Bibby, Greenwich Mean Times. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

At the appointed hour, and not a second before, do we venture into new territory and realise that we should have been there from the very start.

Is it time or tide that holds us back from taking that chance, from offering our soul before the clock strikes the midnight of our lives and believing that we are forever surrounded by the bright shadows of a late morning walk in the settlement of obscurity and the darkness of doubt that cast its welcome hand to us; whichever element we seek, is the one we perhaps unwittingly veer to and escaping the grip of possible acceptance by others for what we can do their heart and mind.

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(443 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Elana Piras, Where The Wind Blows. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Who knows Where The Wind Blows, who but those who see the invisible force as a tangible being in its own right can see the path of inevitability that creates a path for the all-seeing to track, and in which chaos is the by product that gives the traveller shelter as the trees and leaves rejoice in the power of nature?

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

To Olivia. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Keeley Hawes, Darcey Ewart, Isabella Jonsson, Geoffrey Palmer, Sam Heughan, Conleth Hill, Michael Jibson, Sam Philips, Grant Crookes, Bobby O’ Neill, Bodhi Marsan, Robert Jarvis, Sarah Beckett, Jane-Charlotte Jones.

The life of the artist, the writer, the poet, is quite often one of doubt, frustration, isolation and damnation, and when they find even the one person who will listen to the fear wrapped up in the measures of beauty, at the back of their mind they know one day they might lose them, who might move on to new adventures told in a different way, or that like any adult, simply fade away, the shadow of their attention dissipating into the ether, like water from a tap that is slowly being turned off, the flow only matters if it is constant and observed.

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(657 words, estimated 2:38 mins reading time)

Legends Of Tomorrow: Series One. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Victor Garber, Brandon Routh, Arthur Darvill, Caity Lotz, Franz Drameh, Ciara Renee, Falk Hentschel, Amy Pemberton, Dominic Purcell, Wentworth Miller, Casper Crump. Martin Donovan, Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, Neal McDonough, Celia Imrie, Emily Bett Rickards.

Time, you never have enough of it, and you can never change what has been, the best you can hope for is to alter your perception of what has been and hope that the lie you tell yourself sits comfortably in your soul.

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(476 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Becky. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Lulu Wilson, Kevin James, Joel McHale, Robert Maillet, Amanda Brugel, Isaiah Rockcliffe, Ryan McDonald, James McDougall, Leslie Adlam, Justin Holiday, Mike Dara, Charles Boyland, Bryan Edwards, Andrew Siwik, Chandra Michaels, Gage Graham-Arbuthnot, John D. Hickman, Markus Radan, Kaleb Young, Ric Garcia.

Is the psychopath or the killer created or are they born? The psychoanalysts’ nightmare scenario is that they cannot distinguish between the states of mind that either drive someone to kill based on the actions they encountered or been beaten by, or whether it is truly, disturbingly, inherent in the human subconscious to the point where any youth can mask such feelings of behaviour by society putting it down to associated teenage angst and torment.

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(562 words, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

Ghosts Of Sunset, Headed West. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Not only is there is still room for the concept album to exist, it is vital for it to be expressed and developed so that the oral tradition of telling stories does not disappear down the same rabbit hole that reading a novel seems to have an experienced, uncared for a society that has allowed itself to slowly diminish in many quarters the ability to concentrate on the long-term picture, the joy of losing oneself in a narrative that is in fact the companion to which we never tire, the guide to which a three minute burst of song cannot surely hope to compete with. 

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

Supergirl: Series Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Melissa Benoist, Mehcad Brooks, Chyler Leigh, Jeremy Jordan, Katie McGrath, Odette Annable, Chris Wood, David Harewood, Erica Durance, Emma Tremblay, Adrian Pasdar, Andrea Brooks, Carl Lumbly, Chad Lowe, Amy Jackson, Jesse Rath, Anjali Jay, Floriana Lima, Helen Slater, Betty Buckley, Curtis Lum, Brit Morgan, Brenda Strong, Laurie Metcalf.

A fantasy/superhero series that doesn’t acknowledge its dark side is not being honest to its fans, or the graphic novels that inspired the leap to the cinema/television medium.

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(477 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Bradford, Bright Hours. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

All that may seem lost, upon reflection in re-discovery, leads to more questions that need answering in the Bright Hours afforded the fan and the music devotee.

If ever there was a case to doubt the sense of the music marketing world then Lancashire’s Bradford surely fits the bill, and like The Small Faces in the 60s, Bradford can quite honestly be regarded as one of the biggest under-rated by society groups to have been lauded by the minority ever.

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

Sickwalt, Shove N’ Love. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

That first experience is always regarded as the most satisfying, the initial taste that dances on the tongue, which rages in heat, which is delicate to savour like chocolate, this is moment that your senses have been crying out for, and when you understand that the thousands of hours that have gone into chasing that primary encounter, that engagement or confrontation with the beast of decadence, then you know it is all worth the wait for the sensual and the aggressive to arrive and surround you at the same time.

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(456 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Grant Nesmith, Dreams Of The Coast. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

For those locked inland, the coast is a place where dreams of the journey can start, where the vision harboured over by the romantic heart can begin. The coast is the start of the blue horizon, what lays beyond is all in the mind until the first step onto the ship of realisation, and the seas of adventure and the search for consciousness.

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(365 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)