Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
When Joe Bonamassa makes an entrance, the polite thing to do is to acknowledge the depth of arrival. However who wants polite when arguably the greatest and most prolific Blues guitarist of the last 40 years is in town, the only thing you should really do is applaud wildly and thank which ever deity you entrust your soul to, which ever spectrum of existence is closest to your overall reasoning, that there is a place in the universe for Joe Bonamassa.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Music is nothing without enthusiasm, the blaze of ongoing passion and the fervour of belief that what you are producing is something that will nestle at the heart of many a listener and grab their attention and excite them to a point where apathy is thrown to ravenous wolves and the deadly soulless.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Anthony Howell, Julian Wadham, Lucy Briggs-Owen, Martin Hutson, Richard Hope, Alisdair Simpson, Rosanna Miles, Penelope, Rawlins, Jonathan Forbes, Derek Carlyle, Nigel Carrington, Terry Malloy.
There is nothing quite like the intrigue that a good spy story to bring to the collective conscious of a nation. Whether based in the murky world of politics or in industrial espionage, a mole in the machine is one to in which the public salivates over with the kind of relish normally reserved for the most salacious of tabloid journalism. For The Avengers, all of that intrigue is one in which was a daily occurrence, something to be taken seriously and for the listener become an infiltrator of the very best kind.
The poisoner of the well is never
satisfied until he has
murdered the whole village.
If he could, he would add to the venom that seeps, multiplies,
grows in strength and adds to the imbalance of his impurity,
his lack of moral conviction and toxin fuelled hatred for others well being
by unzipping his fly and with great relish, untangling the so called beast
and piss in the drinking water.
The deep yellow nasty smell that he insists is not there,
the unnatural toxin
that runs through his own veins and makes his flesh burn
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
There is almost nothing better than the discreet musical discussions of the feminist argument in which to get your point across of self- sufficiency and self- respect which leads to admiration and a particular type of esteem eluded those that rant and rave at the slightest thing and merest sleight. Not just a feminist argument but a reconciliation between self-value and veneration in other’s eyes that you can walk away from a situation that is doing you harm.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Tamzin Outhwaite, Dennis Waterman, Denis Lawson, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Anthony Calf, Barnaby Kay, Nicola Stephenson, Sophie Thompson, Benjamin Whitrow, Stephen Boswell, Adele Anderson, Jarred Christmas, Robin Berry.
The River Fleet, a stretch of water so steeped in London’s history, so pivotal to the narration of the capital of England’s chronicle and past account that so many legends, myths and stories have grown up around it, even more so since it was routed underneath the city of London itself. The river became essentially a place where the dregs, the sewage and the hopefully hidden are secreted and forgotten; such is the history of London Underground.
Natasia Bullock and Chris Rae sit across the table from each other in Café 81 and enjoy what seems to be a brief respite in what has become two very fulfilling and busy lives. For Natasia, recently married and juggling more balls than an expert conjurer in a three ringed circus, her latest production, Rose of June, is being performed at the Unity Theatre on September 23rd and 24th.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The sound of a soft lament escapes from the mouthpiece of a trumpet, the stark image of a fallen comrade, friend or hero fills the room and the devastation of loss is something tangible; it grasps at the air and enthuses a type of faith, faith that despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, everything will turn out just fine.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
It seems impossible these days to think of Kerry Ellis as anything but an established performer of great quality. A vocalist whose voice can send shivers the spine and whose work, especially in recent times with Queen’s Brian May, has been nothing but jaw-droppingly good. On the back of all that it is of no surprise that Kerry Ellis has returned once more to the world of theatre for an album of show tunes and highly thought of songs for her fourth album and strikingly eponymously titled
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Watching Buckle Tongue on stage as they deliver songs from their long awaited debut E.P., one of the many rampaging thoughts that takes pulls up an armchair, helps itself to a large glass of the most expensive whisky in the side cabinet and then chucks the half-drunk contents onto the roaring fire is that this how audiences must have felt when watching Iron Maiden perform their sets in the East End’s The Rainbow or how early fans felt their heart roar at the expansive noise laid out before them at The Whisky A Go-Go or The Concert Factory as Metallica took the stage.