Category Archives: Interviews

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Alan Stocks.

Alan Stocks is one of Liverpool’s most easily recognised actors. His time in plays as diverse as Dead Heavy Fantastic, The Flint Street Nativity, Tartuffe and Scouse Pacific has made him a firm favourite with theatre audiences.

For the last few weeks he has been in the outstanding play by Joe Ward Munrow, Held, at The Liverpool Playhouse Studio Theatre with the superb Pauline Daniels and the inspiring Ged McKenna. Alan’s performance in the production is arguably the finest of his career to date. Alan will soon be seen in the musical Mam! I’m ‘Ere! at The Dome alongside Stephen Fletcher, Eithne Browne, Drew Schofield, Helen Carter, Rachel Rae, Paul Duckworth and Keddy Sutton.

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Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Igor Memic.

Igor Memic. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

For anyone who was fortunate enough to catch Igor Memic’s production of Happy at the Lantern Theatre this year, not only was it a first rate play designed to make audiences think but it was one of the finest moments in surreal escapism that crowd would have been privy to see during 2012.

Igor Memic is an enigma, driven and destined it seems to go on and make the theatre a place where his name will be seen for many years. Igor was born in Mostar, Bosnia to a Bosnian mother and Croatian father. It is this exotic mix, combined with a love of London and Liverpool that makes him an impressive figure to talk to.

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Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Charlie Griffiths

For anyone who has caught Charlie Griffiths either on stage in one of her many theatre productions or hearing her sing as part of the duo Killa Sista, it is easy to see why so many critics and, more importantly, audiences love her. She has numerous credits to her name, her first television appearance in Children’s Ward at the age of 13 led onto other  television roles. Her love of theatre has seen her star in Road as Helen, the title role in Everyman, Emma in A Liverpool Tale and Gloria in Return To Forbidden Planet.

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Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Matt Breen.

Matt Breen of The Endings. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

The sound of the station announcer’s voice at Liverpool Lime Street Station booms over the crowds making their way home after a hard day’s work in the city or as they pile in to the bars and music venues dotted around arguably the most vibrant city in the North of England. In amongst the organised chaos, the serenity of having a conversation with Matt Breen of The Endings about music, the band and being on the next step of his career is an oasis of calm.

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Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Rio Matchett.

Rio Matchett. Photograph by Ian D. Hall

One of the joys of being in a city such as Liverpool is the abundance of theatres that cater for all tastes and for all actors wishing to tackle the well-trodden boards and add their names to the list of watched and admired artists.

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Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement. An Interview With Dannielle Malone.

British playwright, Andrea Dunbar, wrote the sensational Rita, Sue and Bob Too! in the early 1980’s. It caused much controversy at the time as it played on the negative outlook of certain rundown council estates in the north of England and especially in her part of Bradford.  On the back of sell out performances at the St Helens Theatre Royal last year, the team behind the revival of the play have bought it back for another incredible run at the theatre.

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Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Suppement. An Interview With Eddie John Fortune.

Eddie John Fortune is one of the new wave of Liverpool actors whose voice is being heard and his reputation enhanced by productions such as Elastic Bridge and Love Me Do (in which he portrayed the city’s legendry Brian Epstein.) He is in rehearsals for the new Keifer Williams play Tongues, directed by his dear friend Joe Shipman, and which will be coming to the theatre next year and in which he will act alongside one of his co-stars from Love Me Do, the impressive Charlie Griffiths. If that wasn’t enough for one man to be getting on with, he is developing his own stand-up comedy character Gwillam Dorey which is about a gay Welshman with a fatal attraction towards Glenn Close.

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Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Joe Symes And Colin White

Liverpool and its surrounding areas that make up Merseyside have a lot to be thankful for when it comes to music. Nowhere it seems is the abundance of bands so heavily noticeable as the city of Liverpool that The Beatles, the likes of The Icicle Works, Gerry and the Pacemakers and Space and a whole load of other groups and singers called home and in which the last ten years the new breed of musicians have come to regard as the place where it is good to be from.

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Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement. An Interview With Mary Coughlan.

Photograph by Michael Kelly

Mary Coughlan is a born survivor and a woman of extreme passion who is able to sing straight from the heart. Since releasing her debut album in 1985 on Mystery Records, Tired and Emotional, Mary has gone on to record some truly classic songs in her own indomitable and exciting manner.

This year sees Ms. Coughlan come to Liverpool as part of the Liverpool-Irish Festival 10th anniversary celebrations and Mary will be performing as part of this at St. George’s Hall on the 18th October and whilst resting at home after performing to packed out shows in Sweden, I was able to catch up with the Irish singing sensation ahead of the festival.

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An Interview With Greg Lake.

Originally published by Liverpool Live. Monday 1st October 2012.

GREG LAKE is one of the real superstars of rock music, a  member of some of the most influential bands of the genre and a quality lyricist  and virtuoso musician whose records have sold millions. He’s back on the  road this coming autumn and this part of the tour sees him perform his  exceptional Songs of a Lifetime at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

From King Crimson  to E.L.P. to his own highly regarded solo  records, Greg Lake is the epitome of progressive rock and a man whose honest  opinions and views are still much sought after 45 years since he first recorded  his first single.

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