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It might seem like a sense of discordance when we think of pathos and humour as being emotionally tied, aligned by words of opportunity and direct opposition, but tragedy and time are more than friends, they are the Muse to which we seek a truth, that everything in life can be found to inform, enlighten, and provide comfort…pathos and suffering, humour and wit as one.
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Cast: Eve Myles, Katherine Kelly, Clara Ruggaard, Victoria Hamilton, Elliot Edusah, Raphael Sowole, Karen Ascoe, Lu Corfield, Michael Lumsden, Lee Boardman, Peter De Jersey.
The second series of The Crow Girl, adapted from Erik Axl Sund’s riveting novel, is one that pushes the watcher into the realms of disassociation, of the complexity of multiple personality, and whilst the first series was unabashed in its portrayal, the second is one where the sheer cognitive struggle of holding such memories and demons in the mind is powerfully, robustly, presented as DCI Jeanette Kilburn closes down on the killer but also finds her own mind is questioned as her actions in the face of lust and abandonment cause her to neglect the obvious truth.
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For the fan of the cult television show Red Dwarf anything that comes along which further expands the absurdist universe can only be one of good fortune; and even with the passing of one of the original creators, Rob Grant, earlier on the year, the fact that a brand new novel baring his name, alongside Andrew Marshall, has been brought into existence is enough to have, as the great Ken Dodd would exclaim, “Is one that exercises the chuckle muscle.”
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Kim Cattrall, Kelsey Grammer, Johnny Flynn, Elena Delia, Donald Sage Mackay, Tim Ahern, Carlyss Peer, Jennifer Armour, David Menkin, Christopher Ragland, Joseph Balderrama, Akie Kotabe, Nettie Chickering, Laurel Lefkow, Jason Watkins, Rob Benedict, Tyreke Leslie, Vivek Maden, Richard Southgate, Ian Porter, Lily Lefkow, David Menkin, Roy McCrerey, Julee Cerda, Walles Hamonde, Rachael Stirling, Philipe Bosher, Clay Zackery, Ben Cura, David Duchovny, Aaron Teoh, Sotty Pong, Kerry Shale.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Upbeat and dramatic, without losing itself to grandeur or flippancy; that is the sense of urgent cool delivered by The Mike Jacoby Electric Trio as they blend a sharp view of modern Americana with edgy Country melody and the fierce boundary smashing grit of 90s realism in the exultant clash that is Welcome To The Family.
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For the masses this side of the Atlantic, West Virginia is perhaps a remanent of the old romantic notion of what the United States of America was once a representation of, a state carved out of its own seceded ideals from something larger and because it wanted its own vision, its truth to be plain and easily forged. Like the revolution guns that started on Boston Common and the and the anger of tax imposed by a grander authority, what West Virginia means to those who live without this purpose cannot be easily defined but the music that holds the beauty together is one of unshakable cool and distinct authority.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
A Dreamworld becomes reality when we find something that pricks the bubble of indifference and we see the blood of its creator spill into our hands as inspiration, the ideas, the flow, the passion, and perhaps the madness becomes alive; no longer delivered in forced rainbow overtones, no glorious technicolour, just a statement of intent, of powerful, and fascinating, direction.
Six years after the acclaimed Séance was released, the quartet that make up the renowned Professor And The Madman return with a gloriously weaved recording that not only smacks the uneven layering of indifference till it blurts and tantrum induced meltdown occur, but it also places the trivial and cold irrelevance into the bin of life, grinning with positivity as it does so.
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All you want as a fan of music, no matter the genre is two things…one that the music you grew up loving continues to be relevant, to play a significant part of culture and able to critique society and bind it in equal measure, and that it progresses, that it doesn’t stay routinely stuck in the same tropes and stagnates to the point where it becomes a broken cliché capable of only whispering sweet nothings of nostalgia and memories that fade in time as you come closer to drawing a final wistful breath.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Selin Hizli, Carl Prekopp, Hattie Morahan, Ian Dunnet Jnr, Simon Scardifield, Jasmine Hyde, Chris Lew Kum Hoi.
You cannot keep a bad girl, a wronged woman, a misunderstood and vengeful female down for long, for the moment you think they are defeated, they rise up more powerful, more commanding than ever, and one of the finest examples of that in literature is of Milady de Winter.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Imagine walking through the bleakest, darkest, scariest forest, you are guided by intuition rather than direction, you have no sense of time because all the natural indicators have been swept away by the tight foliage, by the darkness, by the obscurity, and this is a place where even shadows are frightened to emerge; then out of nowhere a sliver of light appears through the trees, a small, almost imperceptible, an aspiration of hope that like a will-o’-the wisp will reveal the way out, that the sunlight through the trees is more than just direction, it is the target.