The Hummingbirds, Knocking On My Door. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is perhaps a standard that many of us are loathe to do, the action of being able to say to someone with no uncertain terms that their company is not wanted because they make you feel ill, inadequate or they fill you with the a type of unhealthy fear of being aside if they weren’t there to bug you. It is the action of fore and after thought that some people are able to get under your skin, make the surface layer of your very being feel as though it crawling with the sign of the desperate need to be liked that we forget that in their non-handshake, their snide remarks and back-handed compliments, that in the end they don’t need us, don’t even like us, so why persist?

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(441 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

The Change From A Pound.

The day I found that ship wrecked

pound note, the eye of the Queen

giving me a warning glance or the drifting

smile of a woman I will never meet,

like the furtive teasing of a model

stripped down to the waist that adorned

the tossed away magazines and that got caught

in the branches of the Willow trees

that lined sentry still on display

on the banks of the River Rae,

on the dusty pavement

on the bridge

that separates Moor Green Lane

and Dad’s Lane…

The Change From A Pound. full post

(700 words, estimated 2:48 mins reading time)

The Stars Of Plácido Domingo’s Operalia Head To Liverpool This October.

The stars of Plácido Domingo’s Operalia are heading to Liverpool this Autumn for a new opera performance series at St. George’s Hall.

The Liverpool Opera – Four Seasons makes its debut at the iconic venue on Thursday, 1st October, at 7.30pm, with a concert headlined by Grammy Award winning Russian soprano Ekaterina Lekhina to launch the programme.

The performance will take place in the stunning Concert Room and the programme will include works by Mozart, Puccini, Verdi, and Donizetti.

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(353 words, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)

Craig Revel Horwood To Direct And Choreograph All New Production Of Sister Act in 2016.

Jamie Wilson is delighted to announce a national tour of an all new production of the hit musical comedy Sister Act, directed and choreographed by Craig Revel Horwood with musical supervision and arrangements by Tony award-winning Sarah Travis. Sister Act will play the Liverpool Empire Theatre from 10th to 15th October 2016.

Director and Choreographer Craig Revel Horwood said, “I am truly thrilled to be directing and choreographing this all new production of Sister Act, a show I fell in love with when I saw it a few years ago. I am currently putting together a dream creative team and can’t wait to get started next year on this hilarious and wonderful show”.

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(391 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Sanguine, Social Decay. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

When anyone thinks of Devon, arguably the last thing that will go through their minds as an answer is the world of Metal, unless of course they are into the study of ancient Archaeology and then that perhaps is a step too far for even the power and carnage that awaits the gentile and patient as the music of Sanguine fills the air and the passion of Social Decay kicks the sand and dig sites away and replaces it with raw and undiluted anger.

Sanguine, Social Decay. Single Review. full post

(308 words, estimated 1:14 mins reading time)

We Came As Romans, Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

At times it feels as though there has been a large glass ceiling put between what has happened before and the 21st Century bands trying to break through and at least assert some measure of modern day experience and the seeking of truth in every music genre across the board.

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(475 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Love Love, Love Love. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The Beatles once mused that all you need is love, an anthem perhaps of a lost generation to whom the words echoed and made much more sense after losing so much in the senselessness of a war that ripped what it means to be human, apart.

Perhaps in an age where a different evil lurks, one not just intent on destroying a world, but one that tears at the fabric of society and pits neighbour against neighbour, friend against friend and Government against its people, jealousy, the ever vigilant emotion that feeds and sucks a person dry till even the shell is digested and no trace of the former personality is left; perhaps what is needed is Love Love.

Love Love, Love Love. Album Review. full post

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

The Day I Told The Sailor To Leave.

There was almost no better day

than that in which I told the old sailor,

some called traitor

to the flag, some called much worse,

and that’s not for me to remark upon,

to get the fuck out of my pub,

his brand of high seas, glassy eyed leering debate

was not wanted in amongst the beer

and the stains in which he passed his greasy

fingers between the glasses ready to be cleaned,

washed and scrubbed as he waited with

a vile lop sided grin for me to shake

The Day I Told The Sailor To Leave. full post

(272 words, estimated 1:05 mins reading time)

In Defence Of Paper When A Book.

….bloats when left in the pour

hols sand between when it sticks

to cover and pages, stains; coffee

and wine. and sugared tea.

and your finger printing other things

smears not on kindles, dog-eared to

remind you of where to fold, for time.

do it then, read by lamp

turn off things that give off self light

 

Andreas Dahl 2015

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Charlie Landsborough Returns To The Liverpool Philharmonic Hall This November.

Charlie Landsborough takes to the road again this autumn on a series of major U.K. dates. Accompanied by his own four piece strong band. It will be the first chance to see him on home turf this year and the last night of the tour promises to be a tour de force as he comes to the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on November 8th.

Audiences might be forgiven for thinking they know what Charlie Landsborough is all about. Hugely popular in Ireland, purveyor of fine songs and the odd winsome C&W ballad…but there’s more, much more.

Charlie Landsborough Returns To The Liverpool Philharmonic Hall This November. full post

(353 words, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)