hope, a collective, a meeting of wills and minds that have a single goal, it might come from different directions and have perhaps alternative motives behind it. The merging of ideas and playful synaptic fusing is important, and in this group collective, the Superbrain kicks in and when produced with empathy and desire, the wit and reasoning of the goal becomes clear.
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The combination of the concept album and your own life story is an intriguing proposition to contemplate setting down on paper and recording for future generations to study and hopefully enjoy; it is the big stage and great work of literature in which you are truly the subject, the musical autobiography in which the songs flow with a charming pulse and dynamic purpose and one in which your words are more important than those assigned to you by third party preaching.