Rings of Saturn, Ulta Ulla. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

What is beyond our field of vision is always fascinating, always alluring, the only issue is keeping people interested in the object that cannot be seen; Space, like art, needs to be constantly visualised, identified with and when it is, it can stimulate the imagination and take it to places that it never would have believed.

Ripper Street: A Last Good Act. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Matthew Macfadyen, Adam Rothenberg, MyAnna Buring, Killian Scott, Jonas Armstrong, Anna Burnett, Gerry O’Brien, Joseph Harmon, Lydia Wilson, Joseph Mawle, Kye Murphy, Kahl Murphy, Benjamin O’ Mahony, Matthew Lewis. Clive Russell, Anna Koval, Ruairi Heading, Matthew O’ Brien, Patrick Drury.

Philip Hammond’s Backside.

 

You are paid too much,

money is too tight

for the public sector purse.

Only a politician with greed upon his mind

would suggest that a nurse, a firefighter,

a police officer or a teacher

is earning too much,

isn’t that a slap in the face,

perhaps it would have only been worse

for those devils who dare be public spirited

and do the jobs that others cannot do,

if Philip Hammond had bared his backside

to the news anchors

and the television cameras

Spitting Cherries At Old Trafford.

The black stitched cherry

being tossed down the pitch

is turned away for the deft quick single,

the sly look of happiness

on the batsman face as he outwits the wicket

keeper is all too evident

through my binoculars, purchased by my wife

for days such as this,

not a ship sailing on the edge of the horizon,

but to witness the glorious catch

of the fielder on the other side of the ropes, down

in the Noir of Third Man, one inch from a six.

Blink 182, Gig Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool. (2017).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

https://www.facebook.com/davidmunnphotography, Photograph kindly reproduced from David Munn.

It might have been some years since Blink 182 had ventured to Liverpool, that they had taken The Echo by storm and left an indelible mark, the vibrant tattoo of youth, creative exposure and the insatiable pounding in the heart, for all to wear like a badge of honour for the following weeks as knowing glances and excited conversation took place around town and in the infancy of social media.

Richard Durrant And Ismael Ledesma, Durrant y Ledesma. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The discovery of the uniquely compelling is often looked upon as a moment strangely captured by Time; that it takes both the raging sea and the crumbling land to carve out something as beautiful as the White Cliffs of Dover or the unseen motion of a star going Supernova to brighten the night sky, in these actions Time moves so slowly to create fiery brilliance, the majesty of the final effect is all that people witness.

Down Here Amongst The Mad.

Always here, among the mad,

the uneducated of history

who put on a uniform, a white sheet

between them and the same air breathed,

the crew cut hair do, close read this,

they have an agenda and you are not paying

attention closely enough,

they weren’t banished or defeated

when the mad moustache took his own life,

they are still here,

in the shadows, dressed as corporate,

tidy suits, pin badges

with Hi, I’m here to help, but always that agenda;

they might not march down Cable Street now

Scabeater, They’re My Bridges And I’ll Burn Them If I Want To. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Bridges are those in which we reach out in the hope of finding people in which to share meaning and understanding with, the passion and the fury, the love and the memories. They are the symbolic gesture that binds us but also they can be the moment of destruction, when the fragile peace and accord is ripped apart and razed to the ground, all that remains is the blackened stumps of former trust and the smouldering fire and for the dogged individual, for the one who sees that all eventually will smoulder, the phrase of the 21st Century personal revolutionary and social anarchist, They’re My Bridges And I’ll Burn Them If I Want To has perhaps never been more fitting.

Gary Maginnis And The Like, Waiting On The Flood. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There are times when you look at the world of art and you wonder why nobody picks upon the ideals or the imagery laid down by American poet and philosopher Henry David Thoreau; the natural world, a place where the scene of the pastoral and the thought of unexplored sexuality and regret can go hand in hand but not be seen as overbearing or tasteless, instead like Thoreau be seen as gentle, the quivering in the stanza reflecting a need to have a simpler life, one where beauty is celebrated but not overtly pushed or alienated.

Behold The Brave, Great American Challenge. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The Great American Challenge has changed, it has become more sophisticated, less about humanity finding themselves in the great unknown and the partially unmapped, now the signposts have all been but removed and nobody truly knows where this great country is going, not those looking in with regret to a former nation of enlightenment and hope, not even those to whom the country represents their heritage and their dreams.