Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
It takes a certain kind of logic and courage to not feel crushed by the weight of the modern age, that the reality we fight is nothing more at times than a personification of the fantasy, of the fiction, others have written, and we somehow have been foolish enough to believe.
Another zombie knocked on the door
in the early evening October
glow supplied
by moonlight and red rouged faces,
dipping into their mother’s
make-up bag
and the drool of fake blood
that gets wiped on the ghost’s
off-white bedroom sheet
because the taste of chocolate
isn’t as nice when your plastic Dracula
chops get in the way
of chewing and smiling stuffed face
dripping…
…expectation;
zombie, ghost and ghoulie,
growling wolf, a mistaken ballerina
swearing and threatening robbery
with violence, as only
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Lisa Howard, Steve Huison, Suzette Ahmet, Matt Connor, Michael Hugo.
We are living in a time of farce, a period of political instability in which nobody understands the game anymore, and which is unravelling to the point of embarrassing absurdity; if it wasn’t so frightening, so tragic, and with the constant concern of extremist views being able to sit at the same table as common decency and compassion, then it would be funny.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
You can cross yourself as many times as you wish, you can pray to the wind, seek solace in the heavens and speak in tongues to those you seek the warm embrace of protection from, but for all of that there must be an understanding that in a world that has descended into farce, where a President is anything but presidential and wise, where the will of the people is to commit themselves to absolute uncertainty, then perhaps there really are no Saints Among Us.
He went hunting for squirrels
on a cold October day.
I remember my time
in Pittsburgh being one
in which I sat playing cards
till four in the morning,
the fine whisky
slowly adding to the occasion
of friendship, far removed
from the man with the gun
in his hand
and hate seeping out of his porous heart.
The incline railway overlooking
all of creation, the once former
Steeler’s ground lost
to history it seemed,
but below, stewing in his bile soup
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
We live in a period of time in which we can say with grim fascination, that we reap the benefits of all our follies, that we get what we deserve; from politics, to the rage that is bent out of shape, an inward looking nation and public instead of one that is progressive and willing to change the world through kindness, compassion and hope. We have stumbled blindly, taken even greater steps to ensure that our minds are uncluttered by reasonable thought and debate, that our mouths flap in readiness to answer our own prejudices against everybody else’s opinion.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
If life is offering you nothing but Blues, then without any argument or sense of guilt the only thing that should be done is too take in the performance of a true link between the golden heyday of Blues, and its natural platinum standard of the 21st Century, that of the ever graceful American, and passionate guitar player, Robert Cray; it is a performance that thrill the bones of anyone, Anytime.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Temptation is either driven by the absolute desire to possess something that should never be yours, or by the smallest introduction to something that is beautiful, the latter not to own, but to at least explore, to take charge of feeling inadequate of not having seen its sparkling joy descend before your eyes before.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10
Cast: John Simm, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Katie Leung, Anthony Hayes, Tom Wu, Emilia Fox, Dervla Kirwan, Thomas Chaahing, Jason Wong, Christophe Tek, Rosalind Halstead, Kae Alexander, Tim McInnerny, Steve Broad, Ryan McKen, Nicholas R. Bailey, Raquel Cassidy.
Writing in a team can be beneficial, it can spark ideas and literary notions that might not have come into being had the specific drama or comedy not been had influx of creativity attached to it and yet at times it can feel as if the old proverb of too many cooks is not only apt, but can feel as though the resulting broth is one that completely should be taken out of the pan and never be shown to the viewer.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Stephanie Cole.
When the joke is on the viewer, then anarchy is to be praised, the realm of the perpetual joker is considered greener, for if you can fool an audience into believing a certain path is being undertaken and then leaving them exasperated at the television station’s apparent lack of care for what was billed as the big Halloween spectacle, a piece of television that was to be delivered in the toughest arena of all, the live performance.