We don’t get along, we never really have.
I hate the thought of giving into Morpheus’ seduction
and the sound of a thousand yawns and inevitable,
“It’s Bed Time”, joyfully shouted as the radio
was switched off with glee, just as I was listening
to some news from a far off place, or the glimmer
of a new song that had caught my ear, all cut off in their prime
and with accompanying whine “Why aren’t you tired?”
Of course I am tired, for over forty years I have been shattered,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
It feels so rare these days to come across a great American metal/Punk Horror band that when you do, the only option you feel you have is to fly to Philadelphia and with great acclaim and ceremony, run the risk of imprisonment, and ring the Liberty Bell for all its worth. Sound the bells the Americans are hitting back with vengeance.
I remember the last time I saw the scrawled graffiti on the storm drain wall.
Although it was written with an uncomfortable hand,
its message would make an angel weep in frustration
and the effect it had on me was to change things for a while.
I would hide in that drain pipe when times got rough,
when thinking in my room about events and others
words upon my soul and mine, perhaps more hurtful,
that would scar their heart and have me scar my arms.
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Cast: India Fisher, Michael Maloney, James Joyce, Nicholas Briggs, Louise Bradley, Nadia Kamil.
The solution is always part of the problem it seems. No matter how grand the answer, another dilemma will pop up in its place. Just as The Doctor faced being able to eradicate the Daleks from all time and space by placing two wires together, the quandary appeared that he would be as evil as them for not letting nature take its course. The solution is never the utter final truth. For the Viyrans and Charley Pollard, the solution is even more complex and for Charlotte Pollard the stakes have never been higher.
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There is something deep down that makes anyone with even just a smidgen of adventure or human spirit welling up under the surface of composed reassurance that wouldn’t want, even for a short while, to be the hero of the hour, the person of the moment or even the V.I.P. entering the room.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Domination is not just measured in output but in years also. The Scandinavian block has over the course of the last few years become a power house, an energising animal with seemingly just one point to make and that is to prove time and time again that this decade is about those set of countries providing the very best Heavy Metal music anywhere in the world. In Finland’s Battle Beast the trend continues and in their latest stormer of an album, Unholy Saviour, it’s easy to see why.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: David Tennant, Olivia Coleman, Jodie Whittaker, Andrew Buchan, Charlotte Beaumont, Matthew Gravelle, Tanya Franks, Meera Syal, Carolyn Pickles, Jonathan Bailey, Joe Sims, Arthur Darvill, Simone McAullay, Charlotte Rampling, Eve Myles, William Andrews, Paul Blackwell, James D’Arcy, Peter De Jersey, Janet Dibley, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Simone McAullay, .
Who’s to blame when an alleged killer is liable to walk free when overwrought and built up emotions are fully bared out for public consumption? The sensible, rational and unimpaired face of judgement we sometimes are forced to wear by society’s expectation comes crashing down and in a single action, an unhindered show of emotions, a case against a killer throws everything into question.
Crossing the Tamar Bridge brings a sense of polite revolution,
a feeling of identity regained, no matter how mixed or diluted
the poetic blood has become, for no-one should ever 100 percent solution
or wrap the flag of choice around cold shoulders when it is suited.
The black background holding the white cross aloft
held high by a Kernow sister dressed in a blue dress
whipped up by an Atlantic wind so soft
is the closest I come to holding up a banner or crest.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There are times in life in which you just have to let the night unfold infront of you, and enjoy every single minute of it. Even if the truth of the evening really goes over your head, you can but laugh and gasp for air.
The Empire Theatre has hosted many great nights but there are those that would struggle to take on the appeal of the long running radio programme, I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, that even the most cunning of comedians would jump at the chance of being involved in rather than take on a Liverpool audience alone.
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Cast: India Fisher, Anneka Wills, Terence Hardiman, Charlie Norfolk, David Dobson, Michael Maloney.
The intrepid travellers in the life of Charley Pollard have long been teased over the family history of the Edwardian Adventuress. There have been smatterings, the odd peek and the rare smidgen of information of how the young Charlotte Pollard grew to be the woman she has most definitely become and how it could bring about The Fall of the House of Pollard.