I shouldn’t see the type of film where anger dwells,
where fury starts to rise in my guts and demands stoking,
where if left unchecked fire burns
and nettle stings my eyes and makes them
burn in their own private nasty Hell, no sanctuary,
no quarter given, no refuge, no safe haven;
instead all I end up thinking about is you
and how I was not able to save you,
how I let you down as you lay
on the cold Salisbury pavement,
the sound of an ambulance drawing near
The sound of Carol King’s Tapestry
fills the blue sweet room
and whilst I tell you that I am falling
asleep, that my eyes are feeling
the smarting torture of days
and the end of times,
you sit, cross-legged, but in readiness
for a career in psychotherapy on my
gnawed through and tender seat
and smile, the analyst is in, the twinge
of saying too much and being judged
in rocking horse silence… I ache
too much and I feel like I am being eaten,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Experience is at the heart of professionalism; life at the very centre of a good story or lyric and understanding the very point of music; bring all those facets of a person’s ability together and what the result might look like is Gregory Porter. It certainly won’t sound like the one of the Jazz/Soul greats of the modern age for nobody can be as remarkably clear and beautifully astute as him and in his new album, Take Me To The Alley, all that refinement, class and specialist insight comes rushing out to greet the listener in all its abundant glory.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Rudd, Emily VanCamp, Tom Holland, Daniel Brühl, Frank Grillo, William Hurt, Martin Freeman, Marisa Tomei, John Kani, John Slattery, Hope Davis, Alfre Woodard, Gene Farber, Stan Lee.
The world hangs in a deadly balance, the world’s mightiest heroes are being reined in by their own kind and their friends and divisions and sides are being forged and broken; the world is used to such fun and games, countries routinely flip in their pursuit of self interest and government greed but to do this to those charged with protecting the planet, it all gets very murky indeed.
It means nothing,
a scrawl of a name upon a sheet
of type faced paper,
the songs upon it mean the world
but they could have come from
your own computer, your own stubbed-
out fingers creasing upon your ink dried
heart, then signed by the artist…
however…
pen written, the taste of ink on the fingers
of the flowering talent,
of the smile that comes with it for free,
two way mutual respect and admiration
and the surge of holding
onto the setlist, shaking as they dedicate it
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating: * * * *
Cast: Daniel Bye
The premise behind Daniel Bye’s latest show is a simple one; an aeroplane flies from India to England, everyone onboard is weeping. Everyone except you. There is a disease sweeping the world, it is incredibly infectious and it passes from person to person. Bye explores the issues of viruses and how they spread in his latest show Going Viral currently running at the Unity.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper, Judah Lewis, C.J. Wilson, Polly Draper, Malachy Cleary, Debra Monk, Heather Lind, Wass Stevens, Blaire Brooks, Gregory Haney.
Grief is a peculiar beast; it affects people in different ways. Some will look at it as a time of reflection, some will plough themselves into their work till they become ill and others will find themselves finding a very different approach to dealing with the hurt, pain and absolute heartache of losing someone they love. The heart will grieve regardless and it is the moment of final deconstruction that most will come through the other side and find a reason to smile again.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *
Cast: Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton, Ewan McGregor, Noah Emmerich, Boyd Holbrook, Rodrigo Santoro, James Burnett, Sam Quinn, Maisie McMaster, Jenny Gabrielle, Alex Manette, Piper Sheets, Celia Kessler, Linda Martin.
It seems the old west is becoming more flavoursome once more, it certainly has had a lot of time to find its niche market again and thankfully move away from the tired and almost disgraceful, fetish like voyeurism of the 1950s and 60s in which generations of cinema goers were treated to the version of events that depicted the wars and slaughter of native Americans and their European invaders. The old west now seems to venture into more realistic territory and yet occasionally it can blow its own trumpet too hard and offer a film that just doesn’t fit in either camp; it is neither truly awful nor astonishingly good but nevertheless it still is a piece of artistic interpretation worth exploring.
They said I made my bed
so I have to lay in it,
yet I sleep on a sofa
perhaps for a while
and during the day if
I am lucky, if I have had the temerity
to take tablets and pain killer courage
by the bundle; I rarely get to see a bed
and when I do it seems it was made up
by maid service or the dumb waiter
who never actually let me finish
my fucking sentences
because it either suited them
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Even the spectre of near biblical sounding April rainfall and destructive wind whistling round the building couldn’t deter the sound that Gary Edward Jones and his band were making in Constellations. If anything, as the heaviest of raindrops fell upon the roof of the building and the wind roared down the Mersey River and into the heart of the Baltic Triangle, it was almost if the elements, the drive of nature was applauding and cheering on The Cabinet Maker. Each droplet heard in time as if the polite ovation of a classical music audience had somehow been thrown into the mix of the night; it was one that was most welcome and assuring.