Brother Joe McCann’s ready to sail with Sting’s the ‘Last Ship’ crew

“We’re very close in age, me and Paul,” Joe says. “There’s only seven years between the five of us” (there is also a sister, Clare, the youngest, not an actor). So did he blaze a trail for the rest of them? “I can’t really take that responsibility,” he laughs. “Because we never discussed it. The fact of the matter is, it was a local youth theatre club that we went to, so we all went along in our own time.” It was, he says, pretty much in the blood anyway. “As kids, at parties, everyone had their party piece. The uncles and aunts would sing or recite, we’d be sitting on the stairs listening. As kids, growing up in the 1960s, I remember going to a cousin’s wedding and we were all dressed as The Beatles, the four of us. We’d be singing their songs – that was the time in Liverpool we grew up. Everyone in the world knew where our city was, and it was all about singing and music. We were very proud of that.” He first went to the theatre as a reward for passing his 11-plus exams; “It was The Ghost Train by Arnold Ridley…. Read full this story

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