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The sound is relentless, but like a thunderstorm captured on film, you know deep down it is only half the story, that the experience is lacking an essential component, a vinyl assault on every sense that makes the Supercharged overload and create a frenetic energy that is felt by all.
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It is either a disconcertion or a welcome sign laid out with ceremony, one will be associated with fear, the other with a release of energy that signals a good time and the acceptance of the once uninvited guest as a part of the family.
To hear the phrase, You Are Not A Stranger Here is to understand that your reputation precedes you. That standing created by deeds is a perspective that may open doors that otherwise might be slammed shut, and it is a curse of modern life that the longer you stay away from the door, the more time you spend in the shadows, the likelihood of admittance to the comfort of good grace is slim.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It is recommended that we read a book twice in our lifetimes, once when we are young, maybe innocent, narrower minded, the next time when we are older, not necessarily more mature, but certainly of an age when age and time have combined to teach us the valuable lessons. The reason is simple, we see the way in which the words are written as an extension of ourselves, we inhabit our youth with an expectation of honest intention, only to find when have reached an age where life has more than taken its fair share of naivety and pulse that we see the story in a completely different way; that there is more depth that we didn’t encounter initially.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
There are moments in pop history which might be celebrated by what could be called the minority at the time, and to which the rest of the world could be argued as just pausing long enough to feel the emotions overwhelming the soul; they might not understand why, but if they live to see a significant anniversary come round then they will undoubtedly see the sense of seismic change that they have lived through, the definite alteration of the future that has happened in their life time in which others can be free to be themselves and love who they love.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The relationship we have with ourselves is as important as those we have with other people, the environment we create has to cater to the soul we nurture as well as making sure it is as habitable, comforting, and welcoming as possible…we can be anybody’s friend in such circumstance, but we must also be our own companion during testing times, willing to listen to the concerns in our mind that manifest in the darkness; but above all in our concerns for the future generations to be a friend of our planet, an Earth Mate if you will.
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If we were fortunate enough as children to feel the excitement of the energy that seeks out the growing thrill as the crowds mass beneath the dazzling, shining lights, as the smell of frying onions, various meats fill the nostrils, and the screams of delight as various rides entice and lure with the acknowledgement of a friendly voice asking for their palm to be greased with coins in exchange for a five minute adventure, you can be sure that what you are remembering is the fond memory of everything associated with All The Fun Of The Fair.
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Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Zazie Beetz, Steve Coogan, Harry Lawtey, Leigh Gill, Ken Leung, Jacob Lofland, Bill Smotrovich, Sharon Washington, Alfred Rubin Thompson.
Imagine the longest middle finger to be attached to the largest, most muscled, sizeable hand, and then seeing it for all its worth as it is raised up in the face of all, a large moment in which we understand we have been probably taken for a ride; one set of the audience will see it with anguish and fury, feeling the ridicule personally…the other knowing at the end that the joke was on them and revelling in the cinema reveal in which the emotional needs and wounds have been opened and the flesh ripped apart.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Inspiration dictates that we must take what we have learned, and with humility, go all out to either add to the image gifted us, or in some way increase its values to the point where it becomes something extraordinary, to be Not Just A Standard that should be seen inhabiting the average, the middle of anything.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
When we sing in the voices of the downtrodden, when we admit to ourselves that the songs we sing are not from an exalted high praising the so-called great and good, but ones that sit in the realm of the beggar’s folk dance, the vagabond and the hobo’s Mosh, and the parody of the discotheque frequented by the cash strapped and harbingers of the bouncing cheque, then we show the world just how to give A Thousand Pokes to the classless upper classes and the wannabe nouveau riche who see the world as a plaything without understanding the most basic of rules.
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Birmingham’s music scene has always been a vibrant beast, whether it was in the glorious heyday of bands such as The Moody Blues, Wizzard, E.L.O. through the 80s and 90s, and beyond revival which saw diversity lead through application and desire from bands such as Dexys Midnight Runners, Napalm Death, The Twang, and Ocean Colour Scene, prove with absolute conviction that there has always been a magnetic sense of groove and wit, coupled with wonderfully adhered to belief in light-hearted cynicism that has been the bedrock of expression in the former heartlands of the home of British Industry’s revolution.