Dominic Dunn, Gig Review. Studio 2, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The solution that eludes some people is normally the one that sits patiently infront of them and stirs their passions without them realising. For many of a certain generation, those coming up behind them, those that should be entrusted with the flag, they see nothing new, nothing to get excited about, for in their minds they will only ever believe that their generation has the right to argue for a specific golden era to be heard, that anything that comes from the mouths of the young is either filled with X Factor wannabe celebratory or teenage angst that cannot be fathomed.

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(439 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

An Epiphany Whilst Watching A Film.

The epiphany came during a day at the cinema.

Not like the one in which the iron nearly hissed

and spewed out all manner of expletives

as I realised that I had escaped and was now safe,

nor the one behind the bar

one evening as the slops of Guinness,

the foam of a wasted pint

and the mix of running tap water

congealed to make tar like mess,

the unfiltered keyboard with all the letters missing,

as I realised to be free, first I had to walk out the door…

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(214 words, estimated 51 secs reading time)

Brooklyn, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Mary O’Driscoll, Eileen O’Higgins, Emily Bett Rickards, Eve Macklin, Maeve McGrath, Jenn Murray, Aine Ni Mhuiri, Nora-Jane Noone, Jane Brennan, Jessica Pare, Ellen David, Paulino Nunes.

Nothing can truly prepare you for that moment when you walk through immigration at J.F.K. or when you step off the boat and look to the west to begin a new life, nothing prepares you for the home sickness, for the memory of the people you have left behind or for the realisation that no matter how far you travel, home is now only a plane journey away.

Brooklyn, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(559 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

The Wonderful World Of Dissocia, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre Studio, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Niamh McCarthy, Jamie Pye, Alice Corrigan, Elliott Davis, Harry Sargeant, Nathan Russel, Stuie Dagnell, James Bibby, Charlotte Larkin, Georgie Lomax-Ford, Poppy Hughes, Jonathon McGuirk, Isobel Davis, Isobel Balchin.

To want to escape the pressures of modern life is completely understandable, the way the world is at the best of times it’s hard to fit in, it’s demanding on the soul to try and keep up with the ever changing and fast, frenetic pace of it all and it’s no wonder that we are urged to find, to discover that happy place in which all our troubles can be forgotten for a while, in which making sense of our own identity is the main priority.

The Wonderful World Of Dissocia, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre Studio, Liverpool. full post

(419 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Sunjay, Black & Blues. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Rome wasn’t built in a day and yet for all intense purposes the cracks that reside in that fair city have long been established, the crowded Piazzas, the overwhelming hustle of one of the most visited capitals on Earth long since been discussed and the history that bares down upon its dry soil, the magnitude of expectation that sees the past swallow at times the present, at times all but dust in the wake of Time’s shadow.

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(455 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Operation Lightfoot (Featuring Sophia Ben-Yousef), Chains. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There are a couple of reasons for which the small Birmingham enclave of Stechford will be forever have music strewn through its heart, the figure of Esoteric’s Bryan Beck will loom large in the doom metal arena and the heartbeat of many a tune to captivate Liverpool in recent years, the adorable performances of a true champion of Birmingham music and one who is the perfect addition to Jeff Lynne’s everlasting legacy, Luke Moore.

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(371 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Kalandra, Love You Right. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Loving someone is not good enough unless it’s done with sheer enthusiasm, complete abandon and with the ability to acknowledge that perfection is a state of mind that deceives and plays cruel tricks on the heart whilst the mind allows its own measure of deceiving to take place. Loving someone is no good, as the adopted Liverpool band Kalandra are at excellent pains to point out in their latest single, unless the chance to Love You Right is seized.

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(369 words, 1 image, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

To Defy Time.

I want to stand in History’s shadow

and place the aged and disfigured photograph

of a previous voyage next to one

taken today,

the same spot, the same pose and perhaps

the same smile from bright blue eyes,

but withered by Time, the crunch back position

held aloft by determination and bugger it attitude;

I want, I desire, covet in all its glory

to stand where history’s shadow once fell

and see the world from that angle

once more.

 

From that crooked display of fighting Time,

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(208 words, estimated 50 secs reading time)

Lost Dimension (PS Vita), Game Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Lost Dimension is a third-person turn based tactical action role-playing game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS Vita with compatibility for PlayStation TV, while also releasing on PS3. Lost Dimension is developed by Lancarse who has previously worked on well received games in the Etrian Odyssey series and Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, while the story is written by Jun Kumagai who has also written scripts for the Persona 3 films and some episodes of the Persona 4: The Animation series as well as other popular names that collectively form an amazing pedigree of quality for the game.

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(2379 words, estimated 9:31 mins reading time)

Polari, Poetry And Spoken Word Review. Homotopia, Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The English language is as rich as anything on Earth and yet it is made so purely because it is allowed to breathe, to expand, to contract and usurp words from other cultures and to bring the art of communication into a realm that no other language can truly compete with. The ability to take one word and give it a completely different sense of occasion, to allow the sense of freedom to define the lingo, the dialect and the pattern of speech is to be celebrated and not given a stern look, not to be rallied against and see the language die in a stunted cul-de-sac.

Polari, Poetry And Spoken Word Review. Homotopia, Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(408 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)