Tag Archives: Liverpool

Curiosity Killed The Cat, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

The 80s were a decade of contrasting emotions and feelings, in one corner the excess of the decade, its reliance on greed and almost feelings of dishonest pursuit were enough to make any sane person feel ill under the weight of decadence and obtuseness, it was the going against the grind in which to be different was sneered up from upon high, to want social justice had you tarnished as not being with the so called programme and woe-betide if you fell into any category in which to be against the Government had you marked down as a misfit…times don’t seem to have changed much in that regard.

Curiosity Killed The Cat, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. full post

(470 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

Jacqui Dankworth And Charlie Wood, Gig Review. St. George’s Hall Small Concert Room, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It has to be said that if there is a finer venue in which to stage an intimate evening of quality and interesting Jazz, Blues and Pop than the Small Concert Room of St George’s Hall, then many will never have to worry about seeing it, with Jacqui Dankworth, the daughter of the illustrious music visionary couple Dame Clio Laine and Sir John Dankworth, Charlie Cook and a superb trio of musicians on stage, then things – to papraphrase D-Ream – can’t get any better.

Jacqui Dankworth And Charlie Wood, Gig Review. St. George’s Hall Small Concert Room, Liverpool. full post

(315 words, estimated 1:16 mins reading time)

The Environmentalists, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Aaron Barker, Aaron Kehoe, Alice Corrigan, Callum Crighton, Chloe Hughes, Courtney Parry, Daniel Fitzgerald, Eiffel Lu, Ellie Turner, Emily Woosey, Ester Larkin, Felipe Pacheco, George Clarke, Georgie Lomax Ford, Hannah McGowan, Harry Seargant, Heidi Henders, Isobel Balchin, Jake Holmes, James Bibby, Jamie Pye, Joe Davies, Joe Williams, John Collins, Johnathon McGuirk, Jordan Connerty, Joshua Meadows, Katie Smith, Keeley Ray, Leah Gold, Lucy White, Luke Logan, Luke Patterson, Margaret Saunders, Melissa Waddington, Nadia Mohammad Noor, Nathan Russell, Nick Crosbie, Olivia Doherty, Paige Bradbury, Poppy Hughes, Stuart Dagnall, Tami Holland.

The Environmentalists, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(524 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Who’s Afraid Of The Working Class?, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound & Vision Rating: * * * *

Cast: Connor Lee Dye, Matilda Weaver, Michael Bryan, Sophie Cottle, Chris Mohan, Fia Harrington, Emily Kingston, Joseph Wood, Maisie Young, James Botterill, Anna Brochmann, Hailey Mashburn.

Performed by third-year L.I.P.A. acting students, Luke Barnes’ epic new play, Who’s Afraid Of The Working Class?, looks at the brief history of one fictional community, whose people are trying to keep their heads above water whilst all around them their jobs are being removed alongside the industry and the unions. Unity one is completely opened up for this production and all actors remain on stage throughout, completing costume changes and constructing the set for scene changes themselves.

Who’s Afraid Of The Working Class?, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(342 words, estimated 1:22 mins reading time)

Exodus, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

For over 30 years American Thrash Metal band Exodus have primed their audiences with enough energy to fill more long life batteries than Duracell could ever muster, the violence they play up to only for show and for the crowd to draw off strength too and the influence of this has been keenly felt across many venues and cities throughout America, Europe and Britain.

Exodus, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool. full post

(454 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Lost Society, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It seems that every day we inch closer to an abyss in which a society, a species that was born for greatness, is to be lost, vanquished off the face of the Earth by its own ineptitude and disorienting values, thankfully till that moment in which the next great extinction comes along there is always pleasure to be had in Finland’s Kings of the Thrash Metal genre Lost Society. Civilisation may be teetering, the position of leader of the Western world may about to put into the hands of a man who wants to build walls and a leader in Russia that fancies the idea of a Nuclear Middle East party but Lost Society know how to fill a room with music driven scorch marks and ear bashing, heart thumping Metal groove.

Lost Society, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool. full post

(460 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Deified, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The deep rumblings of discontent, the explosion of a megaton bomb and the urgency of a siren warning of an impending attack, all fade into the ether when the growl of Thrash and Heavy Metal gets going, when it breaks loose of society’s moorings and allows itself the free range in which to catapult its quarrel and blistering beautiful argument into the ears of those receptive to a different kind of outbreak.

Deified, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool. full post

(440 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

A Raisin In The Sun, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating: * * *

Cast: Alisha Bailey, Mike Burnside, Solomon Gordon, Angela Wynter, Aron Julius, Everal A Walsh, Susan Wokoma, Ashley Zhangazha.

Lorraine Hansberry, American playwright and activist wrote A Raisin in the Sun in 1959 and was the first black woman to write a play that was performed on Broadway. The play highlights the struggles of black Americans living under racial segregation in Chicago and follows the story of the Youngers; a lower middle class family who struggle to gain middle class acceptance.

A Raisin In The Sun, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(332 words, estimated 1:20 mins reading time)

Bardolph’s Box, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Anna Buckland, Stuart Crowther, Harvey Robinson.

To bring a new generation of theatre lovers into the realms of existence, the effort must be made to demonstrate to them just what a wonderful world it is; if Government in all its selfish motives keeps sending down messages that science and the pursuit of feeding the gluttonous economy must be paramount, then every form of the arts must counteract this by showing the young that the soul is just as important to nurture as the wallet.

Bardolph’s Box, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(394 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

The Ale House, Grand Central Hall. Theatre Review, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Philip Olivier, Lindzi Germain, Jake Abraham, George Wilson, Nick Birkinshaw, Bernie Foley, James McMartin, Les Doherty, Kivan Dene.

It is an institution almost unlike anything else in the world, often copied, sometimes mocked but never considered sincere or as authentic as the original; the great British public house remains, despite some knocks over the years, still the fabric of everyday life and it is one that should be lauded even as the so called sophistication of palates and life changes.

The Ale House, Grand Central Hall. Theatre Review, Liverpool. full post

(447 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)