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Glen Matlock: Consequences Coming. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Keep your head down, don’t look into the eyes of the beast that is sizing you up, that is snaring so close by you can feel the remains of the last meal it ate hitting your nostrils as though you were breathing in the sickly smell of carnage and death….do whatever you can to avoid the beast, for if you dare look it in the eye, you know you are next.

My Neighbour Adolf. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: David Hayman, Udo Kier, Olivia Silhavy, Kineret Peled, Jaime Correa, Tomasz Sobczak, Danharry Colorado.

How would you react if you came face to face with your worst nightmare, with the face of pure evil; especially when you had been led to believe that the person on question was found dead, killed by their own hand many years before.

Great Expectations (2023). Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Fionn Whitehead, Olivia Colman, Ashley Thomas, Owen McDonnell, Johnny Harris, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Trystan Gravelle, Hayley Squires, Rudi Dharmalingham, Laurie Ogden, Matthew Needham, Tom Sweet, Matt Berry, Parth Thakerar, Chloe Lea, Jonathan Coy, Bronte Carmichael, Ben Moor, Emily Johnstone, James Foster, John Mackay, Eric Godon.

To wish or demand for the same outcome time and again shows that immovability and stagnation of the human spirit are sadly more common than we were led to believe, and whilst some change will often rub against the sentiment of the purist, to decry that which sparks revolution is to corrode and rust itself.

Death Of An Expert Witness. (2023). Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Bertie Carvel, Carlyss Peer, Richard Harrington, Sam Hoare, Margaret Clunie, Deborah Findlay, Dominic Rowan, David Hargreaves, Lara Cohen, Ezra Carlisle, Chris Robinson, Stuart Graham, Perry Millward, Alyth Ross, Carolina Main, Debbie Chazen, Francis Mezza, Conor Hinds, Shanaya Rafaat.

What passes for love can bring a person to their knees, and what love can destroy, so its darker emotional sibling, jealousy, can murder.

Blue Lights. (2023). Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Sian Brooke, Martin McCann, Richard Dormer, John Lynch, Joanne Crawford, Jonathan Harden, Katherine Devlin, Nathan Braniff, Dane Whyte O’Hara, Hannah McClean, Andi Osho, Gerard Jordan, Valene Kane, Michael Shea, Nabil Elouahabi, Matt Carver, Matthew Forsythe, Abigail McGibbon, Clare Gray, Stefan Boehm, Isaac Heslip, Art Campion, Desmond Eastwood, Andrea Irvine, Paddy Jenkins, Frankie McCafferty, Orla Graham, Aoibheann McCann, Charlie Maher, Neil Keery, Shane McCaffrey, Antoinette Morelli, Maria Quinn, Packy Lee, Declan Lawn, Brian Milligan, Helena Bereen, Louise Parker, Bernadette Brown, Dearbhalle McKinny, Mary Moulds, Michael Patrick.

Annie Keating: Hard Frost. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There are those who will damn a person for understanding melancholy, accusing them of pandering to the inevitability of the morose and the miserable as though it is a choice and not the sight of an empathetic soul who recognises that to relish the beauty of a spring day you have to live through, the expression of a Hard Frost with the same objective appreciation and consideration.

Inside No.9: Mother’s Ruin. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Anita Dobson, Phil Daniels.

It’s too late to ask your parents to reveal their secrets when they have left this mortal coil, but what lengths would you go to ask them for the truth when they are in Heaven or Hell, or the Limbo in between.

In typical resounding style, Inside No.9’s Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith take the opportunity to delve into the realm of the nightmare and the visionary in the latest episode of the successfully long running series, wonderfully titled, Mother’s Ruin.

Kris Drever: The Best Of. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

“There are two sides to this story…”

As with any production of art that claims to have the structure of what defines the artist’s best work, it is always one that is up for debate, one that can divide the public to the point where it damages the intention beyond repair.

To the story of Kris Drever, nothing of the kind should ever cross the thoughts of those who have taken the Scottish musician to their hearts, and the fan to come who will undoubtedly utilise the album as a steppingstone to discovery, to what can only be reverentially understood as unearthing beauty.

The Stranglers: Norfolk Coast. Album Review. (2023 Vinyl Issue Release).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The world is a very different place to yesterday, so imagine how dissimilar it must feel to February 2004 on the eve of The Stranglers making a dramatic statement as they returned after six years away from the studio with the incredibly direct and musically thrilling Norfolk Coast.

If yesterday was different, then imagine how tomorrow must look, and that is the point of being able to finally hear the band as they release the album on vinyl for the first time; for whilst times change and alter in out perception, a moment of elegance and class is timeless.

Sebastian And The Poor Valley Marauders: Live Vol: 2. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Some will never know the sheer thrill of walking through a venue’s door and being greeted by a fanfare of noise emanating from an excited audience already in the firm grip of the reveal that is about to take place on stage.

Some will feel the tension and the love but never truly understand the belief that entangles the heart and the soul as they watch with closed senses the spectacle and drive…and then there are those who will feel the weakness in their knees, the strength in their very being, and the beauty of the experience, close up and personal, the heady aroma of silk music and playful performance which is akin to a night of heavy drama in a theatre, and be forever captured by love.