Maggie May: The Musical, Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Christina Tedders, Michael Fletcher, Cheryl Ferguson, Tom Connor, Paislie Reid, Katia Sartini, Sam Haywood, Oliver Hamilton, David Heywood, Barbara Hockaday, Matt Ganley.

Liverpool is more than just a city, a coming together of small villages under the umbrella of a larger conurbation, it is the collection of stories that have weaved its way through the psyche of anyone who’s feet have touched the ground in which by the running waters of the Mersey lay, that have been touched by the legends, the myths and the incredible personalities that have made the city of Liverpool the place in which Westminster fears and which secretly it wishes it could be.

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(499 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)

Bad Times At The El Royale. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Dakota Johnson, Chris Hemsworth, Jon Hamm, Jeff Bridges, Manny Jacinto, Nick Offerman, Katherine Isabelle, Cailee Spaeny, Cynthia Erivo, Lewis Pullman, Xavier Dolan, Alvina August, Jonathan Whitesell, Sarah Smyth, Jim O’ Heir, Charles Halford, Mark O’ Brien, Bethany Brown, Hannah Zirke, Tally Rodin, Sophia Lauchlin Hirt, Austin James, Billy Wickman, James Quach, Vincent Washington, Caroline Koziol, Austin Abell.

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(530 words, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

Young Everyman Playhouse To Present A Bold Re-Telling From Greek Mythology With A Production Of Jason And The Argonauts

Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse’s award-winning Young Everyman Playhouse (YEP) will present a contemporary production of Jason and the Argonauts in the Playhouse Studio from 31st October to 3rd November.

Based on the legendary story from Greek mythology, actors from Young Everyman Playhouse take on this epic comedy in their own style.

YEP will perform in the Playhouse Studio for the first time since 2017, following their production of How to Disappear Completely (and Never be Found) last October.

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(299 words, estimated 1:12 mins reading time)

Celebrate 40 Years Of All Mod Cons As From The Jam Announce Night At The Warrington Parr Hall.

From The Jam will be gracing the Parr Hall stage in April to celebrate 40 years since their All Mod Cons album.

Over the past 11 years From The Jam have toured relentlessly, having played almost 1,000 headline shows in the U.K. since their inception in 2007.

With a number of memorable appearances in Warrington already under their belts, the band are returning to this iconic venue on Friday 26th April to mark four decades since the release of their third album by playing the L.P. in its entirety.

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(315 words, estimated 1:16 mins reading time)

Dan Wilson, Leave My Baby Alone. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is all about the delivery of the phrase, the way a request, a command, a warning comes across, that makes a person stop and listen, or get ready for the fight that so obviously is wanting to take place in the eyes of the one issuing the demand, it is the verbal order which is only one step away from the tap on the shoulder and the growl in the face. To capture that anger in art takes a different kind of emotion, one not steeped in the patriarchal feel of ownership, one that is convincing, a little bit more frightening, and one that if done right, is filled with the friction, the fire of seeing into the eyes of simulated toxic behaviour.

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(408 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Erja Lyytinen, Another World. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is no surprise these days when the mainstream finds the understanding of the power of the belief in parallel universes, the worlds in which we inhabit, the different turns that we could have made as a species, as individuals, the decisions that would have made our lives infinitely nobler, more virtuous, perhaps more deranged, more exciting, less convincing, the enormity of a single fated moment in time dictating the rest of your life, judging you for a single snapshot of left or right at life’s impossible junction.

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

Mike Zito, Blue Room. Album Review. (2018 Re-Issue).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10


Revisiting an old lover is either a pleasure renewed, or the moment in which you might wonder what was the initial attraction which drove you into their arms and shower them with the virtue and kisses they demanded, which you were happy to supply with open heart and mind. The casual call from out of the Blue Room, the tingle of excitement, the fizz of the electricity that once melted your heart and brought a new feeling of passion to the soul,

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(628 words, 1 image, estimated 2:31 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: The Ghost Monument. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole, Mandip Gill, Susan Lynch, Shaun Dooley, Art Malik, Ian Gelder.

The finest of traditions are upheld when The Doctor does not understand everything that is laid out, throughout the long history of the much-loved programme, the element of doubt is one that leaves a longer lasting smile on the fan’s minds than the neatly, over-explained, often patronising view laid out by various writers. It is a tradition in which the new Doctor is thrust into with great forethought by Chris Chibnall as the worlds of time, space and new companions are brought together in the second of Jodie Whittaker’s appearance as the enigmatic alien, in The Ghost Monument.

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(513 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

David Hine & Mark Stafford, Lip Hook. Graphic Novel Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

In the small corners of the society we live in, there are stories of the old ways that have persisted, overcoming the likes of religious dogma, the sense of so- called Christian integrity that have gained a foothold on the country’s psyche, the Calvinist ethic, the Methodist belief, the Catholic doctrine, all shrouded in the rituals and observance that allows in many ways the rampaging evil of Capitalism to stoke the furnaces and lay waste to millions of people’s souls every year.

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

Ol’ White Men.

 

I never thought

that I could ever be charged

with the crime

of being an Ol’ white man.

Despite having never once

seen myself as but

an ally, a willing supporter

and cheerleader of feminism,

an enthusiast of different cultures

and romantic scholar of other’s values

a devotee of equalism…

somehow,

I am just an Ol’ white dude

who cares nothing

for anything;

I wonder what my life was for

in such moments,

I stood for all,

now, none stand with me.

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(90 words, estimated 22 secs reading time)