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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Archie’s Burgers & Shakes Unveils New Handmade Smashed Burger Menu
Archie’s is hoping to add more sparkle to its ever-popular menu with the addition of five new smashed style burgers. The Star Burger range features fresh patties that are made using a unique process called ‘smashing’ and are served with a selection of tasty toppings. Diners can now enjoy them at the eatery’s biggest venue to date, which recently opened on Liverpool’s Ranelagh Street, and the company’s two other sites in Manchester. Owners of Archie’s,…
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Liverpool Events
Freeze Prepare For Final 10th Anniversary Shows Featuring Greg Wilson & Gilles Peterson
December sees two final amazing parties take place at The Garage in Liverpool for Freeze’s 10th anniversary year. Two truly venerable icons see 2015 out in sublimely fine style, with the first dropping in on Saturday 5th December. Starting his career in the local clubs of the region back in the 70s, Greg Wilson is now recognised as one of the most important figures on the UK dance scene and a mainstay of the festival…
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Art Exhibitions in Liverpool
Winter Arts Market 2015 At St Georges Hall 5 & 6th December
The seventh annual Winter Arts Market will take place on 5 & 6th December 2015. The Winter Arts Market is Merseyside’s largest arts and crafts market. Held in Liverpool’s glorious Grade-I listed St George’s Hall, it’s the perfect place to pick up some truly unique, handmade Christmas gifts for all those hard-to-buy for friends and family. See this beautiful neo-classical space transformed into a hive of festive activity with thousands upon thousands of items for…
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Entertainment in Liverpool
Watch Classic Film ‘Brief Encounter’ At The Philharmonic 3rd December
David Lean’s 1945 film traces the affair of a married doctor and suburban housewife who meet on a train platform. It is one of the most popular romantic British films of all time. The soundtrack features Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.2 throughout: in fact, the film helped to popularise this epic work. Brief Encounter: Thursday 3rd December, 11am. You can also add an option of brunch or two course lunch for £16. Tickets for the film screening…
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Entertainment in Liverpool
Mr Scruff Makes Kazimier Debut With ‘Keep It Unreal’ Show In November
Mr Scruff makes long awaited first appearance at the Kazimier on November 13th before venue closes its doors forever. Mr Scruff’s ‘Keep It Unreal’ marathon DJ sets have long represented a sure-fire good time party with a journey through sound. With the closure of the microcosm of joy that is the Kazimier hurtling towards us, it’s become apparent that there are some acts that simply have to play within the hallowed walls of this Liverpool…
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Entertainment in Liverpool
The Fifth Floor; This Halloween, Make Your Reservation ….. In Hell With A Spectacular Halloween Theatrical Dining Experience.
Take a bite out of Liverpool’s dark heart and enjoy ‘The Fifth Floor’ a spectacular Halloween theatrical dining experience. The Richmond, 24 Hatton Garden, Liverpool L3 2AN: Death becomes you Theatre Company teams up with Second Skin Events to bring to you Liverpool cities biggest immersive gruesome dining experience. The Richmond provides the perfect setting with its historic building and secret rooms lending the perfect scene for our storytellers, The Richmond’s Ghosts will be out…
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Art Exhibitions in Liverpool
Sound City To Return As 2 Day Festival in 2016; Pre Sale Registration Open Now
Liverpool Sound City have announced that they will return as a 2 day festival on 28th & 29th May 2016. The festival will return to Bramley Moore Docks after a successful first year on the waterfront site earlier this year. Sound City organisers say that their decision to make the festival a 2 day event rather than 3 day will allow them to bring a more ‘content-rich festival’. They have increased their artist budget in…
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Music
Xiu Xiu Plays The Music Of Twin Peaks At The Kazimier; Review
Upon entering The Kazimier, it was apparent the place wasn’t all that it usually seemed this time around. Each corner of the venue glowed with bright red spotlights and, as we awaited the arrival of the band, we all stared at the familiar, yet haunting, shot of a certain staircase from a certain home in the fictional town of Twin Peaks, in which the ceiling fan relentlessly spins, generating an atmosphere of tension and unease amidst all the anticipation.…
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Liverpool News
Glow In The Dark Wheelspark, Evertro, Now Open In Everton
As part of Liverpool Biennial artist Koo Jeong was commissioned to design the UK’s first glow in the dark wheelspark known as Evertro. This new permanent structure is now open for skaters and BMX bikers to use in Everton Park. Since February 2014, Koo Jeong and a team of designers from Wheelscape Skateparks have been working with young people in Everton, North Liverpool and Liverpool city skaters to devise a new wheels park. In addition to Evertro, the…
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Entertainment in Liverpool
‘Back To The Future 2’ Screening At FACT 21st October
With 21st October 2015 being the date that Doc Brown and Marty McFly came back to the future, what’s a better excuse than to screen Back To The Future Part II again in cinemas? In order to stop a series of events that could ruin the McFly family name, Doc quickly wisks Marty and his girlfriend off to the future, 2015. It’s in 2015 that Marty must pose as his own son in order to…
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Art Exhibitions in Liverpool
Tower of London Weeping Window Poppies Coming To Liverpool’s St George’s Hall From 7th November
The Weeping Window artwork on display at The Tower of London is coming to Liverpool in November. It is a section of ceramic artist Paul Cummins’ Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red installation which is a tribute to the fallen in World War One. It is made up of 888,246 poppies, each one representing a life lost in the conflict. It has attracted millions of visitors in London. Liverpool is one of only three locations to…
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Cafes in Liverpool
New Nail Spa & Cafe; ‘Lifestyle Collective’ Bringing New Life To Liverpool’s Beauty Scene On Allerton Road
Lifestyle Collective sits snugly towards the Mossley Hill end of Allerton Road, it’s signage on the outside is an early indicator of what to expect from this stylish new nail spa and cafe, on the inside. Lifestyle Collective is here to promote ‘a fresh new concept for Liverpool’s beauty scene’ – and that is to create more than just another nail spa. They are creating an environment where you can meet up with friends, relax…
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Art Exhibitions in Liverpool
Zanele Muholi – VUKANI/RISE Exhibition At The Open Eye Gallery
Open Eye Gallery present the first major presentation of Zanele Muholi’s work in the UK. Muholi is a South African photographer and visual activist whose work explores gender, race and sexuality, particularly in relation to South African society and political landscape. In 2009, Muholi wrote a thesis mapping the visual history of black lesbian identity and politics in post Apartheid South Africa as part of her MFA in Documentary Media from Ryerson University, Toronto. Since 2004…
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Festivals
Liverpool Music Week 2015; 23rd to 31st October
Liverpool Music Week is the UK’s biggest indoor music festival, with shows spread over nine days and some of the cities best music and arts venues, it is a truly independent jewel in the musical crown. This years bountiful bill opens with Richard Hawley at The Dome and an Opening Party at the Kazimier featuring Micachu & The Shapes, Holly Herndon and Darkstar. Through the week their is a unique Stealing Sheep & The Immix Ensemble collaboration at the Bluecoat, Health and…
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Entertainment in Liverpool
Let It Be – The Fastest Selling Show In Royal Court History
The Beatles have got another number one as Let It Be becomes the fastest selling show in Royal Court Liverpool’s history. The West End smash hit opens next week and has had Box Office phones ringing louder than ever. Last week it became the quickest show to sell more than 10,000 tickets, knocking the 2010 Christmas hit Little Scouse On The Prairie back into second place. It also surpassed the biggest show of all Brick…
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Entertainment in Liverpool
Psycho Film With Live Orchestra At The Liverpool Philharmonic Hall 30th October
Don’t miss the chance to see director Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Psycho with a live orchestra. Fifty years on from its release, this cinematic masterpiece comes alive in a big-screen presentation accompanied by a live performance of Bernard Herrmann’s most famous spine-tingling score. The score, and in particular the chilling slasher motif, is critical to the film’s power. Hitchcock himself remarked that ‘33% of the effect of Psycho was due to the music’. One of the greatest…
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Entertainment in Liverpool
The Voodoo Ball – Revenge of El Coco At The Kazimier 31st October
In the desolate depths of a perilous place, the bogeyman lurks, with a snarl on his face. Never dare, never dare to approach his dark lair, for he’s waiting . . . just waiting . . . to get you. HEAR! The raucous sounds of backstreet Latin swing with the maverick Voodoo Love Orchestra. Cosmadelic 12-tone jazz from the peerless United Vibrations. A carnival of up-tempo afrobeat provided by the deliciously danceable7Suns. A musical odyssey…
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Entertainment in Liverpool
International Festival of Psychedelia Hits Liverpool This Friday & Saturday
Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia 2015 have unveiled the full running orders and set times for this year’s festival. This follows on from their announcement last week of the final swathe of artists, installations, projects and happenings for their two-day head music happening this weekend (25th + 26th September 2015). Hosted in the warehouses and recesses of Camp and Furnace, Blade Factory and District, in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle, the festival kicks of on Friday afternoon, with…
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Entertainment in Liverpool
Withnail & I Screening + Q&A With Paul McGann At Odeon Cinema Liverpool One
Paul McGann will return to Liverpool on Saturday 26th September for a special screening of Withnail & I, featuring a Q&A session with the star, as part of Liverpool Comedy Week. The cult classic British black comedy starring Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann. ‘Withnail & I’ follows two out-of-work actors who spend their days drifting between their flat, the unemployment office and the pub, until they decide to leave London for the countryside. When…
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Music
Tame Impala Live At Liverpool Olympia; Review
The Olympia is a real treasure of a venue these days, and holds something of a legendary status amongst past generations of gig goers in Liverpool. Waiting to go inside feels like you’re queuing up in the past, and your friends all appear to be in black and white, but whilst it’s true that nearly every great gig/nightclub venue this city has had eventually succumbed to a demise even if many of them have since reopened in some…
