Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
To say that Rob Clarke And The Wooltones have a gift for making a perfect pop song is to underestimate the clarity and spirit they bring to Liverpool’s all encompassing scene and to the wider world in which they so gracefully inhabit.
The spirit
of Oliver Reed, actor
supreme who passed away,
but never the opportunity
to drink,
sits quietly in the corner
in The Pub, Valletta
in serenity. It is a memory
I keep as I let my mind wander
as I watch Nathan pull
the local beer as the Maltese
songbird serenades the night;
Oliver Reed’s spirit shuffles
in contemplation
and all is quiet in
Archbishop Street.
Ian D. Hall 2016
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Verging on the eerily quiet, almost as still and motionless as a field of corn waiting to be reaped for the summer’s harvest; hardly a word passing and only punctuated by the odd yell of excitement from the stalls and the spontaneous applause towards a band that arguably had performed one of the sets of the year. For the Epstein Theatre audience on a sticky and sweat filled August evening, watching Low was going to be a highlight of the year and the band never failed to live up to the enormous expectation.
Ferry
from the stone
walls of Sliema
may not have the same romance
as the one that rides
the waves
from Birkenhead
to Liverpool
but in the glare of red dust sun,
with the towering spectacle of ancient
Valetta still crumbling across the bay,
it is a sight that once seen
can never be forgotten.
Ian D. Hall 2016
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Never forget your roots, that place in life in which you found the necessary sustenance in which to nurture your soul and your feeling for your place within the world, those roots are important, for not only do they inspire you, they also motivate and enthuse your ability to pass on what is best about that place, it gives the sense of continuation needed to make sure such towns and memories never fade and die.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The pursuit of happiness can be all too consuming and too many believe it lays in the hands of consumerism and the ogre of money, it is a vicious cycle which denies those who have the power of expression at their hands to feel slighted by life and understand that it all comes down to how you navigate the maze, how you avoid the beast in the labyrinth that wants to devour every dream you have.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Howard Charles, Luke Pasqualino, Alexandra Dowling, Tamla Kari, Maimie McCoy, Matthew McNulty, Tom Morely, Thalissa Teixeira, Dan Parr, Matt Stokoe, Lily Loveless, Andre Flynn.
If there was one moment to guarantee that The Musketeers would be absolutely missed from the television schedules in the months and years ahead, it was the reappearance of Maimie McCoy’s Milady de Winter, one of the strongest female characters shown on screen in years. Whilst the emergence from out of the shadows of the conniving assassin was brief, tantalising enough to remember just how much input she had in the lives of the garrison and the four musketeers, it was the big picture she was part of which showed just how much this romance between viewer and programme had blossomed.
Too much Oestrogen in my blood,
or a simple matter of genetics;
it is the only way I can explain
the osteoporosis that has lurked in my bones,
stolen my strength,
since I was a teenager and where I had to fight
against prejudice because of my age
and my gender.
Too many times I had to endure
the words that suggested happily
that it was all in my head,
that the disease of black discs
was nothing more than teenage attention…
…so I pushed myself harder, I tore at every fibre
Do you remember those Stadium Daze
A blue cloud of smoke in the purple haze
When the bands played louder than a Jumbo jet
Playing all those songs, I’ll never forget!
When the nights merged into the morning light
Staci with the Hawks , well that’s alright
Dancing to Space Ritual in the centre stage
Nutz as far as can see, where all the Rage!
They played in an Ampi-Theatre of electric sound
In a cauldron of noise , Decibels resound
Phil Lizzy bought the Boys back in town
Careers advice at school,
such a waste of time,
trapped in an office
with someone you had never met before,
like being stuck in a cramped lift
with a murderer looking
at you and wondering which part
to attack first, always settling
on the heart and the head
before dismembering anything
resembling individual thought…
“What do you want to do when you leave school?”,
the question raised over glasses
and hoisted eyebrow, sarcasm elevated
at the ready and the answer of, “Nonsense,