Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Some will move Heaven and Earth to make sure that the voices that are ignored, those that question, those that probe beyond the polite enquiry, are heard. For to keep anything in silence, to bully someone because their point of view is different to your own, is a sign of the intolerable winning and no reasonable discussion or debate should be Hard To Kill with an executive order.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The clown, the comedian, the one who persistently smiles no matter what life throws at them, those are the ones in which we should hold closer than most, for in their laughter is the silent sound of unhappiness and sorrow; in their eyes is the hope that someone, somewhere, will take them by the hand and let them not be bound by the joke that everyone sees.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Embrace the darkness as much as you can, allow the feeling that is denied the faint-hearted as they quake with nervousness and more than a little jealousy, for the Blues in the hands of Savoy Brown is that extra tingle down the spine, the tales of hardship, woe and society forced anguish, it is the sense of the macabre in the misery that makes this particular darkness all the more delicious and unnervingly beautiful to hear.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kelly Macdonald, Stephen Campbell Moore, Saskia Reeves, John Hopkins, Anna Madeley, Lucy Liemann, Richard Durden, Geraldine Alexander, Elliot Levey, Karen Bryson, Andrea Hall, Gerard Monaco, Laurence Spellman.
An adult is just a child that has found a way to deal with growing up, growing old and finding that rare solution to owning responsibility; an adult is the child and then forgets what it was to be carefree, to be light hearted and cheerful. It is only in the urgency of our parent’s voice that the child begins to understand that the world is a dangerous place, not the untroubled paradise of learning, of playing and the hopefully cheery memory we wish it could be.
I know it is in the mind,
these long dragged out
moments of disrepair, of broken
down machine inside fragile skin,
but that doesn’t help,
for those thoughts
of neglect, of bottomless
Universal humour
are always willing and able
to give me the broken eye socket,
the bleeding eye and bruises;
I know that, but still
the blows keep coming.
Ian D. Hall 2017
It is a cold harsh place,
this Warwickshire town,
not one for me,
placed there
undeservedly,
once, cycling there for work
and feeling the chill, placed there
again and the frosty atmosphere
afforded this poor son
of Birmingham;
I don’t know how Lady Godiva
kept her private life
warm.
Ian D. Hall 2017
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Time has a peculiar sense of humour when it comes to making sure that almost as one we stop looking back too far in music history, perhaps just in case what we find is the reminder that what went before our current favourites and obsessions is actually the top banana, the reason the fan or the dedicated enthusiast became enthralled and engaged in the first place.
I bought a ticket
to go home
for the funeral,
it rained for a while
as I chose times and the ease
of passing
over one or two station stops.
Your mum was important to you,
I would have changed
at every station
if it helped at all.
Ian D. Hall 2017
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It is the romance of the Moon that makes many songs come alive and take on extra meaning when looked upon with grace and favourable conditions; the muse of the Moon is such that when it is seen as the beautiful counterpoint of the rage of the Sun, it gives out a calming effect that all can steer their own personal musical boat by.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
You would expect nothing else but total, pure and honest, pulsating rock when you think of the genre as it appears and sounds in the countries that make up the Scandinavian heartlands, to think anything different is to be on the same plane of thought that suggest the Earth is flat and that arguing for war is a noble art form.