Midsomer Murders: Till Death Do Us Part. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland, Camilla Arfwedson, Ella Blainska, Kelly Brook, Michael Fox, Liz Fraser, Gabrielle Glaister, Nick Hancock, Colin McFarlane, Maya Sondhi, Fenella Woolgar.

To have and to hold…Till Death Do Us Part, sometimes the symbolic words take on extra meaning, especially when a marriage is short-lived, something that is arguably a possibility when the ceremony is held in the vicinity of Midsomer.

The Night Flight Orchestra, Divinyls. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The idea of drama divides, for some it becomes laborious, a deceit measured in terms of tears and the exercise of emotional blackmail, for others it becomes theatre, embraced by the resolution of conflict; neither are wrong, both have a belief system built in them; it all depends on your outlook and sensitivity to another person who may be suffering or whether you just want peace to envelope you.

Peter And The Test Tube Babies, Facebook Loser. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The drug of choice takes many forms, and we should learn to show sympathy, if not a little admiration, to those who seek their way out of the curse it brings, not only to themselves but to those around them. Addiction takes many forms, some could be considered beneficial but for the many who practise daily their obsession, their craving, then their downfall can be assured, played out in private, given airtime accompanied by constant download of pictures, the streaming of every detail of their lives. It can then be hardly be surprising that a Facebook Loser stumbles on the tones of others and sees themselves in the mirror.

Malone Sibun, Come Together. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating 8.5/10

We see ourselves as victims of fate and at the behest of the whispers of destiny, and yet we stand idly by when the two ideologies Come Together in our favour and openly declare that they have seen the rich goodness in our efforts, in our dreams and for that they wish to reward us; to continue the good work. Yet for most of us, we either look upon this gift with shock, disbelief or even incredulity, not realising that we still have a part to play, fate and destiny may offer the result, but we still have to believe in the vision we first embraced.

Thomas Charlie Pedersen, Daylight’s Saving Hours. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The illusion of the extra gained hour is such that most seem to adhere to the gift of time, being asleep, catching up, so they believe, with the pleasure of not being active in the world, taking no part, an unconscious objector to the flight of Time’s arrow for sixty minutes; such is their disdain for the symbolic gesture of cutting time from the top of the hourly sheet and sewing it back on the bottom that the appeal of Daylight’s Saving Hours would be lost upon them.

Doctor Who: Spyfall (Parts One And Two). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Mandip Gill, Tosin Cole, Sacha Dhawan, Lenny Henry, Stephen Fry, Aurora Marion, Slyvie Briggs, Mark Dexter, Shibna Gulati, Ravin J. Ganatra, Bhavnisha Parmar, Melissa De Vries, Sacharissa Claxton, William Ely, Brian Law, Buom Tihngang, Asif Khan, Andrew Bone, Ronan Summers, Christopher McArthur, Darron Meyer, Dominique Maher, Struan Rodger, Lex Lamprey, James Rockey, Andrew Pipe, Tom Ashley, Kenneth Jay, Blanche Williams.

The spies in disguise, ones to whom perhaps have thrown off the shackles of the previous series and now have free reign to take the long running show into a new direction.

Mike Zito, Live From The Top. (Reissue). Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Once more but with even greater certainty of what propelled Mike Zito to prominence, Live From The Top from 2009 is thankfully being re-released thanks to Gulf Coast Records and it is one that for fans of the St. Louis native that comes with pleasure and fascination stirred together to make up a musical feast that not many would have got to feast upon the first time round.

Dracula. Television Review.(2020).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Claes Bang, Dolly Wells, John Heffernan, Joanna Scanlan, Morfydd Clark, Lujza Richter, Lyndsey Marshall, Corinna Wilson, Mark Gatiss, Matthew Beard, Tim Ignall, Jonathan Aris, Chanel Cresswell, Petra Dubayova, Sacha Shawan, Youssef Kerkour, Phil Dunster, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Patrick Walshe McBride, Lydia West, Clive Russell, Catherine Schell, Samuel Blenkin, Anthony Flanagan, Alec Utgoff, Dilyana Bouklieva, Andrew Byron, Lily Dodsworth-Evans, Ria Fend, Katherine Jakeways, Lily Kakkar, Scott Karim, Anthony Kaye, Olivia Klein, Abdulla Majid, John McCrea, Sarah Niles, Sofia Oxenham, Natasha Radski, Joakim Skarli, Veronica Stanwell, Cat White, Millicent Wong.

Brothers Of Metal, Emblas Saga. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

A good saga is one that can broaden the mind, it also requires dedication to bring it the forefront of people’s imagination, not delivered half-heartedly as by a nervous courier to a reluctant leader but with brashness, assertive direction and a keen sense of forceful belief in what is being played out; without this, the saga becomes a cautionary tale, one driven presumption and one that can leave you cold.

Simon Thacker’s Ritmata: Taradh. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To be nominated for an award is not an every-day occurrence, to produce a haunting unique sound that gives the soul one of those what hit me moments is perhaps even rarer, and yet for Simon Thacker and his impressive musical warriors that are by his side, the drawing of and the stories learned from the spiritual sense of sound and the elemental discovery that surrounds his new exploration in the debut album of Simon Thacker’s Ritmata, the outstanding Taradh.