Well,
that was tremendous
fun…
shall we do the same again,
October?
in the wind and rain,
as Autumn leaves
fall to the ground
and we can all
be dismal
all year round.
Ian D. Hall 2017
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Field Of Wheat.
Field of wheat, what did you do
to deserve being run through
by the chaff of this land,
did you ask for the vicar’s daughter
to act like a combine harvester,
to terrorise you, to rampage through
your hard work and denigrating you
into letting go of the nourishing wheat,
the hard decision in which one to save
because the footsteps, the running chaff,
tore at your foundations,
wiped out the hope of food for all
and allowed the following magpies,
black and white hedge head hunters
The Black Watch, The Gospel According To John. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
From whence you came is but where you shall return, in the case of L.A. based band The Black Watch, the line in between the two is so strong, so distinct that it sends out its own pulse. It gives and receives the punches as if it had got between the Ice Hockey players of Colorado Avalanche and the Detroit Red Wings in a match which decided arguably the finest boxer on skates, so well that it comes away without being either bloodied or bruised and is testified with honour in The Gospel According To John.
The Stevenson Ranch Davidians, Amerikana. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
There is a reason why bands keep coming back to the world of the Psychedelic, of the rebellion that encompasses both mind and spirit, it is not in the fashionable or the chic, the often abhorrently trendy, it is because at the end of it all, at the closing down of every argument and rebuttal, it just sounds convincing and flawlessly cool.
Sheila K Cameron, Kiss Deep And The Missing Beat. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
You don’t have to pucker the lips in order to Kiss Deep, you only have touch someone with your mind, your humour and your lust for life in order to reach them in a way that no amount of amorous thought can achieve; to feel the embrace of another’s words is not just a measure for good, it is the affirmation of what you believe more than anything, to be true.
Tim Bennett, The View From Here. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The outlook from where you sit can be the one that not only determines your mood but has the ability to shape you as a human being, the position you take into any fight, conversation or relationship and yet to say that The View From Here is the only one that is available is not trust the artist to show you another level, another position in which your stance can be changed.
Tankard, One Foot In The Grave. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
When you have One Foot In The Grave, that is when people should fear you most, in artistic terms, it is to raise a glass, the unfettered Tankard, to life and show that no matter what some might say about you, in the end the only opinion that matters is your own. If you can stare down the detractors and make a section of society happy to be in your company, then that is success, that is when all the fighting and taking on all comers was worth it.
Piglets, (Three Desperate Ones).
It is a shame you were not around
in the position
of responsibility
when Roger wrote the words
to Pigs, for surely they now suit you,
wrapped in the pig skin
and the mud and shit,
dear Teresa, Donald and Katie,
you three different ones
writhing in the destruction
of person after person
and in the case of Pig Katie,
the figures in her bile
put more straw upon her made up house.
The trouble is dear piglets,
you are tiny, an oink lost in the darkness
Whyte, Fairich. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The mood is always one that is constantly evolving, ever changing in the face of those who face the world with serious thought or the natural disposition of seeing life as an orchestral arrangement; the feeling that somewhere in the mind is a music sheet of paper being written upon and seizing every note, every cascading thought, and the end result if viewed with passion, is akin to Whyte’s debut album Fairich, a wave of inspiration and recorded ambience in which life is seen to be surrounded by the inevitable and the sonically beautiful.
Porter Nickerson, Bonfire To Ash. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
All that is fire turns to ash eventually, the passion of misspent youth, the heat of reckless middle age, the slowing embers of love in mature grandeur, all set free on the wings of steam and the memory of what was once the most desired thing in the world, to be loved and to care for with equal ferocity; all this eventually is the Bonfire To Ash, the cinders which inspires the phoenix to rise one last time.