Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The end of one decade and the start of another in your life always brings about the chance to reflective with what you have achieved and where you see your life going. It is only right that as you grow, your 20s and your 50s are wildly different and perhaps more contemplative, more attuned to a world that at points feels as though is crumbling down right around you and the urge to set it right for the those following on behind.
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Cast: Denise Kennedy, Andrew Frizell.
Whitechapel has produced more than a few characters of ill repute and more than a few of notable glory over the last couple of centuries but arguably none were like Bella Burge. A woman who typified the spirit of the East-End, who on her 11th birthday walked through the same misbegotten streets as Jack the Ripper, who was taken in and apprenticed by one of Music Halls leading lights, trod the boards herself, married a championship winning boxer only to see him arrested as part of a bank fraud/betting scam three weeks later in Liverpool and who in the end became the first woman Boxing promoter in the world. Bella Burge is ripe to spoken of just as highly as anybody from the East-End.
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Cast: Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Timothy West, Anne Reid, Ophelia Lovibond, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Katherine Parkinson, Tom Key, Luke Pasqualino, Anna Chancellor, Marc Wooton, Ben Willbond.
There is something quite wonderfully chilling in having Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton back on television together. Even without their League of Gentlemen co-star Mark Gatiss around, the chemistry, the pleasing abundance of visual darkness and comedy that filters through to make great and worthy programmes is enough to make you weep tears of joy as you become yet again embroiled into their latest world.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Gwilym Lee, Tamzin Malleson, Robert Bathurst, Phil Cornwell, Bernard Cribbins, Pete Meads, Jacqueline King, John Duggan, Scarlett Alice Johnson, Lee Nicholas Harris, John W.G. Harley, Susan Fordham, Lucy Phelps, Chris Nighingale, Martyn Mayger, Barrie Martin, June Whitefield, Geoffrey Whitehead, Sara Stewart, Lex Shrapnel, Laila Rouass, Oliver Rix, Francesca Zoulewelle.
For many the past is never too far from their minds. It is what has shaped them into who they are. The past should never be truly be forgotten either as it by that assumption that the mistakes, the often to terrible to contemplate mistakes, come back to haunt you.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There are few genres of music that polarise opinion more than Rock/Opera. Music lovers usually refer to the album Bat Out of Hell when they want to show how good it can be when the right combination of perfect voice and right songwriter/producer are beside them, for arguably the immense, silky voice of Meat Loaf has never been better when he had the deftness of music skill in Jim Steinman plugging away beside him, nor perhaps when that double act was complimented by the addition of the terrific Ellen Foley as female vocalist on some of the tracks.
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There are many acts that record with a certain style, a strut, the swagger of belief and self-confidence and they are of course right too, it is what makes them sound so bold, inviting and immensely enjoyable when playing their music. Perhaps none fit this assuredness, the reliability of self-imposed perfection than Savoy Brown and the man who formed the group Kim Symonds. Coming on the back of the 2011 acclaimed album Voodoo Moon, Kim Simmonds invites the fans on a tour of the soaring Blues and marriage between inventive lyrics and the constant that resides within reinvention in the new album Goin’ To The Delta.
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A life through a cold mechanical lens; caught on the bright lights of an intrusive camera with no contract to sign or even a say in how your image is used and for what purpose. Footballers, media representatives, even some that make the notes and songs we hum along to when the mood invariably takes us have an image to protect, but for the ordinary person, the individual on the street casually walking along minding their own business, a million trained eyes are watching, scrutinising and wondering if you are going to commit an act of behaviour so shocking that it might just be on a television programme for mass entertainment at some point.
Graeme Phillips, Unity Theatre’s Artistic Director has announced his retirement after 33 years at the acclaimed Hope Place venue. A seasoned well-respected member of Liverpool’s artistic community, director, designer and mentor to many local, regional and national theatre companies; he will step aside in July 2015.
The glitz and glamour of the opening ceremony to the 2012 London Olympics is still two days away but try telling that to the two sets of women representing Great Britain and New Zealand in the football tournament.
Just one look at the faces on the footballers’ faces would be enough to confirm the passion and the absolute pride in taking part in the opening game of the Olympics. The Millennium Stadium in Cardiff may have seemed like a strange place to start a major games, especially with Team GB being comprised of a virtually English team with a couple of Scottish players thrown into the mix for good measure and balance. However, even if the crowd was not as full as it would have been for some of the famous games that have taken place in the Welsh capital, there was no denying that it provided an excellent venue to kick off London 2012.
The woman’s final of the 2012 Hockey tournament saw the Olympic holders Netherlands take on the team that took Germany apart in Athens in 2004, the impressive and dominant Argentina.
The Netherlands were aiming to emulate the great Australian team of 1996 and 2000 and become only the second woman’s side to retain the Olympic gold medal spot. The Netherlands would have surely been buoyed by the sight of their male compatriots thrashing the Great Britain side the night before in the Riverbank Arena and although many would have had Argentina down as strong favourites, there would have been no doubting the resolve in the Dutch line up.