Bands in Liverpool
Liverpool musicians and band interviews, features and reviews
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Liverpool Calling Final Line Up Announcements Include Space & Jetta
Today Liverpool Calling announced their line up for the Bombed Out Church stage with headliner’s the legendary Space. Platinum selling band Space came to prominence in the mid 1990′s, with hit singles such as Female of the Species, Neighbourhood, Avenging Angels, Me and you Verses the World and The Ballad of Tom Jones. They also worked with Tom Jones and Cerys Matthews. Also announced was rising star Jetta. Stepping out of the shadows of…
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Liverpool Team Up With Barcelona To Create First LIV-BCN Music Festival At Kazimier Gardens
‘Focused on music (but also including illustration and gastronomy), LIV-BCN isn’t about bringing Barcelona to Liverpool, it is a real exchange, a cultural meeting between the two places, artists and publics to experience and share.’ LIV-BCN The festival line up includes both local Liverpool artists (Broken Men, Dominic Dunn, Etches & Ghostchant) as well as some of Barcelona’s finest (DJ Coco, Joana Serrat & Begun). LIV-BCN at Kazimier & Kazimier Gardens; Saturday 21st June 3pm-3am.…
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Mad Hatter Brewing Bank Holiday Event 23rd-25th May
Local Brewers Mad Hatter Brewery are holding a special bank holiday event with plenty of beer, snacks,cake and live music. Located in the ever expanding Baltic Triangle, Mad Hatter have found themselves a cosy spot to host their festivities on the corner of Watkinson & Jamaica St (Click the link here for the location http://instagram.com/p/nk7YVTzYBu/) #MadHatSpring is this weekend. Live music // beer cocktails // bar snacks // cakes // raspberry & strawberry beer //…
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The Legendary ‘Jungle Brothers’ Play The Kazimier 2nd October ’14
Legendary US daisy-hop merchants, The Jungle Brothers, whose chilled-out funky style and tongue-in-cheek lyrics have a legion of fans, return with a career-spanning live set. The American hip hop group pioneered the fusion of jazz and hip-hop and also became the first hip-hop group to use a house-music producer. The group began performing in the mid-1980s and released its first album, Straight Out the Jungle, in July 1988. With Afrocentric lyrics and innovative beats, the…
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Liverpool Sound City 2014 Preview
On the 1st-3rd May 2014, some of Liverpool’s best intimate music venues will be host to more than 360 of the industries finest artists for the Sound City Festival. Around 400 music fans and 300 industry professionals will be pouring into some of the city’s top spots, from the Liverpool Cathedral to the renowned cavern club for a weekend of music, digital and film. The three day festival including conferences with celebrity keynote speakers is now…
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Liverpool Calling Announces First Wave Of Acts For Its 2nd Annual Festival
Saturday July 26th, 2014 Locations; The Kazimier, Korova, Maguires Pizza Bar Liverpool Calling storms into its second year, announcing a mighty first wave of acts “Liverpool Calling was another event that drew all kinds of people from far and wide to partake in a very modern form of worship” – Liverpool Echo/Getintothis Rating * * * * * – Liverpool Sound and Vision Having sold out across St. Luke’s Bombed Out Church and The Shipping Forecast in its…
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Threshold Festival; Part One
Last weekend Threshold Festival returned for it’s fourth year and has come a long way in that time. Located around the ever expanding bars and cafes and music venues of the Baltic Triangle. It was a unique weekend which delivered some of the best up and coming talent the city has to offer. With all the locations within a sensible walking distance it was a fun weekend of dashing from venue to venue trying to…
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Threshold Festival; Part Three
Threshold Festival – Sunday With the Saturday sun deciding to stay another day, Threshold Festival’s final curtain seems set to come down in style, and I decide to start the day in a relaxed manner and head to The Baltic Social, where James Sills has taken the stage. However I seem to have overlooked the date. It is, of course, Mother’s Day, and The Baltic Social is still a functioning restaurant. It’s therefore nearly impossible…
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Threshold Festival; Part Two
Threshold Festival – Saturday I was unfortunately out of town for the first day of this year’s Threshold Festival, but as I drift through the Baltic Quarter as the Saturday commences the tales I’ve heard of torrential rain for the inaugural day seem all but an impossibility. The lukewarm sun goes hand in hand with an overwhelmingly positive atmosphere, and though there’s hardly a big name in sight on the line-up there’s an all-encompassing sense of common…
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Dan Croll – Sweet Disarray; Album Review
It’s hard to see how things could be going better for LIPA’s own Dan Croll at the moment. With a coveted GIT nomination, Radio 1 airplay and support slots with the likes of Bastille and London Grammar, there’s a sense that Sweet Disarray, his debut album, might just be the catalyst for super-stardom. Having said that, history is littered with almost-rans, and the significant hype surrounding the release has also served to put tremendous pressure on the…
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The Attic; Parr Street
Previously the 3345 bar, named after its address on Parr Street, The Attic is a bar with some serious class. The seemingly never ending set of stairs may drain you but once beaten you’re treated to an experience akin to walking into a musician’s house in the middle of a drunken night in. The lights are dim, every surface a dark shade of sexy. The walls exhibit pictures of past musicians, each of which acting…
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Liverpool-born Jetta Looks Set For Success in 2014
Jetta’s soulful vocals are set to carry her to success in 2014. Stepping out of the shadows of her previous backing-singer duties for Pamola Faith and Cee Lo Green, the limelight is now very much on the 23 year-old, Liverpool-born singer. Her debut LP is due later this year but already she has gained a huge following, embarking on a tour of the United States and Canada, with a number of sold-out dates, at the…
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Nick Mulvey; Gig Review
On Sunday night I found myself sitting cross-legged on the carpeted floor of Liverpool’s Central Library, flanked by shelves of children’s books, yet surrounded mostly by grown-ups. These adult appreciators of music had flocked to Liverpool’s primary resource for books, with the intention of spectating a charmingly inoffensive acoustic performance, from singer/songwriter Nick Mulvey. First on the bill however, was Mulvey’s support act ‘Eaves’ AKA Joseph Lyons, who sauntered on-stage inconspicuously, barely distracting me from…
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She Drew The Gun EP; Review
“Why is the measure of love… loss?”- I can think of no better words to begin this particular review with than those once written by Jeanette Winterson. Perhaps I am merely being presumptuous in drawing a comparison between singer/songwriter Louisa Roach and a novelist whose body of work I am barely familiar with. Nevertheless, it seems to be the right association to make. But let us leave this business of comparisons alone, if only for…
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Threshold Festival 2014; Preview
Returning for its fourth successive year, Threshold festival is nearly upon us. Drawing from a (Liver) pool of talented artists and musicians, Threshold festival promises a slew of local acts, ranging from thirteen year-old singer/songwriters, to bands featuring dozen strong line-ups and more. Music fans would do well to tune their ears in the direction of Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle; located near the docks, as it is these privileged streets that will be playing host to…
