Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
We look for reasons to be happy, constantly spending thousands in the pursuit of contentment, the plastic smile and the state of bliss that we believe we are owed for simply existing, the narrow perimeter we set ourselves is defined by that in which we think we see grace, never mind the problems of the world, all that can be fixed once we have bought happiness for ourselves.
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The events and songs of a past generation still play with our minds because of the searing ripples they made on the water of life at the time, and if you have to live through the age of interesting times, then to take solace in the moments between each ripple is not only a must, it is the only positive thing you can do that does not involve revolution.
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We are in danger of becoming used to the idea of unwarranted change, the effect of constant rebuilding which only serves to alter the dynamic in which a settlement of size has built up; this disturbance may go unnoticed by many, but for those who see beyond the grain of intuition, it can be said that they are aware of the problem, the analogy that hits home with the personal belief that the city is a sacred beast, soon proves to be its own ruin, that The Town That’s Falling Down is not just the one we live in, but the one that inhabits our soul.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Timing is everything, even when seen benefit of what may seem like distance between events, what you read, listen too, witness, can resonate through time and feel as if it is talking to you personally in the here and now.
That timing is paramount in the preserve of recognition, we understand the connection because the warning signs, the heartbeat of joy or the trepidation of our own fickle echo are calling out to be heeded, and regardless of whether we see the link as a song from the 60s, a paragraph from a book written in 1949 or even as a piece of graphic art that has been drawn and coloured for maximum effect, the resonating belief is one of stimulation and inspiration.
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How you convey the meaning of a word is important, equally just as significant is the way it appears in the body of a text, in the application of pen to paper, or in the semi glow of the computer screen; the misuse of a line full of capital letters can lead to distress to the modern eye, confrontational, hostile, it may have been unintentional, a slip of the fingers and then not bothering to change because the sender knew what it meant…but to the recipient it feels as if they are put in the eye of someone else’s storm, and the defence mechanism kicks in.
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Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland, Tamzin Outhwaite, Aaron Cobham, Don Gilet, Nicholas Goh, Michael Maloney, Shereen Martin, Julian Lewis Jones, Douggie McMeekin, Carlyss Peer, Richard Rankin, Isabel Shaw, Marcia Warren.
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Cast: Kevin McNally, Robert Bathurst, Kevin Eldon, David Hayman, Mathew Horne, Timothy West, Tom Rosenthal, David Horovitch, William Andrews, Tracy Ann Oberman, Christopher Villiers, Simon Ludders, Sam Phillips, John Biggins, Julia Deakin, Jack Barry, Andrew Havill, Jerry-Jane Pears, Philip Pope, Gareth Ryan Benjamin, Tamzin Griffin, Lee Barnett, Thelma Ruby, Joann Condon.
The problem with nostalgia is that you have to judge perfectly whether it carries the same sense of perfection that Time has alluded to in your memory. There are few greater regrets than the one that is pushed forward by the emotion of fear, that the trepidation of losing something that has united a country in dark times can somehow lose its meaning when restored.
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Cast: Eve Myles, Mark Lewis Jones, Bradley Freegard, Aneirin Hughes, Hannah Daniel, Lacey Jones, Demi Letherby, Eiry Thomas, Alex Harries, Catherine Ayers, Suzanne Packer, Rhian Morgan¸ Rhashan Stone, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Anastasia Hille, Brochan Evans, Martha Bright, Boryana Manoilova, Richard Lynch, Owen Arwyn.
Keeping Faith is a hard ask of modern audiences, the temptation to wander away from the serial that once had you gripped is an understandable response to the way we live today, the instant and continuous gratification, the need for visual stimulation is so overwhelming that we do not understand why such a television programme cannot keep up with the initial demand, why it cannot behave like a soap opera.
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The setting and the mood are fundamental for art to thrive, the sterile and the beige is of little importance, but the drama of the unexpected, the reflection of the human experience, that is what brings any art to life. The after image of what went Before is crucial, the agility of the artist to focus on the minimal rather than the explosive, critical; and through such passionate intricacy the listener is introduced to the seismic silence that sweeps them off their feet.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
We surely must look to the women and men to whom light shines on for All The Seasons, for in them we witness our own possible reflections, and to misquote Robert Bolt’s A Man For All Seasons, “Their taste in the pursuit of truth is excellent, it exactly coincides with my own!”