November 2008 Archives

I went to see the premiere of the final Digital Departures film at FACT last night.
The storyline of Kicks centres around two teenage girls - Nicole and Jasmine - who bond over their love for (fictitious) Liverpool player Lee Cassidy, but when they get obsessive things turn decidedly messy.
And I tell you something, if I was a Premiership player, Kicks would scare the **** out of me!

The air is full of the "L" word.
No, not love, but legacy.
Actually, there's also look as in look back at the year as well.
Where have the months gone? And why, with five weeks left of 2008 does it feel like Capital of Culture is already coming to a close?
Probably because of the L word, which is now being bandied about with abandon.

Phew, it's Friday!
Another mad week for Capital of Culture which reached its peak last night with the MTV European Music Awards at the ECHO Arena.
I say "European" but it was dominated by the Americans who won pretty much everything.
I hear Liverpool and the Arena looked pretty fab on the TV though.
I say "hear" because I didn't actually get to see it - either in the flesh or on telly. But that's another story.
It was hard, however, to miss the scrum of fans and photographers waiting for the stars outside the Radisson.
Anyway, one hot ticket I DID get was to see King Lear at the Everyman on Wednesday evening.
It's not every day you see a (very skinny) bearded Pete Postlethwaite in a dress doing unmentionable things to himself!

I've been a keen genealogist for more than 20 years - my enthusiasm first fired by an old family bible with copperplate handwriting.
In fact, if I wasn't a journalist I'd quite like to have been a genealogist, investigating and fleshing out people's family backgrounds.
So I was interested to hear Nick Barratt, of BBC Who Do You Think You Are? fame, give a talk at the Family History Fair at St George's Hall on Saturday.