Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The world of Jazz has arguably never been more accessible and in rude health. Indeed, when compared to other forms of music it is one that whilst adopted by those who loved the anonymity provided by the venues and the once smoky atmosphere, has been recognised as offering the listener something new and novel each time they hear an artist perform a section of music that crosses the boundary between the human and the sense of spiritual excess challenges.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
On the back of greatness, we often find ourselves wondering how we can achieve an even larger, more vast declaration of intent.
Close to two full decades since Bruce Dickinson found his way into the recording studio without any back up from the Iron Maiden family, The Mandrake Project is that album of glorious purpose after a run of seismic recordings from Eddie’s boys that returned them rightfully to the top ten charts, and in doing so scored their first number one in the U.K. since the release of the scintillating Fear Of The Dark.
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Living legends are a hard commodity to explain, even more so in the explosion of talent that has come our way since the internet and its billions of users found ways to extoll the presence of anyone who can light up a screen with their various degrees of talent; the proof if ever needed that we can all be amazing, we can all be something extraordinary, it just takes one more ingredient, a quality of enigma that must shine brighter, must be so overwhelming, that it catches a moment in time with a ferocity that those who witness it will never be the same again.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It could have been all so different, a moment of loss could have ended the time prematurely of one of the biggest and finest bands to come out of England, and arguably whilst missed, no one would have blamed Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, and John Entwistle is they had called it a day in the wake of Keith Moon’s tragic death.
It was more of a loss than some onlookers could probably comprehend, and unlike some groups, the loss of one member, any member of The Who, was like losing a limb, the body may still be productive, but it really isn’t going to be the same ever again.
Liverpool Sound and Vision 9/10
The sound of seduction is more than an offering of red roses to the person who took our heart in high school, it is the memory of the Hideaway we ran to calm down and collect our thoughts when a reply in either the affirmative or the scorned down look of the resounding no, the loud, embarrassed squeal heard in the corridors and the empty laughs of our compadres as they take us by the shoulder and commiserate or celebrate along with us.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
We are only alone if we truly believe that there is nothing that surrounds us.
We can go out into the environment which we first gazed upon as a wondering, interested child and find stimulation, whether in the cliffs that overlook a raging sea or an ocean holding darkness and frightening diversity in equal stunning measure, or on the hard soaked pavements and austere bricks and mortar that reflect a mindset of uniformity and almost sterile infringement, we ask the question on loneliness with sincerity and a knowing sign on our stomachs.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
To fall in love with art when you know you could never bring into the world something of extreme fascination or beauty is to feel a pulse of the universe reward you for your ability to feel, if not to do, then at least connect in ways that many will never understand.
Some may call it a natural affinity, others an empathy or a soul divination, but perhaps we are looking at it a way that doesn’t have an explanation, perhaps it is just a fact that in some respects miracles exist, that marvels find the right wavelength and choose a mind in which to inhabit and sink their artistic D.N.A into.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Whilst many naturally gravitate to the Scandinavian and northern European countries for their metal fix and slice of branded enthralment, the fact that Greece continues to supply such a discerning supply of groups and minds that tear into the genre with genuine care, responsibility and freedom, is testament to united front the players and bands present when counter performing their northern brethren.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Before the Spice Girls and Girls Aloud and their calls to arms via the slickness of the then modern media presentation, came a trio of women who truly understood the message and the reality of 1980s Britain and who would achieve success over the following 40 years without the need to fall back on the appearance of fashionable exploitation of their younger fans.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
When you have Nothing To Lose the world suddenly becomes one of clarity and freedom.
It is with overwhelming sadness that we see that clarity and freedom now as one of a loss of the physical aspect, the photo albums that no longer hold pictures of those who made us laugh or feel safe in their company, the empty shelves that failed to hold to treasures of the imagination, the friendships formed in the ether with no corporeal measure of presence, we are in a sense purely ghosts in a suit of flesh waiting for the emptiness of modern life to cease.