I wish I had his talent,
not a phrase denoting green eyed fury
or jealous wrath
but just an adoration for the detail in elegant brush
strokes, thin line drawn
pencil men
which are more human than I.
An allusion perhaps dear Cyrano
to the master of clogs and dogs,
of factory gates at closing time
and scuffed hats thrown in the air
at the dead of dawn;
yet Cyrano, I might love Lowry,
how could you not after all,
but I am entranced by your work,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Dealing with loss is not an easy matter, for all the self help books designed to guide you through the stages, the feelings you are bound to have many times in your life, for all the psychotherapists and the less than helpful friends who might not quite understand the depth of your emotion, they never truly seem to go anywhere near Acceptance; they cover everything else but Acceptance is the one stage in which everybody believes is just great, you have moved on and the world can turn again.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
For some coming from a small town can be seen as having a disadvantage in life, the urge to see beyond the scope of vision afforded its narrow borders, surrounded perhaps by open fields, countryside exploration and closed older minds blinded by centuries of tradition and often the inability to change as the younger townsfolk either walk away, never wishing to return, or those who stay arguably losing the fight to see revolution in the shires take effect.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *
Cast: Tom Parker, Danielle Hope, Darren Day, Louisa Lytton, Tom Senior, Ryan Heenan, Oliver Jacobson, Michael Cortez, Rhiannon Chesterton, Rosanna Harris, Lauren Atkins, Callum Evans, Gabrielle Williams, Alisa Davidson, Natasha Mould, Anthony Hughes, George Onley, Rory Phelen, Grant Thresh, Charlotte Coggin, Alessia McDermott, Anna Murray.
If only he had stuck to painting murals,
if only he wasn’t driven by nature
and run over constantly
by the Greyhound buses that skipped
and lolled through the desert
and 92 degrees heat, if only
he wasn’t such an arsehole,
we might have liked him more.
If only he had found a way
to curb his appetite,
to not clip the wings
of his bird
of prey, of his chosen meal
that would stop his mind from being obsessed,
if only he could change that nature,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Paul McGann, Belinda Lang, Jules Melvin, Robin Morrissey, Sarah Schoenbeck, Venice Van Someren.
It is Human nature to forget, to wipe out the memory, collective or individual, of some of the evils, the deeds carried out in the name of occupation and survival; it is those actions that were in use every day during World War Two on the continent and were mercifully missing from Britain’s streets as the sheer evil of the Nazi war machine dragged its way from the Atlantic edge to the forests and surrounding areas of Stalingrad.
Does it matter what colour your passport is
as long as you can travel safely
and experience the whirlwind world,
not be covered in ivy as you recede
into a fool’s paradise of post imperial pride.
I grew up with maps of pink,
I didn’t see the point of ownership,
embrace the blue, the green, the rampant red, the saffron,
I couldn’t care less about borders,
If we all had the same, then nobody would
suffer from envy, nobody would be jealous…
in theory
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
There was a time when many thought the concept album was dead, that the medium of the music long conversation was over and that nobody could pull it off anymore; such thought is always folly. It is akin to suggesting the narrative poem is redundant, that nobody could pull of the epic anymore, such is the world we now inhabit, anything over a miniscule of thought is deemed to be excessive, anything that takes the time and trouble to convey a story supposed to be not worthy of the modern applause and yet in the hands of Liverpool’s Loathe, The Cold Sun is the type of chronicle that is splendid and worthy of Time being digested and poured over.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Never knowingly disappoint your fans, give them everything you can from the very start of your career and when the final whistle starts to be blown, when perhaps the fat lady has began to clear her voice and make those irregular noises associated with the opera singer’s mad dash for stardom become apparent, give them more than they ever bargained for, give them the world.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbæk, Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche, Michael Pitt, Chin Han, Danusia Samal, Lasarus Ratuere, Yutaka Izumihara, Tawanda Manyimo, Peter Ferdinando, Anamaria Marinca.
There are many moments that don’t live up to their hype, that sink below the horizon quicker than the sun in an Arctic winter and become more unpalatable than a road side dinner that has been recently squashed under the tyres of an articulated lorry. No matter how good they seem as a two minute tease, the truth is they soon lose their passion and the average person soon finds themselves bored, whilst the cinematic lover suddenly finds a reason to flick through the mental notes to never see the film again.