Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
There was never any doubt that Leo Sayer was, and remains, a singer of great abundant style and taste; what is perhaps a new feeling for the 21st Century is just how cool he is actually he is, like a wonderful single malt that’s been left to perfect over Time, Leo Sayer suddenly feels as though he is an elder statesman of the pop world.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, MyAnna Buring, Charlene McKenna, Lydia Wilson, David Wilmot, Clive Russell, Josh O’Connor, Louise Brealey, Anna Burnett, David Dawson, Leanne Best, Anton Giltrap, Sam Gittins, Billy Cook, Dave Legano, Naomi Battrick, Phelim Drew, Stephen Wilson, Tim Faraday, Martin White.
It is into the kindness of strangers
that I must thank
after rescuing me
from the dizzying black haze that
swept vigorous broom like
over me on the night I fell out
of my chair down Florrie Maybrick’s Bold Street.
I have had hardly been out on my own since…
For the fear, for someone who is only afraid
of one thing, of such a tumble,
such anarchy in the mind
as the battle rages between
blood and bone,
between sinew and breath,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Long live Atreyu, for the world has seemed a duller place without them and the world of Metal has certainly missed them to the point where other self anointed kings have tried to lead skirmishes and revolutions to take the place in which they hold their fans hearts high.
It might have seemed that the day might never come that the band would ever darken the corners of the genre’s admirers again, the devotees of such Metal enlightenment, of the buff well muscled toned lyrics that swagger and swathe into the limelight and the pounding, yet somehow gloriously subtle, beat that becomes enthuses with creative energy; all this has been missing from the ears until now as Atreyu plan to release their first album in four years, the excellent Long Live.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
What goes on tour stays on tour; unless of course it’s worth sharing with everybody you know and is so important that the words won’t keep still, they merge into something that demands to be heard properly before the tour is over. Such is the genesis of the creative beginnings of Tawny Ellis’ Ghosts of the Low Country E.P., such is the mark of respect due to the four beautiful and soulful songs, that they each in their own way offer a piece of the American psyche and introspection that used to be synonymous with the road and the effects on the productive and artistic mind.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Paris, the very name just allows the mind to conjure up so many images and perhaps apart from New York City. It is the one place on Earth to which a lot of British minds will wander and project upon as naturally as the vision of artists lining the Seine trying to be inspired by the beauty of Mon Montmartre, the glory of human engineering in the Eiffel Tower and the serenity on which great novels and poems were born and realised all clog the streets and the café’s in which French culture abounds.
My right eye bled
and I could not fight back,
if I had, I may have ended up
in a worse condition, one that
surely would have had me
as close to death
as the day my appendix
no longer grumbled
and instead shot poison
into my system almost to the point
of no return.
My body stretched out like dough
being rolled out to make bread
for the hungry teens
on Cooper School field
and my battered face, sharp elbow dented
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *
Cast: Alex Beaumont, Alan Howell, Elizabeth Carter, Laura Sillett, David Luke, Anna Campkin, Will Tierney, Michael Kantola, Sheridan Lloyd, Mike Slander, Daniel O’ Flanagan, Joseph Hardy, Josh Tye, Chloe Edwards-Wood.
The music world can be a cruel mistress, especially when you have had one hit record and the path is opened up before you as if the parting of the Red Sea has happened before your eyes and Moses is on the other side showing you this week’s sales and a mouthing over the crashing tumbling waves around you that Sir Paul McCartney has expressed an interest in doing a duet, with the fickle nature that comes in the form of a scratched record, dreams can be broken and dashed upon a cruel sea.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *
Manchester band The Renaissance undertook their debut Liverpool gig at Zanzibar and they made themselves right at home.
Having only played seven gigs together so far the four-piece band gave the open-staged night at one of Liverpool’s oldest and finest renowned Jazz bars their all. With a simple set-up of vocals, bass guitar, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, drums and a playing-it-safe stage presence it was unbeknown to the comfortable and already previously swooned audience as what to expect.
Let the cameras roll
and show the world our happy side,
a side show to the main event
in which tonight we shall ever be
the star with a smile and
the director of our final moves
caught on film
and like some great old movie
in which the heroes jump
out at the end and go
determined to be seen
as with guns blazing
we shall not hear the word action
over the roar of the crowd.
A good friend of mine once said