Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
We all love a storyteller, their words and means of delivery are at the heart of the essence of humanity; and yet we perhaps don’t give them all the credit they deserve, only venerating themselves when the emotions fall, in the audience’s mind, like A Sudden Rain that comes out of the ether and refreshes all it touches, turning parched ground to a forest of green, idyllic, lush grass.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
We lay a trail in the hope that someone comes along and gathers the signal and instruction we leave hanging in the ether so that it may be translated, so that we know in our heart our message has been heard.
Picking Up What You’re Putting Down is the understanding that we are more than our own shadows, we are the means of reception to others to have their thoughts interpreted, to send their voice onwards, and like a CB radio being used in the darkness of the home of a teenager in Britain during the 70s and 80s, the sounds we hear and notice are exotic and deeply engrained in a world once out of our reach.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Surround yourself with the best and the best that you can be reveals itself without caution, without restraint, with genuine pleasure and playful liberation of the soul.
A line up of a galaxy of stars in the heavens could not improve upon the aural spectacle that is refined and purposely driven with a groove of splendour in the new album from the legendary American hero Dion, Girl Friends.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The world of Jazz has arguably never been more accessible and in rude health. Indeed, when compared to other forms of music it is one that whilst adopted by those who loved the anonymity provided by the venues and the once smoky atmosphere, has been recognised as offering the listener something new and novel each time they hear an artist perform a section of music that crosses the boundary between the human and the sense of spiritual excess challenges.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
On the back of greatness, we often find ourselves wondering how we can achieve an even larger, more vast declaration of intent.
Close to two full decades since Bruce Dickinson found his way into the recording studio without any back up from the Iron Maiden family, The Mandrake Project is that album of glorious purpose after a run of seismic recordings from Eddie’s boys that returned them rightfully to the top ten charts, and in doing so scored their first number one in the U.K. since the release of the scintillating Fear Of The Dark.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Living legends are a hard commodity to explain, even more so in the explosion of talent that has come our way since the internet and its billions of users found ways to extoll the presence of anyone who can light up a screen with their various degrees of talent; the proof if ever needed that we can all be amazing, we can all be something extraordinary, it just takes one more ingredient, a quality of enigma that must shine brighter, must be so overwhelming, that it catches a moment in time with a ferocity that those who witness it will never be the same again.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It could have been all so different, a moment of loss could have ended the time prematurely of one of the biggest and finest bands to come out of England, and arguably whilst missed, no one would have blamed Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, and John Entwistle is they had called it a day in the wake of Keith Moon’s tragic death.
It was more of a loss than some onlookers could probably comprehend, and unlike some groups, the loss of one member, any member of The Who, was like losing a limb, the body may still be productive, but it really isn’t going to be the same ever again.
Liverpool Sound and Vision 9/10
The sound of seduction is more than an offering of red roses to the person who took our heart in high school, it is the memory of the Hideaway we ran to calm down and collect our thoughts when a reply in either the affirmative or the scorned down look of the resounding no, the loud, embarrassed squeal heard in the corridors and the empty laughs of our compadres as they take us by the shoulder and commiserate or celebrate along with us.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
We are only alone if we truly believe that there is nothing that surrounds us.
We can go out into the environment which we first gazed upon as a wondering, interested child and find stimulation, whether in the cliffs that overlook a raging sea or an ocean holding darkness and frightening diversity in equal stunning measure, or on the hard soaked pavements and austere bricks and mortar that reflect a mindset of uniformity and almost sterile infringement, we ask the question on loneliness with sincerity and a knowing sign on our stomachs.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
To fall in love with art when you know you could never bring into the world something of extreme fascination or beauty is to feel a pulse of the universe reward you for your ability to feel, if not to do, then at least connect in ways that many will never understand.
Some may call it a natural affinity, others an empathy or a soul divination, but perhaps we are looking at it a way that doesn’t have an explanation, perhaps it is just a fact that in some respects miracles exist, that marvels find the right wavelength and choose a mind in which to inhabit and sink their artistic D.N.A into.