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Lloyd and Daly, Gig Review. The Cavern, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2017.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It might be one of the most visited music venues on the planet, not only for the hungry masses enjoying a gig and relaxing as they hopefully take in some expertly played musicianship and stunning lyrics but also for those whose sightseeing just happens to take in the venue, the fifteen minutes of fame as they walk between taking in the glory of Liverpool’s impressive docks and the history that makes the city so vibrant, for them a moment with the back drop of the one of the most iconic walls in the world behind them is an absolute must.

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(424 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Mac and Clague, Gig Review. The Cavern, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2017.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

In amongst the strange beguiling beauty that enraptures and the knowledge of artistic endeavour, if you look very closely you will find the unexpected wedged in with most perfect of fits; that the fit in this case belongs to the genuinely exciting Mac and Clague as they stand on stage inside The Cavern, that is blending of splendour and exotic that is always the final result that anybody could ask for.

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(392 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Alison Green, Gig Review. The Cavern, Liverpool. I.P.O. (2017).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The smaller stage inside The Cavern is perhaps one that does not get the big audiences, however in amongst the memorabilia and the scrawled on graffiti, the pictures of the greats and the memorable, there is always a very loyal crowd hovering in the tight fitting space and the haunting memories of the underground venue that established British popular music as the envy of the world.

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(436 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Charlie Hunnam, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Jude Law, Djimon Hounsou, Eric Bana, Aiden Gillen, Freddie Fox, Craig McGinlay, Tom Wu, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Neil Maskell, Annabelle Wallis, Geoff Bell, Bleu Landau, Jacqui Ainsley, Georgina Campbell, Rob Knighton, Michael Hadley, David Beckham, Katie McGrath, Peter Ferdinando, Michael McElhatton, Mikael Persbrandt.

 

Legends come from stories long since handed down and embellished, made uncertain and then allowed to fade into the darkness of our collective memories, such is the fate of us all and without proof, who is to say that you also won’t become a myth.

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(631 words, estimated 2:31 mins reading time)

Beauty And The Beast. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Kevin Kline, Josh Gad, Hattie Morahan, Haydn Gwynne, Gerard Horan, Ray Fearon, Ewan McGregor, Ian Mckellen, Emma Thompson, Nathan Mack, Audra McDonald, Stanley Cadenza, Clive Rowe, Adrian Schiller.

 

Heralded as one of the great Disney classics of all time, Beauty and the Beast is a scintillating tale of compassion over anger, of love over objectivity and quite rightly has become engrained in the heart of those who have taken its message of purity and simplicity against force and prejudice to its true place in the psyche; love conquers all they say and yet sometimes love is not quite enough to warrant taking a much loved animated film and turning into a live action feature, sometimes love just isn’t enough.

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(421 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

I Am The Stranger.

I am a stranger,

so very strange,

in the town I live in

today, in the circle

and support group

I inhabit and even

if you look at my old

school report card

for Religious Education

during third year;

it will simply be scrawled,

who is Ian Hall?

I am a stranger, no sense, full of nonsense,

known only for dreadful dress sense

occasionally,

I am the stranger in my own thoughts,

I am the stranger lost in my own concept

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(121 words, estimated 29 secs reading time)

Snakecharmer, Second Skin. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Love the skin you are in if you are able, cherish it even it is the hardest thing you do, and if it is not possible, if all the cards are stacked against you and you left holding the Queen of Spades and all the Hearts except the Ace, then grow a Second Skin, put on the mask if it is possible and throw a single finger up in defiance; nothing would make your enemies and detractors more mad and jealous.

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(430 words, 1 image, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Danzig, Black Laden Crown. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is a special place on Earth reserved for Danzig, the most combustible of volcanoes bow down and spill their lava in appreciation, stars blink out of existence in honour and the doom laden unappreciative steel their knives and pen like swords in readiness to decry one of the most incredible of lyrically perfect bands of the last three decades.

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(414 words, 1 image, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

But A Vanity.

It is but a vanity

to believe anything we do,

create, ultimately, means a thing.

We can only hope in the end,

that when time

chimes and begs us to depart the dance,

that we have at least managed

to make

one person smile,

one soul love us,

one mind changed

and one heart skip a beat

to know we have been in their life.

Ian D. Hall 2017

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Clean Cut Kid, Felt. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Never dismiss the humble acorn, never turn that opportunity to see a band start out, for the mightiest of trees turn out like that band that you cannot get tickets for as they take their music out on the road and become a truly great success; to have the feeling of nurturing a group in your heart of see the first signs of life evolve from the ground, it is something to behold, it is something proud to have Felt.

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(405 words, 1 image, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)