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Music
The New Icons ‘Loner’ Is A Nostalgic Slice of Psych Rock
Back with a new single taken from their debut album, Electric Ghost Graffiti, scouse band The New Icons bring a nostalgic and retro feel to the local music scene. This month, we’re channelling The New Icons’ latest single Loner into your earholes! After a successful release of their melancholy first single Everyone Knows and their new album Electric Ghost Graffiti, this second single ‘Loner’ promises great things from the local ensemble. The band are lead…
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Culture in Liverpool
Milap unites artists for a tribute to one of India’s greatest music icons
The UK’s leading Indian Arts & Culture company, Milap, has assembled an extraordinary ensemble of Indian virtuosos to record a unique version of one of Lalgudi G Jayaraman’s masterpieces. Somewhere in the world, every few minutes, someone is performing, listening to, or dancing to a composition of Lalgudi G Jayaraman. This maestro musician has made an unmatched contribution to the world of Indian Classical Music. A trailblazing performer, composer and teacher, he has left behind…
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Culture in Liverpool
Unsung Heroes Mural Adds To New Brighton’s Impressive Street Art Collection
A brand new mural was unveiled today as part of New Brighton’s ever-growing street art collection. The Unsung Heroes mural is a portrait of local RNLI volunteer Mike Jones who celebrates 40-years of working at the New Brighton Lifeboat station. Painted on the gable end of a house on Virginia Road in the town’s thriving Victoria Quarter, renowned street artist SmugOne devised and executed the striking image. Known for his hyper-realistic work, Smug creates amazing…
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Football
Why, despite sneers from afar, Everton’s summer transfer strategy represents a welcome change in approach
Everton kick off their 20-21 season campaign against Spurs, Sunday 13 September. Ask 20 Evertonians for their pick from the assortment of nadirs last season and you will likely get 20 different answers. Either of the two derby debacles across Stanley Park will get a mention. As will the limp defeats to each of the three newly-promoted sides, the Black Country bruising Wolves dished out or the tame surrender at Stamford Bridge. Quite literally, there…
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Culture in Liverpool
BlackFest: Liverpool’s Black Arts Festival 21 – 27 September
Liverpool’s Black Arts festival, BlackFest heads both online and to city venues this September for a week long programme of diverse and thought-provoking entertainment and events. After two highly successful programmes in 2018 and 2019, BlackFest returns for its third annual festival this autumn with an exciting line up of music, theatre, film, performance, poetry, spoken word and panel discussions; many of them free to stream online. The festival opens on Monday 21st September with Locks, an online discussion about prison systems and racial profiling, featuring…
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Music
In Conversation – Fran Doran (Red Rum Club)
Since their last album Matador was so well received, the pressure is on for Red Rum Club ahead of the release of their highly-anticipated sophomore album. We caught up with lead singer Fran Doran to find out how the Liverpool based six-piece band have been getting on. Liverpool Noise: Just to give our readers a better idea of who you guys are, I wanted to ask how you lads got together initially because there’s quite…
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Football
Everton FC – The Dawn Is Breaking But Is The Sun About To Shine For The Blues?
It’s that time of year again when we, as Everton FC fans, fill ourselves with anticipation, hope, worry and excitement for the season ahead. This season will start very differently to the ones we have known before, just as strangely as last season ended, however, this isn’t the only change that is affecting us as Everton fans. There is something a lot more positive in the back of our minds. We now have, at the…
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Culture in Liverpool
Baltic Green Urban Park Is A Labour of Love For Local Community
The Baltic Green urban park is a facinating project led by the local community, creating a fun and creative space in the Baltic Triangle. In the heart of Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle you’ll find the Baltic Green urban park featuring some very impressive and unique structures, all created by local volunteers, including a colourful throne, a stage, a gazebo, picnic benches and more. The Baltic Green urban park is a project ran by Tristan Brady-Jacobs who…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Liverpool Restaurants Eat Out To Help Out Deals In September
Following the huge success of the Government’s Eat Out To Help Out scheme many Liverpool restaurants have decided to offer their own deals throughout September. Find out who’s participating in their own version of the Eat Out To Help Out scheme below. Eat Out To Help Out September Deals: Birdies Bar & BBQ Birdies Bar & BBQ is offering customers 50% off when food and drink, including alcoholic drinks when are ordered together, throughout September.…
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Featured Posts
Deliveroo Eat In To Help Out September Discount – All you need to know
The Deliveroo Eat In to Help Out discount will run throughout September. Deliveroo have announced their Eat In to Help Out scheme which will offer diners a £5 discount on orders over £20 by enterring a promotional code at checkout. Over 16,000 local restaurants have signed up to the Deliveroo Eat In to Help Out scheme already, with national chains given the option to participate as long as they fund the discount themselves. Deliveroo is…
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Featured Posts
Tickle The Ivories Piano Festival Returns To Liverpool One
Tickle the Ivories Piano Festival, which Liverpool ONE has become famous for, has returned for the 10th year! It will be a scaled back, COVID-secure event but still promises to wow visitors and bring smiles to faces as music once again fills the shopping and leisure environment. Launching the event was youngster Harrison Crane. Harrison, from Ormskirk, wowed visitors when he appeared at Liverpool ONE last year with his outstanding skills performing classic 90s dance anthems.…
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Music
The Heavy North ‘Bring Me Love’ is an blues-rock anthem
The Heavy North are back with new track, Bring Me Love; an ardent statement of what to expect from their upcoming EP. Since the global pandemic has placed the entertainment industry on hold, many artists have been given the opportunity to hone their songwriting abilities. Whilst live shows may seem like a distant memory, the passionate artists of the Liverpool music scene are keen to ensure that we have something to look forward to once…
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Liverpool Music Scene
Jamie Webster ‘We Get By’ is a stunning debut album
For the last nine months, anticipation has been cranked up a notch with the release of each of Jamie Webster’s singles. The big date in July that has been circled for some time has now arrived with the birth of his first album. We Get By is here along with twelve fun and varied tracks that explore important social issues, empower the working class and leave the right wing government ducking for cover. There’s an…
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Liverpool Music Scene
The New Space Finders Release Superheroes
A track so simple, wholesome and playful that it tickles the eardrums, leaving a fruitful earworm that reminds you of the heroism of our keyworkers. The New Space Finders are a pop-indie duo made up of Liverpudlian Sean O’Neill and his partner Jenny from Montreal. The couple have molded themselves under unconventional lifestyles; from living in a bender in the woods for 10 years with no electricity to hitchhiking through Africa. This lifestyle seems to…
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Music
Liverpool Noise Summer Spotify Playlist
When it comes to discovering new music, the digital landscape can be intimidating. With new tracks being released daily it can be exhausting to navigate your way through all the clutter in order to find those hidden gems. However, if you’re lucky enough to be part of Liverpool’s community then these hidden gems seem to find their way to you. We at Liverpool Noise have created a Spotify playlist featuring some of our favourite Liverpool-based…
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Music
POLICE CAR COLLECTIVE Continue To Impress with Their Latest Single
POLICE CAR COLLECTIVE’s new single I Guess It’s Over Now provides a more promising shoegaze sound that indie-pop bands have been trying to reshape for years. POLICE CAR COLLECTIVE are a new indie-pop duo made up of songwriter/vocalist Tyler Plazio and bassist Simon Quigley, whom derive their inspiration from contrasting walks of the music landscape, from Frank Ocean to The 1975. Their latest track I Guess It’s Over Now is the lead single for their…
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Film & TV
Blockbuster Store Airbnb Open For Guests’ Retro Movie Sleepover
Film fans will love this Blockbuster Store Airbnb. Airbnb is known for it’s amazing range of properties to rent, from modest apartments, to grand mansions and then the weird and whacky guesthouses in between! So this one of a kind rental in Bend, Oregon, USA has quite rightly got people talking. The world’s last Blockbuster store is offering a one-time overnight experience at the video rental shop, with three individual one-night stays on 18, 19…
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Music
Tom Swan: The Raw and Unrushed ‘All I’m Saying’
All I’m Saying is the lead single to be released from aspiring Liverpool artist Tom Swan and features on his upcoming sophomore EP Ghosts, set for release 21 August. Differing from the opening track, titled Ghosts, All I’m Saying is a heartfelt love song, directed at the person in your life who you think is amazing, but needs some reassurance. The track entails a bare, piano-dominated ballad, with simple yet captivating lyrics. The delicacy of the…
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Music
Playing With Fire Is The Sublime New Single From Helen Maw
A lonely piano and an emotionally charged voice: this was my introduction to the music of Helen Maw with her latest compositional offering Playing With Fire. And how refreshing it was to hear a different approach than the usual acoustic singer-songwriter offering that perhaps Liverpool’s musical heritage subconsciously encourages. With minimal production – again a great decision because this song needs little enhancement – Maw visits those romantic themes that are universal to us all,…
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Art Exhibitions in Liverpool
Fabric District Outdoor Art Gallery Launches It’s First Exhibition
The Fabric District outdoor art gallery is another monumental step in revitalising the Islington area of the city. What is believed to be the UK’s first socially-distanced outdoor art gallery to open post-lockdown is launching its first exhibition in The Fabric District. Walk with Me, a new solo exhibition by international artist John Hyatt, is now on display in the area. The free exhibition, open 24 hours a day, features 10ft by 8ft street-based vinyl…
