Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
A riot by any other name can still sound just as sweet, however, a riot, the eruption of sound associated with The Buffalo Riot is almost without equal and to that end even the great plains of America would shudder with greater exposure and bounding resonance to this terrific band than a million buffalo or bison could manage as they stampede in unison.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10
Stillhet’s Strings and Things monthly Sunday evening shows at the Parr Street Studio have always been of the highest quality, friendly and forthcoming when it comes to having musicians on board who might have been away from the glare of the stage and the music lover’s hearts. It is a trait of kindness and gentleness that allows any sign of nerves to be dispelled and left to wander freely back out onto the road and pavements and wrapped in its own negative thoughts.
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July can be seen as month in which experimentation with the senses goes into a kind of overdrive, the pleasure of the discovery of something new going hand in hand with the sultry and aurally naked. The velvet touch offered by a craving to take the heat higher than should be allowed but in which the temptation catches fire and stokes the engine to the point where whistles blow and steam gushes out at such a rate that the explosion of sound spreads out across the room with rapid expansion and the wake of The Dirty Bomb leaving a collection of smiling faces.
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Richard Thompson is one of the great survivors of Rock and Folk, a man who is the epitome of great song writing and who, even after nearly 40 years of recording and touring has the ability to make each new song sound as though it was plucked from a new born rose and the thought of the aroma of the intoxicating future promised one of great mystery and satisfaction.
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The best of, the culmination of a life’s work, easier perhaps in the artistic world of poetry, film or music than dealing with the general public day after day in a shop or waiting on tables.
Naked she stood before me, her eyes glistening
with youthful Hispanic desire and the elegance
of her people wrapped in New York 77th Street silk
and I broke my heart as I knew I could not satisfy
that what was given freely.
I shuddered as the eleven thirty seven rays of sunshine
hit the window that hid the opulence that blinded
me temporarily to the disease that wanted to be shared
like a needle holding a myriad of confessions
and the straight jacket of conformity.
I thought I’d take a trip to see an old friend,
meet halfway and agree upon the same conclusion
that it had been far too long since we last spent
Time killing time
and the talk of old things between us,
that bound us and which into Middle Age
no longer mattered.
The distance between us was never that far
even after nearly three decades apart
and I reminded him of the blow
by blow replication that he did for me
of my then favourite album cover and wondered if he
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Geraldine Moloney Judge, Neil MacDonald, Chrissi-Jo Hyde, Lee Burnitt, David Clayton, Albert Hastings, Caitlin Mary Carley Clough.
If money is the root of all flowering evil, then the pursuit of it must be the untilled field. Since its inception the national lottery has produced more millionaires in the country than at any time in its history and yet how many of them have been truly happy or felt blessed beyond their wildest dreams, happy not because of the money and the chance to spend it upon anything they wish, but for it to do real good, to effect real change?
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Thanks to the pace of modern life and the way that everything is captured in its smallest detail for consumption, it was perhaps inevitable that the life and sad demise of Amy Winehouse would one day make its way on to the screens.
In Amy that focus, the character of the blessed and the cursed are played out in equal measure and the contrast between black and white, the humour of the young Jewish woman and the voice that captured many music fan’s hearts bleeds through to the contextualised colour out of control but sharp conviction that plays out across the two hours.
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Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Clarke, Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney, J.K. Simmons, Dayo Okeniyi, Matt Smith, Courtney B. Vance, Byung-Hun Lee, Michael Gladis, Sandrine Holt, Wayne Bastrup, Gregory Alan Williams, Otto Sanchez, Matty Ferraro, Griff Furst, Robert Patrick, Kerry O’ Malley, Mark Adam, Bryant Prince.
At least with a new Terminator film, the public’s suffering at the hands of Terminator: Salvation can now be start to be forgotten, left to rust in its own cage of insipid pop culture and if possible banished from the memory forever, skipped over when watching the series of films back to back and the DVD given away to charity, though to be fair, they might not thank you for it.