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The melodrama of it all, the upsurge in tempo, the outstanding narrative and quirky, tongue in cheek sense of humour, all in a day’s work it seems for The Eskies and one that has come to enshrined as a platinum standard of music for the Dublin quintet as they release their second And Don’t Spare the Horses.
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For good or for ill, we are now encouraged to talk about everything that happens to us in our daily lives. If it is important then it is understandable to make sure our voices are heard, that our point of view is given air time and given respect, in a world of 7 billion people it is essential that we don’t curtail anybody’s story, that we don’t censer the stuff of great consequence.
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There is a reason why some certain aspects of history resonate more than others in the minds of those who choose to look back, for they are normally the ones who see the parallels in the present day, they are the ones who can see just how a natural course of events in the modern era have been shaped by what has gone before and as one political leader is character assassinated or thrown to the wolves, so too does a King or Queen of old resemble that putsch or stab in the back.
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The darkness can be a place where the consuming nature of humanity can lead to the feeling of inaction, where apathy escorts the soul to its own inevitable destruction. If though you can even see the light, a thin wedged margin just within arm’s reach and offering a sense of comfort, then to walk that line is feel perhaps the most alive, where Inertia is handed a throbbing beat and a pulse in which to feel the spark glow red hot and burn with joy.
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You don’t have to look to far to see how the season invoke the passions of the poet and would be lovers in equal force.
Spring brings that tantalising prospect of hope, the return of order from out the darkness that the Romans largely clumped together and then prayed to their gods that the first flowers would return, summer is the full flush of lust and heat, provoking the poet to seek out wooded glades and spy on the green leaves dancing in anticipation, winter is the time when huddled together before a fire and the thrust of conversation takes place and leaves autumn, with trees that shed their inhibitions and the cinematic landscapes that catch the eye.
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It was once a cry of exasperation that would be uttered by a spouse or a parent, that the almost degrading verbal punch to the senses of “You need to live in the real world” is often the last resort of an argument from those who have jealousy in their heart because they have forgotten how to dream of a better life, that they want you to be as miserable as them. Now it seems that more people are finding ways to make their lives better, not by dreaming and succeeding but by hiding away, a virtual authenticity on every corner, a world where you can be the hero without leaving the house.; welcome to The New Reality and despite the allure, it is not a pretty sight.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The lofty ideals of Angels & Men often fall short in what a single woman can produce; a job for two men perhaps but every woman is easily worth two of her counterparts and in the voice of the erstwhile Kate Rusby, those same messengers of a god and the men who rejoice in their passion are greeted with a set of songs that are not only heavenly, but are given the very essence of a humanity via a voice that praises with genuine understanding and joy.
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The halls and venues up and down the length and breadth of the country have long either laboured or rejoiced under the weight of the tribute band and sometimes look-alike, if not quite sound-alike homage to some of the nation’s most endearing and popular bands of the last 60 years. It is a weight of expectancy to a night out that carries risks and can bring memories so vibrant flooding back into view, that it is possible to find yourself shedding a tear as a particular line is carried through the air; it is a tear of truth, reminisce and pleasure, or it could be a finer moment of expression, it could be that it May Contain Nuts.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10
Boundaries are stifling; they create disorder and chaos in their own particular, demanding, patronising way. Boundaries are the killer of self expression and no matter what the sound of complete structure hammers home into the minds of those who see the auto-tune as a handy guide or instruction to a perfect, yet almost lacking in courage, album; what is needed is articulation without false graces, the slash of the disguised flawless, The Cut of the masquerade and sham from people’s lives.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Go forth into the world with utter abandon and spontaneity; relish the prospect of finding love in the most unlikely of places, freedom in the impulsive and sometimes allow yourself to be surrounded by madcap and chaotic; for order and structure are the devils in which many drown in, the spontaneity spark put out and left to be a ghost of the possibility.