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Forgettable, Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Rosario Dawson, Katherine Heigl, Geoff Stults, Cheryl Ladd, Whitney Cummings, Robert Wisdom, Isabella Kai Rice, Simon Kassianides, Jayson Blair, Marissa Morgan, Aline Elasmar.

It should be a refreshing take on an idea, the real life animosity that resides in the heart of a spurned ex-wife over the new woman in the man’s life, the lies, the sense of fragile and the broken manifesting itself as a potential weapon, of a rage boiling to its maximum, to the end point where the terrifying spectacle of what you see is the representation of all that can go wrong when women fight over a man. It is not the nicest thing on Earth to witness and it does leave you wondering exactly what women see in the opposite gender to make them go down the path of no return.

Forgettable, Film Review. full post

(447 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

I Have Never Accepted Populism.

I have never accepted populism,

it doesn’t sit right with me,

the urging of the crowd hollering,

cajoling each other to stand and be seen

to stand, to whoop and proclaim

to the highest authority, I cheered,

see me applaud, see me take down those

whose smiles are not as wide as mine,

see me ridicule them, see me being authorative,

see me go down the route of guided fascism

when my trained and rehearsed words

in the ears of those who I quite obviously fancy,

I Have Never Accepted Populism. full post

(150 words, estimated 36 secs reading time)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Theatre Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: James Templeton, Sharon Byatt, John Schumacher, Sophie Coward, Nick Wymer, Simon Willmont, Sam Donovan, Thomas Casson, Chloe Taylor, Daniel Taylor, Timothy Lucas, Neville Cann, Fra Gunn, Faye Griffiths, Emma Sellars, Emily Chesterton, Georgia Pye.

Something in the undergrowth stirs, a sense of magic is in the air and whilst all theatre productions, across every genre, should have this illusion and allusion readily at its disposal, there is always something incredible, a reason that is fanciful, that should be waiting for William Shakespeare’s timeless comedy and romance in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Theatre Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(479 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

The Lonesome West, Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Keiran Cunningham, Alan Devally, Paul Duckworth, Anne O’ Riordan.

To find peace, one must be content, one must realise that life is not about taking potshots at their neighbour, not to be quick to condemn or to take revenge, one must be true to one’s own actions, one must allow a certain kind of love to flourish in the heart for even the most despicable of actions, lest they revel in their own loneliness.

The Lonesome West, Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool. full post

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

She Told Me She Was O.K.

 

She told me she was O.K.

and all I could do was believe her.

I could see the gentle alarm in her eyes

as she moved in

to give me a hug, she told me she was alright,

that this was a small thing, a simple job

for the Doctor to take of, that my worries

for her were, obviously,

quite natural but nevertheless

one born out of close bonds

and soldering on,

such is her way, such is the love

that I have for her

She Told Me She Was O.K. full post

(131 words, estimated 31 secs reading time)

The Mono LPs, Cherry Red Lips. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The problems with anything that gets the heart pumping and the brain falling in love is that you have to be prepared to wait to bring it to the attention of the world, the slow unveil, tantalising, dramatic, full of tension and appeal; if music was a lover then waiting to implore others on why the relationship works would be torture.

The Mono LPs, Cherry Red Lips. Single Review. full post

(374 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

John Jenkins, I Was Looking For You. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We are all looking for someone to show us the way, to enrich our lives, perhaps hold our hand when the darkness comes or even that one person who many years after saying goodbye for the final time somehow infuses their thoughts into yours and allows inspiration to strike with the subtly of a flash of lightning as it speeds through the Grand Canyon.

John Jenkins, I Was Looking For You. Single Review. full post

(454 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

The Purr.

I long for the leather underneath my backside again,

the long distance,

who cares where,

who knew when I would be back,

from moped speed

to the caress of a slight touch of velvet

underneath her painted shell like

heaving bottomless metal breast,

I miss the cool, the sweat,

the breeze cutting through my scarf,

my mouth covered in hijab of

Manchester City Blue

and the looks, disgruntled venom

of those behind steering wheels

and my two fingers sliding up

to meet their gaze…

The Purr. full post

(222 words, estimated 53 secs reading time)

Caro Emerald, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. (2017).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The last time Caro Emerald came to Liverpool in 2015 she was magnificent, two years on from that fateful night, she, and the finely attuned band, were simply stunning.  A night of 21st Century Jazz with so much swing attached, so much creativity grabbing every ounce of emotion on the stage that for those fortunate enough to be in the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on what was to turn, weather wise, into the worst type of spring deluge possible at the end of the show, at least were comforted by the absolute brilliance on show during the night.

Caro Emerald, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. (2017). full post

(487 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Danzig, Devil On Hwy 9. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There will be those who proclaim music as a right, a sentence of fury to be carried across their whole lives and yet will never look beyond what they know, to whom the comfortable has become as important as the way they are seen to act in public, how their image betrays them when they wear a T-shirt of a band they have perhaps never seen, (not really an issue with the way stands on economic meltdown) but who also could not name a single song they have written. It is the look and appearance over the genius of the work provided and no matter what you think of the group or the inspiration behind the thoughts, the irreplaceable Glen Danzig, then to not hear them play is to deny your music palate to expand.

Danzig, Devil On Hwy 9. Single Review. full post

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