A Work Out I Would Be Mad To Miss.

I let Insanity catch its breath

and allow Madness

the opportunity to walk off

its enflamed stitch,

I let Lunacy brag and boast

whilst I tie its shoe laces together

and folly I allow to run ahead,

stopping occasionally to pick

at buttercups it finds

beautiful at the side of the road.

 

Wisdom is far beyond me,

and Understanding its equal,

whilst judgement has gone out the window

in a hurry to win the win the race,

Reason perhaps catchable if I start again

The Ale House, Grand Central Hall. Theatre Review, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Philip Olivier, Lindzi Germain, Jake Abraham, George Wilson, Nick Birkinshaw, Bernie Foley, James McMartin, Les Doherty, Kivan Dene.

It is an institution almost unlike anything else in the world, often copied, sometimes mocked but never considered sincere or as authentic as the original; the great British public house remains, despite some knocks over the years, still the fabric of everyday life and it is one that should be lauded even as the so called sophistication of palates and life changes.

Anthrax, All The Kings. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Royalty is an outdated position of responsibility in the eyes of many, yet somehow we either cling to it out of deference to the past, to scared to go it alone and forge our own way of thinking, or we trust Government to become the new rulers and apply regulations and laws that we disagree with, one we can put their heads on a block, the other we just elect out; there is no middle ground.

RWBY Volume 3, Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Lindsay Jones, Kara Eberle, Arryn Zech, Barbara Dunkelman, Miles Luna, Samantha Ireland, Jen Brown, Michael Jones, Kerry Shawcross, Taylor Pelto, Shannon McCormick, Kathleen Zuelch, Gray G. Haddock, Jessica Nirgi, Garrett Hunter, J.J. Castillo, Katie Newville.

Are Rooster Teeth the best production company for making animation or anything for that matter? Audiences are now at the end of RWBY volume three and it seems that Rooster Teeth really pour their hearts and souls into the work that they do.

She Sat Smug In Conceit.

She sat,

cross-legged, crossed arms tight shut,

cross face with eyebrows heavily beating

its own pulse and declared, “I wish

your generation would stop going

on about the crimes of the war,

it will never happen again!”. Smug,

self satisfaction, creased her face

and she allowed herself the smidge

of a smile, teeth like stance, serpent begging question

and awaiting the rebuff of standard attack.

 

Breathing heavily as I make my way

past men in masks, not frightened,

terrified for the future, as the prospect of

Magnum, Sacred Blood, Divine Lies. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Divinity can come in many shapes or forms. Long since passed the days of it being the preserve of a religious practise or mystic observance, divinity is to be seen as how something makes you feel, how an artistic endeavour bleeds into your soul and takes on the world that beckons within your heart, mind and soul; certainly in recent years that sense of divine spirit, of captured Rock performance and total commitment to the rites of the union between song writer, musicians and vocalist have been placed before the Rock acolyte in the form of Magnum.

Cameron Vale, Gig Review. Capstone Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The art of the Progressive is not limited to the sole sphere of Rock and whilst it would seem out of place to put it in the same bracket as pop, couple it with electro fusion, Rap or even dare to try to suggest that Classical wander down the Progressive route, in Jazz it is mysteriously connected, two styles, seemingly different and yet full of ambient colour and mind blowing effect that it is arguably a necessity of form worth exploring.

Hail, Caesar!, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Veronica Osorio, Heather Goldenhersh, Alison Pill, Max Baker, Fisher Stevens, Clancey Brown, John Bluthal, Aramazd Stepanian, Allan Havey, Robert Pike Daniel, Robert Picardo, Christopher Lambert, Robert Trebor, Basil Hoffman, Wayne Knight.

Stupid Boys On The Steps Of St. George’s.

They raised their arm in Nazi salute,

in childish effect, the stupid vanity

driven action of the absurd

and the easily led, upon the beauty

of St. George’s Hall and my body

shivered with the cold of a February day

in which had turned sour; in which took on

a desperate meaning

as we are once more confronted

by the idle in thought few,

by those that pander to the flag

and who don’t understand

its consequence and the reasons

for making sure they are to be seen

Cast, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Like the name New York, something’s are worth repeating twice in the same breath or in the same excited tone, like the return of local heroes to a treasured venue after only a couple of months and with the same stirring set and the same quality of music being performed by band and orchestra alike.