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You cannot help but admire the artist known as SheBeat. In terms of playing guitar she hasn’t been around all that long but anybody who can cut their teeth musically at the Ian Prowse Monday Night Club, who can turn a Beatles classic and make it have a completely different feel, almost invert into a melancholic beauty surely should at least be appreciated as well as admired.
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The question should always be, “Did you enjoy what you saw at Threshold?” For anybody who stepped into the confines of The Baltic Social on the Saturday of the 2014 and hung around taking in the true ambiance of day time set of music, rather than the powerful nights, who gazed in joy as the Town Crier or even the Ginger Pirate as some started calling him made his way from venue to venue giving audible instructions on what was happening and where, then yes the answer would be to the question, “Yes, of course!”
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Close your eyes and think for a minute of one of the men and women who exemplifies the whole Liverpool sound, the charm and the no-nonsense, the humour and the artistic vision all wrapped up in lyrics that make you both beam with pride and raise a fist in solidarity alongside. The sound you hear is one that you might not have heard for a while, the tone of voice still sweet, the manner of the anger and resentment to some still intense and charismatic and the utter magnetism of the performer is such that daring to take a peek through gripped and straining fingers becomes too much. For it is true Pete Wylie, the man who has a street map of his home city indelibly stamped into the very fabric of his D.N.A., is back thrilling audiences once more.
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The rich vein of life, the tapestry that weaves its way through the streets, through iconic buildings such as The Bombed out Church of St. Luke’s, the radical nature of two opposing buildings of faith being at opposite ends of one of the most artistic streets in the city and to perhaps the greatest single collection of music venues and theatres anywhere in the country in which thousands of people get to show their devotion to the natural calling of entertainment, continues from one generation to the other.
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Cast: Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Redford, Samuel L .Jackson, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Cobie Smulders, Emily Van Camp, Hayley Atwell, Toby Jones, Jenny Agutter, Alan Dale, Bernard White, Garry Shandling, Maximiliano Hernández, Frank Grillo, Georges St-Pierre, Callan Mulvey, Stan Lee, Gary Sinise, Ed Brubaker, Thomas Kretschmann, Elizabeth Olsen, Aaron Taylor-Johnson.
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How do you ever follow up an internationally acclaimed album? The only way really is to come up with another one, just as good, just as sonically rampant, interestingly lush and throughout it all having five musicians chomping at the bit to make something stand out just as their debut album did 14 years ago.
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It is no wonder that Batman remains arguably one of the finest superhero creations to ever grace comic book, graphic novel and film alike, not just in the realms of D.C. Comics but across the whole spectrum.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Twenty years since the events that unfolded in the second book by the esteemed Frank Miller, one of the finest set of graphic novels is being tuned into an arguably must-see film for its fans.
Despite the prestige of the novel being tuned into a film, Sin City 2: A Dame To Kill For is much more than the chance to relish into the grimy neo-noir world of Basin City and the chance to see Robert Rodriguez add extra class to an already seminal story, the focus should be on just how good, how superior the idea was to almost anything since the mind bursting days of Film Noir and the rise of the Detective novel.
Mr. Geraint Williams as Geoffrey Chaucer. Photograph by Ian D. Hall
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Geraint Williams, Dominic Davies, Daniel Murphy, Shamus Cooke, Alex Webber-Date, Liam Hale, Trixie Roddick, George Parsons, Angela Hehir, Faisel Yousif, Charles Adey, James Rooney, Lewis Smith, Imogen Wignall, Katie Overbury, Jacob Lowman, Madeline Smart, Johnny Campbell, Charlotte Wilson, George Trier, Darren Begley.
Minstrels: Darren Begley, Alex Cottrell, Sarah Peverley, Maeve Sullivan.
One of the many reasons to attend this year’s Threshold Festival in Liverpool surely has to watching Folk-Pop singer Alex Hulme.
Gaining plaudits in the form of Sir Paul McCartney and Billy Ocean and critical acclaim from the B.B.C., Alex Hulme performs as if his life depends on it. His striking lyrics marry superbly alongside his velveteen rich vocals.