For the world in which the wolf may roam,
remember home
is where you left it,
but also the home-made can be anywhere
and anything you want it to be.
Take the year, a month, a moment,
or every so often raise a glass to the past
that put you where you are now
and only come back when the time is right.
You have always been a wolf,
you are the pride in us all,
your fur unbroken, bristles,
black and claws grab the opportunity ahead
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
If you’re going to cover a song, change it so much to the point of near brilliance and don’t give a flying monkeys if it annoys the purist.
For Hayseed Dixie, and their cousins in arms The Bad Shepherds, taking a classic Rock song and giving it new life via the injection of new blood feels like such an honest and affirming thing to do, that you do wonder why some young musicians with boundless energy and creative juices flowing overtime don’t do the same rather than having their beautiful ability shrouded by the constraints placed upon them by sticking to rigidity laid down before them.
It’s far too windy to wear a trilby.
It’s far too cold to go out without a thick woolly.
Too go outside without a heavy coat is considered unseemly,
in weather most foul, and insanity not to be dressed fully.
To wear shoes full of holes and let the rain soak through,
would surely have your friends comment about your soul.
To wear gloves of any material, helpful to keep fingers from turning blue,
is just sensible when having to leave the house for a stroll.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating: 8.5 out of 10
Race the Sun is an endless runner racing game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4, PS3 and PS Vita. The game was launched on the back of a successful Kickstarter campaign which saw 1,144 backers generously donate to Flippfly as the gaming community raised $1,579 more than their target of $20,000 required to develop and release the game across multiple platforms with the project receiving official status as being successfully funded on March 7th 2013.
The show must always go on…it is not quite law, but to the artist, be it actor, painter or musician, it is a loaded phrase that at some point seems to present itself fully and without warning. It can strike disaster, it can bring the house down with well-deserved applause from a grateful and highly delighted audience.
With one of the stars, the incomparable Helen Carter, having suffered an injury to a rib and with around 90 minutes to curtain, the highly successful and tremendously funny Christmas show, Scouse of the Antarctic, could have suffered a set-back which would have been upsetting for the huge crowd that had made their way to the Royal Court Theatre on a cold January night on one of the final evenings of the top rated Liverpool show.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
January, the month when all things hide, when put up the cold toes closer to the roaring fire and flicking through the holiday brochures whilst wearing more wool than a confused and overheating sheep wandering around in the Tasmanian wilderness, it takes something special to really get the heart thumping hard to even think of leaving the safety of the home in the cruel, harsh month.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There are people under a certain age that wouldn’t be aware of the lyrical prowess of those that lived on the musical hall stage. Those seemingly immortal beings who could somehow rattle out a story with an accompanying piano and a small cigarette wistfully burning away inside its porcelain holder, seem at times, to be Gods who belong to a different age. In the modern day there is no need for the smoke, for the exuberant glint of porcelain and the outlandish lyric once favoured by the likes of Noel Coward…
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Winter is such a cruel and heartless master. If you are not careful, it becomes far too easy to sit in the front room of the house and be force fed the type of insipid, characterless and unadventurous music that television dictates. If the winter is a long and hard one, it might end up having a Government warning attached to it that simply states, “Staying in can seriously undermine your natural ability to check out exciting new music.” It might be the only Government warning worth worrying about.
We don’t get along, we never really have.
I hate the thought of giving into Morpheus’ seduction
and the sound of a thousand yawns and inevitable,
“It’s Bed Time”, joyfully shouted as the radio
was switched off with glee, just as I was listening
to some news from a far off place, or the glimmer
of a new song that had caught my ear, all cut off in their prime
and with accompanying whine “Why aren’t you tired?”
Of course I am tired, for over forty years I have been shattered,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
It feels so rare these days to come across a great American metal/Punk Horror band that when you do, the only option you feel you have is to fly to Philadelphia and with great acclaim and ceremony, run the risk of imprisonment, and ring the Liberty Bell for all its worth. Sound the bells the Americans are hitting back with vengeance.