The first memory I retain,
not the ones handed down to me in black and white,
of going missing as my mother and nan
were shopping in Abingdon
and after going spare and wondering
how they were going to break the news
to my father, only to find me
giggling away to myself in the coal shed
that joined the house, having apparently walked
home alone…
…the memory I have that still hurts in my mind,
that has seared so much into the very fabric
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The year seems to be slowly ebbing away, the nights are getting darker and the absurdity of such inclement weather for the time of year is enough to install a sense of deprivation and foreboding for the winter ahead.
What Liverpool has though is the means to generate heat, warmth and an overpowering urge to shake off the blues as easily as making sure that Westminster undesirables are never able to find their way past the Mersey. That heat, that serious endeavour to keep new music coming through the ranks and the venues of the home of culture is what keeps the smiles on the faces across all sections and genres of music lovers in the city.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
There are moments you feel for a band, when the Gods distract the flow and even the tiniest interruption could make or break the moment of absolute clarity. Bands of immense stature have suffered it and some have even folded under the pressure on the day, the music never really capturing the intensity that came before it. Yet in amongst the darkness of perhaps seen negativity an illumination can appear and what follows is just as hard core, just as enjoyable to watch as before the mishap on stage occurs.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10
Everyone has a story to tell, to impart perhaps for the betterment or understanding of humanity’s place in the world and the ways that even the softest voice can change someone’s idea of what it means to achieve something extraordinary.
July may have ended on a bigger whimper than a child being offered a milkshake, fries and a juicy burger if it kept quiet all day, only to find that the parents had actually meant boiled cabbage and carrot water but in terms of young local bands finding their first steps into the creative, sometimes harsh but always nurturing, aspect of Liverpool music, July had been a God-send and as the month breathed its last The Zanzibar Club gave one more surprise in the collaboration series as The Also Known As played with minimum fuss and cool stance upon their stage.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, MyAnna Buring, Charlene McKenna, Lydia Wilson, David Wilmot, Clive Russell, David Dawson, Josh O’ Connor, Louise Brealey, John Heffernan, Leanne Best, Francis Magee, Raymond Waring, Dermot Magennis, Kelly Campbell, Anton Giltrap, Andy Giltrap, Andy Gathergood, Mark Mooney, Tim Hibbard.
There are moments when the general public must wonder what goes on in between the ears of those in charge of the B.B.C. when they allow quality drama such as Ripper Street to be disavowed, to be treated to the point of shame that the makers must wonder what exactly they did wrong except bring in respectable audiences and the shuddering heads of yet another television expose into the world of drunken antics of the young and the restless takes their place in the schedules.
War is in the air but for now the year is content
to stretch out is tentacles
and feel the Northern sun warm the soul
and the days to become ones of bliss,
of harvesting the rewards
of bounty and the food
that will sustain the people under
Weodmonath’s care.
The gladiolus bloom everywhere
she looks and her charm, tempered by
anger of Solmanath’s revenge like fury
on her previous troubled psyche, is still…
Deep in the heart of her bosom though
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Axiom Verge is a side scrolling action adventure platform game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4 with a Vita version set to be released in the not too distant future. The game is inspired by not only the 8 bit, but also the 16 bit generation that actually began production 5 years prior to release as a side hobby project which is made all the more fascinating as it was developed from the ground up in every component of the game by an individual called Thomas Happ, rather than multiple team members.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Looking back can play havoc on the mind, the peace and solitude ruined by reflection and deliberate thought on where you might have gone wrong. The angst of knowing that whilst you were right the pain it may have caused others gnawing at your breast and all the while the chasing of the tick that followed tock a constant reminder that the new beginning you have carved out for yourself is one that easily could become the same boggy rut.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The bow stands quivering upon the first note and the static electricity starts to flow with the type of snorting, bellowing irritated expression one would normally expect to see on a half tonne bull asked to manage a china shop for the day whilst running on a treadmill. It is the electricity of a long held desire to bring something beautiful into the world, something of one’s own true reflection and worth; something that might have people look upon as being pure and worthy. In Scotland’s David Grubb’s debut album High Rise, the innate beauty is matched by the scorching intensity of someone ascending up the musical ladder with greatness ready to be attached.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner, America Olivo, Alec Baldwin, Ving Rhames, Sean Harris, Hermione Corfield, Jingchu Zhang, Simon McBurney, Tom Hollander, Jens Hultén, Rachel Ritfeld, Anastasia Harrold, Jorge Leon Martinez, Nigel Barber, Jessica Williams, Wolfgang Stegemann.
When the last Mission: Impossible film was released there would arguably have been many that silently sobbed into their pillow throughout the night after having watched it and who would vow silent vengeance should the world see a fifth instalment of the seemingly well past, over worn, near threadbare series of films.