Drifting ft Jeff Young - Ghost Cinemas [20/11/2025]

Words/Voice - Jeff Young [Walton]
Music/Production - Joe Mckechnie [Bootle]

I've known Jeff for as long as the mists of time allow.
Along with most things pertaining to music & bars, we were part of the Liverpool bookshop browser scene. Atticus, News From Nowhere, Progressive Books (where I worked/got told off by Dave Cope for shouting "HELLO AGGRESSIVE BOOKS!" when answering the phone) and more.

One afternoon in The Grapes on Roscoe Street, I'm telling Jeff how much I enjoyed his latest BBC Radio play, or essay was it? I know it was set in the Walton area of Liverpool, childhood, a pub, a bedroom window, Elsie barmaid, mists of time.

Let's talk some more says Jeff, the current notebook is flourished, I write my number down, and wait.

The funny thing about waiting.

I read Jeff's essay on the Lost Cinemas of Liverpool (lot more going on of course, this isn't a Liverpool Echo "remember when..." article).

The wait is over.
I've got to be Drifting …

— Joe the Drifter, 26 November 2025



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