Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: David Thewlis, Miranda Richardson, Ken Stott, Sophie Rundle, Kyle Sollar, Finn Cole, Chloe Pirrie, Lucy Chappell, Wanda Opalinska, Flora Nicholson, Charlotte Butler, Gary Davis.
When a writer of absolute conviction is adapted for television by one who shares the same passion, the same feel for the dramatic, it can only bring out the very best in television, so much so that it becomes one of the greats of the year.
Where did all the Yokos go?
The women who can tear apart a soul
and seamlessly and without
a second breath
stitch it back together
and create a new psyche,
not a monster created in a back street lab
with Guinness flowing in the bar next door
and the brutal sound of a Karaoke machine
ripping apart a classic tune,
but with the energy to change them for the better;
the muse dies quickly when there
are no more Yokos…
causing revolutions in the world
Quiet now,
for its hard to keep drowning
when you keep pulling me back
up and making me
gasp,
splut
ter and whee
ze for air,
to let the extra weight of water
cough through my teeth and spray into the void
to which I escape.
Quiet now,
lay back in the blistering sun
and let the seagulls perch on the stern,
puff in the heat, pant with overwhelming exhaustion
and save the strength
for as I falter, so too do you,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Vanessa Murray has been quietly biding her time on the Liverpool music scene, just out of the spot-lights glare, intriguing enough people and entertaining many more with her ability to support many a musician, notably the great Alan O’ Hare as part of the Only Child project or fellow aspiring musicians from L.I.P.A. It is a spotlight that has dazzled and impressed and now finally, a set of songs that have been carefully knitted together are to be set forth on the world.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
A year can go past so very quickly, projects thought of in the death throes of a winter’s evening with a crackling fire warming the blood and the imagination stirring the pot of what the coming period ahead can be shaped like, can soon all turn to nought. The same wandering thoughts will forever turn on an ever shortening wheel; it is the imperfection that maps out our lives with frightening terminal abandon.
It raged around me and I refused to see the bullets race,
I declined the black invitation edged in guilt to see you suffer
and I purposely lost the war
so I could win the fight,
that I could see your enemy square in the eyes
and outline their own blood that they tasted
with bitterness, the sadness they had caused you.
I lost the war with rational intention…
I lost the war and abandoned territory, but by doing so
I won the fight and gained self-respect…
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9.5 out of 10
Mad Max is an open-world third-person action adventure game available from retail stores and for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4. The legacy of Mad Max began in 1979 upon the release of the first Mad Max film followed in quick succession by two sequels, forming a trilogy created by George Miller and Byron Kennedy, launching Mel Gibson’s and directed by George Miller, while a further sequel titled Mad Max: Fury Road was released in 2015 with Tom Hardy taking over the lead role and George Miller reprising his directing duties.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The work may well be considered over when an album is done and dusted and the subsequent tour refined and completed, yet for Sally Barker coming off the back of working on the superb 2015 Poozies album, Into The Well, and performing in front of millions on The Voice, the only true way to see out the year was not to endorse television’s supposed pull on the world of music but to plough headlong straight into another music recording session and amaze her ever growing number of fans with a showcase of her own songs and a couple of delightful covers in the Love Rat EP.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, MyAnna Buring, Charlene McKenna, David Wilmot, David Dawson, Josh O’ Connor, Louise Brealey, Ian McElhinney, Haydn Gwynne, Martin Compston, Peter McDonald, Emily Taaffe, Leanne Best, Anna Burnett, Danial Cerqueira, Enda Kilroy, Bradley Hall, Maeve O’ Mahony, Brendan Morrissey.
The issue of abortion is still one that causes heated debates, within wider society and also within the prospective family unit; it is a debate where the parameters change the closer it hits to home.
It was like watching industrious ants
remove the dead and dying
from a destructive battle with termites
on the day the council brought a skip round
for the street to use.
The recently cleaned curtains had been twitching
since the first rays of light burrowed underneath
with bristling mole nose and soft soulless feet on
creaking stair in blind anticipation
for the promised skip and the tremble
of making sure what could be gone
was gone.
The skip duly arrived and was saluted by curtains