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Buffy The Vampire Slayer Omnibus 5. Graphic Novel Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The problem with graphic novels that are tied in to a television series is the sudden jump in character in one of the leads or the dropping in of new individual to the storyline, it can cause havoc. Unlike graphic novels or comic books that were produced first, for example the D.C./Marvel range or the likes of Sin City, Graphic Novels tie ups can leave the dedicated reader somewhat off balance. Not so with the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus collections which even though are produced after the initial series of Buffy The Slayer programmes finishes have a wonderful way of keeping everything tidy, in check and thoroughly interesting.
Lovehistory And St. George’s Hall Combine To Show The Secret Past Of Liverpool’s Grand Building.
Coming out of the front entrance of Lime Street Station in Liverpool your eyes cannot but help be drawn to the grand building opposite you. The whole of Liverpool opens up before the discerning visitor, the music fan on a pilgrimage to Matthew Street, the eagle eyed tourist, those who decide to make the city their home and those coming home to the city of culture; none can surely be anything but impressed by the sight of St. George’s Hall as it dominates the skyline and the thoughts of a 160 years of memories, celebrations, powerful speeches and those who lost their lives in the bowels of the building.
Midsomer Murders: The Killing Of Copenhagen. Television Review. I.T.V.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Gwilym Lee, Fiona Dolman, Tamzin Malleson, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Richard Cordery, Nicholas Jones, Adrian Lukis, Joanna Scanlan, Poppy Drayton, John Duggan, Marcus Hutton, Jonathan Barnwell, Caroline Goodall, Nicolaj Kopernikus, Thomas Thoroe, Julie Agnete Vang, Anick Wiget, Pete Meads, Marie Askehave, Hannah Blamires, Pamela Betsy Cooper, Susan Fordham, Anthony Farrelly.
John Godbers’ The Debt Collectors To Come To The Liverpool Actors Studio Theatre.
The new comedy from one of the nation’s favourite playwrights, John Godber, author of international hits Bouncers, Up ‘N’ Under and last year’s Liverpool Actors Studio hit Teechers! comes to the Liverpool Actors Studio Theatre between Tuesday 18th March and Saturday 29th March.
Starring John F. Doull and Roy Brandon, The Debt Collectors mixes money and love, as two out of work actors fall into the world of debt recovery. It’s a role they despise but a job they were made for, and they are desperate for cash. But all is not what it seems in this hilarious comedy of unpaid bills, offers of sex and boozy bailiffs! Join the debt collectors as they dig into a world of cash and collection and what we will do to avoid it! They were once in The Bill now they’re on your case!
The Tryals of Anne Bonny To Come To The Unity Theatre.
On February 21st and Saturday 22nd The Tryals of Anne Bonny will be unleashed on audiences at Unity Theatre.
This one-women show supported by aerial theatre tells the true story of Anne Bonny, who in 1720 (along with Mary Read) was sentenced to death by hanging for piracy. Fed by a frenzy of gossip and rumour the trial was one of the most sensational in maritime history.
To date (almost 300 years later) Anne Bonny is till the subject of much speculation and rumour, for many her names conjures up the idealised romantic image of the pirate.
The Vibes, E.P. Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
It’s rare that you can listen to the tracks of a new E.P. and somehow be gleefully confused for a moment in that you think you have somehow mixed up the discs and what you are listening to is the cunning hybrid of 1950s rock and Roll and a touch of Metal, the atmosphere of 1960s screen adaptations of comic book tales and the directness of a mind-set determined to stand out from the crowd.
Marissa Nadler, July. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Behind the oblique, somewhere in hiding in the shadows and the painted references to the black and white world of Folk music stands Marissa Nadler.
Ms. Nadler’s sixth studio album follows the same unique path that she has ploughed all her career. Intelligent and heartfelt lyrics with a point wrapped up in the enigma of the feeling of enforced solitude, the loneliness that the brave and inspired crave but coming out just enough to spread a tale or two of spell binding quality before shutting the door completely.
The Avengers, The Lost Episodes. Brought To Book. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Anthony Howell, Julian Wadham, Lucy Briggs-Owen, Colin Baker, Adrian Lukis, Tim Bentinck, Alan Cox, Blake Ritson, George Rainsford, Camilla Power, Sophie Aldred, Philip Mulryne, Kieran Bew, Richard Franklin.
With the murder of his fiancé Peggy still haunting him, Doctor David Keel finds himself further embroiled in the plans of the mysterious John Steed and his attempt to bring down the latest in organised crime in London in the second story re-made by Big Finish’s The Avengers: The Lost Episodes.
The Jacobins, E.P. Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
There is a confident, almost poised rawness to The Jackobins sound that is positively endearing. The four songs on offer by the band demonstrate perfectly that the biggest hurdle for any group or artist starting out is having the sheer guts to find their way out way out the bedroom and into a studio or onto the stage. Far too many dream about doing things, they constant urge to say yes I would be so good at that but letting the spark of ambition rot away in the corner, unloved, unkempt; only thought of ten years later with a sigh and bitter recriminations.