The relationship between musician and producer can be one of fraught power struggles or one of harmonious honesty and collaborative heaven, either way some of the finest music to ever come out of the studio hangs on the ability to get the best out of both sets of people. Whether it is from the side of the demanding and musical square bashing, the lyrical drip feed of art based torture or the gentle persuasion and coaxing available, the sweet smile of getting the maximum job done with the full throttle approach, it only matters in the end if it goes badly, when it goes well, when the music sounds like the finest well oiled machine, that’s when it’s so smooth it practically sings with the range of an angel handing out chocolate.
Category Archives: Interviews
Liverpool Sound And Vision: An Interview With Richard Weston.
Being an artist is hard work, there will always be those who ridicule the creative, offering such assured words that it’s not the done thing, that it is not a real job, that there is something of the wastrel in those that offer parts of their soul to the world through the efforts of expression. The hard work, the pressure of such enlightened perspective, pays off when something you mentally give birth too becomes fact, when it becomes as true as a memory held dear.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: A Liverpool Voice, An Interview With Matt Breen.
Matt Breen is telephoning from Australia, for some that might not be the biggest thing in the world, in the days of mass communication, of easier ways to keep in touch, making a call from one side of the world to other is not considered to be a huge event. Yet strip away the thought of ease in the modern age, take away the simple act of dialling a number and what you are left with is deep symbolism, a connection between two people that isn’t hindered by the sterility of a text message or the flatness of an E-mail, it is the sheer effort that goes into co-ordinating an encounter that meets with both time and expectation.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: An Interview With Derek King.
The weather can surprise you in Liverpool, it can be freezing in some parts of the country, it can be downright torrential and heartbreaking in others and yet as a city that straddles arguably one of the two famous and iconic rivers in the country, the sheer mildness at times of the climate is enough to make you believe that perhaps that someone does truly watch over the city. Looking up above the line that inhabits the view from one of the coffee shops in the city centre, the image of a overgrown red and white costumed seasonal house breaker is caught scaling the outside of the Radio City Tower, one foot perilously close to being put through the roof of the Playhouse Theatre, the other grasping to get a firm grip and perhaps survey with greater clarity all those who have been good and naughty during the year.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: An Interview With Beryl Marsden. A Pantomime Special.
Beryl Marsden not only looks relaxed but as she takes five minutes out from the schedule of photographers digital demands, the smiles from an adoring public and with the Fairy Godmother outfit on, she somehow retains the look, the feel of the epitome of cool. It might be a far cry from the leather look, the rebellious and so elegant teenager who wowed Liverpool audiences in the 1960s and who carried on being a woman of stature, the personification of true Merseyside grit but as she sits down next to me, it’s almost possible to believe that there is nothing that Beryl Marsden can’t do.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: An Interview With Alison Crawford, A Pantomine Special. .
Alison Crawford had just come off the Epstein Theatre stage after being photographed by what seemed a million digital cameras zooming in her and the costume she is wearing for this year’s much looked forward to pantomime at the busy theatre.
Watching Alison from anywhere in the stalls of the theatre on Hanover Street, you cannot help but be entranced by the spectacle unfolding and at the back of the mind, in the recesses of panto’s past and the glory of rags to riches stories, you cannot help but understand just how important the role of Cinderella is in the magic of Christmas.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Denis Parkinson.
Denis Parkinson’s name has been quite rightly become part of the ever-growing mass of talented musicians plying their guitar strung wares round the city of Liverpool. Whether to be found in the demanding social scene of the open-mic nights or playing with the cerebral boon associated with the Liverpool Acoustic brethren, Denis Parkinson has the eye and ear for an observing lyric and a strength of conviction to follow through the process, even after many years away from the natural home for his talent.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Val Colvin And We Shall Overcome.
Homelessness and the spectre of being too poor to even afford food and the basics of life in Britain in the 21st Century is on the scale of being a national disgrace. Yet with each passing day those supposedly in charge of the nation’s welfare are to be seen as taking a view of moral disgust at the people who find themselves in such positions rather than the root cause of the issue, that of greed and corruption, of allowing Capitalism to smash the lives down of ordinary people in the ever increasing hunt for the spare pound note. It is an attitude that does the Government no good at all and can be seen to further sever the ties between the haves and have nots in society.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Supplement, An Interview With Vanessa Murray.
Vanessa Murray sits down at the table inside the F.A.C.T. café, the youthful expression of anxious enquiry and stunned reaction to a new set of songs and what someone may think of them, is both endearing and rather cool. For Vanessa Murray, her debut solo E.P. is one that Time has had a huge hand in, the strength of purpose and will coming together to make a set of songs sound vibrant, exciting, a simmering darkness welded throughout and yet with the beauty and passion flowing throughout.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Marauder’s Theatre Company’s Danny Partington.
Many a student from Liverpool has found their way up to Edinburgh for the Fringe at one point or another, whether to support a show, to support a friend or just natural curiosity at just how expansive and overwhelmingly complex the entire planning of going from one show to another on a daily basis can be.
The Fringe though is arguably the one event in the year which is truly seen as remarkable and it is no small wonder that any student involved in drama or who has a keen interest in comedy should make their way to Scotland’s capital in search of broadening their horizons.