There Was so Much Talent at the Everyman: Spectacle of Dust

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IF the dots of the matrix line up, what else can you do but join them together? We're here today and gone tomorrow, we have to live every moment as though it were the last. Letting fear get the better of you, or finding a reason not to do the thing you love the most, is as pointless as refusing to dream.

The dots of the matrix aligned for me when Liverpool was named the European Capital of Culture for 2008. 'Great,' I thought when I heard the announcement, the cogs in my brain already whirring into action. 'That'll be great for the city, for its people.' Little did I know that I would be asked to play a major part in the event.

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There Was so Much Talent at the Everyman: Spectacle of Dust

Before we go any further, I should explain this much: Liverpool is central to my story and throughout my childhood I felt the city's gravitational pull. As children, Liverpool, rather than Manchester, drew us in. It was an exotic, otherwordly, mesmerising place and trips into town were as welcome as pres...

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