Alun Parry, Freedom Rider. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There are many voices in Liverpool, an abundance of words written about the musical city by the Mersey cannot find enough paragraphs or sentences to contain them all, to allow them to flourish and see the artist as someone who espouses a different kind of freedom, one in which the mind should be allowed to grasp and nurture the urge to see fairness and reflect the major differences between the Government lie and the Westminster village definition, and that of the truths of the area. It is a truth that has always been searched for, experienced by and audibly resonated by Alun Parry, the Freedom Rider.

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(431 words, 1 image, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

The London Jazz Players, The News Where You Are. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The News Where You Are is one that can be so unique that it seems as if it doesn’t affect the rest of the world; yet as soon as you realise the wider implications, the course of the way that dominos fall, the way that they crash under pressure, then the news is one that can be felt across the globe; it is a signal that the instruments of Time are far reaching and full of congress; it is after all the beat of Jazz.

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(360 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

Epica, The Solace System. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating 9/10

Designed to be seen as an E.P., and yet one that is as steeped in the glory of the album as anything that has carried the name this year. For Epica once again truly live up to the name and their past as their present The Solace System to their fans.

The six strong song E.P. is unquestionably powerful, it is electric, it is persuasive and effective and yet it has the unnerving ability to be hypnotic, to be caught and so wrapped up in the attention that it feels as though you have been lost in both reverie and Time. It is find that you are lost amongst the stars and the symphony they create.

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(395 words, 1 image, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

The Limehouse Golem, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Bill Nighy, Olivia Cooke, Eddie Marsan, Douglas Booth, Sam Reid, Maria Valverde, Daniel Mays, Henry Goodman, Adam Brown, Morgan Watkins, Damien Thomas, Peter Sullivan, Amelia Crouch, Simon Meacock, Siobhán Cullen, Keeley Forsyth, Mark Tandy, Michael Jenn, David Macey, Craig Thomas Lambert, Levi Heaton, Clive Russell, David Bamber.

 

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(592 words, estimated 2:22 mins reading time)

It Came At Three In The Morning.

Darling,

I hear your whispering voice,

Darling,

I hope it’s for me,

Darling

because I cannot believe you

would ever set me free.

 

In this world, darling,

Time is so short tempered,

we take the world as we must,

for all the glitter, for all the rainbows

we should return to dust.

 

Darling,

I heard your whispered voice,

Darling,

calling me beyond my fragile mind,

Darling

I am forever young

in your arms, you become so kind.

 

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(119 words, estimated 29 secs reading time)

Candy Floss And Tea.

 

Candy floss and tea,

the last Dog Day of August barks

and fun before school

and Christmas adverts

come along and spoil the thought

of forever sunshine in towns like Southport.

Candy floss and cooling tea, still stirred

and gossiped over as children swarm

and take photographs of the mirror image

in the Hall of Mirrors

whilst seagulls above squawk, keeping an eye

on congealing chips and left

over baited breath fish and pie crust.

Candy floss and final dregs of summer tea,

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(126 words, estimated 30 secs reading time)

Tuppence Arcade.

Tuppence arcade, a pound

thrill whilst others sit and drink

slowly cooling

tea near the promenade and the sound of Candy floss

melting in the August sun.

Rolling tuppence, eagerly lost, a way to spend

a pound to gain eight pence back

and feel the thrill, no longer a tuppence intact,

rolls of loose change and loose lipped

conversation, gambling addiction,

removing the training wheels early

as the hard earned coins

from savings at the back of Rackhams

come rolling down the slope

and adding a moment of pleasure

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(102 words, estimated 24 secs reading time)

Fun Of The Pier, 14:42. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The Clock is ticking and soon it will strike 14:42. The fabled Summer of Love, if it truly taught us anything, and despite the presence, the brilliance of the music and some of the events that year, it was only to be seen as a symbolic gesture, a fabulous but soon disgruntled by the very people it tried so hard to fashionably free, to make them witness a different perspective.

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(494 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Threshold, Legends Of The Shires. Album Review.

 

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10


Confidence is a complex feeling, too much and you can come across as arrogant, self absorbed and even out of touch for the others around you to truly grasp; not enough belief and you might come off as dull, the sacrilage of having no charisma in the world of art and artistry is more heinous than forgetting your lines, of bowing to a faded king in an overpriced venue when the next generation is scraping by with good wishes and likes on social media. Confidence is not pride, it is not arrogance; it is just a state of mind that gets the canvas painted, the sonnet polished and the song remembered.

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(453 words, 1 image, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)