You’re supposed to be our saviour,
fighting things that need attention,
instead you’re killing innocent people,
Girls, men and children.
You’re giving kids asbos
for smoking their green
but you can’t say you haven’t been there,
it’s something we’ve all seen.
You disrupt our streets
with your orders and conduct.
Why aren’t the people’s voices in charge?
This so called government is corrupt!
Growing up in a local school
taught me no lies,
that the law is restricting us
Dr. John and the Nite Trippers. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. March 2015. Picture kindly reproduced by Adrian Wharton.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Let the good times roll…and eventually they did, it just seemed to take a while for the legendary Dr. John and the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall audience to find each other.
There is never a doubt that Dr. John is one of the most stylish men to be welcomed to the stage at the Philharmonic Hall, he also has the overpowering ability and back catalogue to back it up, in that, legendary is perhaps too shallow a description in which to place before the all rounder and man of many parts.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
There are spaces in life which are just too big to be filled by anybody or anything else. Whilst they are not around the hole gets bigger, it is more and more noticeable and the bleak feeling they leave in their absence turns to raging at the moon and the cursing the stars.
For Edgar Jones to have been away from the Liverpool stage is akin to feeling adrift on a sea with only a single plank to sit upon as the sea crashes around your mid-rift, it is unfathomable why the predicament should have happened and the world is somehow poorer for it having taken place.
I have never been at anyone’s beck and call,
I will tug no lock nor doff my trilby to no one,
I will admire in great abundance but I will not lick your arse clean
nor allow you to make me feel like I am worthless;
for I am not your whipping boy.
I place the smoky glass in front of me as I wish it to tempt me,
inside I want it to take me to a place where
you cannot reach me, because the last thing I want
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating: 9 out of 10
Kick Beat: Special Edition is a unique combination of a music driven rhythm action fighting game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4. The game is an enhanced adaptation of the PS3 and Vita versions of Kick Beat which was released in September 2013. Zen Studios being no strangers to delivering quality games, have also developed Planet Minigolf, CastleStorm and a variety of expansions for the amazing Zen Pinball series including Marvel Pinball and Star Wars Pinball as well as a range of individual themed tables.
Concrete Dutch Tulips are all the rage in the city by the river
as they trade for increasing vast fortunes
that feed the bloated economy figure, warts popping pus
and oozing, squeezing blood all over the dust potted road.
The second city of Empire, the anti-capital, the gateway
to a new world, has more and more concrete tulips
than is healthy as the modern bubble shimmers
in the March sun and speculators look for another
square block in which tulips will thrive.
Speculating on a future that could change with a slip of a pen
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Manhattan, even the merest taste of it on the tongue is to invite the strangely familiar and yet thoughtfully exotic, especially if of a certain generation or perhaps of a disposition towards the love of the city of New York and its boroughs. It is the thought of the busy, of the cool and aloof, of the sounds, smells and sights of a city that sits so comfortably in the thoughts of many, that to be there is only a film or American television programme away. It is to be in the city that never sleeps, it is not just a Frank Sinatra song framed in the mind, it is a destination that is just keeps on at you to be within, Midnight in Manhattan, to bathe in moonlight of a 77th Street Jazz serenade is to be live.
As Liverpool’s Epstein Theatre prepares to open its doors and welcome audiences to the new stage play of Helen Forrester’s Twopence To Cross The Mersey, meeting with renowned singer Emma Dears is something in which to appreciate, to recognise as being part of the same story that hundreds of thousands of people everyday who make their living by the shores of the River Mersey. Whether that was in the time in which the play was set or the mirroring of the generations that have followed, if not to the extreme felt and experienced by Helen Forrester’s family, each has their own story at some point of hardship, adversity and woe. It is these stories that fuel the fire of not wanting any of those negative aspects to visit Liverpool again.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, Mark Strickson, Jemma Redgrave, Nigel Carrington, Emily Woodward, Paul Panting, Matthew Carter.
Even with Adric having been dead for quite a while, his sphere of influence over the affairs over The Doctor nevertheless continues to compound the web of time and the lives of his companions.
Andrew Smith’s Mistfall sees the Doctor, Tegan, Turlough and Nyssa dragged through a pocket of Time and into a different universe. It is the result of Adric’s mathematical genius mind that the Doctor finds himself back within the complexity of E-Space and all the dangers that are found within.
You are my guide, from the womb to the soil in which
my cremated remains will hug and embrace with the same deep thought
as when I was a child in which you were my teacher,
when I was the teenage boy in whose arms I wanted to hold you with
and kiss you gently,
to the middle aged man in which I have become
and in which you are the one I strive
to be equal to, you are my guide.
From the grandmother with unseen feminist principals,