Bands in Liverpool
Liverpool musicians and band interviews, features and reviews
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Liverpool Welcomes Announces Arts & Music Fundraiser In Aid of Refugees; 14th November
Liverpool Welcomes; an Arts and Music Fundraiser and community building event in aid of refugees, will take place on Saturday 14th November at 24 Kitchen Street. The fundraiser gig, held at The Baltic Triangle’s 24 Kitchen Street, will see music from local artists Science of the Lamps, Dominic Dunn, Francisco Carrasco, Mersey Wylie, Katumba, The Soul Rays and Lotharios, plus acoustic performances. There will also be an action-packed day full of outreach and creative events to…
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Acts Announced For Merseyrail Sound Station Festival 2015
The Merseyrail Sound Station Festival returns to Moorfields Station this November when 10 artists will vie for a special prize of a year of professional music industry management, recording time & free Merseyrail travel. The Merseyrail Sound Station Festival will see the culmination of up and coming musicians from across Merseyside recording tracks and uploading their videos in a bid to win the coveted Sound Station Prize. Upload locations in train stations across the region…
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Threshold Six: Alchemy – First Details Released For April 2016 Festival
As with every year, the creative side of Threshold Festival will be driven by a theme and the event’s organisers are very proud to reveal this to you today: “Alchemy in its basic definition is the obsessive pursuit of something greater, turning base metal into gold or creating the elixir of life. To us, it’s a chance to get back to our true multi-arts roots. More than ever before we will be combining music, arts, performance and…
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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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Apply to Play Liverpool Sound City 2016 Now
Artist applications are now officially open in partnership with Gigmit – the entire process is completely free and the Sound City team of promoters listen to every application. Apply to play here.
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Local Musicians Respond To Radio Merseyside’s Call-Out For Space Music
This autumn long-established BBC Radio Merseyside music programme PMS is presenting a series of commissions from local musicians which draw attention to empty spaces on Merseyside. Fifteen original pieces of music, some from bands, others from studio artists, will be broadcast on the Popular Music Show at midnight on Sunday 1st November. Each is a response to a location in the Liverpool area which is empty, some quite naturally others by dereliction and neglect. The Project, Music For…
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No Homers Club Presents Isla Nublar, A Jurassic Park Inspired Event and Art Exhibition Launch Night Friday 9th October
Following No Homers Club’s first sell out event inspired by everyone’s favourite sitcom, The Simpsons, they are back with an event of prehistoric proportions. The Jurassic Park inspired, Isla Nublar, launches 7pm Friday, October 9th. Teaming up again with the highly creative crew at Constellations, No Homers Club are creating an island experience influenced by the location of the Jurassic Park novel and film franchise. Once you enter through the famous gates, get ready to start…
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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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Threshold Festival Opens Submissions For 2016 Festival Of Music & Arts
Threshold Festival 2016 takes place on April 1,2 & 3rd in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle. Musicians can apply through official partners Reverbnation here. Musicians, Artists & Performers can apply via Jotform here Deadline 15th December 2015.
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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…
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Scarlet Band Looking To Reach Their Pledge Music Target To Release Debut Album In UK & Japan
Since launching Scarlet (February 2014) the band have worked with Jon Withnall, (Coldplay’s Parachutes, A Rush Of Blood To The Head, and X&Y) and are currently working with local Liverpool producer and sound engineer John Murray (Lapsley, Aquillo, Decade, In Casino Out) on their debut album. In their first year together (2014), Scarlet supported Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats, and played the huge London based festivals, Secret Garden Party, and Hop Farm Festival in…
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The Jackobins 'Waiting On The Sun' Single Review
The new single, ‘Waiting on the Sun’, is another indication of just how far The Jackobins have come musically. The track begins with a spare yet catchy melody, which quickly fills out as different instrumental sounds add more and more texture to the introduction. The tune gains momentum as each new layer falls into place. By the time Dominic Bassnett’s vocals join the fray, the listener is already ensnared by the complex and sophisticated harmonies…
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Liverpool Sound City 2015; Preview
Liverpool Sound City is now just a few days away from it’s biggest line up to date at it’s brand new home at Bramley-Moore Dock. As well as big name headliners, The Vaccines, The Flaming Lips and Belle & Sebastian, the likes of Gaz Coombes, The Cribs, Everything Everything and The Thurston Moore Band add to the solid main stage names. The Baltic Stage curated by EVOL promises to be a real highlight for festival…
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Last Heart 'Blood & Bone' EP Review
The Liverpool band Last Heart have brought out an EP called Blood and Bone. The Lomax stalwarts have even managed to get Frank Hedges to sing on one of the tracks, making this a very personal record for the people supporting the re-opening of the grass-roots music venue. The band play a loose, rock/blues, and the tracks here showcase some fine slide guitar and clean, up- front rock vocals, especially on my favourite of the…
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X&Y Music Festival 2015 Announce Hudson Taylor As Headliners
Irish Folk Duo Hudson Taylor will headline this year’s X&Y Music Festival at The East Village Arts Club. The Dublin born brother’s Alfie and Harry Hudson Taylor found fame online, with their acoustic sessions getting more than three million hits on Youtube. They released their debut EP ‘Battles’ in August 2012, which reached #1 on iTunes in Ireland and #14 in the UK. This was closely followed up by their second EP ‘CinematicLifestyle’. In October…
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Threshold V: The Full Line-Up For Next Week's Spectacular 3-Day Festival
Stage By Stage Breakdown Here £20 Weekend Passes Available Here
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Band Feature; Cavalry
Based in Liverpool, the ‘Alt-Folk’ band Cavalry had a whirlwind year in 2014. With support from BBC radio 1’s Huw Stephens who labelled them as ‘a BBC introducing discovery’, plays on BBC radio 1 and BBC radio 6 whilst also acquiring a large fan base with over 900 likes on facebook; it’s slightly puzzling as to why the guys have remained so quiet come 2015. Regularly gigging around Liverpool, the band has played venues such…
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Threshold Laid Bare: Theatre & Performance At Threshold V
The fifth annual Threshold Festival of Music and Arts takes place on 27th-29th March 2015 in venues across the Baltic Triangle district of Liverpool. A strong music and visual arts line-up as always make up the majority of programming at the event, but theatre and performance arts play an increasingly important role for the festival. As a grass-roots, multi-arts event, Threshold aims to platform the very best of what’s happening in the city and a…
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Liverpool Acoustic Festival Friday 20th & Saturday 21st March
Academy-award winner and star of 2006 critically-acclaimed film Once, Marketa Irglova is set to headline and close this year’s Liverpool Acoustic Festival. Along with acclaimed Irish duo The Lost Brothers, Liverpool guitar virtuoso Neil Campbell and a whole host of artists and events, LAF returns in March 2015 showcasing the very best in Liverpool, national and international acoustic music. Building on 2014’s successful event, this year’s festival is jam-packed with public workshops, guitar and songwriting…
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Paul Wilkes 'River Running With Me' EP Review
The new EP by the accomplished singer-songwriter Paul Wilkes features three soft and beautiful tracks, ideal for days when you just want to sit back with some soothing music on. Paul’s voice is clear and soulful, ideal for these fabulously well produced pieces. With suitably subtle yet luminous backing featuring guitar, strings or piano, all the songs work perfectly to showcase the lyrics. The tracks have a personal feel, essential in this type of music,…
