Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
For many a music fan, the concept album is like allowing the lengthy attention span required for a drive down the back roads of Britain from John O’ Groats to Lands End via Whitby to enjoy the gothic ambiance and a day or two in Stratford to soak up the atmosphere of a greatest of them all and the master of the concept ideal.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Solidarity is not always achieved when disparate forces come together, even if the final purpose is the same; it somehow can seem fractured and split and in the end only half the aspirations and goals are met. This is not the case with the hugely impressive and direct new album from the Alan Kelly Gang, The Last Bell. If anything, more goals are met with extraordinary cheer than if the forthcoming General Election was being fought with a fairness in the media and all prospective members of Parliament were told that their pay was to be reduced to that of nurses.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, Ellie Haddington, Rupert Vansittart, Tim McMullan, Daniel Weyman, Leo Gregory, Jesse Fox, Colin Connor, Simon Hepworth, Conleth Hill, David Ericsson, Julian Lewis Jones, Ronnie Fox, Henry Garrett.
All good things come to an end, some with a blast and some with an understated whimper. For Foyle’s War to contain both is quite possibly the single most maddening reason for this very successful police drama to finally come to its closure.
…For all I crave to do is scream.
For going beyond that means drowning
and I’m too good at that, I can do it in any monochrome dream
and achieve the burnt sensation of the nettled sting.
…But one day I will forget to breathe
at the vital moment and swallow air that they provide
so willingly for my testament and my will to leave
to choose my own side.
As I pull myself down and allow the sea to rush into my lungs
I want to leave you in charge,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating: 9.5 out of 10
Trine: Enchanted Edition is a side scrolling action adventure and puzzle game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4. Trine: Enchanted Edition fully utilises the Trine 2: Complete Story engine to enhance the original Trine game on PS3 and is the latest release in the award winning and popular Trine franchise. Trine is the work of the self-funded development team Frozenbyte based in Helsinki, Finland who was founded in 2001 and had developed the successful P.C. indie games Shadowgrounds in November 2005 and Shadowgrounds: Survivor in November 2007 which are sci-fi action games that saw the player battling hordes of aliens before Trine was originally released in 2009 with Trine 2 following in 2011, while Frozenbyte’s follow-up IP to Trine is a fast-paced old-school platform game called Splot which released in October 2014.
The Pantomime Dame wipes off his make-up
in an exaggerated style
and smiles broadly, but with a hint of exhaustion
disguised by heady amusement
in his sparkling brown eyes, at the saxophonist
who has played him in on stage and in time for forty nights,
excluding the supposed festive delight filled days,
on the run.
The saxophonist for his part only has eyes for the principal boy
who has been the hero
for many a confused child, who asks their mother,
but never their father,
There are times in life when you come across an artist who offers a message that is captivating, intriguing, strewn with pathos and littered with so much meaning that it would take many more phone calls in which to get all the questions that want to ask of them. The type of artist who answers a question with such honesty that you yearn that you could just keep the conversation going for longer than the required time.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Paul Reiser, Melissa Benoist, Austin Stowell, Nate Long, Chris Mulkey, Damon Gupton, Susanne Spoke, Max Kasch, Charlie Ian, Jayson Blair, Kofi Siriboe, Kavita Patil, C.J. Vana, Tarik Lowe, Tyler Kimball, Rogelio Douglas Jr, Adrian Burks, Calvin C Winbush, Joseph Bruno, Michael D. Cohen, Jocelyn Ayanna, Keenan Henson, Rachel Bornholdt.
It is the one central theme of the film Whiplash, the act of dominance, which makes it such an achievement of cinema making.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Nils Lofgren has placed his guitar on the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall stage before and yet as the chill in the January air was making the very air being exhaled from Liverpool public’s mouths feel as though it was shattering onto the pavements in a tiny fragmented pieces, never has watching one of the most scintillating guitarists to ever come out of America, filled the heart with as much heat and joyous warmth.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Howard Charles, Luke Pasqualino, Ryan Gage, Alexandra Dowling, Marc Warren, Hugo Speer, Colin Salmon, Tamla Kari, Maime McCoy, Finbar Lynch, Bohdan Poraj, Oliver Rix, Charlotte Salt, Ed Stoppard, Antonia Thomas, Celeste Dodwell, Will Keen.
The questions of race, equality and loyalty and how they are observed in Europe’s chaotic and often brutal past comes into play in the latest episode of The Musketeers, The Good Traitor and it is one that doesn’t skirt the issue in a time when religious fervour is perhaps mirrored in today’s society.