Chicago: Born For This Moment. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

However you may view life, its various ups and downs, its trials, tribulations, its fierce traditions, and its unexpected triumphs, we see the moments that pass us by and wonder what if, only to realise later on down the road that something else entirely was the reason that you were born to tackle, that you Born For This Moment.

Grace: Dead Tomorrow. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: John Simm, Rakie Ayola, Brad Morrison, Laura Elphinstone, Craig Parkinson, Zoë Tapper, Clare Calbraith, Seham Aar, Shamail Ali, Faith Alabi, Ellis George, Daniel Adegboyega, Richie Campbell, Lucy Phelps, Lu Corfield, Alec Newman, Joséphine de La Baume, Amina Koroma, Jayne McKenna, Antony Byrne, Carolina Valdés, Stephen Boxer, Rebecca Scroggs, Ernest Kingsley Junior.

The harvesting of human organs for profit is an abhorrence, to kill for the body piece is to desecrate the bond that civility and humanity insists upon.

Jethro Tull: Thick As A Brick. 50th Anniversary Reissue.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Written as a response to the music press as the seminal album Aqualung was still deep in the minds of the listener, Jethro Tull’s Thick As A Brick is considered by many as the ultimate concept recording, and whilst fans and advocates of Genesis’ The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway or Pink Floyd’s The Wall might disagree with loud, and argumentative vocal voices, there can be no argument that what the members of the band put together in 1972 has resonated, found its way into folk lore, has become, in a word, legendary.

Suspect. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: James Nesbitt, Imogen King, Sacha Dhawan, Sam Heughan, Antonia Thomas, Richard E. Grant, Joely Richardson, Niamh Algar, Anne-Marie Duff, Ben Miller, Tabitha Green, Adam Kiani, Adele Marie, Alexander F. James.

Originality is a scarce commodity, and even then, the chances are it has been done before, but that doesn’t stop the belief that what you are witnessing is a novel approach to an age-old problem, that of how to entertain, educate, and inform, whilst keeping the attention of the one who has invested their time in your product, in your story.

Dynasty: Final Advent. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We all make that final journey, be it a spiritual encounter when the breath is short, or the reckoning we have with our past, a final moment in the shade of our decisions, at dusk’s closing eye, we make the last moment count.

When Rivers Meet: The Flying Free Tour Live. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We don’t perhaps appreciate enough the facility and ease of modern technology that allows us to still to be able to believe in the power of being there, that we can in part spend time perhaps with our favourite artists via a world of the unhindered view and the less than appreciative interloper readied with a supply of drinks and inane, loud conversation.

Rusty Shackle: Under A Bloodshot Moon. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The view from Under A Bloodshot Moon can often be more enlightening than that which illuminates brightly or even that which surprises in a Blue Moon serenade. It is the colour of reveal and rebellion, the phase of Earth’s satellite that conjures up images of war, of revolution, and sometimes, the warning of pleasure taken too seriously, and when that image is focused upon the desire to be taken in by the art on show is overwhelming and full of promise and delivery.

Grace: Looking Dead Good. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: John Simm, Amit Shah, Christina Chong, Craig Parkinson, James Tarpey, Kristy Philipps, Richie Campbell, Michael D. Xavier, Mitchell Hunt, Alex Price, Cassie Clare, Rakie Ayola, Owen Roberts, Sidney Kean, Sally Edwards, Laura Elphinstone, William Andrews, Brad Morrison, Henry Miller, Callum Coates, Steven Elder, Darren Tighe, Matt Barkley, Boo Golding, Lauren O’Neil, Nicholas Khan, Adrian Rawlings, Louis Boyer, Austin Hardiman, Robyn Ashwood, Katie Brayben, James Barriscale.

Grace: Dead Man’s Footsteps. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: John Simm, Craig Parkinson, James D’Arcy, Zoë Tapper, Richie Campbell, Laura Elphinstone, Brad Morrison, Rakie Ayola, Dave Lynn, Katie Clarkson-Hill, Caolina Valdés, Margot Leicester, Michael Bertenshaw, Jake Fairbrother, Alexander Cobb, Clare Calbraith, Steven Hartley, Elizabeth Rider, Brian Pettifer, Amy Conachan, Nick Warnford.

Joe Pug: Nation Of Heat -Revisited. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We should be grateful that we live in a time when the word mulligan can represent more than just a do over in a round of golf between friends.

An artist’s vision is to be respected, enjoyed, to be seen as the ultimate authority in the world they have created on canvas, in the darkness of the lonely hours afforded the writer as they gaze at the blankness of the screen and the pressure of bills mounting at their door, how they must envy the poet whose scribblings are never truly finished.