Alison Moyet, Gig Review. M & S Bank Arena, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is a little under two years since Alison Moyet wowed the audience inside the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, the November evening being one of the most hauntingly beautiful to have taken place inside the grandness of the city’s prestigious venue. Time never diminishes such a talent like Alison Moyet, the setting may change, the atmosphere may vary, but for legends of music, to which Ms. Moyet undoubtedly belongs, what remains is the sheer exuberance and the depth of their passion for the chance to perform in front of an audience.

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(372 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

The Mule. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Clint Eastwood, Bradley Cooper, Manny Montana, Taissa Farmiga, Andy Garcia, Alison Eastwood, Michael Pena, Jill Flint, Laurence Fishburne, Clifton Collins Jr., Dianne Wiest, Ignacio Serricchio, Noel Gugliemi, Robert LaSardo, Katie Gill, Eugene Cordero.

There will come a time when the cinematic world will be without Clint Eastwood and Dianne Wiest as a shining examples of how actors of a certain era on screen can still convey such depths of emotion with a single look down the barrel of the camera that you cannot but feel certain emotions come to the forefront of your mind as you watch them effortlessly portray life. Awe, grace, hope, they all have their dynamic hold on the cinema goer, and whilst actors such as Michael Pena, Laurence Fishburne and Bradley Cooper bring a wonderful passion to the screen, it is to a golden generation that perhaps we owe a life-long debt of enjoying cinema to.

The Mule. Film Review. full post

(522 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler, Kit Harrington, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Kristen Wiig, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, F. Murray Abraham, Olafur Darri Olafsson, Craig ferguson, Justin Rupple, A.J. Kane.

It never ceases to amaze just how animation can make you appreciate all that you may have once feared, how it can illuminate a moment into clarity in such a way that its more artistically speaking and human face can ever think of achieving.

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(484 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

Emilie Khan, Outro. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There comes a time when we must move away from the childhood possessions and the thought of separation of voice and consequence as being two distinctive entities, we must do this in order to grow, to oblige the commitment shown to the series of assumptions and half formed ideas that we have had, and truly embrace the world with our own name and our own right of expression.

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(418 words, 1 image, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Rusty Shackle, The Raven, The Thief & The Hangman. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Stories are important, vital, central to the idea of what we are, the ability to weave a tale and have it last for generations is perhaps the reason why there is some approximate truth in the myths and legends that have given us a basis in which our lives have been built upon. Whilst dragons are not visible to our eyes, while the lost island of Atlantis evokes memories but no shred of final resting place, and the resting place of King Arthur remains a shrouded mystery, it is not to say that the folk legends that have grown up around them are any less intriguing than they were at the time of their first mentions by our ancestor’s tongues.

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(472 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

Calva Louise, Rhinoceros. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision * * * *

You may never have stepped into a boxing ring, you might find that pugilism is something you shy away from or even actively discourage your offspring from taking up as a sport but unless you have strapped on a pair of gloves and looked into your opponent’s eyes as the bell rings, then perhaps you will not recognise the pummelling that you are about to receive, and with thanks, from newcomers, Calva Louise.

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(389 words, 1 image, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Simon Thacker, Trikala. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

“The trouble is, you think you have time”, the occasion is such that few of us truly take the positive step to go out into the world and create something insanely beautiful that it will actively unite people from different countries and who will undoubtedly have different ways of expressing their thoughts. We all want a place in the future, the recognition for being active in the present and yet we are hampered with almost unbearable crushing pessimism that our past will get in the way, that it will stop us from enjoying the sense of Trikala, the sense of humanity’s relationship with those three ghostly shades of Time.

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

Katarina Pejak, Roads That Cross. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There are many rivers to navigate but the road is the one that perhaps gives a greater sense of broken-down romance, the ambling or the raging waterway will still be surrounded by the deft touch of nature on either side of the steep banks, but the highway holds dark secrets, many intersections that criss-cross, the one dirt track of a decision that leads inevitably  to heartbreak and nightmares. The unavoidable meetings with the one who calls the toll; all in all the river of life is a walk in the park compared to those who don’t heed the emotional warnings of the Roads That Cross our path.

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

Electric Mary, Mother. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Quite often in life the recommendations of others are to be taken with even the smallest pinch of salt, the sense of different taste is to be acknowledged, recognised, celebrated for all it is worth, and yet it must still be admitted. The only words of wisdom that you should ever trust apart from your own, is that of the one you call Mother, be it a physical person who has steered you right each time, or that of the symbolic, the one beneath our feet and the one that is all around, the icon of Mother Nature, the one that gives the planet the electric character of renewal and rebirth.

Electric Mary, Mother. Album Review. full post

(410 words, 1 image, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Aaron Buchanan And The Cult Classics, The Man With Stars On His Knees. Special Edition, Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Never feel the pangs of jealousy as you find yourself spying on those who look to the heavens with glee on their faces, they may be dreaming of touching the stars, but they never imagine themselves being The Man With Stars On His Knees, they see the glory available to them, but they cannot fathom that beyond that there is the question of care, that we are part of a Universe and as such are required to give all that we can to see what we love, grow.

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(449 words, 1 image, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)