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Mungo Jerry, Rewind. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

When it comes to remembering when time was a little less awkward, when the sun glasses caught the sight of the rose coloured memories and the hue of recollection with astonishing foresight, then the early seventies, the hangover from the 60s glory and the children of the revolution was one in which the reverie never actually died or faded. Unlike the beige to come, the un-dramatic and undemocratic staleness that was force fed down the throats of the populace of the time, the early 70s were awash with vividness and at the forefront of that could be found the awareness of Ray Dorset and the superb band Mungo Jerry.

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(434 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

The Love Dimension, Freakquency Space Mind Continuum. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Forget that Time and space exists within one of the dimensions that humanity is trapped within, the finest dimension beyond those that only travellers with a mad man with a blue box can discover is that of The Love Dimension; after they truly so speak volumes to the adoring nature of music fans and those to whom the straight jacketed bombastic look down upon as freaks and peculiar. Yet each one who gravitates towards the unusual, who are attracted to the uncommon are normally rewarded with a trip into the fantastic and extraordinary.

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(379 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

A Hologram For The King, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Tom Hanks, Alexander Black, Sarita Choudhury, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Tracey Fairaway, Tom Skerritt, Jane Perry, Michael Baral, Lewis Rainer, David Menkin, Christie Meyer, Megan Maczko, Ben Whishaw, Kahalid Laith.

A mid-life crisis is to be expected, perhaps in many cases looked forward to as a chance to wreck havoc on the world around you and take apart your own life one carefully stacked brick at a time.

A Hologram For The King, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

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

Be The Bear, Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Hannah McGowan, Esther Larkin, Jamie Brownson, Pete King, Ian Warburton.

The internet may be many things, it has the opportunity to mimic the human interactions of being a force for good and the huge potential for evil, it is the machine that is only as reliable as the content put in it and at times it makes you despair for the world and what people perceive they have to do to leave their mark on the fragile and scarred Earth.

Be The Bear, Film Review. full post

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

Is It Your Business What Goes On In North Carolina Closets.

Inside the space where the thoughts

are your own, where the brief

space between wondering

who the fuck we are

and what does it matter to anyone else,

in that cubicle, in that closet

and holding tissue to wipe away

the fear of passing

out when others demand to know

why you are using the toilet in Carolina,

surely all we should have to say,

all that needs to be said,

I am a girl,

I am a boy,

I identify with one,

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(131 words, estimated 31 secs reading time)

Shout! The Mod Musical, Theatre Review. Royal Court, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Emily Chesterton, Sarah Folwell, Hayley Hampson, Miriam O’ Brien, Evangeline Pickerill, Katie Tyler.

Musicians: Elliot Chapman, George Francis, Arnar P. Stefansson, Alex Smith.

A time of Mini-skirts, of free love, of the start of the women’s movement as we know it, of responsibility and of great and lasting music; the 60s were where it began for many, Generation X was about to become arguably the finest age group yet and for those that suffered after post war austerity and to whom the new decade signalled social change. The 60s was a prelude for the melody and tunes to come and the shedding of the Victorian attitude which had damned previous generations.

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(418 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Fact.

The sun streams through the glass

as if trying to set the paper doilies

on our wooden bench

alight or at least spark into life

the broadsheet news that lays between us

and the sway of information,

the language barrier breaking down,

between the forties and the roaring

twenty-something who between them

understand that love is not

an emotion that signifies sex.

 

The sound of belly-ache

laugh ripples untidily

across the rip tide of tea

and the thought of cinema

going on overhead;

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(118 words, estimated 28 secs reading time)

Jenny Colquitt, The Quiet Kind. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Defiance and love cross many boundaries, they might be seen as an attitude, the well worn face of anger but what they do in many respects is to show the outside world that the person is actually being true to themselves, that the rebelliousness is just a deflection, a boldness of intent and one that should be grasped by so many erring on the side of youth. It is not disobedience, it is majestic non-compliance and it should be heard with greater force than it is across the land but one that is fully understood by the superb Jenny Colquitt.

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(387 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Bruce Foxton, Smash The Clock. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Time can never be held back, save placing your own stamp upon your time upon the dust and mud, Time is the raptor that gnaws at your fingers and your memories to the point in which the clock, the love child of Time and regulated humanity, governs and snarls in perpetual motion. The only way to have an equal say in this one sided partnership, the only way to not let the seconds and hours dominate your day is to Smash The Clock, tear it down and put your own rules down, to live life to the limit that your heart will take and make it loud and meaningful.

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(464 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Wallander, White Lioness. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Cast: Kenneth Brannagh, Bonnie Henna, John Kani, Tumisho Masha, Alex Fearns, Deon Lotz, Tessa Jubber, Lemogang Tsipa, Jeany Spark.

Corruption reaches everywhere in the end, political jealousy just makes it a harder subject to palate and stomach; for greed on such a scale makes those who fought for freedom and an end to suffering seem even more dishonest than those whose behaviour from the start was only self interest seem like the actions of choir boys sneaking a cigarette behind the vestments during Hymn practice.

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(429 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)