Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Derek Barr, Les Dennis, Paul Duckworth, James Duke, Oliver Farnworth, Michael Ledwich, Nathan McMullen, Conrad Nelson, Andrew Schofield, Daniel Taylor.
If there is an occupation that typifies the city of Liverpool, which the British public think of first when asked what job symbolises the city that gave The Beatles to the world, then surely without doubt the job of the Stevedore or the Dock worker would come out on top.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Sarah Ingram, Fox Jackson-Keen, Karen Mann, Sioned Saunders, Kieran Urquhart, Elexi Walker, Justin Wilman.
There have been so few writers as popular that have written for children who also made an adult crave the attention of the power of the imagination and all its beautiful trappings and escapism as that of Roald Dahl, that no matter your age or disposition, it is arguably impossible to turn your head away from the innocence on offer and the underlying tones of rebellion, adventure and childish revolt that go hand in hand across the works of the Welsh born writer.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Charlotte Croft, Liz Crother, Linden Walcott-Burton, Nicola Blackwell.
Through the silent movement of the wind such memories of grief can be harnessed. Grief, like hate is one end of the extremes of feelings in which humanity can find themselves dwelling, grief has to be endured and it can take time, time to which other might not grant you but it must be felt to be able to move on and accept what has happened.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: David Thewlis, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Noonan.
Individuality must be considered as sacred, it is surely a fundamental law of humanity that to be different to everyone else, to feel connection to everyone by being dissimilar in thought, deed and drive, is a right worth preserving; when someone says to you, why can’t you be like x, that is the road to conformity that is to be avoided and heralded as the start of being a faceless and unthinking drone.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Lisa Symonds, Natalie Timmins, Emma J. Hind, Claryn Scott, Jennifer Bea.
Music: Reid Anderson.
Liverpool is a truly remarkable place. You can spend ten years immersed in the arts scene here, you can think that you have seen everything, in all of the many performance spaces that the city has to offer, from the great parks and the Williamson Tunnels, to the bastions of entertainment of The Empire, Playhouse and Echo Arena, taking in the myriad of large and small venues in between and then you can find yourself in a large room, in a gallery, high above Matthew Street and even there, in this fair city, if you look hard enough, you will find theatre.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Anya-Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger, Lucas Dawson, Bathsheba Garnett, Sarah Stephens, Julian Richings, Wahab Chaudrey.
It is in the richness of performance, in the attention to the madness to come as the idea of witchcraft in the young colonies and towns that made up the New England Commonwealth, which makes The Witch such a startling and intriguing film in which to savour.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating: * * * *
Cast: Philip Correia, Patrick Driver, Jonathon Guy Lewis, Emma Lowndes, Michael Mears, Charlotte Wakefield, Matt Whitchurch, Heidi Morgan.
William Shakespeare will always be remembered for being Britain’s finest ever writer, however not many of us will know much about his life and family. In this revival of Peter Whelan’s The Herbal Bed, Royal & Derngate, Rose Theatre Kingston and English Touring Theatre have collaborated to bring this drama back to the stage.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
It is within the sound of silence that the deafening roar of appreciation can be felt, that the music of arguably the greatest Folk duo to ever come out of America can, even in the splendour of the grand and majestic, gain the type of standing ovation which would normally only be reserved for the gods and the honest bounty hunter bringing home the distinguished and the well known.
Midge Ure, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, March 2016. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
It is to be seen as a rare honour to be able to watch Midge Ure perform not only in Liverpool, but also an electric set which sends shivers up the spine as much as his brilliant acoustic solo shows for which the audience can be seen almost salivating with excitement over. Those moments of rare beauty are to be savoured and given room in the memory banks for they don’t come round that often.
Nick Heyward at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, March 2016. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Nick Heyward and the band Haircut 100 was arguably the epitome, alongside the likes of Spandau Ballet and Duran Duran, of the clean cut image presented to music lovers as the 1980s decade honed into view and took root in the decade; fun loving, a band that would capture many teenage girl’s hearts and have young lads ditching the idea of punk rebellion and the afterglow of Progressive Rock for almost a decade or so.