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Dreadzone, Escapades. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Twenty years after their first release, the band that the great John Peel championed with passion, Dreadzone have released their latest opus Escapades and the result is something that perhaps the great man would no doubt have raved about for many years to come.

Not only is the usual hybrid of Reggae and hard Folk fused with the electronic-dub very much in evidence throughout this articulate and thoughtful album but its charm lies with the appreciation of memory, of battles fought, wrongs righted and knowing still that the war is from over, there are still far too many injustices to take care of. Dreadzone capture the antagonism of the age superbly, the ever creeping anger at the way many have become marginalised just for being who they are whilst others revel in the misery caused.

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(368 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Patrick Maguire And Alan Anderson.

Patrick Maguire and Alan Anderson are part of the city’s thriving Liverpool Playwright community, a community that has had the illustrious likes of Fred Lawless (Nightmare On Lime Street, Little Scouse on the Prairie, Scouse Pacific, Hitchhikers Guide To Fazakerley), Karen Brown, Richie Grice, Donna Lesley Price,  Helen Kerr (Grin Theatre) and Mike Neary pass through its doors at one time or another.

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(1441 words, estimated 5:46 mins reading time)

Muse, Absolution. 10th Anniversary Retrospective.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Arguably it could be said that Absolution, Muse’s third studio album, was the recording that announced the band onto the wider world and certainly from the moment Absolution was released they haven’t looked back.

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(1031 words, estimated 4:07 mins reading time)

Get Ready To Unleash The Devil In You At The Martini Lounge’s Halloween Spectacular.

Martini Lounge Burlesque and Variety Show will return to the Epstein Theatre this October for their annual Halloween spectacular, which is set to be their most sizzling show to date. The Martini Lounge invites you to a night of glitz, glamour and devilish delights with special performances from Millie Dollar, Missy Malone, Mat Ricardo, Fred Bear and Aurora Galore, Saturday 19th October is a night you won’t forget.

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(505 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Rush, Film Review. FACT Cinema, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl, Olivia Wilde, Natalie Dormer, Alexandra Maria Lara, Pierfrancesco Favino, Christian McKay, Sean Edwards, Martin J. Smith, Rob Austin, Tom Wlaschiha, Alistair Petrie, Julian Rhind Tutt, Stephen Mangan.

One of the greatest sporting rivalries of all time certainly deserves the finest attention, the doting and sometimes critical eye of one of Hollywood’s premium directors and a script that captures the imagination and complexity of two of the motor-racing world’s most enduring figures. Ron Howard’s Rush delivers everything you could ever want in a film that looks at the relationship of man and machine…or in this case two men who dominated the sport in 1976, Britain’s James Hunt and Austria’s Niki Luada, the ultimate sporting playboy who revelled in the excess of life and the cool reserved detachment of a man born to be a winner.

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(452 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Legendary Liverpool Group Space To Perform At The East Village Arts Centre.

Liverpool band Space has announced the first dates of its 20th anniversary tour. The hometown show is at the East Village Arts Club on Friday 25th October, with support coming from Liverpool based band, The Thespians.

Platinum selling band Space came to prominence in the mid 1990’s, with hit singles such as Female of the Species, Neighbourhood, Avenging Angels, Me and You Verses the World and The Ballad of Tom Jones. They also worked with Tom Jones and Cerys Matthews.

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(244 words, estimated 59 secs reading time)

Bon Voyage, Theatre Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jennifer Bea, Lindzi Germain, Michael Swift, Warren Donnelly, Tony James, Richie Grice, Mickey Finn.

The thing with some productions is that they do exactly what they say on the tin, there is no small print suggesting that the production will be akin to some lost Shakespeare play, full of pathos and anger, cunning and revenge. Instead it just happens to be good, in some cases very good at being able to give people exactly what they need, especially in a world that seems to be very bleak and full of unpleasantness, that of laughter and an excuse to crack a smile and laugh till it hurts. For Bon Voyage, presented by Boom Boom Productions, this is that type of play and for that the smile just got a little broader.

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(505 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

‘Female Artist of the Year’, Natalie McCool, Announces Autumn Tour Which Starts In Liverpool.

To catch Natalie McCool on stage is one of those moments that makes life worth living and now the superb musician, who recently was awarded ‘Female Artist of the Year’ at the Liverpool Music Awards 2013, has announced a new U.K. tour for this Autumn which kicks off at The Kazimier in Liverpool on November 7th.

Natalie McCool spent her childhood years spent drawing together a fine fabric of influences from Jeff Buckley, Cocteau Twins, PJ Harvey & The Stone Roses, she rose up, and with a daggers aim, unleashed a formidable body of work – an enthralling sonic panorama that dislocates you into its gravity: at times controversial; yet always delivered with absolute conviction.

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(314 words, estimated 1:15 mins reading time)

David Gest’s Legends Of Soul Live At The St. Helens Theatre Royal.

Television star and legendary producer David Gest will make musical history by bringing an all-star line-up of 10 Soul and Motown artists to more than 30 venues throughout the U.K. for multiple glittering performances of ‘David Gest’s Legends Of Soul Live Concert’. This mammoth tour will call in at St. Helens Theatre Royal on 6th and 7th February 2014.

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(811 words, estimated 3:15 mins reading time)

Fringe First Winners To Bring New Production To The Playhouse Theatre.

Fringe First winners The Paper Birds come to the Liverpool Playhouse Studio with On the One Hand, an original verbatim piece telling intertwined stories of six women at different stages of their lives, exploring what it means to age. This production is at the Studio direct from the Edinburgh Festival from Tuesday 15th to Saturday 19th October.

The Paper Birds present their visually stunning 10 year anniversary show interrogating the inevitable journey that our minds and bodies undertake from birth to death. Tales of biological clocks on snooze, lives packed in boxes and cities in bags; six women of different ages and at different stages of their lives.

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