John Simm – Roles Of A Lifetime, Shakespeare & Shakin’ Stevens

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05/10/22 • 69 min

You may know him best as an actor, but John Simm is also a fine musician, just ask Echo & The Bunnymen or New Order. John shares his early guitar-playing ambitions from gigging with his dad, to switching gears to acting in The Lakes, Doctor Who, Grace and Life on Mars – which may well be returning soon... Music obsessions run deep at John’s Here Comes The Sun fest (minor spoiler) and we wouldn’t have it any other way.

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