Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The place in the heart in which to carry Thom Morecroft is not only set aside, but completely reserved, preserved in amber maybe, stored with the knowledge that his songwriting will find a way to brighten the day, and even make the most melancholic of moments take on such a hue of colour that the expression and depth created is simply magical, beautiful, an arrangement that defies almost any subject that is cared for deeply enough.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Ethan Hawke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Gustav Lindh, Elliott Rose, Willem Dafoe, Phill Martin, Eldar Skar, Olwen Fouéré, Edgar Abram, Jack Gassman, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Oscar Novak, Jack Walsh, Björk, Ian Whyte, Katie Pattinson, Andrea O’Neill, Rebecca Ineson, Katie Dickie, Ísadóra Bjarkardóttir Barney, Kevin Horsham, Seamus O’ Hara, Scott Sinclair, Tadhg Murphy, James Yates, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, Ian Gerard Whyte, Ralph Ineson, Murray McArthur, Nille Glæsel, Jonas Lorentzen, Magne Osnes, Ineta Sliuzaite, Finn Lafferty, Jon Campling, Helen Roche, Faoileann Cunningham, Gareth Parker, Mark Fitzgerald, Gavin Peden, Eric Higgins, Matt Symonds.
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Cast: Declan Baxter, Georgia May Foote, Vicki Pepperdine, Bruce Mackinnon, Amanda Abbington, Evelyn Monk, Laurance Rickard, Joe Thomas, Ben Willbond, Mike Wozniak, Rob Delaney, Miles Jupp, Lucien Laviscount, Ellie White, Roya Amini, Dane Baptiste, Christine Barton-Brown, Paul Coldrick, Glen Davies, Trev Fleming, Aoibhin Murphy, Ali Mylon, Daniel Ogbeide-John, Peter Slater, Rebecca Yeo.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Between Private Dancer and Foreign Affair stood a woman who was willing to break every conceivable rule if it meant that she could have artistic and physical autonomy over every aspect of her personal and music life.
Rules are man-made, and it takes an artist, a woman of Tina Turner’s vision to smash them, to take the patriarchy apart and dictate that she cannot be controlled anymore, a message to all women, to all who feel the effects of being damaged by the man and the system.
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Ever since the idea hit the first artist and studio executive, the concept of the live album has been rightly heralded as a boon; and at times an act of division. If left unchecked the reputation of a group would depend entirely on what is recorded in the spur of the moment, if not encouraged then many a music fan would never get to experience the sound in a venue, would never get to embrace the feeling of being like-minded individuals singing along to their favourite song as of taking part in a kind of communion, of sharing an intimacy.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
For anyone who was on the cusp of either being a teenager or enjoying the revels of the age in the late 70s and early 80s in the areas that surround King’s Heath, the once former hamlets before incorporation into the city of Birmingham, the likes of Selly Park, Stirchley, Moor Green, Wake Green, Hall Green and Cotteridge, they must have looked at what was going on around the rest of Birmingham and felt bitter pangs of jealousy…for everywhere it seemed had their music heroes, they had an identity in which to hang their youth and their anger upon, and they had none.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
It is only time that separates us from the misery and fear of the 1930s. The signs are there if you wish to acknowledge them, but for most the desperation, the scale of distress, is only something happening to other people, and whilst the ripples are getting larger, whilst the wake catches more in its increasing net, so the denials of the larger picture become louder, more vociferous, more intense.
If you want to understand how the situation is engulfing the soul, you only must realise how desperate good people are getting and what they will consider doing to keep their lives intact.
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The question is always who you would have a last conversation with if you could bring back just person to sit with you a while, and whilst that may, will be enlightening, soothing to the soul, it should be noted that perhaps a finer and more fitting discussion would be one with one of the universe’s entities.
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Great people are forged in times of indecision and recklessness, in times of fire, but those who come to be a vision of the illustrious in the minds of the public are rarely seen in the temporary light, and never in the moment of a fair-weather change of topical discussion. Such is the attitude of Meanwhile…that the moment where the listener expects the sudden change of pace from that of the miserable and beige average that they had been used to from others, to the enlightening and joyful during the serious conversation.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
A vibe, whether for good or for ill, will catch your attention. Politics will do this, so will almost any preoccupation in life, but whilst these machinations of the mind will do so and then leave you hanging with just an idea for company, art will put them under a microscope and examine the feelings unearthed, like a scientist seeing the proof of existence in the smallest detail, so art will inflame the passion of the long since unconcerned and inject a fearsome connection that will resound in the soul for as long as the vibe lasts.