Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Gwilym Lee, Fiona Dolman, Tamzin Malleson, Una Stubbs, Georgia Taylor, Ed Birch, Charlotte Cornwell, Adam Kotz, Simon Kunz, Howard Ward, James Lance, Kobna- Holdbrook-Smith, Grant Russell,, Raj Awasti, Paul Blackwell, Pamela Betsey Cooper, Anthony Farrelly, Susan Fordham, David Golt, Oona Kirsch, Liberty Mills, John Neville, Shaun Newnham, Terry Noble, Lia Williams, Timothy Watson, Allan Williams.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The poet, whether armed with guitar, piano and possibly even a generous loving violin or the thunderous confident tones of well oiled and lubricated voice, with expertise is able to take a moment from the past and turn into something that can border on the exquisite, or crushingly, to filled with future optimism that it loses its buoyancy, its grasp on the real and ventures unwittingly into the absurdist fantasy beloved of the broken and bemused.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Being the main attraction isn’t for everybody. Many are more than happy being the player filling in, the unseen midfielder who puts in more than his fair shift week in, week out, the beautiful scene behind the supposed alluring landscape or the rare flower in the hands of a beautiful woman, some quite rightly prefer it that way. Every so often though that rare flower gets noticed, even if it has been prominently displayed, it may have gone undetected to all but those that rave in the dark of its sanguine effect on the whole.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
For many, indeed arguably millions, Stephen Fry has that modern disturbing invisible, perhaps slightly jingoistic moniker attached to his name that implies monetary wealth, rather than the importance he brings to the species as a whole and yet National Treasure he is and will be hopefully until the sad lamenting day when Q.I. has an empty host chair in sad rememberance.
We sat back triumphant, but exhausted and overwhelmingly drunk
in a small public bar by Waterloo Station
full of football supporters letting off steam
after their team had lost in the capital again
and part of our collective soul didn’t care,
but the devilish, impish, teasing part thought,
we could wind them up after winning our own battle
with all that sits on the coloured squares and overpriced
bars and a tin of beer outside Holloway Jail.
Our own private Monopoly Board challenge.
February 17th 1996 and the first train up from Salisbury
…And there is no room in the world for the sentimental.
No earthly place in which to stack the memories
upon high, layer upon layer like bricks laid out
on a spring morning in which to build an annexe.
Move on, like a fluttering unfeeling butterfly
already in the sights of the patient entomologist,
letting go of the nightly moth in his paw like grip
and ready to pin you down.
I will not but be sentimental, to be romantic,
certainly emotional and perhaps at times flowing
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Like all good narratives and stories that belong in the realm of darkness, From the Very Depths, is a suggestion that plays into the heart of basic fears, frustrations, doubts and other worldly qualms and the thought of endings as we know them.
It is also the very real place that sees rock bottom being attained and yet for Venom, rock bottom is not an option, it may be a fine starting place for the uninitiated to smile with teeth dripping metal corroded blood but for Venom, this is the point where years of output of across different line-ups becomes important, depths have been reached but a zenith is in sight.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: David Tennant, Olivia Coleman, Andrew Buchan, Jodie Whittaker, Charlotte Rampling, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Arthur Darvill, Eve Myles, James D’Arcy, Meera Syal, Carolyn Pickles, Jonathan Bailey, Tanya Franks, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, William Andrews, Matthew Gravelle, Shaun Dooley, Amanda Drew, Joe Simms, Adam Wilson, Lucy Cohu, Thusitha Jayasundera, Hannah Rae, Hollie Burgess, Brendan Murphy, Lucas Hare.
The writer of Broadchurch must love playing with audience’s minds so much that he seems to take them to the point of one explainable and rational theory, before offering a certain line or screen shot which might go unnoticed in the melee of damnation and finger pointing, and a new line of though runs through the head and screams, “What about me?”
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Tracy Wiles, Brian McCardie, Sean Biggerstaff, Hugh Ross, Damian Lynch, Nicholas Briggs.
It can be a staggering thought at times, that even after over 50 years of storytelling, filmed adventures and audio escapades, that there is still moments in which to find a large, near timeless thrill in a new tale set in the world of Doctor Who. Masters of Earth is one of those audio dramas so beloved of its makers Big Finish, that it allows the listener to sit back, relax, to a point and remember why they might have fallen in love with Doctor Who in the beginning.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There are combinations that are just made to make the heart swing that little faster, the amalgamation of seemingly different flavours that somehow go together and produce a slice of unexpected and much admired bliss.
The album may steadfastly proclaim that it’s A Long Way From Heaven, however just an hour in the company of Wily Bo Walker and Karena K and the highly original songs that come across the innocent sounding space between speaker and ear is soon filled with the sweet resonance of angel siding up to a Blues/Jazz combo and uttering the immortal words, “Turn up the heat baby, you’re on fire!”