The Charlatans Round Off Excellent Year With A Visit To The Liverpool o2 Academy This December.

To round off a fantastic year The Charlatans have announced a new U.K. tour in December. Starting at the legendary Rock City in Nottingham on December 8th the tour takes them around the country including a night at the Liverpool Academy on December 18th .

The band released their twelfth studio album Modern Nature in January to stunning reviews, some citing it as their best ever. Their singles, So Oh, Come Home Baby, Let The Good Times were rapturously received at radio and all A listed at 6 Music. Following their sold out U.K. tour in March, the band were booked to appear on Later in April.

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(220 words, estimated 53 secs reading time)

Broken Age (PS4/PS Vita), Game Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9.5 out of 10

Broken Age is a story driven point-and-click third-person adventure puzzle game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4 and PS Vita. Broken Age is the first graphic adventure game from Tim Schafer in 16 years who is known for his work on such classic games within the genre as Day of the Tentacle and Psychonauts. He was the project lead on the original release of Grim Fandango which he stated cost around $3 million to develop and he also lead the project of remastering the game with Double Fine Productions. It has been quite a long time since Broken Age began as a Kickstarter campaign from February 9th 2012 looking for crowd funding which was so successful in how it was received by audiences that the campaign funded the initial figure of $400,000 in just over 8 hours; eventually greatly surpassing it to reach an astounding funding total of $3,336,371 by the middle of March 2012 from a total of 87,142 backers.

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(1990 words, estimated 7:58 mins reading time)

Raelism, Back To The Battlefield. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The upbeat world of Electronica may be a far away dream in a world that seems forever standing on the precipice of the unknown battle ahead, the abyss yawing deep below as the careful shuffle of cramped feet dislodges more concrete rocks and stones that so far have kept us from falling.

The arena in which light tries to shine some semblance of glory within, the mutual adoration between man and machine that isn’t born out of fire or war but as an extension to humanity’s ability to make music on instruments other than that considered the norm and into this arena steps once more Raelism and his follow up to Freedom Within The Prison, the exotic and fortune favoured Back To The Battlefield.

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(393 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Ragz Nordset, Don’t You Forget.

Everybody leaves eventually, especially artists of one form or another. If the call of a new pasture in which to paint never calls then how does new and exciting work happen, the imagination after all is only as strong as the individual and no artist can imagine a waterfall crashing down upon shaped boulders if they have never seen a water drop.

Some leave too soon, some perhaps too late in the day but neither really ever write a song, paint a picture, or capture the emotion of leaving somewhere they love unless they have a poet’s mind dwelling deep in their soul.

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(360 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

The Avengers: The Lost Episodes Volume 4. Kill The King. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Julian Wadham, Anthony Howell, Lucy Briggs-Owen, Dan Starkey. Lobo Chan, Richard Cordery, Ozzie Yue, Lourdes Faberes, Karina Fernandez, Adrian Lukis, Elizabeth Morton, Matthew Cottle.

 

Heavy is the head that wears the crown, especially when it is the prime target for an assassination attempt on British soil of a foreign head of state.

The fourth box set of the highly popular adaptations of The Avengers lost episodes series sees both Dr. Keel and John Steed take a bit of a back seat in the opening chapter and one that with all the best will in the world feels as though it is still feeling the after effects of the falling out between the two characters at the end of Volume Three.

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(453 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Justice League Volume 5: Forever Heroes. Graphic Novel Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

If righteousness and treachery can be seen as going hand in hand, then for the team that has usurped the positions and members of The Justice League, the havoc they are wrecking upon the East Coast cities of America is one that is out of control. They are on the verge of destroying all that is good in the alternative universe they have found, to some they may be death itself but to themselves the thought must be that they will be Forever Heroes.

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(401 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

I Once Wrote A Small Nordic Saga…

I once wrote a small Nordic saga

in the shape of a poem for you,

to say thank you

for the precious gift you gave me,

an ear on a bad day, a shoulder

on one of the black days

and yet nothing I wrote in the space

of the blank page, was adequate enough,

not good enough to match

the beauty that your words that had soared

above the crowds inside St. George’s Hall

or caught fire in a cascade of glass

and petals as you sang with truth and honour

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(242 words, estimated 58 secs reading time)

The Simon And Garfunkel Story Comes To The Floral Pavilion This September.

Thursday 3rd September sees The Simon And Garfunkel Story come to the New Brighton Floral Pavilion.

Has it really been 50 years since the most successful Folk/Rock Duo of all time recorded their first no1 hit single The Sound of Silence?

Following its West End success at the Leicester Square Theatre, London in February 2015, The Simon and Garfunkel Story is currently the biggest and the most successful No 1 touring theatre show celebrating the lives and career of Folk/Rock sensation Simon and Garfunkel.

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(244 words, estimated 59 secs reading time)

Spock’s Beard, The Oblivion Particle. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

There is almost nothing better than when it comes to the Progressive art than finding any of the stalwarts of post punk determination to rid the cycle of the lengthy song on absolute and blinding top form. When it happens, when it gives the all and the everything into which the imagination can run wild and the cosmos can end and begin in a single blink of an eye and no one would notice, that’s when the all has been given and the shaking of trepidation is but a Post It note.

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(466 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Stephen King, Finders Keepers. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It somehow feels kind of dirty, somehow unclean that deep in the heart of the crime fiction world lays the name Stephen King, the undisputed master of 20th and early 21st Century Horror. Yet for all the dirt, for all the feelings that must be overcome as any rational book reader must do, his second novel in the life of Ex-Cop and now Private Detective, Kermit Hodges is one that takes the idea of obsession down a very different route that plagued the writer during the days when Misery was such an enormous literary hit.

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(534 words, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)