Doctor Who: Redacted. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Charlie Craggs, Lois Chimimba, Holly Quin-Ankrah, Jodie Whittaker, Anji Mohindra, Jacon Hawley, Siena Kelly, Kieran Hodgson, Juno Dawson, Clare Perkins, Sarah Thom, Findlay Robertson, Jemma Redgrave, Ingrid Oliver, Doon Mackichan, Natasha Hodgson, Pip Gladwin, Karim Kronfli, Ken Chang, Alasdair Beckett-King, Ambika Mod.

The extremeness of erasing a life from existence is not as simple as it may seem. For all the people, rightly or wrongly ‘cancelled’ by society because of ill-thought, of a perceived tone of voice when explaining a situation, or because deep down we find their presence to not agree with our judgement of society, the way some have come to believe that a 1984 like world can exist if we scour away all those that defy our perception and image we wish to project.

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(568 words, estimated 2:16 mins reading time)

Kim Carnie: And So We Gather. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

A soul that’s driven, cannot be tamed.

We have lived, and continue to do so, through times that the once thought Chinese proverb would impel fear into those that were said to be cursed by its very utterance; and yet without those interesting times, how do people become inflamed, inspired, by events so that they may add to the world a beautiful sense of balance. The soul that’s driven to explore, who is not put off or swayed by the prospect of interesting times, pulls the crowds and the belief with them; And So We Gather at the alters and the sanctuaries on offer to praise them.

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

Rusty Tinder: Alchemy Road. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The struggle, though denied by those with an agenda that borders on narcissism and selfish need, is real. Only the self-absorbed or the ego-driven would look at another’s struggle and be satisfied at the pain etched on the person’s face, only those that cannot understand empathy seek to kick another human being when at their lowest, only those who see nothing wrong with dancing with indifference would deny someone the opportunity to walk along the Alchemy Road and see their life transformed.

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(431 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Paul Dunbar & The Black Winter Band: Changing Faces. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Faces, like attitudes, like opinions, like life, can change in a heartbeat, we don’t always know what’s coming, what lays in front of us, all we can hope for is that the potholes are avoided, that if the wind alters direction we are not cursed with an expression that can be considered to have turned on the crowd, and instead is open, passionate, fruitful, and above all, ready to offer something of ourselves that is unique, cool, and is utterly, devastatingly, incredible.

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(404 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Michael McDermott: St. Paul’s Boulevard. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is not just for the preserve of storytellers, to have imagination is a gift that we all should aspire to, if not master, then at least nurture; to bring forth characters from a full pen and make them come alive, allow the scenario of the street to infuse them with a pulse and belief – for by doing so, by painting pictures with words, music, and melody, we can inspire a new world to take shape around us, a world of possibilities that might lead us to the one street, the one road where broken dreams are made whole again.

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

The Outlaws (Series Two). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Rhianne Barreto, Darren Boyd, Gamba Cole, Charles Babalola, Jessica Gunning, Stephen Merchant, Clare Perkins, Eleanor Tomlinson, Christopher Walken, Grace Calder, Aiyana Goodfellow, Dolly Wells, Kojo Kamara, Tom Hanson, Ian McElhinney, Nina Wadia, Guillermo Bedward, Isla Gie, Gyuri Sarossy, Marcus Fraser, Lois Chimimba, Amanda Drew, Claes Bang, Joseph Passafaro, Chicho Tche, Jessica Boyde, Rufus Wright, Chloe Partridge, Rosa Robson, Julia Davis, Verity Blyth, Jonny Weldon, Gabrielle Sheppard.

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

The Staircase. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Colin Firth, Toni Collette, Michael Stuhlbarg, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sophie Turner, Dane DeHaan, Vincent Vermignon, Juliette Binoche, Tim Guinee, Parker Posey, Justice Leak, Olivia DeJonge, Rosemarie DeWitt, Robert Clayton, Cory Scott Allen, Hannah Pniewski, Myke Holmes, Kevin Sizemore, Ryan Lewis, Maria Dizzia, Susan Pourfar, Frank Feys, Trini Alvarado, Andre Martin, Cullen Moss, Daniela Lee.

Murder divides opinion, of that there is no doubt, especially when the deceit of ambiguity takes its place on the stage and forensic science can be seen to have faltered, questioned, shown to be in the hands of those whose very judgement can be found wanting as their own agenda dirties the water of the truth beyond recognition.

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(690 words, estimated 2:46 mins reading time)

Asia: Live At The Budokan Tokyo 1983. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

People put a large amount of faith in the consideration of what it means to be iconic; however, they sometimes miss the point that it doesn’t necessarily have to be the most perfect representation of the image that the artist has completed in which to have been placed at the door of the quintessential in which to be loved, adored, found to be an expression of movement.

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(574 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

Rod Picott: Paper Hearts & Broken Arrows. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Storm chasers are often described as mad, often driven by an electricity we cannot fathom, see, or wish to be near, for who in their right mind would suffer nature at her most violent and unpredictable, the trail of Broken Hearts & Broken Arrows that are attached to these acrobats of the natural phenomenon, the hunters of the ephemeral but which carries the long-lasting effect on the Earth it strikes.

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

Dominie Hooper: Anno. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In Time and a word, we find the sense of new beginnings, we find the division between what was, and what might come next, a four-letter word that creates the fine line between past and the future and in which the moment in between is all we can hope as we focus our senses on change, on altering the narrative of expression that has thus so far guided us.

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(353 words, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)