The Fog Ensemble, Throbs. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Ask not what heart beats in the dark, what noise the pulse makes in the night when alone, for a sense of the terror it is better to understand the fear of hearing thumps of trepidation in the sunlight, what Throbs in day!

The combustion of insurrection, the pose of the personal inferno burning in the soul, these may set the world on fire during the hours in which a person’s dreams should be fuelled with love, but it is in daylight when the realm of dissatisfaction, when the angry thoughts of horror first take root, and those Throbs, those whispers of panic and dread are tougher to ignore, they are incessant and beguiling, they are the sound of peace being driven to the tune of the awakening, delightful, outcome.

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(428 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Last Wild Lion, They’re Not Secrets Anymore. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Thanks to the inclusion of the many various disguises and themes that social media takes on, what we once fought to keep hidden inside has become an overgrowth of sharing, our deepest thoughts, our reasoned concerns, the fantasies, the issues, the dogma we carry around has become a playground in which we seek out likes, confrontation and like-minded individuals to rally to our cause; what was once held so precious and away from prying eyes, has become in reality mysteries of ourselves let loose, naked and alone, it seems They’re Not Secrets Anymore.

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(407 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Dead Fiction, E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It takes a certain kind of logic and courage to not feel crushed by the weight of the modern age, that the reality we fight is nothing more at times than a personification of the fantasy, of the fiction, others have written, and we somehow have been foolish enough to believe.

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(434 words, 1 image, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

The Monsters At Your Door.

 

Another zombie knocked on the door

in the early evening October

glow supplied

by moonlight and red rouged faces,

dipping into their mother’s

make-up bag

and the drool of fake blood

that gets wiped on the ghost’s

off-white bedroom sheet

because the taste of chocolate

isn’t as nice when your plastic Dracula

chops get in the way

of chewing and smiling stuffed face

dripping…

…expectation;

zombie, ghost and ghoulie,

growling wolf, a mistaken ballerina

swearing and threatening robbery

with violence, as only

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(118 words, estimated 28 secs reading time)

Bleeding Edge Drummer, Makaya McCraven, Comes to 24 Kitchen Street This November.

Bleeding Edge drummer, producer, and sonic collagist Makaya McCraven will visit Liverpool’s 24 Kitchen Street on Tuesday 13th November following the release of his highly acclaimed album, Universal Beings. His previous album, Highly Rare was one of the New York Times best albums of 2017.

McCraven is one of Chicago’s savviest cultural players and a multi-talented force whose inventive process & intuitive, cinematic style defy categorization. He appears as part of a jazz quintet with fellow musicians Greg Spero (piano & organ), Irvin Pierce (vocals), Matt Gold (guitars) and Junius Paul (bass).

Support comes from local future-jazz duo Ranga & Harambe Maoni.

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(109 words, estimated 26 secs reading time)

Stone Broken To Perform At Liverpool’s Art’s Club In February 2019.

Stone Broken, having just returned from a successful tour across the United States of America with Fozzy and Adeliata’s Way, are pleased to announce Those Damn Crows as special guests on their forthcoming U.K. headline tour in February 2019.

The band continue to ride the wave of current album Ain’t Always Easy which has seen them tour the U.K., Europe and just return home from the aforementioned 28 date tour of the U.S.A., which also included their first headline and U.S. festival performances. Their single Worth Fighting For charted in the top 50 US rock airplay chart as well as receiving fantastic support from SiriusXM Octane with over 169 spins during the tour period. The band’s never say die attitude engaged with fans and media at every level resulting in a huge uplift to their Youtube video plays adding over 1 million additional views.

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(218 words, estimated 52 secs reading time)

A Festival Of Fun Coming To The Epstein Theatre This November.

Comedy, music, dance and high drama are part of a packed programme of entertainment coming to The Epstein Theatre this November. Add in theatre, festival fun and a chance to see talented stars of the future and there’s no better place to be than at the Hanover Street venue.

Music fans are in for a treat throughout November, with a host of fantastic acts making a date for the Epstein.

November sees a return to the theatre for the mighty Darkside – The Pink Floyd Show with its You Gotta Be Crazy Tour. See this fantastic and faithful tribute to the legends of prog rock on Saturday November 3rd.

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(1092 words, estimated 4:22 mins reading time)

They Don’t Pay? We Won’t Pay!, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Lisa Howard, Steve Huison, Suzette Ahmet, Matt Connor, Michael Hugo.

We are living in a time of farce, a period of political instability in which nobody understands the game anymore, and which is unravelling to the point of embarrassing absurdity; if it wasn’t so frightening, so tragic, and with the constant concern of extremist views being able to sit at the same table as common decency and compassion, then it would be funny.

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(502 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

Attic Theory, Saints Among Us. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

You can cross yourself as many times as you wish, you can pray to the wind, seek solace in the heavens and speak in tongues to those you seek the warm embrace of protection from, but for all of that there must be an understanding that in a world that has descended into farce, where a President is anything but presidential and wise, where the will of the people is to commit themselves to absolute uncertainty, then perhaps there really are no Saints Among Us.

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(429 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

A Tree In Pittsburgh.

 

He went hunting for squirrels

on a cold October day.

I remember my time

in Pittsburgh being one

in which I sat playing cards

till four in the morning,

the fine whisky

slowly adding to the occasion

of friendship, far removed

from the man with the gun

in his hand

and hate seeping out of his porous heart.

The incline railway overlooking

all of creation, the once former

Steeler’s ground lost

to history it seemed,

but below, stewing in his bile soup

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(113 words, estimated 27 secs reading time)