Tag Archives: Liverpool

The Miracle Of Great Homer Street, Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Jake Abraham, Les Dennis, Katie King, Catherine Rice, Bobby Schofield, Andrew Schofield.

The greatest show on Earth is back with us once again, a nation’s hopes rest on an outstretched toe connecting with the ball and being steered into the net, a black cloud of despondency as the home crowd sees their team lose in the opening game and the eventual winners, lifting the World Cup aloft in front of a stadium full of supporters, should rank highly in ways to feel the euphoric bliss of life.

The Miracle Of Great Homer Street, Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(470 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

The Princess Of The Rainforest, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To inspire children in the theatre requires even greater story-telling ability than what might be perceived or even enjoyed by adult audiences, to get inside the minds of nature’s greatest critics and quite often biggest supporter when engaged properly, is of the upmost importance.

To make children care about the world around them is significant, to let their unbound imagination flourish in a way that sees them appreciate theatre as part of the solution, that is the greatest of gifts that an actor or entertainer can bestow; and in Cusan Theatre Productions’ The Princess of the Rainforest, that sense of power is handed to the children who attend in such a way that it is more than heartening to witness.

The Princess Of The Rainforest, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

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

On Chesil Beach, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle, Emily Watson, Samuel West, Anne-Marie Duff, Adrian Scarborough, Rasmus Hardiker, Bebe Cave, Jonjo O’Neill.

Time and sensitivity are not natural bed fellows, neither is truly mature enough to handle each other’s whims, demands or spoilt child like behaviour when the going gets tough; it takes a writer of delicate persuasion in which to capture the beauty in heartache and the sudden fall of a relationship which had been so clear before.

On Chesil Beach, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

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

Dawn Oberg, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2018.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To take the entertainment and skill of the cabaret lounge and place under the intense microscope of the unsuspecting eyes of Liverpool Cavern Club patrons may seem an unlikely success, but for musician Dawn Oberg, the combination of upbeat performance and hard-hitting lyrics is one that anybody finding themselves in the company of the artist, could not fail to like, admire and wish she was in Britain more often than her native home in the United States of America.

Dawn Oberg, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2018. full post

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

Sleuth, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2018.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Investigation is half the enjoyment of witnessing an abundance of bands when the Independent Pop Overthrow comes to one of its host cities. The research, the crossing off of a band, the tick box and the doodled happy face when you come across a group or artist who floats your boat and scratches the itch of the years of painted over smiles and thoughtful applause.

Sleuth, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2018. full post

(348 words, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

Alison Green, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2018.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Alison Green at The Cavern Club, May 2018. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

 

Some musicians and artist exemplify their surrounding so much that it is impossible to think of them in any other way, that the Cavern, the older, the more insistent part of Liverpool’s heritage in musical terms, should see the Independent Pop Overthrow return with such spectacular vision as to have within its ranks for a fifth straight year, Canterbury’s own but Liverpool loved, Alison Green.

Alison Green, Gig Review. The Cavern Club, Liverpool. International Pop Overthrow 2018. full post

(525 words, 1 image, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Siobhan Miller, Gig Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

In the voice of a siren, a person can feel their cares gently swept away, they can be swayed by the temper and the tempting and the listener is always grateful for the experience, forever in debt to the swirling thoughts of the tempest and the chance to feel the beauty in the combination of the rage and the placid call to which the siren sings.

Siobhan Miller, Gig Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. full post

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

Don McLean, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. (2018).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We can all but dream of having the inscription and moniker “Legendary” attached to our name, to be remembered for bringing joy, a wealth of art perhaps, to have done something so epic that it will live past our own lifespan and be a reflection, a calling card for future generations to live up to. Rarely does that identifying mark truly expand upon the brilliant and dazzling first sense of illumination, but when it does, then you cannot but help feel awe when in the presence of such finery in the suit of a fellow human being.

Don McLean, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. (2018). full post

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

Jarrod Dickenson, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There should be lessons in disarming and charming audiences to whom, quite understandably, sometimes don’t want to sit through the situation of being polite to an unknown and out of country support. After all, they will argue, you don’t pay to eat at the finest restaurant and bite into a fast food burger as you approach the table and sniff the wine cork. If lessons are to be had, to be instructed upon then Texas’ Jarrod Dickenson would surely top the list of people to don the lecturer’s outfit and smile beguilingly at the crowd gathered.

Jarrod Dickenson, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. full post

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

Bin Laden: The One Man Show, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Sam Redway.

It is only the words of Government that define what constitutes a terrorist, the label placed down upon anybody’s head who happens to be on the wrong side, in the authorities’ mind, of the argument and uses force or the threat of violence in which to achieve their aims. Sometimes it seems these forces are cut and dried, they have taken lives with no provocation, but their own idealism or religious fervour has insisted upon bloodshed and the will to make people bend to their way of thinking by the rule of bullet, bomb, and death.

Bin Laden: The One Man Show, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(512 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)