Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
If A Bird In The Hand is worth two in the bush, then in the labours of Beans on Toast it must hold an entire menagerie, a cornucopia of brightly feathered introspections and meanings that hold the attention of his listeners and fans with no exception.
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iverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Beyond The End is a realm in which few grant themselves the luxury of witnessing, so wrapped up in the now, in taking pictures and recording facts of the currently in vogue, they forget that all soon turns to dust, that in the land of the loved lyric and painted words, it is perhaps the tune that endures longer, patient and appreciated; they say that nothing is beyond the finish line of our existence, and yet, as renowned composers of the past have long since been able to demonstrate, their work has lived on past the tolling of any iron bell.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
In opening up our souls to love we find ways in which to deal with the darkness that stalks our everyday existence, it might be one that makes us breathe a little harder, our pulse that dwells otherwise unhindered to spark with fire, fury and beauty, we might fall, we could rise, whatever happens we must heed that which speaks to us inside and perhaps find a way to stride like a giant through castle halls and say that no matter what is thrown at us we can deal, we can be assured of hope with The Skin I Live In.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole, Mandip Gill, Alan Cumming, Siobhan Finneran, Tilly Steele, Tricia Kelly, Arthur Kay, Stavros Demetraki.
Some incarnations of The Doctor impress you from the very beginning, some take time to grow on you, in a world that has become increasingly impatient and demands results straight away, it is only to be expected that there are fans who might display a little less rationale when it comes to seeing their favourite character portrayed against the stereo-type they have built up in their own mind, expected but still disappointing, understood but concerned that they cannot see beyond their field of perceived vision of what makes a hero.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Odessa Young, Hari Nef, Suki Waterhouse, Abra, Colman Domingo, Bill Skarsgard, Joel McHale, Anika Noni Rose, Bella Thorne, Maude Apatow, Cody Christian, Danny Ramirez, Susan Misner, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Noah Galvin, Lukas Gage, Jeff Pope, Joe Chrest, J.D. Evermore.
Quite elated
I felt when I read your
three words, chewed over
perhaps
or just a whim
of expression, not sure
how to be so bold
as to pay fortune and favour out
to one such as I,
a fool that inhabits the space I exist in,
humbled regardless
of the fact that you took time
out of your day
to step into mine,
and leave those three words of love,
really
rather
good.
Ian D. Hall 2018
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There will always be bands, institutions that come calling to the music venues of Liverpool of whom you just instinctively understand that the city will always turn out for in their droves for, that there will never be a moment when the loving feeling they have nurtured and held on to, will ever fade away.
A night when Heaven 17 drives its trusted and adored bandwagon across from South Yorkshire to the home of British Pop Music has always been one to savour, however in recent years it has taken on more a sense of mystical symbolism, the anniversaries have come thick and fast, important dates that are always worth celebrating have come round with what is sure to be seen as enticing to the fans as all celebrations do.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Christopher Eccleston, Aneurin Barnard, Tom Wilkinson, Gethin Anthony, Freya Mavor, Nigel Lindsay, Marion Bailey, Emma Campbell-Jones, Velibor Topic, Carol MacReady, Marcia Warren, Nathalie Buscombe, Orion Lee, Eileen Nicholas, Cecilia Noble, James Kermack, Keir Charles, Tim Steed, Neelam Bakshi, Mark Penfold, Parth Thakerar, Ashton Henry Reid, Terenia Cooper.
There are themes within art that many find unsettling, they seek to disapprove and claim that such investigations into the world of the person seeking suicide for example as an answer to their problems and ills are mawkish, they believe it is a form of self-pity that should not be encouraged, dangerous perhaps and potentially threatening to society.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *
Cast: Claire Foy, Sverrir Gudnason, Lakeith Stanfield, Sylvia Hoeks, Stephen Merchant, Claes Bang, Synnove Macody Lund, Cameron Britton, Vicky Krieps, Andreja Pejic, Mikael Persbrandt, Paula Schramm, Volker Brich, Saskia Sophie Rosendahl, Pal Sverre Hagen.
In much the same way that many insist the James Bond franchise of films has run out space in which to turn, driving its Aston Martin series persona into a cul-de-sac of revenge and suggested toxic masculinity, so too does the character created by Stieg Larsson, Lisbeth Salander, facing her own accusations of misandry and brutality. An eye for an eye perhaps, a reflection of modern times and a heroine in which punches back harder than those who seek domination by sheer size and brute strength.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10
Cast: Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx, Ben Mendelsohn, Eve Hewson, Jamie Dornan, Tim Minchin, Paul Anderson, F. Murray Abraham, Ian Peck, Cornelius Booth, Kane Headley-Cummings, Scott Greenan, Lara Rossi, Kevin Griffiths, Bjorn Bengtsson, Yasen Atour, Nick Wittman, Josh Herdman.
When you re-imagine the tale, there will always be arrows of derision ready to take aim and fire off volleys of shots of criticism; tampering with a classic is for some beyond acceptable, the story should be sacrosanct, etched in stone and forever told in a way that respects the past, as much as it pays esteem to our memory of it.