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Gemma Hayes: Blind Faith. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

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Taking time to achieve a sense of glory, or to even find a way to balance life with passionate, down to Earth soul searching, is an art lost to many simply because of the decree from Government that states if you aren’t productively part of the system then you are taking up space, you are harming that wonderous slug of an idea, the economy.

Aerialists: I Lost My Heart On Friday. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To be in the presence of exuberance is to feel cheer spread from the inner most part of the delicate soul we rarely speak of, let alone acknowledge its existence, and see that feast of merriment take hold and glow on the skin and the smile on the face erupt passionately as we acknowledge that if possible we could dispense with everything else if it meant we could just admit we were in love with the world.

Leif Vollebekk: Revelation. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is a question mark in the minds of many who believe that the melancholic sound of an artist is akin to the cry of the desperate and fruitless of those to whom only dust balls run through the otherwise vacant space, concerned only with the emotional luxury of the moment; the long term and sensitive sound is not for them, but for all others it is a staggering appraisal of their own brief lives.

London Grammar: The Greatest Love. Album Review.

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Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

What is The Greatest Love, one we can express freely, one that shocks us and catches us unawares, one from our formative years, or the one the one that perhaps saves us when we believe we are beyond help, beyond rescue, and out of the reach of redemption?

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Jenna Ortaga, Justin Theroux, Willem Defoe, Monica Bellucci, Arthur Conti, Nick Kellington, Santiago Cabrera, Burn Gorman, Danny DeVito, Sam Slimane, Amy Nuttall, Mark Heenehan.

It is the reunion we never knew we needed to dispel gloom and want of a sense of humour that has been deprived to us for so long; for whilst some comedy has gone down a road where it thinks to much of ramifications and not enough time on what is actually funny, what is cinematic anarchy in full flow and timeless.

Bird’s View: House Of Commando. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Momentum, impetus, whatever the calling, however we describe the energy in which we declare caution against a lost state of emotion, and risk is a truth of endeavour in which your vision, your voice, can command an audience in to pushing you even further than you could ever imagine; that is the energy to which we must utilise if we wish to see the beauty of success in our life time.

India Ramey: Baptized By The Blaze. Album Review.

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Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

How we recover from trauma is often a solo expedition, one that is not easy, indeed it is one of a road through deserts of introspection and empty isles of service stations, where the gas and momentum are out of our price range and the point on the map in which we are aiming for is on a part of the map that has been folded, creased, crumpled in anguish far too many times to make sense the solitary driver as they increasingly look for stop and help signs along the bittering highway.

Sherwood. Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: David Morrisey, Lorraine Ashbourne, Monica Dolan, Robert Lindsey, Michael Balogun, Philip Jackson, Perry Jackson, Lesley Manville, Stephen Dillane, Christine Bottomley, Adam Hugill. Bill Jones, Robert Emms, Aisling Loftus, Jordan Myrie, Ria Zmitrowicw, Bethany Asher, Oliver Huntingdon, Conor Deane, David Harewood, Sharlene Whyte, Jennifer Hennessy, Charles Dale, Tyrese Eaton-Dyce.

Some wounds run too deep to allow them time to heal in just a generation, the anguish, the sense of betrayal, the sense of unfaithfulness in the family, in the community is a powerful reminder of hate that creeps into the blood when loyalties and ideologies force themselves into that which once bound all.

Flotsam And Jetsam: I Am The Weapon. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Never take seriously those who suggest they hold a deterrent, the keys to the arsenal, or the codes to launch an attack; but always be mindful, even respectful of those who you know will look you in the eyes and with softly spoken menace proclaim, “I Am The Weapon”, for they are not talking of the bludgeon, they are merely describing themselves, they are the voice that can bring down towers and walls, they are the reason that those who practise art can be devastating in their approach to destroying an enemy.

Grace: Want You Dead. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: John Simm, Richie Campbell, Craig Parkinson, Laura Elphinstone, Brad Morrison, Zoë Tapper, Scott Handy, Brendan Patricks, Rebecca Scroggs, Clare Calbraith, Sam Hoare, Jake Needs, Renny Krupinski, Carolina Valdes, Ray Emmet Brown, Jessica Hayles, Wendy Albiston, Nicky Goldie, Alan Wilyman, Lydia Danistan, Niall Greig Fulton, Ben Crowe, Baker Mukasa, Oisin Stack, Jan Le.

Murder can be straightforward, its often black and white, occasionally grey lines will blur within, but it always frank, sincere, almost uncomplicated; it is the action of emotions, but always without the desire to hide the reason when the culprit is identified; and whilst the response, the detection and the puzzle solved is shrouded in misdirection and distraction, murder is relatively easy to commit.