Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
We have lost more than we know in the last few years, and whilst Time inevitably catches us all unawares, the shock of the legendary performer taking a final bow from the stage as the music slowly fades, will always leave a lasting sadness to all who have had the pleasure, the honour, of listening to them, and arguably so with greater conviction, those who have lost their mentor and friend.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Collaboration is a strange and magnificent beast.
To involve someone else in your imagination takes courage, you don’t know how they will react to even the slightest change in mood as ideas flow thickly, or as slowly as precision dictates. To collaborate in art is take on a greater degree of trust that is akin in many ways to that of a marriage. Each side has their own interpretation of what will ensure success or a brief beautiful liaison, each moment is a learning curve that is steep and possibly undermining to the overall creation; and this is never truer than in the debut offering rather than in the long-established contribution.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Everyone that you encounter will arguably agree that as a music fan, the festival event is a particular experience that fills the mind and soul with something special, that no matter where, There’s A Place that sticks in the mind that nothing can ever replace,; a line-up that through the day, past the heat of the afternoon and long into the night’s blistering almost religious like fervour as the music roars, as the music leaves a shrine to your love and existence on this spinning ball.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Looking for something in the world that will take your mind off the diamonds you have neglected upon the way will have you Always Seeking where the dust has grown, and the riverbed has gone dry.
The vantage point of discovery is seemingly lost as time goes by, and yet if you understand that the waters of life are more valuable than that of mere trinkets and gems, then you know that the trail laid will always see you home; so that which you were seeking becomes a prized possession…the gift most loved, that of the sound of a human heart telling its story when you are ready to hear it being told.
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Those New Old Songs…they resonate in ways that beguiles the mind. For those that speak in a different language, where the vocal is coded in mystery to the non-native speaker, it is the universal that explains the words, and the feelings that are unearthed as it sways to the voice is where the listener finds their own explanation of why it captures their heart.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
We have been conditioned to believe that allowing weeds to grow is the product of an unproductive mind, that they destroy the love and attention bestowed on the colourful and popular plants; and by nature’s fancy, are to be chopped down with a vengeance that is akin to a biblical gesture of deliverance.
Weeds plays more than a part in the world, weeds are the first things we notice when the world insists it is too perfect for anything other than flawless; that the wild and uncontrollable, that the eager and hardy, those that withstand storms with greater ferocity deep in their stems must give way to fragile and dull, and often overhyped, flowers in the pristine soil.
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Just as others see a version of us that even a close friend wouldn’t recognise by its description of our emotions and attitude, so we ourselves are confronted by a thousand facets of who we are when we gaze in the mirror or when we are startled by our reflection in a shop window when the bad hair day is the least of our social problems.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Not everyone has the novel inside of them. For many, life’s routine is such that a moment out of the ordinary is enough to create and weave a story that they can dine out on for a while with friends, an instant in the sun in which their life holds meaning beyond the grey and the beige to which they join others in producing Short Stories that build into a larger collection, published, printed, and the spotlight of existence on them for enough time for it to be remarkable.
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The south may be more alluring, but it is the history of the north people that gives our own islands a deeper resonance, a timbre of earthly tone that has shaped the present in narration and its account on the world.
To be enchanted by the tales from that which crosses a different sea is to be expected, to be held with attention, curiosity and awareness, but to be mindful that which gave us our beginnings, stories, fables and sagas which live deep in the D.N.A. and which Tales From The North, of longboats and invaders, of towns and village names that have withstood history and time with just a corruption in the evolution of language adding flavour to those days and people that remain vocal as they whisper from the past.
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We hold fast to the notion of Legends and myths because we are in a time dominated by the small minded and mediocre. Those legends, tales of heroism, fierce loyalty to darkness and the light, of creatures spawned and angels wielding swords with impunity, those are the days which give meaning to the premise of marvels witnessed and traditions created.