Originally published by L.S. Media. May 29th 2012.
L.S. Media Rating ****
Paloma Faith has the uncanny knack of making even the most uplifting music appear dull in comparison to her stunning voice and lyrics that scream genuine and absolute desire to be taken seriously as one of the leaders of everything anti-pop.
Originally published by L.S. Media. May 29th 2012.
L.S. Media Rating ****
With the Scissor Sisters fourth studio album Magic Hour, it most certainly is the absolute truth; that if it isn’t broken then why bother getting the decorators round to spruce up the place.
Scissor Sisters have been reduced to a four piece for a couple of albums now but the sound and disco sure fire hits have not diminished, if anything, on Magic Hour the drive that propelled the band forward and suffered slightly on Tah-Dah has gained more momentum. The rhythms and insanely likeable underlying beats that pervade the songs mean they thrust the music into another level that the group’s first hit of Laura suggested they would eventually attain.
Originally published by L.S. Media. May 29th 2012.
L.S. Media Rating *****
For anyone who caught Ultravox on the last tour or even Midge Ure’s much coveted solo gigs in the last few years, it really won’t come as any surprise to find that the first studio album by the band in 18 years is nothing short of sensational.
Members of the band Funkanonymous. Photograph by Ian D. Hall
Originally published by L.S. Media. June 1st 2012.
L.S. Media Rating ****
The name may not mean anything to you yet, but Funkanonymous, if there is any justice in this world, will soon be adding to the ecstatic fans that they wowed with relative ease within the yard of Heebie Jeebies on the last night for University students everywhere within the city of Liverpool.
As a man approaches his fortieth year on this fast spinning globe we call home, he is struck by the sound of his decaying mortality. The ticking time bomb, tick, tick, tick, within him lets him know that the spring of his youth has long since moved on and is nothing more than a distant memory, occasionally waving from a far off hazy shoreline.
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“You’re a nasty horrible man”. The nurse screamed at the crumpled up human being sat on the end on the damp single bed, “You have no idea what it’s like to look after so many desperate and demanding people. It’s old…bastards like you that make so many of us give up the profession, or worse go private”. The nurse spat the sentence at the man on the bed. Each word delivered with the fine precision of a well-sharpened surgical scalpel.
Originally published by L.S. Media. June 1st 2012.
L.S. Media Rating *****
Cast: Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green, Charlize Theron, Rafe Spall, Sean Harris, Katie Dickie, Emun Elliott.
If you want a franchise done properly, bring back the guy who made it a commercial and critical success in the first place. Prometheus does exactly that and sees the Sci-Fi/Horror film reunited with Ridley Scott, the man who scared cinema goers back in 1979 with Alien, and the result is stunning.
Originally published by L.S. Media. June 2nd 2012.
L.S. Media Rating *****
Cast: John Simm, Colin Tierney, Ruth Gemmell, Thomas Tinker.
There’s a lot of media baggage that gets dragged along whenever a new production of the late Harold Pinter gets a much needed run on a tour. The fact that Pinter’s work can rouse so much passion and enjoyment in almost every line, even when some of the audience can be audibly heard afterwards that they didn’t get what the play was about, just adds to the mystique and power of the man’s writing as everyone decided to dissect each and every line.
The Palm House in Liverpool, setting for John O’ Connell’s gig.
Originally published by L.S. Media. June 5th 2012.
L.S. Media Rating *****
The Palm House that resides within the comfort of Sefton Park provided the perfect setting for John O’ Connell, Liverpool’s own urban troubadour, to perform to an audience that simply was blown away by him and his excellent set of musicians.
Originally published by L.S. Media. June 9th 2012
L.S. Media Rating ****
The world may have moved on, a different vibe purveys the charts and the streets of the American west coast and more importantly the music scene. Somehow though, no matter what the decade, The Beach Boys make it possible to believe that summer is never that far away.