Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The poet who can grab the attention of the cynical and brow beaten is worth celebrating, when they play a song full of tranquil solitude, of observation in its purest and most delightful form, then their value is such that the world, even in the grimmest of reflections, offers a ray of light, the sparkling jewel of recognition that you are not alone in your thoughts.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
There are moments, brief nuggets of aural pleasure, which you know you have listened to a modern and defining masterpiece and which leads you into a world that, despite its apparent space in history, feels new and exciting; that you have listened to a piece of music in which the sensational is but a by-word for the sound of your jaw dropping to floor with the appreciation of a child wallowing in the glow of its first sunny day.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The cry of help that filters through the dark, the sense of being left to determine one’s own fate and sharing even the darkest, most bitter thought with a crowd, that’s part of the ethos of the Blues and it is what carries the lovers of the strong tidal wave of emotions into the arms of an aficionado who can capture their dreams and blow them into the security of a loving song by a tremendous Band.
What manner of man am I
that I love adventure
but to whom the day to day, the subtle whisper
of understanding how everything
outside books, music and sport
and the odd moment of anger
when a political fool stands up to face the nation
and who asks us with greasy thought
and hand over fist embarrassment
to trust them, a rant at the radio
always good for the soul;
how anything outside all of this
matters a jot.
What manner of man am I
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating: * * * * *
Cast: Clare Beresford, Dominic Conway, Miriam Gould, Charlie Penn, Tom Penn, Eugenie Pastor, Alexander Scott, Shamira Turner.
Little Bulb Theatre has certainly come a long way since forming in 2008 as students at the University of Kent. Now an award winning company they continue to produce exciting and innovative theatre.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The art of the story-teller is never lost, no matter what genre of music they decide to put their words too and no matter what way they choose to express their thought; there is always something that elevates their opinions, their desires or their own particular truth above the meaningless and the lyrically destitute that really on the overbearing rather than the message to carry their thoughts across.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Life may start with a whimper, the incoherent but immediate call of a child searching in the new and bright artificial light but it soon becomes a tornado, an outpouring of experiences and the feeling of strange emotions that entwine themselves deep into the reservoir of the soul. It is the same feeling that one can hopefully attain when listening to a new album for the first time, the gentle beginning of a strummed guitar playing leisurely in the stream of time and letting the riptides take you where they must, where they tenderly insist that the listener’s heart strays.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Everybody has something they desire, something they crave for, that they covet more than anything else in the world and in that sheer longing; the seeds of their own destruction can be sown.
Finding themselves on board a spaceship whose crew are looking for the long lost civilisation known as the Phaeron, The Doctor and Clara are thrust right into the middle of a journey that will not only test their wits but their perception of Time. The search for the Phaeron Road and the relics of a society long since turned to dust are the objectives of the crew of the Alexandria but there are secrets on board, there are desires to complicated to bring out into the open and the fear of what lies beyond the final stars of the Galaxy is enough to send shivers down the spine.
“Every child should be able to understand how to make a profit”
and every Government should be able to reap its pound of flesh
every minister should ensure that every child
is gainfully employed by the age of seven,
tied to the system, tied to a moveable desk,
fused into the new modern chimneys,
working under the banner of better together
and sitting in their productive off hours having a second job
as informers to the State, for the reward of profit,
making sure that their parents never ask the question
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9 out of 10