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Jude Adams, This Girl This Woman. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Whatever the reason, whatever the incentive or the drive, eventually we must find a way to live our dreams, to do the things we have long held dear in the secret chamber of our heart and to live each moment that comes of the realisation of fulfilment. Whatever the spur, it makes you appreciate the moment and for some it can change their lives; This Girl This Woman is for half the population the dawning of contentment and for the other half, arguably a mantra to champion those in your life to achieve their dreams.

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

A Small Poem For The Day.

Thank you

for reading

Keats, Shakespeare and Auden,

cheers from the heart

for digesting,

swallowing whole

the grace of Lanyer,

the nature

and anger of Anne Askew

and the wrathful might

of Mary Wroth.

Across the ages,

a mighty

show

of immediate gratitude

and appreciation

for revelling in Ginsberg, Kerouac and McGough,

today is their moment,

always the moment

pick up a pen,

type without discretion

or pain,

a small sonnet of love

on a Poet’s day.

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(86 words, estimated 21 secs reading time)

Paul Armour, The Poets & The Beats. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

At its very best music should sweep you along, it should be rich, intoxicating and free to roam the imagination at will. Music should stalk the memory, haunting the listener, making them remember all the good times and reliving with passion all the bad moments so that they don’t become spectres of the listener’s life and times. Music at its very best should be poetry, the motion of chance and choice, the free style and the beat that should make the heart stir with a gentle tinge of regret and love.

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(402 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Brandon Wildish, Other Side. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is a truth that during our life we can feel disconnected from the rest of humanity, we seek solace in the hopeful friendships that other enjoy but despite wearing our best smiles and showing the sociable appearance, the Other Side of the emotional gap seems a daunting prospect to gain entry too; it is as if standing in the freezing rain is preferable to enjoying one hour of summer. The Other Side, all that we aspire to be, to be happy, to have a voice and a say, to know that our smiles are fixed, even when the world is a desperate place which only a few can enlighten.

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(366 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Forget Me Not.

Forget me not,

but I know you will,

the spark of memory

you might retain

will be clouded in dust

and myth,

you will probably forget my name.

 

Forget me not,

though you will probably fail

to remember my face,

before the beard came along,

you will forget the kiss we shared,

the laughter too loud,

or the name of my favourite song.

 

Forget me not,

there on the fringe of your life,

wiped from the picture,

sideswiped from reminiscence,

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(101 words, estimated 24 secs reading time)

When The Devil Closes Your Eyes.

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The air is cold and damp. It seeps though the pores of my skin and rushes in like its being chased by the Devil, ice-filled flames and stuffed down my throat with arctic weathered pitchforks as I breathed in and out; struggling to make the clouds of steam warm my hands when I blow on them as I walk the streets of a city I had last visited, on a purely pleasurable basis, some five years before.

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(2297 words, estimated 9:11 mins reading time)

Kingbreaker, To The Fire. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The ashes are someone else’s property, they fly off into the night along with the embers of a broken promise, the dreams and unfulfilled desires in the wreck of another’s pyre; such is the desire to find new ways to enjoy the Rock genre that is takes at times more than it gives. Some pyres might be extinguished before they start but for Kingbreaker To The Fire is a call to watch it burn brightly in the night, the illumination and the heat is enough to draw the crowd in closer, the chat, the bubbling conversation a welcome relief and is to the fire we turn.

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(364 words, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

Rodney Cromwell, Fax Message Breakup E.P. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

There are many ways in which a relationship may suffer the final throw of its natural life, however the outcome is pretty much always the same; it all comes down to how the end is delivered, whether it is face to face and the anguish and insanity that comes with that or in the cold but safety insinuated by means of the electronic delivery, the communication of the cowardly or the intelligent that knows what happens in a public confrontation.

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

The Greatest Lie.

It is the greatest lie

that can bestowed upon a child

with drive, ambition

and belief,

that patience is a virtue,

that they should wait for the time

when life is ready for them,

that lack of complaint

is a gift worth pursing

and if it is not meant to be,

then there is nothing

you can do about it.

Rage, fight,

persist, persist, persist,

do not give in

to their defeat,

be bold, persist,

there is no greater lie

than wait,

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(99 words, estimated 24 secs reading time)

Two Black Sheep, Coffee & Gin. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The historical and social significance of Coffee & Gin cannot be easily dismissed as part of the way the people of Britain lead their lives in the 21st Century; Hogarth’s famous Beer and Gin Lane printing depicting the social ills of Gin Lane is tempered by the 18th Century’s love and seeming respectability of the advancing coffee houses that were springing up all over capital. Yet the two are probably more interlinked than they ever probably were intended to be and the slow death assured by the drinking of foreign Gin is enough to remember the addiction many have to the bean in the century we find ourselves feeding.

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(399 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)