Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
It is somehow easy to dismiss the creativity of people, the stroke of genius that inspires others, that captures the zeitgeist and in which something truly incredible can arise, a spectacle, theatre of the mind. It is easy to dismiss it because to some eyes it looks like fun, that the players are solely reaping the applause for having performed a song, written a poem, created a play in which political leaders quake.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Jason Isaacs, Andrea Riseborough, Olga Kurlenko, Steve Buscemi, Rupert Friend, Jeffrey Tambor, Paddy Considine, Richard Brake, Michael Palin, Simon Russell Beale, Paul Whitehouse, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Jonathan Aris, Adrian McLoughlin, Gerard Lepkowski, Dermot Crowley, Cara Horgan.
Politics is a game of wills, the necessity of horse trading played out on a global scale and one in which the sides change so quickly that any gains made one individual are soon scattered to the dusty footnotes of history. It is a game that when played well deserves its own satire, the weak and ineffective politicians get forgotten, the ones who scramble to the top have no other choice but to face the fact that even in death they will be satirised and parodied by the best of writers.
Just above my eye, the one
I nearly lost the sight in
as a boy, battered
and beaten for being wrong
in the criminal place
of Cooper School fields,
a foe hiding in the enemy,
that is
where the headache has lain,
a small worm perhaps growing fat,
cultivating more room
in which to sneak through
the mind fields
of veins and vanity;
a small chobble here, a bite
there, slowly wearing me away
to nothing,
a headache that is all it is.
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Those of a certain age will remember fondly The Pretenders bursting onto the music scene in 1979 with The Kinks supremo Ray Davies’s song Stop You Sobbing, then quickly following up with many a fan’s favourite Kid and their most well-known song Brass In Pocket. New Wave music at its best!
It was a glorious time to buy music, audiences had another female fronted Rock band, crowds were spoilt, Blondie and The Pretenders recording equally classic Pop songs; the people who went to see the shows were not just spoilt, they were there at the start of a new dawn.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Many would have seen The Rails, the undeniably cool Kami Thompson and James Walbourne, two years ago supporting the legendary Richard Thompson, they would have been impressed with the duo and their folky close harmonies that wouldn’t have been out of place in Kami’s father’s old band Fairport Convention. Arguably all would have left any of the gigs on that particular tour buying their intriguing, almost haunting E.P. release Australia.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
It doesn’t have to be midnight when you approach the Lost & Found, anytime will do when the beat is strong and the lyrics honestly set, there may the sounds of the orphaned acoustic, the cry of the left behind drum snare but when they find each other, when they realise the company they have is better than anything they have ever known, then something magical happens in the stray but ultimately satisfying corridors; the Lost & Found originate and establish beauty.
I Mish Moshing,
so out of breath from the swirl,
the fevered bounce
against another human bein’
that I would not get my words
out properly, as I say with engine stoked
memories forcing their hand,
I Mish Moshing,
the body the tool and the elbow
tucked in but still wary of
the natural enemy
to use force when
no one’s listening, the sly dig
as the ritual reaches
a crescendo of colour
and passing out sweat, flung
over and happily drenched,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Being original these days is no guarantee of being seen as a sensation, the fleeting pulse of the accomplishment is in the hands of some whose attention flies like a butterfly in a field of healthy flowers and overwhelming scents. Such is the pull on the music lover’s time, consideration and concentration that the inventive might get overlooked, not because it is found to be wanting, but because people will always find a way to stick to the comfortable, the musical Christmas cardigan that we all sometimes, and without shame, wear.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
In these times it is hard to keep your demeanour and your outlook on the horizon; the pressure on the conscious causes the neck to sag, the vision to see only what it wants to and the body to feel the weight of the Universe dragging it down to the level of the dirt in the road. In these times it is more important than ever to try and keep the smile going, to keep the groove in the music you hear in your heart, your soul alive and your Head Up High.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Kit Harington, Peter Mullan, Liv Tyler, Mark Gatiss, Shaun Dooley, Tom Cullen, Edward Holcroft, Robert Emms, Derek Riddell, Pedro Casablanc, David Bamber, Daniel West, Luke Neal, Luke Broughton, Philip Hill-Pearson, Richard Glover, Hugh Alexander, Simon Kunz, Fergus O’ Donnell, Â Thom Ashley, Sian Webber, Kate Wood, Sean Rigby, Beatrice Comins, Martin Lindley, Kevin Eldon, Robert Gwylim.