Liverpool Music Artists
Features, news, reviews and interviews with Liverpool musicians
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Fly On The Wall Records Presents; King No One, Lying B*st*rds, Cavalry, Native Kings, Daez At Leaf Friday 1st April
Following the sell out success of their last event which seen the amazing Clean Cut Kid headline, Janice Long (BBC Radio 2) and Dave Monks (BBC Introducing Merseyside) return to introduce to you another amazing line-up featuring some of the hottest names on the local music scene along with headliners – Yorkshire lads, King No One. The indie rockers King No One have been touring up and down the UK and will return to Liverpool for this headline set.…
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‘The Creative Process’ Documentary of Liverpool Artists & Why We Make
The Creative Process interviews fourteen Merseyside artists – painters and photographers, sketchers and sculptors, each with their own compelling stories – and investigates the highly subjective nature of their creativity. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukUQQZ2A6Q0] The documentary asks them to explore their artistic journeys – uncovering the varying and extremely personal idiosyncrasies of each individual. We will see how emotionally charged the creation of art is – that the methods and styles of each artist are linked with deeply important people…
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New Exhibition At Unit 51 Announced – Collage Creations
A new exhibition of collages will be displayed at UNIT 51 in Liverpool’s thriving Baltic District next month. From 25th April to 4th May, 2016, artist Philip Hayes will be showcasing large scale examples of his work that have been inspired by Liverpool icons such as The Farm, Cast, The Cavern Club, Cream, as well as Merseyside festivals, Sound City and Threshold Festival. Hayes began making collages around 2004, drawing on the wealth of material he was amassing during the 25 years…
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Applications For The Award-Winning LIMF Academy 2016 Close This Sunday
Do you know anyone between the ages 13 -25 with a passion for music? Then the LIMF Academy programme could be just what they are looking for. Aimed at artists, bands, producers/DJs from across Merseyside, the award-winning LIMF Academy gives talented individuals exclusive access to activities and insider know-how from the music industry. The LIMF Academy offers: FREE to attend workshops covering a variety of music activities including production, DJing, singing and much more Performance…
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‘Super Rat’ Hits The Streets of Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle
Liverpool artist Faith Bebbington has created an exciting new ‘Super Rat’ sculpture which re-uses over 200 plastic milk bottles and measures over 4 metres long from nose to tail! Catch a glimpse of the pop-up sculpture @Baltic Triangle, Liverpool from Easter weekend onwards. Faith is steadily developing a national reputation for her large sculptures using waste materials, having created a life – size Bengal Tiger using 400 plastic milk bottles for Veolia’s Save the Wild Tiger campaign launched at St Pancras station, to the Football Association…
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Liverpool Tattoo Convention Returns For Three Days of Entertainment This May
Liverpool Tattoo Convention returns to the city for its 9th year on the 6th, 7th & 8th May 2016 with a theme of ‘Respecting the Past, Celebrating the Present and Embracing the Future’. Renowned for its innovation, non-stop entertainment and atmosphere, and widely perceived as the most prestigious and innovative tattoo event in the UK – the convention returns to the Britannia Adelphi Hotel this year. The 3-day event will include over 250 UK and international tattoo artists, the…
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FACT Exhibition Ryoichi Kurokawa: unfold 11 March – 12 June ’16
The seasoned, Japanese born, avant-garde artist Ryoichi Kurokawa has received varying accolades and acclaim for his work with both music and film. His new project ‘unfold’, produced and funded by FACT, gives the artist his first major exhibition in the UK. Placed in the upper echelons of art with his synthesis of sound and vision. Ryoichi, has a certain notoriety for stimulating the brain with simultaneous audio/visual responses, examining the nexus between sensory stimuli and the physical experience. This is a…
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Smithdown Road Festival 2016
The Smithdown Road Festival returns for 2016 as a completely free weekend of music, art and food around some of South Liverpool’s finest bars and cafes, with a massive outdoor area and big top on Wavertree Playground. There will be stages at The Mystery, Kelly’s Winebar, Evil Eye Beer & Burrito Shack, Franks, Brookhouse, Fat Flamingo, Caffee Oro, Sefton Park Cricket Club and Gregson Institute. There will be performances from the likes of Natalie McCool,…
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Liverpool Calling Announce First Wave of Acts For 2016 Festival
Liverpool Calling returns for its fourth consecutive year, this time at a temporary new home in the Camp and Furnace, and the Blade Factory on Saturday 9th July. This year they have announced two headliners for the one-day event, as Coasts and Spector top the bill. Bristol-based Coasts come to Liverpool for the first time since the release of their debut album. Spector are also set to make a triumphant return to the Liverpool scene,…
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Full Live Music Line Up Now Confirmed For Threshold Festival 2016
It’s just one month to go until the 6th annual Threshold Festival of Music & Arts and the full music and visual arts line-up have now been released, as Day Tickets go on sale on Skiddle & Party For The People outlets. Organisers have declared this their most exciting event yet, with the 12 venues in the Baltic Triangle hosting a huge and diverse offering for all. Festival Producer Chris Carney said: “A long time…
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FACT Presents New Pop-up Exhibitions With Strong Community Links
This spring, a special programme of pop-up exhibitions will be showcased in the FACT Connects space, in the foyer at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology). FACT Connects is a wide- ranging programme, which engages with members of the community, and allows FACT to connect even more with artists, musicians, and makers. The first two FACT Connects exhibitions of 2016 will explore perspectives on disability and empowerment, as well as delving into Liverpool’s position as a catalyst for digital…
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Liverpool Acoustic Festival To Showcase Acclaimed Artists Next Month Across Hope Street
The annual Liverpool Acoustic Festival is set to return on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th March 2016 with a ‘free fringe festival’ programme sprawling out to venues all along Hope Street. Now in its third year, the festival has expanded out of Unity Theatre and Liverpool Philharmonic and onto the historic street in Liverpool’s cultural quarter, for what promises to be a fantastic event to kick off the festival calendar. The festival boasts intimate live performances…
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Threshold Reveal 24 More Acts As Advance Tickets Sell-Out For April Festival
With less than six weeks to go before Threshold Festival takes over Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle once again, organisers have revealed twenty-four more acts who will be playing as part of the 6th annual festival of grassroots music and arts. The third wave of acts join the eighteen already announced for what is set to be a fantastic celebration on April 1st, 2nd & 3rd. More Threshold announcements, including reveals on this year’s Visual Arts, Performance and Film components of the festival…
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New Mini Documentary From LaBeouf , Rönkkö & Turner’s #TOUCHMYSOUL Performance at FACT
There is now a mini documentary from LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner’s #TOUCHMYSOUL performance at FACT available online. The project #TOUCHMYSOUL by LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner took place at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool from 10 to 13 December 2015, as part of the group exhibition Follow, open to visitors until 21 February 2016 (admission free). Over the four days, LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner invited the public to pick up the telephone…
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Sound City Announces New Artist & Industry Focused Conference For 2016
World famous industry conference to become Sound City+ Following last month’s major line-up announcement including The Coral and Catfish and the Bottlemen as headliners and a major new partnership with electronic dance music promoters Freeze, multi-award winning Sound City has revealed a brand new format for its renowned music industry conference. Rebranded as Sound City+, the new-look conference will be purely artist and industry focused and take place on the day preceding the main festival…
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Liverpool Festival for 80,000 Announced For May Bank Holiday
Records will be set on May Bank Holiday 2016 with a festival announced for 80,000 guests to be held at Aintree Racecourse Liverpool. We Luv Festival will be the first festival event focused predominantly on families. The colossal family-oriented event will be held in Liverpool at the Aintree Racecourse on 28th and 29th May 2016. With over 80,000 visitors expected to attend over two days and over thirty artists set to perform across two stages,…
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‘The Army of Noise’ Bring Their Innovative Show To Constellations
The Army of Noise is an innovative theatrical production merging puppetry, video-projection mapping and live turntablism provided by DJ Rasp. Think digital theatre production merging puppetry, 3D video-projection mapping and a Live DJ… “Sometimes the voices inside our head are all we have left. They speak of the things we fear the most, make the sounds we need tohear and compose our innner song, enabling our souls to dance. It’s just sometimes… sometimes other people’s frequencies…
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Ryoichi Kurokawa: unfold Exhibition at FACT, Liverpool 11 March – 12 June 2016
unfold is a major new commission by acclaimed Japanese artist Ryoichi Kurokawa, exploring the birth and evolution of stars in a groundbreaking immersive and tactile audiovisual installation. This unique sensory experience will be part of Kurokawa’s first ever solo exhibition in the UK, premiering at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool 11 March – 12 June 2016. unfold will offer viewers an artistic, yet scientific, representation of how the solar system was born, and how…
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Catfish And The Bottlemen Make A Triumphant Return To Sound City
UK Festival Awards crowned Sound City the Best Metropolitan Music Festival of 2015 and Sound City is going for gold yet again with a 2016 line up that’s bigger, better and even more diverse than ever. Having already announced The Coral as a headliner, the festival has today revealed that Catfish and the Bottlemen is the second headliner. The festival is also declaring an exciting new partnership with hugely innovative dance music promoters Freeze who…
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Liverpool International Music Festival Announce First Wave of Acts
Liverpool International Music Festival (LIMF) have announced SIGMA, The Wombats, Lianne La Havas, Kwabs, Netsky, Ms. Dynamite, Maverick Sabre, Frances, DJ TARGET, John Power Band and many more will be playing #LIMF2016 21 – 24th July. LIMF Summer Jam has fast become the leading family festival of its kind, completely free to enjoy. Taking place at Sefton Park, it will mark the start of the summer and the culmination of a spectacular series of events as…
