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Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Alan Stocks.

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

The mould has been broken, the dominant aspect of Country music in its own backyard taken apart, its historical birthplace, has been, if not smashed, then certainly demolished brick by brick, blade of grass by white picket fence and tales of the homely and beautiful swept aside. It is the mould set out by the American Country genre to which The Shires, Chrissie Rhodes and Ben Earle, have become quite rightly known as the band in which sit up, take notice of and toast as the modern day British saviours of a genre that was wobbling under its own weight across the pond.

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Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Tayo Aluko.

One of the honours of packing up your bags for a while, forgetting the steamy hot sweat of the city where no one has anything on their mind with perhaps the exception of the oncoming football season or the complexities of the latest England cricket score, is arguably heading off to the other capital of culture in the U.K. and immersing yourself completely in the Edinburgh Fringe. It is at the Fringe where some of Liverpool’s much loved actors and performers find themselves and test out new material for the first time, where they experience every crush, every agonising line of perplexed worry on the face of the audience and the thrill of delight that sits in the deepest heart when the play, the song or the joke is appreciated fully and with respect.

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Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Maddie Stenberg.

The concourse at Lime Street Station on a Friday afternoon always seems to be incredibly congested, the heaving sense of humanity on the move as they find their way to different pastures for the weekend in search of fun or the locked doors of their own palaces and castles, is at times a wonder to behold. Ant like but striding with purpose, the evening concert in the city bringing people in, the thought of a late summer’s drink at the local spurring them on to catch the stopper between Liverpool and that other bended finger of North West music appreciation, you cannot help but be entranced by this weekly dance.

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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.

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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.

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