A town in its own right, yet for some inexplicable reason, the people of Bootle will invariably say that they are from Liverpool when asked, not out of shame, or out misplaced thought, but perhaps out of association; after all for most of the younger townsfolk, Liverpool is a place to naturally gravitate too, it is where, after all, the centre of the Universe actually is, where noted psychoanalyst Carl Jung declared to be “The Pool of Life.”
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, John Benfield, Neville Watchurst, John Banks, Susan Brown, Toby Longworth, Alex Lowe.
One of the reasons Doctor Who worked in the classic series and continues to do so in the modern age, is because the people behind it were not afraid to be politically adventurous, to put in a story line that will rock the minds of certain bodies, institutions and Government to its core; it might not be as damning as television series as Death on the Rock, A Very British Coup, Hillsborough or Edge of Darkness but in its early evening television slot way it was just as hard hitting and made the viewer think about humanity’s place in the world and the political agenda it found itself in.
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What is beyond our field of vision is always fascinating, always alluring, the only issue is keeping people interested in the object that cannot be seen; Space, like art, needs to be constantly visualised, identified with and when it is, it can stimulate the imagination and take it to places that it never would have believed.
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Cast: Matthew Macfadyen, Adam Rothenberg, MyAnna Buring, Killian Scott, Jonas Armstrong, Anna Burnett, Gerry O’Brien, Joseph Harmon, Lydia Wilson, Joseph Mawle, Kye Murphy, Kahl Murphy, Benjamin O’ Mahony, Matthew Lewis. Clive Russell, Anna Koval, Ruairi Heading, Matthew O’ Brien, Patrick Drury.
You are paid too much,
money is too tight
for the public sector purse.
Only a politician with greed upon his mind
would suggest that a nurse, a firefighter,
a police officer or a teacher
is earning too much,
isn’t that a slap in the face,
perhaps it would have only been worse
for those devils who dare be public spirited
and do the jobs that others cannot do,
if Philip Hammond had bared his backside
to the news anchors
and the television cameras
The black stitched cherry
being tossed down the pitch
is turned away for the deft quick single,
the sly look of happiness
on the batsman face as he outwits the wicket
keeper is all too evident
through my binoculars, purchased by my wife
for days such as this,
not a ship sailing on the edge of the horizon,
but to witness the glorious catch
of the fielder on the other side of the ropes, down
in the Noir of Third Man, one inch from a six.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
https://www.facebook.com/davidmunnphotography, Photograph kindly reproduced from David Munn.
It might have been some years since Blink 182 had ventured to Liverpool, that they had taken The Echo by storm and left an indelible mark, the vibrant tattoo of youth, creative exposure and the insatiable pounding in the heart, for all to wear like a badge of honour for the following weeks as knowing glances and excited conversation took place around town and in the infancy of social media.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The discovery of the uniquely compelling is often looked upon as a moment strangely captured by Time; that it takes both the raging sea and the crumbling land to carve out something as beautiful as the White Cliffs of Dover or the unseen motion of a star going Supernova to brighten the night sky, in these actions Time moves so slowly to create fiery brilliance, the majesty of the final effect is all that people witness.
Always here, among the mad,
the uneducated of history
who put on a uniform, a white sheet
between them and the same air breathed,
the crew cut hair do, close read this,
they have an agenda and you are not paying
attention closely enough,
they weren’t banished or defeated
when the mad moustache took his own life,
they are still here,
in the shadows, dressed as corporate,
tidy suits, pin badges
with Hi, I’m here to help, but always that agenda;
they might not march down Cable Street now
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Bridges are those in which we reach out in the hope of finding people in which to share meaning and understanding with, the passion and the fury, the love and the memories. They are the symbolic gesture that binds us but also they can be the moment of destruction, when the fragile peace and accord is ripped apart and razed to the ground, all that remains is the blackened stumps of former trust and the smouldering fire and for the dogged individual, for the one who sees that all eventually will smoulder, the phrase of the 21st Century personal revolutionary and social anarchist, They’re My Bridges And I’ll Burn Them If I Want To has perhaps never been more fitting.