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.

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(384 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

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.

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(503 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

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.

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(668 words, estimated 2:40 mins reading time)

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.

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

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.

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(293 words, estimated 1:10 mins reading time)

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.

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(406 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

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.

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

What I Do (During Lockdown).

The pattern of my day has become ninety percent

the same, as the day before,

the day before, the day before,

repeated actions, a couple of games of Cribbage

to get the brain in gear, repeated actions,

an album of the day, in which to reminisce,

to remember you,

or someone that looks the same,

as you did back then,

in my memory,

the sense of new excitement

coursing through my veins,

as I undo a new recording

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(274 words, estimated 1:06 mins reading time)

Savoy Brown, Ain’t Done Yet. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Legends never walk away, they simply roll up their sleeves, survey the world and its issues and then get to work placing down the observations and declaring that whilst the planet turns, we Ain’t Done Yet.

There is always work to be done, to provide change in the minds of those who feel left behind by the speed of the world, who are neglected by society, we have a moral duty to be legends in our own time to facilitate, to employ such dynamism that the phrase Ain’t Done Yet becomes not one of possible defeat, but of enormity grasped, that the resonance supplied by the extraordinary, such as the British Blues Band, Savoy Brown, becomes an electric explosion of good, of passion, and in which the connection to the legendary becomes tangible and complete.

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(376 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

David Gilmour, Yes, I Have Ghosts. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We look back upon our life and see regrets, the misspoke words, the decision not fully endorsed, the anger, the kick of shame; these moments find ways to hang around us, even in the most blameless life, regrets turn into spectres, into phantasms that stay in our vision, taunting us, reminding us that we once created havoc, once we built a wall of mayhem for others to knock down.

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