Walter Trout, Ordinary Madness. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it…” effortless words of wisdom framed by the writer Charles Bukowski, and given even greater illumination and ferocity by the blues man Walter Trout in his latest album, Ordinary Madness.

The world is not just a foolish place, but it stands aloof from the rest of the universe, revelling in its own lunacy, driven by jesters and clowns, misleading and double-talking buffoons, it is no wonder that we perhaps feel crowded in our thoughts, almost helpless in our actions, and yet there is always help, the figure offering ordinary madness, the proposal that refuses to acknowledge anything other than the fact that we are extraordinary; that madness is just a by-product of the beauty we can appreciate in others.

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(413 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Sapphire And Steel: Zero. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: David Warner, Susannah Harker, David Collings, Mark Gatiss, Angela Bruce.

Time is forever decaying, what might be considered a moment of absolute endeavour by humanity in one moment, slowly erodes to the point where all that follows becomes ordinary, routine, and then, like everything that was once painstakingly spectacular becomes mundane, predictable, safe.

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(495 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Cary Balsano, We Like It. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

In the eye of the tornado the peace of our existence can be found, the silence in amongst the maelstrom, the seduction of the moment’s influential still is to feel resistant to the tide that is overwhelming all around, the swirl, the cloud, the rampaging dust of our times; instead we can lay back, for a while, for a brief respite, see the sweetness peace on offer, and say We Like It.

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(318 words, estimated 1:16 mins reading time)

Sapphire And Steel: Remember Me. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: David Warner, Susannah Harker, Sam Kelly, Joannah Tincey, David Horovitch.

Our greatest curse as a human being is surely that of nostalgia, the memory we wrap in gold and sepia, the melancholy we hold up as the epitome of our life on Earth; doomed to go over the lines forever, condemned by the failures of our time, nostalgia in all its forms is the blissful high before the regretful and terminal low.

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(413 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Sapphire And Steel: Second Sight. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Blair McDonough, Anna Skellern, Lisa Bowerman, Patience Tomlinson, Clare Calbraith, Duncan McInnes, Angela Bruce, David Warner, Susannah Harker.

Change, even in the art of the bluff, can be one that leaves a chill ready to descend down the spine, the sense that the transformation you are about to encounter is going to be too much to either bare, or which will leave you with feelings of disappointment wrapped up in the embrace of the immediate let down.

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(415 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Ad Astra. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Donald Sutherland, Kimberly Elise, Loren Dean, Donnie Keshawarz, Sean Blackmore, Bobby Nish, LisaGay Hamilton, John Finn, John Ortiz, Freda Foh Shen, Kayla Adams, Ravi Kapoor, Liv Tyler, Elisa Perry, Daniel Sauli, Kimmy Shields, Kunal Dudheker, Greg Bryk, Alyson Reed, Sasha Compere, Justin Dray, Alex Luna, Natasha Lyonne, Zoro Saro Manuel Daghlian, Jacob Sandler, Elizabeth Willaman, Natasha Lyon.

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(470 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

Angry Birds 2. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Leslie Jones, Bill Hader, Rachel Bloom, Awkwafina, Sterling K. Brown, Eugenio Derbez, Tiffany Haddish, Danny McBride, Peter Dinklage, Pete Davidson, Zach Woods, Dove Cameron, Maya Rudolph, Jojo Siwa, Tony Hale, Lil Rel Howery , Nicki Minaj, Beck Bennett, Gaten Matarazzo, Brooklynn, Genesis Tennon, Alma Varsano, Faith Margaret Kidman-Urban, Sunday Rose Kidman-Urban, Colleen Ballinger.

The computer game adaptation for cinema is not likely to ever disappear back into the hyperbole from which it was hatched, the dragon which laid the egg to which film embraced as a way of bringing the gaming community back to the realm of the big screen, has become undoubtedly entrenched and pushed to encompass every possible story going.

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(457 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

The Pendulum Swings.

Time

Measured out and detailed

how-ever you wish, by the beat…

ing clock, the chimes of mid…

night that slips into day…

minute

by minute

hour

by hour, by sunlight’s yawn

and the thunder of the dark…

this works

if you have somewhere

you need to be

regulated by the syncing of your heart

to the pendulum doom laden swing…back and forth

timed to perfection, a minute gained

here, a moment saved

there

for what, pray tell…

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(223 words, estimated 54 secs reading time)

CPR. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

When you have packed so much into life as David Crosby, it becomes almost impossible to not do anything well. To expose yourself to everything that life may offer, and even be willing to feel your way in the darkest of places to find parts of your psyche, is to be able to create art that comforts all those that stand by your side or who may listen as the days grow more intense, more personal.

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(458 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Calum Ingram, Dancing In The Moonlight/Demon Eyes. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Exposing yourself to a world of contrasts is what makes life exciting, fulfilling, strange, and unforgettable; the problem with many in this world is that they sample a taste of one, and then they never move on, they gorge, feast to their heart’s content on what has already made them fall in love.

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