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The Lovely Eggs: Eggsistentialism. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

If you don’t feel the hackles rising and the wrath coursing through each vein   as the body responds to the old, desperate retort of “Get a proper job” as you plunder the soul for the opportunity to bring something unique, something spiritual, anything artistic into the world; then frankly there is no hope for you. You may as well reserve your place at the end of the line marked mediocrity and hope that the existential parade never finds you sulking as you march to the beat of other’s dogma and insecurity.

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(401 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

The Regime. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Danny Webb, Andrea Riseborough, Guillaume Gallienne, Henry Goodman, David Bamber, Rory Keenan, Louie Mynett, Martha Plimpton, Stanley Townsend, Alasdair Hankinson, Michael Colgan, Patrick Fusco, Pippa Haywood, Hugh Grant.

Regimes never fall, they just undergo a personality change.

In truth all revolutions ultimately fail because the void they leave is too immense for anything other than the status quo to fill it; it is why you arguably only ever have extremes of government in so called democratic countries, never a middle of the road leadership, a third party truly doing anything other than playing to the conscious of the crowd.

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(459 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Frey Allan, Kevin Durand, Owen Teague, William H. Macy, Peter Macon, Sara Wiseman, Karin Konoval, Dichen Lachman, Lydia Peckham, Neil Sandilands, Eka Darville, Ras-Samuel, Travis Jeffrey.

When a franchise can still find ways to progress more than fifty years after its initial outing at the cinema, you just know how important it is that the story line reflects and adheres to the original sense of the infinite possibility that first entranced and captured the cinema lover’s heart.

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(441 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Queen: Rock Montreal. Album Reissue Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

A timely reissue of an old favourite is guaranteed to be successful, but a re-release of arguably one of the best examples of a craft being undertaken at the height of an artist’s popularity is a reveal that belongs in the soul of the one willing to embrace a sound, a time, to which will never happen again.

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(455 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Jill Jackson: Curse Of The Damned. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The sensitivity of a voice is what we first notice when our soul is captured by a sound breaking down our resistance to the day, the trials and tribulations, the moments of anguish, the long hard stare of a fierce predator shaped in the distressing gowns of grief….that voice can bring it all down and surrender itself to peace because of the timbre and the beauty that resonates deep within us.

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(349 words, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

Troy Redfern: Invocation. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To call upon the supernatural and the spirits that guide us in our dedication to artistic endeavour may feel to some as nothing more than an invitation to devilry, the incantations of witches and occultists; where in truth the Invocation is cast by magicians, by entertainers and not illusionists.

To understand that magic is held by the creative soul and not one who practises deception is to feel the freedom of the soul, to watch it soar, to be at peace with the result of the Blues and the Rock that is brought forth into the world, and in that, in his own powerful truth, Troy Redfern brings forth the spell of tremendous musical wealth in his brand new studio recording, Invocation.

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(405 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Gothminister. Pandemonium II: The Battle Of The Underworlds. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

For some the sound of an album immersed in the realm of the concept is a joyous occasion, it is the epic novel in a surround sound experience where a single journey isn’t enough, and a three-minute track does not do justice. To be in that realm, in any genre that can cope with the dynamic and the expected, is to marvel at the scope of the imagination and the ease in which the minefield of illusion is traversed with speed, agility, and promise.

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(486 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Shardlake. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Arthur Hughes, Anthony Boyle, Ruby Ashbourne Serkis, Sean Bean, Matthew Steer, Joe Barber, Miles Barrow, Babou Ceesay, Paul Kaye, Mike Noble, David Pearse, Irfan Shamji, Brian Vernal, Michael Rivers, Tadhg Murphy, Peter Firth, Alex Bhatt, Ken Nwosu, Louis Goodwin, Kimberley Nixon.

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

The Twelve. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Sam Neill, Brooke Satchwell, Kate Mulvany, Damien Strouthos, Marta Dusseldorp, Catherine Van-Davies, Nicholas Cassim, Pallavi Sharda, Brendan Cowell, Gennie Nevinson, Ngali Shaw, James Lugton, Hazam Shammas, Bishanyia Vincent, Mandela Mathia, Daniel Mitchell, Toby Blome, Lee Robinson, Warren Lee, Amy Kersey, Jenni Baird, Hamish Michael, Matt Nable, Louisa Mignone, Silvia Colloca, Ben Mingay, Alastair Bradman, Victoria Bradman, Gilbert Bradman, Sheridan Harbridge, Jade Potts, Fayssal Bazzi, Frances O’Connor, Myles Pollard, Anthony Hayes, Tasma Walton.

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(531 words, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

Renegade Nell. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Louisa Harland, Frank Dillane, Alice Kremelberg, Enyi Okoronkwo, Bo Bragason, Florence Keen, Nick Mohamed, Adrian Lester, Jake Dunn, Joely Richardson, Jodhi May, Pip Torrens, Ashna Rabheru, Daniel Rigby, Joe Dixon, Ryan Gage, Mark Heap, Rosalyn Wright, Bronwyn James, John Arthur, Craig Parkinson, Art Malik, Ramon Tikaram, Ruth Madeley, Lenny Rush, Oliver Lansley.

The allure of the highway man has been such that since the tales of Dick Turpin were eulogised by the English Historical novelist William Harrison Ainsworth in the 1834 gothic novel Rookwood, the public has been entranced by the dark side of 18th Century Britain’s justice system and the inverse of the heroic story attributed to those who otherwise would have garnered the nation’s affections.

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(413 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)