Elinor Randle jogs down London Road with the effortless nature that makes you wonder if she wasn’t so immersed and integral to Liverpool theatre, would she have been one of Britain’s great Olympic hopes in a long distance stamina event. That energy, the raw endurance has certainly seen her through show after show and with Tmesis Theatre, those shows just get more and more endearing and offer something scintillatingly unique to the Liverpool culture scene.
Category Archives: Interviews
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With John Jenkins.
It is only through persistence and sheer will power that John Jenkins is sat infront of me discussing his band’s latest album, Intruders and the general music scene in Liverpool post the turn of the century. Not my own will power but the genuine amiability and overall geniality of Mr. Jenkins who has waited patiently for me to meet up with him for a couple of weeks as I struggled to keep appointments due to health. It is to the musician that must be thanked for keeping faith in a world where faith sometimes is easily lost at the drop of a hat, in a world where disposability is a disease.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Vince Killen Of Crowded Scouse.
There is a time and place for everything in life but sometimes the brutal truth of health is something that no matter what time of day it is, no matter the mood you have arrived at your chosen venue in which to talk to someone about their life and their plans, catches you unawares and knocked sideways, especially when delivered by someone so intelligent, full of life and as candid as Vince Killen of Crowded Scouse.
Liverpool Sound and Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Laura Benitez.
Laura Benitez and the Heartache’s biography says, “If you love Americana and Classic Honky-tonk, uncensored and unpolished, you’ll love this band!” It is a statement that is hard to ignore and easy to understand. Even on this side of the Atlantic where the genres have not flowed into the mainstream hearts of music lovers as they arguably should have done, the music that Laura Benitez and her musicians have produced is something tangibly infectious and instantly enjoyable. So much so that the album, Heartless Woman should be seen as a classic in the making, as real a piece of Americana as you could hope to hear and shines a lantern deep into the heart of what makes the country so fascinating and beautiful to be involved in.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Lenny Wood.
Lenny Wood sits down and smiles broadly with the assurance of a comic actor who knows just the right thing to put you at ease. This young man has done so much in his life already that it doesn’t seem a surprise when you go through the list of achievements and plays that he has acting credits in. The putting at ease is paramount when it comes to someone who can make you laugh with just flick of eyebrow, the right word, even off the cuff, in the right place and the ability to make to make any comic creation they play seem endearing and as someone you would want to be friends with.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: An Interview With Natasia Bullock And Chris Rae Of Stack Theatre.
Natasia Bullock and Chris Rae sit across the table from each other in Café 81 and enjoy what seems to be a brief respite in what has become two very fulfilling and busy lives. For Natasia, recently married and juggling more balls than an expert conjurer in a three ringed circus, her latest production, Rose of June, is being performed at the Unity Theatre on September 23rd and 24th.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Niamh Jones.
With a debut E.P. due out, a gig at Leaf to look forward to and college work to do, perhaps the last thing that stunning singer and guitar player needed to was to sit down and talk about music at F.A.C.T. However, it is the measure of the woman who sits down in front of me, with a certain style that seems beyond her young years, sips on a cranberry juice and is readily forthcoming about her passion for music.
Liverpool Sound And Vision Interview Special With The Cast And Creative Team Behind My Afternoon With Bruce Lee.
Bullying, by its very nature is a hideous and repugnant. Whether it is in the form of government control, the online world of social media, in the work place, in the home with either gender being the downtrodden and abused or from people you once considered friends, bullying is perhaps the most negative, most destructive practice one person can place upon another’s life.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Keddie Sutton And Gillian Hardie.
The Albert Dock is as important to Liverpool’s history as it is to its future. The images of vast sailing ships from across the globe relieving their important load into the waiting arms of many a stevedore is tinged with sepia romanticism that is hard to ignore or displace in time. Neither is the image of a bustling city, one that has retained its dignity when others set out to destroy it, either through lies, blatant and outrageous disgusting ones; or through a political dogma in which they sensed that the passion of its people could bring them and their misguided ideology down.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: An Interview With Jonathan Markwood.
Jonathan Markwood is no stranger to the Royal Court Theatre. An actor, an artist of great repute and somebody who just seems to be able to play any role the Royal Court, or indeed any theatre, cares to put his way. Recently he has been part of the cast that bought the superb Lennon back for yet another successful run, and who has to be said had audiences enthralled with his scintillating timing of the Ring Master at the start of the second half, his spot on portrayal of George Martin and John and Cynthia Lennon’s art tutor. He also played alongside Michael Starke and Roy Brandon in the wonderfully entertaining Laurel and Hardy revival piece, The Sons Of The Desert.