Liverpool-based writer, musician, broadcaster and playwright Asa Murphy. With stage musicals such as Buddy Holly Lives, and Mack The Knife and Asa is currently on tour with my show Irish Annie's.
Asa Murphy and Ricky TomlinsonWbat are you up to?
I’m busy with Annie’s Bar. It’s set in an Irish family bar in Liverpool. We’ve just returned from a tour of Ireland and Scotland. One of our pub regulars Ricky Tomlinson (from the Royle Family) came with us!
Which piece of music always sends a shiver down your spine?
She by Charles Aznavour
Which musicians have most influenced you?
Buddy Holly and Tony Bennett
How did you get started in music?
Doing my apprenticeship singing for in the pubs and clubs in Liverpool.
What’s on your smartphone playlist at the minute?
Vince Gill and Finbar Furey
What song being played at a party would make you leave immediately?
Any rave music
What is your favourite place in Ireland?
Kerry
What would be your motto?
Energy follows thought.
Which living person do you most admire?
My Cork-born Da.
Who will act you when they make a film of your life?
Cillian Murphy (keep it in the family!)
If you weren’t a musician what other job would you be really good at?
Care worker
What's the worst piece of advice you've been given this year?
Buy cryptocurrency
Have you a favourite line from a song?
"The greatest thing that you will ever learn is to love and be loved in return" (Nature Boy)
In terms of inanimate objects, what is your most precious possession?
My Gibson J200 guitar
What’s the best thing about where you live?
My neighbours
. . . . and the worst?
Traffic
What gives you the greatest laugh?
My brothers and friends
What do you believe in?
People and kindness
What do you consider the greatest work of art?
Van Gogh's sunflowers
Who/what is the greatest love of your life?
My wife Kelly and my children Shea and Poppy
