Interview With The Vampire. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid, Eric Bogosian, Assad Zaman, Bailey Bass, Kalyne Coleman, Chris Stack, Christian Robinson, Rae Dawn Chong, Maura Grace Athari, Roxane Duran, John DiMaggio, Jeff Pope, Dana Gourrier, Rachel Alana Handler, Rudy Eisenzopf, Kyle Roussel.

There is a difference between glitz and style, one not often noted upon when there is money thrown at glitz as if it were the smart prospect in the room because it has the big name behind it, bravado mistaken for confidence, arrogance confused with grace, and one that can be the ruin of a franchise before it even starts; for in humility the viewer immersed in a series created on the back of one of the best selling books of all time will be enthralled and not overwrought with the smell of perfume disguising the smell of rotten meat.

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(537 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

The Burning Girls. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Samantha Morton, Rupert Graves, Ruby Stokes, David Dawson, Paul Bradley, Jack Roth, Charlie Hamblett, John Macmillan, Jane Lapotaire, Beth Cordingly, Elodie Grace Orkin, Conrad Khan, Janie Dee, Safia Oakley-Green, Paul Fox, Charlie Price, Erin Ainsworth, Catherine Harvey, Liam Hatch.

The sins of our ancestors are always prevalent, and whilst we may be in part innocent of such crimes ourselves, we cannot remove the stain of the family name passed down when it comes to certain transgressions, certain wrongs in which we can be seen to have profited from personally.

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(505 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Israel Nash: Ozarker. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We cannot fight for what we believe in if we have no sense of the history that made us who we are, the sense of being we find when we understand how our ancestors are tied to us, how their actions, loves, desires, and mistakes have brought us into the world to carry on the genes, the D.N.A of the locations that shape our soul.

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(405 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Toyah And Robert’s Sunday Lunch: Live. Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Toyah has never lost her sense of fun and style, and her husband, the legendary Robert Fripp, exudes such an air of gentlemanly grace that to be in their presence can often feel measurably overwhelming.

For to watch two of Britain’s most experienced performers on stage can lead to the listener being comforted and dominated in the same breath; and when they are together on the back of their hugely successful Sunday Lunch show online that sartorial elegance on stage for a Liverpool crowd is one that is to be acknowledged as being performed by a king and queen of Prog and Punk.

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(490 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

Tony Winn: Blue Speck. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Our world, our planet, is the only Blue Speck that for the foreseeable future is one we can call home.

We must endeavour to keep it in a reasonable state, to repair it, to keep it viable, for those who will take on the tenancy once we leave and hand in our collective notices; but instead of the anonymous graffiti of life we seem happy to leave as a scrawl of our time here, we must acknowledge that a signed piece of art of any stature would be a greater gift for others to understand what we were once capable of, and what some produced with endearing dignity and passion.

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(353 words, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)

Love & Death. Television Drama series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Elizabeth Olsen, Jesse Plemons, Lily Rabe, Patrick Fugit, Krysten Ritter, Tom Pelphrey, Elizabeth Marvel, Keir Gilchrist, Amelie Dallimore, Liam Pileggi, Harper Heath, Olivia Appelgate, Jennifer Neale Page, Bonnie Gayle Sparks, Aaron Jay Rome, Sara Burke, Richard C. Jones, Matthew Posey, Beth Broderick, Fabiola Andújar, Brian d’ Arcy James, Mackenzie Astin, Adam Cropper, Bruce McGill, Drew Waters, Sunday Dangerstone, Charlie Talbert, Robert Walden, Brad Leland, Boo Arnold, Dave Maldonado, Christ Freihofer, Christin Sawyer Davis, Deke Anderson.

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(588 words, estimated 2:21 mins reading time)

Kit Derrick: Lorelei. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Myths and legends give credence to a world beyond our comprehension, a world of fairy’s and goblins offer a sideways romantic look to a world we have lost, the ugly monsters that live under the bridges, all gone…and yet we find the mythic names resides in our mind and we place association on them when we admonish ourselves as mistakes and cruel acts are undertaken, when we wish to give a syndrome a title.

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(482 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

Roger Waters: The Dark Side Of The Moon – Redux. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

If the internet is to be believed, there is a division of attitude and opinion circulating what people and fans perceive to be a challenge to art history, specifically that in which is revered as a magical experience that equates to the human condition at its most vulnerable; and that separation is arguably unwarranted.

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(630 words, estimated 2:31 mins reading time)

Steven Wilson: The Harmony Codex. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Harmony is to be prized, to be in sync with oneself is to feel the universe at your fingertips guiding you to create the seemingly impossible with everything that makes you unique, a star, a coded piece of human machinery in which the world awaits your latest discovery.

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(403 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Domina. Series Two. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Kasia Smutniak, Matthew McNulty, Darrell D’Silva, Christine Bottomley, Ben Batt, Claire Forlani, Alex Lanipekun, Ewan Horrocks, Alais Lawson, Liah O’ Prey, Joseph Ollman, David Avery, Hannah Chinn, Benjamin Isaac, Joelle, Mia Jenkins, Isabelle Connolly, Ethan Moorhouse, Nathan Welsh, Yuliia Sobol, Fabrizio Romagnoli, Alexandra Moen.

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(506 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)