Doctor Who: Suburban Hell. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish Audio.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, Annette Badland, Katy Wix, Alix Dunmore, Raymond Coulthard, David Ricardo-Pearce.

 

There is surely one place and one set of foes more terrifying than a fleet of Daleks rampaging from the torment that is Skaro, the Cybermen climbing out of their icy wombs, the spiders of Metabelis 3 or the arch devil himself himself The Master burnt to a crisp and finding the best way to groom a beard and that is the nightmare that would make them all quiver in fright, the suburban middle-class themed party, the fear that dominates the Suburban Hell.

Doctor Who: Suburban Hell. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish Audio. full post

(463 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Shakeamaker.

I am not surprised that many of us

survived the way that Shakeamaker

dealt with us,

I am astonished

that we did so without looking the maniac

in the eye and resisting all temptation

to punch him in the stomach

with our tiny eight year old hands

and screaming with our lungs

fit to burst, our lungs still blaring

as if mimicking the sirens

that disclosed the approach of the bombs

that rained down and the aftermath

in which we played in as children;

Shakeamaker. full post

(459 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Life is Strange: Episode 4 – Dark Room (PS4), Game Review.

Sound and Vision Rating 9.5/10

Life is Strange: Episode 4 – Dark Room is a third-person episodic adventure game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4. The episodic action of Life is Strange continues with the fourth episode developed by Dontnod Entertainment who are known for creating games with powerful and dependant female characters that grow and become stronger through the duration of the game having previously released Remember Me in 2013.

Life is Strange: Episode 4 – Dark Room (PS4), Game Review. full post

(2295 words, estimated 9:11 mins reading time)

Three Minute Hero, In This Generation. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To each generation the prospect of strife, hardship and being looked down upon a despicable Government is a very real and frightening prospect. For the current younger generation who have lived through what was called with vigour and dishonesty, a credit crunch, a decline or even a slowdown in the economy but will perhaps be given its rightful name of the great Depression of the 21st Century as history unfolds. Three Minute Hero’s latest single, In This Generation, looks deep into the eyes of those that have caused such misery and want and shows the world exactly what despair he sees in the hate filled iris’.

Three Minute Hero, In This Generation. Single Review. full post

(356 words, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)

Science Of The Lamps, Lonely. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Film and music are so intrinsically linked together that sometimes it is easy to forget just how much they would be missed if separated, torn apart and left to fend for themselves.

For the sensational Liverpool band Science of the Lamps and in particular the woman behind the thought process and cohesive story-telling, film is a logical move. The band’s latest song, Lonely, sits up there with the very best of the Nordic tales that they have written and provides the perfect backdrop for the new feature film My Lonely Me.

Science Of The Lamps, Lonely. Single Review. full post

(370 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

The Hummingbirds, Knocking On My Door. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is perhaps a standard that many of us are loathe to do, the action of being able to say to someone with no uncertain terms that their company is not wanted because they make you feel ill, inadequate or they fill you with the a type of unhealthy fear of being aside if they weren’t there to bug you. It is the action of fore and after thought that some people are able to get under your skin, make the surface layer of your very being feel as though it crawling with the sign of the desperate need to be liked that we forget that in their non-handshake, their snide remarks and back-handed compliments, that in the end they don’t need us, don’t even like us, so why persist?

The Hummingbirds, Knocking On My Door. Single Review. full post

(441 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

The Change From A Pound.

The day I found that ship wrecked

pound note, the eye of the Queen

giving me a warning glance or the drifting

smile of a woman I will never meet,

like the furtive teasing of a model

stripped down to the waist that adorned

the tossed away magazines and that got caught

in the branches of the Willow trees

that lined sentry still on display

on the banks of the River Rae,

on the dusty pavement

on the bridge

that separates Moor Green Lane

and Dad’s Lane…

The Change From A Pound. full post

(700 words, estimated 2:48 mins reading time)

Sanguine, Social Decay. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

When anyone thinks of Devon, arguably the last thing that will go through their minds as an answer is the world of Metal, unless of course they are into the study of ancient Archaeology and then that perhaps is a step too far for even the power and carnage that awaits the gentile and patient as the music of Sanguine fills the air and the passion of Social Decay kicks the sand and dig sites away and replaces it with raw and undiluted anger.

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

We Came As Romans, Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

At times it feels as though there has been a large glass ceiling put between what has happened before and the 21st Century bands trying to break through and at least assert some measure of modern day experience and the seeking of truth in every music genre across the board.

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(475 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Love Love, Love Love. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The Beatles once mused that all you need is love, an anthem perhaps of a lost generation to whom the words echoed and made much more sense after losing so much in the senselessness of a war that ripped what it means to be human, apart.

Perhaps in an age where a different evil lurks, one not just intent on destroying a world, but one that tears at the fabric of society and pits neighbour against neighbour, friend against friend and Government against its people, jealousy, the ever vigilant emotion that feeds and sucks a person dry till even the shell is digested and no trace of the former personality is left; perhaps what is needed is Love Love.

Love Love, Love Love. Album Review. full post

(489 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)