Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The rigours of the day, the small, petty and the otherwise inconsequential can mount up to the point where the meaning of life is clouded, it becomes fogged up with bruising and baffling irritation that it can offend the very sensibility of music and it can something very unexpected to soothe the day over; something that might have been missed.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam, Jim Beaver, Burn Gorman, Mrs. McMichael, Doug Jones, Bruce Gray, Sofia Wells, Javier Botet, Bill Lake, Martin Julien.
The Victorian society, one so noble, one so pretentious and self serving, had no qualms about the dealing with those they saw as lingering within the realms of madness, those they thought were drawn too deeply to the shadowed recesses of the mind as to actually give them many euphemisms and one that has persisted through time is the mad woman in the attic, the woman who is locked away from even her own family for the fear of the dark web that she surrounds herself with.
The scrambler bike kept coming,
the noise of a jet plane flying along the Linacre Road
signals war at the one a.m. backfire
and the generals in the quivering boots
make sure that the troops on the ground
are then told to remove their helmets on the count of three
and let the special beat try and detain and interrogate
the fast moving squadron disturbing the peace.
The soft rubber tread grips the road and the black spot
where the light should blaze
is all too easy to imagine but it’s too late
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The last night of the tour is always a reason to celebrate. For the fans it can be a vindication that their band, in some cases their whole reason for being, has proved yet again just how important their music is and that the country shares their love for certain songs. For the band, for the artists, it’s a chance to breathe for a while before the circus starts again, to perhaps sample a semblance of normal life once more with family and friends, and a glass of champagne supplied by the support never goes a miss.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9.5/10
The Liverpool Philharmonic Hall resonates to the sound of ghosts, the aural phantoms of pleasure who have been retained and thankfully allowed to stay filtering and flitting through the expanse of work that has been undertaken in the prestigious venue, all of them forever it seems to harness the energy of every new act that comes along and plays to the gallery and the crowd.
The managed decline of London
should begin with a swift declaration
that it costs too much to be viable,
that the days of it being the nation’s capital
are over and that Big Ben, the Elizabeth Tower
should be allowed to fall into disrepair
and stop,
just one last hurrah on a New Year’s Eve
and let the chimes the following year
just be the recording of an icon
who stood firm against the winds of change.
Let London fall,
not the boroughs of course, just London,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Maisie Wiliams, Davis Schofield, Simon Lipkin, Ian Conningham, Tom Stourton, Alastair Parker, Murray McArthur, Barnaby Kay.
It is the ripples in time, the footprints in the sand that are able to be navigated without too much effect; it is the big things, the death of someone to who history might have forgotten and passed over for ever had it not been for The Doctor coming into their lives and persuading them, quite rightly, that they have a part to play in the way that the Universe evolves.
Let us not be candid about such thing, the dress
of the euphemism a shrouded disaster
for it allows the generous thought of a smile
hidden beneath the anger,
the resentment of a lifetime’s search for the bitter truth
at the bitter end of a bitter and sometimes handful of bitter pills
to get the better of you and the snide, whispered remarks
urging you to just finish the job the once
and for all…
I tire of this pain.
I have spent a lifetime searching
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There is an easy going charm that cannot be ignored when it comes to watching Robert Cray on stage, the deferential that meets the cool and the understated charismatic. The smile in the beautifully creative that greets each song with a polite hello and then plays with each string as if it’s attached to an angel’s heart, sometimes being as rough as the angel likes and causing a blush on the cheeks of the cherubs. At other points smooth, joyous and almost velvet like in its sincerity; it is the charm and ability of a man who knows which angel likes it which way and which has the touch of the Devil in them.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
It might not come as any surprise that the world believes there are Pagans In Vegas, that they have a deliberation, a poetic coolness in which the genre of Rock can feel the buzz and electronic heart of each dime or quarter dropped into the slot, that the fascination of a stimulating chord placed into lyrics unfolds the story presented by Canadian alternative Rockers Metric and the thrill of the high roll being chased is one that makes the bands sixth album worth celebrating.