Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Beneath a blaze of lights and lasers, backed by a boom of energised electric guitar and the thumping drumbeats provided by the superb Phil Westwood, Vesbim announced their arrival on stage at The New Brighton Floral Pavilion to perform their magnificent representation of Pink Floyd’s iconic 1979 album The Wall in grand style, and never for a moment let the pace slip.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * *
Cast: David Walliams, Jessica Raine, James Fleet, Matthew Steer, Alice Krige, Clarke Peters, Jonny Philips, Paul Brennen, Mary Roscoe, Andrew Havill, Richard Dillane, Madeline Appiah, Catherine Harvey, Peter Vollebregt, Bentley Kim, Robert Whitelock, Samuel Oatley, Robert Horwell, Julian Rivett, Camilla Marie Beeput, George Taylor, Peter Gordon, Jamie Taylor, Ian Hogan.
The world has ever been thus mad and in a world of such insanity, where men’s alliances to their country and their values are turned upside down; the only thing to do is keep the faith and believe that all will come right in the end, not something that instantly comes to mind as the B.B.C. adapt the lesser of Agatha Christie’s works in Partners in Crime for the 21st Century audience.
The deal was struck one lazy January day
in the Winnie-Gate over an illegal pint
for all present . The pile of over salted chips costing
each less than a good night’s sleep
and the sound of pool balls smacking in time
off the green velvet stained with half chewed
cigarette smoke and twenty-pence bets
to the tunes of the day being played
with carefree abandon
from the cannibalised juke box,
cannibalised through our own choices
and 80s regalia and the only acknowledgment
to our deeds was the fashion for the rolled up
For the first time in the U.K., A Life With the Beatles arrives at the this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. A Life With the Beatles is an amazing Magical Mystery Tour of the Beatles’ history from Neil Aspinall’s perspective, the only one who was always at their side, from 1961 to the 1970 break-up and later to become the Apple Corps President.
Neil Aspinall had been the Beatles’ road manager since the early days in Liverpool. Staying behind the scenes and away from the limelight, he was part of an incredible story; a story that only he can tell.
Celebrating five years of bringing internationally acclaimed artists and performers to Liverpool, The Capstone Theatre is delighted to announce its new autumn 2015 Season, which boasts a diverse collection of the finest cutting edge jazz, contemporary dance, gripping theatre, and film classics plus the return of the Cornerstone Arts Festival.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
As the light began to fade and the sun was musing on its daily retirement from the sight of the people of Liverpool, one young man stood aloft on the stage and proceeded to show exactly why it is important to give the youth of the city the chance to show why they must never be taken for granted. Why they should not be decried as members of society and why at all costs they must be nurtured and given the hope and strength they need to do the jobs that we as their elders have perhaps mislaid our own purpose in fulfilling.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9.5/10
The Mersey Side area arguably produces so many talented song writers and musicians that there is a thought that what would British music be like without the enormous and hardy input from its shores; perhaps not desolate for the music that comes out of Edinburgh, Birmingham, the Canterbury set and all places in between stand out as being cool and diverse but Liverpool surely gives it its heart.
Roxanne de Bastion at the Liverpool Loves Festival 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The sun was on its waning path across the River Mersey as Roxanne de Bastion took to the Dovedale Social Stage. The journey to the city’s Liverpool Loves Festival may have been a fraught and arduous one, but it was one that led to Ms. Bastion being greeted like an old friend and one in which the day would ultimately revel in her way of musical story-telling, the fire in the Folk and the wonderful way in which to turn one particular song associated with one genre into the epitome of another.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Living up to, and going beyond the pressure is what separates the good and the enjoyable from the legends of the future. It cannot after all be easy to live up to the shadows that a much admired name bestows, neither can it be taken in the same vein when you have already produced one of the musical performances of the year so far.
Satin Beige at the Liverpool Loves Festival. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
In such a short time Satin Beige has become one of those performers in Liverpool that you look up to with huge respect and the abiding knowledge that all is well in the world. For whilst this woman can sing and play cello with the passion reserved for the angry, the displaced and the brave, then the world will surely keep turning and heeding her words of youthful wisdom.