Born and bred in Liverpool, Northwest, UK. A former fairground worker, trawler deckhand, and industrial painter & shotblaster who became a mature student. Now employed as an administrator and union convenor at Liverpool John Moores University .
City of Liverpool, current affairs, higher education, indie music, local history, modern art, public administration, real ale, social thought, the internet, trade unionism, et al.
Anyone who cares!
L S Lowry - The Liver Building (1962)
Liverpool Links - directory of Liverpool-related URLs by Howie
Liverpool subCulture - weblog by 'Tonys Parrishioners'
UNISON Liverpool JMU Branch - website by Ray
Liverpool Indymedia - news by you, for you
Yo! Liverpool - forum by Kev
Too much to mention, but you can find a superb listing of Liverpool 'alternative' bands here ...
Whatever is showing at the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT) in Wood Street.
Don't watch much apart from BBC News and Sky News .
Liverpool - A City That Dared To Fight
by Peter Taaffe and Tony Mulhearn.
Read online here .
Nerve - Promoting grassroots arts and culture on Merseyside
produced by Catalyst Media.
Read the latest issue here .
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
by Robert Tressell.
Read online here .
Alan Bleasdale, Tony Booth, Bessie Braddock, Josephine Butler, Craig Charles, Margi Clarke, John Conteh, Arthur Dooley, Doctor Duncan, Terry Fields, Robbie Fowler, Derek Hatton, Eric Heffer, Adrian Henri, Jack Jones, John Lennon, Alec McFadden, Roger McGough, Jimmy McGovern, George Melly, Tony Mulhearn, Robert Noonan (Tressell), Yoko Ono, Alun Parry, John Peel, Ian Prowse, Eleanor Rathbone, William Roscoe, Edward Rushton, Willy Russell, Alexei Sayle, Bill Shankly, Margaret Simey, Freddie Starr, Levi Tafari, Ricky Tomlinson, Cathy Tyson, Kitty Wilkinson, Joseph Williamson, Pete Wylie, et al.