Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
The Midlands city of Coventry isn’t really remembered for many things outside of its Cathedral, the legendary Lady Godiva the fantastic groups The Specials and The Selecter, being the home town of the poet Philip Larkin, the utter devastation it suffered in the Blitz and one brief shining moment for its football club in 1987 where the team did the unexpected and pulled off one of the most famous victories in F.A. Cup Final history.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Philip Bosworth, Angela Clerkin, Jaquetta May, Christine Roe, Gwyneth Strong, Gordon Warnecke.
Taken from conversations held with 72 children aged 6 – 11 and from a diverse range of social and cultural backgrounds, Monkey Bars is an intriguing look on life that offers new light through old windows as to how the modern world works.
Chris Goode’s script is beautifully written and the adult cast in a wide range of roles, must feel as though they are themselves kids left to run riot through Hamley’s and the biggest Haribo factory in the world.
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Cast: Roy Brandon, Michael Starke, Lori Haley Fox, Penelope Woodman, Matt Connor, Jonathan Markwood.
The distinctive music, the sight of two comedy greats on stage giving the audience a laugh and great entertainment in two different settings and somehow transported in time from the golden age of Hollywood comedy to the 21st Century comedy central of the Royal Court in Liverpool. Such is how nights of class are made and in the iconic Laurel and Hardy film Sons of The Desert, recently given such status as warranting to be preserved forever in the American National Congress, they don’t come much bigger, then again, it can always be given a new lick of paint and introducing to a newer audience.
The Coral’s Ian Skelly and his band The Serpent Power will embark on a full U.K. tour this month following the recent re-release of the critically acclaimed album Cut From A Star.
Having drummed for The Coral for over a decade Cut From A Star is Skelly’s first solo long player. The self-produced 11-track album, now available as a limited edition deluxe edition, and released on Skeleton Key Records, was recorded over the last two years at The Coral Caves on the Wirral, using a vintage Tascam tape cassette machine.
The Stranglers consistently give one of the finest and high-octane gigs around and over the years have produced some of the greatest moments in music. From the end of February and throughout March 2014, New Wave icons The Stranglers will undertake a ’Ruby Anniversary’ tour across the U.K. consisting of a massive 22 dates.
J.J. Burnel said, “On this, the occasion of our Ruby Anniversary, I would like to take this opportunity to stick my fingers up to everyone who wrote us off and dismissed us. However I would like to thank those who saw beyond the words of the critics and drew their own conclusions. He who laughs last laughs longest and loudest. Next year we will make a lot of noise with our friends…”
Liverpool Sound and Vision Ration * * * *
As Dr. Lucy Worsley makes her way through the Victorian age of the most nefarious crime of all, the taking of another’s life, the second part of her new series, A Very British Murder, lifts the lid on the rise of the detective, whether in fiction or on the streets and houses of Britain and the detective’s arch nemesis, that of the arm chair detective.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Days Are Gone is the debut album by Los Angeles Rock band Haim and with the soothing whisper of an ethereal essence, the three sisters introduce themselves onto a public that should be ready to take them to their hearts.
Elbow today announce details of a new album and U.K. Arena tour for 2014, their first live dates for over a year along with an exclusive bundle for fans who pre-order the album.
The tour starts at Birmingham’s LG Arena on April 5th and will come to the Liverpool Echo Arena on Saturday 12th April.
The band’s sixth studio album, currently being recorded at their facilities at Blueprint Studios, Salford, will be released in March 2014. As with previous albums, the platinum Build a Rocket Boys!’ and multi-platinum The Seldom Seen Kid, the production and mixing of the album is being undertaken by keyboardist Craig Potter.
Liverpool’s first ever horror festival launches this Halloween and promises to bring all things horror to the city; from a Victorian séance, film, talks, live theatre and music, costumes, psychics, Vaudeville, D.J.s and everything in between. With core events running from Thursday October 31st to Saturday November 2nd, along with planned fringe events.
The festival has been put together by music publicist Lisa Southern from Little Sutton and Liverpool based illustrator Ilan Sheady from Horror Talk T.V.
To many, William Shatner is one of the main reason why Star Trek become a television hit in the 1960s and has long lived on and flourished under different franchises and films nearly 50 years later. Now Mr. Shatner is going boldly where he has never gone before, the world of Progressive Rock with Prog Rock giant Billy Sherwood by his side.