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The Moody Blues To Return To Liverpool in 2015.

 

The Moody Blues in 2013 at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

The Moody Blues in 2013 at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Live Nation is delighted to announce the ‘Timeless Flight 2015’ Tour from The Moody Blues, one of the most enduring, creative and consistent groups in the world. Tickets go on sale on at 10am on Friday 19th September 2014 from www.livenation.co.uk or www.ticketmaster.co.uk; Their remarkable music has enthralled generations of fans since the 1960’s and their recorded legacy contains some of the most important and ground breaking work in the history of popular music, having generated over 55 million sales throughout the world. The Moody Blues – Justin Hayward, John Lodge and Graeme Edge – carry on their magical musical legacy from generation to generation, year after year and now they are returning to the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on Sunday June 21st 2015.

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Liverpool Sound And Vision: An Interview With Natasia Bullock And Chris Rae Of Stack Theatre.

Natasia Bullock and Chris Rae sit across the table from each other in Café 81 and enjoy what seems to be a brief respite in what has become two very fulfilling and busy lives. For Natasia, recently married and juggling more balls than an expert conjurer in a three ringed circus, her latest production, Rose of June, is being performed at the Unity Theatre on September 23rd and 24th.

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(2236 words, estimated 8:57 mins reading time)

Counting Crows, Somewhere Under Wonderland. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The sound of a soft lament escapes from the mouthpiece of a trumpet, the stark image of a fallen comrade, friend or hero fills the room and the devastation of loss is something tangible; it grasps at the air and enthuses a type of faith, faith that despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, everything will turn out just fine.

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

Liam Hale’s Successful Edinburgh Fringe Show, Play With Myself: The Trials And Tribulations Of Drama Practitioner Gregory Bike, To Play For One Night Only In Liverpool.

Drama practitioner Gregory Bike invites you to witness a stage adaptation of the most important part of his life. Tasked with putting on a play Gregory not only has to write, direct, and act in his masterpiece but must also find love, avoid seeing his son’s presumably awful performances and avoid an early death at the …hands of fairground attractions.

Written, directed and performed by University of Liverpool graduate Liam Hale, Play With Myself: The Trials and Tribulations of Drama Practitioner Gregory Bike also has the incredible talent of Dominic Davies, Rio Matchett, David Paes and Sean Stoakes will be returning to Liverpool for one night only at The Lantern Theatre on the 16th October after a successful month at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

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Kerry Ellis, Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It seems impossible these days to think of Kerry Ellis as anything but an established performer of great quality. A vocalist whose voice can send shivers the spine and whose work, especially in recent times with Queen’s Brian May, has been nothing but jaw-droppingly good. On the back of all that it is of no surprise that Kerry Ellis has returned once more to the world of theatre for an album of show tunes and highly thought of songs for her fourth album and strikingly eponymously titled

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(379 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Buckle Tongue, Gig Review. 02 Academy Liverpool. (September 2014).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Watching Buckle Tongue on stage as they deliver songs from their long awaited debut E.P., one of the many rampaging thoughts that takes pulls up an armchair, helps itself to a large glass of the most expensive whisky in the side cabinet and then chucks the half-drunk contents onto the roaring fire is that this how audiences must have felt when watching Iron Maiden perform their sets in the East End’s The Rainbow or how early fans felt their heart roar at the expansive noise laid out before them at The Whisky A Go-Go or The Concert Factory as Metallica took the stage.

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(532 words, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)

Last Horizon, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The distance between our lives has got to the point where to feel disconnected from society is perhaps a prospect that many arguably feel. Nearly seven billion people on a planet and yet life can feel as lonely in a crowded, bustling and sophisticated city as it can standing at the very top of the world in which the only company is a polar bear with an appetite so large that it mentally makes a menu of your body parts.  What keeps us together in one form or another is music, it may divide opinion, one genre’s greatness in one set of senses is another’s form of torture, but it certainly unites those who see the devastating beauty in it.

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(497 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Fear The Resistance, Gig Review. o2 Academy, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Fear is the mother of Hope, without one you cannot have the other, without them both the world makes as much sense as dumping a lorry load of nettle leafs into molten gold and selling the remains to the people of Sark in exchange for the island’s entire bicycle collection. Some things just don’t make sense.

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(565 words, estimated 2:16 mins reading time)

Elijah James, Nobody Important. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

There are moments that stick in the mind more clearly than others, the instant when you witness something so extraordinary, when you hear something so surprisingly exceptional that not only do the hairs on the back stand up on the back of the neck, they wave remarkably in the strong gust of future expectation and are strong enough to withstand the wear and tear of a flag being run up and down them for a dozen years.

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(426 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Doctor Who, Listen. Television Review. B.B.C.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Samuel Anderson, Remi Gooding, Robert Goodman, Kiran Shah.

Listen, the biggest secret of them all, the one that is always hidden in plain sight but never quite shows itself; does the Doctor know fear?

It is a question that seems to be skirted round, passed over or answered in such a way that it makes the very action in which The Doctor resolves the problem is one of false bravado. It makes the loyal viewer, the unremitting fan, feel better about themselves because no matter what The Doctor has the answers.

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(472 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)