Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9 out of 10
The Last Tinker: City of Colors is a platform game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4. The game has an ambition to rekindle the classic and much loved 3D platforming genre that was synonymous, but can it fully realize what it sets out to achieve?
The Searchers at the Liverpool Empire Theatre. November 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
You are never too young to be spoken of highly, you are never too old to perform as if the world has always loved you and as long as there is an audience who responds to your music then never mind the detractors, forget those that decry the period as something that is no longer relevant, for the four men who make up The Searchers, every cheer, every moment of the long lasting applause between songs and every well played note was more than worth rolling back the years to headline a night of pure wonderful 60s music at the Liverpool Empire Theatre.
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It seems at times there are more living legends still placing one foot infront of the other and getting, mostly rightful, plaudits for their continuing appeal and depth of character. There well as may be a sign on a student’s door proclaiming that after all the defining era’s of the Earth’s evolution that the latest one may as well be named, the era of legends.
The Fortunes, Liverpool Empire Theatre. November 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
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The ties that bind Liverpool and Birmingham are deeper and stronger than many might realise or even understand. Politically both squeezed by the Westminster Empire and its mouldy London centric viewpoint, both devastated by unrest in the early 80s and both at one point claiming the title of second city of the U.K. They also share a people who took music to the hearts more than any other city during the 60s pop revolution and who have spawned some of the greatest musicians to ever play on a stage the length and breadth of the islands.
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In Chevasse Park in Liverpool One, the first hopeful sounds of a Winter many will dread overpowers the senses, the heady aroma of Christmas is clinging in the air. The sound of children being treated by their parents to try their luck in the hope of winning an overstuffed bear or the thrill of a ride being undertaken with much glee follows suit and a cold November evening feels as biting and as forced as commemorating the end of the First World War with a supermarket advert for chocolate.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Whatever helps the medicine go down is at times more beneficial than the cure it aids. Rest to help the weary, revolution to assist the neglected and mistreated, fire to cleanse the diseased and wanton and a purge to bring those who inflict tyrannical misery upon those they are meant to serve, all buff up the spirits of humanity but a defining way is to help the inner peace to all and in The Vagaband’s new album, Medicine for the Soul, the music is at the core of the recovery.
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It is one of the most baffling mysteries and indisputably one of the most horrific set of crimes in British detective police work to have ever been committed. Every corner of the Earth, from all walks of life, the foul and craven murder spree of Jack the Ripper is known, researched and poured over by amateur detectives, hunters of the truth, the rank and file and the ghoulish alike.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, Jonathan Brugh, Cori Gonzalez-Macuer, Stuart Rutherford, Ben Fransham, Jackie van Beek, Elena Stejko, Jason Hoyte, Karen O’Leary, Mike Minogue, Brad Harding, Rhys Darby.
The Mockumentary is one that really divides opinion. There are those that adore the thought of being able to see the ordinary person on the street satirised and lampooned and there are those that find it the lowest form of cerebral wit; however, satire is only truly funny when the foot is being kicked upwards, when it starts kicking downwards that’s when cruelty is allowed to fester and the undeserving get left behind. Satire is at its best when it is aimed at the aloof and genuinely disturbing.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Donald Sutherland, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Banks, Natalie Dormer, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Willow Shields, Sam Claflin, Mahershala Ali, Jeffrey Wright, Paula Malcomson.
The revolution has begun, the Mockingjay stands aloft against a tyrannical elite and Katniss Everdeen is pouting firmly against all the odds and yet something does not sit well in the third film in The Hunger Games series, the bloated sense of being overfed and swollen resonates deep within the heart of Mockingjay Part One.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Rock is as Rock does, it is there to beef up a unique resolve that no other genre really has the right to try and do. Metal, of any type, goes too far, Folk relaxes the body and sharpens the mind to listen to the words on offer as well as the gentle swaying of a guitar or the pomp of a well placed brass instrument infect the mood. Other genres don’t have the pleasure of offering the enlightened Rock fan the Dirty Thrills they so desperately need, desire and deserve.