Dan Webster, Devil Sky. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The Tin Man has been left behind, the hero perhaps of his own story and one that he must endeavour to take alone from here on in, however the tale is far from over and as the thoughts of late nights in once smoky rooms, the smell of whisky filters between the vapour inhaled up the nose and the sweet taste as it explodes in the mouth to the tune of four aces being laid down with the approach of a killer hit. Then it could be considered fortunate for the man of tin, for above him, unseen by the players round the table, the clouds turn a deep shade of red, a fire that burns with sincerity opens up and the result is that the Devil Sky has come to light the way.

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(427 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Klammer, You Have Been Processed. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is an idea that should only exist in the minds of the Science Fiction writers and the followers of such dire threats laid down in the adventures of humanity’s eternal quest of individualism, of freeing the oppressed from their shackles and their slavery; in the words of so many who passionately parrot-phrase the words, Orwell’s 1984 was meant to be “a warning, not an instruction booklet”, their intentions, whilst repeated so often they lose their power, still holds true, we have become a commodity, the label on show, You Have Been Processed to the point of a billion numbers.

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(423 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Picnic At Hanging Rock. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Natalie Dormer, Lily Sullivan, Lola Bessis, Harrison Gilbertson, Samara Weaving, Madeleine Madden, Inez Curro, Ruby Rees, Yael Stone, Philip Quest, Marcus Graham, James Hoare, Mark Coles Smith, Don Hany, Anna McGahan, Bethany Whitmore, Mayah Fredes, Alyssa Tuddenham, Kate Bedford, Markella Kavenagh, Johnny Pasvolsky, Emily Gruhl, Neil Melville, Nicholas Hope, John Flaus, Tom Hobbs, Aaron Glenane, Roslyn Gentle, Lee Cormie, Kate Box, Kaarin Fairfax, Sibylla Budd, Bruce R. Carter, Felix Johnson, Charlotte Steenbergen.

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(573 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

Hidden. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Rhodri Meilir, Sian Reese-Williams, Gwyneth Keyworth, Sion Alun Davies, Gillian Elisa, Nia Roberts, Ian Saynor, Victoria Pugh, Lowri Izzard, Garmon Rhys, Elodie Wilton, Owen Arwyn, Lara Catrin, Sarah Tempest, Lois Meleri-Jones, Rhodri Sion, Ioan Hefin, Mali Ann Rees, Megan Llyn, Melangell Dolma, Gwion Aled Williams, Morfudd Hughes, Jess Parsons, Manon Wilkinson, Gwydion Rhys, Beth Robert, Mari Rowland Hughes, John Pierce Jones, Wyn Bowen Harries, Mark Lewis Jones, Greta James.

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(540 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Yesterday’s News.

The freshly battered chip shop

saveloy drips its grease

slowly across my yesterday’s news

face, a picture, I hoped,

of intrigue and stately poise,

preserving in time a pose

that will adorn a thousand books,

now already out of time,

already an article

lost to the age of the once staple

and not rationed meal, eat

your fill, no coupon required

and let the batter fill your heart

completely and forever, whilst

the day I appeared in my local paper

is remembered for placing

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(103 words, estimated 25 secs reading time)

Matt Dunbar, This Room Burns Bright. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

You are never where you want to be, and the effect of nostalgia has a demanding effect, not only as you get older, finding the whimsy of the scarlet hue of youth a perfect place in which to reminisce but because of the way that modern life has such a strangle-hold on the way we communicate and the way we live, perhaps going months, even years from seeing those we hung around as children, when the world was an easier place to believe that all would be alright.

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(505 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Kidderminster Harriers Gain Steam On The Wing.

It might not be the first

place, this town in Worcestershire,

that you deliberate over with

ponderous ambition

but perhaps Kidderminster

should have a thought, a moment

of attention, as the rising steam

and black grumpy cloud

muddle together with the song

of yesterday, vapour

on the wing as the Harriers take the game

by the scruff of the neck

and equalise, last minute or so,

saluted by days gone by

as supporters walk

with drawn point faces

through the haze of nostalgia

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(108 words, estimated 26 secs reading time)

Morgan Rider, Deep Dark River. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Without the story-teller, life is without its supply of imagination, without the musician, life is devoid of meaning; the combination of these two pursuits is more than a stream of passion that runs dry in times of exhausting, and parching, artistic drought, it is a mighty waterway, as bottomless as the eyes and ears can fathom, deep and never shallow but one that holds perhaps the unsolvable puzzle close to its soul; one that cannot even be gleaned unless the listener is prepared to jump in and seek the treasure to be found in the Deep Dark River.

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(442 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

The Magpie Salute, High Water I. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

One for sorrow, two for joy… a child’s rhyme in which the salute to ward of the possible impending nature of bad luck is rewarded with the idea that all can be turned to good fortune, a prophesy perhaps, a revelation of what is to come. If that is the case, then the twelve tracks that make up The Magpie’s Salute’s debut album High Water I must have taken the rhyme to heart as they have served up a set of songs that can immediately placed into the bracket of the modern classic; a lofty high in which many magpies may have felt like royalty due to the consistency of the signalled musicianship.

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(394 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Full Fat, In The Dark. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The one overriding thought that comes with being In The Dark, is that eventually you will find the illumination that will lead the way out into the light, that a word, a movement, a measured resonance will indicate that the well-lit is only a deep breath away, that all you need to do is stop and think for a while, let the sound of the ticking in your mind lead you away from the dark and out into the open, out to embrace the Full Fat of the world.

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(367 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)