Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
To forgive, perhaps the greatest act someone can bestow upon another human being, arguably the noblest that can be seen to be offered between two people without the sentimentality of going to bed passing between them and yet so few in the modern age can find the courage to throw themselves upon the mercy of another soul or indeed to take the hand of another and with the solemnity of a once regal act of attrition, tell them that they are Forgiven.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
You are warned of the Undercurrents when swimming in fast changing tidal rivers, the riptides that can pull you in, leave you breathless and feeling out of control; it is the very act of nature at its wild and wonderful best that makes it so tempting and alluring. Listening to Amy Duncan could be seen as having the same effect.
Overweight,
slightly
bursting apart at the seams,
though once as slim
as an overworked rake,
and slender enough to be lean
and hungry.
Still got hair,
lots of it cascading down my back,
though thin from being dyed
since I was seventeen,
going grey early, a subsequence
of the disease remaining undiagnosed,
refusing to have it cut,
I never liked short hair on myself,
I always looked like a thug
when I looked in the mirror
that hung askew in the draught-filled hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Duncan Cameron, Graham Hicks, Josie Cerise, Keddy Sutton.
The humble pea is never truly given the chance to shine, is never truly the heroic type and is only ever seen to grace a good shepherd’s pie or instead be mushed down, taken to task as it adorns a plate of fish and chips. Yet once upon a time a Princess had much to owe the pea and its legendary status was confirmed. It is a status that enhanced as Liverpool’s Unity Theatre offers this Christmas the age old story of The Princess and the Pea and it is a tale to delight and capture the very best of imagination for all who make their way to the theatre on Hope Place this December.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The ties that bind the cities of Liverpool and Birmingham might not be at first sight as important as those perhaps that see the two Liver Birds almost swoon at the thought of sharing heritage with The Empire State Building, Central Park and the French mistress that greets the entire world upon its arrival, but the ties are there, musically they can be seen as being nearly inseparable.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Donald Sumpter, Ken Bones, Clare Higgins, Maisie Williams, T’Nia Miller, Malachi Kirby, Linda Broughton, Martin T. Sherman, Jami Reid-Quarrell, Nicholas Briggs, Ross Mullan.
Living for a few thousand years would be enough for anybody of sound mind and disposition to start feeling the pressure of existence. When that person has been held captive, held hostage in a diabolical prison by the very people he saved, for over four billion years, it’s really not a surprise that the mind might fracture, that the one thing that kept the mind truly occupied during that time was the death of a much trusted and loved companion; it really is only to be certain that the mind is Hell Bent on revenge.
It is said,
that the name you are assigned at birth,
by loving parents
or by the invisible masks of state
are only there for the price
of administration, that but for the benefit
of paperwork, those in charge would call
out a series of random numbers,
bar codes, binary relics
and your parents
especially when in the blackest of moods,
somehow remember your whole name
and not just the one of endearment
when you make them a cup of tea.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
The beat never fades, the sound of Merseyside, of Liverpool alleyways, of the grasp of the real and the determination to show that everything in life is valuable, that it has a reason to be there; all is revealed when Space get up on stage and rock the joint to its foundations.
Having been on tour since the middle of November, to come back home and perform in a venue that offers musicians so much scope, so much entertaining backdrop to each lyrical syllable that can be ground out of each instrument, is surely the success that all performers ain for; the sound of their own enjoying what surely must be considered amongst the very best of nights in the year.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda, Scott Shepherd, Amy Ryan, Eve Hewson, Austin Stowell, Jesse Plemons, Will Rogers, Sebastian Koch, Dakin Matthews, Edward James Hyland, Mikhail Gorevoy, Joshua Harto, Domenick Lombardozzi, Victor Verhaeghe, Rebekah Brockman.
If a film can offer a lesson to be learned, if it can open a window, no matter how small, into a world where the sheer grasp of enlightenment can be gleaned and nurtured, then that film has succeeded where so many have failed.
…And in life there is so much more besides
than the way you present yourself to the mass media tribes
for the way you come across, capable of mass-homicides,
you have to see, that you are the very worst of scribes.
The shuffle of insistence that where is spelt were
and that a book is written where a sentence will do
makes me believe you would spit feathers and set fire to fur
just to make an essay of a point, to see the waste of ink through.