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F.I.F.A. World Cup 2014: Mexico V Cameroon. Match Report.

Originally published by Ace Magazine online June 2014.

Unless something unimaginable happens, Brazil will qualify out of Group A with room to spare. On the basis of the first round of matches to be played, Brazil will qualify; but they won’t have made any friends outside of the confines of the homes, cities, towns and minds of the Brazilian nation. Mexico on the other hand, you can but hope make it at least into the round of 16 for their dogged determination and utter refusal to sink to the depths that they saw happen in the previous day’s game.

F.I.F.A. World Cup 2014: Mexico V Cameroon. Match Report. full post

(1207 words, estimated 4:50 mins reading time)

M People’s Heather Small Announced As Part Of This Year’s Liverpool Pride.

Liverpool Pride are ‘Proud’ to announce the latest act to perform at this year’s event. 1990s chart topper Heather Small of M People will take to the waterfront stage on Saturday 2nd August as part of what is becoming a fantastic line-up of entertainment for Pride’s ‘Glam Fairy Tales’ themed event and 5th Birthday.

Heather Small will join headline act Katy B on the Waterfront stage along with 80s pop songstress Sonia on the Stanley Street stage. With under two months until Liverpool Pride, many more acts are soon be announced.

M People’s Heather Small Announced As Part Of This Year’s Liverpool Pride. full post

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

Grin Theatre Bring Back Queertet For Third Year Running.

Queertet, The award-nominated festival of LGBT theatre is back and for the third time and is bigger, bolder and even more brazen!

Grin Theatre Company presents Queertet 2014, featuring four LGBT themed plays from three Liverpool writers and one from a playwright from New York. All four plays have LGBT themes, from a wedding night love triangle in Las Vegas to a world where women are not allowed to exist which is difficult for a lesbian couple!?

The plays that form this years Queertet are as follows:

A Party of Three written

by John Maines I Directed by Natalie Kennedy.

Grin Theatre Bring Back Queertet For Third Year Running. full post

(300 words, estimated 1:12 mins reading time)

Do U Want To Stay Asleep?

Do you want to stay asleep

In your somnabulary life

While you are sleeping

You are turning into stone

Petrifying

 

But it only happens if you let it

 

And you let it

Long before

Your hair turned grey

When you started complaining

About the yoofs

In gravity-defying

Low slung jeans

Text speak

And all music released

Since U Can’t Touch This

 

You get so annoyed

When you recall

Your comedian son

With his

‘Stop! Hammer Time’

Do U Want To Stay Asleep? full post

(223 words, estimated 54 secs reading time)

2014 World Cup: Brazil V Croatia, Match Report.

First published by Ace Magazine online, June 2014.

One game in of this 2014 World Cup and already there will be cynics of F.I.F.A. who might teasingly suggest that the straight line drawn by the Japanese official to mark out the 10 yards for Croatia to stand behind for a free kick was one of the very few acts in the game that didn’t have the whiff of something crooked about it.

2014 World Cup: Brazil V Croatia, Match Report. full post

(1795 words, estimated 7:11 mins reading time)

Jules Carter Trio, Done Misbehaving. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

If you think you don’t like the Blues, if the thought of a century worth of music is not for you and that Robert Johnson is just a name that holds no fascination then the best thing to do would be to start at the beginning of Jules Carter Trio’s album, Done Misbehaving, and throwing every single odd piece of prejudice out of the window and fall in love with a set of songs that just cry out for attention.

Jules Carter Trio, Done Misbehaving. Album Review. full post

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

Young Everyman Playhouse (YEP) Return To Croxteth Hall For Alice In Wonderland.

This summer, Young Everyman Playhouse present two weeks of events and performances for and by young people that includes a return to Croxteth Hall with a production of Alice in Wonderland. YEP performances will form a major part of the city-wide youth festival, Flux Liverpool, and the company will also be working in partnership with a number of other local companies including Young DaDaFest, Merseyside Youth Theatre Forum, Showrunners, Kuumba Imani, 20 Stories High, Hope St Ltd and the Bluecoat.

Young Everyman Playhouse (YEP) Return To Croxteth Hall For Alice In Wonderland. full post

(620 words, estimated 2:29 mins reading time)

Pulp: A Film About Life, Death and Supermarkets. Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Nick Banks, Jarvis Cocker, Candida Doyle, Richard Hawley, Steve Mackey, Mark Webber, The People of Sheffield.

Despite their best efforts, there was more to British music other than Blur and Oasis in the mid-1990s. The hyped up Brit-Pop phenomenon that saw British music on the crest of a wave built up by hope, a certain amount of propaganda and teenage excitement rather than idealism and realism would soon come tumbling down and thankfully since around 2003, music has gained a perspective, even the enjoyment of discovery again.

Pulp: A Film About Life, Death and Supermarkets. Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(662 words, estimated 2:39 mins reading time)

Alfie Boe To Perform In Liverpool As Part Of New U.K. Tour.

Alfie Boe, ‘The Nation’s Favourite Tenor’ has confirmed details of his second U.K. arena tour for November and December 2014 including a night at the Liverpool Echo Arena on Sunday 30th November.

In his 2013 tour sold out, which included two nights at London’s Royal Albert Hall, Boe played to almost 80,000 fans.

This new tour follows the news of Alfie’s new album, which is due for release on October 20th, 2014.

Alfie Boe To Perform In Liverpool As Part Of New U.K. Tour. full post

(386 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

All Time England World Cup Squad: 1982-2010.

Originally published by Ace Magazine Liverpool June 2014.

 

When supporting England, the feeling between despondency and elation is sometimes so blurred that you can go from one World Cup competition having crashed out in the second round (1982) but feeling optimistic about the future to then getting so close that the air of expectation hangs round every football fan you meet like a bad smell in summer time (1990). There never has been a real mix of consistency, no real so called Golden Generation, except for what the Fleet Street media like to impose upon the thoughts of the fans that for years have doggedly followed the national team exploits (or lack of them).

All Time England World Cup Squad: 1982-2010. full post

(1513 words, estimated 6:03 mins reading time)