Valentine’s Day is cruel,
unforgiving as expectations are raised
and the hope of a declaration of love
so special is hoisted high
in the hopes that your relationship
is seen to be perfect;
she told me to be ready by seven,
the table was booked for eight
and for a change
she was treating me to a night out
in low lights, soft music
and a night which was not
to be considered make
or break.
I hated the idea of such fuss,
You’re in the Waiting Room…
He’ll be coming soon
How are you today?
Won’t you step this way!
Now sit down in the Chair
Only the nurse is here
Why don’t you open wide
I’ll have a look inside…
It’s Just Terror ,Terror
in the Dentists Chair…
Now I’ll give you Gas or Novacain
that’ll soothe the pain
One good pull will do
Delirious I never knew
Pink Mouthwash rinse it out…
Gushing blood spit it out…
Make another appointment please
I’ll see you again next week!
It was like scanning a dial,
an old fashioned radio receiver
searching in the darkness
for Radio Luxemburg, static,
partial signal, lost, found, ear
splitting, brain numbing sound
as you close one eye in response
and try to shrug away as the dentist,
fiendishly and with enamel desire
starts removing the loose and the cracked,
the split and gleefully
finds the station’s pulse mark
and enjoys the hits coming forth,
in at this week’s number ten, a new sensation
drill baby drill.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
We are only human after all, we see the world not in black and white but in an armada of colours, almost psychedelic, almost in a state of flux somewhere between utter panic and soulful serenity; to think otherwise is to deny ourselves one of the basic fundamentals of existence, that when look into the eyes of strangers, of those we see every day, and even the constant weave of those we fancy, take a shine too or just daydream about, we know deep down that the Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life.
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Somewhere up past New York City’s 77th Street, digging deep into the Harlem past and roundabout cool, there is a place in which the Blues can be heard to be more than a memory, more than being a place in which the lure of the quick and easy buck can nestle alongside reminisce and virtue. Somewhere in the deep heart of New York’s five boroughs is still the sound of piano driving home the call to the San Francisco coast and the Mississippi heartlands of the put upon working class, that Blues is still a God to reckoned with, that Mitch Woods is still one of the purveyors of the sad lament and truthful bible and with the help of Friends Along The Way, the sound never will diminish in its importance and heart breaking purity.
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In the end addiction will get the better of you, even in the comforting tones of art, for in striving for more, to reach the high that comes with the laudable and the attained pleasure, the chemicals in the brain will tell you that it can always be pursued, that tiredness can be overcome with positive thoughts, a different diet, exercise, taking the advice of the desperate for attention and the ones who hold a pointed gun at your temple.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, Anton Lesser, Sara Vickers, Sean Rigby, Dakota Blue Richards, James Bradshaw, Caroline O’ Neill, Phil Daniels, Donald Sumpter, Emma Rigby, Linette Beaumont, Abby Wilson, Iain Stuart Robertson, Christopher Sciueref, Ray Polhill, Alan David, John McAndrew, Simon Dutton, Luke Hornsby, Sophia Capasso, Pano Masti, Alister Hawke, David Shaw Parker, Lewis Peek, Robin Weaver, Betty Denville, Michael Levi Harris, Mark Arden, Steven Flynn, Christian J. Parkinson, Billy Rowlands.
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Cast: David Jason, James Baxter, Stephanie Cole, Tim Healy, Maggie Ollerenshaw, Johnny Vegas, Brigit Forsyth, Kulvinder Ghir, Sally Lindsay, Nina Wadia, Geoffrey Whitehead.
Natural progression in comedy is essential, especially on television where the day to day unravelling is far more illuminating than quick fire and often mistimed, it is perhaps the modern label though of gentle, or worse, wholesome, comedy that makes people avoid programmes such as Still Open All Hours; and by doing so the television viewer is missing out on the established acting range that is the product of honing dedicated skills in theatre and on television which has not been written by committee.
English Touring Opera announces its Spring 2018 season, featuring a host of new talent in Blanche McIntyre’s Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro and a revival of the 2011 Puccini: Il tabarro & Gianni Schicchi.
English Touring Opera has been lucky to work with a diverse range of singers since James Conway joined the company as General Director 15 years ago. In the past 15 years, singers such as Dame Sarah Connolly, Amanda Echalaz and James Rutherford have stunned ETO audiences as unknown superstars.
Now ETO’s Spring 2018 season looks forward to the next 15 years of opera and welcomes a whole host of new singing talent to the company.
The Liverpool Playhouse welcomes home its hugely successful co-production of The Kite Runner for five nights after a second West End run at London’s Wyndham Theatre.
Based on the bestselling novel by Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner is a powerful story of two friends Amir and Hassan and embarks on a U.K. tour this year.
The co-production with Nottingham Playhouse was adapted for the stage by playwright Matthew Spangler and is directed by Giles Croft. The production has received critical acclaim since its premiere in 2013.
A haunting tale of friendship which spans cultures and continents, it follows one man’s journey to confront his past and find redemption.