Jamie Webster in Liverpool

Folk on Foot

Matthew Bannister

Music Interviews, Performing Arts, Music, Nature, Arts, Science

4.8 • 526 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

“My city, my people, my heart” – Jamie Webster loves his home city of Liverpool – and Liverpool loves Jamie Webster. The young singer and songwriter started out performing chants for fans of Liverpool FC, which led to a gig in front of 60,000 at the Champions League Final and a meeting with manager Jurgen Klopp. Now his songs of working-class life have made Jamie a local hero with two hit albums under his belt.

In this episode he takes us to a community centre called “the Florrie” where he volunteers. In the centre’s food bank, he expresses his anger that so many people in a wealthy country like the UK can’t afford to feed themselves. Then it’s off to the Beatles statue, the Liver Building and the Cavern Club where Jamie has just joined the illustrious list of performers with their names written on bricks outside.

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0:00.0	Well, Liverpool's a city that's known for its music, and we've just got off the train at Lyme Street Station,
0:09.7	and there's somebody playing the trumpet in the background, which is absolutely perfect.
0:14.1	But we've come here to meet somebody who's part of current Liverpool music,
0:19.4	somebody who's been at number one in the official folk albums chart and in the
0:24.2	top ten certainly for the last year. And Jamie Webster is a huge figure in Liverpool. It started with
0:33.2	his association with Liverpool Football Club, but now he's become a musical phenomenon
0:38.1	who writes songs about the lives
0:40.8	of the ordinary working people of this city.
0:43.6	So who better to give us an insight
0:45.9	into life in contemporary Liverpool?
0:48.3	Music I'm I'm I'm
0:55.0	I'm
0:56.0	the Morning, Jamie.
1:31.4	Good morning, Matt.
1:32.4	Lovely to see you.
1:33.7	Where have you brought us?
1:35.0	So today I've brought us to the Florence Institute, or commonly known in Liverpool, as the Flory.
1:41.0	And it's a community centre that's been within the heart of the Dingle and
1:46.5	Toxtath area for a long long time now and yeah there's some great stories about even the
1:53.1	Beatles being associated with this place and just the old working class folk of Liverpool if
1:58.3	you like and yeah it still does unbelievable work in the community and I'm going to show you
2:02.8	what that is and tell you a little bit about it
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