Maddie, Gig Review. The Party In The Park, Bootle.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It’s almost a hundred years since the London tabloid press used the phrase The bright young things to describe a group of bohemian socialites, ravaged perhaps by the decade’s greed and eventual bust which dominated the inter-war years. Looking back at that time it is hard to express sympathy for them, as it is difficult to acknowledge any empathy or kindness to another so called bubble of enlightenment and entitlement, the bankers and the money makers who, arguably, act nothing more than spoiled pirates.

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(439 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Daisy Gill, Gig Review. The Party In The Park, Bootle.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

One of the more disturbing aspects of life is in the way that many will seek to have some power over the individual, practised under the banner of the well meaning but socially supremacy or showing dominance over thought, of suggesting that a person has to be like everybody else in order to get along. The phrase, wouldn’t you be happier if you dressed like us, acted like us, become one of us, is one born out of such double standards, one in which society expects the norm to adhered too, even in perhaps the most tolerant and so called accepting times.

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(456 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Sam Lyon, Gig Review. The Party In The Park, Bootle.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating

The eternal triangle, a day of music wherever you looked, Skeleton Coast on the other side of the river, Love and Glory just a couple of miles up the road in Liverpool and making up this unusual feast of music mayhem and August summer vibes, in a part of Merseyside that often gets overlooked by Government and to the despair of its residents, the Party in the Park; Bootle’s mighty answer, its generous wave and beautiful setting appeal, of an afternoon of culture and holding a neighbour close, was kicked off in fine style by Sam Lyon.

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(475 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

GUN, Guilty Pleasures. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

If it doesn’t hurt anyone, then what is the problem…for the Guilty Pleasures that take root in our hearts are there to remind us that we our human, that for some the scent of the aromatic is as highly erotic as others who just take gratification in the sound of the guitar and imagine kissing it for all its worth. Pleasure is what brings us together, guilt can either carry us down to the point of destruction or if we are fortunate can elevate us to a different kind of bliss; we will still feel the weight of responsibility of what we have done but we do it knowing we do it over and over again because it feels right.

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(408 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Dream Spectrum, Lost And Found. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Buffalo in New York State might be placed geographically at a disadvantage when it comes to attracting visitors with only a short time to spend between travelling the North Eastern states of the Union. Placed intriguingly at the head of the mighty Niagara River and with so much going for it in terms of the historic and the modern, it somehow arguably loses out between New York and people heading just a little further north to the wild abandonment of Niagara Falls.

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(529 words, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

The Guilt Of The Hippopotamus.

The hippopotamus wallows in the mud

of the world but the shallow pool,

clear and crystal, remains unseen,

out of the sight of the dear old chubby hippo;

he has not made the decision on purpose,

he just has the guilt of the river

on his shoulders.

Not understanding that the massacre

of elephants was not his fault,

he carries the remorse

of being a hundred miles away

on the day the poachers came,

to him the mud

is the only salvation he knows.

 

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(91 words, estimated 22 secs reading time)

Suzi Quatro, The Best of Suzi Quatro: Legend. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Imagine a time when the world was just as divided about women in certain positions in life, the thought of a female Prime Minister a few years away, that the insanity of unequal pay for doing the same job still is an issue that has not been resolved, that up and down the land feminism was a cause that was both just and true, not about doing down men but making sure we saw the world for all in equal terms. Imagine that and realise that the world may have been slow to embrace such completely logical thinking but Rock music embraced it without hesitation.

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(529 words, 1 image, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

Starsailor, All This Life. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Life really has become too serious, bogged down in the weight of expectation of those who believe that life should be tough, that this one and only chance we have on the planet should be grounded in misery and that each task, each achievement should only be applauded if blood has been sweated and seven bells of gossip can be explained away for a fee in the press, the magazines and in the fan sites; anything to add drama, to add sales.

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(341 words, estimated 1:22 mins reading time)

Fargo: Series Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Ewan McGregor, Carrie Coon, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Goran Bogdan, David Thewlis, Michael Stuhlbarg, Shea Whigham, Scott McNairy,  Andy Yu, Mark Forward, Olivia Sandoval, Russell Harvard, Mary McDonnell, Hamish Linklater, Scott Hylands, Graham Verchere,  Linda Kash, Caitlynne Medrek, Sylvester Busch, Thomas Mann, Fred Melamed, Riger V. Burton, Rob McElhenney, Francesca Fisher, Nikolai Nikolaeff, Ray Wise, D.J. Qualls, Billy Bob Thornton.

 

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(520 words, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

Abandoned Along The Way.

 

The urge comes and it takes strength

to quash it, to stamp on it, flatten it

lest it take me down dear heart,

to get on the train, to find myself

on a platform staring out across

a once abandoned town of memories

and haunt it once more,

but would you remember at all,

would you smile, playfully

slap on the back

and reach out to me,

the gentle reminder that we are still friends,

or would it be easier for you

now, before I board the train

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(103 words, estimated 25 secs reading time)