Liverpool Sound and Vision Ration * * *
Cast: Lydia Wilson, Joel Fry, James Frechville, Claire Rushbrook, Joanna Scanlon, Pippa Haywood, Tara Fitzgerald, Sian Reece-Williams, Richard Harrington, Simon Kunz, Dyfan Dwyfor, Brendan Coyle, Clare Calbraith, Sam Hazeldine, Bella Ramsey, Caroline Martin, Darren Evans, Charles Dale, Jane Thorne, Charles Dale, Oliver Lansley, Brochan Evans, Sonia Ritter, Gareth Mason, Emmie Thompson, Ffion Jolly, Mali Morse, Nicola Reynolds.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It is a disease that somehow has managed to invade the very well of fears and become the very identity in which we realise that our lives are but feeding grounds to pestilence and sickness, arguably no other disease has struck as much terror into the hearts of humanity than that of Yersinia Pestis, the Bubonic Plague, the Black Death; whichever quaint word you choose to give it, it boils down to the same sense of heightened emotions, death that is painful, contagious, virulent and almost mercy.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Weruche Opia, Steve Pemberton, Reece Sheersmith, Nigel Planner, Ruben Cryer.
Be careful what you wish for, for in every deed in which you desire something, whether it is for the benefit of humanity or your own selfish longings, Tempting Fate can be the hardest of acts in which a person can bring the wrath of otherworldly beasts in which have no understanding or control.
I nod my head to the leader
of the band playing my tune,
the signal that silently suggests,
if he would be so kind,
to go up the range,
make it beat faster, till I lose my breath
in the smoky atmosphere and sit
wide eyed at the dance, this mix of tango
and waltz, gentle and frantic
all in the space of a single ball room
to which I play the saxophone, sweat
drives with the speed
of an out of control Plymouth,
Inside those tunnels,
I imagined rats, gnawing, chewing, ready to bite
down and feast on my flesh, the gatherers
at James Herbert’s wake in Liverpool
that night, as we toasted the horror of man
and the brain that seized them all,
made the connection between sex and the
ability to frighten, the strange allure
of the thrill in every page,
was down in those tunnels even now,
sharpening his pencil, readying his wit
to kill us, one by one, by one
who knew how to extend the torture
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
If only there had been a side-street, a sort of half way house for the convicted, a place where they could have been tagged and kept an eye on by the God of their choice, then perhaps Adam and Eve could have found their way back to the secret garden a lot quicker, harsh but fair it would have been announced as, a banishment fitting the crime and yet if there had been the Backstreets of Eden, then the music would still have got to their ears and redemption may have been found.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
There is something about the mountain that compels us to climb higher than we arguably should find ourselves, that the drive to see the world below us from such a vantage point is on a par with placing ourselves in the thoughts of Icarus as he strapped on his tar soaked feathered as found himself wondering just how high he could actually go. It probably amounts to the allusion that we give ourselves that the mountain top is the pinnacle of human conquest and from there the domain can be seen as electric and boundless.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
For every live recording produced, there is always the anguish of the sound inside the mind that is a cross between a squeal of satisfaction and the anguish of possible discontent; it really does depend on the ability of the band or the capturing of the moment to see which emotion comes out on top, which one carries the hopes of contentment to make plans to see the particular band live or to just exist on in the realms of the studio album releases.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
There is nothing quite like the stirring of emotions and the waves of growing anger at the system that is encapsulated when the ears find a track in which to rage alongside with; that the surprise of absolute fury is not seen in the numbers as it used to be is always a constant surprise, a chance missed of a glorious revolution or one that has not home yet as the music finds its own way to deal with the problems that are at the centre of our own destruction.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, Sean Rigby, Anton Lesser, Dakota Blue Richards, James Bradshaw, Lewis Peek, Abigail Thaw, Charlotte Hope, Tom Durant Pritchard, Tom Wisdom, Nathalie Buscombe, Mark Arden, Robin McCallum, Victor Gardener, Roger Barclay, Rhys Isaac-Jones, Antonia Clarke, Tanya Fear, Sara Vickers, Caroline O’Neill, Emily Barber, David Newman, Samuel Crane, Cassie Clare, Geoffrey McGivern, Hazel Ellerby, Harry Gostelow.