For those of you who missed it, here’s the interview Sean Styles did with Jon Gomm on his BBC Radio Merseyside show on Saturday 9th October. You can listen to it using the player below, or download it here.
Geoff Speed was one of earliest voices to broadcast on BBC Radio Merseyside when it launched in 1967. Geoff, who shared presentation and production duties with Stan Ambrose, was born in Widnes in 1942 and had been involved in folk music for many years. One of the stalwarts of the BBCContinue Reading
BOOK REVIEW Title – Simon & Garfunkel: Together Alone Author – Spencer Leigh Publisher – McNidder & Grace Release date – 18th September 2016 Reviewer – Alan O’Hare While there is a major Paul Simon biography due this year from the celebrated American author Peter Ames Carlin, tomes on Simon & Garfunkel (and even just the former)Continue Reading
Liverpool Acoustic are using our monthly Liverpool Acoustic Live showcase event in August to celebrate the life of local legend Stan Ambrose. We’re opening the doors of the View Two Gallery’s top floor performance space and inviting people to come along to share their stories of the one-and-only Stan, singContinue Reading
Stan Ambrose funeral and send-off details We’ve had word of the details for Stan Ambrose’s funeral, and the two events the general public are invited to share in. AMBROSE – STAN, July 11, 2016. Peacefully at home aged 86. Retired social worker, presenter of ‘Folkscene’ on Radio Merseyside forContinue Reading
UPDATE There will be a send-off for Stan on Saturday 6th August and Sunday 7th August. Full details here. I was deeply saddened to hear about the death of Stan Ambrose. I first saw Stan during the late 1980s when he played the penny whistle in Cream of the BarleyContinue Reading
Those of you who follow us on Twitter @lpoolacoustic will already know that Liverpool Acoustic was featured on BBC Introducing in Merseyside last Saturday 9th August 2014 when Graham Holland and Stuart Todd were interviewed by host Dave Monks. Graham and Stuart talked about the origins of Liverpool Acoustic, theContinue Reading
GEOFF SPEED RETIRES AFTER 47 YEARS PRESENTING FOLKSCENE ON BBC RADIO MERSEYSIDE One of the stalwarts of the BBC Radio Merseyside on-air team has announced he is to retire after almost 47 years behind the microphone. Geoff Speed was one of earliest voices to broadcast on the station, which launchedContinue Reading
Back in November 2011 we published an article entitled WE NEED YOUR HELP to save Folkscene, and protect Radio Merseyside. This call to arms was in response to the Director-General’s proposals to slash budgets for BBC local radio stations across the country and to force stations to share programming atContinue Reading
