Roger Chapman, Life In The Pond. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There was once a school of thought, typified by the reaction of the old-fashioned critic, that those who are prolific in their writing are not as dedicated to their craft as those who can take years to produce a single piece of art. It is of course rubbish, a nonsense that is insult to the creativity of a human being when they are touched by the continued navigation of the Muse.

Gentle Giant, Free Hand. Steven Wilson Re-Mix. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Enigmas are there to remind us how not everything in life can either make sense or be pushed back into the limelight if the originators don’t wish to reunite and tread upon the same road once more.

Where other Progressive behemoths have reunified, have continued with a change in personnel, made documentaries together and pulled back the velvet curtain as Dorothy’s loyal dog, Toto, did when presented with the smoke and mirrors of Oz, Gentle Giant remind us that you may have been amongst the biggest in the world, but you can also take a step away from the ones pulling the lever, creating the illumination, and leave the production of the perplexing mystery to another’s Free Hand.

Toto, With A Little Help From My Friends. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

2020 will always be with us, it will be impossible to look back upon our lives in the future and not think of it, to focus on an area of loss, on a moment of pain, but in this respect, we must also think on those who helped, who aided us during a collective era of uncertainty, and when we remember that we made it when we can say with love and honour, With A Little Help From My Friends we survived and found reasons to live, laugh and remain positive.

The Luminaries. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Eve Hewson, Eva Green, Himesh Patel, Marton Csokas, Ewan Leslie, Erik Thomson, Callan Mulvey, Benedict Hardie, Richard Te Are, Matt Whelan, Matthew Sunderland, Joel Tobeck, Gary Young, Paolo Rotondo, Byron Coll, Mark Mitchinson, Yoson An, Errol Shand, Kieran Charnock, Chelsie Preston Crayford, Jed Brophy, Emma Sloman, Cameron Rhodes.

There are so few lands left to explore here in Earth, that we must look to the stars and other realms in which to spread our wings as a species, but we do so in the knowledge that we will always be limited by our imagination, and the inability to keep the sacred nature of what we find, pure and unsoiled.

Duncan Lyall, Milestone. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

When the art of the Progressive is hidden from sight, when it takes on the clothes and appearance of something else entirely, that is when it has done its job well and with sincerity wrapped around every fibre of tissue ot commands.

The point of the Progressive is to stand alert in someone’s else’s shadow until they have become used to your presence and start to exhibit and extol the virtues and acts of life that the Progressive runs into the territory of the revolutionary; and every act in the end needs to be revolutionary.

Murmurs, Not My Girl. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The uniqueness of Liverpool as a city within the British Isles never goes unnoticed, the envy in the eyes of those not within passing distance of the mouth of the Mersey is always stark, they envy the creative freedom, they resent the cheerfulness and the ability to grieve, and when it comes to the art of song writing, there are few outside of Liverpool’s arena that can match the ability to catch the moment as well as those who see the Mersey as the free flowing of trade and information.

Doctor Who. Dalek Universe: The Dalek Protocol. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, John Leeson, Jane Slavin, Joe Simms, Jez Felder, Anna Mitcham, Nicholas Briggs.

Every ending must have a beginning, and every person you have ever said goodbye to, at some point said hello for the first time, such is the issue with Time that sometimes it can feel as though these moments are the wrong way round, maybe even inside out, and our minds have to catch up, have to adapt, or we might find that Time will find a way to erase us from the future to come.

Domina. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Kasia Smutniak, Matthew McNulty, Liam Cunningham, Alex Lanipekun, Peter Campion, Colette Dalal Tchantcho, Christine Bottomley, Liah O’Prey, Ewan Horrocks, Earl Cave, Roland Litrico, Ben Blatt, Alais Lawson, Naike Anna Silipo, Kevin Lettieri, Darrell D’Silva, Claire Forlani, Lex Shrapnel, Emma Canning, Anthony Barclay, Finn Bennett, Claudia Stecher, Beau Gadson, Meadow Nobrega, Enzo Cilenti, Melodie Wakivuamina, Youssef Kerkour, Salvatore Palombi, Pedro Leandro, Liam Garrigan,  Isabella Rossellini.

The New Mutants. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 3/10

Cast: Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Alice Braga, Blu Hunt, Henry Zaga, Adam Beach, Thomas Kee, Colbi Gannett, Happy Anderson, Dustin Ceithamer, Jacinto Vega SpiritWolf, Chuck, Marilyn Manson, Jeffrey Corazzini, Mickey Gilmore, Max Schochet.

It is a tale of divided generations, the ones that have been fortunate, blessed even, to find themselves in a time when cinematic adaptions of their favourite Marvel characters has by and large been positive, the reception for example of the transfer to television with some of what may be considered minor hitters from the long list of heroes and villains finding themselves to be just as  rightly adored as the perpetual is a symbol of the staying power of the dominance that Marvel has over its rivals in creating the hero for our time.

John Jenkins, Kathleen. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

What speaks to our minds, also makes the soul dance and long constantly for the memory of that sound, to play it repeatedly, to change it, to alter it maybe, but in all just to honour it through your own personal way of love and respect.

The song or track which are covered by another artist can be seen in two ways, one as a marketing tool installed by the studio and intended to be a lead single for the masses to be divided over, or as act of selfless purity, of honouring what made us believe in the first place and turned us on to the gift of art in which we practise.