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Cast: Denzil Washington, Pedro Pascal, Ashton Sanders, Orson Bean, Bill Pullman, Melissa Leo, Jonathan Scarfe, Sakina Jaffrey, Kazy Tauginas, Garrett Golden, Adam Karst, Tamara Hickey, Jim Loutzenhiser, Rory Benjamin Smith, Ted Arcidi, Karen York.
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Cast: Mila Kunis, Kate McKinnon, Justin Theroux, Sam Heughan, Hasan Minhaj, Gillian Anderson, Dustin Demri-Burns, Mirjam Novak, Jane Curtin, Paul Reiser, Ivanna Sakhno, Fred Melamed, James Fleet, Carolyn Pickles, Justin Wachsberger, Kevin Ezekiel Ogunleye, Tom Stourton, Roderick Hill, Olafur Darri Olafsson.
When a film doesn’t know what it wants to be, perhaps the best thing that an audience can do is allow it to flow naturally and under its own progression. Putting a film into a genre specific box sometimes doesn’t fit, too many square edges, a piece of corner missing, and allusion to subtext which has no space to breathe; and yet flow it does, it somehow squeezes past defiance and nestles in the hole it has walked with confidence into and refuses to budge.
Mark Moraghan, Emma Dears, Eric Potts, Stephanie Dooley and Maria Lovelady amongst the star cast of Helen Forrester’s By The Waters Of Liverpool.
The producers of the new stage play sequel of Helen Forrester’s much-loved Twopence To Cross The Mersey have announced the complete cast.
By The Waters Of Liverpool will be given its premiere this Autumn in Liverpool, where the famous books are set and staged at the city’s Liverpool Empire from Wednesday 3rd October to Saturday 13th October 2018.
The Prodigy have announced a U.K. and European tour this November and December to tie in with their seventh studio album No Tourists which is released 2nd November 2018. The twenty-date tour will see the band play the opening night of their tour in Glasgow to coincide with the album’s release date and will come to Liverpool’s Echo Arena on 8th November. All tickets will be on general sale on Friday August 31st at 9:30am.
Always uncompromising, The Prodigy’s influence can be seen across generations, turning metal kids onto raving and ravers into metalheads. The band put out genre destroying record after genre defying record and from the very start, The Prodigy were renegade revolutionaries. Put simply, The Prodigy are no tourists and never were.
I could build a fort
out of the boxes
stacked up,
almost threatening me with insecurity
and false hope, a twin assault
on my nerves as I lead up
to the big day.
Fort anxiety, Fort Pride comes before a fall,
Fort…possibility, Fort…no, Garrison of optimism,
I didn’t sign up to the French Foreign Legion
or to be the bag man at Custer’s last stand,
this Norman tower I build from boxes
filled with the death of trees, Pulp Fiction,
is today the stronghold in which I
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Love, it is the greatest thing, the poets and the pop stars agree on that at least, even if their view points on the rest of life and existence differ wildly. Love is like a beast, it is the slow caress by Time. It can hurt, confuse and exhilarate and almost never in equal terms, never as if the times or the beat of the heart were in synch; but then Seasons of Love rarely do come together with the idea of the ever-lasting, it is only in the anthology that we see the potential of the relationship, no matter the form, no matter the aspiration, all that matters is love.
It was just a brush of lips
from what was at first a passing
stranger, undecorated, unperfumed,
more than a hint of beauty
tucked away in foreign,
never to be explored shores,
a stranger that came to represent so much more,
a passing of daily time, now
separated by sea and the once only,
never to be repeated kindness
of such youthful female gaze;
it was just a brush of lips,
that I would never taste again.
Ian D. Hall 2018
Robert Cray. Photograph used with kind permission by CMP Entertainment.
Legendary guitarist and singer-songwriter Robert Cray returns to the U.K. in Autumn 2018 following the success of his most recent album – the Blues Music Awards nominated Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm. It is a return which will see this elegant Master of the Blues come to the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on Sunday 28th October.
Considered one of the greatest guitarists of his generation, Cray’s soulful and creative guitar work has been a dominant force in blues for over forty years, widely recognized and acknowledged by peers and audiences alike.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
You cannot choose family, it is a readymade solution to helping you in sour times, it is the possible agony to be expected when life takes the sad or unexpected turn; family is shrouded in the playful and sometimes the jealous, without it though nature and society become off-balance, you can fall and your sister will pick you up, but quite often there is nothing more helpful at your back than knowing and saying to yourself that the Brothers Of Mine will be watching, ready and waiting for action.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
In the end it is how you approach life that makes you stand out, despite what the day may throw at you, no matter the events leading up to the moment you take the stage upon; you glare in to the lights, you see the audience’s own hopes and dreams reflected back at you, and you sing and perform as if the world and its consequences don’t matter. For the point is simple, you do everything in your power to sing as if you are bringing the night to an end at Madison Square Garden, that you are saying Goodnight Manhattan.