Category Archives: Interviews

A Liverpool Sound And Vision Special: An Interview With Steve Hackett.

Steve Hackett is a musician who really needs no introduction. His music has stretched across five decades with his first band, the supergroup of Progressive kings Genesis and with his own soaring solo career which he kick started in 1975 with the critically acclaimed album Voyage of the Acolyte. In 2012 Steve released the album Genesis Revisited 2  in which songs from the years in which Steve was part of Genesis and some of his own songs were re-worked to an even higher standard than was possibly thought. Tracks such as Horizons, Supper’s Ready, Dancing With The Moonlit Knight, The Musical Box, Ripples and Please Don’t Touch were given a new lease of life and become a top 30 hit for the quiet man of Progressive Rock.

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(1934 words, estimated 7:44 mins reading time)

An Interview With Liverpool Singer/Songwriter James J. Turner.

Interview With James J. Turner originally published by Liverpool Acoustic on May 6th 2013. The interview can be seen on www.liverpoolacoustic.co.uk

James J Turner took time out from recording and mixing his next album and preparing for his gig with Radical Liverpool this weekend to talk to Liverpool Acoustic’s Ian D. Hall.

You’re going to be playing at the Casa soon?

James: “Yes, it’s on Saturday, 11 May, Cup Final Day!”

Is it something that you’ve been looking forward to?

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(1821 words, estimated 7:17 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Rob McGuffin.

Rob McGuffin has already had the urge to create music fully engrained into his being, a man whose previous band Kids With Lighters was very highly rated and it was with a sense of undisguised regret that the band were not able to go any further. However you cannot keep a good man down and the harder people try to, the harder they bounce back. Rob has spent the last few months fine tuning his set, creating new music and now with a great sense of timing has come back stronger and wiser and ready for another go at proving his music should be taken seriously.

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(1150 words, estimated 4:36 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Comic Satirist Nick Revell.

This month the Lantern Theatre in Liverpool plays host not to just one comic satirist but two. Alongside Lee Camp from the United States is Nick Revell, a man who Time Out in 2012 gave the ultimate accolade of ‘Master Satirist’ to and who will be joining forces for two nights of comedy titled Transatlantic Fury. This special night of comedy is one to savour as Nick Revell’s pedigree is one that very few can top.

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(1389 words, estimated 5:33 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Tom McLennan Of Dingle Community Theatre.

Bertolt Brecht is never really out of fashion as a playwright, it’s just that the times have to start becoming bleak and dangerous before his powerful works are remembered fully and the warnings he spells out are heeded. On the back of the 2011 magnificent performance of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at The Playhouse which starred Ian Bartholomew and Leanne Best and now Dingle Community Theatre and Tom McLennan have adapted one of his most famous plays Fear and Misery of the Third Reich which is being performed at The Lantern Theatre in May. The play, noted for being Brecht’s first openly anti-Nazi work was first performed in 1938 and still has the power to inform and shock audiences.

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(1125 words, estimated 4:30 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Royston Cole.

Royston Cole sits back and enjoys the feel of the afternoon sun outside of The Cambridge Pub, neatly tucked away on the University of Liverpool campus, a haven for students of all subjects, especially for some reason those whose degree involves the study of English.  The writer tells great stories, some of which only the very brave would print as they are wonderfully full of colour and reveals the extent of this man’s fascinating humour and back story.

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(1455 words, estimated 5:49 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: An Interview With Burjesta Theatre’s Julian Bond And Mikyla Jane Durkan.

Being invited behind the curtain by the directors to watch a full dress rehearsal must be a dream come true for anybody who has an enjoyment of the theatre. To watch from a corner of the room as the actors take in the words they have learned, to witness how comfortable they become as they are taken through their paces and their places, to see the wonder of theatre unfold before your eyes from almost the very start of the process is exhilarating and without doubt an honour.

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(2087 words, estimated 8:21 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Donna Lesley Price and Richie Grice.

Donna Lesley Price and Richie Grice are out of breath after travelling for an interminable age from across the Wirral, through the congested and rammed tunnel system that goes underneath the Mersey and finally racing across town to get to The Unity. The last thing I want to do is make them talk about their play, If the Shoe Fits, as they have already been working hard doing interviews all day.

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(1389 words, estimated 5:33 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Sally Fildes-Moss And Paula Stewart.

The Crucible is arguably one of the crowning glories of 20th Century theatre, a play so powerful that the parallels it drew on one of the sickening acts in American history, the show trials conducted by Senator McCarthy in an attempt to goad the decent people of the country in to believing that everyone, neighbour, friend, lover was part of a Communist conspiracy, was too big to ignore. Bringing together the fear and jealousy of one era, a harsh time dominated by religion and comparing the post Second World War American dogma was a piece of genius that only Arthur Miller could have done and written so incredibly well.

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(1765 words, estimated 7:04 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Oliver Lansley.

The theatre company Les Enfants Terribles are dedicated to creating original, innovative and exciting theatre that challenges, inspires and entertains. The man who founded his creative team is the actor and playwright Oliver Lansley. Well known to television viewers as the man who took on the extraordinary task of portraying the iconic radio and television star Kenny Everett in the 2012 biopic The Best Possible Taste, there is so much more to this versatile actor than portraying in wonderful style a man wrecked by personal demons.

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(1207 words, estimated 4:50 mins reading time)