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Kobra and The Lotus, High Priestess. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There is nothing quite like being disclosed the name of a new band to your mental collection and finding out just how good they sound and wondering just how come you haven’t heard of them before. The world is a huge place, you can never hear everything, the simple act of breathing quietly in a darkened room often gets in the way of that, however when the name conveyed of Kobra and the Lotus and their new album High Priestess appears out in soft spoken but hurriedly excited tones, all you can do is listen and then exclaim unashamedly loud that they join fellow Canadian’s No Sinner as being two of the great bands of the era from that large expansive country.

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

Music For Voyeurs, The Curtain Are Opening. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

If there is something that binds us all at some point in our lives, it is the feeling of the fractured nature of society, the self, or our place within the two. The distressed nightmare that few will ever admit to for fear of seeming weak when in truth they are the most courageous of all, for they at least admit that life at times is nothing more than a cosmic joke played out on a poker table that has been tilted and stacked against their favour.

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(407 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Arms & Hearts, Tried And Tested. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8 1/2/10

You can try and avoid life by throwing yourself head first under the nearest boulder and staying there till the shadows lengthen, humanity inevitably destroys itself and blue skinned flesh eating Morlocks roam the English countryside sipping out of date gin and serenading each other with Justin Bieber compilation albums, such is the path well travelled when you ignore life.

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(369 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

First Release For Ambitious Collaboration Project As Operation Lightfoot Gets Underway.

The first single from Operation Lightfoot is available from 18th August and features Vanessa Murray as the first of twelve guest performers to feature on an exciting new recording project.

The debut single Eighteen was co-written by Vanessa and Operation Lightfoot founder Luke Moore and recorded with Jon Lawton at Crosstown Studios in Liverpool.  The song is the story of a young musician that is on the road to success and the sacrifices she may have to make along the way.

“I feel very lucky to have worked with a group of people I get along with and that are so passionate about making something great” says Vanessa. “Eighteen has been a great experience”.

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(306 words, 1 image, estimated 1:13 mins reading time)

Buckle Tongue To Launch New E.P., A King In All Of Us, At The 02 Academy This September.

On the 13th September one of the hardest hitting and musically brutal young bands from Merseyside will unleash their E.P., A King In All Of Us, on the audience at the o2 Academy in Liverpool.

This tremendous young band, comprising of Benny Chance on vocals and bass, Shaun Ridge on guitar, Jack Somers on lead guitar and Jord Chance on drums, have slowly but with intoxicating dynamism and seemingly unrelenting energy, taken each audience member on a thrill ride which is on a scale of the early days of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal era but with that undeniable and unmistakeable Merseyside charm. Buckle Tongue are a force of nature which nobody should miss out on seeing.

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(189 words, estimated 45 secs reading time)

PixelJunk Shooter Ultimate, Game Review. PS4, PS VIta

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

PixelJunk Shooter Ultimate is a twin-stick shooter game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4 and PS Vita. Double Eleven have brought PixelJunk Shooter Ultimate to the PS4 and PlayStation Vita; you have most likely heard of Double Eleven as they have a great pedigree of their own with such great games as LIMBO, PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate HD, Frozen Synapse Tactics and most notably of all Little Big Planet PS Vita.

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(3970 words, estimated 15:53 mins reading time)

A Dance In The February Sun.

(For Stephanie Kerr.)

You danced for me, although I never asked you too.

I still think that afternoon was extraordinary and made

our friendship what it is today, built on a foundation

of responsibility of thirty years rather than destroyed

in half a minute as I bumbled around,

fumbled, stupid boy like attempt to ask you out and to dance

for a month or two.

You have known suffering, ordeals in which

I can now only offer a long distance shoulder

but one that has always been there and as we were both outsiders

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(288 words, estimated 1:09 mins reading time)

Sons Of The Delta, Tasty Nuggets. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It is hard to really knock The Blues, especially when you discover the lip smacking delights of Sons of the Delta and their latest album Tasty Nuggets.

Mark Cole, Rick Edwards, Martin Fitzgibbon and Lyndon Webb have tapped into something incredible, something in which should be nurtured. A sweeping sensitivity of great highs and joyous tantalising lows, the guitar not just an instrument in which to play with but alongside some rather terrific vocals and brilliantly placed lyrics, becomes as heavenly as an angel that has discovered the delights of a quality beer. The anguish of loving both the sun and the rain in equal measure and straining its ear against the headphones of the person its fallen head over heels in love with.

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(421 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Janet Devlin To Play At the East Village Arts Centre On December 4th.

Flame haired Northern Irish singer-songwriter Janet Devlin is back, stronger than ever before with her debut album Running With Scissors, which was released on 9th June 2014. This 10-track, full of folk-driven pop songs and heart touching ballads, showcases Janet’s unique and enchanting vocals, which first caught the public’s attention on Series 8 of The X factor in 2011. On the back of the album’s release, Ms. Devlin has announced a series of gigs which starts on December 1st in Bristol, takes in Birmingham’s Hare & Hounds on the 2nd and finishes at The Surya in London on December 16th with a special night at Liverpool’s EVAC on December 4th.

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(392 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Arrow, Graphic Novel Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

It seems strange in a way to read a graphic novel that is based on a highly rated television programme that in itself is based upon one of D.C Comics greatest publications and whose central character turned up from time to time in the American programme about Superman’s early life, Smallville. Go back far enough with this idea and the chicken-egg scenario will admit defeat and leave the comedy circuit and go back to the poultry farm to relative ignominy.

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(430 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)