Stephen Graham is Scouse. When we met him he was wearing Adidas "trainees" and a Lacoste polo and was dead keen to talk about footy and point out the fact he was here today to "earn a few bob" to "pay the bills", "feed the kids" etc. He's old skool, and not afraid to say what he thinks. Which is a good thing.

We met him at the media launch of Sony Ericsson's flashy (and rather good as it goes) new handsets. We put some chairs in front of a board with Sony branding all over it and spoke candidly about him and life in general.

Is he ever annoyed he never gets the super-cool parts?
Which sportsman would he play in his ideal biopic?
Which young actors does he rate the most highly?
Will England win the World Cup?
What's his favourite piece of Scouse lingo?

All very important questions delivered by our flu-ridden interviewer. It seemed to go rather well, but don't listen to us, you lot should be the judge of that.

We do hope we didn't pass on our germs...

Stephen Graham performed at the exclusive 'NIGHT OF CLASSIC REINVENTION' event to celebrate the launch of the new Sony Ericsson Satio TM and Aino handset.