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Things to do in Liverpool
FACT Reveals 2023-24 Programme
Liverpool’s creative arts hub, FACT, has revealed its upcoming programme for 2023-2024. The programme also celebrates their 20th anniversary. For 2023 – 24 FACT’s line-up of immersive exhibitions and art experiences will be shaped by artists’ practices rooted in hope and joy. From ‘living on the internet’ to occupying space, artists share their reimaginings of a ‘better’ world where we hold a deeper understanding of each other. From a retro-futuristic arcade to an Acid House…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
The Refinery Offering FREE G&Ts To All Mums This Mother’s Day
The Refinery Kitchen & Bar – a central Liverpool foodie favourite – has partnered with the award-winning Agnes Arber Gin to offer all visiting mothers a free Agnes Arber Gin and Tonic this Mother’s Day. For one day only, The Refinery is calling on the people of Liverpool to head on down to the bustling venue and treat their gin-loving mums to a Premium Arber G&T, on the house! But that’s not all…There’s also the opportunity for guests to…
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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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Liverpool News
Liverpool Energy Firm, Ecogee, Leading The Way As Part of National Government Energy Saving Scheme
A Liverpool based business is leading the way in decarbonisation after installing energy saving measures in more than one hundred homes from around the region. Working in partnership with Prima Housing Group, Ecogee helped to deliver solid wall insulation and helped to significantly reduce carbon emissions to properties across the North West, as part of Wave 1 of the Government’s Social Housing Decarbonation Fund (SHDF). Due to 115 properties being completed three months early, an…
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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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Things to do in Liverpool
Metquarter Celebrating Random Acts of Kindness Day With Plenty of Surprises
In celebration of Random Acts of Kindness Day (17 February), Liverpool’s Metquarter and its tenants will share the love as it treats customers this Friday. In a bid to spread kindness and a spot of cheer throughout the day, the centre – home to a raft of independent and boutique Liverpool brands and creators – will come together with its incredible tenants to gift customers at random with complimentary items and vouchers for one day only. Feeling lucky?…
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Bars in Liverpool
Liverpool Set For Launch of Mean-Eyed Cat Deep-South Dive Bar
The team behind the Mean-Eyed Cat Bar, based in the busy and popular Seel Street area of Liverpool city centre, have announced their full opening will take place on Friday 24 February from 7pm onwards. Guests will enjoy a complimentary cocktail, the brand’s famous fresh pizzas on the house, and live music that would make Johnny Cash, the inspiration behind the bar, proud. Preparations are almost finished for this new deep-south dive inspired venue to…
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Other
9 Ways To Help A Loved One With Mobility Issues Stay Happy And Healthy In And Outside Of Your Home
Mobility issues aren’t limited only to people of older age. Regardless of the reason why your loved one needs to deal with the mobility impairment, it can bring many changes into their lives. Suddenly, the activities they were used to enjoying every day became more difficult. The change can take a toll on their mental health, and it might become more challenging to keep them healthy and in a good mood. When your family member…
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Other
How to Place Good Bets on the World’s Biggest Sporting Events
In this article we’ll look at how best to tackle betting on some of the biggest sporting events in the world and help you to understand how to make the best decisions possible and place some good bets. Betting in some of the biggest events in the world can be an exciting and potentially lucrative experience. However, it is important to remember that no matter how good your knowledge of the sport (or the team you…
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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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Liverpool News
Finalists Announced For Liverpool Hospitality People Awards
The highly anticipated list of finalists have now been announced for the Liverpool Hospitality People Awards, ahead of the award ceremony which will take place at Titanic Hotel Liverpool on March 30, 2023. The People Awards, sponsored by Saffron Vanilla, aim to shine a spotlight on the unsung heroes and hardworking teams and individuals that work tirelessly in the tough yet exciting hospitality sector. Additionally, the awards offer a great opportunity for individuals in the…
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Things to do in Liverpool
Hartwall Original® Long Drink is Bringing an Old-School Gaming Tournament to Liverpool’s NQ64
Fancy yourself as Liverpool top gamer? You’re about to get the opportunity to prove yourself as Hartwall Original® Long Drink and NQ64 partner for a series of gaming tournaments. On 22 February, ‘gin in a tin’ AKA Original® Long Drink and retro arcade game & classic console venue NQ64 will be bringing the people of Liverpool a monthly competition, which will kick off with the iconic Street Fighter II Turbo, a favourite amongst gamers. Entry to…
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Liverpool News
What’s Your Sin? Golf Fang Launches Valentine’s Day Campaign
Crazy golf venue Golf Fang are celebrating Valentine’s Day this year with a bang as their 7 Deadly Sins campaign gets underway. The campaign, which will run until Friday 17 February, will see the brand’s sites in Birmingham, Newcastle, Liverpool, Glasgow and Sheffield offer a limited edition drinks menu themed around the 7 deadly sins. The drinks on the menu will represent each of the seven deadly sins, Pride, Envy, Gluttony, Wrath, Sloth, Lust &…
