Nobody’s Wolf Child: Erbsa’s Songs Of The Sea. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We look to the stars to fuel our imagination, but it is the sea which holds the true mysteries of our soul intact. Humanity’ affinity with the sea has stretched back long before the ability to document recorded history gave us a sense of purpose and place in the universe.

It is the giver and taker of life, it is the cradle and the graveyard, the melody and the tale which has brought communities together, it is the damnation and the isolation which has caused us distress, the loss and the hope of all things; and in discovery of new lands thanks to the ability to navigate the oceans, we are offered the chance to learn, to witness new ways to utilise and understand how to be better.

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(403 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Beastö Blancö: Kinetica. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

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To leave an impression on the minds of those aching for the new is to place caution to the wind and emphasise with honour the ability to charm and lure with equal fashion; to be technically proficient is all well and good, but if you don’t have charisma then all is lost in this modern world where presentation and ideas is nothing without a large and deafening personality.

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(377 words, 1 image, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

The Twang: Jewellery Quarter 24k. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The image and sounds that exemplify the city of Birmingham are multiple and varied. The city of a thousand trades as the sign proudly once stated on the wall by the iconic Bull Ring, a place of memory from its homage to the fallen of the attacks by Nazi Germany in the Tree Of Life sculpture by Lorenzo Quinn and the effects of the modern landscape merging almost seamlessly with the old ideals and desires of those wishing to see the Midland’s centrepiece lauded worldwide.

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(422 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Muellercraft: Dystopia 31. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The concept album has always a long-standing favourite of those to whom narrative is just as important to the musical experience as that which is created by the sound and the instrumental vision at hand by a group or performer. The list of albums, not always in the Progressive stronghold, is long and admirable, and has touched upon subjects that exemplify, frame, and warn of the human condition, albums that have drawn upon societal change, on the themes of epic novels, on films and their stars, and perhaps most of all on the subject of dystopia.

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(437 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

The Listeners. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Rebecca Hall, Ollie West, Prasanna Puwanarajah, Mia Tharia, Niamh McCann, Gayle Rankin, Amr Waked, Lucy Sheen, Karen Henthorn, Samuel Edward-Cook, Franc Ashman, Romy Kelleher, Akai Coleman, Lucy Chambers, Scotee, Shreya M. Patel, Kiruna Stamell, Ian Mercer, Delroy Brown, Anne Hornby, Jim Bligh, Emily Aston, Alice Kirkpatrick, George Lewis.

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(464 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Gwen Stefani: Bouquet. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Ancient Greeks once lay a garland of flowers around the victor, proclaiming them to be the best in their field, the laurels of the spoils of war, of games, of achievement in all things that make us human, there was no greater accolade than receiving the love of a nation for your attainment in the realm of the human spirit.

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(376 words, 1 image, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Moonflower Murders. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Lesley Manville, Tim McMullan, Conleth Hill, Daniel Mays, Alexandros Logothetis, Adrian Rawlins, Pooky Quesnel, Will Tudor, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Rosealie Craig, Joanna Bacon, Thomas Coombes, Mark Gatiss, Wade Briggs, Rupert Evans, Amy Griffiths, Kostis Daskalakis, Liam Garrigan, Tim Plester, Kate Ashfield, Jeany Spark, Alec Secareanu, Claire Rushbrook, Matthew Beard, Martyn Ellis, Billie Gadsdon, Mitchell Robertson, Gay Soper, Aliona Baranova, Daniel Lapaine, Paul Dunphy, Vasilis Xenikakis, Davina Moon, Oliver Hubard, Shane G. Casey, Sanjeev Kohli.

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(487 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Sweetpea. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Ella Purnell. Nicôle Lecky, Jon Pointing, Lorraine Burroughs, Jeremy Swift, Tim Samuels, Lydia Whitehead, Calam Lynch, Leah Harvey, Nitin Ganatra, Dustin Demri-Burns, Alexander Bellinfantie, Elliot Cable, Jessys Romeo, Lucy Heath, Jessica Brindle, Dino Kelly, Ingrid Oliver, Olivia Brady, Alexandra Dowling, Amelie Bea Smith, Lily Morales-Lee, Coco Sully, Judi Love, Rachel Lumberg, Luke McGibney, Marissa Hussain, Matthew Hawksley, Gillian Axtell, Omar Ibrahim, Luke Kempner, Sam Ducane.

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(525 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

The Scouse Red Riding Hood: Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Emma Grace Arends, Chantel Cole, Lindzi Germain, Adam McCoy, Lydia Rose Morales Scully, Andrew Schofield, Keddy Sutton. Liam Tobin.

Band: Ben Gladwin, Jack Hymers, Greg Joy, Chris Nicholls, Mike Woodvine.

Excellence rarely comes as a surprise, the joy of the eternal is forever and unequivocally stands on its own legendary status, and for the creatives, the cast, and the audiences that will make their way to the Royal Court Theatre between now and the new year, The Scouse Red Riding Hood theatrical offering is as ever one of tremendous and fantastic irreverence to the staid and the cautious that grips the stony hearted and loosens the funny bone with the skill of a night with Liverpool’s own Ken Dodd and a large dose of double entendre at his disposal.

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(433 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Frasier. Series Two. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Kelsey Grammer, Jack Cutmore-Scott, Toks Olagundoye, Jess Salgueiro, Anders Keith, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Peri Gilpin, Patricia Heaton, Jimmy Dunn, Kevin Daniels, Renee Pezzotta, Parvesh Cheena, Nike Doukas, Amy Sedaris, Harriet Sansom Harris, Yvette Nicole Brown, Jorsy Cass, Rachel Bloom, Greer Grammer, Andrew Leeds, Dan Butler, Rafael Cebrián, Giovanni Chambers, Edward Hibbert, Angelique Cabral, Robert Mammana, Eden Rose, Carol Burnett, Tiffany C. Adams.

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(497 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)