To reveal yourself in any artistic fashion is a far greater achievement than many give credit for. To open your soul to all that may come whilst displaying all the humanity and humility at your disposal is the difference between being involved, and taking a lead; and to take a lead in what you believe without being ruthless and being true to all you are trying to inspire is the gift for those who see beyond the sense of highborn elevation, the Country Bred and the secure of thought and deed in the cheek by jowl openness of the shadow of industry and community.
Lois And Superman: Series One. Television Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Elizabeth Tulloch, Tyler Hoechlin, Jordan Elsass, Alex Garfin, Erik Valdez, Inde Navarrette, Wolé Parks, Dylan Walsh, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Sofia Hasmik, Adam Rayner, Daisy Tormé, Zane Clifford, Joselyn Picard, Stacey Farber, Taylor Buck, Fritzy-Klevans Destine, Austin Anozie, Danny Wattley, Wern Lee, Eric Keenleyside, Pavel Romano, Leeah Wong, Monique Phillips, Dee Jay Jackson, Shawn Stewart, Kelcey Mawema, Ian Bohen, Samantha Di Francesco, Angus Macfadyen, Rya Kihlstedt, A.C. Peterson, Kayla Heller, Victoria Katongo, Ben Cockell, Jill Teed, Mariana Klaveno, Hesham Hammoud, Kennedy Chew, Miguel Castillo, Michele Scarabelli.
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Unlimited Love. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *
When an influence becomes distorted, the effects can be felt deep in the soul.
Time has a way of letting you know that all that think you are has either come crashing down around you, or that it is the moment in which you have arguably become a fixed point that no longer has the same persuasion, the same pull on the hearts as you once did, and contrary to popular belief, love is not unlimited, it has a line in which it can become blurred, concerned over, and perhaps ultimately, break.
Death On The Nile. Film Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Armie Hammer, Gal Gadot, Tom Bateman, Annette Bening, Rose Leslie, Letitia Wright, Sophie Okonedu, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Russell Brand, Emma Mackey, Michael Rouse, Alaa Safi, Orlando Seale, Charlie Verhaeren, Susannah Fielding, Rick Warden, Ali Fazal.
It could be argued that we may have reached peak Christie.
The Queen of Crime has not lost any of the affection on the fans, the books will always sell, the dedicated devotee will pour over even the shortest of articles that has Agatha Christie’s name attached, even if by the merest of association, they will believe that there is somewhere a story, a tale in which perhaps one more exercise in observing the act of criminality and murder will make itself known.
Eddi Reader, Light Is In The Horizon. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
It is to memory that we are able to see the prospect of hope in the distance; that even in the most damning of times we can imagine a moment after the damaging storm clouds have cleared in which the sound of a heart filled with courage takes a faultless foot on the stage and stands ready for the houselights to pick her out and for the music to captivate the audience in a way that hadn’t been felt in their souls for what could have been years.
Derek Vanderhorst, Wildflower. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It is that moment that we come to recognise that Time is no longer an ally and has found a way to urge us to concentrate on all that can make us immortal through our expression, our indulgences, in our undertaking to make the art within us live forever. In that moment the Wildflower outlives the rose, the fleeting nature of beauty holds firm in the soil of audience criticism in a way that the dahlia, the carnation, or the lily will never understand.
Alice DiMicele, Every Seed We Plant. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Tending your own garden is perhaps a chore for some people, for others it is a pleasure, to be at one with nature, to know that each seed placed into the Earth has the potential to grow, to mature, into something special, that it can be seen to hold in its own place or time, an aspect of the gardener who tended it, who nurtured it, and who in the end took the time to see it go through its life cycle with love.
BAIT, Sea Change. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Never mind the sound of the suburbs, or even the underground, at times what we really need to take notice of is kept out of sight from us, intentionally perhaps, by design – absolutely, and if we are to affect a Sea Change, then we need to do more than say we have listened to those suffering most, we need prove it, we need to declare that every tower block, every neighbourhood, communities up and down the country and worldwide, every person who has been left behind and whose story can be told, is given the stand, the moment, in which to state firmly that those who intentionally silence a life should pay for it in kind.
Larry McCray, Blues Without You. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
You don’t know what you have misplaced until you find it again.
Those Blues keep on coming, those heart-breaking moments of love and unrestraint, the sentiment of passion, the honesty of the damaged, the truth behind the whispering guitar; the Blues keep on coming, and why, because deep down we all understand what it is to lose at love.
Walt Disco, Unlearning. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
It is time to embrace the act of Unlearning, to shed the skin that accompanies years and decades of imposed belief, and by doing so the weight of illusion that has dragged us down blind alleys, has had us almost corpse ridden in the act of rancid nostalgia, is discarded and cast off as simply as the scales that have been removed from the eyes of the informed and enlightened.
Unlearning behaviour is a right, a necessity of growth, and it must be achieved by sacrificing certain toxic traits of mindfulness, but never once letting go of the integrity you have developed.