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It’s only when you take a closer look inside the glass you are drinking from, that you realise that for most of your life, what you thought you were drinking with the knowledge of purity, has in fact been a tumbler spiked with the invisible aggressive lies and with someone else’s infected Blood In The Water.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
What makes the screen and what stays on the Cutting Room Floor is often a personal reconciliation after the war on self-censorship. Anything that is created by the artist is subject to greatest critic they know, not those with the thousands of readers and the sharpened visceral quill, not even the audience who wavers between love and over reliant boredom of spirit, but the artist themselves, the one to whom loathing, and adoration comes in thick, quick waves.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It’s been a while since the image of Peter Gunn walked the veiled streets and alleyways of our psyche, the guitar playing as if forced by a thunderstorm and being plucked by the consciousness of the seismic stranger of the instrumental, the one who looks as if they have walked straight off a neo noir and in the arms of Cuban dance routine; such is the presence of musically delivered character in instrument form, that when it comes your way, the only suitable response is to lay down your time for a couple of hours and while away the pleasure from the company created.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
In a world that insists on uniformity, on the homogeny of views, and the equality of all being exactly the same, to Break The Mould is considered an attack on the beige and dull by the unpredictable revolutionary; the dull and the beige cannot handle such a force of nature, it frightens their sensibilities, it rocks the idea of governance, of compliance, and long may there be those who seek to show that shattering the plastic ceiling of submission with defiance, with love and flair, in our lives.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The ability to disconnect from reality as if one was able to envelope the soul and mind in some sort of hypnotic state of awareness, one that was not suggestible or open to abuse by others, but instead find beauty in the melancholy, a trance that sees the smallest moment steeped in a vivid sensory awareness; is perhaps a state of mind to which the vast majority of people will not be conscious that they can attain, even if they are aware of the fragility of life, they will simply see existence as motion, not as detail.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
“I dwell in possibility…” for the poet is touched by something out of sight to those without meaning, and act as both receptacle and fountain to those who seek a new and vivid way to portray a truth of existence.
The meaning of any poem is hopefully vague, mysterious, wrapped in subtle ambiguity and explicit in its delivery, to add the depth of music to such a powerful piece of art is to seek to pour amber and the ambrosia of the gods upon its silk defined skin.
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Necessity is the mother of invention…if that is the case, then what comes forth out of oppression, of the requirement to take stock of the world and create something which sits inside, and beyond, the realm of imposed isolation.
Perhaps it is the obligation to make sure your words, your vision and dreams live on if the situation becomes clear that the world might tumble into chaos, whether of human making, or of nature inducing, that it might move on without you having committed yourself to the future betterment of humanity; an obligation to show that you were here at this time and place.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
If everything has been done before, then why do we as a species continue and persevere to attain a new high in the application of performance art and bringing stories to life in every form possible? The answer is arguably astonishingly simple, it only appears as though everything has been accomplished, for whilst humanity has the ability to imagine and to experience the world in different ways, there will always be a call to hear the life story of the northern woman, and the Parables of a Southern Man.
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To subvert the narrative is an act of rebellion to which many cannot find within themselves to understand. To know that the lie of advertising is aimed squarely at the emotional pull of guilt, of envy, of possession, is to understand that you cannot have it all because something must always give, that the ideal is an illusion, and the perfect is unobtainable.
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To apologise is hard, to forgive is challenging, and yet we are urged from early in life to see forgiveness as a way of promoting love for one’s self, to be able to move on from the perceived sleight, the moment of indiscretion, of the falling foul to all that makes us human; yet forgiving seems to be the hardest emotion to conquer, it would seem for many the easier option is make life intolerable for someone, to put them down, to find ways in which to destroy another human being just because they made a mistake.