Tina Turner: Break Every Rule (2022 Deluxe Album Edition). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Between Private Dancer and Foreign Affair stood a woman who was willing to break every conceivable rule if it meant that she could have artistic and physical autonomy over every aspect of her personal and music life.

Rules are man-made, and it takes an artist, a woman of Tina Turner’s vision to smash them, to take the patriarchy apart and dictate that she cannot be controlled anymore, a message to all women, to all who feel the effects of being damaged by the man and the system.

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(525 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Steve Hackett: Genesis Revisited Live: Seconds Out & More. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Ever since the idea hit the first artist and studio executive, the concept of the live album has been rightly heralded as a boon; and at times an act of division. If left unchecked the reputation of a group would depend entirely on what is recorded in the spur of the moment, if not encouraged then many a music fan would never get to experience the sound in a venue, would never get to embrace the feeling of being like-minded individuals singing along to their favourite song as of taking part in a kind of communion, of sharing an intimacy.

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(633 words, estimated 2:32 mins reading time)

Toyah: Live At The Rainbow. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

For anyone who was on the cusp of either being a teenager or enjoying the revels of the age in the late 70s and early 80s in the areas that surround King’s Heath, the once former hamlets before incorporation into the city of Birmingham, the likes of Selly Park, Stirchley, Moor Green, Wake Green, Hall Green and Cotteridge, they must have looked at what was going on around the rest of Birmingham and felt bitter pangs of jealousy…for everywhere it seemed had their music heroes, they had an identity in which to hang their youth and their anger upon, and they had none.

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(615 words, estimated 2:28 mins reading time)

Alan Triggs: Breaking My Bones. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It is only time that separates us from the misery and fear of the 1930s. The signs are there if you wish to acknowledge them, but for most the desperation, the scale of distress, is only something happening to other people, and whilst the ripples are getting larger, whilst the wake catches more in its increasing net, so the denials of the larger picture become louder, more vociferous, more intense.

If you want to understand how the situation is engulfing the soul, you only must realise how desperate good people are getting and what they will consider doing to keep their lives intact.

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(444 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Vincent Burke: A Conversation With Fate. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The question is always who you would have a last conversation with if you could bring back just person to sit with you a while, and whilst that may, will be enlightening, soothing to the soul, it should be noted that perhaps a finer and more fitting discussion would be one with one of the universe’s entities.

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(425 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Terence Blacker: Meanwhile… . Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Great people are forged in times of indecision and recklessness, in times of fire, but those who come to be a vision of the illustrious in the minds of the public are rarely seen in the temporary light, and never in the moment of a fair-weather change of topical discussion. Such is the attitude of Meanwhile…that the moment where the listener expects the sudden change of pace from that of the miserable and beige average that they had been used to from others, to the enlightening and joyful during the serious conversation.

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(427 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Red Winter: Until It Breaks. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

A vibe, whether for good or for ill, will catch your attention. Politics will do this, so will almost any preoccupation in life, but whilst these machinations of the mind will do so and then leave you hanging with just an idea for company, art will put them under a microscope and examine the feelings unearthed, like a scientist seeing the proof of existence in the smallest detail, so art will inflame the passion of the long since unconcerned and inject a fearsome connection that will resound in the soul for as long as the vibe lasts.

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(333 words, estimated 1:20 mins reading time)

Roadhouse: 2,000 Miles. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Out of adversity comes strong and driven people. It is those who are willing to walk 2,000 Miles more to see justice done to bring a smile to the face of the dispossessed and lonely, that bring the world to as a near balance as possible…for these are the ones who have seen the damage done, felt Time’s sporadic cruelty first hand, and who have done their upmost to rise above the harm, and offered a shoulder to lean on and an arm to hold as the march to the beauty in the distance is undertaken.

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

Zeitklein: You Want It All To Last. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is no harm in the belief of forever. Everyone needs to have something, anything in life that is permanent, that cannot be taken away by another person, for ill or for good, what you desire, what you need is a stabilising fixed point to which your life is based and drawn from.

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(380 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

War Of The Worlds (Series Three). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Cast: Léa Druker, Gabriel Byrne, Bayo Gbadamosi, Ty Tennant, Pearl Chanda, Paul Gorostidi, Emilie de Preissac, Aaron Heffernan, Ania Sowinski, Adel Bencherif, Pieter Genard, Lukas Haas, Lizzie Brocheré, Molly Windsor, Jack Barton, Michael Marcus, Georgina Rich, Alex Heath, Luke Malby, Florence Bell, Seb Slade, Daisy Maywood.

Aside from the title it shares, there is little to connect the third season of Howard Overman’s War Of The Worlds and that of its more famous namesake, The original novel by the godfather of British Science Fiction, H.G. Wells, and yet it doesn’t stop it from being a tale woven with greater sincerity and fierce drama than almost any adaption of the work, aside from the incredible Jeff Wayne musical extravaganza which is fast approaching its 50th anniversary.

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(525 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)