Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
For anybody who was in the New York area in the early 1990s and got the hear the seminal live grooves of the album Pocketful of Kryptonite as well as the righteous tones of Blues songs that were ahead of their time by around a decade, the Spin Doctors were a class act to watch and listen to.
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There is no doubting that many artists do put a lot of thought into the naming of a body of work, some though leave you scratching your head as if the meaning is lost, perhaps even translated wrong between your language and the utter gibberish that has placed itself onto the sleeve as if waiting for someone, anyone, to get the joke.
There is a certain romance lost
when a communication comes out of the blue,
the modern love of the instant message received and crossed
is nothing to having a significant day made superior by a letter from you.
The hand writing, sincere, legible and carefully written,
has been pondered over, adjusted and cleaned by scraps
of paper unseen left by her own bin, tossed in by anguished hand and nail bitten
fingers as she gropes for the right, beautiful word, outlined by doodled maps.
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Cast: Quim Giron
Humanity’s relationship with the animal kingdom has often been questioned many times since we, as species, first took to the practice of farming. By rearing these animals as a food source then breeding, studying and at times corrupting the very nature of that relationship by using science in the laboratory, that association has become one of dominance and at times sheer brutality. It is that hybrid dance between human and animal which makes for great physical theatre and at times the sense of the uncomfortable at this year’s Physical Fest at the Unity Theatre in Indomador: Animal Religion.
The old scribe, worn out by years of writing
down the thoughts of kings and masters, of stable hands and squires,
the relentless drives of the damned and the dead, finally
finds solace in a discreet request from the much loved
daughter of Pharaohs to meet by the banks of the Nile as
she slips into the country unnoticed by spies
as she ends her long self imposed exile which had left
the country in tatters and the old scribe with no patron
or friend.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Listening to The Theme’s Hits The Sky, the feeling of infectious delight washes over you to the point where you have to start looking through the yellow pages or asking your G.P. where the nearest place is to share the sheer joy of listening to one of the most remarkable bands to come out of the London area in many years.
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When it comes to a voice, one that shoots straight like a burning arrow through the defences of the unexpected and the unfashionably unknowing, Chelsey Chambers has the route from bow to target mapped out and is swift in the delivery.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9.5/10
Cast: Ben McKenzie, Donal Logue, Erin Richards, Robin Lord Taylor, David Mazouz, Zabryna Guevara, Sean Pertwee, Camren Bicondova, Cory Michael Smith, Victoria Cartagena, Andrew Stewart-Jones, John Doman, Jada Pinkett Smith, Nick D’Agosto, Morena Baccarin, Chelsea Spack, Richard Kind, Clare Foley, Carol Kane, Peter Scolari, Milo Ventimiglia, Julian Sands.
It’s difficult to remember you with clarity,
your face is but a shadow since you’ve gone,
you have left me with a feeling of emptiness, insanity
prevails as I think of you; the quick sprint in the Marathon.
You are missed as anniversaries are greeted at the back door
and the feeling of the incomplete fills my veins
the missing in life always leave a space that’s sore
I miss you in the ether now, your face, more losses, no gains.
But whose fault is it really that you are not here,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
You have only to listen to Three Minute Hero to know that inside the man sits the heart of socially aware human being, a person of intrigue and one who knows the intricate nature of penning a song which is both catchy, to any genre lover, and one that has a huge point riding along just underneath the sense of sound, one that asks a question of the listeners.