This is the Blood Red podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.

Hello, my name is Paul Weilock and welcome to your latest podcast on the Blood Red channel.

What's great about Liverpool and Merseys is that no matter who you support, whether red or blue,

is that people stand together on the bigger, more important things than what happened on the pitch.

Yet another example of that is the special event taking place at the O2 Academy in the

City Center on Friday night. Call Talk tonight it features some of the best bands in acts in Liverpool, and it's been inspired

by the death of big Liverpool supporters Michael Woodburn and Neil Yossa Hughes.

84 men take their own lives per week in the UK, the event aims to help break the stigma of mental health and suicide as well as raising money to two very worthy local causes.

Paul's Place, a charity that offers post-vention bereavement counseling for those who have lost people close to them,

and James's Place, a non-clinical center for men experiencing suicidal crisis.

For the first part of this podcast I speak to one of the organizers of the events

Chris Terrell about how and why it came about and for the second part of this

podcast I speak to a scouse footballer Kevin Ellison. The 39 year old Morcombe Forward opened up

about his own mental health issues in the summer. Back then we interviewed Kevin to

talk about why he went public on his eight-year battle with depression, and I picked up the phone to the

boyhood Liverpool fan again this week to talk about the reaction to his initial

posts on Twitter and the fact that more and more footballers are coming out and

talking about mental health. You can buy talk tonight

tickets from W. W.C.Tickets.com. They cost 22.50 and all proceeds will go to Paul's

place and James's place.

And if you need mental health and suicide support,

the NHS has compiled a list of free help lines,

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