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For any rock band to come out of Australia the unfair comparisons to AC/DC will always be bandied around like unwanted beer at a college dormitory party. For some the high expectations that the name carries forward will drag them down and cause ructions and implosions, for others they will strive to carve out their own niche and be better for it.
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Cast: Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, Anton Lesser, James Bradshaw, Martin Jarvis, Jenny Seagrove, Jack Roth, Craig Parkinson, Ellie Beaven, William Brand, Joanna Cassidy, Craig Els, Rosalind Halstead, William Houston, Jack Laskey, Maimie McCoy, James Merry, James Northcote, Darwin Shaw, Tim Stern, Abigail Thaw.
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In 2012, the women of Blues pretty much had it their own way, Whether American like Beth Hart with her album Bang Bang Boom Boom or the superb British Blues supremo Joanne Taylor Shaw and her brilliant Almost Always Never, the gentlemen of the genre, with a couple of exceptions, seemed far behind, languishing in the wake that the women had created.
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George Harrison understood the heartache behind it, so much so he gave his solo album the title All Things Must Pass, that feeling and despairing knowledge that something has come to a natural finish, no matter how much people might clamour for it not to be true. For The Endings, the run was superb, a Liverpool band with a very big heart at its core, some great and incredible sounds and above all a belief that what they were doing was just another step in a long journey.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Matt Smith, Jenna-Louise Coleman, Jahvel Hall, Ashley Walters, Mark Oliver, Sarah Louise, Madison, Ruari Mears, Paul Kasey.
To follow up one of the classic stories of Doctor Who with something even better could never really happen but to come close, to get within a Tardis’ heartbeat of achieving that is still pretty special. Stephen Thompson made Journey To The Centre Of The Tardis have one big impression, one vital piece of the puzzle that had been hiding in plain sight come alive by doing something that no other writer had dared to do and that was to make the Doctor’s home the absolute star of the show.
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There has always been something gentle in the way Matt Swift portrays his music, a spirit that has been severely tested over the years but somehow he keeps coming back for more. It has been a couple of years since Matt released the Lesson Over E.P., his first foray into releasing music and whilst that E.P. was genuine, from the heart and musically superb, the test was always going to be when Matt was in the right place to record another set of great songs. Questions Answered is perhaps the perfect response to Lesson Over.
Bertolt Brecht is never really out of fashion as a playwright, it’s just that the times have to start becoming bleak and dangerous before his powerful works are remembered fully and the warnings he spells out are heeded. On the back of the 2011 magnificent performance of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at The Playhouse which starred Ian Bartholomew and Leanne Best and now Dingle Community Theatre and Tom McLennan have adapted one of his most famous plays Fear and Misery of the Third Reich which is being performed at The Lantern Theatre in May. The play, noted for being Brecht’s first openly anti-Nazi work was first performed in 1938 and still has the power to inform and shock audiences.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Nicole Anderson, Gemma Barrett, Gabrielle Dempsey, Kaiden Dubois, Zachary Holton, David McLaughlin, Georgina Periam, Eirik Bar.
It may be a romance, perhaps even the greatest ever written but for the two young lovers caught up in feud of epic proportions the relationship saw more destruction over an affair of the heart than almost anything else William Shakespeare could have conceived. For Romeo and Juliet their lives are so caught up in each other’s being that the consequences, the ramifications are not given much credence by the pair. All that matters is their young love.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Nanou Harry, Sarah Hawkins, Simone Lewis, Mark Winstanley.
There are times when silence speaks louder than words can ever hope to do so. Whether in anger, contempt or in happiness, the silence, the lack of communication can be deafening and more acute than a random sentence thrown together in praise or sadness.
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In a city that is overflowing with positive music and artistic vibes, one that encompasses nearly every genre imaginable and one that seems to buck the national trend in terms of venues and theatres that remain thankfully open compared to a lot of places within the U.K. it can be hard to get your voice heard. No matter what though Liverpool endeavours it’s absolute best to make sure the voices, the plays, the music gets played and heard.