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Red Pine Timber Company, Different Lonesome. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There has always been an independent spirit that runs through Scotland, no matter the current discussions that are being fought over on the line that separates the Saltire and the cross of St. George, the music sits proudly in the veins of all who either live North of Carlisle or who have grown up admiring it, the thought of the Highland mist, the taste of Scotch whisky hanging round like the rallying call from the Clans. Add though the touch of the Americana to the music, the big band scene, the brandy cask with 40 year old Balvenie shaking hands and embracing its Bourbon cousin Jack Daniels and seeing the heady mix meld into a debut album by the Red Pine Timber Company that is as sturdy as Scottish hospitality and as creative as the carvings of Mount Rushmore seen in pure sunshine.

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(438 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Maisie Young, Sarah Hale, Sarah Gallegos, Miles Braithwaite, James Markham, Phil Teles Amaro, Abigail Fitzgerald, Michael Bryan, Blair Smith.

If you had not purchased a programme and read for yourselves the biographies of the individuals on the stage, then there will be many gasps of astonishment when you discover that not all the incredible cast are training to be actors. Whilst reading that one is a Pharmacology student and then casting your eye further down the page to discover a Psychology student in amongst the names, you might be forgiven in thinking that this perhaps is just another run of the mill student show.

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(454 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Behemoth, The Satanist. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 91/2/10

Like a monster rising out of the shadowy depths, the colossus and the titanic seem to feed on the range of emotions given off by all who come into contact with it. However there is one giant from behind the former Iron Curtain that could put The Green Knight of Arthurian legend or the flawed destroyer of Grendel to shame.

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(464 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Soweto Necklace, Beasts Of The Southern Interior. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating * * * *

The name of the band may be named after a means to perform execution in Africa but there is nothing lifeless about Soweto Necklace, quite the contrary judging by their E.P. Beasts of the Southern Interior, they are fresh, exciting and something different to the ears that can only bring a smile to the face as their infectious rhythms and interplayed harmonies, along with rather ambitious music, strikes the tune for a distinctive beat.

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

West-End Musical Sensation, Rock Of Ages, Comes To Liverpool This July.

Following a three-year run in London’s West End, audiences around the country will get the chance to enjoy ROCK OF AGES The Musical as it embarks on a U.K. tour and is at Liverpool Empire from 21-26 July 2014.

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(483 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

David Hockney: Early Reflections–Walker Art Gallery. Art Review.

Previously published at wordsofwhitenoise.wordpress.com

‘The modern man I sing’ – goes Whitman’s famous dictum, and much of the work on offer in this thin slice of David Hockney’s early work sings something of a similar tune. Indeed, the notion of modernity – both in the sense of a shifting social landscape emergent in the mid to late 1960’s, (the period from which most of the work here dates), and the demands made on visual artists to negotiate the high modernism of the early twentieth century, informs much of the work made available here at the Walker Art Gallery until 16th March.

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(566 words, estimated 2:16 mins reading time)

The Riotous Brothers, The Tree. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9½ /10

The third album by The Riotous Brothers, The Tree, starts like a feeling of pure exhilaration and ends up with you wanting to weep for all the right reasons and take each song to your heart. If an album can really take you to places that you cannot go to in your physical life then this is the same sensation you might get when you read Wuthering Heights, Far from The Madding Crowd, Moby Dick or Edward Rutherford’s Sarum for the first time in the quiet slumber of deep forest surrounded by the dying embers of a perfect summer’s day.

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

Nomad Son, The Darkening. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Imagine being able to stand right next to Concorde as its starts its engines, or being inside a military helicopter flying over hostile territory whilst the likes of Candlemass are performing inside…then turn it up a notch and add some great imagery from some very interesting and cool lyrics and the result is Maltese Doom Metal band Nomad Son and their exceptional album The Darkening.

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(385 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Recording Legend Burt Bacharach To Perform At The Empire Theatre.

Burt Bacharach needs little introduction. In a landmark 50 plus year run in the charts, Bacharach’s music continues to set industry records and creative standards.

Following Bacharach’s sensational return to British shores last year, one British newspaper declared they were in the “Presence of genius” with The Independent saying the show was “A brilliant lesson in the logistics of modern concert performance”.

Now Burt Bacharach has announced six dates for 2014 which includes a final show at the Liverpool Empire Theatre on August 3rd.

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

The Proof, 100% The Proof. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Everyone always asks for proof, or at least they should, when being presented with a fact or piece of information. However The Proof is there for listening to when it comes to Paul Cox, Roger Cotton, Mike Summerland, Nigel Hardy and Peter Stroud, the proof is not just a satisfactory edible pudding but it is five course meal with additional toppings that deserves the best chef to present it.

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(353 words, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)