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Humanity has always liked to believe it is the top dog when it comes to life on Earth, but when it all boils down to it, away from the great art, the spoken word and the ability to make the most beautiful and electrifying music, in the end we are food for either worms or bacteria. It may not be a pleasant thought but one to consider when listening to the unrelenting sound of the Netherlands Legion of the Damned and their brand new album Ravenous Plague.
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It is way too early into the start of a New Year to even suggest that whilst 2013, with a couple of notable exceptions, was a pretty poor affair for any band on either side of the Atlantic Ocean that finds itself placed into the all-encompassing Metal genre, 2014 already has the feeling of being a million times better. The notable success stories came from the lands of Scandinavia and mainland Europe, these bands took on the old guard and walloped them to all corners of the stage as easily as a one-armed Australian batsman taking apart a 100 English bowlers. Now perhaps the time has come for the retaliation and in that colossus of Iced Earth and their new album Plagues of Babylon, Metal lovers can once more see the real face of American Metal.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Amanda Abbington, Louise Brealey, Rupert Graves, Mark Gatiss, Una Stubbs, Alistair Petrie, Vinette Robinson, Lara Pulver, Oliver Lansley, Alice Lowe, Yasmine Akram, Ed Birch, Jalaal Hartley, Adam Greaves-Neal, Alfie Enoch, Tim Chipping, Will Keen, Rita Arya, Georgina Rich, Debbie Chazen, Wendy Wason, Nicholas Asbury.
Most weddings end up feeling like murder so why not have Sherlock Holmes somewhere in the room to bring out the best in the proceedings?
So I married a cheese plant…well given the alternatives, I think we have both been happy enough, although I am well aware that I was not the poor cheese plant’s first choice of possible life partners.
There is nothing better than having the suggestion
To share your shower and kettle with someone to rightly save a bob or two,
I just have to ask the obvious question
How do I get the sexy film star to share my bathroom, kitchen or loo?
My shower is only just the right size for me to wash
My kettle, since I don’t drink beer, my only joy
The bathroom is tiny, it would be a squash
Could you imagine the starlet saying, “O.K then boy
It was only at the end
that I realised that I was my imaginary friend’s
imaginary friend.
That all I had desired and loved was really all they had ever
wanted. Even if at the moment of desperation I should make the ultimate
sacrifice, arms outstretched and one foot hovering in the air ready to leap
a thousand buildings and a hundred memories with
a smile on my invisible face;
they would pull me back, talk loudly and with a blaze
of anger and energy
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From picking up a guitar for the first time at the start of one year to releasing an E.P. full of songs that have the strength of character to suggest that the path sometimes least expected is the right one, American folk singer Tamara Laurel strikes all the right notes in what is sure to be an acclaimed release – Lightning.
…And the bugler plays his final note
As my cousin holds his mother close to him
Away from the winter chill she bows her head within his suit and coat
Whilst keeping her demeanour proper and trim.
The December wind is driving home the chill of loss
As friends and family gather together to mourn and see
November’s Poppies and Roses come together and apart they toss
Scattered to the four winds and whispering R.I.P.
The stories the minister told of your life,
The passing of a Human being in the celebration of a word
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Compilation albums can fall into two categories. There are those that are compiled with the thought of adding almost nothing to the popular consensus of music appreciation, usually bought by a member of the family with almost no interest in which music the person they have bought it for actually listens to but it has saved them a bundle of money by buying just one album. Then there are those that are released which the keen listener knows have been put together with an almost semblance of love attached to them. The belief that comes flowing out of every track is more like an introduction at a party to the host and finding that they have heard of you and want to spend an enormous amount of their time with you.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs, Rupert Graves, Mark Gatiss, Louise Brealey, Amanda Abbington, Timothy Carlton, Wanda Ventham, Lasco Atkins, Elizabeth Coyle, Paul Warren, Paul Dawkins.
Sherlock lives and all of London can breathe just that little bit more comfortably and soundly as they drift off to sleep, safe in the knowledge that the game is back on…