Black Men Walking, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Tyrone Huggins, Trevor Laird, Tonderai Munyevu, Dorcas Sebuyange.

By denying the inalienable truth of the past, we suffer the fools of the future, instead of celebrating the fact, we experience the danger of lies and slurs becoming the norm, it is this misrepresentation of history that brings us the insanity of Presidents and the vileness of certain groups and their unfathomable so called logic, better to admit in the open and let the fools run, that the country we live in, no matter where we live, is made of a history that is more diverse, more beautiful than we understand, that we all walk, we walk in the shadow of our ancestors.

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(444 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Sons Of Mowgli, Wasted Years. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We have a propensity to squander years and not regret them and yet the minutes in between, the subtly of the clock marching slowly onwards, we find ourselves consumed with appearing busy. The ever watchful eye of those we place above us confirming to us that it is in the here and now that we are forever seeking solace and reassurance, that the years themselves can take care of themselves, for who truly thinks of five or ten years ahead when we don’t even know how we will be looked upon tomorrow.

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(385 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Penicide.

 

Don’t let it be by the gun, rather a pun,

a word or a thousand in line, revised,

perhaps, but would rather leave each sentence

delivered as the judge requires, laid down law,

mistaking my zest for apathy,

not so,

it is just a work in progress that is over half way passed

and should there be need for an additional

chapter or appendix whipped out

before it bursts into paper shreds, then let the pen decide,

let life be snuffed out by the nib,

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(111 words, estimated 27 secs reading time)

Fast Rising Stars The Sherlocks Announce U.K. Headline October Tour, Including A Night At The Liverpool 02 Academy.

After their biggest sold out U.K. tour to date earlier this year, followed by a European tour as main support for Liam Gallagher, the band are currently on an American tour. The Sherlock’s’ debut album Live For The Moment was released late 2017 to fantastic critical reviews and entered the official U.K. charts at number 6, an outstanding achievement for a debut album and the biggest selling debut album for a band last year.

The Sherlocks, consisting of two sets of brothers, have been steadily building a solid live following and were the first unsigned band since Arctic Monkeys to sell out their local venue the Sheffield Leadmill.

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(290 words, estimated 1:10 mins reading time)

The Smash Hit Production Of Annie Returns To Chester’s Storyhouse Next March.

Michael Harrison and David Ian are delighted to announce that their smash hit production of the musical ANNIE will embark on a U.K. tour opening at the Manchester Opera House on Saturday 9th February 2019.

This production recently ran for an extended season in the West End following a sell-out tour of the U.K. and Ireland in 2015/16 and will open later this month in Toronto.

The tour will visit Storyhouse, Chester from 25th-30th March 2019, and tickets go on sale on Tuesday 1st May.

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(224 words, estimated 54 secs reading time)

Liverpool Arab Arts Festival (LAAF) Announces Emel Mathlouthi, 47SOUL And TootArd For 2018 Festival.

The U.K.’s biggest annual celebration of Arab culture will bring three of the Arab world’s most ground-breaking and internationally renowned artists to the city for the opening weekend of its 20th anniversary festival.

Liverpool Arab Arts Festival’s (LAAF) enhanced musical programme will enjoy a spectacular opening weekend with a performance from internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter and the “voice of the Tunisian revolution”, Emel Mathlouthi on Saturday 7TH July at the Invisible Wind Factory.

On Friday 6th July the festival will also present an enthralling and powerful co-headline performance from Arab electronic hip-hop supergroup 47SOUL and TootArd, a trailblazing ensemble from the occupied Golan Heights, at Constellations in the Baltic Triangle.

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(1008 words, estimated 4:02 mins reading time)

Lennon’s Banjo, Theatre Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Eric Potts, Jake Abraham, Mark Moraghan, Lynn Francis, Daniel O’Brien, Stephanie Dooley, Alan Stocks, Roy Carruthers.

Special guest appearance by Pete Best.

Memorabilia is big business, some of it only worth the money to the person that truly wants to covet it, to see it take pride of place in a darkened room and never let anyone ever see it again. The private collector to whom a piano played by Billy Joel, Elton John or Tori Amos is as valuable, if not more so, than keeping the instrument used to create art out of sight of millions; a type of dystopian pleasure, a greed that undeniably stokes the furnaces of ownership but also in which hangs tales of intrigue, of lost items and found loves.

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

The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Lily James, Matthew Goode, Jessica Brown Findlay, Michiel Huisman, Katherine Parkinson, Tom Courtenay, Glen Powell, Penelope Wilton, Bronagh Gallagher, Dilyana Bouklieva, Kit Connor, Marek Oravec, Steve Carroll, Nicola Pasetti, Andy Gathergood, Emily Patrick, Amil Freeman, Tom Owen.

The idyllic can hold a person’s mind entranced, the beauty of the location a veritable feast for the soul and the easy going nature of the locals, disarming, reassuring and pleasurable; yet in any place which holds the attention of the visitor, there is always the unspoken horrors that may have occurred, that may be pushed down so far into the consciousness that resurrect them is more painful than anyone from the outside can believe.

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(555 words, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)

The Leisure Seekers. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Helen Mirren, Donald Sutherland, Christian McKay, Janel Moloney, Dana Ivey, Dick Gregory, Leander Suleiman, Ahmed Lucan, Gabriella Cila, David Silverman, Lucy Catherine Haskill, Joshua Hoover, Kirsty Mitchell.

We all have that final dream within us, that if the moment comes when we are told there is no hope, that we fight to make hope ours, we go out of the way to remind people that once upon a time, we were incredible and that we should go out the same way, right to the end and the final breath, we must go out the same way we came into the world, as The Leisure Seekers, of always learning, always striving to improve, of seeing hope as our friend.

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(462 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Rob Clarke And The Wooltones, Big Night Out. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The added bonus extra is sometimes a piece of information that really doesn’t do or give additional benefit to the enjoyment of the main piece under consideration, it would be like seeing the treasured Benjamin West painting, The Death of Nelson, in all its glory at The Walker Art Gallery and saying, well I enjoyed the painting but for added emotional pleasure it would be better if the blood was more realistic and the sound of battle could be heard in the background; some things do not need the extra added bonus.

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(457 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)