Search for barber: is Vic there?

AMUSIC writer is asking for help to track down a influential barber believed to be living in Aughton.

Liverpool music writer Paul Fitzgerald has embarked on a search to track down a man he calls “a local music legend”, even though he was not even a musician.

The barber, known as Vic, was considered a hero to the city’s music scene, according to Paul, and “all the bands went to Vic”.

Based in the Walker building at 49 Whitechapel, Vic’s was in easy access of Rushworths, Hessey’s Music and Curly Music in Stanley Street, where members city’s many bands could be spotted on a Saturday afternoon.

“The area was crawling with musicians. The original Probe records shop was round the corner on Button Street, X-Stremes the punk and goth hairdresser and clothes shop was there too, as well as the Armadillo Tea Rooms on Mathew Street. It was a great area to hang around for us young aspiring musos.

“His shop was tucked into a tiny space halfway up a staircase, big enough for him and his barbers chair, with a bench that could hold maybe three people queuing for one of his trademark flat-top cuts.

“Anyone else had to queue up the stairs outside”

Paul writes a column for the music blog Getintothis called Lost Liverpool, and would like to write a piece about Vic the barber. If, of course, that was even his name.

“Nobody actually knows, to be honest. The barbershop was called Vic’s and I think we all just assumed that was his name.”

During his researches, Paul was told that Vic was alive and well and living in Aughton, but he has not managed to track him down.

Anyone with any information about Vic, the “legendary barber of Whitechapel”, should contact Paul at nothingvillemusic@gmail.com