By the age of 16, Charles was performing at Liverpool’s Everyman Bistro basement venue, which was known for its open-mic events.<\/p>\n
Within a year, he was performing his poetry on BBC 2 show Riverside.<\/p>\n
“I just got stuck into that and started shouting from the rooftops my opinion on things,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I was quite an angry young man, I suppose, but for some reason it resonated with people.”<\/p>\n
He described how Liverpool’s “really vibrant” music and poetry scene was a reflection of the city’s reaction to hardship.<\/p>\n
“Liverpool has always had a different kind of attitude, especially to adversity,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We make something out of it, we make a song, make a poem, make a football chant.<\/p>\n
“We do something with it, and we’ve always had the gift of the gab.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By the age of 16, Charles was performing at Liverpool’s Everyman Bistro basement venue, which was known for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-791564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}