Snowy White: Driving On The 44. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Of all the guitar players that Britain has produced, of all the songs, the pleasure derived and spread, the lists proclaiming the top ten, the must see, the great and the good, one name is perhaps conspicuous by its absence, and one to whom we collectively owe not only an apology for the omission, but huge thanks that he has continued to bring quality album after quality album to the listener’s attention, without fanfare, without the ordeal of celebration, just with the outstanding musicianship that Snowy White is overwhelmingly gifted at delivering.

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

Elton John: Regimental Sgt. Zippo. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Elton John can make the listener believe in many things, love, acceptance, bravery, groove, the act of being cool even when the world raises an eyebrow in response, the fierce drive to succeed, but time travel, that perhaps is a step too far, even for the Rocket Man.

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

McDonald & Dodds: Clouds Across The Moon. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Tala Gouveia, Jason Watkins, Max Bennett, Gerran Howell, Charlie Chambers, Liv Sacofsky, Danyal Ismail, Pearce Quigley, Claire Skinner, Joanna Riding, Joan Iyiola, Stefan Adegbola, Grace Francis.

There is a subsection of the police procedural crime fiction that the armchair detective will rave about, as if solving a murder wasn’t good enough for them, that they can battle their own wits against the investigator in charge, it is when the villain is so conniving, so  devious in their passion to prove they are just as clever as the one chasing them, if not more so, the complications presented to the viewer are boundless and enthralling to decipher.

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

Journey: Freedom. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

You cannot deny beauty its place in your observation of the world, if you do then the freedom you wish for yourself is a contradiction, and the refusal of others to see a form of splendour in action is an act of prevention, a forbidding social menace to which you be rightly lambasted and condemned for. Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but the Freedom it allows the individual is one that urges the soul to dig a little deeper, investigate more than what may lay on the surface, and in the end understand that the world needs truth in beauty, not an elaborate

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(486 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Liz Hedgecock: A House Of Mirrors. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To give life to a character is a privilege, to breathe existence into one who is so established by name alone is an honour, and so as all are aware of the existence and thoughts of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, so surely therefore must acknowledge that without Mrs Helen Hudson, the security of home, the quiet reassurance of stability in nature, both men might have led very different lives.

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(611 words, estimated 2:27 mins reading time)

The Flight Attendant: Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Kaley Cuoco, Zosia Mamet, Griffin Matthews, Rosie Perez, Audrey Grace Marshall, Mae Martin, Santiago Cabrera, Sharon Stone, Deniz Akdeniz, T.R. Knight, Michelle Gomez, Colin Woodell, Mo McRae, Callie Hernandez, Joseph Julian Soria, Yasha Jackson, David Iacono, Jessie Ennis, Erik Passoja, Shohreh Aghdashloo, James Seol, Bruce Baek, Briana Cuoco, William DeMerritt, Mary Ann Welshans, Cheryl Hines, Alanna Ubach.

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

Matt Mitchell & The Coldhearts: Mission. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Not everybody wants to get in the ring and spar, not all find the smell of animalistic sweat and the sound of the bell, the swagger of the crowd, and the hype of gloves clashing to their taste, but if that’s the Mission, along with anything else that correctively feels as though you have been smacked with sensible thought then that is the one you must accept, and with sharp instinct and fierce gaze, so Matt Mitchell & The Coldhearts release their own Mission statement on the crowds, those close up and personal, those at the back of the arena; all are given the fight and performance expected of seasoned pros.

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(410 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Ivy Gold: Live At The Jovel. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Picture the setting, it has to special, alluring, verging on the perfect, historic… hopefully, tantalising with its reverb, dripping in the expectation of its audience; you can record a performance anywhere and sell it to the fans, but its takes the right combination of all its parts to make it one that is distinctive, different, as rock solid as evidence as laid before the judges of musical flavour as can possibly be obtained by fair means or subversion to make it sound creatively cool and pulsating with life unexpected.

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

Gemma Rogers: No Place Like Home. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Individuality and the eccentric go hand in hand, and where some will turn their nose up at such actions of originality, the truth is the strange, the unpredictable, and the idiosyncratic will always find favourable smiles because they are true to human nature, they have refused to give in to the ordinary and average conceits, and they prove that there is No Place Like Home for spreading their own gospel on life, and that taking to the streets is a fate they are willing to expand upon.

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(342 words, estimated 1:22 mins reading time)

McDonald & Dodds: War Of The Rose. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tala Gouveia, Jason Watkins, Claire Skinner, Jack Riddiford, Lily Sacofsky, Saira Choudhry, Rosie Day, Nitin Ganatra, Nicholas Goh, Siobhan Hewlett, Sarah Parish, Rhashan Stone, Andrew Greenough, Mark Meadows, Emily Joyce, Richard Dixon, Leah Balmforth, Flora London, Romani Wright, Bex Hainsworth.

It’s not what you know, it’s who you can reach…the modern mantra of the social influencer is such that it pervades into our everyday lives, and it divides opinion as easily as it spreads its word and sales pitch on the internet.

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(532 words, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)