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Elijah James And The Nightmares, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Time was a new album or E.P. launch would be held in the frosted glaze of cameras and a hundred scribes finding a novel way to describe the happiness and pride in the room, the management pouring out champagne and the band assured a million dollar comeback; it was all colourful, it was cynical and it was never truly real. Under the façade of a thousand camera lenses lays one of the truths of life, that nothing is truly what is seems unless you witness it in all its beauty of the humble and quietly talented leaving a bigger mark on the audience than a extravaganza could ever achieve.

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(482 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

The Mono LPs, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Vicky Mutch at Studio 2. September 2017.

Not everything in life is a stroll, often we take the great moments for granted and always use them as the bench mark of how we must approach a new setback or pitfall. If everything was a stroll then the way we see the way of solving the setback would be just like taking a step around a small puddle in the middle of the pavement, we would just bypass it with a blasé demeanour, it would nothing more to us than even breathing or staring at the world and wondering why it had become so dull and predictable.

The Mono LPs, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool. full post

(498 words, 1 image, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)

Shy Billy, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Shy Billy at Studio 2, Liverpool. September 2017.

The change of name can sometimes reveal a different side to the artist, an altered state of vision and rhetoric down the microphone; the shift can cause the stage to shrug its shoulders and the audience to slowly drift off into the realms of memory and the once proudly proclaimed emblems on T-shirts, such is the trepidation of a name change, the question always asked, does it revolutionise the art or does it detract from it.

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(379 words, 1 image, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

The Punter, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Graham Geoffrey Hicks, Denise Kennedy.

It is one of the greatest of institutions and something that arguably the rest of the world wished it had, it has suffered terribly by lack of faith, investment and the vultures of capitalism who decry its very existence as socialist and meaningless unless it makes someone a pile of money, it’s aim is to teach, to aid the afflicted and ease the pressure on modern life; theatre is like the N.H.S. that other great British invention, it works so well because those who use it, care.

The Punter, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(459 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

IT, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Lieberher, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, Nicholas Hamilton, Jake Sim, Logan Thompson, Owen Teague, Jackson Robert Scott, Stephen Bogart, Stuart Hughes, Geoffrey Pounsett, Pip Dwyer, Molly Atkinson, Steven Williams, Elizabeth Saunders, Megan Charpentier, Joe Bostick, Ari Cohen, Anthony Ulc, Javier Botet, Katie Lunman, Carter Musselman, Tatum Lee, Edie Inksetter, Neil Crone, Sonia Gascón, Janet Porter.

 

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(619 words, estimated 2:29 mins reading time)

Wind River, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Kelsey Asbille, Julia Jones, Teo Briones, Apesanahkwat, Graham Greene, Tantoo Cardinal, Eric Lange, Gil Birmingham, Althea Sam, Tokala Clifford, Martin Sensmeier, Tyler Laracca, Austin R. Grant, Ian Bohen, Hugh Dillon, Matthew Del Negro, James Jordan, Jon Bernthal, Blake Robbins, Norman Lenhart.

 

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(555 words, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)

Circus Skills And Maths.

Combining

Circus skills training

and hardcore Mathematics

is not easy,

you might believe

all is going well,

that your choice

of study

whilst on the high wire

or flying through the air

ready to catch another’s arms

was wise,

but be careful

of those angles

and odd shaped squares

as you count to two and divide by three,

for you might just fall

off the Trapezium

 

Ian D. Hall 2017

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Katie Ellen, These Little Words. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Words are important, beyond that, they are critical, the way we are with others, words can signify everything, even in the smallest sentence, in the most casual of thoughts, words are like bombs or bandages, they can tear apart the world without a moment’s thought or they can heal, even unintentionally, they can break through the psyche of a pre-conditioned thought and make that person’s outlook so much sweeter.

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(363 words, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

Freedom Is A Swift Trademark.

Freedom is…

what exactly?

As long as it doesn’t hurt someone

too badly, you should be able to quietly

reason and debate

like civilised human beings

the wrongs and rights of a situation

without thinking that someone

is going to need counselling, freedom

to believe and say that someone

aiming to copyright a gesture

on stage or a phrase by a pretty girl,

or even a year,

is nothing more than money

talking over common sense,

the oh look at me, I can do anything I please

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(179 words, estimated 43 secs reading time)

Jared James Nichols, Black Magic. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is no mystery, no sleight of hand or conjuring trick visible, intended or perceived when you listen to Jared James Nichols perform. The appeal, the dedication and the captivating are all too real, all too genuine to be anything but truth wrapped up in fingers that play with the authority of the Blues Masters of old and the mind that won’t stop playing with notes and lyrics; if it must be seen as magic, then it must be dark, that ol’ Black Magic which even Faustus would shy away from.

Jared James Nichols, Black Magic. Album Review. full post

(391 words, 1 image, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)