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.
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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 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 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.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Peasant’s King.
There is something in which to revel in when watching a band perform in Liverpool for the first time, especially when after they have finished, the sweat pouring from their joyful brows and the sound of the music still reverberating round the ears a week later. When it comes to Pontypridd’s Peasant’s King, the next great hope to come out of South Wales, that feeling of intensity, of gracious Rock abandon, is to hope that you get to see them perform again and again.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With John Young From Lifesigns.
With the odd exception, the world of Progressive Rock doesn’t feature too highly in the realms of Liverpool’s astonishing contribution to the world of music. There are elements, bands, even albums that go down that road, notably and arguably The Beatles opus Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is a tremendous foray into the genre but it still doesn’t get the airplay it deserves. There may be many reasons for it, but it doesn’t disguise the fact that there are many thousands of fans who clamber for any type of band delving into the unknown from Aigburth to Bootle and the surrounding, ever growing enclave that is Merseyside.
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.