“I hate Peer Gynt. Why should we do it?” These aren’t my words. It’s the phrase that apparently sprang to the lips of Gemma Bodinetz, artistic director of Liverpool’s Everyman Theatre, when it was suggested the venue might want...
Read MoreI remember my first trip to Liverpool well. It was in the late 1980s and I recall seeing a telephone with a lobster for a handset. Oh, and a naked woman embracing a swan. Surely a trick of the teen mind, you might think. Did the...
Read MoreIt’s 30 years since I first came into contact with the work of Ken Simons at Tate Liverpool and I must have been witness to his handiwork many times since then. Not that I knew it at the time. For three decades – ever since the...
Read MoreIt always helps an interview along when you discover a family connection to the global mega-star sitting in front you. Alas, the branches of my ancestral tree aren’t much entangled with Sting’s as far as I’m aware, but the...
Read MoreThere are many reasons to feel a surge of joy at the sight of the Liverpool skyline. There’s the architecture for instance, the way the buildings rise, fall and crescendo like a riverside musical score. And there’s the natural...
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