Author: Apex

A limerick is a form of poetry, especially one consisting of five-lines, predominantly in an anapestic meter with a strict rhyming scheme (AABBA), often with humorous intent. The first, second and fifth lines are usually longer than the third and fourth, moreover the first line traditionally introduces a person and/or…

Footage, Photos and frivolity!

4AD (Beggars Banquet) [caption id="attachment_527" align="alignright" width="300"] A British music collective led by Ivo Watts-Russell[/caption] This Mortal Coil Album - Filigree and shadow 1986 Album tracks - My Father, Alone, Drugs Single/EP - Come Here My Love/Drugs Album - Blood 1991 Album tracks - Natures Way, Bitter, Andialu Arista Records…

Signed 1990 to 1994. (Release of 'Club Classics' - album 1996) (Re-release of Where Love Lives - single 2003) (Re-release  - single Where Love Lives re-edit 2017) Having already recorded with a number of artists as a featured singer Alison Limerick finally signed her own deal in 1990. The original…

Why, you may ask - after so many years without one -  have I chosen to create an 'official' alison limerick website. The answer is twofold. I have been told by eeeeevrybody that I need one. 'Gota have one'. Well I resisted that imperative for a very long time but…

Film, Theatre, TV - part four Blink and more than two decades of recording career fly by before Ms Limerick can reclaim a place on the theatrical stage. The Pajama Game (1999 production) was crafted in Birmingham at the Repertory Theatre, directed by Simon Callow. It was a departure from…

Film. Theatre, TV - part three Work prior to the release of Where Love Lives. By the time La Limerick auditioned for her first west end show she no doubt thought she was prepared for anything. Wrong does not even get close, to either the audition process - which was…

A selection of reviews which originally appeared between February 12-25, 1983. Labelled with Love: Inspired by the Squeeze LP  'East Side Story'  opened February 1983 Lyrics and music by CHRIS DIFFORD and GLENN TILBROOK, script by JOHN TURNER  
Presented by The Combination. Cast  Mike . . . . . .…

Film, Theatre, TV - part two Let us skirt quickly over the rejections - and the small cameos in big shows most notably with Wayne Sleep - and move on to stage two. Securing a place in the cast of a musical led to receiving a much coveted Equity card…

Singing in the orchestra pit for a dance company is not adequate preparation for a life lived upon the stage but singing for London Contemporary Dance Theatre was, nevertheless, the first step on a long road that led eventually to a date with the West End stage. After working in…