musicians – unicornpostbox

Yesterday I went with one of my best friends Lou and her family to see Steve Steinman’s ‘Anything for Love’ meatloaf tribute show at Cast theatre, Doncaster, it was amazing! 😁

Steinman is a very successful director, producer, actor and singer, with a vast fan base. He has performed all around the world. Notably, ‘Vampires Rock’ is in it’s 20th anniversary tour, a huge success for Steinman, proving massively popular, a blend of classic rock, and tounge-in-cheek hilarity, with incredible musicians. Also, his debut number one album ‘Take a Leap of Faith’, released August 2021, dominated charts. The songwriter John Parr (no I’m not related to him!) listened to Steinman’s album, and felt like it was destined for Steinman to sing one of Meatloaf’s ‘lost’ songs (never released) ‘Eveything They Said was True’. Furthermore, Steinman’s new musical masterpiece ‘Eternal Love’ hits the theatres next year! I am so excited to go as a birthday celebration in March! My cousin told me how amazing ‘Vampires Rock’ is, so I can’t wait to stick my teeth into ‘Eternal Love’ ❤️❤️

I was most familiar with songs 🎵 from the legendary ‘Bat out of Hell’ album, but there were a couple I was unfamiliar with. To add a bit of variety, the girl backing singers sang ‘Holding out for a Hero’ by Bonnie Tyler, and ‘All Coming Back to Me’ by Celine Dion, for example, Trixabelle Bold and Ashley Cavell, they were outstanding singers! Greg Morton however on the piano absolutely blew me away! He was exceptionally talented, along with the other musicians, Johnny Sax on the saxophone, Dan Stevens, James Marsh and Joe Brierley on the guitars/bass guitar 🎸 And not to forget John Evans, a terrific backing vocalist.. The staging was epic, with all the instruments and balls of fire gushing up 🔥

Some of my favourite songs were ‘I Would do Anything for Love (But I Won’t do That’, ‘Two out of Three Ain’t Bad’, ‘Dead Ringer for Love’ ‘Heaven Can Wait’, ‘Paradise by the Dashboard Light’, ‘You Took the Words Right out of My Mouth’ and of course the magnificent ‘Bat out of Hell’ 🦇🦇 I was swaying and happily singing along 😁😁 It reminded me of when me and my late mum went to see ‘Bat out of Hell’ the musical in London, 2018, before she got too poorly. She was bobbing along merrily too to all the songs then too! 🎵 Me and my sister grew up with Meatloaf, he was one of mum’s favourites 😍 Rather than feeling sad, I actually felt comforted and connected to mum, hoping she was at peace and looking down on me 🥰🥰

So, yes, a fantastic performance 👏 and I will definitely get booked up for ‘Eternal Love’ at Cast next spring. I am also going to the pantomime at Christmas time ,which I believe this year is ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ and I will support the little theatre too at their festive ‘Cinderella’ production..

Thank you as ever for taking the time to view/read.. all the best, Lauren xx

Here is a selection of some of the pencil portraits I have drawn over the last few years. All my pencil portraits are usually A3 size, and I work from photographs. I either use Chuck Close’s method of using a grid system (the long method), or I use a light box / stencil to draw the outline, and then shade from looking at a photograph (cheater, haha!).. I tend to draw famous people, musicians / actors / actresses etc, or film / TV characters, as I am an avid film / TV / music fan… hope you enjoy looking through my lil selection, hehe…

Film / TV characters:

(My drawing of Daenerys Targaryen, from ‘Game of Thrones’)

(My drawing of Jack Torrance, from ‘The Shining’)

(My drawing of Rachael, from ‘Blade Runner’)

(My drawing of Norman Bates, from ‘Psycho’)

(My drawing of Freddy Krueger, from ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’)

(My drawing of William Wallace, from ‘Braveheart’)

(My drawing of The Joker, from ‘The Dark Knight’)

(My drawing of Hannibal Lecter, from ‘The Silence of the Lambs’)

(My drawing of Yoda, from ‘Star Wars: Prequel Trilogy’)

(My drawing of Edward Scissorhands, from ‘Edward Scissorhands’)

(My drawing of Neytiri, from ‘Avatar’)

Famous people:

(My drawing of Bob Dylan – musician)

(My drawing of Jimi Hendrix – musician)

(My drawing of Marilyn Monroe – actress)

(My drawing of Angelina Jolie – actress)

(My drawing of Amanda Palmer – musician)

(My drawing of Bill Hicks – comedian)

I studied Fine Art at A-level (10 years ago, damn I’m getting old lol). My drawings were super hyper-realistic when I was younger, I’ve sort of ‘lost it’ as I’ve got older, because I practise less perhaps, but I still think my attempts are not tooooo bad (hope you agree…haha!) …

I absolutely love drawing, especially portraits. I don’t know why but I just love ‘capturing’ an iconic moment, which is probably why I’m also interested in photography, the idea of ‘capturing’ something pretty, hehe… There’s nothing more therapeutic for me than sat with some pencils and paper, earphones in, cup of tea on the table…that’s my bliss, just lovely.

I intend to draw more personal portraits for people, such as of friends and family (just as a hobby, not professionally). I’m actually working on a big family portrait at the moment, an A1 size of three subjects which is much bigger than I usually attempt, I hope it turns out alright! I might even incorporate some flowers around the edge, and a watercolour effect…

…so watch this space! 🙂

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‘Anything for Love’ Meatloaf tribute, theatre review

17 Pencil Portraits – a personal portfolio of drawings