Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
There should be no doubting the strength of the appeal of Paloma Faith. Like Holland’s Caro Emerald, Paloma Faith crosses the borders between the pop heart and the jazz soul with lots of room for the exuberance of discovery, that tingle you feel run up your spine as she starts to sing and the music that follows her every move, ever sanguine note is like a coiled cobra ready to strike out and bite you pleasantly till you submit to her whim.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Tom Burke, Peter Capaldi, Santiago Cabrera, Howard Charles, Luke Pasqualino, Annabelle Wallis, Alexandra Dowling, Ryan Gage, Tamla Kari, Maimie McCoy, John Lynch, Hugo Speer, Alice Sanders, Hannah Sharp, Richard Hawley, Christian Jenner, Brian Pettifer.
A Rebellious Woman or a woman who understood the complexity of wanting equality in an age of misogyny and pathetic fear in wondering what education would do to a female mind. Not an episode set in the current era, nor back in the dark days of 1970s Britain in which sexism was incredibly rife but in the days of France in which the rule of law was not in the lap of the King as is supposed but in that of the Cardinal and of the Church.
Though you protest that your birthday means nothing to you,
To me, your friend… your comrade and sometime companion in the challenging light
The shoulder each we offered
Upon one another in dark days that we suffered side by side
Only reminds me of how fragile the rhythm between us has become.
Once I made my way to Oxford, a night of comedy in your honour
And in which the only laughter
Was on my head and the gallantry whispered gently goodbye under
The Moon in which we stared at as much at that moment
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
If there is one part of the country that can possibly rival Liverpool for its attitude to music then Birmingham waves a large flag proclaiming its music history and its adoration of those that made venues such as The Rainbow, the old now seemingly forgotten Hummingbird and the gig area of The Dubliner their home before finding the way to world-wide success.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Like the well timed bus that comes just as the rain starts to pour down or the moment when they person you have harboured a crush on for years tells you that they have always been in love with you; Mike Oldfield’s latest album, Man On The Rocks, provides the little ray of sunshine in a day that can be filled with every aspect of grey imaginable.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
There is something of a delicious pleasure in seeing a young singer/songwriter on stage just a few weeks after you saw them for the first time and knowing deep down that what you saw on stage was only half the story.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
The final episode of the television spectacular Buffy the Vampire Slayer thankfully didn’t see the end of the adventures of the woman who had captivated an entire generation and set a standard that many have tried to emulate but few have actually attained.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Ian McDiarmid, Nicholas Farrell, Kenneth Cranham, Nicholas Asbury, Mark Lewis Jones, Rainer Sellien, François-Eric Gendron, Bill Paterson, Tim Pigott-Smith, Kate Ambler, Sinéad Cusack, André Kaczmarczyk, Holger Kunkel, James McArdle, Ludger Pistor, Urs Remond, Bernhard Schütz, Stephan Szasz, Niall Cusack, Gordon Fulton, George Lenz, Mary Moulds, Chris Reilly, Rainer Reiners, Patrick Fitzsymons, Ian Beattie, Simon Coury.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, Tilda Swinton, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody, Willem Defoe, Jeff Goldblum, Harvey Keitel, Jude Law,Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Jason Schwartman, Léa Seydoux, Tom Wilkinson.
Every story requires an author, the voice of reason, doubt, uncertainty, humour and charm in which capture every single element possible to make the listener pin back their ears and quietly contemplate what the creator is actually telling them. If every story expects a story teller then Wes Anderson should be the one to be involved at every point of the tale’s conception.
Ragnhild Øhren Nordset sits down with the comfortable ease of a woman whose life has been allowed to breathe, to take stock of time between leaving her family home in Hokksund, Norway and finding for the second time that Liverpool is just as important to her as what she may have ever had. Ragz, her professional music name but also a term of wonderful endearment, smiles and a passionate light comes from her Norwegian eyes that I will come to see throughout the whole interview and beyond is fiercely proud but also humble when asked about the music she performs.