Celebrated Jazz pianist Jason Rebello is one of those rare individuals in music to have worked with some of the out and out greats of his chosen genre but also with the likes of Sting and Peter Gabriel. A musician of great stature he first came to prominence at a young age and by the time 1990 came around he had recorded his first album, A Clearer View which was produced by Weather Report’s Wayne Shorter.
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Jason Rebello, Anything But Look. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Jazz never really went away; it perhaps got selective about who would enjoy it, a little choosy on who would really sit down and listen to the idea and perhaps its brief dalliance with Prog overtones during the whole Brand X era was too much for many to get into but it certainly never went away.
Inspector George Gently, Gently Between the Lines. Television Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Martin Shaw, Lee Ingleby, Lisa McGrillis, Robert Pugh, Ruth Gemmell, Steve Evets, Charlie Richmond, Matt Stokoe, Alan Renwick, Christopher Connel, Finn Burridge, Liam Caffry, Paul Dingwall, Michael Hodgson, Samantha Phyllis Morris, Fiona Boylan, Caroline O’Neil, Don Gallagher, Simon Hubbard, Cheryl Dixon.
It may be hard to define what makes the Inspector George Gently series such compelling television. After all, there is an abundance of police dramas constantly on the go, like a merry go round that just keeps getting fuller and faster as more channels are added and then you go and include the Nordic Noir series, the United States imports which these days are too clean, too clinical and far too science based as if they are an advertisement for a thousand microscopes rather than the actual detective, the dogged gumshoe approach.
The Dallas Buyers Club, Film Review. FACT Cinema, Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto, Steve Zahn, Dallas Roberts, Michael O’Neil, Denis O’Hare, Griffin Dune, John Tabler, Jane McNeill, James DuMont, Bradford Cox, Kevin Rankin, Lawrence Turner, Matthew Thompson, Adam Dunn, Ian Cassleberry.
A lot has been made of the fact that actor Matthew McConaughey lost an incredible amount of weight to portray foul mouthed, bull riding cowboy, AIDS sufferer Ron Woodruff in the film The Dallas Buyers Club that it almost seems to have detracted from the real point of an exceptionally made film. The redemption of a man from completely unlikeable, homophobic and intolerant person at the start to somebody you would be able to sit down and have a conversation with without wanting to take to task.
How To Be Immortal, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: John McKeever, Anna-Helena McLean, Clare Perkins.
In the back of our minds, we all hope, perhaps secretly, that we will be remembered for the good we have bought into the world. Even if by the smallest gesture, the one thing that makes our existence meaningful will somehow transform the way the world is looked at. It need not even be a grand gesture, the erection of a large building and dedicated to all for example but in just the smallest way, the tiniest particle of our humanity passed on might give hope to millions.
MaYan, Antagonise. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
In a world that seems to become more corrupt, more fraudulent in the way in the way that as people, as citizens of a global community, we are treated, spied upon, taken to task for having the temerity in poking our heads above the ramparts and questioning the right to anybody knowing everything about lives, it seems the more somebody dares pose their doubt, the more tighter the grip becomes. Told who we must hate, despise, loathe, keep an eye on for, be like the two worst and vile extremes of human surveillance that the 20th century forced upon a Europe that slept walked almost into death, too few people speak up to point out what is wrong with the world.
Suzanne Vega, Tales From the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The end of one decade and the start of another in your life always brings about the chance to reflective with what you have achieved and where you see your life going. It is only right that as you grow, your 20s and your 50s are wildly different and perhaps more contemplative, more attuned to a world that at points feels as though is crumbling down right around you and the urge to set it right for the those following on behind.
Satirist Mitch Benn To Perform At The Epstein Theatre on February 28th.
Described by The Times as “The country’s leading musical satirist“, Mitch Benn has been a favourite for more than a decade on B.B.C. Radio 4’s Now Show.
His new show, coming to the Liverpool Epstein Theatre on Saturday 22nd February, combines his Scouse upbringing, his love of music and a lifelong obsession with Liverpool’s most famous sons. It is most definitely not a tribute show and while his affection for his subjects is well documented, expect the satirical twists for which Mitch is well known. As Mitch himself says, “Many have claimed the title “Fifth Beatle”. They can’t all be right; some were righter than others…”
The Australian Pink Floyd Set Their Controls On Liverpool.
The Australian Pink Floyd Show is proud to announce that their 2014 “Set The Controls…” European Tour is on sale now. The tour will draw heavily from the iconic The Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Division Bell albums but will also feature an element that will allow the audience to choose the material that the band plays in certain sections of the show. There will be 21 U.K. dates – including a show at the Echo Arena, Liverpool on March 1st.
The Wizard Of Oz Comes To Knowsley Leisure And Culture Park.
An international star of pop band S Club 7, an Eastender’s soap star and Citv star are set to join forces on May 24th and 25th at Knowsley Leisure and Culture Park in The Wizard Of Oz!
The venue’s May half term production of The Wizard of Oz will see S Club 7 pop star Tina Barrett delight with a truly evil performance as the Witch of the West opposite Eastender’s star Melissa Suffield as Dorothy and star of Citv’s Hi 5 Chris Edgerley.