The Fuck, Theatre Review. Queertet, Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Liam Murphy, Gerard McLaughlin

The pick-up, the slow manoeuvring of time and physical introduction as two sets of eyes meet is a story the world over, sometimes though the need for something beyond the carefree social abandon takes the requirements of dating out of the hands of the participants and into the realm of the arena. Not so much making love on the first date but the greeting of a Spanish crowd to their hero decked in national regalia and the snorting, steam driven worship of a single moment in which The Fuck is all but consuming.

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(374 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Bye, Theatre Review. Queertet, Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Nic Hardman, Mary Jayne, James Bray.

It has perhaps arguably long been a topic of conversation between people who find the subject of other people’s love lives and sexual experiences a thrilling and endless game to while away the time, on just how can a person fancy or fall in love with a two people from the opposite genders; the sniggering and the elbow nudging a distraction and deflection to the point which is that human beings are animals and attraction is not based solely on which side of the cup you like to drink out of at all times. For some it even comes down to a choice between friends and which one they may have to say Bye to when the fall out of choice rears its ugly head.

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

Mates Rates, Theatre Review. Queertet, Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Rachel McKweon, James Wray, Gareth Cobham, Richard Carlin.

Break ups are never easy, they don’t actually even just entail the two people going through the process, family aside, it effects a wide circle of friends and close personal attachments to the point where some people breaking up demand that you take sides in a fit of ownership. Whilst others feel as though they have no choice but to make a complete break of the whole situation; to the point where starting with nothing is preferable to looks of disappointment and heartbreak.

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(400 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Pulse, Theatre Review. Queertet, Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Paul Pope, Andie Egan Jr., David Allen.

The spirit and ethos Grin Theatre’s much talked about Queertet production of four short plays can be seen in this year’s opening production; that of John Maines’ Pulse. The spirit that lives in the Liverpool LGBT community, the feeling of acceptance and recognition is highlighted by the fun and the outrageous, the touch of the mystery and the overall entertaining that plays such as Pulse provide.

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(426 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

True Story, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

Cast: Jonah Hill, James Franco, Felicity Jones, Maria Dizzia, Ethan Suplee, Conor Kikot, Charlotte Driscoll, Stella Rae Payne, Robert John Burke, Byron Jennings, Betty Gilpin, Seth Barrish, Robert Stanton, Michael Countryman, Steve Routman, Genevieve Angelson, Adam Mucci, David Wilson Barnes, William Jackson Harper, Sam Rosen, David Pittu, Auden Thornton, Edward James Hyland, Mara Hobel, Ngo Okafor, Maryann Plunket.

 

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(565 words, estimated 2:16 mins reading time)

Therapy.

I am always in therapy,

the trouble is I am my own private physician

who prescribes too much medication

in the form of dropped words, social

exclusion and my own valueless fears

for which cannot be bought

for they have become too priceless.

 

The University taught me to analyse

the words of others and when I read them now

I wonder how much sub-text goes on

between the sheets, and then I pour scorn

like a never ending jug of milk

from the near sucked off teat

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(230 words, estimated 55 secs reading time)

Jared James Nichols, Old Glory And The Wild Revival. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Nobody should ever say to the young that their dreams and aspirations are not worth a dime, the phrase almost borders on child cruelty and deprivation and should be seen as such. To damn any child or teenager to the obscurity and a desire less world seems far too callous and controlling, even if they fail, they should fail under their own terms; not those set out by adults who find only black and white vision the perfect daily partner.

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(457 words, 1 image, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: The Secret History, Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Peter Davison, Maureen O’Brien, Peter Purves, Graeme Garden, Lysette Anthony, Tony Millan, Giles Watling, Tim Wallers, Sarah Woodward, Nicolas Briggs, Elizabeth Morton, John Banks, Barnaby Edwards.

 

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(575 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

Enslaved.

Take your beauty away,

for I cannot bear the thought of enslavement

in your hands let alone the loving

smile you show me, a mortal man.

 

A man of weakness, of flaws and frailties

all bound up in the heart of a selfish tyrant

who wishes that she was free to sample

a world in which the Gods despise

and in which this slave is bound by misfortune

and terror.

 

Stupid, forever cursing the insanity

of choice, the meanest thimble protecting

the pricking of the set out time

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(199 words, estimated 48 secs reading time)

The Blue Waves, Wild Nights And Break Up Fights. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is a story of generations, of almost every generation since the end of World War Two and the days when everything finally changed and the young and the restless were no longer content with living in the perpetual shadow of expectancy and out-dated ways of thinking. The loosening of the straight jacket, a couple of buttons untied in the right places and the truth of self expression finally being seen as one mode of musical fashion replaced another; all led down a path in which Wild Nights and Break Up Fights have become the norm in every town and city throughout the country.

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(449 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)