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Founder and Editor Clare Deane channels her passion for Liverpool’s vibrant culture into every part of Liverpool Noise. A champion of the city’s music scene, a regular on the local food trail, and a dedicated supporter of arts and culture, Clare brings an insider’s perspective to the stories that matter — making sure the city’s creative pulse is always heard.
  • Liverpool Events
    Nile Rodgers & CHIC To Play Haydock Park Racecourse

    Nile Rodgers & CHIC To Play Haydock Park Racecourse

    The Jockey Club Live and Haydock Park Racecourse has announced that Nile Rodgers & CHIC will be visiting the historic racecourse on the 22 June, joining previously announced Jess Glynne (7 June) and Rick Astley (20 July) as part of their summer season of live concerts. Expect to hear some of the best-known pop anthems from the last four decades. With more than 200 production credits to his name, the scope of Nile Rodgers’ peerless influence is undeniable. As the co-founder…

  • Gigs in Liverpool
    In Conversation With Liverpool's Music Promoters

    In Conversation With Liverpool’s Music Promoters

    Okay. So you have bought your tickets and perhaps booked the baby-sitter. You are really looking forward to the gig. It’s going to be great. But spare a thought for the person hovering around, slightly anxious, never settled. This is the Promoter. The person who has turned a thought into a reality. This is the person who have made it all happen. Without their imagination and drive, you are still at home or somewhere else.…

  • Restaurants in Liverpool
    Roast Dinner Royalty: The Best Sunday Spots for 2019 2

    Roast Dinner Royalty: The Best Sunday Spots for 2019

    We’ve found the best Sunday Roasts so you can just go and enjoy them. Thank us later! If there’s one thing we don’t have a shortage of in this wonderful city of ours, it’s incredible spots for us to grab the perfect Sunday scran. And would it even be Sunday if this was anything other than a roast dinner with all the trimmings!? We think not… With so much choice though, it can be a…

  • Things to do in Liverpool
    Let Them Eat Pasta! Our morning with the fantastico Flour Will Fly… 2

    Let Them Eat Pasta! Our morning with the fantastico Flour Will Fly…

    Let’s face it; we’re all often guilty of wanting our food FAST. Whether this be speeding through a takeout drive through, or impatiently tapping our fingers on the restaurant table waiting for our starters to arrive… Sometimes it can feel as if we’ve forgotten the joy of waiting for our food, as well as the gratification that preparing it from scratch gives us. Enter Flour Will Fly. If you haven’t already heard of these guys…

  • Music
    Sound City reveals main wave of artists 1

    Sound City reveals main wave of artists

    Sound City has announced its main wave of artists for this year’s 12th festival, following on from 2018’s spectacular sold out weekend. As the UK’s leading independent festival for emerging talent, it is a definitive zeitgeist of sounds, styles and cerebral sessions. There’s a heady mix of amazing music from across the world mixed with a world-class conference, Sound City+, and a vibrant range of wider arts to be edified by and immersed in. Taking…

  • Editorials
    Liverpool Author Clare Coombes Releases Fascinating Historical Fiction Book

    Liverpool Author Clare Coombes Releases Fascinating Historical Fiction Book

    Retelling of MS St Louis refugee tragedy through fiction backed by Holocaust and ship survivor A new book will relate the plight of the St Louis refugees to a new generation, 80 years after the events that caused many to flee Nazi Germany on the ill-fated ship. We are of Dust by Liverpool (UK) author Clare Coombes starts on the night of Nazi rioting 9th-10th November 1938, known as Kristallnacht, for all the broken glass in Jewish…

  • Activities in Liverpool
    Visit Liverpool's Best Sightseeing Spots with a Tour Bus 1

    Visit Liverpool’s Best Sightseeing Spots with a Tour Bus

    Are you planning on visiting Liverpool in the near future? Or maybe you’re a long-time resident looking to get a bit more out of home? Liverpool has a range of fantastic attractions and historical locations, but it can be quite difficult squeezing so many activities into one day. With the City Explorer tour bus, you can hop on and hop off at the best sightseeing spots throughout the city. There’s even an onboard tour guide…

  • Liverpool Music Scene
    Dig Vinyl Relocating To Resurrection Bold Street 1

    Dig Vinyl Relocating To Resurrection Bold Street

    Hidden away beneath the hustle and bustle of Liverpool’s iconic Bold Street lies Dig Vinyl, an independent record shop built around a medieval well and a true passion for music. Established in March 2014 and quickly becoming a destination for tourists and locals alike, Dig Vinyl was the inevitable product of decades worth of record dealing, DJing, band managing, record label running, and music making of it’s founders, Anthony Nyland and Carl Emery. Stocking a…

  • Activities in Liverpool
    VideOdyssey - The UK's Last Video Shop and Cinema Announce 2019 Events 2

    VideOdyssey – The UK’s Last Video Shop and Cinema Announce 2019 Events

    Did you know that Liverpool is home to what is dubbed ‘the UK’s last video shop’? Not only does VideOdyssey have hundreds of VHS tapes lined up in their 8 foot high video walls but you can also catch screenings of some classic films in their cinema room.  And as if that wasn’t enough there’s also an arcade room with 12 vintage games including Street Fighter, Space Invaders and Pac Man. The whole place is a…

  • Liverpool Music Scene
    Thom Morecroft, Limerance, EJATN and Karen Turley: Jacaranda Phase One Gig Review

    Thom Morecroft, Limerance, EJATN and Karen Turley: Jacaranda Phase One Gig Review

    It was a team effort tonight at The Jacaranda: Phase One as local singer-songwriter, Thom Morecroft performed his last gig of the year with a host of his musical friends. The evening was put together in support of Thom’s ongoing crowdfunding campaign to help produce his most recent full length album, ‘The Feng Shui & The Sushi’ which he is half way through production of. Having had his tracks played on BBC 6 Music by…

  • Restaurants in Liverpool
    January Food & Drink Deals In Liverpool

    January Food & Drink Deals In Liverpool

    Read our January Food and Drink Deals for 2023 feature here. So December was a pretty expensive month right? But why should you have to sit and wallow with the January blues when there’s loads of our favourite Liverpool restaurants offering amazing January deals. We’ve complied the best January Food & Drink Deals In Liverpool so you don’t have to! The Brink This January The Brink will be serving up a daily ‘Brink Bargain’ –…

  • Liverpool Music Scene
    Michael Petyt - In Conversation

    Michael Petyt – In Conversation

    Michael Petyt, a singer songwriter from the North East of England, has called Liverpool home for last fifteen years and is bringing his love for Alternative Folk Rock to the Liverpool music scene. After releasing his single “This is Goodbye”, Petyt has been working on an album to accompany the folk track and is set to take his music to the stages of Liverpool in 2019. We caught up with Petyt to find out a…

  • Health and Fitness in Liverpool
    Our Favourite Health Food Spots This January 4

    Our Favourite Health Food Spots This January

    Here’s where you can get your hands on some healthy food in Liverpool this January… If you’re anything like us here at Liverpool Noise, the last month’s habitual life routine has gone a little something like this: wake/cheese/wine/repeat. It’s been tremendous while it lasted, but even we’re feeling a little turkey-ed out… With the New Year beckoning, it’s often a time many of us will want to repent for our Christmas diet sins and cast…

  • Liverpool Music Scene
    Only Child...In Conversation

    Only Child…In Conversation

    Alan O’Hare is the driving force behind “Only Child”, a musical project that has drawn many a Merseyside creative into its artistic orbit. He also drives the excellent “Liverpool etc” – a must go-to for all things creative on Merseyside. We met up with him for a coffee to discuss the new album, Emotional Geography, that is scheduled for 2019…. Liverpool Noise: How does this new album differ from your last? Only Child: It’s better!…

  • Restaurants in Liverpool
    Guide To Lark Lane: The World In A Few Hundred Metres 1

    Guide To Lark Lane: The World In A Few Hundred Metres

    I love Lark Lane. I’ve lived in the area for about three years and it still keeps surprising me! Surrounded by Sefton and Princess Parks, a stroll down this little lane is never time wasted. There’s something for everyone at any day and any time. A night out, a quiet coffee with friends, live music, food from everywhere around the world… If you are looking for something to do and would like to avoid the…

  • Activities in Liverpool
    The Alternative Guide To Getting Festive This Christmas 1

    The Alternative Guide To Getting Festive This Christmas

    Well the festive season is truly upon us. The Liverpool One Christmas tree is up, Gregg’s have their festive bakes, and everyone is gearing up for the big day. If you’re not that into Christmas, or just a bit of a Grinch, Liverpool Noise have found some things you can do to get you into the festive spirit without going overboard on the tinsel. 1. Spectaculum at Cains Brewery Village, Baltic Triangle If you fancy…

  • Activities in Liverpool
    How To Support Liverpool's Independent Businesses This Christmas 3

    How To Support Liverpool’s Independent Businesses This Christmas

    Support Independent Artists This Christmas The copious amount of mulled wine and cheese, very rarely leaving the house, and spending a slightly ridiculous amount of time in pyjamas I can fully get on board with, but it’s the rest of it that I could quite happily avoid all together if I had a choice – the awkward office party, the even more awkward walk of shame back to your desk the day after, the conversations…

  • Activities in Liverpool
    Things To Do In Liverpool: Queensway Tunnel Tour 1

    Things To Do In Liverpool: Queensway Tunnel Tour

    If you are looking for something to do in Liverpool this weekend, the Queensway Tunnel Tour probably isn’t high on your list. It wasn’t on mine either (I had no idea it existed!!). Until when we got a couple of birthday vouchers and decided to give it a go last Saturday morning. After approximately two hours, I can honestly say it was time very well spent. Ryan and Phil, made the whole experience come alive…

  • Things to do in Liverpool
    48 Hours In Liverpool: The Sightseeing Guide Of An Adopted Scouser 1

    48 Hours In Liverpool: The Sightseeing Guide Of An Adopted Scouser

    When I set foot in Liverpool for the first time six years ago I had no idea what this city had to offer. Beatles, football… and that’s it really. I still can’t believe how wrong I was. So wrong that after completing my Erasmus-study year abroad I was convinced that this was the place I wanted to be. Fast forward a year, after completing my studies in Spain, I moved back for good. And here…

  • Activities in Liverpool
    Liverpool's Best Christmas Grottos 1

    Liverpool’s Best Christmas Grottos

    The festive season is well and truly underway, so here are some of Liverpool’s Best Christmas Grottos. Santa’s Grotto at Dobbies 18th November – 24th December Entry price: £11.99 Santa is making his usual stop at Dobbie’s this year, so bring your little ones along to experience the magic, they’ll be welcomed by Santa himself and also get to pick a gift of their choice including. Opening times of the Grotto vary so we’d advise…