Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Only we know the answer that lays deep in our hearts, the reply to a thousand years of history and few thousand more, of politicians and so called gurus, sages all, putting their stamp down on the world in which they would like to see created, the lie in their own image; it may be wrong but it is the one that they see as the one most fitting when asked, Is This The Life We Really Want?
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, Matt Lucas, Michelle Gomez, Emma Handy, Beatrice Curnew, Stewart Wright, Solomon Israel, Jamie Hill, Rosie Jane.
How easy is it to swallow a lie, to take what you read as the gospel truth and all because it fits in with your narrow view of the world is the truth you seek without having to investigate further. False News has become the word of our times, perhaps the rise in social media has become part of the problem as certain people, certain organisations, have invested their time and energy to promoting The Lie of the Land.
They called us nihilistic, we the latchkey
kids without supervision
as the post war post war children
dictated the every move
in the spirit of Victoria
and didn’t even leave us Jimmy Dean
to rebel alongside, we the latchkey
kids who were taught through the voice
of John Hurt, that sex could kill,
yet we held on to our latchkey
status in hope we could get someone home
to hold us for a while, we the latchkey
kids to whom Aids and the Crack
of dawn were but words to fear
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Perhaps it was the sense of occasion, the bugle and drum pattern of history that could be felt amongst the Echo Arena crowd that signified a return, the memories of all who attended the first Phil Collins gig in many years, the first time that even without the other members of Genesis by his side that the drummer, the front man of many a music hit of his generation had stepped out in front of a crowd and sang a note of implication and beautiful awareness; perhaps it was the occasion, more likely it was the city and its people, for this was a welcome never to be forgotten, never to be anything but fantastic.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Gal Gadot, Robin Wright, Chris Pine, David Thewlis, Connie Nelson, Elana Anaya, Lucy Davis, Ewan Bremner, Doutzen Kroes, Danny Huston, Mayling Ng, Eleanor Matsuura, Samantha Jo, Eugene Brave Rock, Saïd Taghmaoui, Emily Carey, Florence Kasumba.
Forget the Testosterone, the heroes of old who have dominated the screen since Michael Keaton first donned the Batman suit, with unbelievable results obviously, for there is a true dominant force on offer, a heroine for the age and one that strikes back at the tired old clichés of femininity and valour, of fearlessness and boldness. For in Wonder Woman, there really is a hero that everybody, boy and girl, man and woman alike, can truly admire and one which takes a huge swipe at the misogyny that has been rampant in cinematic heroes for far too long.
As I sit,
down upon my leather chair
with a vacant look upon my face
after trying to live life to very max,
my wife will turn on the television
to watch a nature programme
or a compelling
feature on animals in the wild.
In my addled late night mind
and scowl driven perspective,
I swear I see a gorilla, an ape
or a chimpanzee hold up a sign
dripping in red ink
which reads,
Thanks for wasting evolution,
you bum.
I wish I had made more
of my unconventional life,
embraced more than I could
ever hope to have done,
kissed more than just the few
and the few extra more,
I wish I had not been at times
so damned English and polite
and told a few more people,
stuck up their own arse,
blinded by their own self importance
and governed by their right to believe
that their way is the only signposted route
to happiness,
to fuck off,
but I am so damned English
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Richard Bremmer, Patrick Brennan, George Caple, Pauline Daniels, Laura Dos Santos, Emily Hughes, Tom Kanji, Asha Kingsley, Melanie La Barrie, Dean Nolan, Zelina Robeiro, Keddy Sutton, Liam Tobin, Isobel Balchin, Alice Corrigan, Poppy Hughes, Geirgie Lomax-Ford, Hannah McGowan, Chloe Nall-Smith, Catriona Chandler, Erin Clarke, Jordan Connerty, Stuie Dagnall, Will Flush, Jazmine Hayes, Amber Higgins, Jake Holmes, Chloe Hughes, Luke Logan, Jiacheng Lu, Niamh McCarthy, Lucy McCormack, Lacy McGurk, Nadia Mohamed Noor, Rachel Newnham, Jamie Pye, Keeley Ray, Nathan Russell, Samuel Serrano Roberts, Kalia Shaples, Darci Shaw, Esme Skinner, John Stephenson, Ellie Turner.
Would they still sound the same,
Sgt. Pepper’s lads,
no longer rehearsing near
the Band Stand on a Sunday morning,
the tuba and the clarinet
long since sold
to pay the debt incurred
whilst out of work from the Docks
and the stand against the tyrant witch,
but instead several members changed
and Sgt. Pepper long since dead.
They would carry his name
forth round Merseyside
and beyond, their own moustaches
as resplendent as their once noble leader
and two or three of the once young men
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Time is an illusion, yet it is one that humanity can no longer live without, for the passing of the day means nothing to our minds unless it is filled with notches, hourly, quarterly, each minute carefully allotted set tasks, moments in the sun, the sense that in the end light will follow dark and in between we have to fill the space around us with something, electronic or pulse driven, mechanical or solar, nothing truly represents Time than The Clockwork Within.