Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Wales has been a bed rock, a thriving hub of music for so long that at times it could be forgiven for resting on its mighty and well deserved laurels. These include groups performing with political ideals such The Alarm and the Manic Street Preachers, to much loved stars such as Sir Tom Jones and Dame Shirley Bassey and even those who should have been so much bigger, including the tremendous talent that resides at the heart of Jump – John Dexter Jones.
The message never gets across,
I cannot blame it for failing, for like the desperate man
telling his heart to stop gripping tightly, sucking
the very breath out of him and as the feeling of dizzy peculiarity
washes over his mind as if complaining about all the wrongs
the heart has thought, I ignore it,
as the message gets itself becomes ignored.
The message, one of such ease to take in, one that requires
so little thought on the receivers part, is tossed aside
as if written on a paper napkin, stained with curry sauce
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9.5/10
Cast: Lewis Bray, Garry Cooper, Emma Curtis, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Cynthia Erivo, Michael Hawkins, Charlotte Hope, Dean Nolan, Andrew Schofield, Alan Stocks, Tom Vary, Matt Whitchurch, Ozzie Yue.
One year on from the Everyman Theatre opening its bright, brand new interior to the people of Liverpool once more, throwing the wrapping of the impressive exterior and the doors being opened wide with a huge Merseyside smile, William Shakespeare returns to liven up the world and let the magic in the Everyman stage run over.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
It is a period of time in Britain that is perhaps less understood than any other over the last couple of millennia but it doesn’t make it any less fascinating, if anything it makes it more compelling to take it and understand. For KynchinLay, Dark Age can also represent a sense of yearning, a sense of freedom waiting to be discovered and one in which Time must be taken over to appreciate fully.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Being young is for living and rolling the choppy waters that comes your way. It is for having the spirit of adventure than youth brings and for seeing the world for the beauty it can bring rather than the cold hard, sometimes sterile, scenes that older eyes get too used to. It is for having the ability to be dynamic and electrifying, to be able to stimulate the generation above and to move those coming up behind, youth is not to be wasted sitting round wondering where the next round is coming from. For Eliana Cargnelutti, youth is all about being an Electric Woman.
I do not sleep well, for your silent voice still sits in my head.
The darkness of the night,
lit up by the neon, plastic-looking sirens
of an ambulance
and the police cars who came screeching to a halt,
running over the dead
hotdogs, battered burgers and remains of candy floss, dropped
on the floor, trod on with contempt by the man who lost
his girlfriend’s respect because the sight of the gun
was off kilter and the way she told him off
for being pathetic, meant that the candy floss had to pay the price,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating: 9.5 out of 10
The Wolf Among Us is a third-person episodic adventure game available from retail stores and for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4, PS3 and PS Vita. The game is set as a prequel to the monthly comic book series it is inspired by called Fables, created by Bill Willingham and published by DC Comics’ Vertigo.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Revolution or evolution, pretty much the end result is the same, things change and the old order is wept away; sometimes into obscurity, at others into the realms of fondness and nostalgia. Whichever way is chosen, what is always needed in the dark days after the shots have been fired and before the new way forges ahead, is Strength.
The Prince of Denmark is no fool,
and yet the aggressive bear
that sniffs and breathes the perspiration lingering
at the back door of the Prince’s castle is enough
to send the guards out, armed with spears, to fight the shadow
of what passed as cold deep frost, this bear
never hibernates.
The bear, perhaps a relic or offspring of another terrifying creature,
the type that heroes are born to fight and have mead
run over in great abundance as the fires lick the mantelpiece
and scorch the legends of
Joan Armatrading at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. March 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
When a musician of the legendary status decides to announce the last days of major touring, the polite thing to do is to go and watch a marvel say their goodbyes somewhere, anywhere, on tour. For someone of the quality and assurance of Joan Armatrading, the decent and respectable thing to do is to turn up and be quiet apart from the large spontaneous applause at the end of each song. To generally bask in an absolute legend and trail blazer who came through the ranks and became a much admired figure, even with the still dreadful race relations that haunted 70s Britain.