Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
“Prepare for Hell”, as the tour posters exclaimed, and whilst there was no sign of Dante anywhere in the vicinity, the heat, the taste of brimstone hanging in the air as if two Devils had had a 10 round fight over who would have the best seat in the house and the surely never imagined sight of one of the great Metal bands of their time, Slipknot, performing live on stage in the heart of Liverpool.
Korn at the Liverpool Echo Arena. January 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
A stray and uncharted asteroid ripping into the moon with the precision of the 8 ball being placed head on into the side pocket would, not makes as much noise as the cacophony of sound that greeted Korn as the Prepare For Hell tour wound its way to the Liverpool’s Echo Arena.
It was almost as if the fans of the band and of the genre had been starved of having the strength of quality of the music that Korn were able, and willing to provide.
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Cast: Christopher Benjamin, Trevor Baxter, Louise Jameson, Conrad Asquith, Lisa Bowerman, Elizabeth Counsell, Matt Addis, Christopher Beeny, Mike Grady, Colin Baker.
After the final events of Series Three’s Chronoclasm, it would be understandable if Jago and Litefoot, Victorian London’s pre-eminent Detectives, were to think of taking it easy for a while. The nerves shattered, the lives of those around them changed and their long standing friendship with Leela pushed to a limit which thankfully did not break, who would blame them for getting back to the normality of London life?
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
What do fables do when nobody is thinking of them? It’s pretty much the same for anybody that walks the planet sometimes feeling alone and un-thought of, if they don’t wallow in a pit of despair, they can get up to mischief or they can become a hero.
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Cast: Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Paul Reiser, Melissa Benoist, Austin Stowell, Nate Long, Chris Mulkey, Damon Gupton, Susanne Spoke, Max Kasch, Charlie Ian, Jayson Blair, Kofi Siriboe, Kavita Patil, C.J. Vana, Tarik Lowe, Tyler Kimball, Rogelio Douglas Jr, Adrian Burks, Calvin C Winbush, Joseph Bruno, Michael D. Cohen, Jocelyn Ayanna, Keenan Henson, Rachel Bornholdt.
It is the one central theme of the film Whiplash, the act of dominance, which makes it such an achievement of cinema making.
The show must always go on…it is not quite law, but to the artist, be it actor, painter or musician, it is a loaded phrase that at some point seems to present itself fully and without warning. It can strike disaster, it can bring the house down with well-deserved applause from a grateful and highly delighted audience.
With one of the stars, the incomparable Helen Carter, having suffered an injury to a rib and with around 90 minutes to curtain, the highly successful and tremendously funny Christmas show, Scouse of the Antarctic, could have suffered a set-back which would have been upsetting for the huge crowd that had made their way to the Royal Court Theatre on a cold January night on one of the final evenings of the top rated Liverpool show.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
January, the month when all things hide, when put up the cold toes closer to the roaring fire and flicking through the holiday brochures whilst wearing more wool than a confused and overheating sheep wandering around in the Tasmanian wilderness, it takes something special to really get the heart thumping hard to even think of leaving the safety of the home in the cruel, harsh month.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There are people under a certain age that wouldn’t be aware of the lyrical prowess of those that lived on the musical hall stage. Those seemingly immortal beings who could somehow rattle out a story with an accompanying piano and a small cigarette wistfully burning away inside its porcelain holder, seem at times, to be Gods who belong to a different age. In the modern day there is no need for the smoke, for the exuberant glint of porcelain and the outlandish lyric once favoured by the likes of Noel Coward…
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Winter is such a cruel and heartless master. If you are not careful, it becomes far too easy to sit in the front room of the house and be force fed the type of insipid, characterless and unadventurous music that television dictates. If the winter is a long and hard one, it might end up having a Government warning attached to it that simply states, “Staying in can seriously undermine your natural ability to check out exciting new music.” It might be the only Government warning worth worrying about.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There are times in life in which you just have to let the night unfold infront of you, and enjoy every single minute of it. Even if the truth of the evening really goes over your head, you can but laugh and gasp for air.
The Empire Theatre has hosted many great nights but there are those that would struggle to take on the appeal of the long running radio programme, I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, that even the most cunning of comedians would jump at the chance of being involved in rather than take on a Liverpool audience alone.