Tag Archives: Liverpool

Wild Twin by Jeff Young

Posted on 29/10/2024 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – October 2024 One of the things that struck me about all of this junk was that every single object was a repository of someone else’s memory, because it had got to the auction rooms from the house clearances … Continue reading →

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Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay by Jeff Young

Posted on 02/12/2021 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – December 2021 I go to the pubs where Allen Ginsberg drank with Adrian Henri in May 1965 when he declared Liverpool to be ‘at the present moment, the centre of consciousness of the human universe’. I walk … Continue reading →

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Before The Fall

Posted on 08/07/2020 by Bobby Seal

All you daughters and sons Who are sick of fancy music We dig repetition Repetition in the drums And we’re never going to lose it This is the three Rs The three Rs: Repetition, Repetition, Repetition Repetition – The Fall … Continue reading →

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The Flow of Time: Lockdown, Day 34

Posted on 26/04/2020 by Bobby Seal

In Liverpool, I beheld long China walls of masonry; vast piers of stone; and a succession of granite-rimmed docks, completely enclosed, and many of them communicating, which almost recalled to mind the great American chain of lakes: Ontario, Erie, St. … Continue reading →

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Terence Davies’s Liverpool

Posted on 01/11/2017 by Bobby Seal

Cinema creates a loop that preserves memory, and through the artful use of music and unexpected juxtaposition, Davies communicates the intensity that belongs to those memories. The re-enactments of Children are transcended. Death And Transfiguration is a powerful and deeply … Continue reading →

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A Sedimentary Resonance

Posted on 01/06/2015 by Bobby Seal

Viewed from my vantage point on the old lifeboat station, Hilbre’s role as guardian of the seaward approach to the River Dee becomes clear.  Her cliffs, layers of weathered red and yellow sandstone come to a point just here.  Sitting … Continue reading →

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Father of the Man: Terence Davies’s Trilogy

Posted on 03/04/2015 by Bobby Seal

Children, Madonna and Child and Death and Transfiguration move relentlessly through the three stages of Robbie’s life. But Davies consciously breaks the rules of linear time as he moves backwards and forwards exploring the jumble of Robbie’s memories, his youth, … Continue reading →

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