The Everyman Theatre on Hope Street is home to many ideas, many moments of inspiration and suggestions that in its short period of time since its re-emergence from the ground upwards, it has become one of Liverpool’s brightest stars. It is fitting then to meet one of the city’s finest artists, who is fluent in poetry, music and scriptwriting in equal and abundant measure, inside the halls that have the feel of the hallowed seeping out of them.
Category Archives: Interviews
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Queertet’s Kiefer Wesley Williams And Christopher Sutherland.
In a year when the most powerful nation on Earth finally saw sense and changed what it meant to be seen as an equal, Grin Theatre’s Queertet makes its fourth foray into the world of theatre with four new stories that tell of hope, love and even the element of danger at the Unity Theatre over three nights from Wednesday 22nd to Friday 24th July.
Queertet has been described as the jewel in the crown of Grin Theatre’s output, a rare company that talks the talk when it comes to delivering stories of a L.G.B.T. nature and a company that really sings with pride of all it has achieved in the city.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Donna Lesley Price.
Liverpool and the outlaying areas of Merseyside have, like its music, more than its fair share of top quality comedy writers. They range in national stature from the likes of Morecombe and Wise’s third man Eddie Braben and the creator of Bread, Butterflies and The Liver Birds, the sensational Carla Lane to the local and the as of yet undiscovered by the rest of the country but who make the evenings at the theatre a pleasure to be at.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Chris Callander.
The long July Sunday afternoon has stretched open with the sense of the familiar, the dog days of August are beginning to bark and whine with canine excitement in the distance and the taste of the future prosperity of the city has become visible as Fredrick’s on Hope Street opens up its doors and the pavement area of Hope Street becomes the playground for the weary and the traffic dodgers.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Luke Gallagher.
There are some performers who come into your life that no matter how dispassionate and impartial you try to be about them, you cannot help but wish them so much success in their chosen career.
For Wrexham’s Luke Gallagher, any chance to see him play should be grabbed and held for all it’s worth, for this a young man whose quiet and polite demeanour holds deep fascination, the unflustered heart of a young man with the spirit of a total professional and one who sings with maturity beyond his years, is a talent of wealth and experience and the soft lilt of the North Welsh border town strides like a giant across the mountains of music history.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Natasia Bullock.
Natasia Bullock sits in F.A.C.T. on Wood Street and surveys the passing stream of people going through the day, like ghosts passing through time, the vapour trail they leave is one that is coloured and magical. The smile on her face never wavers as the assured pleasantries and the usual conversation pieces of two people who know each other well enough to be comfortable in each other’s company, not matter what side of the question they come from.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Alison Green.
If there is one musician to capture the ear of anyone fortunate enough to find themselves at the International Pop Overthrow, then arguably Canterbury resident Alison Green is that performer. The sound of honesty, the smoke filled aroma of something tangible and laden with meaning stands out as being on the side of majestic, pleasing on the ear and yet filled with a charm that is both seemingly shy and powerful enough to break down imposed barriers.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Drew Sturgeon And Mark O’ Connor Of The Fast Camels.
Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
There is no doubting the sheer immensity that runs through the heart of one of Glasgow’s finest 21st Century bands, The Fast Camels.
A popular favourite of many who come to Liverpool during the month of May for the International Pop Overthrow, The Fast Camels have endeared themselves and seared their music into the hearts and minds of many who find their way to the Cavern Pub and Cavern to enjoy a relentless blast of the pop groove and psychedelic affair that the band offer.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Supplement, An Interview With Stillhet’s Ian Weller.
With so many music nights in Liverpool it could be quite easy to get lost in the crowd. Away from the big names that come to the city, the music of the young bears fruit, even if some in higher places wish to attempt to take down venues that offer opportunities to the young, the hopeful and the aspiring.
One such night is Strings and Things which happens every first Sunday of the month in Studio 2 on Parr Street and offers the chance to bands and solo artists to perform. It is a very unique night, an evening of entertainment in which Liverpool Sound and Vision has had the great privilege on numerous occasions and which the music has been of the highest of quality.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Jennifer Bea.
It takes two to truly make a conversation, to sit and chat without the meaning being lost and the understanding being stilted and diluted, watered down and the froth of life being spluttered upon and half drawn conclusions met.
Meeting up with Jennifer Bea ahead of her performance in the Jim Cartwright play Two, you cannot help but be struck by the fire that dances in the eyes, of the absolute determination to bring a character to life. Even if you have had the honour of knowing Ms. Bea for a while, that fire catches you out and you cannot help but be drawn to it, like a moth serenading a flame, you know that time is short but you revel upon every word.