Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Manchester’s The Falling have had seemingly the time of their life recently, certainly in the outpouring of great and catchy lyrical masterpieces, and in that regard the immediate future seems to be heading very much on the same trajectory as the band’s latest single, Cream (Get On Top) leaves its indelible and grin worthy mark on the listener.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
It was the maxim of honour, the unshakable code that respectable people lived by and in times of war, disaster or even the offerings of pleasure, it was the denial of self-interest that kept an ideal alive; the notion of Women And Children First, the chivalric tone of reverence to those that were thought defenceless and one of the only good things to come out of the Victorian hangover that has been in place despite the changing face of Britain since the end of World War Two.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
For the vast majority of the time what is needed from music is the ability to knock the door of complacency down so far and fast that it splinters, fractures and disintegrates into sawdust. To take on the comfortable and undeservingly content is a right that many dare not venture into and yet, especially at this time of year when the ballot boxes of discontent are brought out with alarming military-like precision. Thankfully Manchester’s The Falling understand that to bring such things to the attention of music lover is their inalienable right.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10
Cast: Maisie Williams, Maxine Peake, Florence Pugh, Anna Burett, Greta Scacchi, Rose Caton, Lauren McCrostie, Katie Ann Knight, Evie Hooten, Monica Dolan, Mathew Baynton, Morfydd Clark, Joe Cole.
The Falling is full of style, intrigue; a cast dominated by wonderful actresses and full of potential and yet, despite all this, leaves the cinema goer feeling flatter than an uncooked pancake sitting in a café, untouched, alone and as indigestible as a school meal in the 1970s.