At Night, I Look The Opposition In The Eyes.

 

I can feel my breathe

diminish,

go thin,

even before it leaves

my body,

exhaling out of control

as it insanely tries to justify

the war I go through,

a soldier never quite alone

in this jungle wilderness,

a beast

camouflaged

in plain sight, standing out

as death rolls the dice

with a grin that bares rotten, stunted baby teeth

and a certain foul essence that passes

for conviction, assuredness,

a firmness of plan

as jungles collide

and bitter battles

24 Kitchen Street To Host Unique Performance By Pioneer Of Minimalism, Terry Riley.

24 Kitchen Street continue to diversify their music programme with a bold foray into the world of classical music, presenting one of the key innovators within the minimalist movement, Terry Riley, performed by the composer himself and his son, Gyan Riley. The pianist and pioneer of minimalism performance will be the first classical Concert in the venue and will take place on Wednesday 10th April.

Riley’s music is intricate, utilising improvisational structures and melding elements of minimalism, jazz, ragtime, and North Indian raga, the combination of which have defined Riley’s diverse and prolific career. He will be performing on piano along with his son on guitar.

24 Kitchen Street welcomes Syrian Wedding Singer And Electronic Musician, Omar Souleyman To Liverpool Saturday 2nd February.

24 Kitchen Street continue to develop their live programme, inviting Syrian wedding singer extraordinaire, Omar Souleyman, for a live performance and Liverpool debut, Saturday 2nd February 2019. An icon in both world and electronic music, he’s established an international following touring major cities across the world, with recent performances at Glastonbury, Bonnaroo, Pitchfork and Roskilde all becoming talking points.

Having established his career from humble origins circa 1994, he quickly became a household name across the Middle East. He’s now recorded hundreds of live albums at Syrian weddings, which were then reproduced and sold at local kiosks. His first studio album, Wenu Wenu was released in 2013 to high critical acclaim.

One Of The World’s All Time Favourite Musicals, Les Misérables, Comes To Liverpool Empire Stage In 2019.

Cameron Mackintosh have announced further dates for the U.K. and Ireland tour of his acclaimed production of the Boublil and Schonberg musical Les Miserables. In addition to previously announced dates, the musical will play the Liverpool Empire from Wednesday 9th to Saturday 26th October.

Since Cameron Mackintosh first conceived this new production of Les Misarables in 2009 to celebrate the show’s 25th anniversary it has taken the world by storm. Originally touring the U.K. throughout 2009/10, and concluding with 22 performances at the Barbican, this production was hailed by audiences and critics alike.

Fiction Lies, Just In Time (To Be Too Late). Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Keeping time is essential, always running behind the clock leaves you stressed, being punctual is the height of good manners; such is the demand of etiquette, a hangover from previous generations that didn’t understand the occasion is sometimes too overwhelming for some and for them to process, that the individual is not regimented by time.

Alan Triggs, Hey Mister. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 8.5/10

Art should never be frozen, stuck in a place in which dust crawls and multiplies over the icy cage in which the artist’s endeavour is placed by the well-meaning and the loved-up into a place of no change, of never being able to grow, to adapt, to find another level in which hopefully the art in question will come to mean something different, something more.

Carr & Roswall, Time Flies. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Time is a construct in which we find ourselves filling in days with observations and damage limitation, with pursuits and love, and wherever possible with belief, a belief that what we create will be at least appreciated, if not valued. Time Flies when you’re having fun, however when that time disappears into the ether, a last salute before it is enveloped by unquenchable fog, what we find remaining is a truth, a social reality steeped in a language which we wish to embrace. We cannot fathom Time, we can only live in its shadow and pray we make the most of it and create something beautiful.

Yvonne Lyon, I Believe In Christmas. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Christmas comes but once a year, and for many that is one time too many, a season of excess, of superficiality, of overload and mental health issues as each year we forget that the point of it all is to reflect, to be thankful and look forward to the brighter days ahead. For some the abundance of good cheer perhaps masks the feeling of loneliness, of regret, the glut of merriment a shell in which we crawl to see us through dark times.

P.O.D. Circles. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Fashion, like conscious rebellion, goes around in Circles, what is popular and considered absolute authority one day, is rebutted and rebuked until a new generation comes along and finds their sympathies firmly entrenched with an older thought, old clothes, new perspective.

What is fashionable today somehow becomes a renaissance figure tomorrow, the resurgence in popularity that comes along is to be expected, but not always one that surfaces against the tide of expectation and delivery. It takes a genuine thought of speaking out between the old and new and ploughing a path less visited in which to grab the attention of those you wish to have by your side for the battle ahead.

Muse, Simulation Theory. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

You should never blame a set of artists for wanting to change direction in how their work is viewed, everything must adapt, all must be like the waves, the tide and the shifting sands, secrets must reveal themselves, unknown coves must explored, and yet the audience must also understand that in the pursuit of change, of natural revolution, the distinction between the admiration of what lay before and the possible intrigue of what lays ahead can reveal a chasm, an almost unbridgeable divide -it is only a theory, but one that can cause problems down the line when the artist turns their head back to what went before.