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Liverpool Events
Sound City Is Moving Back To City Centre For 2018 Festival
Sound City has revealed the festival is moving back to the city centre in May 2018 from the docklands, returning to its roots based around discovering new talent in intimate venues. The announcement made today also confirms that the festival organisers are collaborating with lots of curators, including Glastonbury’s Silver Hayes, Kendal Calling, Bluedot, Greg Wilson, Domino and Moshi Moshi, Hospital Records and many more. After several years at the docklands, the festival has faced criticism…
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Liverpool Events
Irish Singer-Songwriter ROE To Play The Magnet
Electro pop starlet ROE is heading to The Magnet for the Liverpool leg of her UK tour. The 18 year old has had a huge year to date after playing the BBC Introducing stage at Glastonbury as well as performances at The Great Escape Festival in Brighton and Output in Belfast. ROE will play popular Hardman Street venue The Magnet on 30th October, along with support from local artists including Tabitha Jade, Pizzagirl (formally LUMEN),…
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Liverpool Events
Liverpool Mental Health Festival Kicks off 1st October With A Fortnight of Events
Liverpool is marking World Mental Health Day on 10th October with a 2-week Festival. In the wake of substantial cuts to the funding of 3rd sector organisations providing essential services to people experiencing mental distress, talking about our mental health is more important than ever. Liverpool Mental Health Consortium, the organisers of Liverpool Mental Health Festival 2017, have been working hard, along with their partners, to put together a programme packed with creative, engaging and, most importantly,…
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Liverpool Events
Student Takeover Week Brings Loads of Student Discounts
With more than 50,000 students expected to arrive in Liverpool this month, the Liverpool BID Company is holding its annual ‘Student Take Over Week’ campaign across the city centre from 25th September – 1st october. Over 50 Liverpool BID companies have got involved to bring student discounts across the city with cafes and restaurants including American Pizza Slice, Pho, Love Thy Neighbour, LIV Organic Food Market, The Italian Club, El Mexicana, Changos Burritos, Artisane and Ziferblat all…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Taste Eastern Asia in Liverpool At Tiger Rock Hawker Food
We might love our Full English breakfasts and our Sunday roasts here in Liverpool but we sure know how to get innovative with our international cuisine too. Hell, there isn’t much we wouldn’t sacrifice for a big bowl of Scouse with a bread & butter mop on the side but you certainly don’t need to rack up any air miles to get a taste of the Orient right here on Scouse soil. With the sad,…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Shake Your Baubles At The Titanic Hotel Fire & Ice Christmas Party Nights 2017
We might have only just hit mid-September and the sun is still most definitely doing its almighty best to peek through the clouds but I’m going to drop the C-bomb anyway. That’s right, Christmas is on its merry old way and I for one am buzzing my you-know-whats off about it. I am the Christmas Queen; I am festive AF so it’s no wonder that I was the lucky little elf that headed down to…
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Liverpool Events
Free Shake Fridays Are Coming To Archie’s
Burger Joint Archie’s will be giving customers the Friday Feeling over the next six weeks with free Milkshakes. Archie’s will be giving away free shakes with every burger and fries that’s ordered on Fridays in the popular fast food restaurant. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Archie’s, they are a cool and casual diner and the only place to serve top quality handmade burgers together with the thickest, tastiest shakes; famous as far…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Brunch Is Back At Constellations
The return of brunch at Constellations marks the comeback of Liverpool’s most exciting weekend menu. Want to pair ice cream with bacon and waffles? Are you after a vegan full English? Constellations have got you covered. After a short summer break, the Baltic Triangle-based hangout is once again serving up the best eggs Benedict and blueberry pancakes in town. An extensive menu of food and drink, the Constellations brunch has all bases covered when it comes to…
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Music
Siobhan Wilson Live At 81 Renshaw: Review
81 Renshaw is a venue extremely well suited to host a Siobhan Wilson gig, especially when it is to promote her new album, There Are No Saints. The venue is compact and intimate, and works beautifully in portraying works with sparse, intricate arrangements. Hence Siobhan Wilson’s new album, one of haunting beauty, intricate and delicate, is in the perfect environment to allow her compositions to breathe and let her voice – yes that beautiful voice…
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Liverpool Events
Watch The Blair Witch Project At The Dome This Halloween
The Independent Liverpool lads have lined up a night of scares at The Grand Central Dome on 31st October with a special screening of The Blair Witch Projects and plenty of jumps and scares planned on the night. If you fancy the idea of watching a notoriously creepy film in the dark with characters planted within the Dome to scare you senseless throughout the movie then you’ll love this event. Discovered video footage tells the…
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Liverpool Events
A Home Alone Themed Bar Is Coming To Liverpool This Christmas
We’re sorry but you’re going to have to get used to hearing the word Christmas because the countdown is officially on with the news that there’s a Home Alone themed bar coming to the city we can’t wait for the festive season. The team behind the amazing Ghetto Golf has announced that they will be opening a bar in homage to one of the greatest Christmas films of all time. They announced the news on…
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Liverpool Events
WRONG Announces 2018 Dates For Second Annual ‘Festival For The Freakscene’
WRONG is set to return to the Liverpool Docklands on 28th April, 2018 for its sophomore outing of visceral, vital and weird rock music from the Freakscene. For one day, a cornucopia of outsiders will descend to provide a feast for the senses. Following the success of last year’s debut event, which saw the likes of Bo Ningen, The Wytches, Part Chimp and Heck unleash their aural savagery, it’s happening again. WRONG continues to tie together an extremely talented, if…
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Review
The Jackobins Latest Single Brims With Energy, Proving Summer’s Not Yet Over
It’s been an exciting few months for The Jackobins. After playing a handful of sets at festivals throughout the summer – including Reading and Leeds, Kendal Calling, and Isle of Wight Festival – the four-piece have just this month announced their deal with the UK independent record label, Zy Records. To coincide with this, new single ‘Outside’ is set for official release on 22nd September. The single has already received airtime on BBC Introducing on…
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Liverpool Events
Festival No.6 Review
Festival No.6 returned for its sixth year last weekend with a packed music, arts and cultural feast in the picturesque Welsh village of Portmeirion. It’s a festival that brings something refreshing to the festival scene with the unique surroundings of the village, Castell Park and Gardens, seafront and woodlands, there’s something to discover around every turn. The Castell Gardens could be described as the most typical part of the festival, home to the main stage…
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Liverpool Events
Liverpool Cycle Studio Charity Ride For Mental Health Charity CALM
On Saturday 9 September Rise Cycle Studio will be hosting a very special pop-up event to raise awareness of men’s mental health issues. Cut Throat Pete will be joining the team live in the studio offering taster trims, cuts & shapes. He says, “I’m really excited to be doing this pop up barbershop at Rise. Their concept is great and something that is a topic of many conversations in my chair. I decided, rather than taking a…
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Music
The Boston Shakers’ Rap-Rock Is A Cocktail of Noise
Blasting through speakers with a brutal concussion of sound, yet a swaggering sleekness that’s admirable, The Boston Shakers have carved out a space in the rap-rock realm. Originally hailing from France and the USA, the band are now based in Liverpool, and have spent the summer disrupting stages across the North West with plenty of festivals under their belts. Their tracks are the perfect mix of party spirit and grit. The boys have a background…
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Liverpool Events
The Brink Supports Local Community During Recovery Month As Part of Sixth Birthday Celebrations
Liverpool’s only and the UK’s first dry bar is encouraging the community to get involved in Recovery Month this September. The Brink has teamed up with Life Rooms (Mersey Care NHS) to introduce a ‘Recovery College’ programme tackling subjects such as recovery principles, assertiveness, self-esteem and feeling better through comedy. Exclusively throughout the month of September, the Brink are also hosting ‘Nutritional Workshops’ which offer informative and practical advice on how to improve health, vitality…
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Liverpool Events
Liverpool Music Week 2017 Announces Everything Everything, Jungle & More
Liverpool Music Week 2017 has announced that Everything Everything will be the headliners for this year’s outing of the now-legendary LMW Closing Party, with the Manchester quartet having just released their critically acclaimed fourth studio album A Fever Dream, produced by Simian Mobile Disco’s James Ford. Taking place across multiple rooms and stages on 4th November at the Liverpool Guild of Students, they’ll be joined by Heavenly Recordings chillwave/surf-pop tinged indie trio The Orielles, alongside…
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Music
Shout About It Live Festival: Review
A brand new music festival burst onto the Liverpool scene last month with the inaugural Shout About It Live taking place at Baltic Triangle venue District. Shout About It Live is a festival that combines music photography and live music brought to you by local music photographer Georgia Flynn, who was out to prove that music photography is an integral part of the music scene. The two day event featured performances by The Cheap Thrills,…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Slim’s Pork Chop Express Presents Pudding Club X Bake-O-Rama
With The Great British Bake Off finally back on our screens, desserts and cakes are once again the talk of the Nation, and Liverpool hot-spot Slim’s Pork Chop Express have announced a mouth-watering one-off event next month, sure to sate even the biggest sweet-tooth. On Thursday 14th September Seel Street’s Slim’s Pork Chop Express will be playing host to Pudding Club with Bake-O-Rama; where sugar-loving dessert aficionados and cocktail lovers can enjoy five indulgent courses, for one night only. Originating from Manchester, Pudding Club is the brainchild of…
