Tag Archives: Liverpool

Sophie Anderson, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Twenty-Four hours is a long time in which to go from one extreme to other in terms of music venues to perform in as a musician. In much the same way that someone who spent a month exploring the depths of life on the ocean floor somewhere in the middle of Atlantic Ocean and is suddenly given to chance to go up as high as possible in aircraft flying over the same site, the perspective is daunting and wonderfully demanding; yet it a challenge that is strived for and achieved because that is what it means to be Human.

Sophie Anderson, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. full post

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

Crowning Sky, Gig Review. Zanzibar, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There is something very cool, something very loveable that sits within the framework of Crowning Sky and for a band that stood out for being the only one not coveting the moody and brooding on a hot July evening. This tangibility of heartening spirit, that welcoming approach that sat with the brilliance on offer by the other three sets of artists at Zanzibar was enough to raise a smile of simple creative enjoyment rather than the grin and gob-smacked generosity that shook the hands of the other acts.

Crowning Sky, Gig Review. Zanzibar, Liverpool. full post

(374 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

The Sneaky Nixons, Gig Review. Zanzibar, Liverpool.

The Sneaky Nixons at Zanzibar, Liverpool. July 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The sound of a lonely trumpet, mournful, respect inducing and being blown as if the last vestige of light was being snuffed out across the city and the rampaging hoards under the command of the Four Horsemen were clambering at the old walls, played out with a kind of skittish solemnity; for not everything in life sounds as though it is seen. Not every great explosion and brutally exquisite note is heralded by beauty in some eyes and yet as the dark shadows collected in the late July evening and the party revellers bounced to a incoherent beat somewhere in the distance, The Sneaky Nixons stormed the troops and the true beat of nature was there to be felt and admired in droves.

The Sneaky Nixons, Gig Review. Zanzibar, Liverpool. full post

(461 words, 1 image, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Shamanarchy, Gig Review. Zanzibar, Liverpool.

Shamanarchy’s Rowan Reid, Zanzibar, Liverpool. July 205. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is impossible to not love a woman with attitude, not the type of posturing of the insane found in either gender that has them starting fights and the tears before bedtime attitude but the type of the strong, down to earth, assured in their viewpoint and not scared to give a collected audience a show that sticks long in the memory. A performance made even more impressive because of how that woman has bought the male members of the band up to the same bruising and musically intellectual point that she has attained, that is true attitude.

Shamanarchy, Gig Review. Zanzibar, Liverpool. full post

(411 words, 1 image, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Sophie Anderson, Gig Review. Zanzibar, Liverpool.

Sophie Anderson at the Zanzibar in Liverpool. July 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There was a time when Sophie Anderson might have thought that the day had gone well to be called up at the last minute and asked if she was free to do a set at The Lomax. However, so much can happen in two and a half years, so much can take place and what was considered bountiful and awe-inspiring can undergo such transformation that the musical butterfly with a voice somewhere between Grace Slick and Marcella Detroit has become even more needed as a guide vocal, a motivation to young women everywhere and the voice; the voice has become rapturous.

Sophie Anderson, Gig Review. Zanzibar, Liverpool. full post

(477 words, 1 image, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Lizzie Nunnery.

The Everyman Theatre on Hope Street is home to many ideas, many moments of inspiration and suggestions that in its short period of time since its re-emergence from the ground upwards, it has become one of Liverpool’s brightest stars. It is fitting then to meet one of the city’s finest artists, who is fluent in poetry, music and scriptwriting in equal and abundant measure, inside the halls that have the feel of the hallowed seeping out of them.

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Lizzie Nunnery. full post

(1991 words, estimated 7:58 mins reading time)

Ant-Man, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T.,Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll, Bobby Cannavale, Judy Greer, Abby Ryder Fortson, Michael Peña, David Dastmalchian, T.I., Wood Harris, Hayley Atwell, John Slattery, Martin Donovan, Stan Lee.

Into every family remains one forgotten member, one who was there at the very beginning and saw some of the early stories, the heartaches and the extreme highs; every family has one and yet some have deserved to be amongst the biggest names.

Ant-Man, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T.,Liverpool. full post

(543 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Animals, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Abby Melia, Bradley Thompson, Bryony Doyle, Daniel Sebuyange, Dorcas Sebuyange, Emma Burns, Kane Roberts, Lina Sebuyange, Owen Jones, Raven Maguire, Sam Ikpeh, ScottLewis, Toin Otubsin, Paislie Reid.

Denigrate a section of society enough, make them pay for imagined crimes of a group of individuals with sweeping undeserved statements and it is no wonder that they will perhaps meet all your expectations. When that section of society is the young, the next generation of people to whom the world becomes a narrow and twisted version of doomed failure then it is no surprise that sometimes they act the way the papers expect and the Government demands. The problem with demonising the young is they have the teeth to bite back, they have the surprise and good will deeply engrained in them to show just exactly who the Animals are in society; for it truly is not them.

Animals, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(492 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

Promises, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Politicians never seem to learn, especially once they have got used to the taste of power offered by the spectre of Government. For all their promises, the smiling rhetoric of how the young are the ones to which they look too for inspiration for the future; that all they are doing is for them, once the Promises are made, they are forgotten quicker than a jumper given by a colour-blind aunt when hastily shoved into the back of a cupboard.

Promises, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(424 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Ted 2, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Mark Wahberg, Seth MacFarlane, Amanda Seyfried, Jessica Barth, Giovanni Ribisi, Morgan Freeman, Sam J. Jones, Patrick Warburton, Michael Dorn, Bill Smitrovitch, John Slattery, Cocoa Brown, John Carroll Lynch, Ron Canada, Liam Neeson, Dennis Haysbert, Patrick Stewart, Tom Brady, Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel, Nana Visitor, Lexi Atkins, Craig Ricci Shaynak, Curtis Stigers, Alec Sulkin.

Ted 2, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(569 words, estimated 2:17 mins reading time)