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Review
The Best Things To Do In Liverpool For Chinese New Year
To celebrate this year’s Chinese New Year a three day celebration will take place across Liverpool’s Chinatown; an area of Liverpool adorned by an iconic Chinese Arch, that was gifted to the city in 2010 by twin city, Shanghai; The largest outside of China itself. Lighting up the Chinese Arch, the Black-E and The Arch, there will be projections, music and lighting, that together will tell the story of Liverpool’s incredible Chinese history and culture.…
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Liverpool Events
Alternative Valentine’s Day Guide
When I was younger I would dread Valentines Day, but there are so many fun things you can do with your mates or your other half now that there is no need to hide at home! Here’s our alternative Valentine’s Day suggestions: Burn Your Ex (17th Feb) Camp and Furnace are throwing an anti-valentines disco for you heartbreakers out there. It’s free to attend and the first 50 to turn up with a photograph of…
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Music
Red Rum Club Live at EBGBS: Independent Venue Week
The incredible stage presence and persona of Red Rum Club hits you hard, from the start. This is what struck me perhaps more than anything at last night’s Independent Venue Week Launch, hosted by the infamous EBGBs. The basement venue was completely packed, and will surely be entirely too small for the hugely popular Liverpool sextet very soon. It is true that they are still relatively new, but it is undeniable that their powerful sound…
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Liverpool Events
Red Rum Club Exclusive Interview: The band talk new single ‘Calexico’ & more
This week is Independent Venue Week across the UK; a week that nods to the hard work and invaluable efforts of the nations independent music venues. In Liverpool, the first night was headlined by Red Rum Club, at the infamous EBGB’S bar. If you don’t know Red Rum Club by now, where have you been? They are a powerful Liverpool sextet with a cool cinematic sound that you are not likely to forget. Ahead of…
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Music
Liverpool Independent Venue Week: EBGBS & The Jacaranda Gigs Preview
IVW is a seven day celebration of what essentially is the life blood of music as a continuing, evolving cultural art form: the small venue. Here in Liverpool we are blessed with a variety of venues which help maintain Liverpool as an influential musical hotspot. Below is a quick round up of what to expect from two of the Liverpool venues involved. EBGB’s Monday 29th January Promoter – Vinyl Junkie Red Rum Club: Fran Doran…
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Liverpool Events
Piano Wars is officially a thing – and it’s coming to Liverpool this February!
There’s a groundbreaking weekly event coming to Camp and Furnace which you’ve never seen or heard anything like it before! Running every Friday from 7pm until late, Friday Night Furnace which launches on February 9th has live music and performance at its heart, giving event-goers a BIG night out, kicking off the weekend in style. Weekly residents, The Furnace House Band will act as musical hosts to the event, playing a mix of modern tracks, and giving them…
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Liverpool Events
Sound City Announces 100 Brand New Artists For 2018 Festival
Sound City is making its hugely anticipated return to the city’s centre, kick-starting the UK’s 2018 festival season into life on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th May. The festival is very much going back to its roots for its 11th year in a vibrant celebration of music and arts from around the world and much closer to home. Sound City will embrace the spirit of the underground and seek out the next generation of talent…
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Music
Esme Bridie’s Melodic Voice Blossoms on Debut Album ‘Today It Rains’
Not many new singer-songwriters can say they’ve received international airplay, but for Esme Bridie, her angelic vocals and folky music has already been warming hearts across the UK and beyond. Hailing from Merseyside and studying at Leeds College of Music, the young singer’s debut album, Today It Rains, is set for release in February through independent Liverpool music label, Klee Music. The singer’s freshness that comes with her youth offers a spark of vitality to…
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Liverpool Events
Two Massive Open Air Concerts Announced By The Jockey Club: Plan B & The Lightning Seeds, Happening This Spring/Summer
The Jockey Club Live has revealed two incredible performers who will be coming to the North West this summer, in their first announcements for the 2018 summer season. The BRIT Award winner, cultural commentator, critically acclaimed director and actor, and musical maverick Ben Drew aka Plan B will headlining Haydock Park Racecourse on Saturday 21st July, with Liverpudlian Legends The Lightning Seeds opening the season on Friday 18th May with a special hometown show at Aintree Racecourse. Plan B’s…
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Entertainment in Liverpool
Dan Astles – In Conversation….
Full of Wonder EP is the latest musical offering from Dan Astles, and is intriguing in both production and compositional senses. This amounts to a challenging and enriching artistic experience, and points to Astles growing musical maturity. We met in a convivial Liverpool hostelry, and as Dan was a few minutes late, he got the round in. Over a couple of pints, we talked of musical themes, recording and production, and the influence of one…
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Music
Salt the Snail Hit Back with New Single and SNAILMANIA Anarchy
Since plummeting onto the Liverpool music scene with their caffeine-fuelled debut ‘Coffee’, Salt the Snail have been busily working away behind-the-scenes. Amidst a number of live slots last year, the band have focused their attention towards the studio, prepping for more riotous belters to be fired out. Newest single, ‘Spanish Announce Table’, follows on from where ‘Coffee’ left off, propelling the chaos tenfold. Once again, the video is a perfect pairing to the band’s earsplitting…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Bean There yet? Independent Coffee Shop embraces the (delicious) spirit of Christmas
Bean There Coffee Shop contributed to the ever growing standard of Liverpool’s independent food and drink scene in May of this year and with this December being their first Christmas, they have produced a delightful and inventive new menu to help you celebrate all things merry and bright. Despite being the season of goodwill, Christmas is also a time for a little over-indulgence, and at Bean There you can do exactly that with their carefully…
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Music
Astles – Full Of Wonder EP: Review
Frankly, this is a collection of compositions which highlight the rich promise of the producer, which I am assuming is Dan Astles. Production wise, it is about evocative risk taking to convey the intensity of the songs. But, isn’t this what the art of musical production is about? That magical ingredient, the nuanced insight that elevates the composition to the listener? Astles, to these ears – its always subjective until you yourself are in a…
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Liverpool Events
Sound City Reveals First 10 Artists For 2018 Festival
One of Europe’s leading metropolitan festivals of music and arts, Sound City, is making its much anticipated return to the city centre across the first spring bank holiday Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th May. Taking place across the Baltic Triangle and Cains Brewery in Liverpool, the festival is very much returning to its roots for its 11th year, focused on discovering an abundance of emerging new talent for everyone to savour whilst experiencing many iconic…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Heavenly Desserts, Liverpool ONE Is Guaranteed To Satisfy Any Sweet Tooth
Sometimes all you want is dessert. It doesn’t matter how tempting the starters and main courses look, you’re there for the dessert and the dessert alone. Luckily there’s a new, growing trend for so called ‘dessert cafes’ where pudding is the only option. There’s been a couple pop up across Liverpool and now Heavenly Desserts is opening its doors on Strand Street just in time for December because after all, calories don’t count at Christmas…
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Liverpool Events
Miracle on 83 Seel Street Will Bring Adult Christmas Grotto For An Amazing Night Out
This Christmas, independent Liverpool restaurant and bar group, Graffiti Spirits Group, has announced it will be launching Miracle on Seel Street, taking place from Thursday-Sunday in 83, from mid-November to January. 83 is a secretive venue tucked above both Salt Dog Slims and 81LTD, in the heart of Liverpool’s bustling drinking and dining district. Miracle on Seel Street will see the hidden bar completely transformed into a festive den of treats and delicacies, with an array of Christmas cocktails and delicious food offerings on offer,…
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Music
KingFast Crowned Sound Station Winner 2017
KingFast, a singer/song writer who was born in Jamaica and raised in Northern Ireland has been crowned the winner of Merseyrail’s Sound Station competition. Kingfast went head to head with nine other aspiring artists in a battle of the bands style showdown on the concourse level of Central Station, last Saturday (11th November). Born in Kingston, Jamaica, and brought up in Belfast, where his name stems from, the singer now lives in Merseyside where he…
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Liverpool Events
Thom Morecroft Live at 81 Renshaw Street:Review
This was the home coming gig for Thom Morecroft and Chris Tavener’s The Long Way Home tour which closes finally on Sunday 26th Manchester at The Castle in Manchester. What has to be my favourite Liverpool venue at the moment, 81 Renshaw Street, was rammed to witness this triumphant home gig. Ably supported by Elle Rose Smith, Thom Morecroft finally took to the stage and took what was already a great night to another level…
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Liverpool Events
Epic Trainer Festival Laces Out! is back in Liverpool – Sat 11th November at Camp and Furnace
Laces Out! is returning to Liverpool this winter, taking place at the Camp and Furnace on Saturday 11th November. A celebration of sneaker culture, lifestyle and fashion featuring a panel of special guests, traders, DJ’s, competitions, and an exclusive preview of Neal Heard’s “The Art of the Football Shirt” exhibition. The one-day festival brings together independent sneaker collectors from across the globe and will feature thousands of rare, vintage and deadstock trainers for collectors to…
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Liverpool Events
Sound City will take place across Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle in the spring 2018
Sound City has announced its 2018 festival will be located across the Baltic Triangle and the Cain’s Brewery area. Taking place across the first spring bank holiday Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th May, Sound City will be taking over the iconic warehouses, intimate spaces, outdoor stages and pop-up places which form the renascent Baltic Triangle and Cain’s Brewery areas of the city. It is here which is the catalyst for much of Liverpool’s creative and…
