She met her old lover
on the street that night,
they ran into each other
by the corner of 77th and ‘Dam,
so she told me
and after much deliberation on her part
she found herself drinking a few beers
just out of kindness,
for she thought he was still crazy
though she still loved him
after all those years.
I wish I had met her lover,
I would have warmly shook him by the hand,
for in the way he dismissed her thoughts
Following an incredible 12 months including a critically acclaimed new album and nationwide sell out shows, ABC have announced a brand new U.K. tour for October performing all their greatest hits. This new full band show will also see them being joined by non-other than Kid Creole and The Coconuts.
Of the new tour Martin Fry said, “Here’s an opportunity to open up the ABC songbook and journey through all the hits. Lexicon to Lexicon. ABC to XYZ. See you there.”
Holly Oaks actress Nicole Barber-Lane is going back to her roots by starring in a new musical set in a Mersey Entertainments Agency, Secrets: The Musical. Nicole, who played Sally Bowles in Cabaret, is looking forward to working with her real life daughter Jemma Healey-Lane as it will be the first time mother and daughter have played together in the same production. Secrets: The Musical is on at the Epstein Theatre from 10th to the 13th May.
Legendary guitarist and singer-songwriter Robert Cray returns to the U.K. in April and May 2017 in support of a highly anticipated new album, following No 1 blues chart topping 2014 release In My Soul. The tour, which starts on the 29th April at the Cheltenham Town Hall, comes to Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall on Sunday 30th April.
Considered one of the greatest guitarists of his generation, Cray’s soulful and creative guitar work has been a dominant force in blues for over 40 years, widely recognized and acknowledged by peers and audiences alike.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
If you are not ready at any moment to take on the psychedelic then the stiff upper lip of the continued Victorian hangover is arguably always going to be one that dominates your life; the misuse of such genres, whether it is the realms of Jazz, the volume of energy in Punk in all its glory or the spectacle, the sheer wonder, of the Progressive, to not appreciate the art that goes into them is to possibly surrender any form of anti establishment, any anarchy, any freedom to rebel outside centuries old conviction. It is a surrender that just does not fit in a modern sense with any feeling of self identity.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
To be consistent, to be so imaginatively fertile in the use of art across several decades and still sound as if the music you are creating is one that has been inspired by a Muse who knows a thing or two the subtle complexity of being Progressive, then either the world has been kind to you or you just happen to be the person who listens to ones who weep at dusk, who sing songs of fantasy and freedom in the depths of midnight’s favourite illusion or the sense of peace offered by The Night Siren.
An hour forward, Time again slides its hands
down my back pocket and fondles for change,
urging me to deal with the loss,
to make up Time and have an account settled early;
I wasted the moment,
I slept instead of being productive,
the type of action that would have a black mark
put aside you in a Kangaroo court of law,
the sentence…
undisclosed for now,
be satisfied, let your gloriously white teeth gnash
and grind…but hey, stop
for a minute and chew on this,
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Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Olga Dihovichnaya, Ariyon Bakare, Hiroyuki Sanada, Naoko Mori, Alexandre Nguyen, Camiel Warren-Taylor, Hiu Woong-Sin.
It has been mooted, suggested beyond all possible doubt in some quarters, that there simply are no new ideas out there, that everything is basically a re-hash, a do-over, a chance for art to keep repeating itself over and over again. Whilst this may be in some cases a false premise, that the world will always find an interesting new angle in which to demonstrate the greatest of humanity’s crowning glory, imagination, in many ways the doom laden soothers are right, there is nothing new under the sun and by poking at the impossible creature, we are not exactly creating new Life, we are sucking the soul out of it.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10
Cast: Michael Peña, Dax Shepard, Jessica McNamee, Adam Brody, Ryan Hansen, Justin Chatwin, Kirsten Bell, Vincent D’Onofrio, Rosa Salazar, Maya Rudolph, Adam Rodriguez, Richard T. Jones, Ben Falcone, Jane Kacmarek, Angelique Kenney, Vida Guerra, Mara Marini, Isaiah Whitlock Jr, Kelly Richardson, Jackie Tohn, Arturo del Puerto, Katie McCabe, April Martucci, Carly Hatter, Erik Estrada.
It is dangerous
to be so deluded,
that the internet for all its good
and ability to show the world
just how we strive forward in unity,
should we wish, gives a platform
to one so
bound up in her own con trick
that she can even call Australia
a place which doesn’t exist…
this modern day Atlantis,
packed to the brim with spiders
that will kill you, with Koala Bears
that are riddled with Chlamydia,
Kangaroos that made Skippy a star,
That made Paul Hogan a star,