Joe Bonamassa, Blues Of Desperation. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Majestic and stately, the modern Godfather of the grandiose and the beautiful Blues; in another time Joe Bonamassa would have sat at the high table with the great and the good and already have volumes of books dedicated to his output and imposing creativity sitting on library shelves and be revered across the mists of time; the down fall of such lauded attitude would be that many now would not see the glory of performance, instead it would just be another story in which older Blues fans played up to.

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(458 words, 1 image, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar, The Silent Majority. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The silent majority stay silent either through fear or through reckless choice, perhaps with the thought hammering at the back of their minds that there may be an advantage of financial gain or swift advancement if they don’t condone or speak up about the evils that society is capable of enacting on behalf of its Government; it a silence that is as despicable as the actions that are perpetrated and as wicked as history sees fits to write about.

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(424 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Half The Sky, Theatre Review. View Two Gallery, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Lisa Symonds, Natalie Timmins, Emma J. Hind, Claryn Scott, Jennifer Bea.

Music: Reid Anderson.

Liverpool is a truly remarkable place. You can spend ten years immersed in the arts scene here, you can think that you have seen everything, in all of the many performance spaces that the city has to offer, from the great parks and the Williamson Tunnels, to the bastions of entertainment of The Empire, Playhouse and Echo Arena, taking in the myriad of large and small venues in between and then you can find yourself in a large room, in a gallery, high above Matthew Street and even there, in this fair city, if you look hard enough, you will find theatre.

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(1127 words, estimated 4:30 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript. An Interview With Lewis Pryor.

The artistic youth of Liverpool have huge boots to fill, that much has been true since it Brian Epstein realised just how important the four young lads occupying the Cavern stage one weekday dinner time were to defining the city and an era. Not only in music to which many great bands and musicians have made several generations happy as they while away in contentment to the sound of the day but also in the world of acting; the world of theatre and film is awash with the familiar faces of many famous Liverpool actors; following in the footsteps as large as David Morrissey, Kim Cattrall, Drew Schofield and Jennifer Ellison is hard work but for Lewis Pryor that calling is loud and clear and he appears to be enjoying the cause to which he and many of generation are heeding the call.

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(1249 words, estimated 5:0 mins reading time)

You Control The Dance.

I have sought you out for so long,

just the glimpse of you in the distance

I find, and over time I have echoed your song,

but you have kept away with terrible insistence.

 

How much longer will you keep me at arms subtle length

I mourn for you, I ache and I desire

what little resolve I have, that you will take my strength

for the blaze of damnation in your hands, in your forgiving fire.

 

Yet your black cloak, hood, sheer stockings allude me,

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(144 words, estimated 35 secs reading time)

The Witch, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Anya-Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger, Lucas Dawson, Bathsheba Garnett, Sarah Stephens, Julian Richings, Wahab Chaudrey.

It is in the richness of performance, in the attention to the madness to come as the idea of witchcraft in the young colonies and towns that made up the New England Commonwealth, which makes The Witch such a startling and intriguing film in which to savour.

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(459 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

A Peculiar Beast.

I could still see your eyes

as I searched through lost decades

in which Time was a peculiar beast;

beautiful as all forty somethings are

when they allow memories to flow,

sincere when they are told

of loved ones who declined

to make it this point,

charming with upturned smile

as Time for a brief while

allows the mystery to unfold

like a rose blooming in the twilight,

the sparkle of energy and questions

and revealing answers never once

thought of during a previous time

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(138 words, estimated 33 secs reading time)

Eddi Reader, The Best Of Eddi Reader. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Consistency is always a given attribute and always wished for but it is a rare and beguiling thing that few really attain, the expected dip perhaps in form, the slide into the possible mediocre or the distraught finding that it was all just one album to far, a career of consistent beauty, of a dramatic and sensual voice captured each and every time, not everyone gets that luxury but then not everybody has The Best of Eddi Reader on their side.

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(405 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Dynazty, Titanic Mass. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There must be a point at some juncture in Time when the world of Heavy Rock and Metal finally submits to the glaringly obvious statements of intent coming out of the Scandinavian heartlands, the declarations of musical war that beat louder than the wagging tongue of boastful Beowulf as he finds yet another demon spawned monster in which to take on and add to his collection. That the northern European search for distinction in the genre is quite simply at its absolute height of its power, it reigns supreme not through accident or the unwilling of those from other countries to topple it but because it is so infectiously demanding upon the conscious of the adoring fan.

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(433 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Stay Calm And Carry On.

It’s the words of comfort

uttered by a voice from behind

as they slip their arms around your waist

and their head pressed deep

into the space between your shoulders,

that for a brief moment make you forget

the tension you feel as the corroded sense

of perspective explodes in your head

when you remember

that they are spoiling for fights around you,

that humanity loves a brawl,

that the battle is never won,

that we never, ever learn,

that the dark conflict rages

that nations will always clash,

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(254 words, estimated 1:01 mins reading time)