Future Yard Pop-Up Venue To Open In Birkenhead With Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark As First Announced Show.

Following on from the success of 2019’s Future Yard Festival, Near Future Pop-Up Music Venue is to open in Birkenhead this spring.

The first show announced for the new space on Argyle Street sees Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark return for their first Wirral show since 1979.

Presented by the team behind Future Yard Festival, Near Future will be Birkenhead’s only dedicated live music venue.  Initially opening as a pop-up with a series of live events between April and June 2020, it will feature some of the most exciting emerging new artists from across the U.K. – and very special returning local icons.

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John Blues Boyd, Through My Eyes. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Never mind walking a mile in another’s person’s shoes, that only teaches you a partial history of their life, to understand their existence, the things they have seen, the views they have held and the lives they have seen rise, fall and become history, then the only way to experience empathy is to heed them when they say view life Through My Eyes.

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Kit Hawes & Aaron Catlow, Pill Pilots. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is not in deep waters that we find the use of a guide, but in dealing with the shallower and smaller depths of life that we wish for a navigator, the one who will, without qualm or apprehension of spirit, know exactly the right path in which to lead you away from danger and back to the high seas and the thrill of adventure.

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

Cobra. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Robert Carlyle, Victoria Hamilton, Richard Dormer, David Haig, Marisa Abela, Emmanuel Imani, Lucy Cohu, Daz Morland, Con O’Neill, Charlie Carrick, Leigh Remnant, Paul Whelligan, Steven Cree, Alexandre Willaume, Grace Hogg-Robinson, Mark Bazeley, Lee Byford, Jem Hawkes, Leeds Paul, Joshua Hogan, Jennifer Bulcock, Lisa Palfrey, Danny Ashok, Ian Attard, Chris Wilson, Edward Bennett, Ellie Kendrick, Vera Chock, Damien Speed, Molly McGlynn, Max Parker, Yemisi Oyinloye, Caroline Hayes, Denise Moreno, Amber Aga, Christopher Ben, Jamie Causer, Jonathan Harden.

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Play Contest Shows Global Appeal Of The Beatles.

Four new plays about the Beatles are being staged in June as part of the Liverpool Fringe Festival, showing the continuing global appeal of The Fab Four. 

The thirty-minute plays chosen in a competition have come from a field of entries which includes Israel, New Zealand and the U.S.A. 

“We are delighted so many people responded from overseas“, said Sharon Colpman, Executive Producer of Liverpool-based Make it Write Productions. 

Make it Write has teamed up with Ticket to Write to resurrect the competition which was held in Liverpool for five years. 

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The Undertones Return To Liverpool As Part Of U.K. Tour.

Hugh Cornwell Announced As Special Guest.

The Undertones have confirmed a run of U.K. live dates throughout May and June, of which will see the popular band return to Liverpool’s o2 Academy on May 9th and with special guest, the tireless and exceptional Hugh Cornwell, in tow.

The Undertones emerged from Derry in 1976, the result of five friends (John O’ Neill, Damian O’ Neill, Feargal Sharkey, Billy Doherty and Michael Bradley) learning how to play basic rock and roll.

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Albert Cummings, Believe. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

You either have rhythm, or you embrace the emotional creativity to be found in others as they unburden the tempo that resides in the heartbeat and the reflex of their soul. Rhythm is the pulse that satisfies when all else stagnates, when all becomes dust and dull routine and it invariably leads one to Believe in magic, in soul, and in the remarkable to whom nothing it seems is beyond creating.

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Jake Shimabukuro, Trio. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The atmospheric brilliance displayed by the unexpected is such that when it hits you, when it finds you gasping for breath in the wake of its unmistakeable majesty, it leaves all that you may have become used to, floundering under the weight of your pre-conceived ideas.

Such is the presence created by Jake Shimabukuro and his ukulele, the pleasure that bounds forth is not only atmospheric, it positively invokes the passion found in the realm of imagination and asks the listener to embrace the fundamental essence of tone, mood and musical environment; a point of maintain the healthy respect to which art and the ability to appreciate are the twin pillars of civilisation.

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White House Farm. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Freddie Fox, Mark Addy, Gemma Whelan, Stephen Graham, Cressida Bonas, Scott Reid, Alexa Davies, Mark Stanley, Grace Calder, Sean Gilder, Andrew Frame, Amy-Jayne Leigh, Amanda Burton, Oliver Dimsdale, Richard Goulding, Tom Christian, Alfie Allen, Amy McCallum, Dorian Lough, Nicholas Farrell, Millie Brady, Maimie McCoy, Jude Barrowcliffe, Nate Barrowcliffe, Oliver Zettertrom, Stewart Scudamore, Thomas Coombes, David Hunt, Nick Harris, Lucy Briggs-Owen, Amanda Lawrence.

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Pet Sematary. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, John Lithgow, Jete Laurence, Hugo Lavoie, Lucas Lavoie, Obassa Ahmed, Alyssa Brooke Levine, Maria Herrera, Frank Schorpion, Linda E. Smith, Sonia Maria Chirila.

Fashion may come and go with ease; the popular movements soon give way to the unmistakable surge in new wave and the cycle repeats in perpetuity. It seems though, and for all the time that he has been credited as being the greatest horror writer in American history, that fashion via the medium of film and television is finally understanding just how powerful the name Stephen King is when his work is adapted with him in mind.

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