The heat in Liverpool, even at ten in the morning, has begun to drain people and what feels like the longest heat-wave since 1976 takes on the atmosphere in the city and it feels strangely quiet around the area of St. Luke’s as crowds flock to river to get some sea breeze and seek some sort of shelter against the summer sun. One man though who forever seems in good spirits and who can turn an overcast, thundery day into a ray of sunshine is Eddie John Fortune.
Category Archives: Interviews
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Anna Corcoran.
Anna Corcoran’s voice and beautiful melodies have earned her a great accolades and plaudits for her work, especially alongside her great friend Robert Vincent and since the release of her E.P., Anything Better, the owner of that recognisable voice has just kept growing in stature and quite rightly so.
Before she took to stage at The Unity Theatre, Anna took time out from the worries of the day to music world and relaxed in the café and loosened up before her show she spoke of her new video for the outstanding single The Show, her work on the E.P. and the reasons why she still calls Liverpool her home.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Peter Mitchelson.
As Peter Mitchelson recovers from his interview at the B.B.C. Merseyside studios on Hanover Street, it’s possible to understand how much the Shiny New Theatre Festival means to him. Watching his through the glass giving answers to the radio presenter about the ten day festival at the Lantern Theatre on Blundell Street only makes you admire him more for what he does for all the acts that are taking their performances to the theatre and trusting Peter with a little piece of their souls.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Laura-Kate Barrow Of LadyParts Theatre.
Cafe 81 on Renshaw Street at opening time is an oasis of calm and the perfect place it seems to meet writer and theatre maker Laura-Kate Barrow. The venue had recently played a part in Laura’s quiet determination to bring more theatre to Liverpool and especially to showcase more parts for women, a situation that still sees acting roles still predominantly written for men but something that Laura is keen to address. Over the sounds of fresh tea being made and the clamour for attention from the great staff inside Cafe 81 I get to ask this young woman about the 24 hour project in which Assemble was the end result and her up-coming play Bump.
Liverpool Sound and Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Rising Comedian Alastair Clark.
Alastair Clark sits back in the seats on the first floor of FACT on Wood Street and grins. The man who hails from Grantham in Lincolnshire is intensely likeable as a person, as many of University colleagues have threatened to attest to, he is one of the many University graduates that find themselves at the bitter end of the current recession/depression, depending on who you talk to, saddled with debt for wanting to learn and trying to make a difference.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Paul Dunbar Of The Midnight Ramble.
Paul Dunbar greets me with a friendly smile and an outstretched hand as he comes from out of one of the many doors that are part of the rabbit warren of the iconic Unity Theatre. Every band and musician I have come across in Liverpool has something special about them, from Buckle Tongue to Ian McNabb, from Jo Bywater to Stealing Sheep, Paul Dunbar and his band have something about them that makes you want to smile which fits in with the current and lasting view that the city of Liverpool is perhaps arguably the best city in terms of creativity within music to call home.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Lynn Francis.
This month sees The Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool host Amanda Whittington’s play Ladies Day. First produced and staged by Hull Truck Theatre in 2005, the play stars three of Liverpool’s impressive and likeable female actors in Eithne Browne, Lynn Francis, Angela Simms and the trio are joined by Emmerdale’s Roxanne Pallet as a group of factory workers who all want different things out of life and decide to visit the world famous Aintree Racecourse. They are joined by the only male in the show Jack Lord who is sure to get the run around from this foursome of impressive women.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Rio Matchett.
Rio Matchett for the last year has juggled the pressure of a second year of studying for her degree at the University of Liverpool and being President of a very successful Liverpool University Drama Society (L.U.D.S.). On the back of some incredible work by her, the amazing team she has had at her disposal, actors and back stage, L.U.D.S. has enjoyed great acclaim with the plays that have been produced which have included Jack Thorne’s Fanny and Faggot, Noel Coward’s Still Life and the tour de force that was Alan Bennett’s The History Boys.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Ed Harcourt.
Originally published by www.liverpool-live.co.uk on May 16th 2013.
Songsmith Ed Harcourt released his latest album Back Into The Woods earlier this year. Recorded in just 6 hours at Abbey Road Studios, the critically acclaimed work features a collection of beautifully stripped down tracks. In keeping with the romance and warmth of the album, he heads out on a tour of intimate churches and concert halls this summer and plays Liverpool’s Scandinavian Church on 7th June.
The venues on the new tour are quite distinctive and they seem to lend themselves to your music, for instance, Trinity Church in Leeds and the Scandinavian Church in Liverpool; was this a conscious decision to do play such places?
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With James Styring Of The Popdogs.
The IPO (The International Pop Overthrow) is coming to Liverpool this coming week and as one festival of music closes so begins another. These are exciting times for the city music-wise as there never seems to be a day where you cannot head into the city centre and find something to listen to.