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Lisa was dashing around from her tour rehearsals and her busy schedule continued into the late evening and straight into another interview for Australian TV channel 9. Lisa spoke candidly to Morning's David Campbell and Sonia Kruger on Wednesday. 'There was a period in music that didn't suit what I did. I didn't fit in,' said the throaty voiced,  Lisa @ GAY 3rd May - photo by Suzan for EMPICS Entertainment
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(Keep upto date with Johnny Thirkell's Tour blog and all the shenanigans along the way...)  DJ Soulswede is unsurprisingly Swedish & really knows his soul music inside out. You can read about him by clicking here This was Lisa's fourth appearance at the infamous G-A-Y club night since 2001
(June 2001, February 2003, September 2004 and 3rd May 2014) we're all looking forward to plenty more! Says Lisa of So Be It - “This song is lovely to me. It’s all about being proud of being yourself and holding your head up high. We are what we are. So be it!”
The Southend Standard reports:
THE world premiere of long-lost Peter Sellers films brought out the stars at the gala opening of the Southend film festival. Stars of stage and screen, and even music, turned up at the Odeon, Southend, on Thursday for the screening of the Sellers’ classics. Mackenzie Crook, who made his name in hit comedy, the Office, and who has since scored Hollywood success in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, introduced the films as he is a lifelong Sellers fan. He was joined by celebrities including singer Lisa Stansfield, comedienne Helen Lederer, as well as actors Joely Collins and Vicki Michelle. The Sellers films, Dearth of a Salesman and Insomnia is Good For You, were lost for 60 years before they were found in a skip in London when the defunct Park Lane Films’ former office building was being cleared out. Stars were full of praise for Sellers. Vicki Michelle said: “Peter Sellers is part of what’s great about British culture.” Lisa Stansfield said: “It’s great to be here and a privilege to see these films. Sellers was a genius, wasn't he?”Mackenzie Crook, who lives in Peter Sellers’ former house in London, said: “If character actors have a god, it is Peter Sellers, who developed the skill of being a character actor into so much more. “He might have cringed at the idea that these films would be screened at a film festival, but the passage of time has turned them into treasures.” Film festival director, Paul Cotgrove, said: “Due to Peter Sellers’ iconic status with film fans around the world and the fact that he is sadly no longer with us, any ‘new’ material is bound to produce an enormous amount of interest.” Mr Cotgrove was joined by the grandson of Peter Sellers, Will Sellers, on the red carpet. Mr Sellers said: “Most people don’t get the opportunity to see a grandparent they’ve never met on screen like this and it’s nice to see people are still interested in what granddad did.” Also walking along the red carpet was Westcliff actor Darren Kent, who is in the new series of hit show Game of Thrones. On Easter Monday 20th April 1992 The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert (for AIDS Awareness) was held at London's Wembley Stadium, in front of an audience of 72,000 which was broadcast live on television and radio to 76 countries around the world, with an audience of up to one billion. The concert was a tribute to the life of the late Queen frontman, Freddie Mercury, with all proceeds going to AIDS research. The profits from the concert were used to launch The Mercury Phoenix Trust AIDS charity organisation. On that day back in 1992, Lisa sang a duet with George Michael on "These Are the Days of Our Lives" (written by Queen drummer Roger Taylor). One year later, in April 1993 an EP of Lisa Stansfield and George Michaels performances with Queen were released as "Five Live". On this very day, 1st May 1993 it went straight in at No.1 where it remained for 3 weeks. |