Nicole Hale: Some Kind Of Longing. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Some Kind Of Longing, a world perhaps that we have lost focus of, one of vibrancy, of joie de vivre, or perhaps of just plain honesty, however we view that sense of aching realisation that natural forces once experienced by humanity have become a narrower option for us to enjoy and reconcile us with each other, some kind of longing, a kind of mystery we need to explore within before we find ourselves emotionally, physically on a one way track leading to oblivion.

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(413 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Joe Robson: Home. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

How do we view Home, hopefully our experiences are such that is a place we can look back upon with a certain degree of love, even happiness, but it does depend on what we actually class as home, is it this place we call Earth, a certain town or village where our memories were formed and our reflexes and reflections were honed, or is it in the mind, the one place that is surely ours, where we can be at peace and dream of the beautiful and the brave.

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(356 words, 1 image, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)

Electric Temple: High Voltage Salvation. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

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We all pray at some sort of altar, whether it is a physical one of stone and surrounded by fellow worshipers, or that in which the mind is open to the nuance of interpretation and the belief that what we find appealing in art can give us the lift we seek in even the darkest moments.

For many of us the sound of High Voltage Salvation is the only way in which we can truly find the will to see beyond the black mass of thought, and the electric temple, where heavy rock meets the soul, that forgives us of any trespass, is where deliverance and recovery from brutal opinion and negative oppression are openly praised and discussed.

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(417 words, 1 image, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Daria Kulesh: Motherland. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Ten years on from her debut album, Eternal Child, the sense of maturity is not confided to the act of symbolism in the title, but in the wisdom of progression and identity in a world that has lost its way through hate, division, and lack of empathy to people and the environment, and as the creative soul that pushes ideas and character forward in Daria Kulesh, Motherland is the near perfect statement of observing change in the person and in the wider world.

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(400 words, 1 image, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Dalgliesh: Cover Her Face. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Bertie Carvel, Allegra Marland, Sam Swainsbury, Parth Thakerar, Holly Castle, Ellora Torchia, Josie Walker, Soni Razdan, Jack Myers, Richard Doubleday, Oliver Woollford, Sara Powell, Allison Harding, Anne Bird, Andrew Tiernan, Alistair Brammer.

The country house murder, a staple of the detective writer’s handbook, no intriguing mind can resist, it seems setting at least one novel within the confines of the manor house and amongst the beating hearts of the rich and self-made and those that are required to serve them, are de rigueur for the armchair fans to tease out the insight to what makes the two classes mix with each other, despise one another, and ultimately it could be argued, protect one another when the time comes to draw forces against the police.

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(511 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

Rapunzel: The Rock ‘N’ Roll Panto. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Emma Bispham, Ben Boskovic, Adam Keast, Ai Kumar, Rebecca Levy, Alice Merivale, Tomi Ogbaro, Adam Scott Pringle, Michael Starke, Dylan Townley, Zoe West.

It is no hair-lucination, the style and delivery will cause a wave of laughter for all ages, and with the deadly Danny Ruff on the prowl to corner the hairdressing market, the buzz of the razor’s edge as it cuts through the dastardly machinations is only enhanced by the terrific sound of laughter that fills to the trim of the Everyman Theatre as the city’s audience are once more treated to the Rock ‘N’ Roll Panto, and as the Francesca Goodridge directed and the Jude Christian written Rapunzel brings families together no perm is left untouched and no pun safe from being teased out.

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(358 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Timothy Spall, Lilit lesser, Harry melling, Kate Philips, Jonathan Pryce, Richard Dillane, Karim Kadjar, Charlie Rowe, Joss Porter, Will Keen, Will Tudor, Lydia Leonard, Harriet Walker, Tom Mothersdale, Alex Jennings, Lucy Russell, James Larkin, Robert Wilfort, Thomas Arnold, Hannah Steele, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Corentin Fila, Viola Prettejohn, Jordan Kouamé, Agnes O’ Casey, Cecilia Appiah, Ellie de Lange, Hubert Burton, Pip Carter, Josef Altin, Sarah Priddy, Hannah Khalique-Brown, Amir El-Masry, German Segal, Tim Scragg, Summer Richards, Dana Herfurth, Claire Foy.

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

Day Of The Jackal. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 9/10

Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Lashana Lynch, Chuckwudi Iwuji, Lia Williams, Úrsula Corberó, Charles Dance, Corey Johnson, Eleanor Matsuura, Ben Hall, Jon Arias, Khalid Abdalla, Sule Rimi, Florisa Kamara, Nick Blood, Christy Meyer, Adoney Díaz Barajas, Saúl Díaz Barajas, Patrick Kennedy, Martin McDougall, Puchi Lagarde, Patrick O’Kane, Jonjo O’Neill, Kate Dickie, Adam James, Gerard Kearns, Russell Balogh, Richard Dormer, Andreas Jessen, Laura Checkley, Lucas Englander, Jan-Martin Müller, Péter Kálloy Molnár, Brian Caspe, Eddie Elks, Thomas Mraz, Philip Jackson, Michelle Newell.

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(535 words, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)

The Holdovers. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Carrie Preston, Brady Hepner, Ian Dolley, Michael Provost, Andrew Garmen, Naheem Garcia, Stephen Thirne, Gillian Vigman, Tate Donovan, Darby Lee-Stack, Bill Mootos, Dustin Tucker, Juanita Pearl, Alexander Cook, Liz Bishop, Cole Tristan Murphy, Will Sussbauer, Carter Shimp, Melissa McMeekin, Dan Aid, Kelly Aucoin, Colleen Clinton, Fred Robbins, David J. Curtis, Pamela Jayme Morgan.

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(501 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

Shetland. Series 9. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Alison O’ Donnell, Ashley Jensen, Steve Robertson, Lewis Howden, Anne Kidd, Angus Miller, Steve Miller, Ian Hart, Tibu Fortes, Stuart Campbell, Sarah MacGillivray, Jacob Ferguson, Robert Jack, Vincent Regan, Ross Anderson, Macleod Stephen, Tara Lee, Johannes Lassen, Nathalie Merchant, Ines Høysæter Asserson, Leroy Boone.

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(464 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)