Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Sean Bridgers, Wendy Crewson, Sandy McMaster, Matt Gordon, Amanda Brugel, Joe Pingue, Joan Allen, Zarrin Darnell-Martin, Cas Anvar, William H. Macy, Jee-Yun Lee, Randall Edwards, Justin Mader, Ola Sturik, Rodrigo Fernadez-Stoll, Rory O’ Shea, Tom McCamus, Kate Drummond, Jack Fulton.
Once what moved in New York City,
I offer you to see, my lad.
I offer you up
to observe the flourish of excited youth
and play in what was up till recently
the waste ground of desire and poor human contact,
and yet it held magic, abiding spirit and conscious
unsurpassed, true beauty in a bubble.
I offer you my son
the chance to be an English man
abroad, to witness first hand
all that I saw, all that I loved
and all who took me by the hand
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There is so much strength in the world, so much hidden from plain view that sometimes the extraordinary is obscured by the feelings of jaded despair and noisy waste that flourishes in the absence of mouth watering musical beauty. For Anna Corcoran, that magical beauty, of the glorious and divine that comes across in her music is not just full of great strength but the imagery it provides is like the clear waters in a large and mighty lake, the whole sense of creation and its purpose there for all to see and in Ms. Corcoran’s measured way of producing intelligently subtle music, creation, beauty is far Easier Than Falling.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Maggie Fox, Sue Ryding.
The eeriness of the London Fog, the sound of a violin playing somewhere down a fashionable street in West London and the inevitable descent into the criminal underworld that stalks and terrorises Victorian England, all trade-marks that make Sherlock Holmes the man to solve even the most heinous of crimes, especially one as dangerous, as perplexing as The Garibaldi Biscuit Affair; this is not a case where Lip Service is just paid to the Gothic, it is dunked completely and raises many current questions.
The tarnished anger in her eyes
never once betrayed the lack
of emotional pity that her voice
played tricks with;
that her brittle anger disguised
deep seated resentment for all things
that smiled.
The smile, confused and beautiful,
shrank her in wake
as she waged war, voluntarily despised
the tears of flowing radiance;
yet somewhere deep inside the smile
raised the flag of disarmament, of peaceful
solution, the smile would just not appear
in her presence, instead it would save
itself for someone empty of hatred.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
A key signature may change over time, the inscription fade, no longer resemble the strong force of a passionate and courage filled pen and yet the Autograph remains vivid, noteworthy and collectable, if not for its memory then for the stature it represents and the autograph of the dedicated will always survive in one form or another.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Gwilym Lee, Fiona Dolman, Manjinder Virk, Sian Webber, Steve Toussaint, Tanya Fear, Michelle Collins, Steve Oram, Alison Steadman, Pip Torrens, Sheena Bhattessa, Alister Austin, Lee Armstrong, Steve Evets, Jennie Dale, Belinda McGinley.
There is more in the Universe than can ever be contemplated in the philosophy of a Detective Inspector in rural England, however the only thing alien about the county of Midsomer is that the murderer always believes that the bigger the elaborate death, the chances of them getting away with it; for that Inspector John Barnaby has both feet firmly planted in the real and on planet Earth.
The stone feathers barely ruffle
in the effigy to the fallen fowl
misled as the funny fatal flaw
in avian folklore recklessly finds
that the community that flocks together
far below them in the passageways,
the streets of the important town,
group together, finding friends like seagulls
perching, fiendishly watching, squalling
for the left over bits of fish dropped
from frowning Government semi-official,
offal like folk.
Ian D. Hall 2016
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
It feels as though it is only a short time that Hozier burst onto the scene and took a new army of fans under his wing. In that short time, fuelled by a rampant merciful and laid back attitude, of songs so strong that they find themselves competing in competitions on beaches with their musical muscles rippling in the off shore breeze and the bronzed tan glistening in the summer sweat, has not been wasted. It has been fully developed and brought to the point of flourishing abundance and as the crowd at the Empire Theatre gave thanks in their hundreds for each and every song that appeared Genie like before them.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The warmth of the night inside The Empire Theatre was due mostly by the voices of excited chatter, of local fans hugging themselves in delight at the thought of getting tickets for the first big Rock act of the year to come to Liverpool. It was in that warmth, that glow of spirit to go beyond the enclosures of work and home for probably the first time this year for many, that the heat rose as the flush of thousand hearts made the theatre feel as homely, and as noisy as it did.