Lightning Seeds frontman Ian Broudie has explained exactly what keeps him in Liverpool despite his huge singing career.
The 64-year-old singer-songwriter joined the likes of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Atomic Kitten and Jamie Webster at The National Lottery's Big Eurovision Welcome outside St George's Hall on Sunday, May 7. He played The Life of Riley and Lucky You for the almost 30,000 strong crowd.
After finishing his set he spoke to The ECHO about what keeps him in Liverpool, despite his huge singing success.
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He said: "I think Liverpool is a hard place to leave actually, sometimes you think you have left and you haven't you know. I think it's a good city to make music in. I think it's a city that makes it fairly easy for you to make music, facilitates you and people believe in that.
"I think we sort of take it for granted [that] not everywhere has that attitude and infrastructure, and I think Liverpool it's just got music baked into the streets really. It's like it's in the DNA.
Ian said he thought it was a "really good thing" that Eurovision is being hosted in Liverpool on behalf of Ukraine following Russia's invasion.
He said: "It's funny to see all the streets packed like that, you normally only see that with old footage of either Bill Shankly or The Beatles or when we have won a cup or something. So it's really great to see the city embracing it, I think it's a really good thing, I think it's lovely having something in the city - we all like a party and it's an excuse for a party."
When asked about his advice for budding artists in the city hoping to break through, he said he thought the music industry and world was "quite different" from when he first started out.
He added: "What's lovely about it now is you're more in control of your own destiny with social media and stuff like that, and you never know what's going to happen. I think it's important not to make your music for anyone else, even though you are making it for somebody else.
"Every musician is in search of an audience but you've got to make sure when you have that audience you're doing something that you want it to do and that you're singing from your heart."
AJ Odudu and Joel Dommett presented The National Lottery's Big Eurovision Welcome event which will be broadcast on BBC ONE tonight (Monday, May 8)
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