Darrel Treece-Birch, Healing Touch. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There is no fear that we cannot overcome, there is no sense of failure that cannot be found and be shaken out of its apathy and allow those under its oppression to breathe once more; all it requires is a Healing Touch.

The inner conflict we face is heightened by the feeling that we have lost our way with who we really are. It could be argued that we are nothing but a paycheck waiting to happen, a transfer between the hope of a one night stand with friends doing all the pursuits of pleasure and laughter we want to achieve, and the system that binds us, the threads that pull at us, keeping us down, making sure we don’t rise off the Earth; some call it gravity, perhaps a better word would be despair.

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

Beaumont, Honestly. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Honesty is a virtue, not many people can pull it off with sincerity or without the guilt riding along on its coat tails, pulling back the emotions and looking openness in the eye; for many, honesty is bordering on cruel, they wrap it up in sentiments of the well worn phrase “I don’t sugar coat my words” or “I tell it how it is”, without even giving a thought to how the other person might react. Honesty is a virtue, but being unkind and purposely vicious in the same sentence is the most despicable of acts.

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(527 words, 1 image, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Quiet Now Elizabeth.

 

Quiet now Elizabeth, do not stir

Ben, stop the clock

and mourn, in the same way

you should have fallen silent

when the people woke

to see the smouldering remains

of Grenfell Tower,

like you should have urged Liberty

to bow her head in shame

when an American school comes

under fire, like you should have requested

to Christ the King that in the face

of overwhelming destruction

of its rainforest, he should atone

and bring down suffering on those

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(171 words, estimated 41 secs reading time)

Interactive Family Friendly Show, The Looking Glass, Comes To Liverpool Once Again This October.

Curiouser and curiouser…

Written by J.F. Cornes and Tomas Mason, The Looking Glass is the new, interactive, family-friendly show by Carnival of Eternal Light, inspired by the well-known and well-loved works of Lewis Carroll. After a successful opening run at the King’s Arms Theatre in May followed by well received performances at the Liverpool Fringe and Slade Hall Retrospective Festivals The Looking Glass is now heading out this October to Liverpool and Salford and a return run at Frederik’s Bar in Liverpool.

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(194 words, estimated 47 secs reading time)

Steve Hill, Solo Recordings: Volume 3. Album Review.

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.

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(471 words, 1 image, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

Roddy Woomble, The Deluder. Album Review.

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.

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(458 words, 1 image, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Guilty, So They Say, Of All.

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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Quacks. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

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.

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(545 words, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)

From The Jam Return To Liverpool As Part Of Twin Celebrations.

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.”

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(442 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Enjoy An Evening Of Opera And Support The Historic St. Bride’s Church in Liverpool.

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.

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(401 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)