Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Can a group go on forever making storming album after album? Eventually time catches up with all, the ticking of the clock counts down and the music stops; sometimes suddenly with no expectation from the fans and sometimes with the gradual decline of a group who knows that time has caught with them but still have the power to charm and beguile.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
It is perhaps hard to believe that Columbian superstar Shakira has been performing and writing music for as long as she has. The simple incorruptibility that she wears as if a badge of honour, the tight grip she keeps on her music like a lioness keeping a watchful wary eye on her young; is not for sale, even though many an executive might try their damnedest to flaunt her appeal. Sometimes it works, the odd breakthrough the tough Columbian feminine exterior and on those occasions the music lacks soul but for the most part you can always rely on some good old fashioned pop with the big heavy hint of Latino thrown in for good measure.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
It is said that somewhere between joy and despair lies happiness; perhaps acceptance would be better because happiness is surely attained when you have watched someone almost take themselves the absolute limit, perform something astonishing and see them smile at the end, that surely is the meaning of happiness; the moment in which you have seen someone achieve something great and powerful.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
There is craftsmanship and there is skill in the artistry, the look of appreciation from the passer by as they suddenly stop and take in the wonder that has unfolded before them. For Nine Times Blue, their new record Matter of Time is the type of E.P., although at six songs it really is not far off album length and equals it in its great depth, that grabs the attention of those passers-by. It turns them into life-long fans, the splendour of power pop wrapped cunningly in the arms of the melodious rock tune and across seven songs the beat gets more interesting, more attractive until suddenly you see the Vincent Van Gogh before your eyes.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
From out of the embers of past regrets and former glories, comes a gleaming light that steers far from the edge of patina and brings back one of the great voices of Symphonic Metal, the illustrious Anette Olzon and her debut solo album Shine.
Shine it does as well and despite moments in which she may have seriously doubted herself after having to leave Finnish Metal stars Nightwish, any such fears and trepidation, the twinkle in the eye and the lustre in her voice are still very much essential in framing the type of music that many have come to expect from Ms. Olzon.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The art of re-imagining, of taking something so pure and sometimes corrupting it just to suit your own ideal of perfection is one the most part an art to avoid, it never captures the spirit for which it is intended and can lead to frustration in many fans eyes.
Like Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes, it can be ridiculed and derided and whilst thankfully the new stories, effectively prequels in their own right can help get over the scorn in the public gaze, the image is still there forever imprinted into the retina.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The hunger never really stopped. Despite leaving the main music arena for new bands to enter the fray, to take on the semi goliaths that the 1990s offered, Tommy Scott and Franny Griffiths kept checking out the view from the side of the cinema screen and took in the odd tour with new cohorts and sublime musicians, Phil Hartley, Ryan Clarke and Alan Jones. Now, they have finally decided enough is enough, the epic nature and humour that Space provide the nation as a studio outfit has finally and thankfully returned with their album Attack of the Mutant 50ft Kebab.
…And the sacred hearts are turning in their mass grave.
The destruction of memory is close at hand
When even hallowed ground is up for sale
And will do more damage than any falling bomb could muster.
The image of splintered charring wood, blackened will be the only thing saved
As The Economy, greed, meanness and the rest of their merry band
Try to call Time on the Bombed Out Church without fail;
Carrying out the gluttony of savings from another city in all its finery and bluster.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 71/2/10
Cast: Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Peter Capaldi, Luke Pasqualino, Howard Charles, Ryan Gage, Maimie McCoy, Hugo Speer, Alexandra Dowling, Charlotte Hope, Roger Ringrose, Sarah Belcher, Alice Patten, Gabrielle Reidy, Peter-Hugo Daly, Robert Krejcik, Miroslav Navrati, Leigh Jones, Filip Nespor.
The question may well have been asked, “Who will rid me of this troublesome barren queen?” The penultimate episode of the B.B.C. Series, The Musketeers, sees the four heroic French swordsmen protect Queen Anne from the drunken amorous ravings of her husband who states that she must be murdered so that he is free to marry another woman.
After a day of tears
And laughter
Rain and sun
A double rainbow
Lights the purple evening sky
Arching high
Heaven’s bridging
Symbol of hope
Symbol of faith
In love, light
And the magic of just being alive.
© Dr Erica Wright