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Eleanor Nelly, Gig Review. Constellations, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 9/10

It seems to be that the phrase for Liverpool’s Eleanor Nelly is “always continues to impress and astound”; for when you see this young musician perform you forget about many things, Time gets swallowed up, Time finds a way to be its own destructing agent without decaying the fragile and sensitive beauty that is bonded between audience and performer. It is almost as if Time understands the special nature that comes with Ms. Nelly and wants to make sure that those that see her perform now in Liverpool enjoy, take pleasure in and bask in the enormity to come, for six months on from turning 16, Eleanor is surely earmarked to go to the stars.

Eleanor Nelly, Gig Review. Constellations, Liverpool. full post

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

Error 404, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Cast: Daniel Bye.

The nature of the Philosopher, the very act of being, is one that is largely ignored and yet remains one of the most telling lines of all William Shakespeare’s plays. To be or not to be, the very nature of existence and the art of acting upon will or allowing events to be dictated to you, to feel alive, to need, to ache, to live, to feel, these are fundamental questions in which truth of reality is achieved and highlighted.

Error 404, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(421 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

LUH, Spiritual Songs For Lovers To Sing. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The term interesting has become almost a slogan for the bored and the easily distracted, it has lost the meaning of requires further investigation, of complete concentration and focus on the task or the artistic assignment ahead. In many ways, it is has become its own antonym in the same way that the English language is fluid, so too can words misguide and change.

LUH, Spiritual Songs For Lovers To Sing. Album Review. full post

(346 words, estimated 1:23 mins reading time)

The Women Of Amish.

The women of Amish,

looked at the English boy

in their midst, circling around him

and with a faint smile

on the eldest of them,

the matriarch of the small travelling

party deferring with her eyes

to the man in the black

iron pressed cloak and stiff-rimmed hat

and softly thanked the boy

for taking time to talk to them

despite their initial

worries, their concerns

of being caught

on camera, their souls in peril

at the thought of modern technology

eating them, devouring from the inside out,

The Women Of Amish. full post

(267 words, estimated 1:04 mins reading time)

Michael Schenker’s Temple Of Rock: On A Mission-Live In Madrid. DVD Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Michael Schenker’s contribution to the world of rock is such that it doesn’t bear thinking about what might have been had the young man not joined The Scorpions or U.F.O., what the world would have missed out on in the last few years with the outstanding Temple of Rock. The brain of the Rock fan, one that is always cerebral and contemplative due to the sheer cool of the genre, would go into meltdown if Michael Schenker had gone on to sit in a bank or become an estate agent; the waste of exciting and guitar brutal talent would just be too much too cope with.

Michael Schenker’s Temple Of Rock: On A Mission-Live In Madrid. DVD Review. full post

(535 words, 1 image, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)

Resident Alien, Strawberry Moon. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The language of the emotive and poignant will always carry something different about them than the sincere, the tender and the lyrically moved. It will carry a sense of the discrete, of the way that many are stimulated in one way or another to transfer their lives away from their birth place and the country of their origin as they clash with authorities, the dissidents and the rebels of the state; those to whom a voice is denied.

Resident Alien, Strawberry Moon. E.P. Review. full post

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

Murder, Smears And State Sponsered Abuse.

It’s only murder after all.

You deny it of course,

you will reject the charges brought

and laid down at your defeated door

and hide behind the badge

of office and rank, you will draw

a smokescreen veil to further assist

the cover-up as the whispers

become louder and more vociferous,

that demand your head,

stopping short of a silver platter, why waste

the family

heirlooms as you wasted

the families, destroyed lives

and smeared a city

and all because you were able to.

 

Murder, Smears And State Sponsered Abuse. full post

(194 words, estimated 47 secs reading time)

Only Child, The Whale Found Its Way To The Shore. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Poetry does not have to be confined, if it ever is, to the written down Bard or the stand up performance in a bustling city café; poetry is everywhere, the feeling of the poetic, the graceful and the profound rhythm can be seen in almost anything; it just requires a certain perceptive, enquiring mind and sensitivity to the issue in which to come out and be applauded.

Only Child, The Whale Found Its Way To The Shore. Album Review. full post

(443 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Stella Diana, Nitrocris. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

When the Gods smile upon you, when the divine heavens open and shine down a radiance upon your hard earned talent and capacity to learn and grow, then no matter what your beliefs elsewhere, as long as you have belief in yourself that is all that matters. It is belief and hard work that have given Italian postpunk band Stella Diana such remarkable fascination and insight in their latest album Nitrocris

Stella Diana, Nitrocris. Album Review. full post

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

Who’d Be A Boy Today.

Who’d be a boy today,

who would seriously want

to have the pressure of living

up to past endeavours by both

distant long ago relations, their successes

and their attitude;

why would we still install that engrained

outdated attitude into them

that boys are better than girls,

when if not equal then girls,

as Tiresias maintained,

have the true pleasure of life

and should be lauded as so.

 

Why in a world that needs more compassion,

more courage not to be driven by the pursuit

Who’d Be A Boy Today. full post

(131 words, estimated 31 secs reading time)