The man with the velvet collar
and the impressive skills on the piano
once sang a song for me
across the white crested waves
between the past
in the undiscovered Bronx
and my home in Bicester
and I could not help but be saved
I put a dime in the juke box
and I believed all what the Piano Man sang
about the ups and downs of a life well lived
and how at times the girl gets away
but if your fortunate enough
I fear that that the plague under the skin,
first suffered as I entered the twilight of being considered
young, has returned as the itch of skin flares
and erupts like the seeded grumblings of Vesuvius
as her townsfolk gathered in blissful ignorance.
I am exhausted, yet words continue to flow
and they mock the carrier, taunting that somewhere
under the surface, next to the silvery fish like scales
that threaten to burst
and pulse and spread across my body once more,
causing anger and confusion as the pain in my back
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
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Jurassic Park originated as a novel by Michael Crichton in 1990 about how genetic research was not an urgent matter and was therefore utilised for the purpose of entertainment by preserving extinct animals in a wildlife park. Steven Spielberg adapted the book into the popular film Jurassic Park in 1993 followed by an adaptation of the novel’s sequel The Lost World in 1997, while Joe Johnston directed a third film in 2001 with Colin Trevorrow directing a fourth film in the series 14 years later called Jurassic World which shares the name of the 1997 re-publishing of Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park and The Lost World novels into a single book.
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Cast: Bertie Carvel, Eddie Marsan, Marc Warren, Charlotte Riley, Alice Englert, Samuel West, Enzo Cilenti, Paul Kaye, Edward Hogg, Brian Pettifer, Ariyon Bakare, Vincent Franklin, John Heffernan, Richard Durden, Robbie O’ Neil, John Sessions, Clive Mantle, Lucinda Dryzek, Ronan Vibart.
For all the other channels and subscriber based ways of watching television, for all the smoke and mirrors of television programmes being played out endlessly and arguably without diligence and care for the viewers intelligence, when the B.B.C. gets something completely right it normally becomes the best thing to have been seen in the comfort of your armchair all year and in Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell such worthy praise and lofted heights is needed.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There are few finer voices than that of Midge Ure, especially when the vast majority of the evening spent in his company at the Atkinson in Southport is listening to an album that, arguably unfairly, was played against the workings of corporate turmoil and interference. There are times in life when you know that just want to hear the artist being lauded for them alone, not having an agenda pushed down their throat, it’s bad enough in the democracy of a band but when it comes against what is an especially beautiful solo album such as Breathe, that’s when you know the agenda has got rotten.
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Cast: Sandra Bullock, Pierre Coffin, Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton, Allison Janney, Steve Coogan, Jennifer Saunders, Geoffrey Rush, Steve Carell, Katy Mixon, Michael Beattie, Hiroyuki Sanada, Dave Rosenbaum.
They seem to be everywhere and perhaps with good reason, for in amongst all the merchandising, the paraphernalia, the produce and products making the type of money on the side that would help towards a small nation’s debt, there is no doubt that the Minions, the real stars of the Despicable Me films, are big, bigger in some child’s and possibly some adult’s mine too than John Lennon.
How long before the nation goes under the hammer
and its people sold as slaves to counteract
the weight of expectancy being urged
in a propaganda battle against Humanity?
Part of me wants them to fight on,
to deliver a black eye to the lords of high finance
and make them blush for the years they treated
a proud nation to the point where they become
the equivalent of Poundland,
the cheap shopping centre for the sun blessed and
morally out of step as they forget that the point
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The invitation must have been sent round the entire Liverpool music loving public, the words command performance perhaps not quite in evidence as the letter, e-mail or text message was steamed open and poured over with great intent and undisguised glee, but the intention was inferred and undeniable. Hegarty expected and received a following inside the Zanzibar Club so large that Noah himself would have found it impossible to find space for a pair of glow worms to dance the night away comfortably without stepping on the shoes of the faithful.
The Huyton Minstrel, June 2015, Zanzibar Club, Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The Huyton Minstrel looks down from upon the Zanzibar stage, stares into the eyes of anyone who is willing to catch his gaze and then without a moment’s hesitation, delivers the words of an angry, politically charged and unafraid poet right down the throats of the ever increasing mass of population that has made its way into the heart of the city on a dripping sweat and air still day.
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The near regal stance of Nina Fian as she performs at Zanzibar is akin to being asked to look at the majesty of Everest for the first time or to look deep into the heart of the Australian aboriginal tribes and try and describe just how beautiful and awe-inspiring Uluru is as a notion, an idea in which a thousand singing spirits can be heard lamenting the loss of Time.