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John Wetton: An Extraordinary Life. Album Box Set Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Time is not always our friend, that much is certain when we not only look at the way we have lived our lives, but that which is encapsulated in the mercurial and those with aura’s as big as their souls. Time does not grant us immortality, nor is it gentle enough to dare offer all An Extraordinary Life; we just make of it what will, our mistakes a guide, our inspirations the hopeful pleasure we take in their company.

Steve Logan: Psych Ward. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The spotlight on Steve Logan should be shining so bright that the reflection we see in our dark glasses would be one of complete illumination and thanks for the music released in his name.

That is not a complaint, after all to be in Steve’s company is to feel as though you are in an elite conversation, and whilst you know it won’t be a select crowd for long, in the meantime what passes is a sheer and scintillating continued introduction.

Jethro Tull: War Child II. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

We have become almost hypnotised by the sense of the quick reel on social media, the snapshot of a film, a conversation, a short piece of fan fiction given a human face…it reflects our capacity to ignore the long game, to allow the dictation of modern thinking that we can be amused for less than a minute before requiring shifting our attention to the next quick fix of pleasure.

Dark Winds. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Zahn McClarnon, Kiowa Gordon, Jessica Matten, Deanna Allison, Elva Guerra, Natalie Benally, DezBaa’, Ryan Begay, Rainn Wilson, Nicholas Loga, Jeremiah Bitsui, A Martinez, Eugene Brave Rock, John Diehl, Noah Emmerich, Betty Ann Tsosie, Jonathan Adams, Amelia Rico, Rob Tepper, Julian Bonfiglio, Quenton Yazzie, Kate Bergeron, Julianne Frick, Sophie Jane Frick, Ryffin Phoenix, Stafford Douglas, Shawnee Pourier.

One of the greatest insults that we have by proxy of cinema and television delivered on the Native American people is that which in which generations passed looked upon the tribes as the perpetual bad guys of the western invader outlook.

COBRA: Series Three. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Robert Carlyle, Victoria Hamilton, David Haig, Lisa Palfrey, Marsha Thompson, Edward Bennett, Lucy Cohu, Richard Pepple, Alexa Davies, Ben Crompton, Jane Horrocks, Holly Cattle, Gregg Chilingirian, Anthony Flanagan, Emily Fairn, Cavan Clerkin, Yasmin Al-Khudhairi, Geoffrey McGivern, Rina Mahoney, Wil Johnson, Khalid Laith.

Our perception of government is not only flawed, it is a dangerous and unsustainable in a modern setting; for what goes on behind the scenes of 10 Downing Street, the secret doors of power, and in the inner sanctum that is the Cabinet Office Briefing Room A, is not for the faint hearted or those who deny that some meetings are not taken place in public for the fear of upsetting the children, the electorate, or as Orwell observantly wrote, The Proles.

The Whisperer in Darkness. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jana Carpenter, Barnaby Kay, Nicola Walker, Mark Bazeley, David Calder, Ben Crowe, Gabrielle Glaister, Ferdinand Kingsley, Nicola Stephenson, Edie Simpson, Robert Glenister, Ben Crowe, Stephen Mackintosh, Karl Johnson, Phoebe Fox, Phoebe Francis Brown.

The enigma that is H.P. Lovecraft is perhaps lost on modern readers, for in is writing it is possible to see just how far ahead of his time he was, and whilst the notion of his own personal beliefs arguably kept his name from being investigated by readers long after his untimely passing, only the adventurous reader seems to dare go deep into the world created by the writer.

Teenage Fanclub: Nothing Lasts Forever. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Nothing Lasts Forever, even quality and heroism struggles to be remembered beyond the broken subjective details etched in stone and written in ink as decades turn to centuries, as truth becomes lost in the myths of time.

It is in this proof of burden that we turn to the dream of being in the here and now and understanding that we can embrace what may have alluded us in the past, the forgotten hit that in the moment of release we can find comfort, discover illumination, be one in the knowledge that our senses can be thrilled in our life time….the era that matters most to our souls.

Madness: Theatre Of The Absurd Presents Madness C’est La Vie. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Acknowledging the absurdity of life is a gift that passes by so many people, caught as they are in the stringent sobriety of emotion that they cannot see the joke for the punchline they imagine.

To relish the sense of the absurd is the privilege of those that see beyond that punchline, those enigmatic beings who seek out our souls with every desire to inform us of the generosity of the meaningful purpose of farce and logical madness.

James Patterson: Alex Cross Must Die. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision * * * *

James Patterson’s Alex Cross will go down as one of the immortal detectives of his time. His longevity in the world of fiction has been assured not least because of the number of novels and stories that have his name impacted upon the front cover, but because of who he is as a man created by a writer of instinct, one of high morals, of loyalty and integrity bound up in soul who never seems to know what it means to quit.

Hegarty: Tranquillity of Mind. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Peace is a state of mind that is all too fleeting; a problem solved can only be thanked for so long before another comes along to send troubles into the world. This is one of the truths of peace, that we must bask for as long as possible in the presence of the Tranquillity of Mind, the belief that we can breathe easier and not feel the pull of other’s insurrection and fierce opponent of concord and cease-fire.