Elijah James And The Nightmares: The Hellish Bending Towards The Light. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

What we might perceive as Hell is only that which soon reveals itself to be salvation, the gateway to a higher plane of existence, a moment in which the light is noticed as a giver and not as first thought, a deceiver, an instrument of denial.

Roger Waters: The Lockdown Sessions. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Should we leave the insane nonsense behind when we speak of a Roger Waters release, or should we confront it head on and put the record straight?

It is impossible to think that there are those who will seek out the name and attach thought, though it be free, which quite absurdly suggests the very opposite of what Mr. Water’s music, his lyrics and the stage shows he has performed within since his days as part of a fledgling underground phenomenon known as Pink Floyd, has espoused, and countered and yet not see the irony in it.

Foo Fighters: But Here We Are. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

A place and a time that must come to us all, how we confront it, how we deal with the emotion, how we move on as they have faded, it is up to us. Some rage in the dying of the light, some accept that the world needs to change, and a few, a daring and persuasive few, will play with melancholy and reason, they will charm and conspire with the memory and produce, not tears, but a flood of recalls, reminisces, and recollections that collide fiercely and with beauty installed into every drop of feeling within what will become art.

To Catch A Killer. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Shailene Woodley. Ben Mendelsohn, Jovan Adepo, Ralph Ineson, Richard Zeman, Dusan Dukic, Jason Cavalier, Nick Walker, Darcy Laurie, Mark Camacho, Frank Schorpion, Marcello Bezina, Dawn Lambing, Martyne Musau, Michael Cram, Chip Chuipka, Heidi Foss, Michael Dozier, Mark Anthony Krupa, Rosemary Dunsmore, Lesley Pahl.

The thought is usually unsaid, the lips not wishing or willing to suggest or insist the terrible truth, that the lines between law and order are often blurred, clouded by the fact that the ones defending the thin blue line are as often or not just as capable of being the ones to whom mayhem and murder are just as appealing a prospect.

Parker Ferrell: Love Runs Through. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

A universal truth must come when we learn to observe more than just our own footsteps, more than just our lives in the moment if we are to grow and progress as a species.

That truth, one of many and never singular is alive to the certainty that we are connected, that we must observe others on the same road, those that travel with us in our time, those that go against the flow, those that stand still or those that trudge or stride with purpose in ways that we thought was unobtainable and unimaginable…for whichever way the road points we can but hope that Love Runs Through the course of the observer’s mind, that it connects with all around it; and by doing so creates energy and art as a symbol of what has been witnessed. 

Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon: Other Worlds. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Billie Piper, Camille Coduri, Mark Benton, Nicola Blackman, Robert Cavanah, Luke R. Francis, Indigo Griffiths, Victoria Jeffrey, Malcolm Jeffries, Hywel Morgan, Sarah Priddy, John Rayment.

Tread softly in the worlds of others, for your presence has not been anticipated enough for it not to leave a groove in the sands of their time.

Rose Tyler has had to learn this the hard way, initially with her travels with the Doctor, then as she is stranded in another version of Earth, a parallel world where the fabric of time has altered certain aspects of what she, and the listener, would take for granted.

Doctor Who: Once and Future – Past Lives. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Tom Baker, Sadie Miller, Jemma Redgrave, Ingrid Oliver, Rufus Hound, Ewan Bailey, Colin Baker, Peter Davison, Sylvester McCoy, Stephen Noonan, Dan Starkey, Tim Treloar, Michael Troughton.

Stories are important, they are magical, they are a link to our past and our determination to see the future shaped in our image. Once a story has been silenced it becomes myth, the unspoken, the heritage of the speaker denied…but some tales persist in Time, they become the backdrop to our society, to our history and the dream that such days can once more return.

Dannii Minogue: Neon Lights. 20th Anniversary Reissue. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is with celebration that the chance to revel in a re-release of a fan favourite and a classic of its genre should come for those who took instantly to the presence of another Minogue sister in the pop charts.

Gavin Baddeley And Paul Woods: Jack The Ripper – The Murders And The Myths. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is perhaps telling of our modern approach to certain beguiling questions that a series of murders committed more than 130 years ago still finds ways to take hold of a conversation when other, arguably more pressing, concerns consistently become relegated to that of whimsy and fruitless explorations.

The consistency of new books and theories concerning Jack The Ripper and his insidious crimes has become its own cottage industry, and to find something novel, an original piece of thinking is its own reward when found.