Doctor Who: The Abandoned. Audio Drama Review. Big Finish.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, Stephanie Cole, Mandi Symonds, Andy Snowball, Nigel Fairs.

Imagination is the strongest, most potent weapon that humanity possesses. The ability to imagine the best and prepare for the worst, sometimes of our own species making and volition; to see the innate beauty in a single word, to have the ability to conjure up an imaginary best friend that sees you through the loneliness of childhood or to take the inventiveness, the sheer creative splendour, and turn into something that last for hundreds of years. Sometimes though imagination can, as to paraphrase Julius Robert Oppenheimer, can be the destroyer of worlds.

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(535 words, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)

F.A. Community Shield 2014. Arsenal V Manchester City. Report

First published on Ace Magazine Online. August 2014.

It seems strange to think that only once before have Arsenal and Manchester City have met in the Charity/Community Shield. That game also ended up with the men from Manchester being taught a lesson in humility. Whilst this defeat won’t hurt many of the fans that travelled all the way down the M6 as much as it did in the utter ignominy that faced them in the workplace after their team lost to Wigan Athletic in the 2013 F.A. Cup Final, it will still send a few nervous nights to those who go to Eastlands this season that those charged with carrying on the success if the likes of Pablo Zabaleta, Sergio Aguero and Joey Hart should face lengthy lay-offs, are not exactly the thrilling machine that has carried Manchester City to so much success in the last four years.

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(1200 words, estimated 4:48 mins reading time)

Michael Sutton, Gig Review. St Luke’s Church, Liverpool.

Michael Sutton, St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool. Augist 2014.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Imagine playing in your first professional football match and it being the F.A Cup Final, you score a Hat-Trick, clear the ball off the line saving a certain equaliser in the last minute and being told by the Manager that Barcelona have put in an offer for you. Or if that sounds too far-fetched, being elected to Parliament on the wave of popular opinion, keeping all your promises, being hailed a World-Statesperson and somehow being someone of such high moral value that you only take a salary in keeping with the lowest earners in your constituency; none of that possibly compares to playing your debut gig in the open air venue of St. Luke’s and being sensational. Surely the latter is the hardest to believe.

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(456 words, 1 image, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Greedy Jesus, Gig Review. St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool.

Greedy Jesus, St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool. August 2014.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In Jesus some trust, if you hear Greedy Jesus perform then all musical worship is usually conviction in faith is expected and delivered. Faith is what you make of it, it is what gets you through the small hours, the darkness and the negative damning thoughts that creep into your psyche like a rampaging vampiric worm bent on eating out on your soul and asking for a doggy bag for the leftovers; faith is what stands between you and oblivion.

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(478 words, 1 image, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Sinéad O’ Connor, I’m Not Busy, I’m The Boss. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Revolutions come and Revolutions go, commitment to change over and over again, to grow and transform, to iron out the wrinkles of the life and acquire new habits, perhaps even destructive ones that will get up the nose of some that once preyed upon your mind can be a good thing as long as you are true to yourself and central core beliefs. Revolution is desirable; revulsion should be rejected as quickly as an uninvited guest at your wake, for Sinéad O’ Connor and her blistering new album, I’m Not Busy, I’m The Boss, Revolution is once more hand and at times there is not person you should rather have by your side fighting your corner.

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(451 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition. Game Review. PS4.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition is a platforming action adventure game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4. Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition is an enhanced port of Guacamelee! that released on PS3 and Vita in April 2013 and is brought to you by the developers of Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack and Tales From Space: About A Blob.

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(3561 words, estimated 14:15 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Supplement, An Interview With Mike Neary.

Some moments in life are so wonderfully off kilter and off the cuff that you cannot help but smile at the situation they surround. Tea in hand at the Everyman Theatre, tape recorder ready and a barrage of thoughts on how to talk to a man who has made the art of the interview a joy to behold in modern times, Peter Gabriel’s seminal solo song Games Without Frontiers comes over the building’s P.A. Knowing that Mike Neary is a huge fan of early Genesis and knowing that he is listening to the intelligently written lyrics with the same appreciation and thought that he prides himself upon when listening to any of the major interviews he conducts for Gemma Aldcroft’s and Karen Podesta’s hugely well produced Little Atoms company in St. George’s Hall, puts me at ease. After all it can be a daunting task interviewing somebody who in a media driven society stands aloft and above 99 percent of interviewers concerned.

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(2620 words, estimated 10:29 mins reading time)

Elijah James, Gig Review. Zanzibar, Liverpool.

Elijah James, Zanzibar. August 2014.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There is no way you could miss Elijah James, out in the open or as he sits down to perform infront of an audience. The quiet, modest, almost unassuming man has a following that is vocal and enjoys what he does and quite rightly so.

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(425 words, 1 image, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Sons Of Mowgli, Gig Review. St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool.

Sons Of Mowgli, St Luke’s Church, Liverpool. August 2014.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is often reported as a matter of fact that every living Human on the planet could stand side by side on the Isle of Wight, aside from the logistical nightmare and the social faux pas of finding yourself next to someone who thinks they are a clever so and so and refusing to shake your hand, just exactly how would you entertain everybody whilst the experiment was proved? If you made everybody listen to an I-Pod and made sure that the first songs they heard were by Wirral-band Sons of Mowgli, then at least whilst wondering why you would conduct such an insane experiment, the people stood shoulder to shoulder on the Isle of Wight would have something decent to listen to.

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(469 words, 1 image, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

The Inbetweeners 2, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Simon Bird, James Buckley, Joe Thomas, Blake Harrison, Tamla Kari, Belinda Stewart-Wilson, Freddie Stroma, Emily Berrington, Celeste Cotton, David Schaal, Adrian Palmer, Dominique Maber, Larissa Jones, Cameron Caulfield, George Hewer, James Kearney, Kai Pantano, Alex MacQueen, Martin Trenaman, Robin Weaver, Greg Davies.

It is impossible to ignore something forever and when you find yourself laughing at some of the absolute filfth that runs through the latest big screen adventure for the four lads who make up The Inbetweeners, you either have to check that you didn’t leave a vital part of your brain in a field surrounded by cattle licking it and getting a human high from it or ,making a mental check list to watch some of the episodes again to make sure that you just weren’t being an idiot for not enjoying it in the first place.

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(524 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)