Brian May, Back To The Light: (2021 Deluxe Re-issue.) Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There should be no doubt that the period between the recording of the album Innuendo, and the passing of Freddie Mercury in the autumn of 1991, was for the three other members of Queen, tumultuous to say the least, unrestrained, a peaceful sense of chaos and satisfaction rolled up into one heavy ball that could not be allowed to settle until the exact moment when all three felt comfortable to do so.

Luke Scott: Two Feet In The Sand. Poetry Collection Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The impression we make in other people’s lives can be seen as being created by Two feet In The Sand, some actions deeper than others, some easily washed away by time and tide, the sea of indifference or the ocean of positive affirmation all leaving their traces in one way or another; and yet it is the impact we have on our own lives that can leave a feeling like concrete driven into the beach of perception, that can weigh us down, allow us to dig to depths we had not thought capable…if only we could find the beauty in the experience, and feel the sand between our toes, and not sink further.

Great White. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Katrina Bowden, Aaron Jakubenko, Tim Kano, Kimie Tsukakoshi, Te Kohe Tuhaka, Jason Wilder, Tatjana Marjanovic.

Where Jaws rewarded its fans and cinema audiences with the unexpected shock factor, other films that have tried their best to match the intensity of a natural predator, have failed to note the several factors that makes a good film about the dangers of the sea and the creatures that live there, into a great one that adds truth to the situation when humans trespass into the vast deep blue sea.

Dean Johnson, Cut The Air. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is perhaps nothing more noble than the artist who understands that life in their chosen field is not all wine and roses, no storming of crowds ready to chant their name on mass at the back stage door, no sense of emotional discordance when a song flies to no.1 in the charts and then replaced three weeks later by a novelty act with a suspect accent and repetitive strains of chorus that are more catching than chicken pox, and just as likely to leave a lasting itch.

Ben Bostick, Grown Up Love. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Everybody imagines at one time or another that they would have had this great love affair in the youth that was on the same dramatic scale as Romeo and Juliet, later perhaps they realise that the emotions that come with such teenage fancy are not only insecure but add nothing to the future but maybe embarrassment and the pain of regret.

Brooks Williams & Aaron Catlow, Ghost Owl. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is said that the more you learn, the more you understand how little you actually know. However, it is also true to state that the more you are inspired to learn, the more your creativity can burst from its containment and cage and can soar higher, can perceive movement in the dark, and with sharpened talons seize the moment of opportunity when it is presented.

Bigflower And Brian Bordello, The Onion King. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Art is about capturing the moment, the zeitgeist, the point where quite often the voyeur and the eternal note keeper don’t quite understand where the Muse is coming from, perhaps not even speaking the same language, but understanding that what is being translated across is just as valuable to the exercise of free rein within art as it is to the experiment of collaboration.

Doctor Who: The War Doctor Begins – Forged In Fire. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jonathon Carley, Adele Anderson, Anna Andresen, Nicholas Briggs, John Dorney, Amy Downham, Helen Goldwyn, Chris Jarman, Marilyn Nnadebe, Veronica Roberts, Tracy Wiles, Kit Young.

We cannot judge the actions of the final act of a person’s life unless we truly understand what led them to the battle, the rage of conflict in the first place.

Paul Holden, Say It To The Sun. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Whisper to the trees, tell your story to the winds, and don’t let the words fall on barren unsympathetic lands; but most of all if you have a tale to share or to resonate in harmony, then have the courage to Say It To The Sun and let the continually of the burning sky heed and spread your words, let the seeds of your truth be sown in a manner befitting the world at large.

It Was An Odd Way To Look At The World.

I found a diary entry

dated

in black bold letters at the top

of the page, September 19th 1986.

In the mix of teenage scrawl

and practised finer examples

of handwriting to come,

I noted that

Pat Pheonix

had died the day before;

I also wrote, took some pain killers today,

is the discomfort new, or am I just

noticing it for the first time,

as my neck stiffened at an awkward angle