Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Some have money, some have Time, a few possess a certain talent that they readily dispense and others are quite content to set fire to the world in their pursuit of their own version of the dream, yet happiness is a commodity, an emotion that no one seems to want to share unless there is something in it for them, they will store it, lock it away as if it has the same value to them as Gold or the Dollar in their pocket.
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We can all look upwards and see the heavens as the very epitome of what gives us intrigue, imagination and wonder, what guides us and keeps us grounded, that no matter how hard we try to punch a hole through the great beyond, something inside of us will always cling to the marble we inhabit as it goes around the sun, a piece of us will always see the Marble Skies and understand whilst cannot touch what is through the void, the void will seek us out and make us find our soul.
Guitar strings played
on the dark night street,
maybe by light of day
and passing by twilight smile,
but always with a fondness
and ready cheer as the tottering
Hen Party groove
requested a song, a song,
play me a song to remember
when I marry him next week,
give me a tune to cry over
when I think of Liverpool
on this dark street, lit up
only by the smile on your face;
and he would oblige ,
dipping out of his own patient pulse and strum,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It is the sound of the city that never gets tired, no matter what is thrown against it, no matter the struggles and the trials that face New York, its heart beat never wavers, its song remains constant and unconquerable, inspiring. One that even the lady holding out the welcome to all who visit her as she stands majestically on the biggest stage in the city, and her fierce gaze staring out defiantly to all who would mock a home of the Blues; this is the sound to which Beth Hart naturally belongs, in which the siren captures the soul as she sings Live From New York: Front And Center.
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It all seems in vogue, a return to the great Rock bands of the Midlands in which a generation pinned their hopes and aspirations upon, in which the past has become very much part of the future and to which The Dead Agents can be seen to be held deeply within this new and beguiling renaissance.
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To believe you can improve upon a classic is tantamount in many quarters as being condescending, perhaps even verging on the proud, of finding yourself placed into a section of society that is never satisfied with the result and considering yourself above the artist that made the picture perfect in the first place. However, to seek improvement, no matter in which way you deem appropriate, is how we learn, nothing is truly insurmountable that it cannot be seen as delving further, seeing farther and with the help of the collective ideal, be seen as going to the World Beyond.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
If it isn’t broke, then don’t fix it, you can always improve and make the art just that little more special but when you have hit such a cool vein of expression that is distinctly your own, then the right thing to do is look upon it as a sign of confident passion and one when the time comes can be thought of the moment when you Put It Back Together again.
Today,
I’m going to turn over a new leaf…
Well I have to
Ladies
and Gentlemen,
I went camping for a week
in the New Forest
and forgot
to pack any toilet rolls…
Dedicated to Ken Dodd.
Ian D. Hall 2018
Liverpool S
ound and Vision Rating 9/10
The Resurrection is one of solemnity, of earnest reflection, piety, of remembering that some things are eternal and to be seen and heard as gospel, inscribed in the mystic and for the believers, an instruction of on how to be heard forever.
Not that there is any chance of anybody ever forgetting the joy and the sound of one man’s searing guitar, a selection of vocalists performing as if their collective wings were ablaze with the timeless and the gravity defying polish attributed rightly to them, and then the choir in the form of keyboards, bass and drums into which the beauty and depth of Michael Schenker Fest roars into view and in which the Resurrection is a perpetual feast.
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It is our own story that we dance to, that we sit and think back over all the occasions we did something extraordinary, that we perhaps didn’t live up to our own sense of self or impossibly high standards. It is the Life & Times in which we remember over a large glass of smoky whisky, with friends staring into the fire as we toast marsh mellows, when we are alone and the darkness comes calling, it is the Life & Times in which we must celebrate or in which we must atone.