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“Time Flies Over Us, but leaves its shadow behind”, and what a mighty shadow is to be felt when someone, anyone, finds themselves stepping off the train at Lime Street Station, when they cross the Irish Sea and see in the shimmering distance the graces, the welcome of history wrapping its arms around the visitor.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There was a time when you could measure your life by the expectancy of how your weekend shaped up on its second day. For many Sunday was at the best of times dull, routine, a moment where on the Saturday night you might, if you were able to, hear the moans of a nation realise in beige coloured horror that the least engaging day of the week was upon them, and that the vaunted day of rest was to be endured, and that their parents would be asleep on the coach by midday and the spectre of family dinner would soon rear its head.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/0
To suggest we come from nothing is to dismiss all that your ancestors, close relatives or long since forgotten forebears achieved in their lifetime and passed in down through memory and tales, it is to suggest that lives were of little consequence to the world, that it is only through your own existence that Time has been fortunate and that yourself have the power of changing history.
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There is a special place reserved in art for the moments, the extraordinarily planned dichotomy that causes your brain to feel something entirely different to what your heart is focusing upon. It comes from the ability to paint a picture which has a beat a groove to it which feeds on the dopamine in the brain, whilst simultaneously imploring you to listen to the lyric, to fight the urge to feel the music and recognise the words of anger, lack of hope, and fearsome indignation contained within.
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We see connections every day of our lives, but we might not actually realise we are doing so until someone else takes the time to hold our heart and keep our minds enthralled long enough to show us that the pieces have been in place for so long that the physical synaptic fires have only to respond in a certain way and the edifice of control, of subterfuge and lies can come crashing down around the ears of those who seek to damage the ordinary person’s will and peace.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Sound, it is important, it is vital for communication and the way we appreciate the message being offered to us; and whilst silence can speak volumes, it has been too much in evidence during 2020, silence has reigned, silence has kept us from being human, from being us.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The Music Room at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall has played host to the great and the good, it has become a place where a spiritual journey is undertaken, where reactions and passions run high, a meeting place perhaps where the Emotional Geography of the land finds a way to be paid out and given the detailed scrutiny once only available to those with a keen interest in ordnance survey, the peaks, the troughs and the places of interest that are always within walking distance but so few make the effort to explore.
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You may know where you are headed, the path that you have taken could be so well mapped that every detail of memory is overflowing with description, an endorsed narrative which is not ashamed of the lows but also is modest about the successes, every border etched and underlined, all places and achievements of interest highlighted.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There will be those that tell you there are ten types of stories to be told, there are others who profoundly, and perhaps more accurately, declare that there is only one, the search for who we are. Yet, somewhere in between there could be argued that there is more than just the singular vision beheld by many as true and sacrosanct, that who we are can eventually be found and held close, but what about the journey that may come after, what about the passion found in remembering the past?
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
A poet is a rare thing, especially when they carry a guitar, sing songs of beauty and despair, of anger and peace, in the same set and often in the same tune. A poet doesn’t have to found nervously thumbing their notes behind a curtain waiting for the time honoured introduction, or putting their demands down in a flourished way which is hidden by the obscure and sometimes cryptic.