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Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Mersey Wylie.

To have seen someone become the person they are artistically is one of life’s greatest pleasures. To have watched a talent flourish and blossom is a thrill that sometimes defies words. From having watched in awe as the sound of a young woman took tentative steps and be beguiling even in the realms of student radio and onto a stage infront of hundreds can only surely make you smile. For Mersey Wylie this coming weekend is going to be the biggest step yet as she steps from behind many a shadow and shows the audience at Zanzibar that the Wylie name is something that will forever associated with the city of Liverpool.

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(1314 words, estimated 5:15 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Danny Partington.

Liverpool University Drama Society’s long association with putting on diverse and interesting plays continues this autumn with their production of Pool (No Water). Pool (No Water) is a painful, visceral insight into the issues of self-loathing, artistic integrity and bitter jealousy amongst friends and artists, known solely and collectively as “The Group”.   

Reunited at the funeral of a mutual friend, a famous artist invites her old friends and colleagues out to her luxurious new home, complete with private pool and for one night only, The Group is back together. However, celebrations come to an abrupt end when the host suffers a horrific accident.

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(1701 words, estimated 6:48 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Alan Hewitt, (Part Two)

Alan Hewitt leans back on the chair in FACT and smiles, a man wistful with memories of gigs and stories which culminated in his book on Steve Hackett, the Genesis guitarist who has carved out perhaps the most productive solo career of all those that made Genesis one of the finest Progressive Rock bands to hail from the U.K. being enjoyed rightly by the multitude. Sketches of Hackett is a book of immense value and warmth and just chatting to him, time seems to lose its meaning as the 20 minute time limit we set ourselves becomes muddled and extended until we have broached the subject of almost every Steve Hackett solo album and his contribution to the richness of the second and third period of the Genesis era.

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(1914 words, estimated 7:39 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Richie Grice.

Richie Grice cuts a commanding but ultimately loveable figure as he sits before you. His love of comedy radiates outwards from the very time you meet him and he certainly knows his stuff and his ready laugh is easy and a joyous thing to hear whenever you mention something that tickles his own funny bone.

With rehearsals well under way for Bon Voyage at The Epstein Theatre, which stars the superb Lindzi Germain and the legendary Mickey Finn, I was able to catch ten precious minutes with the man who co-wrote the play with Paul Nicholson at The Garden at FACT and ask him his thoughts on the play and on comedy.

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(1028 words, estimated 4:07 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Robert Rhys Bond Of The Legion Of Doom.

Robert Rhys Bond sits in Cafe 81 and within minutes of meeting him, it is impossible not to feel charmed or finding yourself laughing with great enthusiasm at what he is telling you, about his own life or The Legion of Doom. We are meeting up ahead of the comedy sketch show at Cafe 81 two night’s performance in August.

The Legion of Doom have been going for about three or so years. Robert and Lee met at John Moore’s University where they did drama together and Lee agreed to play an elf in a show Robert was directing, “It was the best portrayal of an elf by a six foot Lancastrian on the British stage”, says Robert, “we have been friends ever since!”

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(1533 words, estimated 6:08 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With James Styring Of The Popdogs.

The IPO (The International Pop Overthrow) is coming to Liverpool this coming week and as one festival of music closes so begins another. These are exciting times for the city music-wise as there never seems to be a day where you cannot head into the city centre and find something to listen to.

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(1640 words, estimated 6:34 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Royston Cole.

Royston Cole sits back and enjoys the feel of the afternoon sun outside of The Cambridge Pub, neatly tucked away on the University of Liverpool campus, a haven for students of all subjects, especially for some reason those whose degree involves the study of English.  The writer tells great stories, some of which only the very brave would print as they are wonderfully full of colour and reveals the extent of this man’s fascinating humour and back story.

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(1455 words, estimated 5:49 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Donna Lesley Price and Richie Grice.

Donna Lesley Price and Richie Grice are out of breath after travelling for an interminable age from across the Wirral, through the congested and rammed tunnel system that goes underneath the Mersey and finally racing across town to get to The Unity. The last thing I want to do is make them talk about their play, If the Shoe Fits, as they have already been working hard doing interviews all day.

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(1389 words, estimated 5:33 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Oliver Lansley.

The theatre company Les Enfants Terribles are dedicated to creating original, innovative and exciting theatre that challenges, inspires and entertains. The man who founded his creative team is the actor and playwright Oliver Lansley. Well known to television viewers as the man who took on the extraordinary task of portraying the iconic radio and television star Kenny Everett in the 2012 biopic The Best Possible Taste, there is so much more to this versatile actor than portraying in wonderful style a man wrecked by personal demons.

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(1207 words, estimated 4:50 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Russell Parry And Mal French From The Play Wild Flowers.

Wild Flowers, Franny Conlin’s powerful play about a family torn apart due to their son crossing the picket line during the Dockers Strike of 1995, returns after a year away and will be spending two nights at the Epstein Theatre on the 29th and 30th March. This critically acclaimed play looks at the members of the Lavelle family whose son James turns away from the family and takes the path to personal destruction. It is a brutally honest play and one that deserves to be seen by a wide audience.

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(2353 words, estimated 9:25 mins reading time)