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Conflict, Transform Into A Human. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It has long been said that if you poke the Russian bear, you are likely to get mauled. Unless of course you do it with a drum stick and point out the electric guitar and the impressive female vocalist waiting to get started, then the Russian bear, a polarising designate which isn’t worthy of the paper it is written upon for the Russian people are just as astonishing as the British when it comes to all things music, the Russian bear jams harder, beats faster and splinters more drum sticks in search of the perfect Metal rhythm than any other creature growling in the forests around the Steppes.

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

The Rose Bush Or The Lost Highway.

In all the adventures a man can have, surely

the last they can have in the modern age,

one devoid of dying in battle, sword carried high, noble steed

between his legs; the final brush with an opposition

much respected, perhaps in a way adored, the sweat and humidity

of the final swansong as the owner’s sword is impaled on himself

fully sheathed,

and the opposition goes on to conquer the next in line

like a domino pushed over, perhaps to enslave and terrify;

the last resting post of the humble shed, hiding away in the crevice afforded

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

Doctor Who: Requiem For The Rocket Men. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Cast: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, John Leeson, Geoffrey Beevers, Mark Frost, Olivia Poulet, Damian Lynch, Pat Ruins.

The renegade Timelord from Gallifrey is fighting for his life in a trap. Considered to be lethal, dangerous and with a personality that can be abrasive and charming, the Universe’s greatest bounty hunters are in for a slice of the reward money placed temptingly before them, for after all would rank so high in the list of most wanted criminals than The Master.

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(447 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare – Havoc DLC (PS4), Game Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating: 9.5 out of 10

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare – Havoc is downloadable content for the first-person shooter game available from the PlayStation Store for the PS4. Havoc provides downloadable content for the multi-million selling Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare with the addition of the much requested Exo Zombies game mode and expanding the roster of multiplayer maps.

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(2111 words, estimated 8:27 mins reading time)

Paul Simon And Sting, Gig Review. Manchester Phones4U Arena.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

When audiences first heard about this gig, the pairing of Paul Simon with Sting was one that may have struck many as not being an obvious combination and having seen the gig, for many it arguably still doesn’t – they’re an odd couple of monumentally iconic proportions but together they delivered a very special night indeed.

The stage was jam packed with musicians of the very highest quality – the session guys worked in shifts – some with Paul, some with Sting, including the legendary drummer Vinnie Colaiuta and some with both, which gave the whole night a real feeling of unity but what nobody could have expected was three gigs for the price of one.

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

Birdsong, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Edmund Wiseman, Emily Bowker, Selma Brook, Max Bowden, Cloudia Swann, Peter Duncan, Emily Altneu, James Staddon, Liam McCormick, Roger Martin, Alastair Whatley, James Findlay.

Even in the foul grip of war, there must be a love that carries the soldier across the boundary between the stench of perpetual death and the sanity that is provided by having something to live for. Love in the midst of war is what keeps the thoughts of ordinary men from turning into barbarians and for those who do the fighting, whether above ground, on the fields of No Man’s Land or in the tunnels, love can be the saving point. Love is a peculiar Birdsong.

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(564 words, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

Stealing Sheep, Not Real. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

They are one of the most uniquely sounding bands to come out of the twin musical areas of Liverpool and Birmingham for some time but even then it doesn’t guarantee that a new album will have anything the intensity or the overflowing amount of passion that their debut or any of their abundant gigs have had.

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(429 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Ice (s)Cream Revolution.

We find ourselves with a very unique opportunity

to do the right thing but the British enjoyment of sticking

to the choice supposedly only offered between vanilla and raspberry

stops Mint Choc from ever being tasted on a Day in May afternoon.

 

It is a very British howl of complaint

that at the back of our minds, the thought that struggles to be free

and roam wild, perhaps by not going down the same old, same old

tired route and certainly keeping away from that foul

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(255 words, estimated 1:01 mins reading time)

Beth Hart, Better Than Home. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

You can ask for many things in life, world peace, the end to hunger, humanity living side by side in genuine respect…the list is endless and in all honesty hardly likely to happen. You can though, and surely must always be allowed the privilege of hearing a Beth Hart album at some point during the busy weeks ahead. This is a pre-requisite for getting through Time, the chance to listen to a genuine female legend of 21st Century Blues Rock at her prolific best. This prolific, demanding the clearest mind’s attention nature is captured in true style with her latest release, Better Than Home.

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

Harriet!, Hidden Messages. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There will always be those that say that different generations cannot relate to each other, that the signs and signals sent out by one, are at best taken as nonsense and that they haven’t lived yet, at worst, degraded to the point of supreme arrogance and as condescending as anybody could ever hope to achieve.

Harriet!, Hidden Messages. E.P. Review. full post

(408 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)