Category Archives: Interviews

Liverpool Sound and Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Alan Stocks. (Part Two).

Alan Stocks is one of Liverpool’s most easily recognised actors. His time in plays as diverse as Dead Heavy Fantastic, The Flint Street Nativity, Tartuffe and Scouse Pacific has made him a firm favourite with theatre audiences.

For the last few weeks he has been in the outstanding play by Joe Ward Munrow, Held, at The Liverpool Playhouse Studio Theatre with the superb Pauline Daniels and the inspiring Ged McKenna. Alan’s performance in the production is arguably the finest of his career to date. Alan will soon be seen in the musical Mam! I’m ‘Ere! at The Dome alongside Stephen Fletcher, Eithne Browne, Drew Schofield, Helen Carter, Rachel Rae, Paul Duckworth and Keddy Sutton.

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(1738 words, estimated 6:57 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Jamie Hampson.

Jamie Hampson is currently part of the cast that is thrilling Royal Court theatre goers that have been going in their droves to see Fred Lawless’ latest monster smash hit A Nightmare on Lime Street. Originally from Halewood she was bitten by the acting bug before she hit her teenage years.

Having completed her training at the famous Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (L.I.P.A.) she has gone on to become one of the rising stars of Liverpool theatre with superb performances in A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Macbeth and in Nicky Alt’s You’ll Never Walk Alone to her name. Multi-talented and enjoyable company, there is seemingly nothing that will stop this young actor becoming a house-hold name in years to come.

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(1506 words, estimated 6:01 mins reading time)

An Interview With Angela Simms From The Rainbow Connection.

This week has seen the superb The Rainbow Connection come to The Unity Theatre. A play that deals with the relationship between a gay man and a straight woman of whom both have suffered hurt in one form or another and who through time come to realise they need each other in their lives.

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(1328 words, estimated 5:19 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Paul Hunter.

Acclaimed classical actor Edward Petherbridge was cast as King Lear, when on the second day of rehearsals he suffered a stroke that left him barely able to move. As he struggled to recover Edward made a discovery: the entire role of Lear still existed word for word in his mind.

From being on the brink of playing one of Shakespeare’s most revered roles, to lying in a hospital bed surrounded by doctors, Edward had never imagined what tragedies and comedies lay in store for him.

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(1755 words, estimated 7:01 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Simon James Of Grin Theatre.

In 2012 Grin Theatre Productions produced their ultimate piece of work so far, three short plays centred on women and the very different lives they can take.  The three pieces starred Donna Lesley Price, Jennifer Bea and Kayla Keatley as the main focus of the stories and all three actors, writers and Grin Theatre themselves received, quite rightly, much acclaim for what they produced.

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(1586 words, estimated 6:21 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With James Hodkinson Of Shadowlight.

James Hodkinson grew up on Merseyside from the late 1970s through to the early 90s. The sound track of his early life was the music of the heavy, progressive and so-called space rock genres, which drifted in through his bedroom window from older kids’ houses and mingled with the more indigenous sounds of his family home. This collision saw King Crimson, Hawkwind, Caravan, Pink Floyd and Marillion blend with Joni Mitchell, The Beatles, Elton John and the Carpenters and Crosby, Stills and Nash, as well as the classical symphonies played on old vinyl records by his grandfather.

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(1721 words, estimated 6:53 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Stephen Fletcher. (2013).

Sat across the table from Stephen Fletcher at the café in the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall listening to the young actor/producer talk enthusiastically and with a vast knowledge of the theatre at his disposal is something everybody should experience in their life at least once, if they are fortunate then it is something the gracious actor will always afford you. In the last year Stephen has been very busy, he has put together one of the great plays of the last festive period in the critically acclaimed play Mam! I’m ere! and been a part of some of the most challenging and enjoyable productions to have taken part in Liverpool.

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(2642 words, estimated 10:34 mins reading time)

Ian Broudie Interview, Parr Street Studios.

Originally published by L.S. Media. January 30th 2012.

Parr Street Studios has Liverpool iconic status stamped heavily all over it. Its reputation as a place of musical birth is legendary. Bands, rocks groups and the odd solo star have recorded albums there, albums that have gone on to be best sellers. Even in the last few weeks Liverpool legends Space have recorded their long awaited new album there. Parr Street studios may not be instantly recognisable say as the waterfront skyline that visitors from across the globe see as they travel up the Mersey and dock underneath the three graces. Not as the much visited homes of the four Beatles or even as Penny Lane.

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(1246 words, estimated 4:59 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: An Interview With Wendy James.

Wendy James didn’t just burst on to the scene with a scream and an attitude that was a healthy reminder of what confidence can do for a fledgling performer in a group that had everything going for it, she seized the moment to become for many an icon, an image that that wasn’t out of place in a memory of the style and portrait like feel of a period in time when Carnaby Street and the works of Andy Warhol clashed in a seismic eruption of colour and fashion, of enthusiasm for change, and the self-reliance to stand by your conviction and deliver with a punch the point of your existence.

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(1865 words, estimated 7:28 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: An Interview With The Herron Brothers.

Of all the emotions that you expect from a song writing duo, perhaps oddly the last thing you expect when being able to interview them is the injection of humour to come across in every answer, one underscored with patience, resolution, resolve and wonderfully created songs. The humour is perhaps more prevalent in those that have spent their whole lives together, the family value they share, the wicked sense of fun they have when together.

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(1056 words, estimated 4:13 mins reading time)