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.
Tag Archives: Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Alan O’ Hare.
Spending time listening to acclaimed songwriter Alan O’ Hare talk is one of those great pleasures in life. Passionate about his craft, the city of Liverpool, justice, truth and making sure people understand what Liverpool means as a place of music and art, Alan O’ Hare gives forthright answers with absolute honesty and candour.
Having crafted ten incredible songs for the new album From Muddy Water To Higher Ground at Crosstown Records with Million-selling producer Jon Lawton, Alan O’ Hare is entitled to feel relaxed and content with life if he so wishes but there is a tremendous feel to the man’s world that suggests seismic change, the ability that erupts from under the surface of a very talented wordsmith is never far from exploding and taking down viable targets with it.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Ragz Nordset.
Ragnhild Øhren Nordset sits down with the comfortable ease of a woman whose life has been allowed to breathe, to take stock of time between leaving her family home in Hokksund, Norway and finding for the second time that Liverpool is just as important to her as what she may have ever had. Ragz, her professional music name but also a term of wonderful endearment, smiles and a passionate light comes from her Norwegian eyes that I will come to see throughout the whole interview and beyond is fiercely proud but also humble when asked about the music she performs.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Jo Bywater.
Yorkshire born, Liverpool based singer songwriter Jo Bywater is one of those individuals in life that, no matter how many times you meet her, interview her or just share a moment talking about poetry, music and films, she just illuminates the room with the kind of unexpected passion reserved for those that have released a dozen albums or even give non-stop interviews to the awaiting public. There is more to this young woman though than just being intuitive and having the remarkable skill of having many layers within her lyric writing, there is a gentleness that belies the tough Yorkshire shell.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Natalie McCool.
In one of the hottest and keenly contested categories in this year’s Liverpool Music Awards, Natalie McCool, Anna Corcoran and Eva Peterson are all strong contenders for Female Artist of the Year 2013. Ms. McCool has had a phenomenal year with the release of her debut album and several high profile gigs in which she has wowed audience members and critics alike.
liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Eddie John Fortune. (2)
The heat in Liverpool, even at ten in the morning, has begun to drain people and what feels like the longest heat-wave since 1976 takes on the atmosphere in the city and it feels strangely quiet around the area of St. Luke’s as crowds flock to river to get some sea breeze and seek some sort of shelter against the summer sun. One man though who forever seems in good spirits and who can turn an overcast, thundery day into a ray of sunshine is Eddie John Fortune.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Anna Corcoran.
Anna Corcoran’s voice and beautiful melodies have earned her a great accolades and plaudits for her work, especially alongside her great friend Robert Vincent and since the release of her E.P., Anything Better, the owner of that recognisable voice has just kept growing in stature and quite rightly so.
Before she took to stage at The Unity Theatre, Anna took time out from the worries of the day to music world and relaxed in the café and loosened up before her show she spoke of her new video for the outstanding single The Show, her work on the E.P. and the reasons why she still calls Liverpool her home.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Peter Mitchelson.
As Peter Mitchelson recovers from his interview at the B.B.C. Merseyside studios on Hanover Street, it’s possible to understand how much the Shiny New Theatre Festival means to him. Watching his through the glass giving answers to the radio presenter about the ten day festival at the Lantern Theatre on Blundell Street only makes you admire him more for what he does for all the acts that are taking their performances to the theatre and trusting Peter with a little piece of their souls.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Laura-Kate Barrow Of LadyParts Theatre.
Cafe 81 on Renshaw Street at opening time is an oasis of calm and the perfect place it seems to meet writer and theatre maker Laura-Kate Barrow. The venue had recently played a part in Laura’s quiet determination to bring more theatre to Liverpool and especially to showcase more parts for women, a situation that still sees acting roles still predominantly written for men but something that Laura is keen to address. Over the sounds of fresh tea being made and the clamour for attention from the great staff inside Cafe 81 I get to ask this young woman about the 24 hour project in which Assemble was the end result and her up-coming play Bump.
Liverpool Sound and Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Rising Comedian Alastair Clark.
Alastair Clark sits back in the seats on the first floor of FACT on Wood Street and grins. The man who hails from Grantham in Lincolnshire is intensely likeable as a person, as many of University colleagues have threatened to attest to, he is one of the many University graduates that find themselves at the bitter end of the current recession/depression, depending on who you talk to, saddled with debt for wanting to learn and trying to make a difference.