Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
It Might Never Happen is Jim Pearson’s fifth studio album. If you have not heard Jim Pearson so far, you need to. Simply put, the album is thoughtful, evocative, playful and intelligent indie-pop and indie-folk at its finest and catchiest. Eclectic and retro in sound, the songs will have listeners tapping out a beat and humming along as much as any cheesy pop song and whatever the lyrics are doing the songs mostly have an upbeat sensibility.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Josh Helman, Nathan Jones, Zoë Kravitz, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Riley Keough, Abbey Lee, Courtney Eaton, John Howard, Richard Carter, Angus Sampson, Megan Gale, Melissa Jaffer, Coco Jack Gillies.
There are times when a long chase sequence is played out in front of a cinema audience and the heart just groans under the pressure of being subjected to the Director’s whim and fancy. It can be viewed upon as just being delivered as if the Director has no other idea of what to place into the film’s story line than have several cars or vehicles race round for a couple of hours with no discernible universal truth being explored. It is basically a testosterone fight but with petrol pumping through the heart instead of blood; it’s been done so many times that it has almost become a pastiche of itself.
“It’s different”, she said to me, her eyes blazing
with the ferocity of one caught in the act of shielding
her pupils against the sudden rush of sunlight
that had crept over the green lush hill
full of potential and the intoxicating aroma
of diverse flowers flowing on the wings of Apollo,
not a rose in sight to pour scorn over.
“It’s as if the dance we had is the same,
the tune vaguely familiar and interesting, but the steps,
the ones we learned together, have now been altered.”
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9.5 out of 10
Stealth Inc 2: A Game of Clones is a side scrolling stealth platform puzzle game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4, PS3 and PS Vita. This new game is a sequel to 2013’s PlayStation Vita and PS3 versions of Stealth Inc: A Clone in the Dark and just as the first game did; it throws players into a world in which a single false move will see the character suffer instant death, while mixing danger with the requirement of speed and strategy.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
When Fearless Vampire Killers last stood on the stage of the Academy in support to Medina Lake in 2013, the sense of the occasion was rife in the air. The mercurial, almost explosive substances of hopeful burgeoning testosterone mixed with feminine guile and raging hormones fighting it out over supremacy and the will of capitulation hung heavy in the air and the taste of being undefeatable rampant and undisguised. Nothing has changed in the intervening 18 months except for the air getting heavier and the crowd becoming more vocal, aside from that, to be at a Fearless Vampire gig is to be honoured.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The enigmatic smile that growls in the darkness on offer by German band Annisokay throughout their latest album, is nothing compared to the broad all knowing grin they lay out before a live audience, especially an audience that is treated to their performance for the first time ands in a city not noted for its love of the genre.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Martin Shaw, Lee Ingleby, Lisa McGrillis, Adrian Bower, Louise Brealey, Emma Cunniffe, Anthony Flanagan, Jim Moir, Nick Sidi, Kris Deedigan, Luke Maddison, Glyn Pritchard, Paul Brennen, Simon Hubbard, Annabel Scholey, Lawrence Neal, Jim Kitson, Shaughan Seymour, William Troughton.
Arguments between friends, especially life long ones, can be the source of much anger and hatred; yet somehow they blow over without much issue or ceremony, a drink and a proper handshake, one without descending into sarcasm and cynicism. It is the ones that don’t blow over, where hatred and jealousy become entwined and unable to be torn apart, that’s when the spectre of murder rears its ugly head and the free flowing nature of Gently Between Friends is disturbed.
I let the flames devour the past today
whilst keeping each memory intact for future use.
I let an explosion of tight yellows and blues spread
and search for more fuel, more wasted ways to say
that the muse of words have been completely abused
and now they lay fried and buried, the words are dead.
I once hung upon them and revered them to show growth,
the patient delivery of a lead-lined pencil, the Time between Time
and the slow mark of a pact, the most solemn of oaths;
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Jamie Tyler, Sarah Earnshaw, Joe Tracini, Will Hawsworth, Richard Kent, Richard Meek, Josh Wilmott, Michael Palin, Daniel Crane, Abigail Climer, Matthew Dale, Holly Eaterbrook, Richard Astbury, Ste Clough, Inez Mackenzie.
It’s no wonder that the chroniclers of Middle and Old English History have very little to go on, save the odd Anglo Saxon lord and a few scattered bones of cows that have been forcibly flown through the air and the legends of dire and almost indestructible rabbits who would tear a man’s head off given half a chance. Nothing of note seems to have happened until King Arthur and his loyal, if utterly bewildered, Knights of the Round Table went in search of the Holy Grail and under strict instructions by Michael Palin, as played by God.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
It is perhaps more of a telling state of the world in the last year, the feeling of sheer abandon that has crept through in certain quarters and into the lives of those who have been placed into such desperation that the debut E.P., Widow, by Darke Complex should resonate with the anger and warning of the Liberty Bell being struck with the same ferocity as was achieved when first cast in Whitechapel and before being cracked as it stood resplendent on American soil.