Take This Waltz, Film Review. (F.A.C.T. Cinema Screenings)

Originally published by L.S. Media. August 14th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

Cast: Michelle Williams, Seth Rogan, Sarah Silverman, Luke Kirby, Aaron Abrahams, Raoul Bhaneja, Albert Howell, Dianne Flacks, Diane D’Aquila, Danielle Miller.

The leafy streets of Toronto don’t have that many films attached to it to make it a serious rival to New York in which to shoot feature films, the sense of history is not quite there. Instead of the usual camera shots of well-worn cliché ridden snippets of Central Park, coffee houses and exclusive apartments, Take This Waltz relied on the majesty of the Toronto skyline and the idyllic settings of Little Portugal and Lake Ontario. For that alone gives the film credibility as it strays away from the well beaten production North American film path.

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(499 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)

Nik Kershaw, Ei8ht. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. August 15th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

He was once a teen idol, a musical genius who strode the pop charts like a colossus and who quite rightly scored hit after hit in the video ridden 1980’s.

In 1984 Nik Kershaw released his debut album Human Racing, now just under 30 years later, Nick finally releases his eighth album and as with a lot of things, time has been kind and improved the music that the man creates.  In Ei8ht, Nik Kershaw becomes the musician he was destined to be.

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(364 words, 1 image, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

Iron Maiden, The Number of The Beast. 30th Anniversary.

Originally published by L.S. Media. March 25th 2012

This week saw the 30th anniversary of one the seminal albums of what became known as the New Wave of British Heavy Metal era. Iron Maiden’s The Number of The Beastnot only stands out as one of the best by the definitive Metal bands from Great Britain but also one of the best of the whole Heavy Metal genre.

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(858 words, 1 image, estimated 3:26 mins reading time)

Edison’s Children, In The Last Waking Moments…. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. March 26th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating *****

It always comes as a bit of a surprise that musicians have any spare time to be anywhere outside of their own bubble. The group ethic of a band that has been around for years must surely take most of the hours of daylight afforded them and quite a few of the night hours too when they take in the multitude of gigs that they do.

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(524 words, 1 image, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

It Bites, Map of the Past. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. March 26th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating *****

If there is such a thing as a marriage made in Heaven, then the day John Mitchell and Lee Pomeroy joined It Bites must surely be the closest moment for fans of Progressive Rock.

Map of the Past is only the second album that John Mitchell, John Beck, Bob Dalton and Lee Pomeroy have worked together on under the name of It Bites, however like 2008’s The Tall Ships, Map of the Past is an album that may have been long in its delivery but the result is so well worth the wait.

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(528 words, 1 image, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

All American Rejects, Kids in the Street. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. March 27th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating **

All American Rejects’ new offering Kids in the Street is an album that honestly could have delivered so much more. However, it comes across as collection of songs that sound half-finished and that the care and attention that had been in evidence on the previous two albums has evaporated and dissipated as the band delved further into the recording.

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(430 words, 1 image, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Interview With Donna Lesley Price, Director Of Our Country’s Good At The Lantern Theatre.

Donna Lesley Price. Photograph by Ian D. Hall

Originally published by L.S. Media. March 27th 2012.

Donna Lesley Price is a busy woman. Not content with an abundance of writing material that is ready to be showcased and gearing up to take her fantastic show, If The Shoe Fits, across to the Floral Pavilion for three dates in August she also has taken on the mantle of directing Our Country’s Goodat the Lantern Theatre this week for Kick Theatre.

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(1111 words, 1 image, estimated 4:27 mins reading time)

Iron Maiden, En Vivo. Live Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media.  March 29th 2012.

There is nothing at all as artistically satisfying as catching a band at their absolute best, perhaps seeing your team finally win a cup comes close but it still doesn’t compare to witnessing at first hand a group or even a solo singer nail every song they have gone on stage to perform as perfectly as they can and then some.

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(497 words, 1 image, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Joe Bonamassa, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool.

Joe Bonamassa at the Echo Arena, Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall

Originally published by L.S. Media. March 29th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating *****

Somebody reminded Joe Bonamassa during his visit to Liverpool that the first time he played near the city, in the excellent venue that was just a well-aimed cannon ball shot across the Mersey to Pacific Road in Birkenhead. In that seemingly short time, Joe has gone onto be one of the greatest guitarists in the world. Technically stunning and with no short comings at all, not musically or as decent human being it seems either.

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(417 words, 1 image, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson, Thick As A Brick 2. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. April 5th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating *****

There will be those that tell you that the concept album died a painless death during the 1970’s, there will further still those that maintain there was a brief hurrah in the mid 1980’s, and without wishing to compound the issue, there will be the modern audience’s assertion that the 21st century has seen the genre stay vital, drawing breath and propagating and influencing others from Green Day and My Chemical Romance.

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(589 words, 1 image, estimated 2:21 mins reading time)