A New Exhibition At The Unity Theatre Explores Nature’s Way.

The Unity Theatre are staging an exhibition, titled Nature’s Way, of striking and sometimes abstract nature-based photographs and paintings by three Liverpool artists from the 9th October – 31st October.

The exhibition features photographs of Colin Serjent and Jane Groves, taken in Liverpool and Merseyside, while Carlee Graham will be showing large nature-based abstract paintings.

“I particularly like taking my photographs in the Spring and Summer, using azure coloured skies to help emphasise the colour patterns and textures in my pictures,” said Serjent, who has shown his work in the U.S.A., Germany and various parts of England.

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(347 words, estimated 1:23 mins reading time)

A Spotlight On The Muse Or The God.

The spotlight hits the Guinness jar hair

and the shadow of black denim hides a multitude

of other people’s sins as she holds the guitar

as if holding the heart ransom

and I feel mine break each time the dry ice swirls

around her fingers and the lesson of the moment

was not to fall in lust but to appreciate the gliding

searing heat of metal upon skin upon thought upon delivery.

 

Exhausted I sit up straight backed and erect

as blood, life, animated kicked in electric driven soul

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(206 words, estimated 49 secs reading time)

One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 (PS Vita), Game Review.

One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 is a third-person musou actionrole playing game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS Vita with compatibility for PlayStation T.V., while also releasing on PS4 and PS3. One Piece is a series of Japanese manga stories written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda having been serialised in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine since July 19th 1997 in which chapters have been compiled into at least 78 standalone Tankobon volumes centred upon the adventurous life of the lead character Monkey D. Luffy. One Piece is incredibly successful having sold over 300 million copies making it the best-selling manga in history, while having an even further outreach with an anime television series airing over 700 episodes in Japan since 1999 as well as releasing numerous novels, films, soundtrack albums, trading card games and videogames.

One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 (PS Vita), Game Review. full post

(2761 words, estimated 11:03 mins reading time)

Nowhere Safe To Sit And Ponder…

The beans are picked,the garden dug,
No trace of weed or even slug.
About to plant and grow anew,
When there it was a Portaloo.

My throne is there for all to see,
I’m left with little dignity
The world will know when I’m inside
With little little light and nowhere to hide

With wellies on and armed with torch
I gingerly step across the porch.
Down 20 steps I boldly go
Oh how can I stoop so low.

Hopefully in 10 days or so
The horrid Portaloo will go
A brand new bathroom is our aim
No more to do the walk of shame…..

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(112 words, estimated 27 secs reading time)

The Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Lee Armstrong, Simon Dutton, Roger Evans, Polly Frame, David Hartley, Ranjit Krishnamma, Chris Reilly, Sule Rimi, Danusia Samal, Colin Tierney, Susie Trayling.

A man is sent on a mission by a powerful leader, a man to whom his days of adventure are said to be behind him and to whom nothing would displease him more than being sent away far from home, sent to a land where the customs and practices are now as alien to him as those who share his national flag abroad. It is a story as old as recorded time itself and yet one that plays itself out over and over again as each generation repeats The Odyssey, duplicates the trials of Odysseus, just in nicer suits and with a flair for diplomatic disaster enshrined into the mission.

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(565 words, estimated 2:16 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: Third Anniversary Virtual Live C.D.

If New York is the city that never sleeps then Liverpool is the city that never stops singing. To anyone who makes their way to any of the sheer multitude of venues, be it the dominant on the skyline such as the Echo Arena and first opened in full to the public and many a big band and big noise experience in the year that Liverpool was rightly emblazoned with the moniker of Capital of Culture throughout every event, to the small but significant and certainly homely such as Studio 2, Zanzibar and Leaf, to anyone making their way to Liverpool, not only is there a great set of venues to choose from but the music, home grown and much admired, steeped in history and more arguably more satisfying than anywhere in such close concentration in the country, is to be admired.

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(762 words, estimated 3:03 mins reading time)

Celebrate…

On any day worth celebrating,

not one filled with jingoistic pride

in which by virtue of having a bigger gun,

a more powerful machine, a more sturdier device

which you reached for the safety first and dangled

the instrument of possible torture around

threatening to put at least one load between the eyes

of the nearest person who dared open their mouths

in shock or disengaged amusement,

on any day worth celebrating I would rather take

the moment afforded to pause and wonder

if you would enjoy it too;

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(188 words, estimated 45 secs reading time)

Roger Waters The Wall, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

There seems to be a never ending way to experience The Wall and yet each time the fan or the casual amateur psychologist reaches in, placing their trust and their heart to the album’s creator, Roger Waters, it never seems to do anything but drain with beautiful emotion, to dig deep down into the very core of human experience, just exactly what the album, the songs and the essence of what life is.

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(452 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

New Tricks, Life Expectancy. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Denis Lawson, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Tamzin Outhwaite, Larry Lamb, David Haig, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Geraldine Somerville, Ramon Tikaram, Denise Gough.

Not many police dramas have the guts to show what can happen to a murder suspect when the near relentless pressure of questioning becomes too much to bear, especially when that suspect has been on an emotional rollercoaster themselves having lost a parent to the person they are accused of murdering, then again and true to good form, not every programme is as acutely aware of the ramifications of such lines of enquiry as New Tricks.

New Tricks, Life Expectancy. Television Review. full post

(365 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

September’s End Of Days.

Seventy Two floors up,

we three watched as the Tsunami

tidal wave rode past

the concrete structure we were hiding in

and we wept for the humanity lost.

 

It was that buffeting of the concrete

or maybe the scream from the young

woman’s mouth, siren like, distilled, vodka alerted,

that woke me up with my nerves trembling

and laying down on the cold

end of days September sofa,

Tsunami sweat lodged in my thin, greying eyebrows.

 

No less disturbing than the time I was forced to watch

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(309 words, estimated 1:14 mins reading time)