Sean Taylor: Short Stories. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Not everyone has the novel inside of them. For many, life’s routine is such that a moment out of the ordinary is enough to create and weave a story that they can dine out on for a while with friends, an instant in the sun in which their life holds meaning beyond the grey and the beige to which they join others in producing Short Stories that build into a larger collection, published, printed, and the spotlight of existence on them for enough time for it to be remarkable.

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

Bloodbound: Tales From The North. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The south may be more alluring, but it is the history of the north people that gives our own islands a deeper resonance, a timbre of earthly tone that has shaped the present in narration and its account on the world.

To be enchanted by the tales from that which crosses a different sea is to be expected, to be held with attention, curiosity and awareness, but to be mindful that which gave us our beginnings, stories, fables and sagas which live deep in the D.N.A. and which Tales From The North, of longboats and invaders, of towns and village names that have withstood history and time with just a corruption in the evolution of language adding flavour to those days and people that remain vocal as they whisper from the past.

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(412 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

All For Metal: Legends. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We hold fast to the notion of Legends and myths because we are in a time dominated by the small minded and mediocre. Those legends, tales of heroism, fierce loyalty to darkness and the light, of creatures spawned and angels wielding swords with impunity, those are the days which give meaning to the premise of marvels witnessed and traditions created.

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

Van Der Valk: Magic In Amsterdam. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Marc Warren, Maimie McCoy, Darrell D’Silva, Emma Fielding, Azen Ahmed, Django Chan-Reeves, James Atherton, Eleanor Fanyinka, Olivia D’Lima, Clara Onyemere, Steven Pacey, Esra Abdioglu, Annelies Appelhof, Shaima Boone, Poal Cairo, Robert Mitchell, Joris Smit, Loes Haverkort, Mike Libanon.

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(420 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Iron Maiden: Utilita Arena, Birmingham. Gig Review. 2023.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Time is its own master, we are its servants, we are the victims and playthings in which the illusion of freedom is sought as a compromise, in which the future has its own set rules and inevitabilities, and the past is written either in dark forbidding ink or ruled with glory in hues worthy of memory.

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

Queens Of The Stone Age: In Times New Roman. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Seduction and temptation go hand in hand, you can’t have one without the other, it is the thrill of the unknown as it glides your hand towards to the velvet, irresistible touch offered by that which holds a glint in its eye.

It is that contract of exchanged enticement, written In Times New Roman that sets the seal of attraction to the blissful and the seductive and the suggestive, the ink barely dry as the invitation is agreed to in full, for temptation is eye of the persuaded, and few can do that with as much charm as Josh Homme and Queens Of The Stone Age.

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(350 words, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

White House Plumbers. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Woody Harrelson, Justin Theroux, Lena Hedley, Domhnall Gleeson, Kim Coates, Toby Huss, Liam James, Tony Plane, Yul Vasque, Zoe Levin, Tre Ryder, Nelson Ascencio, Judy Greer, Ike Barinholtz, Kiernan Shipka, Alexis Valdés, Julie Hays, Peter Mitchell, Kisha Barr, F. Murray Abraham, John Carroll Lynch, David Krumholtz, Kathleen Turner, Gary Cole, Peter Serafinowicz.

You need separate your feelings and your emotions when watching the five-part miniseries, White House Plumbers, for the sense of disbelief will be all consuming as the understanding of just how perilously close the United States of America came to be under a tyranny, and how deliriously the ineptness of certain individuals saved the country from being a danger to itself.

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(452 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Picard. Series Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jeri Ryan, Michelle Hurd, Brent Spiner, Ed Speleers, Jonathan Frakes, Gates McFaden, Todd Stashwick, Mirana Sirtis, Michael Dorn, LeVar Burton, Amanda Plummer, Alice Kriege, John de Lancie, Tim Russ, Stephanie Czajkowski, Orla Brady, Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut, Jospeh Lee, Jin Maley, Maeline Wise, Dylan Von Halle, Steve Gutierrez, Mica Burton, Tiffany Shepis, Chad Lindberg.

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(509 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

Staged. Series Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: David Tennant, Michael Sheen, Georgia Tennant, Anna Lundberg, Lucy Eaton, Simon Evans, Nina Sosanya, Ben Schwartz, Adrian Lester, Jim Broadbent, Peter de Jersey, Olivia Coleman.

When you have seen the joke before, the punchline becomes inevitable…

And yet it must be said, if the joke is crafted well, you cannot but help smile and laugh, even though you know the setup, even though you know what’s coming, it still raises the corners of the mouth and gives way to that the emotion of being amused, of enjoying the company which told you the series of events which culminate in that often repeated punchline.

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(548 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)

Not Going Out. Series 13. Television Comedy Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Lee Mack, Sally Breton, Hugh Dennis, Abigail Cruttenden, Deborah Grant, Geoffrey Whitehead, Francesca Newman, Max Pattison, Finlay Southby, Selina Griffiths, Chris McCausland, Melvyn Hayes, Kiana Wu, Melanie Gray, Rich Keeble, Bryan Hands, Mukamajule Michelo, Sanchia McCormack, Viss Elliot Safavi, Tanvi Virmani, Jonny Dixon, Adam Boardman, Dan Linney, David Ajao, James Benson, Naveed Khan, Sabrina Sandhu, Matt Weyland.

Despite the loss of Bobby Ball as Lee’s Father, series 13 of the acclaimed comedy Not Going Out stands out as one that is unafraid to tackle certain sensitivities that come as life’s journey winds on.

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(480 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)