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Liverpool News
Sweaty Betty Selects Liverpool ONE For Largest Retail Store In North of England
Sweaty Betty will be opening at store at Liverpool ONE. Joining the extensive range of premium lifestyle brands on Peter’s Lane, the new 2,600 sq ft Sweaty Betty site will be the brand’s largest retail store in the North of England. Set to open in June, Sweaty Betty Liverpool ONE will feature the brand’s extensive range of women’s clothing, including leggings, outerwear and underwear, as well as accessories, all of which have been crafted with responsibly-sourced materials and recycled bottles.…
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Things to do in Liverpool
Atomic Pro Wrestling Brings The Action To One of Liverpool’s Best New Breweries
Top professional wrestlers from the North West clash thanks to the brand new Atomic Pro Wrestling promotion company, who are dedicated to putting on dazzling shows in a unique venue. Pulling pro wrestling out of dark social clubs and into an exciting environment at Azvex Brewery, just a five minute walk from the iconic Liver Building! The North West is blessed with a wealth of wrestling talent, including graduates of Liverpool’s Fighting Spirit Training School…
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Music
James, The Coral, Red Rum Club Announced For On The Waterfront
On the Waterfront festival returns to Liverpool’s Pier Head this summer, following a triumphant debut in 2021 which attracted over 40,000 people, the 4-day festival has just revealed the line-up for the finale show on Sunday 2 July, curating a northern powerhouse of legendary bands. First up are Manchester legends James, whose performance coincides with the bands 40th Anniversary tour and soon to be released double album which features a full orchestra and gospel choir in celebration. A band…
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Liverpool News
Weekly Noise: Week #8
Weekly Noise is a short and straightforward way of sharing Liverpool’s trending news and topics in the form of a weekly poem. Laura Chonzi will take the top trending hashtags or stories on social media and turn them into a ten-line poetic masterpiece for each week of the month, hence the name. The search for Nicola has come to a close,Praying for the family and hoping the media doesn’t impose.Liverpool got humbled by Real Madrid,May…
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Art Exhibitions in Liverpool
Art Explora Launches Mobile Museum With Tate Liverpool
Tate has joined forces with the international art foundation, Art Explora to launch the Mobile Museum in the UK, taking masterpieces from its collection out of its store to communities across the Liverpool City Region on a 10-week tour until 29 April 2023. The Art Explora Mobile Museum in collaboration with Tate and MuMo, aims to make great art accessible to everyone. The tour will bring works from Tate’s collection directly to communities in St Helens,…
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Music
Waiting Till Marriage Spark Important Discussion With New Single ‘Great Britain’s Fate’
Alternative rock band, Waiting Till Marriage, are back with another indie track called Great Britain’s Fate, releasing on 10 March. Following in the great footsteps of eye-opening songs such as British Bombs by Declan Mckenna and Hypersonic Missile by Sam Fender, Great Britain’s Fate moulds the controversial topic of politics into an indie anthem. The song was written during lockdown, a time that many believed the government was making questionable decisions. The difficult times…
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Liverpool News
Young Ukrainian Who Comforted Refugees Playing The Piano Pays Tribute On Anniversary Of Invasion
A Ukrainian teenager who comforted refugees in camps in her home country and Poland by playing the piano, is to perform in Liverpool to mark a year since the start of the invasion. Alisa Bushuieva, 13, was forced to flee her country with her mother, Svitlana, in February last year. Their home city of Kharkov in Eastern Ukraine was one of the first to be bombed on 24 February. A talented young pianist, Alisa had previously…
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Things to do in Liverpool
Bored Of Dating Apps Celebrates Its 1st Birthday With A 90s Party
Bored of Dating Apps – or BODA as it’s affectionately known by regulars – is all about traditional face-to-face dating set in a relaxed social get together. There’s no pressure to mingle and chat, but that’s exactly what everyone does; guests come in groups of singles but many come on their own and have been for almost the last year, drawn to something new happening in Liverpool and rejecting the culture of dating apps. The…
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Music
The Liverpool Bands That Have Impacted The City’s Culture
Liverpool has always been known for its massive range of music, over the past few decades it has shown us time and time again that there is massive talent throughout the city. In a place like Liverpool, you are always submerged in lots of different cultures, and they always seem to have connotations towards the amazing music that comes from Liverpool. This article is going to take you through what I believe to be the…
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Music
Spray Shop Is Liverpool’s Newest Intimate Music Venue
Liverpool is set to welcome a brand new underground electronic music venue. Situated in an old industrial unit in the north dockland area of Liverpool, the 350 capacity venue is positioned as one of the front-runners in delivering underground electronic music, pinpoint audio and spectacular audio visual performances. The former car garage is redefining Liverpool’s clubland to become a safe, inclusive and forward thinking music space. Boasting a custom TPi sound system, the new clubbing…
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Art Exhibitions in Liverpool
Equalise Nightlife: Exhibition Exploring Femininity, Sexuality & Gender Relations In Drinking Culture
A new art exhibition, Equalise Nightlife, is launching on Monday 27 February, which explores women and LGBTQ+ people’s experiences of alcohol and nightlife spaces such as bars and clubs. The Equalise Nightlife project is a programme of research, led by Dr Amanda Marie Atkinson, with research support from Beth Meadows. Taking an intersectional feminist perspective, it investigated how drinking and nightlife are experienced unequally and are influenced by alcohol brand and nightlife venue marketing. The…
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Things to do in Liverpool
Liverpool Encouraged To Find Its Zen With Free Mass Meditation
Liverpool John Moores University is to broadcast a free guided mass meditation for listeners across the university, the city, and beyond, to find a moment of calm as its wellbeing month draws to a close. Working with Open Culture and The Mind Map, both Liverpool-based social enterprises, the 15-minute guided meditation will be broadcast via online radio station Melodic Distraction on Monday 27 February starting at 8.30am with the meditation at 8.45am. People can tune…
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Football
The Midfielders Who Can Change Liverpool’s Fortunes This Summer
It’s fair to say that it has been an incredibly disappointing season for Liverpool so far. They’re way off the pace in the title race and very much out of it. And they may not even make the top four. A problem area for Jurgen Klopp is in the middle of the park, where he has ageing players or others not up to it. So, this summer, spending on central midfielders such as the ones…
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Liverpool News
Weekly Noise: Week #7
Weekly Noise is a short and straightforward way of sharing Liverpool’s trending news and topics in the form of a weekly poem. Laura Chonzi will take the top trending hashtags or stories on social media and turn them into a ten-line poetic masterpiece for each week of the month, hence the name. Valentine’s Day came and went,Hopefully no one got left.Jeremy Corbyn’s being kicked to the curb,But will that make Labour superb?The Nicola case has…
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Theatre in Liverpool
Review: Two of Us At Royal Court Liverpool
The two of you pleased pleased us. It’s 60 years this month since the Beatles started laying down the songs that would launch them on the stratospheric life-long journey of fame and adulation. That first album, Please Please Me, hit number one in the UK three months later and stayed there for 30 weeks. Reviewed at the time as “surprisingly good and up to standard”, Please Please Me stands as an important moment in the band’s…
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Music
Esme Bridie Releases New Rebellious Single ‘Don’t Tell me What To Do’
Esme Bridie is a Liverpool based singer-songwriter, returning with her latest single, Don’t Tell Me What To Do. The song takes a slight change from the style of her previous release called Shut Up!. Despite the change in sound, she remains close to the quirky and charismatic musical characteristics of the rest of her catalogue. Don’t Tell Me What To Do replicates the feeling of the ‘noughties’ indie pop nostalgia that many of us remember…
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Art Exhibitions in Liverpool
‘The Wrong Sex’: Exhibition For ‘Forgotten’ Liverpool Artist
A major exhibition of a forgotten female artist opening this month in Liverpool marks the start of a reappraisal of her work which was largely disregarded because she was “the wrong sex”. While the world is very familiar with many of her male contemporaries like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko or Willem de Kooning, Fanchon Fröhlich, an American-born Liverpool artist has been long underappreciated because – she was a woman. The exhibition, The Wrong Sex, a world premiere…
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Music
One’s To Watch: Eternum Joy
Four-piece Liverpool band Eternum Joy are alternative rock band from Liverpool who have been cultivating a loyal following on the local music scene. Gigging regularly around Merseyside the band, who are signed to Golden Robot Records have played four headliners and sold each one out. The brainchild of frontman Stephen Abraham and lead guitarist T’kius Horsley, alongside drummer John Clare and bassist Abby McNeil, the band represent challenges kids in this generation have to overcome.…
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Music
Nile Rodgers & Chic To Play Haydock Park Racecourse on Friday 11 August
After their showstopping, sold-out headline concert at Aintree Racecourse last summer, The Jockey Club Live are delighted to welcome the legendary Nile Rodgers & Chic back to Haydock Park Racecourse on Friday 11 August for a night of funk, pop and all things disco. Nile Rodgers is a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee and a multiple Grammy Award winning songwriter, composer, producer, arranger and guitarist. As the co-founder of CHIC, Rodgers…
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Theatre in Liverpool
Don’t Miss ‘Two of Us’ At Liverpool’s Royal Court With The Music of John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Two of Us explores Lennon and McCartney’s partnership from their first meeting as teenagers at Woolton Village fete in 1957 to the break-up of the Beatles 13 years later. Mark Newnham and Tom Connor return to the Royal Court to reprise the roles of John Lennon and Paul McCartney which they first played a decade ago in Bob Eaton’s play-with-music, Lennon. This will be an unforgettable evening from the songbook of Lennon and McCartney in a stunning…
