Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Looking forward it always seems perfectly sensible to Shine A Light into the darkness, into the unexpected and day to day unknown, the challenging, often energy draining, action comes with taking that light and looking at where you have been, behind you, into the past where such regrets and missed opportunities come back to not only haunt you but to make you feel conspicuous as to your mind set in the present day.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Alexander Skarsgard, Keira Knightley, Jason Clarke, Martin Compston, Kate Phillips, Jannik Schumann, Fionn O’Shea, Alexander Scheer, Flora Thiemann, Tom Bell, Jim High, Anna Katherina Schimirigk, Abigail Rice, Iva Sindelkova, Logan Hillier, Joseph Arkley, Fredrick Preston, Claudia Vasekova.
Liverpool Sound and Vision rating 9/10
The curated sense of the critic will often dismiss a piece of art because it doesn’t suit their view of the world. All that they learned perhaps in the mud and avoiding arrows of open-mindedness is left to become bleak, a simmering condescension of opinions, desolate, and one that is left to become sterile, and all because it finally came across that they didn’t care, that they no longer gave a damn to how the view of the world has changed since they first drew fiery breathe.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There is no such thing as a beautiful minefield, there is only the dream of utopia, but it comes with a cost that some are happy to wash away, almost cleanse, how they got to that situation in the first place, when history is written, invariably it has been from a point of view that has determined the loudest voices have had their say first, and to the detriment of others, to the subjugation, a certain view point has been lost, been allowed to have been censured and erased.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The Verdict is yours, the conclusion of years of following a particular band or genre is at the end of it all, down to the listener and how they respond to the memories and how the artist has progressed, how the original shape has morphed and adapted to the changes to which Time throws out like a snare, a trap in to which to fall, or to avoid, either being a godsend, both being the point of experience, and one to which some bands are negligent of observing, one that Queensryche across their own time have been successful of overpowering and conquering; albeit it to the cost of personnel and their once distinctive sound over the years.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, Anton Lesser, Sean Rigby, James Bradshaw, Caroline O’Neil, Sara Vickers, Simon Harrison, Richard Riddell, Alexander Hanson, Faith Omole, Zaris-Angel Hator, Carol Royle, Laura Donoughue, Michael Jenn, Precious Mustapha, Paul Jesson, Aiden McArdle, Alison Newman, Ian Saynor, Tom Gordon, Abigail Thaw, Colin Tierney, Ian Burfield.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *
Cast: Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Tiffany Haddish, Stephanie Beatriz, Alison Brie, Nick Offerman, Charlie Day, Maya Rudolph, Will Ferrell, Jadon Sand, Brooklynn Prince, Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Richard Ayiade, Ben Schwartz, Noel Fielding, Jason Momoa, Cobie Smulders, Ike Barinholtz, Ralph Fiennes, Will Forte, Jimmy O. Yang, Jorma Taccone, Bruce Willis, Gary Paton, Sheryl Swoopes, Todd Hansen, Doug Nicholas.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Steve Harley at the Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. March 2019. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
There are moments when you recognise just what the simple act of singing as an audience to the performer who has had you gripped in their words and music for a couple of hours can do to them, the acknowledgement that love is mutual, that this simple act can reduce them to a stunned state of happiness and perhaps sees them leave the stage with their emotional state of self-criticism reduced to the point of non-existence, lost for words but thanking all who can see their face as they move to the wings with the symbolic gesture of the nod of the head, the motion of reciprocated appreciation.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Give someone the chance to surprise you and they will undoubtedly take the opportunity provided and then credit it you when it matters, in their performance, in the way they stand up on any stage the world will provide, and then act with absolute decorum and pleasure.
Liverpool Sound and Vision rating 9/10
Cast: Ross Almond, Natalie Barton, Ruby Bains, Leo Bertamini, Ellen Boyland, Erin Clarke, Stuey Dagnall, John Dixon, Olivia Dougherty, Joe Edwards, Georgie Evans, Spike Fairclough, Will Flush, Grace Fordham Bibby, Alisha Foriyire, Helena Harvey, Amber Higgins, Jake Holmes, Chloe Hughes, Esther Johnson, Connor Kelly, Neve Kelman, Luke Logan, Niamh McCarthy, Callum McCourt, John McGuick, Jack Malloy, Aimee Marnell, Chloe Nall-Smith, Joe Owens, Jamie Pye, Phil Rayner, Jess Reilly, Adam Rohan, Nathan Russell, Harry Sergeant, Kaila Sharples, Hannah Thornton, Ellie Turner, Laura Tryer, Natalie Vaughn, Tommy Williams.