Geoff Carne & The Raw Rox Band, Big Town. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Everything returns to the space it once occupied, it might not feel the same, it might not carry the full weight of the vibe that once towered and loomed large over the shadows caught fighting for supremacy alongside nostalgia and reckoning, and yet it still feels homely, the pulse of experience carries it onwards, and there is a new appreciation for how the progression of the art, of the human soul, has been elevated to new standards, new ways of thinking.

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(389 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

The Diary Of River Song: Signs. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Alex Kingston, Samuel West.

A man of many faces can be found almost anywhere, especially in Time. The problem is, if you are not aware of the faces to come, you can be sucked into a world of deceit and pain; you might even find yourself living Time over and over again, and all because you haven’t learned to learn one important lesson.

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

Waiting For Anya. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Jean Reno, Anjelica Huston, Thomas Kretschmann, Noah Schnapp, Frederick Schmidt, Tomas Lemarquis, Sadie Frost, Gilles Marini, Nicholas Rowe, Josephine de La Baume, Elsa Zylberstein, Urs Rechn, William Abadie, Declan Cole, Jean-Francois Balmer, Michael Morpurgo, Raj Awasti, Lukas Sauer, Dolma Raisson, Enola Izquierdo Cicuendez, Kevin Kain, Mathys Gallet-Lartigue, Steffen Wild, Amandine Rose, Laurent Pedebernard.

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(524 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Brian Bordello, The King of No-Fi. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We don’t take enough care to the words of the softly spoken, instead we find relief, a sense of belonging in those who raise their voice and allow their mouths to often engage before they have had chance to take hold of the appropriate response to the situation they find themselves in.

Even when the softly spoken and whispered grace has been in the past vociferous, angry, punk agitation, truthful barbs designed to provoke a real reaction from the blind and the wantonly silent, we still find ways to treat the creativity and application of sensitivity with disregard; and it much to our shame and embarrassment that we allow this to take place, that the lone piper, the whisperer of truth is ignored.

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(392 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Gareth Heesom, Love At Night. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Art is not just one being, a creature of delight we must keep feeding, it is a multitude, a series of symbiotic meanings which require constant nourishment, perhaps even the souls of those who dream, those who Love At Night, for Art is a beast, and a lover, it is generous, willing, giving, it also finds ways to leave you during the darkness, alone, frightened and searching for meaning amongst the pictures you see merging as one form melds with another, in beauty, in collaboration, in strength.

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(330 words, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)

The Diary Of River Song: I Went To A Marvellous Party. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Alex Kingston, Alexander Vlahos, Alexander Siddig, Imogen Stubbs, John Voce, Letty Butler, Samuel West, John Banks, Aaron Neil.

Murder has to be inventive to keep the interest of those who delight in such anarchy, however, the reasons for murder have become entangled in reasons to which have become ever murkier, more salient, less transparent as they have ever been. It is no longer enough to kill a character on the basis of greed, gain or for the love of someone, now there must be complexity, there must be retribution for the act in which the victim surely deserves to die. It is in this realm of vengeance that the merest sleight becomes weaponised, the act of ecocide is met with the fullest support of death to the perpetrator by all concerned. It is no longer enough to see someone brought to justice, tried by a jury, now there must be blood.

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(528 words, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

Ana. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Andy Garcia, Dafne Keen, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Luna Lauren Velez, Ramon Franco, Aris Mejais, Aurerlio Lima, Jesus Gomez, Maria Coral Otero Soto, Alexon Duprey, Leonardo Castro, Ketty McDougall, Valeria Pomales, Andrea Figarella, Fernelis Reyes, Jonathan Dwayne, Juan Pablo Diaz.

History has for so long been built up from the position of what certain events have meant to people of a certain social standing, any disaster that occurs, there is a story to be told, however far too often the narrative is delivered in a way that the aspirations of script writers, directors and audiences identify with the idea of the more heroic, the more film friendly perspective which does not allow for any type of an underclass to be shown as anything other than shifty, untrustworthy, and taking advantage of the situation for their own good.

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(521 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

The Edge. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

“The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity…”, however, it might not be as simple as time suggests, nor as easy as the pundit and fan wishes that it were, for an eternity in the minds of the devoted who worship the swing of the red ball and the poise of the bat on guard, is but a partial second in the mind of the one occupying the crease, a split second in which their weapon parries the hurled round missile away past deep extra cover for six, or in which the mind wanders, and the wicket is taken, taking a fine nick at The Edge.

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(752 words, estimated 3:00 mins reading time)

Stephen King, Let It Bleed. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Follow the trail, check you can still see the breadcrumbs that once lined your way on previous occasions you walked through the forest of words, and don’t forget your lamp which casts a thousand shadows, which brings you face to face with the nightmares and ogres of repression, those beings that take delight as they taunt you as sleep, as you live in your bleak desires and dreams; for If It Bleeds, then let the trail lead, let it escort you straight to the crossroads of Heaven and Hell.

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(632 words, estimated 2:32 mins reading time)

Another Unacceptable Casualty As The Suits Wages War On Poetry.

Ignore poetry

at your peril,

even a teenage crush

that rips your heart apart

as you find meaning

to your tears and anguish

can be found to be more beneficial

once explored in any shapely

form and luscious lips worth kissing

will do more for your soul

than feigning interest

in the rights of a triangle

tilted on its side….Ignore poetry

and when hoping to court

your love with words,

think back to the sentence

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(154 words, estimated 37 secs reading time)