A Liver Bird Sang!© An 11-11 production

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Peter Joyner

(Gedda the Busker)

Peter Joyner was born in Eastbourne and raised in the north of England and North Wales. For many years he performed in a number of amateur dramatic societies in the South Yorkshire area, mainly playing juvenile leads in plays and musical theatre.Subsequently he has performed solo or within bands, singing and playing guitar, in pubs and clubs in Britain and Europe and anywhere where he could sing for his supper. Since moving to the Wirral area he has started performing again in the organisation where he works, and anywhere else that will have him.  He now wishes to appear in shows that have more character parts as befits his maturing years! He’s looking forward to appearing in A Liver Bird Sang and performing live again during 2008. So if you see him,  please don't forget to drop a copper in his hat.

Samuel Erskine

(Ricky the Rookie)

Samuel Erskine was born in Liverpool and is currently working towards his A-levels at Sacred Heart in Crosby. He has performed with many Liverpool Theatre Companies in roles such as Mike The Memory of Water, Peachum The Threepenny Opera, Kiesar Wilhem  Oh What A Lovely War, Mr Waldo Under Milk Wood, Guide of Tiresias Antigone, Sebastian Twelfth Night, Stu Califorina Suite and has directed A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney. Samuel intends to study drama at high education at Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts and then pursue a career in theatre, or according to Samuel “live the dream”.

Ashley Guidera

(Tony, Chief Bouncer)

As a youngster, Ashley Guidera sang as a chorister at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral and had numerous successes singing at Music festivals across Merseyside. His last performance as a boy treble was with Una Voce Opera Company performing the title role in Gian Carlo Menotti's opera Amahl and the Night Visitors, in which Valerie Watts played the part of Amahl's mother. Ashley works in social care and as a Special Constable with Merseyside Police. These days he enjoys writing dance music but the opportunity of playing a bouncer proved too hard to resist and he has been lured out of vocal retirement.

Rebecca Martin

(Becks, Keyboards)

Rebecca Martin (AKA Becks) has been playing the keyboards since she was 4 years old and is a former student of Geoff Lavelle's.  She has performed in many concerts, such as Holst's Mars: The Bringer of War from The Planets Suite, Wagner's Wesendonck-Lieder, Puccini's Madam Butterfly, as well as the musicals Crazy for You and Chess with the West Kirby Light Opera Society.  Unfortunately, music has taken a 'back seat' since gaining her Business Studies degree at Sheffield Hallam University and The University of Central Lancashire.  Having been out of the music scene for several years, Becks jumped at the chance to be involved with this unique production and is enjoying working with Geoff again.

Tony Harrison

(Bazz,  Bouncer)

Matthew  Heery

(Mazza, Guitar)

Matthew Heery has been performing Classical and Jazz guitar in the Merseyside area for the past four years at venues such as the Liner Hotel, the piazza of the Liverpool Catholic Cathedral, the Anglican Cathedral and Saint Nicholas’ Church (as a soloist for the Liverpool Italian Opera Company) as well as performing regularly at a number of bars and restaurants. He is currently studying Classical guitar with Mark Eden of the Eden-Stell Guitar Duo at Birmingham Conservatoire.

 

THE SCOUSE ’OUSE STAFF AND MUSICIANS

STAFF

Emily Gerrans was born in Wales but has been living in Liverpool since 1999. Having sung in both the National Youth Choir for Wales and The South Glamorgan Youth Choir in the past, she has recently resumed her interest in singing. She has been a backing singer in the Liverpool band Broadband and has recently sung solos at wedding ceremonies.

Emily Gerrans

(Shazza, Barmaid)

MUSICIANS

Jonathan Pickett

(Lawson Phelps

Temporary Manager)

Jonathan Pickett graduated with a BA (Hons) in Performing Arts from Liverpool John Moores University where he gained experience in directing, acting and presentation and also performed in various productions. He has delivered drama workshops to children of all ages and works freelance for local drama schools in Merseyside were he directs plays. He has also prepared students for LAMDA examinations. Jonathan has a wealth of experience of working with young people through a variety of teaching posts within the Merseyside area. This was further enhanced through project leadership on the Hope Street Project. At the moment Jonathan is leading a drama workshop for children with behavioural problems and young people in prison. In addition he teaches acting at LIPA which he really enjoys. As a performer, Jonathan has toured Spain for Spain’s second largest theatre Company “Pavana”. He also has many credits for professional television and theatre.

Luke Jennings

(Drums)

Luke Jennings has been playing the drums since he was 12 due to the influence of his father, who is also a drummer. Currently studying Music at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, Luke has become more a part of Liverpool’s music scene, and regularly gigs with various musicians in venues throughout the northwest. His burgeoning experience as a session player and teacher has enhanced his ability to establish a good working rapport with colleagues, and quickly adapt to new situations.

 

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Anthony Sennet

(Ant, Bass)

Anthony Sennett - Totally addicted to bass!!

The moment of His birth was a million miracles rolled in to one. Marked by a national holiday, with the entire population of His immediate family lining the streets and singing His praises, it is said that on that day uncountable numbers of birds filled the sky, insects danced as they went about their lives, and electrons orbited slightly more quickly.  It was a gloriously sunny day and He was the youngest person in the world, and bathed in the glory if it.

 

Anthony (for that was His name) discovered His many talents very early. Using His vast mind-control techniques, He was able to make His merest whim so simply by behaving like a total shit.  The mother, a fine example of her sex, pandered to His every need, but when He noted any flagging of commitment on her part, she was beaten vigorously in a flurry of tiny fists and bathed in a healthy serving of vomit for her troubles. Such were, and still are, the more peripheral aspects of His fabled techniques.

 

The brilliance continued. By the age of two He was chortling at pain (it being, in His consideration, not worthy of all-out laughing). He rubbed pepper in His eyes, jumped down multiple flights of stairs with only a rope around His neck as a safety harness, put His head into plastic bags, and dived from chest freezers easily twice His height into 2 inch puddles of boiling water.  Living dangerously has always been His motto. At six He was a keen amateur stunt rider and daredevil, setting Himself ever greater targets to strive to be the best.  He regularly risked his very life stealing coal from Builth Coal Yard, and grimly braved the locals to carry it literally tens of meters back to His moderately large and comfortable house to keep His family warm during the harsh winter months.

 

He is artist of the artists, and has carried out such in-depth studies of the subject as to render any other points of view useless. He paints, swings, stutters, strums, clicks, gasps, feints, presses, hangs, plugs and faints. He never shaves, and drinks only partially-evaporated Coca-Cola. He is a genius.

 

He mixes and matches, swerves and dodges and limbos. Knives do not harm Him. By 15 He was an all-out fretless bass guitar extraordinaire, playing with ease anything that He put in front of Him. He achieved 96% in grade five theory, and a distinction in grade six bass, and merits in grade eight bass and grade six piano.  He redefined religion by playing for fifteen minutes in a church. Amps on ten, drummer on loud, God on mute, He played.

 

He sweet-talked His way into Liverpool University, and here He is in the city of the chavs, doing what He can to co-exist with sports scientists and other sub-species, and gracing all with His presence. After dropping the physics course, He declared Himself the anti-physicist, and hatched a most brilliant plan to annihilate a Physicist by running at them, creating nothing but pure energy, with two gamma rays coming out opposite each other to conserve momentum. He remains to this day watching, waiting, and biding his time, aching to sacrifice himself for the good of Mankind.  Using the Euler Equation He has proven that exp(jπ) + 1 = 0.

 

He is amazing.

 

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