Category Archives: Music

The Proven Ones, You Ain’t Done. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

No matter what you do, you cannot appeal to everyone at the same time, all the time…but you can certainly influence their thought by showing them that their range can be expanded, their love can be magnified; you might not be all things to all people but You Ain’t Done showing them that you have so much more to give.

Dan Whitehouse, Dreamland Tomorrow. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We chase our dreams with almost furious intent, sometimes to the detriment of the way we might find ourselves holding the future in hands made of clay, or being strangers, untrue to ourselves, our true selves and by the time we realise it, it is almost always, certainly over; the dream having become a millstone round our necks, for the tomorrow we sought became cluttered, full of the colour that meant nothing on the canvas we had.

Joe Satriani, Shapeshifting. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

We listen to music to be entertained and enthralled, more importantly we listen to learn about ourselves, to find ways to shed the skin we have and to inhabit a new belief, to force ourselves to transform from the basic uneducated version to one of the fully rounded human being, one who sees metamorphosis as a right and not as a hindrance.

The art of the Shapeshifting mortal is one lost to someone who refuses to see time as a teacher, they cling to the belief that it is the surroundings that alter their appearance, that the individual remains, implausibly, the same.

Chasing Infinity. Making Room. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It has been described as a decade of much change, a period in which we first started to forget about the social obligations that we had fought so hard to improve after the dark days that came in the form of fear and the possible knock at the door, a decade that came with the start of greed and unthought of middle class affluence driving the nation under the banner of wealth creation, it had many guises, many different faces, not all of it a measure for good.

Barry Briercliffe, Peculiar. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is nothing wrong with being peculiar, only in the eyes of the ordinary and the dull is the word used in such derogatory terms, it implies that to have a quirk that cannot be knocked back into the shape that society demands to feel that everything is normal, is to be concerned about, wary of, even scared of, because to the many peculiar means strange, whereas to the individual, to the distinctively eccentric, it is a special kind of uniqueness that should be protected at all costs.

John Cee Stannard, Folk Roots Revisited. Album Review.

When a modest and decent person leaves this life it is always with sadness, there may be joy in the memory of what they have left behind, the art perhaps they have created living on, collecting new fans, making new friends each subsequent nudge and praise in the right direction, but it doesn’t stop the hurt, the loss of having had something so beautiful, wholesome and uniquely fascinating that their spirit seems to have somehow find a way to inhabit your thinking, then you know that they were special, that you may be able to revisit their roots, but you will miss out on their future, all that could have been.

The Slow Readers Club, The Joy Of The Return. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The news of a return can fill you with much needed hope, it can bring relief, gleaming positivity, and no matter what the situation, the right person or idea appearing on the horizon can be seen as a sign that life will begin again.

John Jenkins, Jackson’s Farm. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The songs we sing to ourselves when we find ourselves contemplating life, its boundless mystery, its significant wonder, and the times when we feel that the melancholic joy threatens to engulf us, those are the moments in which we look upon at whatever time they appear as the guiding lights, the soliloquys from the comfort of the idyll of the front porch.

It is from the front porch that John Jenkins has seen the orange light that swings as the breeze hits the Wirral coast, that catches the waves upon the River Mersey as sends the flurry and the strength into the sound of every artist that lives either side of the great unitor.

Soul Asylum, Hurry Up And Wait. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

You can take all the time you want as you allow the thoughts of life to guide you in the direction you believe you should be taking, however, sometimes you have to grasp the initiative and the incentive and really learn patience, to master the ideal situation presented to you and pass the lesson on, to Hurry Up And Wait is not a double standard, it is an essential way of living.