Charlotte Pollard: Series Two. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: India Fisher, James Joyce, Rachel Atkins, Ben Crowe, Helen Goldwyn, Pippa Haywood, Karen Henson, Kieran Hodgson, Ashley Kumar, Glen McCreedy, Colin McFarlane, Deisre Mullins, Dan Starky, Gary Turner.

The world will pass us by in a whimper, the slow but steady decay of our species is assured at some point in the future, we may believe it is a flash that has taken our lives but nature is not that kind, and it will be, if anyone is left to observe such an ending, one bought upon our heads by our own arrogance; our need to prove  we are masters of our own destiny.

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(583 words, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)

CPR, Just Like Gravity. Album Review (Reissue).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Gravity, in the end, will only pull us down, as Marillion noted in their haunting track The Only Unforgivable Thing, a reminder perhaps that we can only fly so long on the wings of promise, on the air currents of experience and dreams; eventually we have to consider that we may have flown too high, that like Icarus, we must be brought down to Earth and confront and assess our beliefs.

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(396 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Erasure, Shot A Satellite. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

When the neon lights blaze, we cannot but be helped to be drawn to them, to witness the message they powerfully place into our minds, to acknowledge the subliminal mindset of advertising, or if we are more involved with the signals beaming down from outer space, the news that somewhere, somehow, someone Shot A Satellite and the repercussions are electric, bountiful and mysterious and full of intrigue for what is to come.

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(397 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Bad Education. Film Review. (2019).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Hugh Jackman, Ray Romano, Allison Janney, Welker White, Annaleigh Ashford, Stephanie Kurtzuba, Calvin Coakley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Katherine Narducci, Victor Werhaeghe, Will Meyers, John Scurti, Rafael Casal, Hari Dhillon, Alex Wolf, Ray Abruzzo, Jimmy Tatro, Kayli Carter, Jorge Chapa, Jane Brockman, Larry Romano, Catherine Curtin, Jeremy Shamos.

A good education is not just a right, it is the cornerstone of a civilised society, and yet between politicians, officials and high, often outrageous, demands from parents, school can become a chore, a place where learning is not fun, but a slog, one exacerbated by lack of investment, one in which the system is rigged against everybody concerned.

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

Wily Bo Walker & Danny Flam, Ain’t No Man A Good Man. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Ain’t No Man A Good Man; however, when the mood catches the wind in the right direction, when the pathos of our times is able to set the sky alight with flames and fury, then in these times, a great man comes to the crease and finds a way to offer a piece of their soul which will calm and soothe the nerves, that will enlighten and take the pressure off to such an extent that the sky, like the mind, itself clears.

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(445 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Paul Dunbar, Mercy. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Mercy comes not in the wake of violence, but in fearless gentleness afforded to those with humble minds and modesty weaved through their D.N.A., those who identify with the need for compassion, empathy of the times that the other may have withstood, and finally crumbled underneath, the generosity and quality that is, as the bard was persuaded to note, not strained, by temper or of spirit. Mercy is a right to all, it doesn’t mean that the action has been forgotten, but that is forgiven, understood.

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(358 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

Bob Stone, Perfect Beat. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

When good things end, there is not much the reader can do except think back over the enormity of what they have mentally digested and rejoice in the life they have witnessed being unveiled, or weep silently at just how privileged they have been to be allowed time in someone else’s thoughts and reasoning.

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

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.

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

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.

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(438 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

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.

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(381 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)