Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

They are the symbol of the mocked and the scoffed at, they were alluded to as a punishment from God in the book of Genesis and they offer perhaps a more humid reflection on the way humanity treats its fellow man when they believe that imitation is not a sincere form of flattery but one that needs to be controlled and dispatched, to be held at arm’s length and to be kept within a prison of its own diabolical making. Thorns are there to remind us that whilst the going gets tough, the thorn can bite harder into the skin than any person who doesn’t understand or even want to try can ever do.