Tiger Saw & The Reasons Why, Wet & Unlucky. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

A relationship is only as strong as the good will, truth and teamwork required to keep it on the right track, there is no room for cynicism, no area set aside for controlling interests, you are either in the association for the benefit of all parties concerned, and that of those you are hoping to edify with the merging sound of two separate entities, or you are playing games, pushing one of the two halves into the pouring rain and insisting that they are dry, that they are mistaken if they feel that they are the ones getting Wet & Unlucky.

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

Lump, Animal. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Always expect the unexpected, that way when the unique comes along you can celebrate it in an honourable fashion, with a smile, with the feeling of goosepimples lurching out of the skin and imploring the heart and mind to enjoy the thrill, the chill, of the spectacle and the release of what is underneath, the Animal uncaged.

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(398 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Tina Turner, Foreign Affair (2021 Deluxe Edition). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Tina Turner’s name alone is enough to cause celebration, to place a smile on lips that may have come to expect only sadness in life, such is the light that emanates from her live performances that it is one of those moments in existence that when you feel the overwhelming force of her heart beat against your soul, you know that you have not lived through an affair of important value, but that you have lived completely and utterly in the presence of greatness.

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

Alistair.

Your face,

it took a photograph

found

online,

hidden in the memory

of our old

friend’s wedding,

to remind me

of the great times we once had

at the Butt of Ale,

drinking,

on a Sunday afternoon

as the music rocked

and the talk

punched holes in the stillness

of Salisbury life.

Ian D. Hall 2021

Permanent link to this post (59 words, estimated 14 secs reading time)

Kate Reid, Caroline. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Some people’s final moments on Earth strike at the soul perhaps more that reason or logic would suggest that they should; the ones to whom the celebrity status does not do justice for the sheer scale of input they have put into stranger’s lives, the inspiration they install, the boundaries they demolish; it is those that we maybe mourn the loss of in a deeper way than we might otherwise believe, that strike a match of motivation in us to create something in their honour.

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

Loki. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sophie Di Martino, Owen Wilson, Wunmi Mosaku, Richard E. Grant, Jack Veal, Deobia Oparei, Jonathan Majors.

They who have remained are the ones reaping the benefits of dedicated, intricate, and highly polished storytelling. A narrative so beautiful that not only would the late, great, and hugely missed Stan Lee have marvelled at how sublime the director Kate Herron had brought every element of surprise, style and belief to the six-part series of Loki, but how both Tom Hiddlestone and Sophie Di Martino in their respective roles have encompassed the graphic novel’s giants turn to the television serial, and how effective it has been.

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

Branson’s Pickle.

I remember with fondness

the day

when you flew us all

to the moon,

or at least made the stars

accessible.

Were we drawn by your charisma,

or the belief you held

so that Tubular Bells

could be played,

or was it a Tangerine Dream

that we were sold,

as you grew,

not content

to bring sex and rotten pistols

to the public…

now

you strive to be in space,

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(108 words, estimated 26 secs reading time)

Ian McNabb, Utopian. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Sir Thomas More, whose remains lay the crypt inside The Tower of London, got it wrong when he spoke of the nation having the chance to grasp of being a society built on utopia, like his own relics, his ideas were based on flawed theoretical thinking, a belief that what was under the thumb of the tyrant King Henry VIII was, despite being an imagined island, the epitome of English society, that this utopia, like a new Jerusalem evoked in later centuries was one in which England deserved to be recognised as a force for good.

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(499 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)

Kit Derrick, The Raven Sound. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We mistake the perception of Time travel to believe that is us that is being placed in a different era, whether our own or of future’s past and present, we believe that the unlikely happening is for our benefit and not for what is taking place. Time travel exists, it is though like evolution, we cannot fathom it properly because we insist that we cannot witness it happening, we cannot see it with our own eyes.

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(470 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

The Watch. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Richard Dormer, Lara Rossi, Adam Hugill, Marama Corlett, Jo Eaton-Kent, Samuel Adewunmi, Bianca Simone Mannie, Craig Macrae, Wendell Price, Joe Vaz, Shane John Kruger, Anna Chancellor, Paul Kaye, Natalie Walsh, Matt Berry, Marc Hyland, Ingrid Oliver, Ralph Ineson, Trevor Frost, Russell Crous, Ruth Madeley, James Fleet, Jonathan Pienaar, Tarryn Wyngaard, Hakeem Kae-Kazim.

If the Devil is in the detail, then it must have taken one hell of a being to come up with the intricacies that lay in the world of Ankh-Morpork, and the realm that encompasses Discworld.

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(552 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)