Let the chant begin at Watford Junction
that we’re off to Wembley,
there is no commemorative
souvenir pullout in the daily
paper, no rosette hanging
down from pin hole spurred
lapel and no colours,
no Liverpool red, no triumphant
blue under the shadow
of the great Bobby Moore,
England’s last great gentleman,
let the chant begin, let the scarves be waved
we’re off to Wembley,
from Watford Junction
the Twin Towers are so very close
now but the cheer you hear
at the final whistle, the moment
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Time passes, it is as inevitable as the sun rising above the clouds and the moon deferring its own mighty grandeur in the presence of lightning striking the Earth; Time moves ever onward and takes us on its journey, regardless of whether we are equipped for the voyage or not.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Pixie Lott, Matt Barber, Victor McGuire, Katy Allen, Robert Calvert, Naomi Cranston, Charlie De Melo, Tim Francis, Andrew Joshi, Melanie La Barrie, Sevan Stephan, Andy Watkins.
Forget the comfortable situation employed by Hollywood, the sight of Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard turning the pages of a novel upside down so it almost becomes unrecognisable to the readers who made it much loved in the first place. When it comes to bringing a story to life, most of the time the truest form of sincere adaption comes from the theatre and the actors slogging their guts out, feeling the character’s skin and with the chance that that well loved story might turn out to be received as fickle and as erratic as electricity captured in a vacuum.
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The charm of The Divine Comedy is never in doubt, it can be slightly misplaced, falling into the slight ditch of baroque uncertainty and even be completely have the point missed by those who dare not take the flight of fancy further than believing every song should be reminiscent of the wit of Oscar Wilde or Noel Coward. It can have all of those insults hurled against it but Neil Hannon will still come out on top and be the one to raise the pop standard higher in Foreverland.
They built one in China,
that now to history seems a wonder
of ancient technology, of planning
and people look at it and marvel
of how, wrongly, it can be seen from space
where there is no barrier
and there is no nation line.
A man paved with delusion
and whose phallic tower
rises
almost impotent
when he declares that a wall
be built to keep Mexicans
but not those north
of the winter border out;
that wall is insane.
Then comes along the self important nation,
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Every generation believes itself to be the lucky ones, the ones that have been able to have everything thrown from the past and with the prospect of changing the future; in many respect they could be considered right, just in their belief that their take on the unspoilt riches of My Universe is one to grapple with and shape in their will.
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In between each song we sing out loud there is either emptiness or delight, the applause associated with finding our own groove or the bleak vacant response that comes with not understanding that the silence is also a gesture, one of defiance and the urge to let peace take hold; it is a trait, a mystery, a calmed hush that often precedes a glory in spirit. It is in that preceding hush that SheBeat, a captivating soul at all times, brings forth her latest E.P. into the world and it is one in which the noticeable change in demeanour is overwhelming and marvellously exciting to hold onto.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Adraina Ugarte, Emma Suárez, Michelle Jenner, Daniel Grao, Rossy de Palma, Inma Cuesta, Dario Grandinetti, Nathalie Poza, Pilar Castro, Susi Sánchez, Augustin Almodóvar, Blanca Parés, Mariam Bachir, Tomás del Estal, Joaquín Notario, Ramón Aguirre.
We may make the decisions that guide us, or at least we may think we do, but ultimately at the end fate may have other ideas and no matter how much try, we cannot be in control of what happens to us or those we hold close.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10
Cast: Jessie Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell, Ken Stott, Blake Lively, Sheryl Lee, Jeannie Berlin, Todd Weeks, Paul Schackman, Richard Portnow, Sari Lennick, Stephen Kunken, Corey Stoll, Edward James Hyland, Anna Camp, Parker Posey, Howard DiMaria, Kat Edmondson.
Life is built upon scandal and gossip, it requires no payment, it needs no encouragement, like a whisper in the dark, rumour and the chit chat between people is enough to send misinformation around the world quicker than a click of the send button on a keyboard; it is what the world skates around the universe upon and everybody at some point in their lives actively takes part.
The eternal scriptwriter
has already written the lines
and knows that at some point
you will do your best to change them,
add perhaps a colon or an emphasis
somewhere into the laid out plan,
your interactions with the other players,
grease painted, mask of tears
and joy painstakingly rehearsed
in the scriptwriter’s mind but
with only a single chance
to get your cue right, remember
that cue, one shot or else
you fall behind and then your lines
fall behind and the eternal scriptwriter