Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Into every life the chance to use every muscle at your disposal and take on a wild animal must be taken. Sometimes you really have to ride the biggest horse you can and make it sweat, whether it is an unwanted and unwarranted situation, the pressure of living up to someone’s high expectations or simply having the utmost courage to take on a disease or school yard bully; sometimes you really do have to ride that horse to look back with pride and honour.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Aaliyah Garrett, Abigail Whiteside, Adam Gannon, Amber Williams, Anna Tremarco, Ashley Kaufman, Charlie Healy, Clara Mbirimi, Elle McEvely, Ellie Hale, Ellie Muscat, Grace Hillier, Harry Hughes, Holly Haines, Isabelle Simpson, Jake Warner, James Douglas, Jennifer Lowe, Joe Fay, John Readle, Jude Stephenson, Katie Kaufman, Kayleigh Lindon, Leah Whiteside, Lewis Jones-Davies, Lillie Jo Irons, Matty McCartney, Michael Ellison, Mikey Hall, Molly Madigan, Morgan Hughes, Natasha Riley, Niamh Fay, Olivia Gore, Passy Douglas, Poppy Cowell, Ryan Broadhead, Shannon Smart, Susan Segar, Tom Douglas.
Not quite Midnight,
it never seems to come
as the days merge, fuse together
and seamlessly reside
in the thunderstorm that overpowers
the field in which I am the
Lightning Rod, scorched,
burned and aflame,
on fire.
The shadows caused by rippling
lightning and the sparks of energy
draining in the seconds and minutes
before midnight, never get eaten away,
they are drowned instead like the myriad
of small organisms clinging
to the only tree in the field,
wind tossed, asleep, dead…
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Change is in the air, it is how we deal with it that separates us from the rest of humanity. Not always a good thing, change happens regardless, it is the slow tune played out by time to keep us on our toes, it is the steady march which beats out against the rust and decay and whilst it might not be considered a good thing, it is inevitable.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
There is honour to be found in the raw, the angry and furious. It is the honour of producing truth, a sense of freedom that you want to immerse yourself in and take stock from every now and then as you remember with clarity how you wanted to change the world, how you wanted to be the person that was the catalyst of the revolution.
Trust me,
it was just so much easier
to push you away
than letting you live
with a time bomb,
one that ticks in the soul
wrapped in pot marked skin,
the melancholy held at bay
only by the desperate knowledge
tucked away
that at some point
I will fathom out
how to smash the reset button;
I pushed you all away
because Time is cruel,
it deceives
as you once did
when you pretended
to be my comrade.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
It might be considered a tad too much to want to roll out the red carpet, to place the fireworks ready in the strategic place and put the brightly coloured bunting out, to basically throw a party the size of Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall but to welcome back one of the great live and studio acts of the last ten year. Well, perhaps the red carpet might be a bit glaring but the fact remains that the exceptional Natalie McCool is very much one of the great female acts of the last decade and is up there with the likes of Joanne Shaw Taylor for bringing the very best out of music.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It seems typical that the superbly angry, the enraged beauty, that lives and breathes inside one of the most talked about bands, The Sneaky Nixons, should produce a great song with the idea of someone else’s misfortune as its central theme. Maybe nobody else would dare, nobody else would go that far but for The Sneaky Nixons, it’s not about causing upset, it is bringing the very real idea home that there are people out there who just seem to get an absolute kick from the act of Schadenfreude.
Emily should play,
hanging around not caring
about the damage she has done
or the boys on Cowley Road
who care
not about the mask
she uses to appear hard, to seem
aloof to the propositions of undying
love, her reality warped, treated
to a future not intended for her
when we used to cuddle her as she fell
asleep on the lap and her glasses
slowly sliding down her button created nose;
Emily should play,
the Cowley Road calls
and a hundred miles away
Pick your corner, I’m ready for a fight
I’ve got a gun, you’ve got a knife
I’m going to shoot you down at high noon
In a Western Avenue gunfighters duel
Going to joyride with the Crump St. gang
Play cops and robbers with the blue lights on
Tear around on two wheels ,get high on skunk weed
Rob Peter to pay Paul he’s a Drug lord Creed
Speke town showndown smashing glass on the street
Smigger psycho behaviour in violence we deal
Twin guns, repeated automatic fire