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Wirral based group Crooked Wolf may have only been performing together for around a year but as they bask in the sunlight in The Ship Inn as part of the Oxjam event in Hoylake, the stirrings of something great has grown teeth and chewed its way through the past.
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Whilst the crowds flock en masse to the Liverpool side of the Mersey to watch the grand spectacle of foreign ships and their crews making their way into port, on the Wirral, the small town of Hoylake was gearing up for its annual Oxjam music event and seemingly nowhere was in more of a mood to enjoy the late but welcome turn in the weather as spring in its youthful guise made a timely appearance.
The applause builds up slowly and surely in heated anticipation before exploding with a feel of over- riding love as Stephen Langstaff makes his way on stage to give the huge crowd at The East Village Arts Club, something they have craved all evening, the sound and voice of one of Liverpool’s finest in full flow.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The East Village Arts Club has already been creating a buzz since the doors re-opened a few weeks back. However much loved Masque was, the heady intoxicating nights in there were a by-word for some good music, inside the building now feels more homely, the sound more complete, lush and sensuous and there certainly could be no greater exponents of that overpowering sensuousness than the three acts that found their way there on the start of what is a busy Bank Holiday for the city.
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To squeeze yourself between two acts, one on fire with their dazzling display and integration of cello and rock and the other a young man so on his game he could take on all comers in a World Cup tournament and still probably win before half time, takes a certain amount of desire and musical skill. In Caroline England, a woman not known to be fazed by anything that is put before her, 20 minutes was more than enough to show why her acoustic set is so highly rated and her voice can reduce a person’s heart to a quivering wreck begging for mercy.
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The Dovedale Social was quiet in comparison to previous weeks; however Basement Tapes were in no mood to let this dampen their evening.
The band came out firing on all cylinders with Hotel Room, a stripped down, three chord riot; the type that wouldn’t have been out of place in one of CBGB’s infamous Sunday matinees. Second track, What Happened, offered no let up in the frantic pace.
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Cast: Tom Baker, Mary Tamm, John Leeson, Alice Krige, John Albasiny, Charlie Norfolk, Gwilym Lee.
There are stranger things at work in the universe than humanity could probably ever cope with, especially when the human race doesn’t know what type of creatures can live at the very bottom of the deepest, darkest trenches of the oceans and the secrets they hold.
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Cast: Sylvester McCoy, Beth Chalmers, Tracey Childs, Alex McQueen, Julian Dutton, Bradley Gardner, Miranda Keeling, Ben Porter, Sam Clemens, Alex Mallinson, Sophie Aldred, Martin Johnson.
The Doctor in all his incarnations can never be truly trusted…especially when the Doctor is not all he seems to be.
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For many in the U.K. the American city of Chicago either conjures up the idea of some of the television programmes or films that feature the tremendous beauty and sometimes grimy underworld that the city is built upon, the band for which wonderful rock ballads were seemingly entrusted to for the best part of two decades and with Peter Cetera at the helm made the band a global phenomenon or possibly even the thought of Renee Zellweger and Welsh actor Catherine-Zeta Jones vamping it up as two women on death-row in Cook County Jail in the sensational musical Chicago.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Barrie Rutter, Nicholas Shaw, Andrew Grose, Sara Poyzer, Kate Anthony, Catherine Kinsella, Richard Standing, Gilly Tompkins.
Not for nothing was Githa Sowerby compared to Henrik Ibsen, the father of theatre realism. Her play Rutherford & Son was a powerful statement in a world where the writing of a female playwright was not expected to be as bold, so groundbreaking in its fury at a world that put male pride and arrogance before the thought of the family. The absolute realism she bought to her characters, especially that of the bombastic and near tyrannical father John Rutherford, the anguish and near heart breaking life of his daughter Janet and that of the stranger to the house, the woman who makes the Faustian-like pact with her father-in-law when all else around her goes awry, the woman whose head for business sees her keep a roof over her head, the young Mary.