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

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Billie Piper, Camille Coduri, Shaun Dingwall, Mark Benton, Joe Jameson, Waleed Akhtar, Amerjit Deu, Elli Garnett, Julia Hills, Syrus Lowe, Gemma Page, Alistair Petrie, Dan Starkey, Elizabeth Uter, Robert Whitelock, Claire Wyatt.

Across dimensions she has searched for the one she called Doctor. For Rose Tyler, companion of the ninth incarnation of the mysterios man in the box, and the trusted friend of the tenth to bear that name, time has been a burden, time is running out, for across the galaxy, across all dimensions, the stars are going out, and each Earth is facing its own unique set of problems in which it will eventually die.

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(583 words, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)

The Last Of Us. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Anna Torv, Lamar Johnson, Melanie Lynskey, Nico Parker, Merie Dandridge, Keivonn Woodard, Jeffrey Pierce, John Getz, Gabriel Luna, Samuel Hoeksema, Olivier Ross-Parent. Scott Shepherd, Storm Reid, Troy Baker, Ashley Johnson, Nick Offerman, Rutina Wesley, John Hannah, Terry Chen, Christine Hakim, Murray Bartlett, Ari Rombough, Yayu A.W. Unro, Graham Greene, Sonia Maria Chirila, Josh Brener, Ruby Lybbert, Sharon Crandall, Christopher Heyerdahl, Nelson Leis, Elaine Miles.

Never has the genre of the zombie apocalypse ever been so in tune with major environmental concerns as the television adaptation of The Last Of Us has managed to portray.

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

Big Finish. Jenny – The Doctor’s Daughter. Audio Drama Box Set Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Georgia Tennant, Adèle Anderson, Sean Biggerstaff, Anthony Calf, Silas Carson, Siân Phillips, Clare Corbett, Paul Courtenay, Olivia Darnley, John Dorney, Sara Houghton, Arina II, Rosalyn Landor, Pik-Sen Lim, Stuart Milligan, Siân Phillips, Arabella Weir, Sarah Woodward.

Like father, like daughter. One though has the advantage of having had all of time and space to explore for thousands of years, the other, well she has barely scratched the surface of her own place in the Universe, let alone following on in her dad’s footsteps and carrying on the family tradition.

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

Milton Hide: The Holloway. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The temperature rose, the emotions were felt and left to simmer, and it is only right that now Milton Hide’s husband and wife duo, Jim and Josie Tipler, return to the scene of their creative outlet and serve a second helping of their inspiring music, one of the same aural values, but one cut from a different and more varied recipe.

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(369 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Kintsugi Tupperware.

You are the gold

that is injected

into my tired and weary veins,

but still

 I feel

that my cracked

and broken

soul will never be

anything

other than Tupperware

in a dishwasher;

orange stained

from overuse and

un-washable

sauce deeply imbedded into my plastic

lid.

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Ally Venable: Real Gone. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The real of our lives is in danger of being forced out by the damage and instability sought by those that practise chaos; normally shrouded in suits and flattering salaries, as they offer sounds that can’t be heard, as they sign off on a lie of art which insults rather than edifies.

The Real Gone kids to whom expressions are found in the beauty of emotional truth are forever being told they have to adhere to a fashion that is neither desirable, nor satisfying; and those suits, they don’t care because they will always find one to whom the nation will be told to swoon at for the sake of publicity and fortune.

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(463 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Gareth Heesom: She Doesn’t Want You. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To bring art via a medium that you aren’t necessarily associated with to the fore is to be acknowledged as a success, as an achievement, and yet there will be those who suggest with jealous feelings barely hidden, that to have a skill is to be a master of all; for they will infer that no one is concerned, no friend is bothered, and that the person you want to impress, well She Don’t Want You at all.

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(435 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

O’Hooley & Tidow: Cloudheads. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

It is better to have your head in the clouds than to see the depths of Hell that others will sink to as they chase dreams that are to be acknowledged as misaligned to humanity’s best interests.

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

Endeavour: Exeunt. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, Sean Rigby, Anton Lesser, Caroline O’Neill, James Bradshaw, Sara Vickers, Abigail Thaw, Jack Bannon, Jack Laskey, Danny Webb, Phil Daniels, Mo Sesay, Brian Pettifer, Will Brown, Christopher Godwin, Victoria Alcock, Meg Kubota, Jo Stone-Fewings, Joseph Macnab, Tomi Ogbaro, Richard Ridings, Laura Branigan, Philip Wright, Jack Hamilton, Ross Green, Rufus Wright.

In the end, everybody must leave for pastures new; only those with unfinished business or the ones that guard the memories and secrets of their fallen comrades remain in vigil.

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

Murph Bower: Juniper. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The cleansing rituals of old have largely been forgotten as we move away from ancestral paths that once guided us, the rites and blessing that once offered us protection as we inhaled its smoke, has now been replaced by a chemical imbalance. We are healthier perhaps, but our souls have become tainted, trapped in a smog not of nature’s power and ritual, the smell of Juniper berries is no longer in the air, it is the taste of compliance and regret.

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(357 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)