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Jane Lee Hooker, No B!. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Should you choose to fall for the charms, the determination and the blistering Blues of Jane Lee Hooker, should the infectious demands of gravel toned vocals obliterate any doubts placed in the way of just what is in store as the groove and blues start to delve between the ribs and cause the heart to pound, then you know just how superb the feeling of nostalgic punches to the musical gut are, just how dominating Jane Lee Hooker are with their debut album, No B!

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

Ged Wilson, Tonight At Noon. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Arguably one of the most important things to be able to posses in life is a sense of humour, without it you are doomed to wallow in either your own misfortune or the downfall of believing your own hype, of taking yourself so seriously it causes the soul pain or not understanding just what it is you mean to other people; a sense of humour makes all the talent you posses so much beautiful and allows clarity of spirit to shine through. It is in that clarity of spirit that makes Ged Wilson’s Tonight at Noon such a wonderful piece of Blues interaction and one that you cannot help raise a smile to, even on the most harmonious of moments available.

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(396 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

The Thirty Nine Steps, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool. 2016.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Richard Ede, Olivia Greene, Andrew Hodges, Rob Witcomb.

The secrets of The 39 Steps have long been discussed, bandied around the drawing rooms of gentleman clubs and inner circles of foreign governments for such a long time that the dashing pencil moustache and rugged figure of Richard Hannay positively quivers at the thought of saving the country from the dastardly plot afoot.

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(438 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Salvador Dalek.

A maverick with moustache,

whiskers like crinkle cut oven chip

all oiled marvellously into shape

and the eccentricity

to see Time melt away, is still

a conformist if they don’t believe

in anarchy, that the rebel without

a cause and who only talks

of days when revolution can be painted,

is only in truth

neither individual or machine,

the Salvador Dalek

of the artistic world.

 

There is no insanity to this work,

it is no one of a kind

to find

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(131 words, estimated 31 secs reading time)

The Tarnished Queen Of Times Square.

Deposit fifty cents in English

and you will see the Queen

of New York strip, pull back the latch,

take in the scene and I promise

that the eyes will widen

and the legs will turn to jelly

for behind the peep show here

in the greatest city on Earth,

for about a minute,

you will feel royalty,

you my English friend will understand

the true meaning of being

the King of Times Square.

 

The Peep show, vaguely understood,

randomly implicit, silently mistaken,

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(390 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)