Battlefield Hardline: Robbery DLC review. X Box.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

In the downloadable content for Battlefield Hardline: Robbery players will be seeing old and new guns added to the game. Not only do premium members get new weapons to play with but guns have been added to the base game as well. Premium Members get access to more of these weaponry and gadgets. For the base guns there will be the FAMAS assault rifle for the operator class, there is the MP7 Sub Machine Gun and powerful M1 carbine which are both available for all classes. For the professional class players they will see the M82. 416 semi-automatic rifle, for the enforcer there is the SAIGA .12 semi-automatic shotgun, for the operator players see the F2000 and the RPK-12 for the criminals and the MDC for the cops and the FN57 pistol. Three new gadgets are also added to the operators’ class which are a gas launcher, the fire hazard mask making fire hazards easy to bypass and the passenger first aid to heal players in vehicles. With finally the addition of a one hit kill thrown knife.

Battlefield Hardline: Robbery DLC review. X Box. full post

(683 words, estimated 2:44 mins reading time)

Lampedusa, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Louise Mai Newberry, Steven Elder.

Man’s humanity to man has been seen for all it is worth over the last few months after image after image has reached all corners of the globe as the biggest mass exodus and movement of people since the Second World War has been beamed without hype into the homes of billions. Images of death, of desperation, of recriminations, of pain, of fear, of selfishness and of hope have all played their part of the story of 2015.

Lampedusa, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(434 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

African Beach Party, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Bradley Thompson, Dorcas Sebuyange.

Everybody has a tale, a story in which to impart, it might be the only one they ever tell in frustration or anger, it might be the only one related with open eyes and truth within their soul. However, everybody’s stories deserve to be told; even one that might prove to be counter-productive to the general feeling, for without that story, a meeting of minds cannot be held in balance.

African Beach Party, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(332 words, estimated 1:20 mins reading time)

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

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Robert Pattinson, Dane DeHaan, Joel Edgerton, Ben Kingsley, Alessandra Mastronardi, Ron White, Kasey Lea, Eve Crawford, Michael Therriault, Peter Lucas, Lauren Gallagher, Jack Fulton, Kristen Hager, Barbara Gordon, Reg Dreger, Kristian Bruun.

There are photographs that are so iconic, so powerful in their delivery that they not only capture a slice of what could be considered symbolic, but they also define a generation by its message and the image they portray.

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

(549 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)

At Two In The Morning.

At two in the morning,

the chest lets you know that you’ve had enough

and that all that you accomplished so far,

the squiggles of indecisive word play foreplay,

the slight chuckle of flirtation with a new sexy

phrase dressed in glimmering ball gown

and the jealous, seething, rage of an old favourite

as it gets dropped in its favour

for a single novel line,

all that you written and fought for in the darkness

means nothing,

not a damn thing as all turns grey before your eyes

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(232 words, estimated 56 secs reading time)

The Southbound Attic Band, Gig Review. Write Blend, Waterloo.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

An evening with one of Liverpool’s favourite set of performers has arguably never been so laid back, filled with sensational imagery and the wonderful harking back to childhood reminisce as the sound of The Southbound Attic Band gently resonated though the pages of abundant books and the visibly moved audience at Waterloo’s cultural oasis of Write Blend.

The Southbound Attic Band, Gig Review. Write Blend, Waterloo. full post

(551 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)

Operation: Mindcrime, The Key. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Many people have an opinion on Geoff Tate, the siren with a voice of silk former lead vocalist of Queensryche, some wandering through the lands of the idyllic and the muse, some disdainful of his achievements, especially away from the band that he was such a big part of for virtually all his adult life and certainly in the album Frequency Unknown for which there appeared two Queensryche’s upon the glistening sands of Progressive Metal.

Operation: Mindcrime, The Key. Album Review. full post

(498 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)

Dan Wilson, All Love Is Blind. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Without the feeling of adoration, the heaviness of fondness and the tenderness that comes when love rears its nostalgic head and winks with the satisfaction of a school girl crush that turns into a long lasting marriage, life is not worth a jot. It has no meaning and even if it is just once, a pure and magical once that the stomach feels the tight knot of weakness at never wanting to see someone else cry, then it proves beyond measure that Love is worth every spent tear.

Dan Wilson, All Love Is Blind. Album Review. full post

(413 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Autumn In The Bootle Graveyard.

The wind picks up from the Mersey and races dog legged

and fancy free past sun bleached stones

and weathered time bitten

faces of the angels staring, unblinking and without humour

against the elements, and yet they feel remorse

for the quiet and solitude offered

amongst the grave stones.

 

The graveyard is unnatural in the lowering

of the September Sun, and the marking of a season,

unnerving as the youthful, over colour filled flowers

placed in the glass bubble shell wave with less vigour

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(226 words, estimated 54 secs reading time)

Entwine, Chaotic Nation. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It is the gift that keeps on giving, the tight control of the Scandinavian fist on the world of Metal, a fist that hammers home with vigour and force, the intelligent and the now customary. A fist that when opened holds a flower of acceptance into a world of Nordic style myths and legends that are ripe for the adaption of music and the sense of passion that Metal, when performed well and with undulating, heaving heart, more than captures the listener’s attention, it holds it for ransom and smiles with a soft caress.

Entwine, Chaotic Nation. Album Review. full post

(331 words, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)