Category Archives: Interviews

An Interview With Neil Arthur From Blancmange.

Orginally published by L.S. Media. February 16th 2011.

The last few years has seen a multitude of iconic 80’s pop bands return with brand new material and willing to re-enter the hectic lifestyle of touring to packed audiences up and down the country. Sheffield pop stalwarts The Human League have been extremely successful in their approach over the period of time and their music has become even more popular to a brand new audience whilst at the same time holding on to the original fans that bought singles and albums in their millions. Duran Duran, once the darlings of the New Romantic scene tour extensively throughout May and countless others continue to ply their musical trade amongst some of the most loyal fans around.

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(1550 words, estimated 6:12 mins reading time)

An Interview With Alan O’ Hare.

The clanking of tea cups and sandwich plates being scurried around to the patrons of Lucy in the Sky restaurant is somehow a comforting wall of sound as I wait for Liverpool singer songwriter Alan O’ Hare. Like the restaurant, Alan O’ Hare has been busy beyond belief. A new album to launch which was warmly received by all, various gigs to perform at with one of Liverpool’s finest bands, The Trestles and which Bido Lito magazine call “Purveyors of heart-on-your-sleeve pop rock” and now the upcoming launch of another new song in the form of the quirkily titled Oscar Wilde (Stole My Morning).

I don’t have to wait long, Alan is caught up in traffic but I don’t have time to even take a sip of my tea from the overworked waitress as Al bounds over to me, trademark grin upon his face and looking for all intense purposes as if he received the best news in the world ever but had been told to keep it too himself.

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(2677 words, 1 image, estimated 10:42 mins reading time)

Ian Broudie Interview, Parr Street Studios.

Originally published by L.S. Media. January 30th 2012.

Parr Street Studios has Liverpool iconic status stamped heavily all over it. Its reputation as a place of musical birth is legendary. Bands, rocks groups and the odd solo star have recorded albums there, albums that have gone on to be best sellers. Even in the last few weeks Liverpool legends Space have recorded their long awaited new album there. Parr Street studios may not be instantly recognisable say as the waterfront skyline that visitors from across the globe see as they travel up the Mersey and dock underneath the three graces. Not as the much visited homes of the four Beatles or even as Penny Lane.

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(1256 words, 1 image, estimated 5:01 mins reading time)

Interview With Barry Briercliffe, Cancer Research Charity, Music Night at Parr Street.

Originally published by L.S. Media. February 13th 2012.

Parr Street Studios will host a very special evening in aid of Cancer Research on Monday 27thFebruary. Presided over by Liverpool musician Barry Briercliffe, the night will be a celebration of good music with a couple of extra special guests thrown into the mix that will just one of those nights in Liverpool that in all honesty, you have to be at!

It is fitting that Barry should host this night at Parr Street, with a new album coming out soon, Barry has long been one of the musicians that Liverpool loves, in that he always gives back to the city just as much as he gets out of it.

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(1015 words, 1 image, estimated 4:04 mins reading time)

Interview with Baz Warne, The Stranglers.

Originally published by L.S. Media and Liverpool Live. March 1st 2012.

March 5th sees the highly anticipated return of The Stranglers to the o2 Academy, Liverpool. In recent years the band have had nights on stage in the city that have been talked about for weeks afterwards. This though will see the punk rock legends do a national tour on the back of a new album release for the first time in six years. Not since Suite XVIwas released in 2006 have the band come out on the road armed to the teeth with a trunk full of new songs.

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(1294 words, 1 image, estimated 5:11 mins reading time)

Interview With Donna Lesley Price, Director Of Our Country’s Good At The Lantern Theatre.

Donna Lesley Price. Photograph by Ian D. Hall

Originally published by L.S. Media. March 27th 2012.

Donna Lesley Price is a busy woman. Not content with an abundance of writing material that is ready to be showcased and gearing up to take her fantastic show, If The Shoe Fits, across to the Floral Pavilion for three dates in August she also has taken on the mantle of directing Our Country’s Goodat the Lantern Theatre this week for Kick Theatre.

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(1111 words, 1 image, estimated 4:27 mins reading time)