King King, Maverick. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Never give in, never surrender to the beat of another’s heart, not unless you love them without boundaries or without restrictions, for in the soul and existence of this Maverick acceptance of life, our senses are awakened to the tune of blossoming expertise and the belief that there are no limitations when you see life has no borders, that you can colour in past the margins and confines of someone else’s imposed restrictions.

Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar, The Reckless One. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We have all met the person to whom the word heedless, even rash and hasty, can be applied, not out of anger or a sense of antagonism, but out of calm composure, because we know deep down that what they have said, what they might have done in the heart of the moment, was just them being human, thoughtless not evil, foolish not foul.

Candy Opera, The Patron Saint Of Heartache. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Time will throw you a curve ball when you aren’t paying attention, a moment to which you pray to your personal god, to which you clutch the artifact of your chosen personal canonised confessor and whisper to them all the sins of neglect you have found your guilty of committing, for in the search for absolution in the mind of The Patron Saint of Heartache one must concede that life’s rich opera doesn’t always show you what you needed to witness the first time round.

Two Weeks To Live. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Maisie Williams, Sian Clifford, Mawaan Rizwan, Taheen Modek, Thalissa Teixeira, Kerry Howard, Jason Flemyng, Michael Begley, Tony Pritchard, Sean Knopp, Sean Pertwee, Pooky Quesnel, Jean Trend, Caitlin Rawden, Josh Hull, Dominic Holmes. 

It all starts with a lie, a small one, a fib in which we believe we are doing the right thing to keep someone safe from a truth which is more potentially devastating and overwhelming than the lie being exposed twenty years down the line. With Two Weeks To Live, would you come clean, or would you rather see the world explode around your ears if it meant you never had to admit to one small fib, one moment of falsehood, delivered to keep someone alive.

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Chris Cooper, Susan Kelechi Watson, Marvann Plunkett, Enrico Colantoni, Wendy Makkena, Tammy Blanchard, Noah Harpster, Carmen Cusack, Kelley Davis, Christine Lahti, Maddie Corman, Daniel Krell, Jon L. Peacock, Gretchen Koerner.

It could be forcibly argued that we have been looking in the wrong places for our heroes, certainly in an age dominated by looks, by appearance, by the facade of the face shown rather than what is more important, the heart, the soul, and the way they communicate their message.

The Loved Drones. Conspiracy Dance. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The wheels are in motion and minds are sharpened, the foxtrot of the overwhelming plot is picking up its pace and all around us, to those we expected better from and those that surprise with their clarity of expression and thought, all have their theories and their arguments ready; for the age of the Conspiracy Dance is not just upon us, but the band have been playing for a while and the lights have been blaring their shine into the deepest corners with such might that even the wallflowers have nowhere to hide.

Us. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Tom Hollander, Saskia Reeves, Tom Taylor, Gina Bramhill, Iain De Caestecker, Thaddea Graham, Sophie Grabol, Giuseppe Bonifati, Charlotte Spencer, Amaia Aguinaga, Charlie Archer, Frank Assi, Rachel Coutinho, Joe Dixon, Daniel Fearn, Andrew Hawley, Severine Howell-Meri, Jason Langley, Dylan Mitchell, Lucia Saavedra, George Webster.

A coming of age story is not exclusively one told from the perspective of the young adult who has successfully navigated life’s early lessons, only to find that they now face a tougher set of questions, set-backs and revelations; in deed age is no barrier to that one moment in life where everything you thought you were, all that you have strived to be, is nothing more than a minefield of quandaries, difficulties and heart breaking realisations.

Joe Bonamassa, Royal Tea. Album Review.

A teapot and two teacups

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It was Canada’s own Rock royalty of Rush who reminded listeners that “The more things change, the more they stay the same“, and whilst they maybe true on many counts, it perhaps does not take into account the evolution of the soul, nor of the spirit to seek out new worlds to witness being born.

Seberg. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Kirsten Stewart, Yvan Attal, Gabriel Sky, Jack O’ Connell, Margaret Qualley, Colm Meaney, Vince Vaughn, Stephen Root, Anthony Mackie, Celeste Pechous, Laura Campbell, Jade Pettyjohn, Zazie Beetz, Grantham Coleman, Tobias Truvillion, Noelle Danique Louie, James Jordan, Diane Chernasky.

A story that not only needs telling but expressing effectively is one that that should stand out beyond the norm, especially when it involves life as seen through the eyes of the oppressed and the exploited.

L.A. Guns, Renegades. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Liverpool has its Beatles, Seattle – the memory of Nirvana, Birmingham is proud of Jeff Lynne and Black Sabbath, London the class of The Who and Iron Maiden, all considered the music equivalent of royalty, the crowned heads of Rock to whom servitude or the doffing of caps is thankfully not required to enjoy their takes on the world, and yet there seems to be something otherworldly about Los Angeles that is steeped in the mysticism, a sense of the Pacific Ocean air offering magic, that has seen its city’s limits simply overflow with the Renegades of regal spiritualty and the holiness of noble style.