The heat in Liverpool, even at ten in the morning, has begun to drain people and what feels like the longest heat-wave since 1976 takes on the atmosphere in the city and it feels strangely quiet around the area of St. Luke’s as crowds flock to river to get some sea breeze and seek some sort of shelter against the summer sun. One man though who forever seems in good spirits and who can turn an overcast, thundery day into a ray of sunshine is Eddie John Fortune.
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Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Anna Corcoran.
Anna Corcoran’s voice and beautiful melodies have earned her a great accolades and plaudits for her work, especially alongside her great friend Robert Vincent and since the release of her E.P., Anything Better, the owner of that recognisable voice has just kept growing in stature and quite rightly so.
Before she took to stage at The Unity Theatre, Anna took time out from the worries of the day to music world and relaxed in the café and loosened up before her show she spoke of her new video for the outstanding single The Show, her work on the E.P. and the reasons why she still calls Liverpool her home.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Peter Mitchelson.
As Peter Mitchelson recovers from his interview at the B.B.C. Merseyside studios on Hanover Street, it’s possible to understand how much the Shiny New Theatre Festival means to him. Watching his through the glass giving answers to the radio presenter about the ten day festival at the Lantern Theatre on Blundell Street only makes you admire him more for what he does for all the acts that are taking their performances to the theatre and trusting Peter with a little piece of their souls.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Laura-Kate Barrow Of LadyParts Theatre.
Cafe 81 on Renshaw Street at opening time is an oasis of calm and the perfect place it seems to meet writer and theatre maker Laura-Kate Barrow. The venue had recently played a part in Laura’s quiet determination to bring more theatre to Liverpool and especially to showcase more parts for women, a situation that still sees acting roles still predominantly written for men but something that Laura is keen to address. Over the sounds of fresh tea being made and the clamour for attention from the great staff inside Cafe 81 I get to ask this young woman about the 24 hour project in which Assemble was the end result and her up-coming play Bump.
Liverpool Sound and Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Rising Comedian Alastair Clark.
Alastair Clark sits back in the seats on the first floor of FACT on Wood Street and grins. The man who hails from Grantham in Lincolnshire is intensely likeable as a person, as many of University colleagues have threatened to attest to, he is one of the many University graduates that find themselves at the bitter end of the current recession/depression, depending on who you talk to, saddled with debt for wanting to learn and trying to make a difference.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Grethe Borsum.
In the week that The FACT Centre on Wood Street unveiled its latest exhibition, The Art of Pop video, I was able to meet up with Norwegian musician and photographer Grethe Borsum and spend time with her talking about her new musical venture and her inspired video for the song Apple Picking. The talented and charming woman from Baerum near Oslo came to Liverpool in 2003 and attended L.I.P.A and received a B.A. in Music and Performing Arts.