You have no power not now,
veiled threats perhaps
sly digs in which my name
spits
off your tongue, the kind of fascist
remark, I expect from you
but only missing a number, tattooed
on my skin.
Would you prefer I sank to my knees,
saying
Oh lordy master, please
don’t torture me so, don’t serve up me up
as example of your impotent rage,
for I see you for the weak and pathetic boy
that you are, ineffective
capitalist front, happy
to screw a person over
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: John Finnemore, Michael Palin.
The trouble is with the 20th Century, there are just too many candidates for the title of most destructive human to walk the Earth. Some merit their position purely by being in a position of power, by sending their armies into invade and cause annihilation of a particular people, of lives wiped out and their history’s erased purely out of suspicion and greed. For some though the misery they cause comes down to public arson, of dismantling the nation’s heritage all in the name of so called progress; Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher undoubtedly belongs in the column, and so too does the murderer of the Railways, Dr. Richard Beeching.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The feel of Scotland without stepping over the border, caught as it were between two lands, between two ideologies and yet with a passion that resonates inside one beautiful heart and a single burning desire to deliver upbeat instrumental Folk to an audience that quite rightly never seems to tire of hearing a sound that is voluptuous, absolutely spirited and so cascading that it surges out of the blocks quicker a traffic warden noticing a row of meters are about to expire. This is the world of Newcastle’s Pons Aelius and their offering of Captain Glen’s Comfort.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Ahmed Tobasi.
It is perhaps possible to watch the news and see an item, a report on a camp somewhere in the world, and feel more than moved, beyond horrified at the images of the refugees caused by war, famine and any number of natural and man-made disasters. For a while you feel their pain, you write social media messages of support, tweet angry messages which all boil down to the same thing, something must be done, and then you move on, you don’t forget entirely but human existence as it is, it just goes to the back of the mind and stays there till the next humanitarian disaster comes along.
Seconds out,
round one,
her alarm goes off
and there is a groan of bitter regret
that for the working woman,
the work never seems
to get any simpler,
that the clock,
fascist timekeeper, harsh task master
is always an hour too soon,
just an extra hour,
one day to wake up refreshed and bunny like enthusiasm
as the dawn of a day missed is noticed;
till then, the silent anger of sitting
and talking Government speak
is the reason
she hates the clock.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Aisha Mohammed.
Time is perpetually offering the same kind of scenario to people, to humanity, it is just the view point and the way it is observed that changes, History doesn’t so much as repeat itself but has the hallmarks of constant rehashing and frightening ability to make us understand that as a species with so much going for us, so much potential to grow and bond, we keep making the same mistakes and wondering why our planet is ultimately doomed.
My favourite boots, feeling worn
out underneath, a little tired but loved,
the cobblers
will always find a way to preserve
them for a while;
dropping them off at closing time
and with pair of bulk standard
trainers to sneak home in
standing by as replacement,
I got them to mend them once again.
Next day, the clock chiming Ten
in the market square,
I walked in to the shop
just in time to see
the cobbler ringing the till
and his fingers red from the pressure
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Every anniversary should be looked upon as a chance to take stock, to reflect and see Time as something more than the clock with fast moving hands, especially when what you are remembering is the colossal and the personally historic, reflect, celebrate and play the music loud because for all of Time’s faults and annoying quirks, when it comes to Monuments of a life, celebration of achievement is a true passion of Time spent well.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Matthew Macfadyen, Adam Rothenberg, MyAnna Buring, Killian Scott, Jonas Armstrong, Anna Burnett, Gerry O’Brien, Joseph Harmon, Ellie Haddington, Lydia Wilson, Joseph Mawle, Kye Murphy, Kahl Murphy, Benjamin O’ Mahony, Matthew Lewis.
The varying degrees of right and wrong quite often bleed in to each other like a sauce splitting in the pan, you can see where the line is drawn, the thin blue marker but quite often we all over step it and find only the act of redemption comes to save us when we do one good thing despite of deep we have gone.
The Irate Cleaner who washed
her business in public, was once
quite sweet, her younger self
only bitter when it came to
the lies she readily told
each boy who dared like her,
as she waved her yellow duster around
as if it was some kind of regal artefact;
a certain reel to lure them in
and then treat them like dirt,
who questioned them too far
and who with a sense of gleeful spite
and not a tear recline
from her just outside Wrexham collapsed face