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Rapunzel: The Rock ‘N’ Roll Panto. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Emma Bispham, Ben Boskovic, Adam Keast, Ai Kumar, Rebecca Levy, Alice Merivale, Tomi Ogbaro, Adam Scott Pringle, Michael Starke, Dylan Townley, Zoe West.

It is no hair-lucination, the style and delivery will cause a wave of laughter for all ages, and with the deadly Danny Ruff on the prowl to corner the hairdressing market, the buzz of the razor’s edge as it cuts through the dastardly machinations is only enhanced by the terrific sound of laughter that fills to the trim of the Everyman Theatre as the city’s audience are once more treated to the Rock ‘N’ Roll Panto, and as the Francesca Goodridge directed and the Jude Christian written Rapunzel brings families together no perm is left untouched and no pun safe from being teased out.

Rapunzel: The Rock ‘N’ Roll Panto. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(358 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Timothy Spall, Lilit lesser, Harry melling, Kate Philips, Jonathan Pryce, Richard Dillane, Karim Kadjar, Charlie Rowe, Joss Porter, Will Keen, Will Tudor, Lydia Leonard, Harriet Walker, Tom Mothersdale, Alex Jennings, Lucy Russell, James Larkin, Robert Wilfort, Thomas Arnold, Hannah Steele, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Corentin Fila, Viola Prettejohn, Jordan Kouamé, Agnes O’ Casey, Cecilia Appiah, Ellie de Lange, Hubert Burton, Pip Carter, Josef Altin, Sarah Priddy, Hannah Khalique-Brown, Amir El-Masry, German Segal, Tim Scragg, Summer Richards, Dana Herfurth, Claire Foy.

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(542 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Day Of The Jackal. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 9/10

Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Lashana Lynch, Chuckwudi Iwuji, Lia Williams, Úrsula Corberó, Charles Dance, Corey Johnson, Eleanor Matsuura, Ben Hall, Jon Arias, Khalid Abdalla, Sule Rimi, Florisa Kamara, Nick Blood, Christy Meyer, Adoney Díaz Barajas, Saúl Díaz Barajas, Patrick Kennedy, Martin McDougall, Puchi Lagarde, Patrick O’Kane, Jonjo O’Neill, Kate Dickie, Adam James, Gerard Kearns, Russell Balogh, Richard Dormer, Andreas Jessen, Laura Checkley, Lucas Englander, Jan-Martin Müller, Péter Kálloy Molnár, Brian Caspe, Eddie Elks, Thomas Mraz, Philip Jackson, Michelle Newell.

Day Of The Jackal. Television Drama Review. full post

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

The Holdovers. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Carrie Preston, Brady Hepner, Ian Dolley, Michael Provost, Andrew Garmen, Naheem Garcia, Stephen Thirne, Gillian Vigman, Tate Donovan, Darby Lee-Stack, Bill Mootos, Dustin Tucker, Juanita Pearl, Alexander Cook, Liz Bishop, Cole Tristan Murphy, Will Sussbauer, Carter Shimp, Melissa McMeekin, Dan Aid, Kelly Aucoin, Colleen Clinton, Fred Robbins, David J. Curtis, Pamela Jayme Morgan.

The Holdovers. Film Review. full post

(501 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

Shetland. Series 9. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Alison O’ Donnell, Ashley Jensen, Steve Robertson, Lewis Howden, Anne Kidd, Angus Miller, Steve Miller, Ian Hart, Tibu Fortes, Stuart Campbell, Sarah MacGillivray, Jacob Ferguson, Robert Jack, Vincent Regan, Ross Anderson, Macleod Stephen, Tara Lee, Johannes Lassen, Nathalie Merchant, Ines Høysæter Asserson, Leroy Boone.

Shetland. Series 9. Television Review. full post

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

Tori Amos: Diving Deep Live. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Thankfully in today’s world the fear of missing out should be one emotion we can surely relegate to the past; especially when it comes to the ability to have the opportunity to listen in comfort to a performance by an artist at the constant top of their game, and the luxury of being enthralled by the deep dive into the catalogue provided.

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(409 words, 1 image, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Jethro Tull: The Jethro Tull Christmas Album – Fresh Snow At Christmas. Album Box-Set Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

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Of all the ways you might expect the art of the Progressive to go, to slip comfortably into the realm of the festive spirit might be the one guess you would never offer to the eternal quizmaster.

It might not be obvious, but if there is one band whose history has circumnavigated almost every genre that can be touched upon with a flute leading the way, then Jethro Tull have every right to surprise and enlighten the audience and the fan alike by immersing their unique observation into an album devoted to the ringing of the bells and the signal to good will to all included.

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(419 words, 1 image, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

KAIVS: After The Flesh. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The genre is not for everyone, but Death Metal exists because of a natural requirement to explain humanity’s darker elements in such a way that could be considered more theatrical than what the art of cinema for example could depict, even literature of such gruesome imagination would be relegated to a store cupboard out of the reach, and yet in the hands of masters what comes across in audio is sculptured visibility, it is the virtuosity of carving out a figure to which can leave the listener, the fan or the enquiring novice, gaping in wonder at the sheer strength of musicianship given a voice of anger and fierce outlook.

KAIVS: After The Flesh. Album Review. full post

(365 words, 1 image, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Albatross (On the Wing).

Floating
Dreaming
Here on my slow island bed
Lost in the seas
And the Albatross Skies
So High

What- What is there to do?
Nothing I want to see
Except for the crested waves
Crashing off the mirrored versions
Of me

Floating
Dreaming
I witness you there
Circling with the Albatross
Touching the opaque wispy clouds
So High

Alone, Here I Lay
Youthful hands behind my head
On crumbling dreams
On Petit Bot Cliffs
Gentle-Airless
A rumble from distant wings

Floating
Dreaming
Where will I go to
When this dream is over
Where will you land
Now that the world is so high

What-What is there to do
Nothing I want to hear
Except for the sound
Of your
Mournful forgotten cry.

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(102 words, estimated 24 secs reading time)

Dean Johnson: Hoopla. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The commotion of excitement is always palpable; sometimes though you must actively ask the question to which the other person in your vicinity might cut down the animation you feel and display agitation and coldness to the familiar…the response will not fit your enthusiasm, but it will inspire something deep down in your poetic soul and create art, create a new world driven from the negative pressure once felt to the beauty of positivity.

Dean Johnson: Hoopla. Album Review. full post

(382 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)