CeCe Teneal & Soul Kamotion, #5or5000. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound And Vision Rating * * * *

To have any chance of success you need more than just the good will of one person in your corner; it is a sad state of affairs when a person’s voice in the modern world is drowned out by the flippant and the scratch your head unseemly. It is arguably the way of society now that has seen fit to laud the plastic and false and ignore the positive, the heroines and heroes to whom might get overlooked. To be in a million, or even 5 or 5000, requires people to open their hearts and their ears and allow the music to flow properly and with passion.

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(360 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

Death & The Penguin, Anomie. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is beauty in anarchy, even when the art involved might not seem as though it has a rebellious bone in its body, anarchy doesn’t have to be the great swathe of civil disorder, it must though lead to a renaissance of thought, no punches thrown, no fires started and glass smashed, all that is required in an age of illumination, is to see art explode like a bomb in the mind and the fallout scatter around enough to contaminate with fresh ideas all that come into contact with it.

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

Virago, Theatre Review. Hope Street Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Abigail McKenzie, Mike Sanders, Mark Holland, Charlotte Melville, Allan Nicol, Hayley Thompson, Caitlin Mary Carley Clough, Oliver John Lawrensen, Jessica Olwyn, Sam Walton.

With 2018 marking the centenary of voting rights for women and signalling the advent of the #metoo movement, the timing of Make It Write Productions’ Virago – four one-act plays focussing on formidable females – is savvy to say the least, as is executive producer Sharon Colpman’s diverse selection of scripts.

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(560 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

Sheila K. Cameron, Those They Chose. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

As we grow older, we often forget that it is our right to choose, that the heroines and heroes we look up to are nobody’s business but our own, that the way we live our lives, the hobbies, the personal items, the places we see and things we do, as long as we are not hurting someone else in the process, are our own validated memories to keep. The same goes for others, we have no right to implore our lives and likes onto them, for they stand also by the mantra, of Those They Chose.

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(403 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Billy Joel, Gig Review. Old Trafford, Manchester.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

In the self-styled Theatre of Dreams, it is perhaps fitting that one American music legend can turn up to Old Trafford football ground, and with great artistic tongue in cheek, play to the local crowd’s hearts by performing the opening segments to the local anthem of the Stretford End faithful before hitting home with a set list that won’t be heard anywhere else in the country this year.

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(518 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

80 Dog Days Of Summer.

 

It could be viewed as a bucket list

romance, my eighty days

staring at you,

getting to know you,

understand you,

hate you,

love you,

be fond of you,

swear at the frustration you cause me,

gently run my fingers across you,

bash down when the right thought

does not come to mind,

hurt you, as you destroy me

become your mirror image, embrace you,

finally leave you be

as when the dog days of August

whimper in heat after snarling

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(107 words, estimated 26 secs reading time)

The Darkness: Live At Hammersmith. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Stoke the cannons with a perfectly timed raised eyebrow, load up the molten balls with enough innuendo to take apart a battleship on the high seas and set the fuse going with the dogged appreciation. The reminder that Rock and Roll can be entertaining as well good for the heart and let rip, Open Fire, for one band with a sultry, Cavalier smile and an ear for the motif have returned better than ever and if any live album of the genre is worth investigating then The Darkness: Live at Hammersmith is surely it.

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

Orchards, Losers/Lovers. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is a certain delight that surrounds Brighton based band Orchards, the steady release of singles confirming the positive creativity that comes from an inseparable friendship, a meaning that comes from a shared history that stretches back across the recent folds of Time and in which the concept of love flourishes. It is idea that sees the band’s new release Losers/Lovers become a fascination, a regard for the enthral, one in which the letters in which sealed, and sometimes unrequited, amour is passionately held.

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(361 words, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

Bob Stone, Missing Beat. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

As all writers know, Time makes its own rules and quite often doesn’t adhere to them, Time is able to ridicule humanity, make fun of the way it plans and schemes and then sees it comes crashing down, a heartbeat missed, a skip in the fabric of time, and suddenly, as Pink Floyd rightly sang, “Ten years have got behind you.”

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(486 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Your Best Guess, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 8.5/10

Cast: Chris Thorpe, Jorge Andrade.

There are many futures that become the legend and home for the question of what if? A certain place in to which the once thought possible becomes a loose strand fluttering in the wind of uncertainty, hangs in the air for the realm of the hypothetical and to come and gather it up. Speculative fiction is rife with such stories, the turn of a single feather, the mark of a wrong turn, all leading to roads and arguably other futures in which Your Best Guess is as good as anyone’s but makes for the most riveting of tales and astonishing deep thought.

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(387 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)