Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5 out of 10
The Golf Club is a sports game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4. As The Golf Club is the first of its kind produced for PS4; the obvious questions surrounding the release would have to be if it appropriately surpasses the quality of golf games that have gone before it on the previous generation of consoles and is it a worthy successor to Electronic Arts’ PGA Tour golf games.
Go West at the Floral Pavilions, New Brighton, November 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Go West never have to send out an elaborate invitation for their fans to attend a night of music delight. The word seems to get out, made easier by 21st Century social media, that Peter Cox and Richard Drummie are going back out on the road, that they will be touring their much loved songs and like the proverbial baseball slogan, the audience comes, and the aisles and the spaces provided near the now neglected seats having irresistible dancing and loud appeals for more thrust ever closer to the stage.
Natalie McCool in New Brighton, November 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
It may seem extraordinary, the type of story that even a seasoned publisher might balk at the idea of putting into print but the rise of Widnes songstress Natalie McCool is one that demands to be told over and over again and each time the narrative is accounted, the stronger it becomes and that is because like all good stories, it is, like her music, 100 per cent sincere.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
You can never have too much natural beauty in the world. The attraction of sitting back and being overawed by the sight of the sunlight bouncing of the droplets of water that drop in time to nature’s heartbeat off the sturdy Oak or the Mountain Ash and to the green grass below is matched in it vibrancy by the face of a young child when they finally realise the answer to a complex question.
Bryan Adams at the Liverpool Echo Arena, Photograph reproduced with kind permission by Marie Dodd, November 2014.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
For the next few months the Liverpool Echo Arena will vibrate to the sound of the multitude of Rock acts that will come to the U.K.’s music city in a blistering undertaking to see out 2014 and to make sure 2015 is another vintage year to remember. With the likes of Peter Gabriel and The Who making their way to the Mersey shoreline, the Echo is getting the attention it deserves, with the Kaiser Chiefs, Korn and Slipknot all descending upon the music heart, it can surely only be time before other more established bands realise that the tour schedule doesn’t always have to stop at Manchester.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kiera Knightley, Matthew Goode, Mark Stone, Charles Dance, Alan Leech, Tuppence Middleton, Rory Kinnear, Steven Waddington, Tom Goodman Hill, Matthew Beard, James Northcote, Alex Lawther, Jack Bannon.
Alan Turing was a hero of the British war effort in World War Two. His name is now lauded, researched and cheered for his significant part in saving many millions of lives during the darkest of days that shrouded Europe in a blanket of hate. It was due to fear and mistrust though that eventually saw the Professor take his own life in the cruellest of circumstances under a decade later.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine, Jessica Chastain, Mackenzie Foy, Matt Damon, Topher Grace, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow, David Oyelowo, Collette Wolfe, Wes Bentley, Casey Affleck, Timothée Chalamet, Francis X. McCarthy, Bill Irwin, William Devane, David Gyasi, Josh Stewart, Leah Cairns, Liam Dickinson.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Kevin Whately, Laurence Fox, Angela Griffin, Susan Wooldridge, Priyanga Burford, Alec Newman, Richie Campbell, Clare Holman, Rebecca Front, Robin Weaver, Tom Davey, Patrick Walshe Mcbride, Joe Dixon, Gruffudd Glyn, Emily Houghton, Martin Chamberlain, Paul Lacoux, Holly Blair, Sean Murray.
It is the terrifying grip that a mesmeric individual can wield over the thoughts of another that makes copy-cat killings so repellent. The mimic or the ventriloquist doll in the skin of a human being so transfixed by the evil in one person’s demeanour and plausible words that they lose sight of themselves, they lose their humanity to the point where they are actually more than an impersonator, they take on the residue of evil themselves in the final episode of the last series of Lewis, Beyond Good and Evil.
I want God to weep
uncontrollably and with shame.
I want Her to lose sleep
for what we have done to Her planet and in Her unspoken name.
When put on trial, Her hands gripping the dock in fear
I want Her to realise that Her mistake,
Her complicit action, worthy of the arrogance of fabled Lear,
was to find us so spiteful, imaginative and on the take.
For when the sentence is passed down,
the gavel banging repeatedly with judgement almighty,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The only way it can be described is as a shame. There are stronger words that can be used but it would go against the grain of what the music scene in Malta provides its people but doesn’t seem to be picked up across the watery border that separates the U.K. from continental Europe; whatever the word is, Malta has an excellent burgeoning pedigree of music and one of the finest is the astonishing Airport Impressions.