Intergalactic. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Savannah Steyn, Imogen Davies, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Eleanor Tomlinson, Natasha O’Keefe, Diany Samba-Bandza, Parminder Nagra, Samantha Schnitzler, Thomas Turgoose, Craig Parkinson, Oliver Coopersmith, Neil Maskell, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Emily Bruni.

The future for humanity is one still yet to be decided, and whether we make it through the current sets of crises more or less unscathed; whether we take heed of the lessons being taught us as the Earth, our home, screams in pain through our abuse, remains to be seen. Yet still, the golden future could come to pass, there could be silver towers glimmering in the sunlight, we could all be equal under law until we break it, the science fiction utopia could be ours; if we are willing to sacrifice something else that’s precious instead.

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(507 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

Flotsam And Jetsam, Blood In The Water. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It’s only when you take a closer look inside the glass you are drinking from, that you realise that for most of your life, what you thought you were drinking with the knowledge of purity, has in fact been a tumbler spiked with the invisible aggressive lies and with someone else’s infected Blood In The Water.

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(502 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

Julia Fordham, Cutting Room Floor. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

What makes the screen and what stays on the Cutting Room Floor is often a personal reconciliation after the war on self-censorship. Anything that is created by the artist is subject to greatest critic they know, not those with the thousands of readers and the sharpened visceral quill, not even the audience who wavers between love and over reliant boredom of spirit, but the artist themselves, the one to whom loathing, and adoration comes in thick, quick waves.

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(417 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Mike Brookfield, Hey Kiddo!. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It’s been a while since the image of Peter Gunn walked the veiled streets and alleyways of our psyche, the guitar playing as if forced by a thunderstorm and being plucked by the consciousness of the seismic stranger of the instrumental, the one who looks as if they have walked straight off a neo noir and in the arms of Cuban dance routine; such is the presence of musically delivered character in instrument form, that when it comes your way, the only suitable response is to lay down your time for a couple of hours and while away the pleasure from the company created.

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

School’s Out Forever. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Oscar Kennedy, Liam Lau Fernandez, Anthony Head, Alex Macqueen, Steve Oram, Jasmine Blackborow, Samantha Bond, Max Rapheal, Sebastian Croft, Richard Elfyn, Harry Tuffin, Freya Parks, Gordon Alexander, Alex Blake, Ben Dilloway, Jayden Elijah, Arun Bassi, Stellan Powell, James Corrigan, Connie Hyde.

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(554 words, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)

David Neville King, Break The Mould. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

In a world that insists on uniformity, on the homogeny of views, and the equality of all being exactly the same, to Break The Mould is considered an attack on the beige and dull by the unpredictable revolutionary; the dull and the beige cannot handle such a force of nature, it frightens their sensibilities, it rocks the idea of governance, of compliance, and long may there be those who seek to show that shattering the plastic ceiling of submission with defiance, with love and flair, in our lives.

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(385 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Ellis Mano Band, Ambedo. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The ability to disconnect from reality as if one was able to envelope the soul and mind in some sort of hypnotic state of awareness, one that was not suggestible or open to abuse by others, but instead find beauty in the melancholy, a trance that sees the smallest moment steeped in a vivid sensory awareness; is perhaps a state of mind to which the vast majority of people will not be conscious that they can attain, even if they are aware of the fragility of life, they will simply see existence as motion, not as detail.

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(457 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

The Nevers. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Laura Donnelly, Ann Skelly, Olivia Williams, James Norton, Tom Riley, Pip Torrens, Rochelle Neil, Amy Manson, Zachary Momah, Viola Prettejohn, Kiran Sonia Sawer, Ella Smith, Anna Devlin, Ben Chaplin, Zain Hussain, Denis O’ Hare, Nick Frost, Elizabeth Berrington, Pui Fan Lee, Eleanor Tomlinson, Vinnie Heaven, Claudia Black, Domenique Fragale, Martyn Ford, Mark Benton, Sylvie Briggs, Nicholas Farrell, Nicola Sloane, Abigail Thaw, Matt Emery.

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(538 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

John Hinshelwood, Called Back (The Poems Of Emily Dickinson). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

“I dwell in possibility…” for the poet is touched by something out of sight to those without meaning, and act as both receptacle and fountain to those who seek a new and vivid way to portray a truth of existence.

The meaning of any poem is hopefully vague, mysterious, wrapped in subtle ambiguity and explicit in its delivery, to add the depth of music to such a powerful piece of art is to seek to pour amber and the ambrosia of the gods upon its silk defined skin.

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(439 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Michael McGovern, Highfield Suite. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Necessity is the mother of invention…if that is the case, then what comes forth out of oppression, of the requirement to take stock of the world and create something which sits inside, and beyond, the realm of imposed isolation.

Perhaps it is the obligation to make sure your words, your vision and dreams live on if the situation becomes clear that the world might tumble into chaos, whether of human making, or of nature inducing, that it might move on without you having committed yourself to the future betterment of humanity; an obligation to show that you were here at this time and place.

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(381 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)