The bumblebees danced their way
through the semi-alien landscape
of a town far from the pollen collecting
sites near their own loving hive and wondered
aloud in their own dramatic buzz-like,
black and yellow single stripe fashion
just how they had gotten so far-flung
in their quest.
There was no predator wasp of Time
to serve and yet Time still had mastery over their
flight path through the city streets
and in the male, Time preyed heavily,
Time had lost its charm
and a younger bee noticed
Graeme Phillips, Unity Theatre’s Artistic Director will retire this month after 33 years at the acclaimed Hope Place venue. A seasoned well-respected member of Liverpool’s artistic community, director, designer and mentor to many local, regional and national theatre companies, he will step aside at the end of July.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
To be considered an Oddity should be seen as something to revel in, something to almost take pride within and be seen as outside the routinely beige and endlessly dull; it certainly sparks of the original and the creative.
For Bethan and the Morgans, the chance to add to the richness of musical inspiration and almost divine like structure of the Black Country scene is like asking of a child wants to go to the dentist or to the sweet shop, especially when the confectionary is free and there is nothing wrong with their teeth; the unusual offering might be considered calculating but it strives to be recognised as novel and loveable. For in Oddity comes richness and a peculiar sense of true identity and Oddity is the watchword when it comes to the band’s new offering.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll, Bobby Cannavale, Judy Greer, Abby Ryder Fortson, Michael Peña, David Dastmalchian, T.I., Wood Harris, Hayley Atwell, John Slattery, Martin Donovan, Stan Lee.
Into every family remains one forgotten member, one who was there at the very beginning and saw some of the early stories, the heartaches and the extreme highs; every family has one and yet some have deserved to be amongst the biggest names.
The caravan had looked as though
it had seen better times, possibly after the end of
World War Two and may have indeed been used
for target practice by some lonely, bored,
over fifty year old look out
on the Kent countryside
weary of the night ahead but too concerned
for the welfare of the desperate fox stalking the half
blind mole rooting
through the roots and undergrowth
to take a shot at the flash of red
and earn a couple of shillings
from a grateful farmer
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Abby Melia, Bradley Thompson, Bryony Doyle, Daniel Sebuyange, Dorcas Sebuyange, Emma Burns, Kane Roberts, Lina Sebuyange, Owen Jones, Raven Maguire, Sam Ikpeh, ScottLewis, Toin Otubsin, Paislie Reid.
Denigrate a section of society enough, make them pay for imagined crimes of a group of individuals with sweeping undeserved statements and it is no wonder that they will perhaps meet all your expectations. When that section of society is the young, the next generation of people to whom the world becomes a narrow and twisted version of doomed failure then it is no surprise that sometimes they act the way the papers expect and the Government demands. The problem with demonising the young is they have the teeth to bite back, they have the surprise and good will deeply engrained in them to show just exactly who the Animals are in society; for it truly is not them.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Politicians never seem to learn, especially once they have got used to the taste of power offered by the spectre of Government. For all their promises, the smiling rhetoric of how the young are the ones to which they look too for inspiration for the future; that all they are doing is for them, once the Promises are made, they are forgotten quicker than a jumper given by a colour-blind aunt when hastily shoved into the back of a cupboard.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Mark Wahberg, Seth MacFarlane, Amanda Seyfried, Jessica Barth, Giovanni Ribisi, Morgan Freeman, Sam J. Jones, Patrick Warburton, Michael Dorn, Bill Smitrovitch, John Slattery, Cocoa Brown, John Carroll Lynch, Ron Canada, Liam Neeson, Dennis Haysbert, Patrick Stewart, Tom Brady, Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel, Nana Visitor, Lexi Atkins, Craig Ricci Shaynak, Curtis Stigers, Alec Sulkin.
I never knew he had the stomach
for such dining
but as looked upon my plate with curiosity,
and with what I took for the sniff
of disgust at my dinner
my youngest boy verged on manhood
as he asked to try a mouthful
of the once wheezing Haggis
that now lay dead upon my salver.
Outlawed across the water
and not seen with appetising relish in his Dudley
home, I had to commend my son
for at least giving it a go
and not taking aim with
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
In the world of the re-issue, the one that makes you yearn for another time is king. When that king is benevolent and giving it makes all the praise heaped upon its shoulders the first time round not only fitting but arguably a considered and finely tuned honour and in the electro-dub pioneers Dreadzone appropriately named Sound that honour has been restored and given new purpose.