Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
A tale well told is always something in which the reader must strive to find. Whether it is in the form of a short story, a lengthy novel or the life’s work that forms the whole of an autobiography or the succulent parts that fill across time as serials, the offerings an artist’s endeavour over several books, the tale must be told well and capture the moment, the road travelled.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
A person behind the vision is just as important as those who feel the experience in the first place and for every musician who makes it into the studio with the faith of their conviction behind them, there has to be a producer, an engineer or someone to perhaps add the most invaluable piece to any recording, the ability to listen and perhaps steer the artist in the right direction.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It may the cry of the broken hearted, the exclaimed weep of those in search of valiant redemption but in the thunder splitting The Jackobins’ new single, One More Chance is not a sign of weakness, of grief over spilling into the realms of the sentimental. It is the toughness of spirit that grants that one person a shot of deliverance and in true Jackobins’ style it is wonderfully gruff, it is the sound of liberation, of the salvo of guns reigning down and offering a shelter from the ensuing storm.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *
Cast: Mario Bello, Ann Dowd, Will Harris, Joan Jett, Olympia Dukakis, Jennifer Kydd, Andre Myette, Juanita Peters, Mary-Colin Chisholm, Kim Parkhill, Deborah Allen, Tara Nicodermo, Roland Marko Simmonds, Mike Taylor, Lee J. Campbell, Trina Corkum, Patrick Robert Wong.
The world of suspense, of blood curdling terror and murderous emotion have always been a stocking filler of goodies in which Stephen King, arguably the finest and certainly the most prolific horror writer of the 20th Century has packed away inside the minds of all who have come across his writing yet somehow the man who brought The Stand, Misery and Rose Madder to the imaginations of millions of readers has not had the same good fortune when it comes to seeing his work presented on television; especially when he has been involved in the script of the presented piece.
There was a certain elegance in the way the action of throwing these valuable prizes into the air that caught the attention. It was the flowing motion that they were raised, almost as if offering the precious, often fought over with the resulting small bruises and black eyes to match, the lifting of some ancient artefact to the Gods which proclaimed that the holder, the bearer of such gifts was a step beyond that of the lowly Hamlet gazing into the hollowed out skull of Yorick, they were the exuberant interest of every boy in the playground.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The universe may have many rules, many regulations set down in the hope that karma finds a way to balance out those who deserve to have their story, not just listened to but repeated and reiterated and those to whom the story is just that, a tale of the wind blowing with such force that the light it carries, flickers and snuffs itself out before it has had chance to be seen.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The days of the old C-90 cassette, a period when young music listeners might find the joy of listening to a couple of albums recorded in the depths of an evening when homework was arguably more pressing, however for the personal stereo generation, the care and attention that went into making these pieces of social history stand out were beyond the realms of anything that had happened before or in which has taken place since. The I-pod, beautiful and full though it is, is a reflection of the click and buy culture that has taken place, it has no romance when compared to the art that went into recording a double cassette with precision.
The leftover Christmas card,
the mass produced greeting
of some Robin, the symbol
of endeavour in hardship,
of Gypsy fortune,
is now used as a place mat
for the unceasingly hot
cups of tea that I ferry
back and forth from the kitchen,
and the stain of the rim spreads outwards,
inwards and towards its beak.
The message inside could have been hand-written
by anyone, but the scrawl was clumsily
attached by you
and I loved it, and whilst the carefully
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The trouble with television is that allows its viewers to believe that they know fully each person who ever appears on its screens, it is a trick of the box that it coaxes the watcher into the belief that they are an eyewitness into the minds, the thoughts and perhaps even the indiscretions of the subject at hand.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Catherine Bailey, Douglas Booth, Charles Dance, Maeve Dermody, Burn Gorman, Christopher Hatherall, Anne Maxwell Martin, Sam Neil, Miranda Richardson, Toby Stephens, Noah Taylor, Ben Deery, Jim Main, Daisy Waterstone.
The British obsession with murder owes more to the conditioning belief of understanding that order will always be restored rather than wanting to see someone get away with the act. Not for nothing is the book charts on any local high street bookshop always seen to have the latest crime novel within tidy ranks but the authors of such are seen arguably to be in the eyes of many people amongst the most interesting to read. Nobody wants to see anyone get away with murder but there is always something slightly devilish about hoping to see it attempted and in Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None murder is drawn to a perfect art.