The Modern Playboy Of The Western World.

You are the modern example

of the Playboy whose morals took a long, lingering hike

one summer’s day in the Midlands

and you smiled at all as the cream sat proudly upon your lips

like a tomcat on heat and the hand

stayed shuffling and straightening, readjusting in your pocket.

 

Ah but you thrilled all with tales of money spurned

and like a poorly run casino you kindly splashed out

on things to keep the bloated creature named economy

happy, sated and desired as it kept you

Battlefield 4 ‘The Fall’ Patch. Game Review.

The fall patch is finally here as promised by DICE studios. This fall patch will consist of fixes to the game that will improve gameplay and cause less stress for players when immersing themselves into the action.

In this patch there have been a number of fixes been made to the game that many players have asked for, which include: game mode changes to rush, obliteration, capture the flag and carrier assault. This will include all ‘Vanilla maps’ in the game except Dawnbreaker. This will move many military communications or M-COMS for short which are the main objective of the game mode on the map, so it will give teams a chance instead of just one team on one map. Also the map zavod 311’s third M-COM site inside the two factory’s M-COM b will be moved so that it does not trigger the levolution feature on the map till someone sets the timer themselves.

Sanctuary, The Year The Sun Died. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Nothing changes in the end bar time itself, although fans and listeners may wonder might have happened, what could have been in the world of Metal had Sanctuary not folded in on itself after the release of the live offering of Into The Mirror, what would have a world that took Metal into the homes of those that only five years before had shunned the American metal Gods of Metallica, Megadeth, the likes of Queensryche and Anthrax. Would Sanctuary have found a safe haven in which to preach to the converted and beyond?

Doctor Who, Kill The Moon. Television Review. B.B.C.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Hermione Norris, Samuel Anderson, Ellis George, Tony Osoba, Phil Nice, Christopher Dane.

Space for so long has been a conversation of banality to many, the interest in what lurks, glides and happens beyond our own atmospheric layer is not as awed as it was during the great Space Race or during the early use of the Space Shuttle programme. The Sun and The Moon seemingly as remote now as it was to ancestors who prayed to them as deities.

That Trivia Game (PS4). Game Review.

Liverpoool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

That Trivia Game is a quiz game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4. The game is the first quiz game to release for PS4 and with it being a quiz game it will naturally receive comparisons to the Buzz Quiz games that released exclusively on PS3 and PSP, so the question must be asked of how it stacks up in comparison to the Buzz Quiz games.

Tony O’Neill, Buddha In A Hat. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It could be considered one of the hardest aspects of writing poetry, to deliver a series of poems with an incredible thought, a deftness of the well placed word, whether it rhymes or not, bulging with humour and with the ability to make a reader understand that the poem is asking you to be scathing of a world that seems to have no time for the craft and also demands that you must question the wound that appears. It is a hard task to pull off, many a great, perhaps arguably legendary poet fails at the attempt but for Tony O’ Neill and his recently published collection of poems under the title of Buddha in a Hat, all these demands that a poet places upon their mental agility are met.

Zoe Schwarz Blue Commotion, Exposed. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is the measure of a great talent that you can listen to an album that has been recorded somewhere in  deep dark confines, where lights flash on and off and with no discernable pattern emerging except for those who understand these things and for whom the rest of us may as well be watching a futuristic science fiction film starring William Shatner.  The music that is later heard from your C.D. player is one in which you can imagine fully having been painstakingly, lovingly and thankfully captured frame by frame, song by song and each bead of sweat that falls seductively from each of the musician’s brow able to tell its own tantalising story.

Liverpool Sound and Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Laura Benitez.

Laura Benitez and the Heartache’s biography says, “If you love Americana and Classic Honky-tonk, uncensored and unpolished, you’ll love this band!” It is a statement that is hard to ignore and easy to understand. Even on this side of the Atlantic where the genres have not flowed into the mainstream hearts of music lovers as they arguably should have done, the music that Laura Benitez and her musicians have produced is something tangibly infectious and instantly enjoyable. So much so that the album, Heartless Woman should be seen as a classic in the making, as real a piece of Americana as you could hope to hear and shines a lantern deep into the heart of what makes the country so fascinating and beautiful to be involved in.

Hellion, Karma’s A Bitch. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

You could be forgiven for thinking that Hellion had disappeared into the 21st Century ether. Like many of their compatriots and contemporaries from what now seems like a time in which has been dwarfed by the subversion of music as a television entertainment procedure for advertising revenue rather than expression of deep down and dirty demands from a disenfranchised society, Hellion haven’t really hit the sweetest of spots in the genre of late.

All that should change with the release of their mini album, the outrageously good Karma’s A Bitch which is out this October.

Clybourne Park, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound & Vision Rating: * * * * *

Cast: Liam Tobin, Judith McSpadden, Paida Mutonono, Richard James Clarke, Chris Jack, Simon Hedger, Samantha Meisner.

Said&done have come back to the Unity Theatre with Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park, a play set in America in the 1950s and then later on in 2009. The play was originally written by Norris as a response to Lorraine Hansberry’s, A Raisin in the Sun, and looks at race relations in America over the last fifty years. Set in a fictitious Chicago neighbourhood, Russ and Bev are all ready to pack up and move on having sold their house to a coloured family, but very quickly learn how things really are in a society still not ready to move on with the times.