Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Satire is not dead, it hasn’t even been resting, it has just had reached a saturation point because politics and the human race have done such a great job in spoofing itself, and for a reasonably intelligent species, for a group of immensely able naked apes, we have immense perversity in being able to doubt our own existence and predict our own downfall at the hands of others as if we still believe in the Gods of old.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The Tempest may call out, the fire and brimstone of the age may dedicate itself to wiping out all you knew and all that was to come but to see the Rain Falling In, to see it drip in tandem with the seconds on a stopwatch or cascade like a river in a flood plain but through the very joists and foundations of your home or your house, is to understand that nature is always going to win, that nature in all its fury and positivity is to be adored and not stifled.
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Cast: Sam Claflin, Rachel Weisz, Holliday Grainger, Iain Glen, Poppy Lee Friar, Andrew Knott, Andrew Havill, Vicky Pepperdine, Katherine Pearce, Harry Hays, Tristram Davies, Chris Gallarus, Bobby Scott, Freeman.
The very name Daphne Du Maurier is one surely that should conjure up the very essence of British writing and one that stands alongside the greatest of the 20th Century, Agatha Christie and Virginia Woolf, and yet for one of Cornwall’s greatest adopted daughters, her passionate, often moody but always multi-layered work, doesn’t get the screen treatment it deserves, and aside from the fantastic adaption of The Birds and Rebecca by the legendary director Alfred Hitchcock, the writer has been pretty much left of the list of books that are ripe for bringing to an even greater audience.
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Cast: Tom Cruise, Russell Crowe, Annabelle Wallis, Sofia Boutella, Jake Johnson, Courtney B. Vance, Marwan Kenzari.
There are times in which as a fan of the realm of the macabre and chilling, that you can actually find yourself missing the world of Hammer House of Horror, not through any type of morbid curiosity, but because it would have been perhaps more interesting to see how such creatures of British literature might have fared with a more diverse treatment rather than being arguably hung out to dry in the race to take on Marvel and D.C. in a world of heroes, villains, gods and monsters that Universal Pictures seems hell bent on creating.
Stuck traffic, a jam to end all jams
and bored rigid in a taxi, the counter
climbing breathlessly
up towards its own ticking Everest;
six in the evening,
a possible fight in the sunset eve
as tempers boil over
and there by St. George’s
Hall, a complex, but through my taxi
windows, silent and animated argument
began to unburden
itself in the Liverpool warmth.
As long as we sat there,
engine revving like a lion pacing
in its own cage, I expected the worst,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
If You Wait provided a glimpse it seems at what London Grammar could show to the world, an album that rightly had the group propelled out of the lecture halls of University and into the serious consideration of many a music fan’s dearest desire. A group to whom the meaning of substantial and forceful was to become a huge compliment and whilst the band were in their infancy, there was huge hope that the trio would eventually be heavyweights; a case of very soon rather than later.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
If the world cannot have Fleetwood Mac, then there is always at least Fleetwood Mac in one form or another and one of the reasons that the band name endures, touches the hearts of the vast majority who have ever heard the group across all the incarnations and different styles, is arguably down to the soul of Lindsey Buckingham. Regardless of whether on his own in the beguiling Seeds We Sow from 2011, across time with Stevie Nicks or in the passion that the classic line up of Fleetwood Mac bring together, the sense of magic and musical accomplishment, there is always Lindsey Buckingham, there is always Fleetwood Mac.
Repeat after me,
you are only a miserable sod.
It was words that I knew to be false,
miserable,
unhappy perhaps, certainly cheerless
in some cases, wretched,
low, as overcast as leaden sky
and the darkness of a thunderstorm
waiting to rage…
but even in that thunderstorm
must come surely
lightning, the illumination
of a flood of ideas, the mania
of hopeful praise and the sense
that the brief encounter
with electric vibration may last
long enough to kick start the heart
Doctor, never mind Fay Wray,
she will always be remembered
at least for being
instrumental in the death
of King Kong, animatronics
and the sense of colossal, the beast
dying at the hands of beauty
and pre war scream queen,
everybody will remember Fay Wray, Doctor,
because of you, but who remembers
poor old Lewis Wilson,
Adam West
considered by many to be the first
on screen, they forget you Lewis,
black and white hero in black
and white tuxedo and a cowl
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It is surely to be considered a sense of understanding that artists of any creed or background are shaped not only by what they see happen in the day, the wave crashing against the reluctant rock; the anarchy in someone’s eyes when they pay for an item in the shop in pennies. They are shaped by their environment, they inhabit the rock that is pounded by the wave and feel the small myriad of tiny creatures that scurry in the pools formed, they are the penny dropped with sarcasm into the palm of a harassed shop worker; in their vision they see the Coast and the till as one.