Get Ready To Rock With The Resurrection Men This October.

Decadent rockers The Resurrection Men are bringing their legendary Rock Macabre night to the Invisible Wind Factory in Liverpool for the first time.

The Liverpool band, fondly known by fans as The RESMEN, will take over the basement at the popular dock side venue on Friday 13th October, promising an unforgettable night of horror and wonder.

With dead roses for the ladies, insulting hand stamps, a bubble machine of doom, eyeball balloons, a psychedelic projection, and a sugar skull colouring competition, this is like nothing you will ever have experienced before.

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Sean Lock Keeps It Light This October At The Storyhouse.

 

Team captain of Channel 4’s Cats Does Countdown and one of the U.K.’s most original and successful comedians is currently touring the U.K. with his acclaimed show Keep It Light. Having been on the road through 2016, Sean is extending the tour well into 2017 stopping off at Storyhouse in Chester on Saturday 28th October 2017 and tickets are on sale now.

Sean’s stand-up is a blend of a finely tuned hyperactive imagination, surreal imagery and insightful observations on the human condition.

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(274 words, estimated 1:06 mins reading time)

Graham Gouldman, Gig Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. (2017).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Graham Gouldman at the Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. October 2017. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Graham Gouldman always comes across as that kindly uncle who also happens to double up as the most interesting man in the room and finds time to have one of the sharpest song writing minds of the last 50 years. It is a moment of pleasure in your own life when you realise just how exquisite the songs that he has been involved in, across his own solo career, with one of the biggest bands of their time or for others, luminaries such as The Yardbirds or for The Hollies, nothing comes close to that feeling, nothing prepares you for the delights to come.

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(437 words, 1 image, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Jack Lukeman, Gig Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

You can hear all the songs in the world, you can find a way to lose your soul along the way, sell it for a pocket full of gold and exchange it all to listen to the songs of every artist for the rest of your life. However, there will come a time when a song that is hugely influential on the shape of the conscious of so many, suddenly becomes something more, more dramatic, mixing patience and urgency in the same breath, then for all the songs and renditions that have gone before, you cannot help but feel sorry for anyone who tries to top them.

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(437 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams: The Commuter. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Timothy Spall, Tuppence Middleton, Anthony Boyle, Rudi Dharmalingam, Rebecca Manley, Anna Reid, Hayley Squires, Tom Brooke.

We are all just passengers here, a short lived journey through Time, a fleeting preoccupation with the memories we create, the interaction we subject ourselves too in the search for happiness; sometimes it is all just too much and the lies and the truth of what have become jumbled, we wish for a time when being content is all consuming.

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(420 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Every Night I Say Sweet Dreams.

Every night

I say sweet dreams, I check

the room for spiders

and walking beasts that might scare

you, I wipe gently

the crusts from your eye

and tickle your nose

and it is that holds me

together, for a while

but then I see the papers,

and I know I fight my own

losing battle each night,

a small war, a territory

lost in the middle of screams,

silent and rubble

built back over night

to show a smile to the world;

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(104 words, estimated 25 secs reading time)

Justin Hayward, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. (2017).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Justin Hayward at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, September 2017. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

If music doesn’t move you enough to feel the cold truth of tears that run down your face, that if the art doesn’t make your heart feel the kindness, the brutality, the sensation and the despair that makes life such a gift to have in the palm of the hand; then perhaps it could be argued that you just haven’t found it yet, you haven’t found the moment which makes the tears of joy and pain of love mingle and gently swim from your eyes.

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(502 words, 1 image, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

Belinda Carlisle, Wilder Shores. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The young angry punk and rock rebel may have long since changed, morphed and become the sophisticated and worldly embracing lady of music, but there is always a twinkle in the eye of anyone who was blessed with the urge to rebel, to see beyond the straight and narrow and embrace the chance to witness the Wilder Shores that is denied to so many because they cannot sense how enormous or how exciting it is.

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(393 words, 1 image, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Home Again. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *

Cast: Reece Witherspoon, Michael Sheen, Nat Woolf, Lake Bell, Pico Alexander, Candice Bergen, Lola Flanery, Jon Rudnitsky, Reid Scott, Josh Stamberg.

It is a struggle at times to show sympathy to someone who is intent on hurting themselves artistically, to whom the relationship between film lover and the offering on the screen is far below par and mainly due to the insistence of saccharine in the diet, leaves you feeling sluggish, desperate for something, anything to add a punch to overload placed before you. It is a struggle but one that seems to be forever on the menu, just slightly dished up in a different casing, in numerous sweet deserts, it is the feeling that you are Home Again and nothing has truly changed.

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(407 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Paying Dues.

 

Of course I am always broke,

try being a poet

and paying off your dues

the old fashioned way,

try being a writer

and

finding that the dues

always have interest

from their end attached

and then see how

that work out;

cards stacked against

lower class

as you get told

just think of the exposure.

 

Ian D. Hall 2017

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