I’ll Be Damned, Road To Disorder. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

When you feel as if the entire universe has set you up for the fall, that the long-held belief of a golden trail of fortune in your life, then it is perhaps only the knowledge of what awaits on the Road To Disorder that can set you free from your chains. Those chains are only as rigid as you wish to make them, if you half-heartedly jangle them in a manner befitting the stroppy and the weak-willed, then they will hold fast; however, should you pull hard on the steel and bound fast iron, till the muscles ache and the mind is ready to explode, then the road to disorder is one to celebrate, for at least you are going there on your terms.

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(414 words, 1 image, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

June 1974, Nemesi. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The quietly spoken word speaks volumes, if that is the case, then the instrumental only soliloquy, or the book of low rising, highly passionate notes which pulls the listener into a different realm of introspection. Words are power, a presentation without such terms of vocal expression should perhaps be seen as deep magic, an enchantment, a charm which weaves itself around the idea of retribution against hubris, and one in which the Nemesis adores the sound of.

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(371 words, 1 image, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Helion Prime, Terror of the Cybernetic Monster. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To have free reign over your imagination is arguably the greatest gift that we can hold onto, especially in a time in which demands to the point of almost bombastic, ordered without question, fascist intent that we think of nothing but the next Pound, Euro, Yen or Dollar. To have the ability to withstand this featureless political doctrine and exemplify the beauty of marrying both hard science and science fiction in a cold merciless machine, is to know that the possibilities are still endless, that humanity still matters above all else.

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(435 words, 1 image, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

In The Shade.

 

Sun drenched bars

as spiders fight, at first glance,

for supremacy

in the shadow of the daily play,

a weaved take, strands of Old England,

forever gone, but the dusty John

lives on, Mistress Page and the leaf

she breathed life within, can still be found

in the ragged and witch like May Queen’s

realm, spiders by the Stratford banks

not fighting,

on closer inspection, the female

was attempting

the art of wooing, unsuccessful,

as the male only wanted to live

in the shade.

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(92 words, estimated 22 secs reading time)

Slaves Announce Biggest U.K. Tour To Date, Including Night At Liverpool’s o2 Academy.

Ahead of the release of their third album Acts of Fear and Love, Slaves have announced a U.K.-wide tour for this November, including a headline show at London’s legendary Alexandra Palace. The band will also be coming to Liverpool’s o2 Academy as part of the tour on Friday 16th November.

Already known as one of the U.K.’s most ferocious live acts, the band will be bringing their A-Game to this run of shows as they introduce their new material to the masses. Expect big riffs, bigger beats and the sense of beer-hurling mayhem that has followed the band from their earliest shows in Tunbridge Wells boozers to the main stages at major European and US festivals.

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(244 words, estimated 59 secs reading time)

Jane Austen’s Persuasion Brought To Life On The Playhouse Stage This October.

To celebrate 200 years of the work of one of Britain’s greatest authors, a newly adapted production of Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion visits the Playhouse from 9th-13th October.

Brought to the stage by Theatre6 and Catherine Schreiber, Jane Austen’s final novel is performed on stage for the first time as part of a U.K. tour, featuring an original score by Maria HaIk Escudero. Directed by Kate McGregor with costumes inspired by the period, the production sees the theatre company behind the critically-acclaimed Gabriel, featuring Paul McGann, return to the Playhouse for the first time since 2017.

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(304 words, estimated 1:13 mins reading time)

The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Theatre Review. The R.S.C., Stratford-Upon-Avon.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: David Troughton, Rebecca Lacey, Paul Dodds, Karen Fishwick, Beth Cordingly, Vince Leigh, David Acton, Jonathan Cullen, Ishia Bennison, Stevie Basaula, Luke Newberry, Sakuntala Ramanee, Nima Taleghani, Charlotte Josephine, Afolabi Alli, Josh Finan, Katy Brittain, Tim Samuels, Tom Padley, John Macaulay.

One may play with time and words and not always get them right, not every sentence uttered in this world of ours can be set down with accuracy, not every speech is heralded and praised for its rhythm and beating heart cadence. Yet, in the act of unsolicited wooing, the words never truly fit the mouth and the insincere clumsiness of the potential, unwelcome, suitor is but the action of one only thinking of one thing.

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(551 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)

Asleep In This Norfolk Town.

 

We’re on the road to Cromer,

something inside has died,

or was that wishful thinking,

a brass knuckle fight

with myself that leaves me

covered in bruises of scorn.

 

I knew a man once, who declared

with less than a twinkle in his eyes,

that he had fallen asleep

on a wrought iron park bench,

previously occupied by Norfolk pigeons

and the random blown evening newspaper,

one sunny day in that far off town.

He didn’t wake for a couple of days,

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(120 words, estimated 29 secs reading time)

From SW1 To L1, Made In Chelsea Stars Get Set For Epstein Theatre Date.

Made in Chelsea stars Jamie Laing and Francis Boulle will swap the streets of Chelsea for the stage at the Epstein Theatre as they head to Liverpool this October with their debut tour Private Parts.

The show is inspired by the duos popular Private Parts podcast which sees them bare all and read out their diaries each week and comes to the Hanover Street venue on Monday 22nd October.

Audiences can expect a hilarious no holds barred insight in to the lives of the loveable reality stars who promise to share all the intimate and sordid details of their private lives, including the on and off-screen gossip.

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(366 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Brooke Bentham Announces Liverpool Date As Part of September Tour.

In anticipation of her keenly-awaited new material, Brooke Bentham, is delighted to announce a slew of Autumn shows with the sensational Soccer Mommy. As part of the tour, Brooke will be performing at Liverpool’s Shipping Forecast on Saturday 8th September.

An arresting and refreshing new talent in the singer-song-writing field, Brooke will support the Nashville star in the U.K. & Eire between 4th-13th September, culminating with in a show at the London Scala. The pair will then embark on a short stint of European shows.

The news comes as Brooke prepares to release the follow-up to her heart-stopping Ben Baptie (Daughter, Adele, Lapsely) produced single, Losing Baby.

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(332 words, estimated 1:20 mins reading time)