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Music
Tarek Musa – In Conversation
Former Spring King frontman Tarek Musa talks to Liverpool Noise about his latest music project, Dead Nature, as well as discussing what it’s like working from his Liverpool-based studio as a producer for some promising up-and-coming bands. Liverpool Noise: So Tarek, firstly thanks for your time we understand it’s a pretty busy and exciting time ahead for you at the moment, are you managing the find the balance between promoting, producing and getting some time…
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Activities in Liverpool
Learn, Make, Create – Make Liverpool Is The Ultimate Creative Hub That You Need To Know About
Make Liverpool is one of the city’s leading co-working communities, born out of a desire to bring creatives together and tackle the many issues of remote working that entrepreneurs and small businesses often face, as well as providing so much more. A creative-led organisation with spaces across Liverpool, Make is a place to share skills, make, fix and create; to learn and to teach; to try and tweak. It’s a place to collaborate and create;…
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Gigs in Liverpool
Damien O’Kane and Ron Block Gig Preview
To the uninitiated a banjo is a banjo. Due to its absence from most contemporary and so called “radio-friendly” music the public at large are not as familiar with it as they would be with it’s six stringed relative. However, if one album was likely to remedy this situation it is Damien O’Kane and Ron Block’s 2018 platter “Banjophony.” Messrs O’Kane and Block have quite a pedigree. Coleraine born O’Kane has more than one acclaimed…
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Entertainment in Liverpool
The Dead of Night Film Festival Horror Film Festival To Return In October
The Dead of Night Film Festival is returning for its third year bringing new independent horror short and feature films to the genre loving public of Liverpool. This is a festival made for horror fans by horror fans as a collaboration between Two-Headed Snake Entertainment and The Liverpool Horror Club. The festival will screen 10 short and 6 feature films within the horror genre bracket, there will also be special guests and a whole lot of…
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Activities in Liverpool
Scalarama Film Festival 2019 Guide
Scalarama Film Festival is back (1-30 September 2019) celebrating cinema with a mix of classic movies, obscure hidden gems and some fascinating feature length documentaries. This year you can catch screenings of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), The Help, Moonrise Kingdom, Hairspray, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and so much more. Inspired by the energy and creativity of the legendary Scala Cinema (1978-1993), in 2011 a new festival was created that invited all…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
New Taqueria ‘MADRE’ To Open At Royal Albert Dock
The founders of renowned Liverpool restaurants, Belzan and Volpi, and London’s popular Breddos Tacos, have announced the opening of a new collaborative Mexican taqueria, MADRE, launching at the Royal Albert Dock Liverpool in November this year. MADRE taqueria, opening at the Grade 1 listed site on the Atlantic Pavillion, will offer seating over two floors, a dedicated bar area, and a large outside courtyard. MADRE, meaning mother in Spanish, is a taqueria inspired by the…
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Activities in Liverpool
Royal Albert Dock Food Festival ‘Feast’ Preview
Royal Albert Dock Liverpool has announced its incredible programme of jam-packed activities for its brand new free food and drink festival, FEAST, taking place from 7-8th September 2019. Offering a variety of chef demos, interactive masterclasses, children’s activities and much more spanning over the two days, this festival will showcase the amazing food and drink line up at the Dock, encompassing some of Liverpool’s finest and most innovative independents. Kicking off the festivities on the…
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Festivals
Future Yard Festival Review
It’s all over to Birkenhead this weekend as we celebrate for the first time the beauty of Future Yard Festival. Tucked away next to the mouth of the Queensway Tunnel is a corner of land that looks out over to Liverpool on one side and North Wales on the other, home to some serious musical talent and of course not forgetting the late John Peel. Jumping off at Hamilton Square it’s a short walk over…
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Art Exhibitions in Liverpool
dot-art Opens Liverpool’s Only Public Darkroom
dot-art has announced the launch of their new, public darkroom in Liverpool city centre’s Cotton Exchange. Building on the continued success of their creative courses and art workshops, the darkroom will offer classes for beginners and the option to hire the space for more experienced photographers. This Autumn will also see the launch of a range of new courses to add to their popular regular sessions, including Introduction to Cartooning, Portrait Painting and Sketching in…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Pilgrim Launch Monthly Tasting Menu
After a sell out soft launch period, five star reviews and a packed restaurant every weekend the next phase begins as the Pilgrim monthly tasting menu is launched. The first event is to celebrate Dia de Asturias taking place at Pilgrim on September 11. For this event they’ll be collaborating with a few friends, Estrella Galicia, Spains oldest independent brewery who after 113 years are still family owned and Great British Chefs, the food lovers…
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Liverpool Music Scene
Ben Burke – In Conversation
Liverpool Noise catches up with local lad Ben Burke following up on his first single Leaving Tomorrow, his Merseyrail Sound Station development programme and his current mission to bring his classic Liverpool sound to the ears of the world. Liverpool Noise: So first of all, Ben, your brand new single ‘Leaving Tomorrow’ was released on 9th August, where did the inspiration come from for this one? Ben Burke: The inspiration is a mix actually, it’s from some of my own life…
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Independent Places in Liverpool
‘The Idea Behind’ New Youtube Channel Shines The Spotlight on Merseyside Creatives
Liverpool videographer and photographer Georgia Flynn has launched a brand new YouTube channel called ‘The Idea Behind’ which focuses on interviewing and showcasing local businesses, independents, artists and creators. So far Georgia has thrown the spotlight on Icelandic coffee shop and bar One Percent Forest in Woolton Village, Custom hand-made leather goods company Rawhide, Eco-friendly reusable cups business Wave Cups and The Liver Girls female musician collective. Georgia said; “I spend every day of my…
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Popular in Liverpool
Discover Liverpool’s Most Instagrammed Street Artists & Murals
Liverpool street art is amongst some of the most talked about in the country, so what’s the most popular in the UK and which one’s feature in Liverpool’s top ten? New research by Transpennine Express has found Liverpool to be amongst the northern cities most documented for street art with over 9,000 Instagram posts relating to date. This Liverpool in fourth place behind Manchester, Sheffield and Glasgow for the most talked about street art. We…
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Liverpool Music Scene
Hushtones Cement Their Musical Style With Recent Releases and Impressive Live Shows
Hushtones are a retro alt-pop band from Liverpool fronted by Martha Goddard and Mick Campbell, the two lead songwriters, alongside Caitlin McPaul on Bass, the band creates varied songs with soaring, playful melodies and a smooth blend of male and female voices. Inspired by the likes of Fleetwood Mac, The Beatles and Kate Bush as well as more modern artists such as Sunflower Bean, Arcade Fire and Wolf Alice. Joined by drummer Abraham Tesfachristos in…
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Liverpool Music Scene
Buffalo Riot Announce New Album Along With Socially Conscious Pay It Forward Scheme
Liverpool’s very own self-produced 90’s Rock powerhouse Buffalo Riot are back with a new sound, and it’s bigger than ever: ‘Daydream Mouth’, the record is due to be released on 20th September 2019. They celebrated their 10th anniversary as a band in January of this year, and after working on this new record for two years it seems like the perfect time to release it: the album they’ve always been capable of. The advent of…
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Liverpool Music Scene
They’re Coming To Get You Barbara – Release New Single
For fans of The IT Crowd, this new release from Liverpool locals They’re Coming To Get You Barbara, is bound to have some heads turning with their nod to Matt Berry in their latest single Damn! These Electric Sexpants. With a flurry of singles to follow and an EP coming out in October there’s plenty to be shouting about off the back of their latest EP, Nothing Changes. Their music’s references reach and pull in…