Storm Drain

I remember the last time I saw the scrawled graffiti on the storm drain wall.

Although it was written with an uncomfortable hand,

its message would make an angel weep in frustration

and the effect it had on me was to change things for a while.

 

I would hide in that drain pipe when times got rough,

when thinking in my room about events and others

words upon my soul and mine, perhaps more hurtful,

that would scar their heart and have me scar my arms.

 

Charlotte Pollard, The Viyran Solution. Audio Drama Review, Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: India Fisher, Michael Maloney, James Joyce, Nicholas Briggs, Louise Bradley, Nadia Kamil.

The solution is always part of the problem it seems. No matter how grand the answer, another dilemma will pop up in its place. Just as The Doctor faced being able to eradicate the Daleks from all time and space by placing two wires together, the quandary appeared that he would be as evil as them for not letting nature take its course. The solution is never the utter final truth. For the Viyrans and Charley Pollard, the solution is even more complex and for Charlotte Pollard the stakes have never been higher.

Findlay Napier, VIP Very Interesting Persons. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

There is something deep down that makes anyone with even just a smidgen of adventure or human spirit welling up under the surface of composed reassurance that wouldn’t want, even for a short while, to be the hero of the hour, the person of the moment or even the V.I.P. entering the room.

Battle Beast, Unholy Saviour. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Domination is not just measured in output but in years also. The Scandinavian block has over the course of the last few years become a power house, an energising animal with seemingly just one point to make and that is to prove time and time again that this decade is about those set of countries providing the very best Heavy Metal music anywhere in the world. In Finland’s Battle Beast the trend continues and in their latest stormer of an album, Unholy Saviour, it’s easy to see why.

Broadchurch. Series Two, Episode Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: David Tennant, Olivia Coleman, Jodie Whittaker, Andrew Buchan, Charlotte Beaumont, Matthew Gravelle, Tanya Franks, Meera Syal, Carolyn Pickles, Jonathan Bailey, Joe Sims, Arthur Darvill, Simone McAullay, Charlotte Rampling, Eve Myles, William Andrews, Paul Blackwell, James D’Arcy, Peter De Jersey, Janet Dibley, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Simone McAullay, .

Who’s to blame when an alleged killer is liable to walk free when overwrought and built up emotions are fully bared out for public consumption? The sensible, rational and unimpaired face of judgement we sometimes are forced to wear by society’s expectation comes crashing down and in a single action, an unhindered show of emotions, a case against a killer throws everything into question.

Identity

Crossing the Tamar Bridge brings a sense of polite revolution,

a feeling of identity regained, no matter how mixed or diluted

the poetic blood has become, for no-one should ever 100 percent solution

or wrap the flag of choice around cold shoulders when it is suited.

 

The black background holding the white cross aloft

held high by a Kernow sister dressed in a blue dress

whipped up by an Atlantic wind so soft

is the closest I come to holding up a banner or crest.

 

I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, Live Theatre Tour. Empire Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

 

There are times in life in which you just have to let the night unfold infront of you, and enjoy every single minute of it. Even if the truth of the evening really goes over your head, you can but laugh and gasp for air.

The Empire Theatre has hosted many great nights but there are those that would struggle to take on the appeal of the long running radio programme, I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, that even the most cunning of comedians would jump at the chance of being involved in rather than take on a Liverpool audience alone.

Charlotte Pollard, The Fall of the House of Pollard. Audio Drama Review, Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: India Fisher, Anneka Wills, Terence Hardiman, Charlie Norfolk, David Dobson, Michael Maloney.

 

The intrepid travellers in the life of Charley Pollard have long been teased over the family history of the Edwardian Adventuress. There have been smatterings, the odd peek and the rare smidgen of information of how the young Charlotte Pollard grew to be the woman she has most definitely become and how it could bring about The Fall of the House of Pollard.

Foyle’s War, Trespass. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, Ellie Haddington, Rupert Vansittart,  Richard Lintern,  Tim McMullan, Alex Jennings,  Matilda Zieglar, Alexander Arnold, Michael Begley, Jonny Bingham, Jim Cartwright, Gerry Aziz, Oliver Churm, Hermione Gulliford, John Heffernan, Finbar Lynch, Colin Mace, Ania Marson, Poppy Miller, Josh Moran, Marianne Oldham, William Postlethwaite, Amber Rose Revah, Bianca Rudman, Michael Schaeffer, Michael Ryan, Jeremy Swift, Jonathan Tafler, Sophie Skelton, Jeremy Swift, Yolanda Vazquez, Scott Vickers, Daniel Weyman.

Tennis in the Face (PS4), Game Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating: 8.5 out of 10

Tennis in the Face is a physics based puzzle game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4. Tennis in the Face is an even more humorous take on the physics based puzzle genre in comparison to 10Tons’ King Oddball.