Wet Ribbed Bones.

The bones are showing

through the ceiling, bare bones

dew ribs, dripping wet ribs, uncovered

and on show, surgeon hesitating

keeping this patient alive

without operating, without the knife

or the blue sheet to keep the dust

in place inside these wet ribbed bones.

Wet ribbed bones, wet ribbed bones,

poking through the ceiling, cartoon,

loony tunes skeleton playing on the xylophone

as I stand beneath the patient,

looking up, looking for the light,

at the end of this rib cage tunnel

and wondering when the sutures

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The Evocative Love Story, Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella, Returns To The Liverpool Empire This April.

New Adventures are delighted to be bringing the much-anticipated return of Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella to Liverpool. The production plays the Liverpool Empire from 10th – 14th April as part of a U.K. tour.

One of New Adventures’ most loved productions Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella is a thrilling and evocative love story, set in London during the Second World War.

Matthew Bourne’s interpretation of the classic fairy tale has, at its heart, a true war-time romance. A chance meeting results in a magical night for Cinderella and her dashing young RAF pilot, together just long enough to fall in love before being parted by the horrors of the Blitz.

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(256 words, estimated 1:01 mins reading time)

Simon Beaufoy’s Award Winning Stage Play, The Full Monty, Comes To The Chester Storyhouse As Part Of Final Ever U.K. & Ireland Tour.

David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers’s presentation of the Sheffield Theatres production of Simon Beaufoy’s The Full Monty – which won the U.K. Theatre Award for Best Touring Production – will tour the U.K. and Ireland for the final ever time in 2018/19.

The Full Monty comes to Storyhouse in Chester from Monday 24th September to Saturday 29th September 2018. Tickets are on sale now.

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(381 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

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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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)