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.

Michael McDermott: Lighthouse On The Shore. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The duality of the soul is not a complex argument to understand, the very nature of human existence relies on being able to see both sides of a story, to see through the forces of the darkness and the light, both equal opportunists when it comes claiming the soul of anyone, is to know of the cosmic intent of life itself. Collectively or individually, we are no more the ship cascading on broken waves at sea than we are the guiding beam from the Lighthouse On The Shore, but we are the amalgam of the two, and it is in that where reaction to the rocky times ahead are met with certainty and trepidation at the same time.

Grace: Dead Man’s Time. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: John Simm, Richie Campbell, Robert Glenister, Craig Parkinson, Laura Elphinstone, Zoë Tapper, Clare Calbraith, Carolyn Pickles, Kem Hassan, Laura Aikman, Jennifer Macbeth, Ash Hunter, Miranda Heath, Brad Morrison, Neil Hobbs, Niall Greig Fulton, Alan Mahon, Jonny Magnanti, Sarah Leigh, Jensen Clayden, Alan Mooney, Bleu Landau, Phoebe Mulhall, Michelle Connolly, Rebecca Scroggs, Jessica Ellerby, Maria Crittell, Gordon Kennedy, Grant Burgin, Alan Turkington, David Sterne, Sam Hoare, Caroline Valdés, Henry Miller.

Helen Maw: Keepers Of The Sea. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To feel empathy, to understand compassion when you approach art is to know at some point you must have had your heart broken. There in the sweet surrender of the Muse’s voice that sings to you, in amongst the remains of the first breakdown the soul ever suffered, the memory lingers and it is to those sirens of expressions, the sirens who are the Keepers Of The Sea who set the seal on our willingness to feel at all times and give others the opportunity to also be charmed by the sound of waves and song.

Madame Web. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating *

Cast: Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Mercad, Celeste O’Connor, Tahir Rahim, Mike Epps, Emma Roberts, Adam Scott, Adam Scott, Kerry Bishé, Zosia Mamet, José Maria Yazpik, Kathy-Ann Hart, Josh Drennen, Yuma Feldman.

Seemingly Sony feel as though every character that has stalked the pages of its Marvel acquisition of Spiderman is worthy of being transferred to the silver screen, and whilst the likes of Venom, and even the upcoming appearance of Kraven The Hunter has been widely applauded, and eagerly awaited, but to delve, to perhaps scrape the barrel of transferring comic creation to cinema, content that nobody was asking for, to put on screen someone who was never more than a bit player and give them the widest possible view above several others more inclined to do the genre justice is arguably one reeking of desperation.

Kenny Wayne Shepherd: Dirt On My Diamonds – Volume 2. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It may be the same story, but art has a way of differentiating between acts, to separate chapters and expressions even with the text and idea being of the same sound and enquiring mind; whilst the concept album may hold the secrets to a storyboard account of a moment stretched out and given flesh, a volume is nuanced, it acknowledges the material created as having a different vein throbbing away majestically inside the body of work, and therefore whilst it occupies the same body as its predecessor, it is an animal of another disposition entirely.