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The Gathering. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Warren Brown, Eva Morgan, Sonny Walker, Sadie Soverall, Vinette Robinson, Richard Coyle, Jodie McNee, Luca Kamleh-Chapman, Ryan Quarmby, Oliver Nelson, Mia Johnson, Rob Jarvis, Poppy Miller, Charlie Griffiths, Christine Tremarco, Deborah Bouchard, Emma Keele, Mia Carragher, Emma Bispham, Michael Ledwich.

The pressure we are placing on our children as we live vicariously through their actions is almost as dangerous as the situations and times that we find ourselves in as we stumble through the last few years with unresolved anger and resentment banging on our doors as negativity, as jealousy and creativity clash in a way that we perhaps arguably as a species have never faced before.

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

Perennial: Art History. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To be bold is an art form in itself, it is the camouflage we wear, the suit of armour that masks the inner feelings of emotion, the performance we show to the world, and each time we push the boldness of our tempered spirit onwards we create a little piece of history, a wedge of our punk heart full of righteous anger and swollen souls determined to get in the face of societal oppression and take a point for the action of the those who are on the right side of history.

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(331 words, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)

Solitary Bee: Autumn Recruits. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Autumn can be seen as the season that values the upbeat melancholic, it honours the belief that ageing is just a step on the road to renewal, that even though the harsh winds of winter and the thick skirts of snow that can threaten the peace of end of current days, autumn is a moment of beauty, radiance, of longing over memories of cultivating log fires and the understanding that those that the season recruits see the world through a kaleidoscope not hindered by the sweat of summer and the false starts of springs.

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(336 words, estimated 1:21 mins reading time)

Steve Dawson: Ghosts. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Loss affords us the introspection to see our time through the eyes of Ghosts, the memories that linger in the mind and offer us a kind of salvation so that we might reflect on who truly mattered in our lives, and their message to us across the boundaries of time.

The thing is we are ghosts ourselves, we haunt a present that is filled often with the meaningless and the damaged as much as the noteworthy and the significant, and it is our duty to cut a swathe through one and offer the generations to come a more evened existence so that when we have passed our moment on Earth we can rely like a signal to all who listen our own hopefully impressive story.

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(440 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Blue Lights: Series Two Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Nathan Braniff, Sian Brooke, Katherine Delvin, Martin McCann, Frankie McCafferty, Andi Osho, Hannah McClean, Joanne Crawford, Jonathan Harden, Andrea Irvine, Desmond Eastwood, Abigail McGibbon, Dearbháille McKinney, Seamus O’Hara, Craig McGinlay, Alfie Lawless, Matthew Forsythe, Chris Corrigan, Derek Thompson, Alfie Lawless, Paddy Jenkins.

We consider ourselves at the very least to be policed by consent, it is almost a statement of agreed terms and boundaries, which sometimes overlaps, sometimes moved by one faction, either in rebellion or by government insistence, but one to which for the most part the sight of Blue Lights flashing can be a comfort when we have been wronged, when another decides to not only blur the lines between criminal acts but to actively destroy your safety by setting fire to every law known.

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

Superman & Lois: Series Three. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tyler Hoechlin, Elizabeth Tulloch, Alex Garfin, Erik Valdez, Inde Navarrette, Wolé Parks, Dylan Walsh, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Sofia Hasmik, Tylor Buck, Daisy Tormé, Joselyn Picard, Leeah Wong, Zane Clifford, Austin Anozie, Danny Wattley, Samantha Di Francesco, Dee Jay Jackson, Pavel Romano, Michael Bishop, Chad L. Coleman, Monique Phillips, Victoria Katongo, Eric Keenleyside, Michael Cudlitz, Kelcey Mawema.

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(584 words, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)

Red Eye. Television Drama Series.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Jing Lusi, Richard Armitage, Lesley Sharp, Jemma Moore, Dan Li, Cash Holland, Tai Yin Chan, Thomas Chaanhing, Mido Hardada, Aiden Cheng, Lucianne McEvoy, Jonathan Aris, Xiangyi Tan, Steph Lacey, Parker Sawyers, Daphne Cheung, Elaine Tan.

The detective drama could be said to have eaten itself, a truth of this can be found in its ever-increasing ways in searches for a way to be unique, to have the ‘room’ in which the murder occurs be as far from the drawing room mystery of old as possible, and perhaps be almost considered at times to be more concerned with the seemingly unerring device rather than the character of the piece.

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(495 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

John Entwistle: The Ox Box Set. Box Set Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

In a band of four exceptionally strong personalities and absolute proficiency, no matter what was produced in combination someone was always going to feel relegated, to be almost pushed aside in the pecking order. It is not a new sensation for anyone filled with creativity, George Harrison after all felt the burden so much that he famously quit whilst on camera during the filming of a Beatles’ documentary; so it perhaps is no wonder that the man credited as one of the finest bass players to ever perform on stage, The Who’s John Entwistle, found himself relieving his artistic tension by becoming the first of his own musical clan to delve into his own ferocious talent and come up with a solo album of pure gold.

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(497 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Don McLean: American Boys. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There are few signs that the image of Americana formed from post war influence has lasted the course and remain as part of the collective aura of today; few idols in music have stayed the course from a period when Apple Pie and Picket Fences were more than just a staple of cliché and the formulaic, and those that have are often unwilling to divert away from the feelgood sessions that made their name and to continue to bask in the glow of the light of what made the genre so alluring, so enthralling in a world recovering from despair, the haunted masques of misery.

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

Drop The Dead Donkey: The Reawakening. Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Susannah Doyle, Robert Duncan, Ingrid Lacey, Neil Pearson, Jeff Rawle, Stephen Tompkinson, Victoria Wicks, Julia Hills, Kerana Jagpal, Claire Louise Amias, Adam Morris, Riya Rajeev.

They argue that you cannot recreate magic, that nothing is truly timeless, and in comedy that is especially true, the lighting that was captured does not stay in the bottle because attitudes to what makes people laugh alters so drastically that it the pressure inside the glass can do nothing but break, and all that remains is a puff, a glimmer of the electrifying pulse that once was seeping out into a world whose view has shifted and the approach of farce is pushed aside in favour of a new regime designed to no make people guffaw and snort wildly but be downcast and dull.

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(549 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)