This week our Culture Radar guest is Director of Marketing & Comms, ACC Liverpool, Joanna Rowlands.
Loved: I went to see Taylor Swift at Anfield, not because I’m a massive fan but because I knew I would have mega FOMO if I didn’t when the rest of the city would be there. I LOVED IT! What a show. What a woman. Three solid hours of performance. Being at a big music event makes me so emotional at the best of times so seeing all those young people singing every word and mirroring every dance move, rendered me a puddle.
Looking forward to: I love musicals and invariably have about three in the diary at any one time. We have a system that works – dinner with BYO booze in The Egg, musical at the Empire and a sing song in Ma Egy’s afterwards. It’s always a joy. It’s a way off but I’m really REALLY looking forward to Hamilton coming to Liverpool. I’ve never seen it live but I know all the songs from Disney+. The main challenge will be not singing too loudly in the theatre.
Trivia: My career in the arts started when I worked at the Everyman in 1996 as an usher. It was one long party. I was on a gap year with a day job at John Moores and after work I would hot foot it up the hill to Hope Street to chuck Revels and warm wine at customers, before staying up till the early hours arguing about politics in the much-missed Ev Bistro.