ME And Deboe at The Bluecoat in Liverpool. August 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
To dislike ME and Deboe is to have the same outlook as a block of stone being chipped away by the most inept and undedicated of Masons, for just to be in front of Mercy Elise and Sarah Deboe is to understand that music is the most perfect of pursuits.
Jo Bywater at The Bluecoat, Liverpool. August 2014. Photograph by Mr. Graham Holland.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Revolution and even evolution can be triggered by adversity, the moment in which personal hardship or disaster upon a species or a country can be the catalyst in which change happens. Revolution is not something to be feared, unless you are the oppressor, if you are the one in which is placing your boot upon a human face, revolution is only wrong when the incorrect dogma takes a fall and evolution is as inevitable as empires crashing to dust eventually.
John Gibbons, part of Only Child’s live set at The Bluecoat, Liverpool. August 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
If ever there is a time in someone’s life in which you can say to someone, “Wow, I am impressed with the dedication to the cause”, then to come on stage and play magnificently just after the heart, brain and soul have been swamped with the overwhelming emotions of becoming a parent for the first time is probably that time.
Niamh Jones, The Bluecoat, Liverpool. August 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Niamh Jones is a woman with such a sparkling voice that it is no wonder at the age of 15 she was given the opportunity to impress all who attend the highly respected nights hosted by the people at Liverpool Acoustic. Two years on, Niamh Jones is something special to behold, and inside The Bluecoat on an August day which betrayed the thought of blistering sunshine blasting its rays upon the multitude of people making their way to take in a day of music, Niamh Jones again showed the reason why she is thought of so well.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Judging by the reaction of the assembled audience inside Studio 2 on Parr Street, Jimmy and The Revolvers had perhaps just given the performance of their lives.
Kieron Smith of Lyra at Studio 2, Liverpool. n Photograph by Ian D. Hall
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
You can tell that there is more than a spark of quality to a band when adversity, that age old Moriarty to the Sherlock creature that resides in youthful talent, just seems to be kicked into touch quicker than a footballer finding out there is a spread bet available on the time of the first throw-in.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *
Cast: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Sonja Richter, Christoffer Aro, Claus Maack Bahnsen, Marie Hammer Boda, Nynne Bojsen, Rasmus Botoft, Ernst Boye, Michael Brostrup, Kenneth Carmohn, Marie-Louise Coninck, Divya Das, Katrine Engberg, Eric Ericson, Tilde Maja Fredriksen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Betina Grove Ankerdal, Anton Jarlros Gry, Anna Sofie Helligsøe Haahr, Tobias Stæhr Hansen, Anne Bærskog Hauger, Olivia Holden, Martin Boserup, Øyvind B. Fabricius Holm, Anton Honik, Dorte Højsted, Marijana Jankovic, Morten Kirkskov, Bebiane Ivalo Kreutzmann, Henrik Larsen, Per Scheel Krüger, Lane Lind, Claes Ljungmark, Magnus Millang.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Josh Brolin, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Eva Green, Powers Boothe, Bruce Willis, Rosario Dawson, Dennis Haysbert, Ray Liotta, Christopher Meloni, Jeremy Piven, Christopher Lloyd, Jaime King, Juno Temple, Stacy Keach, Marton Csokas, Jude Ciccolella, Jude Ciccolella, Jamie Chung, Julia Garner, Lady Gaga, Alexa PenaVega, Patricia Vonne, Bart Fletcher, Alejandro Rose-Garcia, Samuel Davis, Mike Davis, Kimberly Cox, Alcides Dias.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Min-sik Choi, Amr Waked, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Pilou Asbæk, Analeigh Tipton, Nicholas Phongpheth, Jan Oliver Schroeder, Luca Angeletti, Loïc Brabant, Pierre Grammont, Bertrand Quoniam, Pascal Loison.
Scarlett Johansson seems to be everywhere you look during the last couple of years. Not only is that a testament to the actor’s work, productivity and sheer enjoyment for cinema goers but it stands in good stead for the fact that in her latest cinematic release, Lucy, she really is everywhere. In a film which for the most part plays fast and loose with the cinema fan’s intelligence, Ms. Johansson, along with the ever reliable Morgan Freeman, the wonderful find of Amr Waked and Min-sik Choi, gives a performance that at least makes her stand out amongst the backdrop of instability and sometimes utterly ridiculous story line.
steve earle in Liverpool. August 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The word legend is, at times, overused. It is the way of the English language that almost anything or anybody can have the word placed before it and that is perfectly acceptable. For what else is the fluidity of the sematic if not for marking out certain well used phrases if it has a sense of positivity attached to it?