Results tagged “echo arena” from Liverpool Echo - Culture Chat

I spent the morning at the Echo arena showing why I write and the Holiday on Ice skaters...skate.
Following my turn on the rink with Kyran Bracken and the patient, kind cast of the Spirit show, I have a new-found admiration for Dr Hilary Jones and Todd Carty.

It may have lost out in the TV rating battle to ITV rival X Factor, but Strictly Come Dancing is certainly still a draw if the size of the crowd at the Echo arena last night was anything to go by.
There must have been around 6-7,000 people in there to see 2009 champ Chris Hollins, Wallasey rugby imp Austin Healey and their celeb cohorts put through their paces.

So naughty (did you see his "promise" in my arts pages last Friday to strip off if he wins the live show at the Echo arena next month?) Austin Healey was right.
Chris Hollins and Ola Chops did lift the Strictly crown on Saturday night and the 'entertainer' beat the 'dancer'.

Ladies and gentlemen of the hard working Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir - an apology.
In my review of Andrea Bocelli in Saturday's Echo I said that he was accompanied by the Crouch End Festival Chorus - the choir which was named and pictured in the programme.
It's since been brought to my attention that it wasn't the Londoners who were on stage at the Echo arena with Bocelli, but our own RLPC!

You wait for one Strictly show - and then FOUR come along, if not together than in fairly close succession.
Merseyside fans of the BBC Saturday night dance extravaganza will be spoilt for choice come the new year as nearly every Strictly Come Dancing star will descend on the city.

As you probably know from today's Echo (link at the end of this) I went to review Michael Ball at the arena last night.
Although he's shrugged off the Hairspray cross-dressing mantle at the moment, he's returning to the role of Edna Turnblad for a national tour next year.
He told last hight's audience "come and see me in Manchester."

Michael Ball has ditched Edna Turnblad's high heels and pendulous breasts and is coming back to the Echo arena in September as part of a 25th anniversary tour.
That's 25 years in showbizz for the 47-year-old who shows no sign of flagging.
I caught up with him on the phone and you can read all about life after Hairspray, plus an admission about his karaoke favourite (although I have it on good authority he can also do a mean Life On Mars) and sone news about an exciting future project in today's 24/7 in the Echo.....

Apparently the Echo arena box office has been fielding calls today from ladies who are keen to go to the Summer Pops concert tonight - but aren't sure they'll get in.
It appears some people have read the wording "Only Men Aloud" as a badly-spelled discriminatory instruction as opposed to being the name of one of the acts.
The all-male singing troupe, who won the BBC's Last Choir Standing contest, are sharing the bill with X -Factor runner-up Rhydian.
And Pops promoters tell me that everyone is welcome, whatever their sex!

A couple of years ago I reviewed Russell Howard at the Unity theatre where he played to an audience of 100.
Tomorrow night he's at the Philharmonic with an audience of more than 1,000.