Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There almost never seems to be a day go by when the new breed of Liverpool bands finds a way in which to grab hold of the listeners hands, takes them down a seemingly deserted alleyway and then shows them the bustling lights and active highway that stretches out before them as the music of a distinct set of musicians illuminates the sky.
Perhaps I don’t belong anywhere.
At times I feel as though all that I do
is but a waste of someone
else’s time and that the friendship
I offer is but seen as rusting decay.
To take each heart I’ve broken
and see it corrode in the flesh of my palms,
to see it perish under the scrutiny
of insane composition and to share that
wild word with a world that doesn’t care
is to punish and pound my head
into the mud and dirt and yet my
The Sgt. Pepper band was finally broken up
sometime in an early afternoon
when no one was looking
down on Mathew Street and the sound
of the full throttle cover
rang down upon other’s ears.
To bring the cover up to date
is all we ask of the young,
to make it their own and give us the anger
and passion that is missing when friends
can no longer be found,
but our own cover of our favourite song
remains unsung and unpainted
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Tilda Swinton, LeBron James, Daniel Radcliffe, Marissa Tomei, Vanessa Bayer, Brie Larson, Evan Brinkman, Mike Birbiglia, Norman Lloyd, Keith Robinson, Marina Franklin, John Cena, Randall Park, John Glaser, Colin Quinn, Dan Soder, Devin Fabry, Carla Oudin, Dave Attell, Ezra Miller, Matthew Broderick, Marv Albert, Chris Evert.
It is a grace of Waterloo
and one that the Iron Men
and seagulls hold no dominion
as they squabble over sunlight
and the quiet rage of the ships
that cut through the Mersey sound
on their way down stream.
The other end of South Road,
the bottom stop and between
the Liver and X2 stops
of Southport and Preston
stands firm the Plaza, resplendent
since the outbreak of war
and since “Peace in our Time”
was declared over cold eggs and copious tea
One of Liverpool’s most successful ever plays returns to the Royal Court Liverpool ten years after it was first performed!
Dave Kirby and Nicky Allt’s Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels has broken box office records in its previous five outings in the city and is back for the first time since 2011.
Having sold more than 150,000 tickets across the five runs so far, the play has been seen by more people than any other Liverpool comedy. Audiences have been calling for the play’s return of this genuine Liverpool classic.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
People are strange when you’re a stranger…however the more you get to know them and with fortune the more dreamlike and wonderfully weird they become and when it comes to The Surreal McCoys, they don’t get much more magnificently odd and musically cool.
Take their new album, The Howl & The Growl, too whichever number you like, to which extreme fits your ears and the sense of fun and occasion they demand to be taken to, for in the depth of surreal passion, in the wake of all that went before it, The Howl & The Growl is nothing but charm personified.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Debicki, Luca Calvani, Hugh Grant, Sylvester Groth, Jared Harris, Christian Berkel, Misha Kuznetsov, Guy Williams, Marianna Di Matino, Simona Caparrini.
It’s almost impossible to dislike what Guy Ritchie brings to the world of film, he is at times the epitome of what great British cinema should be viewed as and his latest venture, a suave and sophisticated remake of the classic 1960s television programme The Man From U.N.C.L.E, is up there with RockNRolla, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and the excellent Robert Downey Jnr. versions of Sherlock Holmes in terms of high pace, intelligent, creative independence and stylish cinema.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Larry Lamb, Denis Lawson, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Adjoa Andoh, Anthony Calf, Tracy Ann Oberman, Percelle Ascott, Lloyd Everitt, Camilla Beeput, Ricky Nixon, Edmund Kente, Joan Blackham, Magdalena Kurek.
New team member, new ways of solving crimes, new quirks, new tricks; one old favourite team member departed and one brand new one in which to aid U.C.O.S’s efforts to solve the long since discarded crimes of London, it is after all a new day in the lives of some.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10
Cast: Natalie Dormer, Aneurin Barnard, Shaun Evans, David Calder, Craig Parkinson, Oliver Chris, Peter Sullivan, Jessica Gunning, Elizabeth Rider, Richard McCabe, Will Keen, Tom Edden, Alex Beckett, Thomas Coombes.
There are moments in British history that are so worth preserving that to make a film or an epic television programme about them seems the most natural thing in the world to attempt to do; some though should only be attempted if the right cast is put in place to make History real and not just to pull in viewers.