In a tear, a lifetime’s sadness is shown.
In a tear, all manners of images are exposed.
In a tear, life can end.
In a tear, broken hearts mend.
In a smile, friends become lovers.
In a smile, true feelings uncover.
In a smile, people fall for strangers.
In a smile, we face the greatest dangers.
In a laugh, heroes stand tall.
In a laugh, comedians hear the audience call.
In a laugh, there is unity in a nation.
In a laugh, lies love’s greatest potion.
The lonely voice echoes down the multiplex of wires.
Each wire holds her cries for a second before
Passing them on to its neighbour without care.
For what do wires care about the fate of a single tear?
Without effort, I listen as the story falters from one
To the next, I know you need me there to chase away the liars.
“Please insert fifty cents to hear real desperation users.”
Comes a metallic voice full of the joys of spring.
I dare it to bid us, “Have a nice day!”
I saw a photograph of her years ago, stately, beckoning.
I knew she was so much older than me
And that many people, men as well as women had loved
Her beauty as much as I did now. She seemed to symbolise
Everything I ever wanted. I was in love, I was mesmerised.
She was so far away. So for many years I could by dream
Of being with her, my heart ached and my thoughts ranged
To the day when I would say, “It’s me my lady, I made it!
Missing You
She introduced me to the pleasure of friendship,
She made me realise the pain of love.
She saw how much I hurt, what her aching had made me become.
A quivering wreck, an emotional fool!
My heart no longer still, in time with the savages drum.
The taste, tantalising and slow
Regret that I never once told her what she meant to me.
All those years from childhood to near death
And she said, “That this moment was for me, my reward.”
For friendship will prevail, it’s all that’s left.
Cast: Graeme Henderson, Francesca Loran, Adam Howard, Mathew Quinn, Chris Coxen, Christopher Wheeler, Tristan Pate, David Ribi, Josh Little, Samantha Dorrance, Katie Birtill, Anna Campkin, Ben James-Ellis, Christopher Fry, James Nitti, Robbie Durham, Emily O’ Keefe.
The past is a foreign country, as the saying goes. However the early sixties is still fresh in our minds as it bought the fashions, the music and the second wave generations of teenagers ready to find their own way, their own style and stamp their time on the following decades and those that would follow them.
Cast: Pauline Daniels, Chris Grahamson, Howard Gray, Jamie Hampson, Adam Keast, Dan McIntyre, Mark Moraghan, Anthony Watson, Lenny Wood.
It seems to anyone from outside the city of Liverpool, that whenever they come here for their shopping trips their days out or just to catch the ferry to Ireland that all Liverpool folk talk about is football.
From little old ladies waiting for the bus in Queen’s Square, to the bars and clubs of the town centre and even discussions in barbers and hairdressers from Aigburth to Bootle to Kirby, it’s either red or blue and nothing else matters.
Originally published by Music News. Com. July 7th 2012.
As the montage of clips from Pink Floyd’s prestigious career reminded the audience inside the Philharmonic Hall of what they were missing from the iconic British band’s lack of time out on the road in recent years, the members of Brit Floyd made their way out onto the stage and proceeded to give the crowd a master class lesson in music appreciation.
Originally published by L.S. Media. September 2nd 2012.
The next two games would determine if Great Britain would take any part in the quarter finals of the men’s basketball at this year’s Paralympic games. Canada ware now virtually assured a place after their stunning victory over the Germans, who themselves should certainly still qualify despite the set-back.
Only Poland really stood in the way of Great Britain being in the second stage of the completion as the seeming whipping boys of the tournament Japan would not surely do the unbelievable and get points off a resurgent British Bulldogs team.
Originally published by L.S. Media. September 2nd 2012.
In 1992 Tori Amos released her debut solo album Little Earthquakes and in amongst the battle ground between the dying days of 1980’s preening rock stars, the new wave of grunge and the coming of so called super celebrity music. The music, always evolving always up for musical comment and commitment to the latest music cause looked to dragging out in a three way battle that ultimately has led to none being hailed as loudly as Tori Amos, the first woman of 1990’s music.
Picture from Big Finish.com
Originally published by L.S. Media. September 1st 2012.
L.S.Media Rating ****
Cast: Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Philip Olivier, Maggie O’Neil, Amy Pemberton, Stuart Milligan, Michael Rouse, Richard Bremmer, John Banks, James Hayward.
It is a story as old and as dear to lovers of the English language as any…and it also contains the power of Beowulf thrown in for good measure.
Matt Fitton’s Doctor Who audio play for Big Finish, Black and White, combines cleverly the power of Sylvester McCoy’s incarnation of the Doctor and the sheer majesty of the oldest tale translated and written down in the English language and somewhere in between a tale of the future and that of the past merge and blur into legendry Doctor Who status.