University professor bring “school of rock” to Liverpool’s St George’s Hall
Prof Burton, who has been touring the country with the band for the past seven years, said: “A live band at full throttle on stage is immensely exciting and rock music is high up the list of positives that science gives us.
“Using the band as a vehicle to explain some pretty complex physics is a way of getting young people to think, maybe science isn’t just text books and exams.
“It was just a shame we couldn’t use our smoke machine with the hall being a Grade I Listed building.”
Prof Burton has one of the highest research ratings in the UK for his work with optics in the treatment of cancer.
He said: “I always wanted to be in a band but then I realised I wasn’t good enough. But the fact I’m a musician helps my job and being a professor definitely helps me as a musician.”
Youngsters from Croxteth Community Comprehensive, Wirral’s Woodchurch High School and Bankfield School, Widnes, made up the audience.
John Moores University staged the event as part of the Liverpool Festival of Science and Technology.
