There is no water that flows or drips
down the drain and to be carried
out to sea, it stands
almost still, interrupted in its quiet
domination of all it touches
only by the gentle aftermath of wind,
slowly pushing at the edges, slowly,
slowly, rippling back time.
There is no water that flows from the drain
to the sea, it stands moat like, defence
in its favour, defiant, as the one grate
it surrounds, stands aloof and proud
to be on a higher plane
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Wille and the Bandits at the Music Rooms in Liverpool. March 2018. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
The equinox may turn and gift us the power of more sunlight in which the refuge of the day we seek but it is still in the apparent darkness, the illuminated room and the hum of electricity in which we come alive and warm ourselves in the company of the like minded, the curious and the players, those who are there to capture our hearts and drive the whispers of beige away into the furthest reaches and corners of our minds.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It is with the ferocity of a warrior’s heart to which we acknowledge that the world is not right, that it has always had its priorities wrong and the sense of balance that we are urged to seek to uphold the so called natural order, is nothing but a misaligned scale, weighted in the favour of the few, prejudiced by decisions taken long before we even had the chance to understand.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It often feels like the most insane of human accomplishments, the ability to mark down on a map where a boundary or borderline should be; even more bizarre that throughout the centuries and hundreds of thousands of years of steadily climbing up the evolutionary scale, that we should still ways of tearing each other apart, that we still look with green envious eyes to the shade and colour of the grass on the other side.
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Cast: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Sterling K. Brown, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Andy Serkis, Florence Kasumba, John Kani, Stan Lee.
It has taken time to get the film right, to put into place a mainstream film in which, not with-standing the excellent Wesley Snipes led Blade trilogy of films, has cast a superhero in which the cinematic experience is one of overwhelming joy, of learning the lessons shared with positive enlightenment and one that does not bow to the demands of absolute anger, Black Panther is a film in which the rise of the proud and the noble who have fought every inch of the way for such a moment will relish, and quite rightly so.
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Cast: Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu, Kristen Scott Thomas, Derek Jacobi, Billy Postlethwaite, Josef Altin, Jaime Winstone, Samuel Mak, Sky Yang, Civic Chung, Maisy De Freitas, Emily Carey, Nick Frost.
When the action on screen is more enjoyable than the overall story; that is the time in which to surrender the plot and just get out of the film what you can. It happens more often than you might think but rarely in such a brazen way in which the reboot of Tomb Raider has foisted upon the world and if it wasn’t for the admittedly spectacular stunts pulled off in part by Alicia Vikander, the whole film could be seen as a dramatic failure, only kept alive by the fandom of the indomitable presence that Lara Croft has had on the games industry across three decades.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Douglas Henshall, Alison O’Donnell, Steven Robertson, Lewis Howden, Erin Armstrong, Mark Bonnar, Anne Kidd, Julie Graham, Stephen Walters, Neve McIntosh, Sean McGinley, Amy Lennox, Fiona Bell, Sophie Stone, Gerard Miller, Allison McKenzie, Julia Brown, Arnmundur Ernst Björnsson, Carolin Stoltz, Eleanor Matsuura, Joi Johannsson, Hannah Donaldson, Michael Moreland.
There’s a Black Hole in his road
that soaks up all the rain,
sunshine and warmth that disappears
without a trace
the deeper it goes, killing
all sound, creating only noise, in its journey
to obliterate all that may contain life;
it doesn’t realise that as the once reflected sun
beamed off its water, it too holds now existence,
it is carefree chaos,
the black pitted small hole
in the journey
that has become the architect of destruction.
Inspired by the photography of John Chatterton.
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In the battle for your soul, it is not Devils and Gods that you have to concerned with trying to please or keeping out of the way; it is the Angels & Sirens who will have the first and last call on everything that you are as they endeavour with their own sense of majesty to first sample you, and then later seduce you into taking a side. It is a side that offers pitfalls, extremes highs and the kiss from either as they lure you, beckon you with riches and sensual passion and finally devour you, which makes the experience even more extreme, more tantalising and spine tingling than you might at first believe.
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The instrumental single is one that can inspire and be seen as a manifestation of the physical art made innocent, or it can sink without a trace, confined to the novelty bin, brought out at parties with a groan of delight as everybody remembers the dance that once accompanied it and the embarrassed tentative steps on the dance floor, aided only by youthful shenanigans and the Dutch courage required to pull the moves off.