Denai Moore, Modern Dread. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To create art that is beautiful, we first must be prepared for our minds to be destroyed by madness, by suffering the sense of the eternal struggle, and by being at odds with the world; nothing else will conjure up images of passion more, nothing else will sear the endeavour of the human condition with as much feeling.

Sapphire And Steel: The Mystery Of The Missing Hour. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: David Warner, Susannah Harker, Colin Baker, Sarah Douglas, Ian Hallard, Cate Debenham Taylor, Ian Brooker, Nigel Fairs.

To be self-ware is a hard act to give any type of justice to, it often ranks in the public’s eyes as on a level with conceited or pride, the self-examination of the artist’s interpretation of their own belief made real by placing them in a subject or character that undoubtedly represents them.

Victor Camozzi, Black Dog. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It’s the big skies, the vision in many people’s minds that they first come to think of the United States of America as more than large imposing cities that stretch out of sight and the place where the dichotomy of political infighting is beyond their comprehension. These big skies are always blue, seamless, from coast to coast they offer beauty, the landscape of abundant fortitude and meaning; as Jim Morrison once surmised, it’s the country of the stoned immaculate and the big beat.

Leonie Jakobi, Walk To West Berlin. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

A country that’s divided is one of the great physical expressions of political dogma that humanity can impose upon itself and be seen from outside the boundary or map by others as shame, of dishonour, and to its worst degree, pride in ideological breakdown.

From Korea to Ireland and Cyprus and into the political chains of the question that governs the issues facing Moldova and Romania and North and South Ossetia, a divided country is one of frank circumstance that is only defeated by either war, or by love.

Sapphire And Steel: Perfect Day. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: David Warner, Susannah Harker, Mark Gatiss, Victoria Carling, Philip McGough, Daniel Weyman, Matthew Steer, Caroline Morris.

Humanity has an unnerving ability to create havoc and pressure on itself that in the individual comes across, at best as anxiety, at worst domineering deflection, the trauma of a past event manifesting itself as control, of wanting supposedly the best for someone in your life but directing, supervising every minute detail of the event in question, that they are left on the point of mental suffocation, of supplicating their own desires for the safety of keeping quiet so as not to cause an argument.

Andrew E.C. Gaska, Death Of The Planet Of The Apes. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating * * * * *

We live for the moment which leaves us breathless, stunned and awed, the moment in which you can physically feel the jaw drop, the mouth salivate, the senses work overtime, unless you cling to the life of the ordered monk, the embittered human of little necessity and dull unenquiring mind, then the wow factor is an emotion to which the world loves to share, to see our eyes blaze with sheer wonder.

Peggy James, Paint Still Wet. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is a part of us that will long to disbelieve the obvious, that we seem to naturally distrust the word of another human being, that we will actively seek to prove them wrong. We can be told categorically, even see a sign, that proclaims the words Paint Still Wet and we will go out of our way to prove that they are amiss in their assertions, erroneous in the way they present the truth.

Jon Meadows, The Girl With No Name. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The Girl With No Name is one that keeps her secrets close, her friends in doubt and those intrigued by her presence, undeterred in wanting to know and understand her fully, and without prejudice.

Following on from his excellent last single, I’ll Sail Away, Jon Meadows returns to the forefront of the Liverpool music thought with the release of a song that is not only electrically charged, but makes the mind relish the exercise it endures as it turns cartwheels, jumps to attention, and come alive to the hum that emanates from the soul of the artist and explodes the heart of the listener, completely.

Sapphire And Steel: Cruel Immortality. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: David Warner, Susannah Harker, Muriel Pavlow, Daphne Oxenford, Ian Burford, Lois Baxter, Lucy Gaskell, Steve Kynman, Lisa Bowerman, Nigel Fairs.

Tied by the clock, humanity seems to be regulated to go from the cradle to the grave checking the clock, counting down the hours religiously, almost with devotion and loyal consistency, till we put up our feet and let the final hours swim past in smiles and surrounded by memories.

Sapphire And Steel: Water Like A Stone. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: David Warner, Susannah Harker, Lisa Bowerman, Nicholas Briggs, Lucy Gaskell, Susanne Proctor.

One of the great promises of any artistic production is that it can be described as timeless, that the emotion of the piece is found to be intense, that it goes beyond the sense of the abiding comfort and routine and finds a place where the balance between revolutionary and eternal are met with expectations fulfilled.