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Robert Vincent: Barriers. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Some barriers are locked in place to keep all but a chosen few from entering what is considered a sacred domain, an area designed to only meet the needs and joy of the insufficient and uncommon, and kept shut on those who will benefit with greater appreciation the beauty they will envisage, be swept away by with what can only be spoken of in calming verse and pictures painted on a canvas of cool divine.

Bon Jovi: Forever. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Forever leaves the lips of the poet with the sense of optimism that is never truly captured sincerely in any other study of human existence. We can eulogise and give meaningful declarations on how something profound will live on, how it will be etched in stone long after we have departed this mortal coil of ours, but in truth statues erode, buildings become condemned, governments and nations topple, heroes often fall.

The Whiskey Charmers: Streetlights. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To blaze a trail of your own making can leave you feeling lonely, it can add pressure to your vision to strive to create something that nobody on Earth could imagine, could build, and that loneliness of feeling can be overwhelming, can leave you looking at the bugs that flutter around Streetlights on the highway and wondering if conformity is all that bad; for after all the crowd seems to have more fun being in the realm of illumination.

Black Sabbath: Anno Domini 1989-1995. Album Box-Set Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Such is the presence of Ozzy Osbourne and Ronnie James Dio in the minds of Black Sabbath fans universally that some names are forgotten, almost sideswiped out of existence, and even if it was for a tour, a stop gap in the story as others dropped out before pushing their way back in, they still deserve to be recognised, and whilst Ian Gillan and Glenn Hughes have offered more to the band’s history compared to say David Walker or Ron Keel, what should be not only remembered, but lauded, is the effect that Tony Martin had on the soul of the Godfathers of Heavy Metal.

David Barnicle: Dreaming Awake-Acoustic Sessions. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The power to lucid dream is one that can be magical experience, it can lead to places which you never expected your mind could fathom, it can show glimpses of a reality in which anything is possible, and be an indicator of the path that the universe is asking you to follow, to trust the hallucination and be more in tune with the ethereal rather than the trappings of matter-of-fact, hard nosed entrenched opinions brewed and passed down by dogma and one-world view.

The Responder. Series Two. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Martin Freeman, Adelayo Adedayo, Josh Finan, Emily Fairn, Warren Brown, Faye McKeever, MyAnna Buring, Mark Womack, Philip Shaun McGuinnes, Bernard Hill, Adam Nagaitis, Romi Hyland-Rylands, Matthew Cottle, Kevin Eldon, Shaun Fagan, Lenny Wood, Eithne Browne, John McGrellis.

The Outlaws. Series Three. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Rhianne Baretto, Darren Boyd, Gamba Cole, Jessica Gunning, Clare Perkins, Eleanor Tomlinson, Grace Calder, Stephen Merchant, Kojo Kamara, Charles Babalola, Christopher Walken, Tom Hanson, Ian McElhinney, Claes Bang, Rhys Yates, Patrick Robinson, Nicholas Rowe, Harry Trevaldwyn, Richard E. Grant, Matilda Ziegler.

If there is somebody to whom can bring a group of well-intentioned misfits be people that you want to be friends with, then Stephen Merchant is to be considered a master of the art.

The Red King. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Anjli Mohindra, James Bamford, Marc Warren, Mark Lewis Jones, Lu Corfield, Adjoa Andoh, Sam Swainsbury, Rosie Sheehy, Maeve Courtier-Lilley, Dylan Jones, Lloyd Meredith, Lauren Morais, Tuyen Do, Jim Kitson, Oliver Ryan, Aled ap Steffan, Wayne Cater, Connor Calland, Issey King, Andrew Dunn, Harry Hepple, Jill Halfpenny.

Joanne Shaw Taylor: Heavy Soul. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The Heavy Soul that continually finds a way to unburden itself is one to acknowledge the respect that is due.

Those to whom creating the urgency of dedicated calm assurance and refusing to bend a will that would see the soul wither under the strain of surrender, these are the magicians of their craft that give others a reason to feel pleasure, a deep and abiding acknowledgement that deference is due, but at the same time you can relish the opportunity to be front row and centre in the presence of brilliance as that soul releases mayhem and takes your mind out for a ride so elegant that it sees eternity.

John Jenkins: Do You Ever Think About Me? Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There is a reason why many songs that deal with relationships used to sell so well and be high in the popular charts. If you look back throughout the history of the single you can see the proliferation and abundance of songs that had sorrow, undying declarations of love, of regret and touching moments when grieving is summoned from the depths of the soul that is wracked with torment and hope in equal measure.