Kristin Hersh, Wyatt At The Coyote Palace. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is a whisper that floats through the world that is often indecipherable, that is infinite and yet never seems to be allowed to begin, it is the whisper of creative passion; not something that really comes out in a blaze of glory, but instead sits in the soul and waits, sending out the random pulse like a signal from a far off planet’s inhabitants wanting to make contact with humanity, it is often undetected, sometimes gleaned at, but all the while wanting to be embraced like a child on its first day breathing air and reacting to stimuli.

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

The Delerium Trees, Paradise Will Be. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Optimism is infectious, it takes you down roads you might never have imagined ever taking, of the street of possible security, through the avenue of seeing a dream unfold and take root; it is an emotion though that is hard to handle, difficult to control and unless reigned back, tempered with the pitfalls and consequences that the search and the hope in what Paradise Will Be.

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

Mark Thomas: Showtime From The Frontline, Theatre Review. Playhouse, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

A man walks into a comedy club and finds a way to make life better through humour and observational clowning; it could be the start to perhaps one of the most farcical jokes, instead it becomes the punch line to the best evening of wit and the pathos of human tragedy conceived.

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

Ha, Laughs Life.

Life’s eternal joke;

kick you in the nuts

when you having a glimmer

of a nice day,

then acting as a sweetener,

a smile of lopsided joy,

allows you three numbers

on the lottery only

to remember what it is like when your

ship docks at the wrong port

and your ceiling comes crashing down.

Ian D. Hall 2018

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East Anglian Quartet Ducking Punches Come To Liverpool This April.

East Anglian punk rock quartet, Ducking Punches, is lining up an appearance at Maguire’s, Liverpool on 9th April.

The band will be hitting the road to tour their acclaimed new album Alamort. Tracked and mixed at Crooked Rain Studio in Leeds by Bob Cooper (Nai Harvest/Citizen/The Orielles) and further mastered at Sonic Iguana Studio by punk-rock guru Mass Giorgini (Anti-Flag/Rise Against), ‘Alamort’ saw them cast off the acoustic roots of Dan Allen’s earlier incarnation of the moniker for an altogether heavier, full band effort.

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

Doc ‘N’ Roll Film Festival Comes Back To Liverpool For Its Third Edition.

The U.K.’s Music Documentary Festival returns in 2018 for its third Liverpool edition with an extended programme of eight premiere films running from 28th March to 1st April.

A huge local draw for the Doc ’N’ Roll Film Festival this year is surely the U.K. premiere of a music documentary about Liverpool’s own Merseybeat heroes: The Big Three. For the first time, the band’s incredible story will be spotlighted in depth in Todd Kipp’s Some Other Guys – The Story of The Big Three.

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(1883 words, estimated 7:32 mins reading time)

Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow, Waiting For A Sign. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

You could spend your entire life Waiting for a Sign, for the starting pistol trigger to show the potential of being pulled, of the moment when you know that the memories being made are more than just draws of memorabilia and junk. You could spend all your whole existence in search of that symbol which shines and calls out, “here is the beginning”, when in reality all you need is the gumption to understand, the sign was there all along, you just kept ignoring it.

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(432 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Place & Chips, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Alice Bunker-Whitney.

We are at constant war with the one to whom we are nothing without. The daily bombardment of information, propaganda sheets delivered, in magazines, on television, radio, in advertising, across conversations and whispered jibes about how we would be better off, feel better, look more amazing.

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(434 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Wicked, Theatre Review. Empire Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Helen Woolf, Aaron Sidwell, Kim Ismay, Steven Pinder, Emily Shaw, Iddon Jones, Charli Baptie, Emily Olive Boyd, Georgia Rae Briggs, Jason Broderick, Samantha Brown, Hannah Cadec, Grace Chapman, James Davies –Williams, Howard Ellis, Amy Goodwin, Daniel James Greenway, Jack Harrison–Cooper, Charlie Karlsen, Nicole Lupino, Stuart MacIver, Stacey McGuire, Sara Morely, Paul Saunders, James Titchener, Helen Walsh, Amy Webb, Luke Woollaston, Benjamin Yates, Amy Ross, Nikki Bentley.

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

Platform Eight.

Your train comes in at just after eleven,

slow pull up on platform eight

old friend, a memory calling

at stations in between, past towns

we never visited, houses

and farms we would never see inside,

closed curtains cutting out the view,

our life open to exposure, scenes from

a life cut open

and bleeding slowly

on platform eight.

 

Ian D. Hall 2018

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