Shiny New Festival returns to Lantern Theatre Liverpool from the 14th – 20th July 2014 for its third consecutive year! Offering up three performances each night from the Northwest’s finest new writers and comedians, Shiny New Festival brings local artists a much-needed platform to showcase their homegrown work to fresh audiences.
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Tony Award Nominated Play, Stones In His Pockets, Comes To The Liverpool Empire Theatre This November.
Following its Tony Award nominated run on Broadway, four and a half years in the West End and on tour, the worldwide success STONES IN HIS POCKETS is back on the road once again playing over 60 dates across the U.K. including a one night stand on Monday 10th November at the Liverpool Empire Theatre.
Seen by more than 2 million people, STONES IN HIS POCKETS tells a hilarious and moving tale of a quiet Irish community, turned upside down by the arrival of a massive Hollywood movie shoot. Universally loved by all who see it, STONES IN HIS POCKETS is brought to life by two talented actors Conor Delaney (Game of Thrones, Jack Taylor, The Tudors) and Stephen Jones (Ripper Street) who play 15 characters between them – from the cheeky lads intent on stardom to a Hollywood Goddess!
Candleford, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Kim Veldman, Lisa Hitchins, Albert Hastings, Stacey Liddell, Carla Cookylnn, Rachel McKeown, Charlotte Holguin, Gillian Lewis, Gemma Doyle, Peter Higham, Sheddie Broddie, John Goodwin, Bertie Jones, Agustin Arraez, Lisa Symonds, Keri Seymour, Amy Stout, Michael Treanor, Ady Potter, Katie Thomas, Janet Fennell, Derek Weigh.
To perform a theatre production based on a hit television programme, a period piece in which the attention to detail of the age is usually the first thing that subconsciously many people sitting down to watch will question, is a brave choice. For a company that is made up of those who love acting for its ventured expression, for the satisfaction of being on stage and becoming someone else it is courage befitting the bold and the fearless.
Footnote…
Tears were never wasted on you but the anger
diminished as it should when somebody dies in your mind.
I see the face in other books and feel the sick-
ness return at the thought of you.
A Sonnet for the love of you, the memory of the cult
captured and freed with remorse, the handshake
unfulfilled and unanswered, my fault.
It matters not as I still care and hope that you are happy now with nothing at stake.
On your own request you relegated yourself from a paragraph to a sentence,
The Most, The Vinyl E.P. Collections. E.P. Reviews.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
There was a time when the lands that encompass the Nordic sphere of influence weren’t, with one notable exception, particularly noted for their music output or inspiration on the twin cultures of America and the U.K. Every genre was met with the kind of derision that you expect from arguably self-centred dominant crop of major artists. Times change, spheres of influence move on, what was considered unattractive or just plain wrong can become the stuff of legends and as with Iceland, Norway, The Faroe Islands, Finland and Denmark, Sweden’s music has become something to savour, like the stunning landscapes that dwarf the fields, the lakes that capture the imagination, The Most are something to admire from a country that holds such things in the palm of its hands and nourishes them in a way that the U.K. at times seems to have forgotten.
Gramercy Arms, The Seasons Of Love. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
If you wanted happening, creative, inventive and artistic way of life in America during the late 70s through to around 1993, then like the period before the Second World War and the smell of Jazz oozing out of the bars on 77th Street like a victory parade caught in the heat of noon day sun, the best place to go was New York City.
Liverpool-Based Theatre Company Previews Two New Plays Ahead Of Edinburgh Festival.
What do a gay man in a wheelchair, a young musician with delusions of grandeur and a male prostitute with a B.A. in Sociology have in common? They’re all going to Edinburgh this summer with two new plays written by young Liverpool-based playwrights. However before the Edinburgh Fringe has the chance to savour the two plays, the Unity Theatre in Liverpool will be previewing them on July 26th.
Manic Street Preachers, Futurology. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
If the early part of The Manic Street Preacher’s career was an abundance of the brutal thought wrapped up in the assurance of a protection from four lads from South Wales then as the group have got older, as the more the world feels more insane and the feeling of being abandoned becomes more prevalent day by day, the more The Manic Street Preachers are needed to offer a light on the insidious, on the corrupt and corruptible and the need to understand that to feel angry is not just a feeling it is a right.
Chicago, Chicago XXXVI. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *
Creatively Chicago were one of the finest bands to have ever come out of America, they rank up there with absolute greats and their blockbuster of an album which they wrecorded live Chicagio at Carnegie Hall still rates as one of the finest pieces of music ever captured in the rawness of the stage show. Yet time moves on, the slight off putting stale, fragrant-less aroma comes out every now and then as you listen intently to the ensembles latest release Chicago XXXVI.
How To Train Your Dragon 2, Film Review. Odeon Cinema, Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller, Kristin Wiig, Djimon Hounsou, Kit Harrington, Kieron Elliott, Philip McGrade, Andrew Ableson, Gideon Emery, Simon Kassianides, Randy Thom.
There are many films that at the end of the screening you wonder exactly why they are advertised as being for children, why the family, which all when and good as you want the next generation of film lovers to have had great experiences like this rather being baby sat by a games console, has to be involved; for some films are truly made for everybody to enjoy and yet advertisers insist on placing some films in to ready-made box.