Category Archives: Interviews

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

Originally published by www.liverpool-live.co.uk on May 16th 2013.

Songsmith Ed Harcourt released his latest album Back Into The Woods earlier this year. Recorded in just 6 hours at Abbey Road Studios, the critically acclaimed work features a collection of beautifully stripped down tracks. In keeping with the romance and warmth of the album, he heads out on a tour of intimate churches and concert halls this summer and plays Liverpool’s Scandinavian Church on 7th June.
The venues on the new tour are quite distinctive and they seem to lend themselves to your music, for instance, Trinity Church in Leeds and the Scandinavian Church in Liverpool; was this a conscious decision to do play such places?

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(1158 words, estimated 4:38 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 Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Stephen Fletcher.

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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(2680 words, estimated 10:43 mins reading time)

A Liverpool Sound And Vision Special: An Interview With Steve Hackett.

Steve Hackett is a musician who really needs no introduction. His music has stretched across five decades with his first band, the supergroup of Progressive kings Genesis and with his own soaring solo career which he kick started in 1975 with the critically acclaimed album Voyage of the Acolyte. In 2012 Steve released the album Genesis Revisited 2  in which songs from the years in which Steve was part of Genesis and some of his own songs were re-worked to an even higher standard than was possibly thought. Tracks such as Horizons, Supper’s Ready, Dancing With The Moonlit Knight, The Musical Box, Ripples and Please Don’t Touch were given a new lease of life and become a top 30 hit for the quiet man of Progressive Rock.

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An Interview With Liverpool Singer/Songwriter James J. Turner.

Interview With James J. Turner originally published by Liverpool Acoustic on May 6th 2013. The interview can be seen on www.liverpoolacoustic.co.uk

James J Turner took time out from recording and mixing his next album and preparing for his gig with Radical Liverpool this weekend to talk to Liverpool Acoustic’s Ian D. Hall.

You’re going to be playing at the Casa soon?

James: “Yes, it’s on Saturday, 11 May, Cup Final Day!”

Is it something that you’ve been looking forward to?

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Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Rob McGuffin.

Rob McGuffin has already had the urge to create music fully engrained into his being, a man whose previous band Kids With Lighters was very highly rated and it was with a sense of undisguised regret that the band were not able to go any further. However you cannot keep a good man down and the harder people try to, the harder they bounce back. Rob has spent the last few months fine tuning his set, creating new music and now with a great sense of timing has come back stronger and wiser and ready for another go at proving his music should be taken seriously.

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Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Comic Satirist Nick Revell.

This month the Lantern Theatre in Liverpool plays host not to just one comic satirist but two. Alongside Lee Camp from the United States is Nick Revell, a man who Time Out in 2012 gave the ultimate accolade of ‘Master Satirist’ to and who will be joining forces for two nights of comedy titled Transatlantic Fury. This special night of comedy is one to savour as Nick Revell’s pedigree is one that very few can top.

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Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Tom McLennan Of Dingle Community Theatre.

Bertolt Brecht is never really out of fashion as a playwright, it’s just that the times have to start becoming bleak and dangerous before his powerful works are remembered fully and the warnings he spells out are heeded. On the back of the 2011 magnificent performance of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at The Playhouse which starred Ian Bartholomew and Leanne Best and now Dingle Community Theatre and Tom McLennan have adapted one of his most famous plays Fear and Misery of the Third Reich which is being performed at The Lantern Theatre in May. The play, noted for being Brecht’s first openly anti-Nazi work was first performed in 1938 and still has the power to inform and shock audiences.

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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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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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(1724 words, estimated 6:54 mins reading time)