The Crow Girl. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Eve Myles, Katherine Kelly, Clara Rugaard, Dougray Scott, Victoria Hamilton, Elliot Edusah, Raphael Sowole, Roger Jean Nsengiyumva, Michael Lumsden, Karen Ascoe, Isabella Astbury, Chloé Sweetlove, Jaye Ersavas, Lauren Morais, Trevor White, Winston Sawyers, Oliver Hembrough, Lu Corfield, Smylie Bradwell, Basel Osman, Andrew Buckley, Lee Boardman, Charles Dale, Julie Legrand, Malek Alkoni, Ashling O’Shea, Pasha Bocarie, Thomas Coombes, Will Barton, Sally Scott, Ellie Duckles, Noah Manzoor, Yanick Ghanty, Lisa Zahra, Alison Fitzjohn, Aso Sherabayani, Renu Brindle, Aden Gillett.

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

LIPA Graduate Kudzai Mangome Stars As Lucy In The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe This February At The Empire Theatre.

The magnificent West End production of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, which celebrates the 75th Anniversary of the publication of C.S. Lewis novel, brings the magical world of Narnia to the Empire Theatre during Spring Half Term in February.

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(747 words, estimated 2:59 mins reading time)

The Classic Rock Show: Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. (2025).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Greatness for many abound when they hear the signature chord of a song that grants them a superpower of memory, of instant recall and evoking of clarity, the weekends spent in a pub of choice and deciding between friends the ultimate juke box serenade in which the change scraped together would be exchanged for songs that broke and mended hearts, that pushed the sense of exploration from the mind and soul and taught the multitude what it meant to sit in the same company, relish the same ideals of taste, and become in the end, a better person for understanding just exactly how Meat Loaf and The Eagles, how Fleetwood Mac and Heart can exist in the same genre and be rightly glorified for their presence on Earth.

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(465 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Johnny Lloyd: Punchline. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Sometimes the zinger requires time to land, the timing in the hands of an amateur is askew, not quite feeling the effect that it was designed to do. In some cases, the person on the other side of the joke sees the climax a mile off and is prepared, but the moment of exultation is lost. Only in the mind of the true seer can the Punchline become evident at the exact moment it was required to give the audience what it needed.

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(371 words, 1 image, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Moonshine: Good Girls (Don’t Always Wear White). Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

What was once a dream can soon become a myth, a forgotten piece of lore, half remembered, tales told around camp fires and the whispered remains of studios, a warning perhaps to the extent of pulling a plug early on a project, or the damnation of some who are a recording limbo; the masterpiece in waiting, fully recorded, but never released.

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(413 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Helen Maw: The Moment. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The quiet acceptance of regret, but the hope that reveal and revelation that comes forth from the experience is a state of mind we can only hope to find in our soul when a significant relationship ends or we flounder in the wake of our untold promise; and yet for the most part we lament in the modern age with a broken heart on our sleeves to a point where the dignity is shelved in favour of the illumination of the prolonged exposure.

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(346 words, estimated 1:23 mins reading time)

Pedair: Dadeni. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Just because the language to your mind is not easily grasped, or even understood, does not mean you can dismiss it, the structure of verbal information and exchange is not only measured by the words alone, it is the way it is spoken or even sung, it is in the intonation, the delivery, the way it can be felt to contain kindness, dramatic intent, the pulse of fervour and fear that gives it life and meaning; that is the meaning when you don’t know the nature of the words…After all there is light if we accept that it doesn’t always come from the Sun.

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

Thundermother: Dirty & Divine. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

What was Black & Gold and charmingly loud all over has turned a delicious Dirty & Divine in the space of just a couple of years as Swedish band Thundermother return with their brand-new and rock exotic recording, one that will have the masses who see the genre as the testament to the enduring heavenly-siren like call which brings them to their knees in praise and adulation.

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(364 words, 1 image, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

Skeleton Crew. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jude Law, Robert Timothy Smith, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Kyriana Kratter, Ravi Cabot-Conyers, Nick Frost, Jaleel White, Dominic Burgess, Fred Tatasciore, Tunde Adebimpe, Geneva Carr, Marti Matulis, Kerry Condon, Mickey Cassidy, Dale Soules, Sisa Grey, M. J. Kang, Stephen Oyoung, Mike Estes, Cass Buggé, Kacie Borrowman, Robert Ramsdell, Kelly Macdonald, Alla Shawkat, Julie Ann Emery, Jacob Roanhaus, Stephen Fry, Andy Powers, Shane Almagor.

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(516 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

The Gentle Spring: Looking Back At The World. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Looking Back At The World from a position of relative safety is one where can afford the luxury of truth, that without the need for rose tinted glasses or the facility to sugarcoat the expressions, we see a world where the differences we endeavour to make are colossal; not always because of the impact on the whole planet, but on an individual, a sudden richness that glows brightly and which if seen from the edge of the universe, if a soul could shine so bright, would be revealing and engaging.

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(404 words, 1 image, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)