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The Eskies, And Don’t Spare The Horses. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The melodrama of it all, the upsurge in tempo, the outstanding narrative and quirky, tongue in cheek sense of humour, all in a day’s work it seems for The Eskies and one that has come to enshrined as a platinum standard of music for the Dublin quintet as they release their second And Don’t Spare the Horses.

Ruby Boots, Don’t Talk About It. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

For good or for ill, we are now encouraged to talk about everything that happens to us in our daily lives. If it is important then it is understandable to make sure our voices are heard, that our point of view is given air time and given respect, in a world of 7 billion people it is essential that we don’t curtail anybody’s story, that we don’t censer the stuff of great consequence.

Crooked House. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Christina Hendricks, Gillian Anderson, Glenn Close, Max Irons, Stefanie Martini, Terence Stamp, Julian Sands, Amanda Abbington, Christian McKay, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, John Heffernan, Preston Nyman, Madeleine Hyland, Petros L. Ioannou, David Cann, Gino Picciano, Andreas Karras, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, David Kirkbride, Ricky Gabbrielini, David Seddon, Reuben Greeph, Ani Nelson, Lauren Poveda,  Honor Kneafsey.

The Woman In The City.

 

With my wife’s permission,

I spent the late winter Saturday evening

in the memory of embrace and arms

of my first love before

heading back home, cold feet

but undoubtedly a warmed heart.

I have neglected her, since she came

into money. For nine

and half long years I watched, hiding

my interest, trying hard

to forget just what this lady

in sheer blue had once meant to me.

I had loved her

when it seemed no one else would,

when she ragged, poor, shambolic,

Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Daisy Ridley, Mark Hamill, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Domhnall Gleeson, Gwendoline Christie, Carrie Fisher, Billie Lourd, Andy Serkis, Oscar Issac, Laura Dern, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kelly Marie-Tran, Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Daniels, Warwick Davies, Frank Oz, Jimmy Vee, Joonas Suotamo, Adrian Edmondson, Mark Lewis Jones, Hermoine Corfield.

You can’t keep a good franchise down; lord knows they tried with the release of the much maligned episodes one and two of the Star Wars saga, but no matter what, eventually the licence to entertain and print money, sell merchandise and hopefully the true point of making a good story realised on screen will see the series continue.

Almanac, Kingslayer. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is a reason why some certain aspects of history resonate more than others in the minds of those who choose to look back, for they are normally the ones who see the parallels in the present day, they are the ones who can see just how a natural course of events in the modern era have been shaped by what has gone before and as one political leader is character assassinated or thrown to the wolves, so too does a King or Queen of old resemble that putsch or stab in the back.

We Are Parasols, Inertia. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The darkness can be a place where the consuming nature of humanity can lead to the feeling of inaction, where apathy escorts the soul to its own inevitable destruction. If though you can even see the light, a thin wedged margin just within arm’s reach and offering a sense of comfort, then to walk that line is feel perhaps the most alive, where Inertia is handed a throbbing beat and a pulse in which to feel the spark glow red hot and burn with joy.

Autumn, The Fall. Maxi-Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

You don’t have to look to far to see how the season invoke the passions of the poet and would be lovers in equal force.

Spring brings that tantalising prospect of hope, the return of order from out the darkness that the Romans largely clumped together and then prayed to their gods that the first flowers would return, summer is the full flush of lust and heat, provoking the poet to seek out wooded glades and spy on the green leaves dancing in anticipation, winter is the time when huddled together before a fire and the thrust of conversation takes place and leaves autumn, with trees that shed their inhibitions and the cinematic landscapes that catch the eye.

Operation: Mindcrime, The New Reality. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

It was once a cry of exasperation that would be uttered by a spouse or a parent, that the almost degrading verbal punch to the senses of “You need to live in the real world” is often the last resort of an argument from those who have jealousy in their heart because they have forgotten how to dream of a better life, that they want you to be as miserable as them. Now it seems that more people are finding ways to make their lives better, not by dreaming and succeeding but by hiding away, a virtual authenticity on every corner, a world where you can be the hero without leaving the house.; welcome to The New Reality and despite the allure, it is not a pretty sight.

From The Vault: Man On The Moon, Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Paul Giamatti, Gerry Becker, Leslie Lyles, George Shapiro, Vincent Schiavelli, Peter Bonerz, Patton Oswalt, Courtney Love, Jerry Lawler, Jim Ross, Jeff Conway, Carol Kane, Judd Hirsch, Marilu Henner, Christopher Lloyd.