Pete Wylie, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Close your eyes and think for a minute of one of the men and women who exemplifies the whole Liverpool sound, the charm and the no-nonsense, the humour and the artistic vision all wrapped up in lyrics that make you both beam with pride and raise a fist in solidarity alongside. The sound you hear is one that you might not have heard for a while, the tone of voice still sweet, the manner of the anger and resentment to some still intense and charismatic and the utter magnetism of the performer is such that daring to take a peek through gripped and straining fingers becomes too much. For it is true Pete Wylie, the man who has a street map of his home city indelibly stamped into the very fabric of his D.N.A., is back thrilling audiences once more.

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(630 words, estimated 2:31 mins reading time)

Mersey Wylie, Gig Review. Zanzibar Club, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The rich vein of life, the tapestry that weaves its way through the streets, through iconic buildings such as The Bombed out Church of St. Luke’s, the radical nature of two opposing buildings of faith being at opposite ends of one of the most artistic streets in the city and to perhaps the greatest single collection of music venues and theatres anywhere in the country in which thousands of people get to show their devotion to the natural calling of entertainment, continues from one generation to the other.

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(554 words, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)

Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Film Review. F.A.CT. Cinema.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Redford, Samuel L .Jackson, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Cobie Smulders, Emily Van Camp, Hayley Atwell, Toby Jones, Jenny Agutter, Alan Dale, Bernard White, Garry Shandling, Maximiliano Hernández, Frank Grillo, Georges St-Pierre, Callan Mulvey, Stan Lee, Gary Sinise, Ed Brubaker, Thomas Kretschmann, Elizabeth Olsen, Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

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(692 words, estimated 2:46 mins reading time)

Elbow, The Take Off And Landing Of Everything. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

How do you ever follow up an internationally acclaimed album? The only way really is to come up with another one, just as good, just as sonically rampant, interestingly lush and throughout it all having five musicians chomping at the bit to make something stand out just as their debut album did 14 years ago.

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(560 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

Batman: Dark Victory, Graphic Novel Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is no wonder that Batman remains arguably one of the finest superhero creations to ever grace comic book, graphic novel and film alike, not just in the realms of D.C. Comics but across the whole spectrum.

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(540 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Sin City 2: A Dame To Kill For, Graphic Novel Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Twenty years since the events that unfolded in the second book by the esteemed Frank Miller, one of the finest set of graphic novels is being tuned into an arguably must-see film for its fans.

Despite the prestige of the novel being tuned into a film, Sin City 2: A Dame To Kill For is much more than the chance to relish into the grimy neo-noir world of Basin City and the chance to see Robert Rodriguez add extra class to an already seminal story, the focus should be on just how good, how superior the idea was to almost anything since the mind bursting days of Film Noir and the rise of the Detective novel.

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(559 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

Canterbury Tales, Theatre Review. L.U.D.S. Stanley Theatre, University Of Liverpool.

Mr. Geraint Williams as Geoffrey Chaucer. Photograph by Ian D. Hall

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Geraint Williams, Dominic Davies, Daniel Murphy, Shamus Cooke, Alex Webber-Date, Liam Hale, Trixie Roddick, George Parsons, Angela Hehir, Faisel Yousif, Charles Adey, James Rooney, Lewis Smith, Imogen Wignall, Katie Overbury, Jacob Lowman, Madeline Smart, Johnny Campbell, Charlotte Wilson, George Trier, Darren Begley.

Minstrels: Darren Begley, Alex Cottrell, Sarah Peverley, Maeve Sullivan.

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(594 words, 1 image, estimated 2:23 mins reading time)

Emily Smith, Gig Review. The Atkinson, Southport.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

No matter how good the venue, no matter how respectable the recording history of the artist, sometimes going out on the road with an album that has generated such good feeling towards it, can seem a little dull when heard live in comparison to the image that the listener has built up in their head.

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(434 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Vedina Mosé, The Soul Remembers Everything. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Vedina Mosé more than lives up to the title she has given her new album, The Soul Remembers Everything. In this case the songs she has produced for this offering are of such an incredible nature, both warm even comforting and yet prickly, taking the conscience of her beloved London and putting it on show for the world to see and offering the glimpse of a life in which the musician clearly has a long memory for every smile, every frown, each and every ill-treatment struck down on her, her family and those in which society has let go in whichever form that may be.

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(415 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)