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Play Contest Shows Global Appeal Of The Beatles.

Four new plays about the Beatles are being staged in June as part of the Liverpool Fringe Festival, showing the continuing global appeal of The Fab Four. 

The thirty-minute plays chosen in a competition have come from a field of entries which includes Israel, New Zealand and the U.S.A. 

“We are delighted so many people responded from overseas“, said Sharon Colpman, Executive Producer of Liverpool-based Make it Write Productions. 

Make it Write has teamed up with Ticket to Write to resurrect the competition which was held in Liverpool for five years. 

Play Contest Shows Global Appeal Of The Beatles. full post

(408 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

The Analogues, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Imagine being at Candlestick Park, the home of the San Francisco Giants, in late August 1966, or around two and half years later, on January 30th 1969, at ground level in Central London, looking up to the heavens and hearing the now unfamiliar live sound of four men from Liverpool. Imagine understanding that both these two events were so significant in the annals of music history, not only for the band, but for the wider implication of what went on between the two dates and what would follow; it would almost certainly be the stuff of legends, a screaming mob of fans who paid between four and six Dollars to attend the final throws of infant pop, and the almost quiet drawing on a London street of the curtain on the first part of legendary status confirmed for ever.

The Analogues, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. full post

(685 words, estimated 2:44 mins reading time)

Lennon’s Banjo, Theatre Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Eric Potts, Jake Abraham, Mark Moraghan, Lynn Francis, Daniel O’Brien, Stephanie Dooley, Alan Stocks, Roy Carruthers.

Special guest appearance by Pete Best.

Memorabilia is big business, some of it only worth the money to the person that truly wants to covet it, to see it take pride of place in a darkened room and never let anyone ever see it again. The private collector to whom a piano played by Billy Joel, Elton John or Tori Amos is as valuable, if not more so, than keeping the instrument used to create art out of sight of millions; a type of dystopian pleasure, a greed that undeniably stokes the furnaces of ownership but also in which hangs tales of intrigue, of lost items and found loves.

Lennon’s Banjo, Theatre Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(409 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Now You’re 64.

Now that I’m older, still dying my hair

With many fears about why and how.

Will you still be sending me books on crime

Poirot, Marple, even Harry Lime?

If I’d not phoned till quarter to three

Would you have a search party at my door?

Will you still need me, no need to feed me

Now your 64?

 

I am older too

And because you brought me into the world

I will forever love you.

 

I was never that handy mending your clothes

Now You’re 64. full post

(251 words, estimated 1:00 mins reading time)

A Trip To A Festival.

So I married a cheese plant…well given the alternatives, I think we have both been happy enough, although I am well aware that I was not the poor cheese plant’s first choice of possible life partners.

A Trip To A Festival. full post

(2998 words, estimated 12:0 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: 1963: Fanfare For The Commen Men. Audio Drama Review, Big Finish 178.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Peter Davison, Sarah Sutton, Mitch Benn, Andrew Knott, David Dobson, Ryan Sampson, Alison Thea- Skot, Jonty Stephens, Barnaby Edwards.

1963 will be remembered for many things, many moments in time which defined how the following 50 years has been looked upon, sometimes with great fondness, sometimes with the pit in the stomach which leaves those living today feeling sick and morally outraged that it was allowed to happen.

Doctor Who: 1963: Fanfare For The Commen Men. Audio Drama Review, Big Finish 178. full post

(460 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)