The 2015 interview INK's own blog quoted in full

An archived blog post, dated by its own byline to 15th November 2015, carries the headline: The Guide Liverpool presents INK – Liverpool's hottest new venue. The post's own text reads: The Guide Liverpool visit Ink! We where recently featured in an excellent nightlife & culture publication called THE GUIDE LIVERPOOL. Lee Butler interviews one of the gents behind the creation of the concept, and they talk all thinks Ink, tattoo's, RnB, House & cocktails.

This is the only post among this wave's sources naming an outside publication, a named journalist, and a named staff member together. This note covers that post on its own, as a distinct piece of INK's documented early history.

Who the post names

Three names appear in this short post: The Guide Liverpool as the publication, Lee Butler as the interviewer, and Liam Flaherty as the venue's own bar manager, credited in the post's own continuation as knocking up the new addition, in context a cocktail, for the feature. Dave Pethard is named separately as the post's author in the blog's own byline, distinct from anyone interviewed in the piece itself.

No other post in this wave's reading, including the birthday and tattoo-licence posts covered in a separate note, names a bar manager or any other individual staff member by name. This post is the one exception.

One of the gents behind the creation of the concept is how the post describes the interview subject, without naming that person directly in this sentence; whether that unnamed founder is Liam Flaherty himself or a separate person is not settled by the post's own wording, which credits Flaherty only with the cocktail detail that follows. Gents, plural in the post's own phrasing, implies more than one person was behind the venue's original concept, though only one is interviewed and none is named in that particular clause.

What the interview is described as covering

The post's own summary of the interview's subject matter: they talk all thinks Ink, tattoo's, RnB, House & cocktails, a typo for "all things" left exactly as the post itself prints it. That summary connects the tattoo subject directly to a press interview, the same tattoo-station history a separate note in this wave covers from a different, undated post.

Whether this interview happened before or after the tattoo licence described in that other post is not something either post states; this November 2015 date is the earliest firmly dated post among this wave's sources, which places the interview early in the venue's own documented history regardless of the exact tattoo-licence timeline. Cocktails is named last in the post's own list of subjects, after tattoos, RnB and House, though the post gives no reason to read that order as a ranking of importance. Four subjects named in one short sentence, tattoos, RnB, House and cocktails, is a reasonably broad summary for a single magazine interview to have covered, touching the venue's drinks, its music and its unusual tattoo chair all in one piece.

"Liverpool's hottest new venue," in the post's own headline

New venue, in the post's own November 2015 headline, is consistent with a club still establishing itself rather than one already marking an anniversary; the first-birthday post a separate note in this wave covers describes an August Bank Holiday party, which this November post would either precede or follow depending on which August is meant.

The headline's claim, hottest new venue, is the publication's own framing as INK's post quotes it, not an independent description this note can verify; it is reported here as the quoted headline of a 2015 feature, nothing more.

If this November post predates the first birthday the other note covers, it places INK's opening in or before 2015, consistent with the "since it's birth in 2015" line that other note already quotes from a separate source; this note treats that as a consistent picture rather than independent proof either way. A publication choosing to feature a venue as its hottest new opening within the venue's own first year or so of trading is a plausible, ordinary piece of local press coverage, not an unusual claim in itself.

A short post, read in full rather than summarised

The entire post, in the portion captured by this wave's reading, runs to a handful of sentences: an announcement that the feature ran, a one-line summary of what was discussed, and the bar manager's name attached to a specific detail, a cocktail made for the piece. It does not quote Liam Flaherty or Lee Butler directly beyond that framing, and it does not reproduce any passage from the original Guide Liverpool article itself.

This note does not have access to the original Guide Liverpool piece, only to INK's own blog post describing it; what is reported here is strictly what INK's own archived page says about the interview, not the interview's own content. A post this short, repeating only a handful of facts, is typical of how the blog treats press coverage elsewhere in the archive, a quick acknowledgement rather than a full reprint. Readers wanting the fuller Guide Liverpool piece would need to track down that publication's own archive, outside anything this wave's sources cover, since INK's own post exists only to point toward it, not to reproduce it.

Why a press mention belongs in this wave

Wave one's ten notes work entirely from INK's own transactional pages: tables, private hire, dress code, Mile High. This post is different in kind, a piece of press coverage the venue itself chose to repost, naming people rather than prices. It rounds out this wave's picture of INK as a venue with a documented public profile beyond its own booking pages.

As with every other note in this wave, nothing here should be read as current information about who manages INK today; Liam Flaherty is named here strictly as the bar manager credited in a November 2015 blog post, the earliest individually named staff credit this wave has found anywhere in INK's own archive. That single named credit is a small but genuine piece of the venue's history, the kind of detail its own transactional pages were never built to carry, and the kind only a press write-up tends to preserve at all, a decade on from when it was first printed and long after the feature itself ran in whatever shape The Guide Liverpool originally gave it.

Questions

Who does the 2015 post name as the interviewer?

Lee Butler, credited as the journalist from The Guide Liverpool who conducted the interview.

Which INK staff member does the post name?

Liam Flaherty, described as the bar manager, credited with making a cocktail for the feature.

What subjects does the post say the interview covered?

Tattoos, RnB, House and cocktails, in the post's own summary of "all things Ink."