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Mike Younger, Little Folks Like You And Me. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

In today’s society, the Little Folks Like You And Me has never been more apt or prevalent. We have become divided whilst trying to unite, we have found more ways to be offended by the small things whilst not seeing the big picture and everyday this goes on, whilst every second that passes we find another way to break apart, we find ways to fracture and disavow those who are our greatest allies. Yet it is in the supposed little folks, the perceived down trodden and the Orwell Proles that hope can come and music can be made.

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(464 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Rosie Hood, The Beautiful & The Actual. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We all want to believe the beautiful, we have to have relish the sense of the impressive, a moment in our lives when the delightful outweighs the truth, even if it is for the smallest and briefest of time, before the colour that had been painted with vivid and exciting colours turns to monochrome and the images are left startled by their own fading glory. It is in this we see the difference between what we see and what actually occurs and so rarely do the two states, The Beautiful & The Actual, coexist.

Rosie Hood, The Beautiful & The Actual. Album Review. full post

(386 words, 1 image, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

The Curtains Have Begun To Close.

The curtains have begun to close

and through the dim light

afforded the scene, I see

in your eyes that it takes

a minute or two

for you to remember who I am,

the boy you raised in summer’s

warmth on an island and clotted cream

and to whom I revered as the fiercest

of storms, a one woman army

not dictated to by a single man,

in your eyes, it took a moment

and longer to remember me

and those eyes, frightened, lost

The Curtains Have Begun To Close. full post

(117 words, estimated 28 secs reading time)

Roger Waters, Is This The Life We Really Want? Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Only we know the answer that lays deep in our hearts, the reply to a thousand years of history and few thousand more, of politicians and so called gurus, sages all, putting their stamp down on the world in which they would like to see created, the lie in their own image; it may be wrong but it is the one that they see as the one most fitting when asked, Is This The Life We Really Want?

Roger Waters, Is This The Life We Really Want? Album Review. full post

(533 words, 1 image, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: The Lie Of The Land. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, Matt Lucas, Michelle Gomez, Emma Handy, Beatrice Curnew, Stewart Wright, Solomon Israel, Jamie Hill, Rosie Jane.

How easy is it to swallow a lie, to take what you read as the gospel truth and all because it fits in with your narrow view of the world is the truth you seek without having to investigate further. False News has become the word of our times, perhaps the rise in social media has become part of the problem as certain people, certain organisations, have invested their time and energy to promoting The Lie of the Land.

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(465 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

We Were The Latchkey Kids.

They called us nihilistic, we the latchkey

kids without supervision

as the post war post war children

dictated the every move

in the spirit of Victoria

and didn’t even leave us Jimmy Dean

to rebel alongside, we the latchkey

kids who were taught through the voice

of John Hurt, that sex could kill,

yet we held on to our latchkey

status in hope we could get someone home

to hold us for a while, we the latchkey

kids to whom Aids and the Crack

of dawn were but words to fear

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(311 words, estimated 1:15 mins reading time)

Phil Collins, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Perhaps it was the sense of occasion, the bugle and drum pattern of history that could be felt amongst the Echo Arena crowd that signified a return, the memories of all who attended the first Phil Collins gig in many years, the first time that even without the other members of Genesis by his side that the drummer, the front man of many a music hit of his generation had stepped out in front of a crowd and sang a note of implication and beautiful awareness; perhaps it was the occasion, more likely it was the city and its people, for this was a welcome never to be forgotten, never to be anything but fantastic.

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

Wonder Woman, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Gal Gadot, Robin Wright, Chris Pine, David Thewlis, Connie Nelson, Elana Anaya, Lucy Davis, Ewan Bremner, Doutzen Kroes, Danny Huston, Mayling Ng, Eleanor Matsuura, Samantha Jo, Eugene Brave Rock, Saïd Taghmaoui, Emily Carey, Florence Kasumba.

Forget the Testosterone, the heroes of old who have dominated the screen since Michael Keaton first donned the Batman suit, with unbelievable results obviously, for there is a true dominant force on offer, a heroine for the age and one that strikes back at the tired old clichés of femininity and valour, of fearlessness and boldness. For in Wonder Woman, there really is a hero that everybody, boy and girl, man and woman alike, can truly admire and one which takes a huge swipe at the misogyny that has been rampant in cinematic heroes for far too long.

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(515 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Evolutionary Burn.

As I sit,

down upon my leather chair

with a vacant look upon my face

after trying to live life to very max,

my wife will turn on the television

to watch a nature programme

or a compelling

feature on animals in the wild.

In my addled late night mind

and scowl driven perspective,

I swear I see a gorilla, an ape

or a chimpanzee hold up a sign

dripping in red ink

which reads,

Thanks for wasting evolution,

you bum.

 

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(88 words, estimated 21 secs reading time)

Unconventional.

I wish I had made more

of my unconventional life,

embraced more than I could

ever hope to have done,

kissed more than just the few

and the few extra more,

I wish I had not been at times

so damned English and polite

and told a few more people,

stuck up their own arse,

blinded by their own self importance

and governed by their right to believe

that their way is the only signposted route

to happiness,

to fuck off,

but I am so damned English

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(196 words, estimated 47 secs reading time)