Our city-centre tree deficit, the genius of Ladytron and a little about me

David Lloyd’s writer’s edition

Dear members — David Lloyd is a man who knows what he likes and doesn’t like. He likes Eurovision, for example. Cruising less so. He very much liked Cream, back in its heyday. He’s less a fan of noise, at least not the omnipresent buzz of white noise that envelops us and makes a quiet lunch at a city centre cafe something like waging all-out war on the insides of your ears. 

He’s written about all those things and more for us over the last year or so. And so, who better, we thought, to produce our next writer’s edition; a compilation of likes, dislikes, recommendations and observations about Liverpool and the city region. Jack did the first last month — featuring the existential threats facing local radio, the impossible challenge of reading The Brothers Karamazov and The Denbigh Castle pub. David’s version features Liverpudlian electronic band Ladytron, the strange lack of trees in our city centre and The Denbigh Castle pub. This is either a) a bizarre coincidence or b) a flagrant pie…