Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
It is surely impossible to dislike anything that come from Canada, almost an unwritten law that states across the rest of the world that the people north of the longest undefended border in the world are just to be adored, coveted, admired and looked up to; for how often do you come across anybody with Canada in their hearts and on their sleeves that isn’t just amongst the most artistically free and bewitching of entertainers and thinkers.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It may be lost on many people, the population it seems too eager to embrace the now and immediate, but the point of getting older is not forgetting that to tell a story you must have first have lived, that you must experience the jumbled paragraph long before you find the control to write down the novel.
I am guilty
of many crimes,
so they say,
but here in my confessional box,
I find the priest in no mood
to absolve me, a listener
of final words and regret,
ask for leniency in this casket,
one size fits all,
I am told my heart is too heavy,
paying a price, guilt paid in advance,
no returns, my remorse and shame
mutually vying to eat my soul.
Ian D. Hall 2017
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Cast: Rory Kinnear, Lydia Leonard, Mathew Baynton, Tom Basdon, Rupert Everett, Marcia Warren, Lisa Jackson, Kayvan Novak, Georgie Glen, Milly Thomas, Andrew Scott, Miles Jupp, Fellena Woolgar, David Bamber, Ben Willbond, Geoff McGivern.
Every profession has the pop stars of their day, the showmen and women, the extroverts and the gregarious who live for the acclaim, the prestige and the privilege it brings. The artist, the poet, the actor, the musician and the surgeon, all have their theatres, all have one person who plays to the crowd and relishes the sense of power it brings.
From the Jam featuring former The Jam bassist Bruce Foxton, legendary vocalist and guitarist Russell Hastings and drummer Mike Randon, are celebrating the 40th anniversary of The Jam’s debut album In The City with a special series of shows, which includes a night at Liverpool’s own place of musical history, The Cavern, on November 7th. The band will be performing a selection of songs from the album as well The Jam’s greatest hits.
Bruce Foxton said, “I can’t believe it’s 40 years since we were first signed to Polydor. It’s a testament to the strength of the songs and of course the fans that we are able to continue touring with the intensity that we do.”
Prepare to be moved by the beauty of music when St. Bride’s Church hosts An Evening of Opera this autumn.
The historic Percy Street church will be alive with duets and arias from some of the world’s best-loved operas during the fundraising event on Friday 20th October. Proceeds from the evening, which stars internationally-acclaimed classical tenor Roy Weissensteiner as well as a number of special guests, will go towards the upkeep of the beautiful Georgian place of worship.
An Evening of Opera is the brainchild of Liverpool-based West End singing star Emma Dears, and is the third music-filled fundraising event held at St. Bride’s over the past few months as part of the Save Our St. Bride’s (#SOSBride’s) campaign.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
If you have experienced life pretty much looking down on people, judging people by the way they speak, dress, dream, then it has been a waste, there is no hope for your humanity, there is no desire left in you except that of wanting more of the same. To expect deference from those to whom you might have deigned inferior, to look them in the eye and say “And who are you again?” despite having known them for years, to expect faith when you have removed all hope, it does not make you someone’s better, it just means you are nothing but someone’s Fool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There is nothing bass metal about The Emily Askew Band, yet everything they have put down for their debut album, Alchemy, has the feeling of having a magic spell weaved around it, of succumbing to the incantations of the ancients and the charms of a dream summoned; the guild of sorcerers would have a gruelling time trying to match what is placed down in these scrolls and notes.
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It is never The End, there is always something that pulls you back, a memory that keeps the person in your mind, a certain word, a phrase, a recall during the night that makes you smile, go red with embarrassment or perhaps have you reaching out for a hand that is not there anymore.
If I smile today, it is not for you,
it is a memory, perhaps recovered
and drawn from dust,
from an afternoon
spent on Petit Bot or
learning from history
about Cornwall or Guernsey,
about the beach rock pools holding
life, a child sized cricket bat in hand,
a small plastic ball, with holes in,
sending in your mind
the Australians back to the pavilion;
I will smile because it is expected
but should I smile your way,
don’t be offended, it is not for you.