Sexy Beast. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: James McArdle, Emun Elliott, Sarah Greene, Stephen Moyer, Tamsin Grieg, Eliza Bennett, John Dagleish, Paul Kaye, Clea Martin, Peter Ferdinando, Robbie Gee, Nicholas Nunn, Lex Shrapnel, Barry Castagnola, Stanley Morgan, Nitin Ganatra, David Kennedy, Cally Lawrence, Michael Obiora, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Clare Burt, Megan Morgan, Hannah van der Westhuysen, Nicola Wright, Ralph Brown, Andy Eadie, Javier Ramos.

Breezers: Hideaway. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 9/10

The sound of seduction is more than an offering of red roses to the person  who took our heart in high school, it is the memory of the Hideaway we ran to calm down and collect our thoughts when a reply in either the affirmative or the scorned down look of the resounding no, the loud, embarrassed squeal heard in the corridors and the empty laughs of our compadres as they take us by the shoulder and commiserate or celebrate along with us.

Rory Ryan: When You’re Alone, How Does It Feel? Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

We are only alone if we truly believe that there is nothing that surrounds us.

We can go out into the environment which we first gazed upon as a wondering, interested child and find stimulation, whether in the cliffs that overlook a raging sea or an ocean holding darkness and frightening diversity in equal stunning measure, or on the hard soaked pavements and austere bricks and mortar that reflect a mindset of uniformity and almost sterile infringement, we ask the question on loneliness with sincerity and a knowing sign on our stomachs.

Miracle Mile: East Of Ely. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To fall in love with art when you know you could never bring into the world something of extreme fascination or beauty is to feel a pulse of the universe reward you for your ability to feel, if not to do, then at least connect in ways that many will never understand.

Some may call it a natural affinity, others an empathy or a soul divination, but perhaps we are looking at it a way that doesn’t have an explanation, perhaps it is just a fact that in some respects miracles exist, that marvels find the right wavelength and choose a mind in which to inhabit and sink their artistic D.N.A into.

Firewind: Stand United. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Whilst many naturally gravitate to the Scandinavian and northern European countries for their metal fix and slice of branded enthralment, the fact that Greece continues to supply such a discerning supply of groups and minds that tear into the genre with genuine care, responsibility and freedom, is testament to united front the players and bands present when counter performing their northern brethren.

Bananarama: Glorious – The Ultimate Collection. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Before the Spice Girls and Girls Aloud and their calls to arms via the slickness of the then modern media presentation, came a trio of women who truly understood the message and the reality of 1980s Britain and who would achieve success over the following 40 years without the need to fall back on the appearance of fashionable exploitation of their younger fans.

Hollow Coves: Nothing To Lose. Album Listen.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

When you have Nothing To Lose the world suddenly becomes one of clarity and freedom.

It is with overwhelming sadness that we see that clarity and freedom now as one of a loss of the physical aspect, the photo albums that no longer hold pictures of those who made us laugh or feel safe in their company, the empty shelves that failed to hold to treasures of the imagination, the friendships formed in the ether with no corporeal measure of presence, we are in a sense purely ghosts in a suit of flesh waiting for the emptiness of modern life to cease.

The Patient. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Steve Carrell, Domhnall Gleeson, Linda Emond, Andrew Leeds, Laura Niemi, Alan Blumenfeld, Alex Rich, David Alan Grier.

The measure of our guilt is such that we no longer seek out absolution and forgiveness from a member of the clergy, we seek enlightenment to the course of our actions from someone who can glean through analysis and psychotherapy that our engagements are not our responsibility; the cop out of our times that leads to blaming others and leading to a discordant view of reality.

Asteroid City. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jake Ryan, Grace Edwards, Maya Hawke, Rupert Friend, Tilda Swinton, Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Steve Carell, Hope Davis, Steve Park, Liv Schreiber, Aristou Meehan, Ethan Josh Lee, Sophia Lillis, Matt Dillon, Tony Revolori, Bob Balaban, Fisher Stevens, Ella Faris, Gracie Faris, Willan Faris, Deanna Dunagan, Vandi Clark, Pedro Placer, Willem Dafoe, Margot Robbie, Jeff Goldblum, Rita Wilson.

John Jenkins: The Reason. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If something doesn’t fit, you make room it wherever you can; nothing should ever be discarded or found to be unwanted, the point of life is not minimalism, but to crowd every sector of your life and space of your being with memories and recollections, of memorials to those we have loved and sadly lost.