Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Tom Hardy, David Hayman, Jonathan Pryce, Oona Chaplin, Jessie Buckley, Stephen Graham, Richard Dixon, Leo Bill, Edward Hogg, Ruby May-Martinwood, Franka Potente, James Greaves, Michael Kelly, Jefferson Hall, Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Jason Watkins, Scroobius Pip, Nicholas Woodeson, Tom Hollander, Mark Gatiss, Christopher Fairbank, Lucian Msamati, Fiona Skinner, Marina Hands, Edward Fox.
I found you
silent. You had
destroyed your own selfless life
in bitter recrimination and in protest
of an unfair
and cruel world
which abused you
in your absence
and who could not
see, or would not open their eyes
to the possibility
that they could be happy,
more than a survivor.
I am to
be sure
the most
doomed of men
to have found you in such quiet repose
amongst your books,
as I am
the first to have to mourn you.
The fusion that is unexpected
is the most fun. Pineapple
slices on top of a crusty, well stacked pizza
for some is the height of decadence
or at least glittering fancy,
although myself,
I think it is an abomination,
I remove them with disdain if offered
in the same foul disregard as the errant olive,
bemoaning the fact that there should be more
slices of meat, rather than something yellow
or green, making the dish look like a breeding
ground for flavours I cannot abide.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
When a set of songs gets under your skin, you tend to try and find the connections, what draws you to the great unknown, to the new and exciting prospect that has opened up before you like a flower feeling for the first rays of spring sun; sometimes those connections are obvious, you like a particular genre, it only follows suit that you should perhaps arguably like this new offering, yet for the most part that is not always the case. For all of us it surely is the thought of what gets Under My Skin makes me love you. .
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The glances from strangers, the looks that you cannot decipher but hope perhaps they are of interest, a secret passion or at the very least not ones that are wondering who got you dressed that morning, who are trying to place you into the realms of those they would avoid at a party or some sort of cruel unseen jibe that is locked in their heads till they get to the office. It is in those fleeting glimpses that we are given an insight into how others view us; sometimes it can be the best feeling in the world, at others it can leave you lower than the water table in a Dead Sea spa and resort.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Life is arguably worthless, non-essential if you at some point you are not doing something that makes you happy, fundamentally pleased to have lived; it could be the smallest, most minute part of your day but it must be there to give you the absolute pleasure, the reason that all of this universal insanity must make sense, to be the Pivotal reason we are here, to make some kind of statement about the art we love.
Against the Graffiti,
she stood out like a Renaissance painting,
a heroine of the new Maltese dawn
and the hint of classical features
that delivered the final sermon of the day.
This heroine smiled broadly
as her words floated in the Valetta night
time breeze, hanging
in the air, as vibrant as the thunderstorm
clouds racing the mopeds round the
streets in time
to this Maltese songbird’s
thoughts and aspirations
of providing culture
in The Pub.
Against the physical Graffiti,
slang driven poetic phrases
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Richard Bremmer, Patrick Brennan, George Caple, Pauline Daniels, Laura Dos Santos, Emily Hughes, Tom Kanji, Asha Kingsley, Elliott Kingsley,Melanie La Barrie, Dean Nolan, Zelina Rebeiro, Keddy Sutton, Liam Tobin, Catronia Chandler, Nadia Mohamad Noor, Darci Shaw, Ellie Turner, Jamie Pye, Nathan Russell, Stuie Diagnall, Aaron Kehoe.
It was your arrogance
that tipped me over the edge,
then I realised you had been
goading me into the wall
all along,
pushing
me further away from you, pushing
me away from our once romantic past
and making me want to see you with
eyes of exasperation and the sound
of mercy forever
hanging on my lips;
this you found easy, a playground bully
you became, spoilt, incessant in your words
and what for, to keep proving a point
on how you were a survivor,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There is something deeply satisfying about taking in the music of Andrew Combs, it is the equivalent of standing in a deserted forest, the only company the small myriad of creatures that poke their noses into the equation of natural balance, and feeling the steady drops of rain splash around you. The storm is not violent, just a cool refreshing shower of rain after a few weeks of drought; you cannot help but stand in the middle of it all, the heady mixture of a instinctive sound and the steady heart beat of a life being soothed of all its modern stress, the toxins and the pollution all calm and dissipated.