Wendy James didn’t just burst on to the scene with a scream and an attitude that was a healthy reminder of what confidence can do for a fledgling performer in a group that had everything going for it, she seized the moment to become for many an icon, an image that that wasn’t out of place in a memory of the style and portrait like feel of a period in time when Carnaby Street and the works of Andy Warhol clashed in a seismic eruption of colour and fashion, of enthusiasm for change, and the self-reliance to stand by your conviction and deliver with a punch the point of your existence.
Category Archives: Interviews
Liverpool Sound And Vision: An Interview With The Herron Brothers.
Of all the emotions that you expect from a song writing duo, perhaps oddly the last thing you expect when being able to interview them is the injection of humour to come across in every answer, one underscored with patience, resolution, resolve and wonderfully created songs. The humour is perhaps more prevalent in those that have spent their whole lives together, the family value they share, the wicked sense of fun they have when together.
A Strong And Perfect Beat. An Interview With The Author Bob Stone.
To bring to life our vision we must be prepared to sacrifice a piece of ourselves, what that exactly entails is usually up to the one who sees the picture unfold before them, to the writer, it arguably something more, for the piece of art they are creating remains in the dark, unseen, hidden away and perhaps only glimpsed at during moments of inspiration or melancholy; for the Missing Beat to which the writer lives in is one that millions want to feel but few are willing to actually live with.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: A Musician Comes To Town, An Interview With Steve Harley.
Music doesn’t just resemble life, it reminds you occasionally of a certain song that seems somehow to frame your mood or your current position as you swim endlessly against the tide, it is life, it is existing, breathing in the moment, planning for the future and escaping to the glory or indeed the pain of the past and holding all the possible emotions that you are capable of in a dance of balance, of skill, precision and remembrance. Music is solitude, music is escapism, music has everything you can ask for and as Steve Harley explains across the telephone to me, “I’m a great fatalist, life is what it is, I’ve had pain, I’ve suffered as a kid, it made me who I am, you are who you are through the development of your experiences, influences and inspirations.”
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Wilko Johnson Interview.
“You’re mine as I’m yours. And if we die, we die. But first we’ll live.” It may be the words of fiction, a quote from the mind of a character that understands the point of existence is to be, to live each day and take each breath as if the world might blink and then one day all that you achieved will only be remembered in the minds that have loved you, admired you, needed your ambition and passion to push them forward in their own endeavour.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: An Interview With White Little Lies, (Vanessa Murray And Daniel Saleh).
Life and Time are intrinsically linked, yet we are often caught out by both in different ways. We often see life as a progression of choices, that it is our own will which causes the present to be what it is, our lives shaped by determination, and yet Time’s hand is often overlooked, the quip of fate perhaps forgotten in the so called age of reason, and above all the chance encounter of a lyric shared becoming a link in which the forging of all is recognised only after Time has elapsed and lost in the fog of recognition.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: An Interview With Lauren Ray.
Lauren Ray is on the other end of the telephone, we are not facing each other and yet because of the great gift she has for expression, a sense of pureness, and straight talking. I almost imagine that she is sat just opposite me, her features, thanks to the dynamic video for her single Be A Man, inscribed on my eyes, glowing with pride at the way she has taken her talent with serious passion and how she has patiently adhered to her own sense of self, of exploring what it means to be an artist without rushing into it with all the dangers and issues that can arise because of it.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: An Interview With Eddi Reader.
Occasionally in life you may find yourself in conversation with a person who leaves you feeling so utterly at peace with yourself that you cannot but help relax, intrigued with what they have to say, and finding that despite your phone doing its upmost to scupper the connection made between two human beings, that the interviewee is calm, collected and kind enough to understand that these things happen, that at the end of the day the Cavalier approach is quite often the best policy to adopt.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: An Interview With Lizzie Nunnery (2018).
It is one of the defining moments in recent Irish history, the point arguably when the relationship, which was always strained at the very best, broke, snapped and the call of truth, of freedom from a foreign power, became enshrined in the hearts of those who sought to fight the British Government, and those who saw history as being there to hold with both hands and create a home that could not be breached by the powers or influence of Westminster.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: Interview With Les McKeown.
Living legend, in a world that seems to be abundant in such a phrase, an expression of the way we perhaps look at celebrity in this modern age and where at times the word itself becomes obscured by overuse and sometime denigration, to be able to talk to a man who was, and remains, a pivotal figure in British Pop history, is to find that much vaunted idiom a true, humbling and heartening experience.