By Ian Youngs
Entertainment & arts reporter
Liverpool singer Jamie Webster is a superstar in his home city, with a 40,000-capacity headline show coming up this summer. But his outspoken political and footballing allegiances have proved divisive elsewhere.
When Webster played the biggest gigs of his career so far - two sold-out shows for 24,000 people on Liverpool's waterfront last summer - one intrepid fan spotted an opportunity to sneak in.
The open-air concerts took place between two of the city's historic docks. "There was a canal running right down the middle," the singer explains.