June 1974, Not A Place For Lovers. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is easy to get lost in the lush jungle that a modern symphony can provide, especially when it is one person’s vision that brings it to life. However, the prevailing concertos is such that has the ability to make us feel more than the stirring effects and goose bumps that one might have considered unbeatable over the last few centuries, the immaculate sense of pride that was paraded, marched unhindered from orchestra to the stalls as if attached to nationalist fervour and demand, has now thankfully been replaced by a more subtle, straightforward realisation that pomp and ceremony are figures of a past that has no place when we realise that Earth Is Not A Place For Lovers.

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

Hegarty, Love Will Find A Way. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Love Will Find A Way, that is what we are taught, that is the hope of the ones who see the promise at the end of romance that such times will be found once more, that love is forever, even if the times and the people involved may change.

There was always a thought that Liverpool’s Hegarty, one of the most enjoyable of bands to have made the last decade their home, might never taste such moments again, that the beauty in their music might never be recaptured, be seen as part of the next decade, life does move on, times change, but as the old saying goes, form may be temporary, but class is forever, permanent and always found to devoted to the creation.

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(350 words, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

Lonny Ziblat, Dream Hunting. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

You don’t always have to have a plan, there is not always the need to plot and connive your way to producing something that you hope will stir the imagination in others. Invariably the dialect of the Muse is such that we often strain to believe their song, that sometimes the best avenue of pursuit is to let the rabbit trails take you on a journey of surprise and investigation, a system of delivery that is not so much steeped in strategy, but in the belief that Dream Hunting is the place in which visions unfold.

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(427 words, 1 image, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Beth Malcolm, Choose My Company. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We see the Muse as a physical body, imagined perhaps with the ideals we seek out in those that make our hearts quicken, even skip a beat, as they call out like sirens held close between the rocks of sharpened perception, and the rough seas of hope that is always present, but which can turn to despair and take us down to the depths of our soul’s resilience. The Muse is painted as such to appeal, to make us recognise the human value in artistic pursuit, but sometimes it would be worth stepping back and seeing the Muse as something else entirely, as a place rather than a human being.

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(431 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Eagles, Gig Review. M & S Bank Arena, Liverpool. (2019).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

It would have always been at the back of the mind of the Eagles fan, that if they didn’t see them perform in Liverpool on their 2014 tour, it was quite possible they might never see them again. After all the band had not called in to the city for quite some time before that, and with the passing of Glen Frey in 2016, that performance was to be likely the last time in which an audience would see them.

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(575 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: An Interview With The Herron Brothers.

Of all the emotions that you expect from a song writing duo, perhaps oddly the last thing you expect when being able to interview them is the injection of humour to come across in every answer, one underscored with patience, resolution, resolve and wonderfully created songs. The humour is perhaps more prevalent in those that have spent their whole lives together, the family value they share, the wicked sense of fun they have when together.

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(1056 words, estimated 4:13 mins reading time)

Years And Years. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Rory Kinnear, Jessica Hynes, Ruth Madeley, Russell Tovey, Emma Thompson, Maxim Baldry, Anne Reid, T’Nia Miller, Lydia West, Arran Ansari, Jade Alleyne, Dino Fetscher, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Rachel Logan, Callum Woolford, George Bukhari, Zita Sattar, Kieran O’Brien, Pauline Fleming, Ellie Haddington,  Jodie Prenger, Dan Starkey, John McGrellis.

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(559 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

Toy Story 4. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tom Shanks, Tim Allen, Annie Potts, Tony Hale, Keegan-Michael Key, Madeleine McGraw, Christina Hendricks, Jordan Peele, Keanu Reeves, Ally Maki, Jay Hernandez, Lori Alan, Joan Cusack, Bonnie Hunt, Kristen Schaal, Emily Davis, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Blake Clark, June Squibb, Carl Weathers, Lily Sage Bromley, Jeff Garlin, Maliah Bargas-Good, Jack McGraw, Juliana Hansen, Estelle Harris, Laurie Metcalf, Steve Purcell, Mel Brooks, Alan Oppenheimer, Carol Burnett, Betty White, Carl Reiner, Bill Hader, Patricia Arquette, Timothy Dalton, Flea, Melissa Villasenor, Jeff Pidgeon, John Morris.

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(649 words, estimated 2:36 mins reading time)

Olympia, Flamingo. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To bring the art of the whimsical to the attention of the listener and have it bed in, watch it take root and leave a lasting glow of impression is to shine in the warm breeze of the kaleidoscope as it spins round, the reveal of depth and colour is what Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett arguably had in mind, to shake the boundaries in which the pretty Flamingo is rooted and to let it fly, all shades blazing and be seen as unpredictably endearing.

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(360 words, 1 image, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

Hank Marvin, Gold. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There are names in every artistic field that are synonymous with excellence, so much so that it is understandable that we perhaps overlook their contribution to the world as we search for the next big thing. Whether this a generational effect in that as we get older the more we move away from those to whom we consider the pioneers of the art, seeking instead the heroes who speak for way we feel emotionally in today’s world, who really can say, but it is always worth reminding ourselves, and those of any age group which we interact with, that greatness is forever, that Gold is a constant force.

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(509 words, 1 image, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)