Hotel Mumbai. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Dev Patel, Amandeep Singh, Subhail Nayyar, Manoj Mehra, Dinesh Kumar, Amriptal Singh, Kapil Kumar Netra, Adithi Kalkuote, Alex Pinder, Vipin Sharma, Nazanin Boniadi, Armie Hammer, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Anupam Kher, Jason Issacs, Gaurav Paswala, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Angus McLaren, Naina Sareen, Sachin Joab, Chantel Contouri, Vitthal Kale, Nagesh Bhonsle, Carmen Duncan, Pawan Singh.

Eye For An Eye. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: John Travolta, Famke Janssen, Morgan Freeman, Brendan Fraser, Robert Patrick, Peter Stormare, Kat Graham, Claudia Gerini, Ella Bleu Travolta, Nick Vallelonga, Alice Pagani, Nadine Lewington, Sheila Shah, Ashley Atwood, Luis Da Silva Jr, Julie Lott, William Tokarsky, Blerim Destani, Cristina Serafini, Paul Sampson, Frank Renzulli, Chris Mullinax, Drew Ater, Bruno Bilotta, Bill Luckett, Melissa Greenspan, Leni Rico.

Me And Deboe, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

In another plane of existence it would be fair to openly state that Me And Deboe would be one of the biggest, and well known duos on the planet, with a sound, a sense of urgent creativity that flows through each song and with a passion for expression that arguably has only been matched by Simon and Garfunkel, it would make sense, it would be the conversation of wisdom, to see and insist that Me And Deboe would be shaking the tree of indifference and pulling up those that follow with them.

Charlie McKeon, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

On any night in which providence strikes, to open yourself up to the elements, to throw yourself down on the barbed wire of artistic integrity and be seen, to be witnessed as the moment in which the evening’s flourished bloom begins, that is fortune, but in the hands of Charlie McKeon as he set the tone of the evening for Thom Morecroft’s album launch at Liverpool’s Studio 2, it was of farsighted destiny.

Jimmy Carpenter, Soul Doctor. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We mentally note down the moment we meet some people, other’s might leave their first impressions in a piece of writing, a diary entry, a phone number scrawled on a paper handkerchief that was left in the hope of a connection, some might warrant being preserved in a novel; for good, or for ill, the moment we first meet another human soul is the memory it is built upon.

Thom Morecroft, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The vibe is just as important as the aftermath, the importance of feeling something in the air begin to glow, to shimmer with excitement, the build-up of atmosphere. The sense of the occasion grow like vines from the ground up, that vibe is what makes an evening become an event and when that event takes the attendee to places they thought they might not see again, when they feel the fine hairs on the back of their neck stand on end and the mind is completely transfixed to the point where they don’t know if anyone else is the room, that is when the vibe breaches the soul, that is when they know they have been taken to Heaven and back.

Last Christmas. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Emilia Clarke, Henry Golding, Emma Thompson, Maxim Baldry, Madison Ingoldsby, Boris Isakovic, Lucy Miller, John-Luke Roberts, Patti LuPone, Margaret Clunie, Lydia Leonard, Peter Serafinowicz, Sara Powell, Ritu Ayre, Ansu Kabia, Fabian Frankel, Laura Evelyn, Ingrid Oliver, Rebecca Root, Angus Brown, Kemi Durosinmi, Yinka Awoni, Angela Wynter,  Sue Perkins, Joe Blackmore, Ben Owen-Jones, David Hargreaves, Calvin Demba, Anna Calder-Marshall.

Fat-Suit, Waifs & Strays. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The Waifs & Strays we find along life’s path are arguably more adapt to change and less likely to resist the beat of the consumer driven sound of the pure-bred, they have a knack for companionship in the darkest times, they are the light that fills a room with beauty, thought and sentiment; the waifs and strays are the ones that you come across and cannot but help love. Your mind may be on the one that ticks every box but sometimes you have to look beyond the expected and admire the difference that those who celebrate diversity and the in tune losing of one’s way can provide.

Eddie Fortune: Karen. Comedy Review. Royal Court Studio, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Thanks to the internet, we all know a Karen, or at least a facsimile of her, the crude interpretation that could have gone by any name, but which represents the base line to which we expect certain individuals to have their say. The moment of excruciating agony when a waiter or anyone in the service industry comes up against their nemesis, the one who demands to see the manager over the most frivolous and bizarre claims, that is where the Karen comes in, all seeing, all justified, and either scary or frustrating.

Bella Hardy, Postcards & Pocketbooks. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We all undertake a journey, but quite often we are so wrapped up in mapping out our own possible routes that we forget others are placing their own faith in the stars to guide them, we don’t see the hazards they encounter along the way, we have no empathy for the struggle, and in the end we judge them on the Postcards & Pocketbooks they send us when they reach their destination. Such is the reflection of the human mind that we believe their route was plain sailing, whilst ours had to navigate every iceberg and shark infested waters possible.