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Ian Siegal, It’s All The Rage. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It’s All The Rage… fear, anger, the frenzied daily attacks that leave us blindsided and feeling like our minds have become the plaything for lesser men to manipulate; it is all the rage, this feeling of anxiety, of thunder in the hearts but no lightning to spark the brain into the rebellion, or at least urging on those who are willing to tackle the subjects so few are able to comprehend.

Georgia Black, The Morning’s Just Begun. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

You have to get up early in the day if you don’t wish to betray the dawn; that the old Victorian adage of early to bed, early to rise, is only as good as what the day has in store for you, that being on a planet with seven billion other humans makes you less unique, almost in this day and age no more relevant than a cog in the machine, or at least that is what some would have you believe, for they only see the dawn, they don’t understand that The Morning’s Just Begun.

Front Row Circus Seats, Vlad.

 

It makes a change,

a deep breath is exhaled

by many like me, the old,

the infirm, the disabled, the poor, the children,

the low paid,

the single mums, the stay at home dads,

the neglected, the dying, the sick,

the homeless, the under pressure in

this country’s green and pleasant land

as we sit in the front row, given popcorn to eat

knowing that for a brief moment,

all eyes in the circus are fixed East,

the spy V spy deflecting our out

Jenny Van West, Happiness To Burn. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Some have money, some have Time, a few possess a certain talent that they readily dispense and others are quite content to set fire to the world in their pursuit of their own version of the dream, yet happiness is a commodity, an emotion that no one seems to want to share unless there is something in it for them, they will store it, lock it away as if it has the same value to them as Gold or the Dollar in their pocket.

Django Django, Marble Skies. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We can all look upwards and see the heavens as the very epitome of what gives us intrigue, imagination and wonder, what guides us and keeps us grounded, that no matter how hard we try to punch a hole through the great beyond, something inside of us will always cling to the marble we inhabit as it goes around the sun, a piece of us will always see the Marble Skies and understand whilst cannot touch what is through the void, the void will seek us out and make us find our soul.

Fondness For The Busker Of Liverpool.

 

Guitar strings played

on the dark night street,

maybe by light of day

and passing by twilight smile,

but always with a fondness

and ready cheer as the tottering

Hen Party groove

requested a song, a song,

play me a song to remember

when I marry him next week,

give me a tune to cry over

when I think of Liverpool

on this dark street, lit up

only by the smile on your face;

and he would oblige ,

dipping out of his own patient pulse and strum,

Beth Hart. Live From New York: Front And Center. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is the sound of the city that never gets tired,  no matter what is thrown against it, no matter the struggles and the trials that face New York, its heart beat never wavers, its song remains constant and unconquerable, inspiring. One that even the lady holding out the welcome to all who visit her as she stands majestically on the biggest stage in the city, and her fierce gaze staring out defiantly to all who would mock a home of the Blues; this is the sound to which Beth Hart naturally belongs, in which the siren captures the soul as she sings Live From New York: Front And Center.

The Dead Agents, E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It all seems in vogue, a return to the great Rock bands of the Midlands in which a generation pinned their hopes and aspirations upon, in which the past has become very much part of the future and to which The Dead Agents can be seen to be held deeply within this new and beguiling renaissance.

Erasure, World Beyond. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

To believe you can improve upon a classic is tantamount in many quarters as being condescending, perhaps even verging on the proud, of finding yourself placed into a section of society that is never satisfied with the result and considering yourself above the artist that made the picture perfect in the first place. However, to seek improvement, no matter in which way you deem appropriate, is how we learn, nothing is truly insurmountable that it cannot be seen as delving further, seeing farther and with the help of the collective ideal, be seen as going to the World Beyond.

David Nixon, Put It Back Together Again. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

If it isn’t broke, then don’t fix it, you can always improve and make the art just that little more special but when you have hit such a cool vein of expression that is distinctly your own, then the right thing to do is look upon it as a sign of confident passion and one when the time comes can be thought of the moment when you Put It Back Together again.