Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It is a good thing to let the goose pimples go out for a walk of their own volition sometimes. To let them wander unhindered and unrestrained all over the body and at the same feel the hairs on the back of the neck stiffen and take delight at the thought of a piece of music sounding so exquisitely haunting, that it can barely be contained.
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What difference does a name truly make, especially when it gets changed? In some cases it cause the implosion, it can smack of pandering to a section of the market that might be left confused by the seemingly random nature of it all and taken to the extreme, can lead to a barren wilderness.
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For the vast majority of the time what is needed from music is the ability to knock the door of complacency down so far and fast that it splinters, fractures and disintegrates into sawdust. To take on the comfortable and undeservingly content is a right that many dare not venture into and yet, especially at this time of year when the ballot boxes of discontent are brought out with alarming military-like precision. Thankfully Manchester’s The Falling understand that to bring such things to the attention of music lover is their inalienable right.
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Cast: Susan Cormack, Jane Dickens, Cath Rice, Danielle McLauren, Barbera Willis, Lucy Fiori, Elisa Cowley.
The Unity Theatre has a massive heart. It loves theatre, it loves its audiences and it loves Liverpool. This is evident in the eclectic and challenging work that fills its programme year upon year.
One such work is currently playing at the theatre, Tales from the Blue Room; a play from veteran playwright Pat Anderson and directed by former Liverpool Lunchtime Theatre director Paul Goetzee and which was originally presented as The Swan at the Liverpool Actor’s Studio
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Cast: Martin Shaw, Lee Ingleby, Lisa McGrillis, Jeremy Swift, Lucy Liemann, Emily Woof, Derek Riddell, Denise Welch, Alice Blundell, Paul Charlton, Mickey Cochrane, Christine Berriman Dawson, Simon Hubbard, Madeline Knight, Lillian Macardle, Annabel Scholey, Robert Whitelock, Philippa Wilson.
There are few crimes that are as horrific as murder, and yet when they take place the nation is divided it seems between those who with macho intent deliver a sermon well worn and so outdated that it barely deserves repeating and those who understand how the unbalancing of the act can have on the local area, the people and nature.
On the day that April Ashley
became a citizen of honour
in her home town that was once rugged,
rough, the tumbled down
and decaying, you cannot but help raise a smile
and nod to the fact that acceptance is the most
powerful form of understanding, a lesson that rarely
gets learned and that we are all guilty
of displaying the disgraceful
ridicule to those whose hearts beat
in time with ours.
I saw her being interviewed once
by one of the greats of the new build city
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If the album title and cover from the Master Thieves’ latest offering is meant to be radical and hark back to an age where the utopian future and scary brutal smell of dystopian realism can be seen hand in hand, then News From Nowhere not only succeeds, it positively smiles at its own industry and clever analogy. It is the type of presentation, both on the outside and more importantly on the C.D. that the listener cannot help but be intrigued by and place quite high on the to do list.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10
Everything has its time; it’s a fundamental law of the Universe that dare not be broken. Stars soon collapse under their own weight or burn up more fuel than they can ever hope to exist upon. There are endless rainy days that ruin a school summer holiday, soon dry out in time for that one perfect day in which the stolen kiss and furtive smile are the makings of a story that will regale all as soon as the dinner bell rings and empires, even musical ones, soon fade into the obscurity that Time allows them.
It was a secret,
one of those places you
were not aware of
until you were properly ready
to understand the significance of the change
it would bring
into your life and the preparation
into the adult that would stand bare naked one night
thirty years later
as the world became a more lonely place.
I found myself recalling the piece
that landed me my first part
inside the hallowed halls of the most exciting building
in the whole of Bicester and started to hum it,
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For those who have experienced the side effects of living in a part of the world where darkness prevails for months on end like a lonely wolf stalking its prey with relentless but determined passion, it never seems to end and Waiting On The Sun to come and drain the life from the wintery waste is like being the hare that the wolf has got the scent of, it drains you to the point of exhaustion.