Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It is a universal truth that music not only aids the soul in troubled times and blesses it with the same virtue in days of plenty, but that is an art that can take someone out of the poverty imposed upon them by government and circumstance, that it can raise them spiritually, can give them hope when dark skies are closing in, and above all, be the teacher to which they commit themselves too when all else may abandon them.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
It is no secret that the narrative of the world has been dominated, almost completely up until recent times, by those who see through the male gaze. Such a blinkered view is one that cannot and must not persist, that we must ensure our thinking continues to embrace the sound, the imagination, the strength and presence of the feminine, of the anchor they supply when the male scripture goes horribly and desperately wrong, of the foresight and inspiration to lead when the nation calls for a different kind of approach to which the male ego cannot cope with.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
That debut album, that first initial outpouring of generous performance, even in the 21st Century most people seem to think it is an album that has come naturally, that whilst you may have been writing it all your life, the easy part is over and that you can receive the applause of the multitude without breaking sweat, or suffering the anxiety of feeling as though you will be Cursed & Corrected by some who will see you as interlopers in field filled with talent and your own nightmare scenario of them having more right to be in the limelight than you.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Never give in, never surrender to the beat of another’s heart, not unless you love them without boundaries or without restrictions, for in the soul and existence of this Maverick acceptance of life, our senses are awakened to the tune of blossoming expertise and the belief that there are no limitations when you see life has no borders, that you can colour in past the margins and confines of someone else’s imposed restrictions.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
We have all met the person to whom the word heedless, even rash and hasty, can be applied, not out of anger or a sense of antagonism, but out of calm composure, because we know deep down that what they have said, what they might have done in the heart of the moment, was just them being human, thoughtless not evil, foolish not foul.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Time will throw you a curve ball when you aren’t paying attention, a moment to which you pray to your personal god, to which you clutch the artifact of your chosen personal canonised confessor and whisper to them all the sins of neglect you have found your guilty of committing, for in the search for absolution in the mind of The Patron Saint of Heartache one must concede that life’s rich opera doesn’t always show you what you needed to witness the first time round.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The wheels are in motion and minds are sharpened, the foxtrot of the overwhelming plot is picking up its pace and all around us, to those we expected better from and those that surprise with their clarity of expression and thought, all have their theories and their arguments ready; for the age of the Conspiracy Dance is not just upon us, but the band have been playing for a while and the lights have been blaring their shine into the deepest corners with such might that even the wallflowers have nowhere to hide.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
It was Canada’s own Rock royalty of Rush who reminded listeners that “The more things change, the more they stay the same“, and whilst they maybe true on many counts, it perhaps does not take into account the evolution of the soul, nor of the spirit to seek out new worlds to witness being born.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *
Cast: Kirsten Stewart, Yvan Attal, Gabriel Sky, Jack O’ Connell, Margaret Qualley, Colm Meaney, Vince Vaughn, Stephen Root, Anthony Mackie, Celeste Pechous, Laura Campbell, Jade Pettyjohn, Zazie Beetz, Grantham Coleman, Tobias Truvillion, Noelle Danique Louie, James Jordan, Diane Chernasky.
A story that not only needs telling but expressing effectively is one that that should stand out beyond the norm, especially when it involves life as seen through the eyes of the oppressed and the exploited.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Liverpool has its Beatles, Seattle – the memory of Nirvana, Birmingham is proud of Jeff Lynne and Black Sabbath, London the class of The Who and Iron Maiden, all considered the music equivalent of royalty, the crowned heads of Rock to whom servitude or the doffing of caps is thankfully not required to enjoy their takes on the world, and yet there seems to be something otherworldly about Los Angeles that is steeped in the mysticism, a sense of the Pacific Ocean air offering magic, that has seen its city’s limits simply overflow with the Renegades of regal spiritualty and the holiness of noble style.