Things to do in Liverpool
There’s plenty of things to do in Liverpool for whatever your mood – Bongo’s Bingo, Family Raves, Crazy Golf, Outdoor Activities and more
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Comic Con Liverpool 2023 – Christina Ricci Leads The Guest Star Line Up
Comic Con Liverpool returns on 1 and 2 April 2023, with some big star names already announced. This year guest stars such as Christina Ricci, Ian Somerhalder, Paul Wesley, Taylor Lautner, Matt Smith, David Harbour, Jamie Campbell Bower, Grace Van Dien, Corey Feldman, Jamison Newlander and many more, will be in Liverpool for the event. Comic Con Liverpool 2023: Special Guests Comic Con Liverpool promises to be an event to remember for comic, tv, and…
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Step Into The Fantastical Worlds of LuYang In new Exhibition At FACT
This spring, renowned multimedia artist, LuYang, presents a free, immersive exhibition at FACT Liverpool. LuYang Arcade Liverpool transforms the gallery into a retro-futuristic arcade, complete with vibrant graphics and interactive gaming consoles. Displaying a collection of LuYang’s previous works, including both video and gaming installations, the showcase centres around the ambitious Material World Knight (2018 – 2020) project. LuYang Arcade Liverpool is the Tokyo-based artist’s first UK solo exhibition outside of the capital. Combining animation, live-action cos-play, video games, and specially…
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Mellowtone Downstairs At The Everyman Returns This Week
Mellowtone has a great lineup for their Downstairs At The Everyman event coming up on Thursday 9 March. The show will feature Granfalloon; a mixture of alt-folk, alt-country, and alt-everything else by songwriter and producer Richard Lomax. Also performing on the night will be Rachael Jean Harris, who carves a highly-individual sound melding folk, jazz and rock, by drawing from a love of adventurous writers such as PJ Harvey and Esperanza Spalding. There’ll be spoken…
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Heathers: The Musical Comes To FACT’s Picturehouse Cinema For One Night Only on 28 March
The stage recording of the award-winning, West End hit Heathers: The Musical will be coming to cinemas nationwide for a one-night-only special event on 28 March. And you can catch it at Picturehouse at FACT! Based on the 1989 cult classic film starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, the musical adaptation follows Westerberg High student Veronica Sawyer, whose dreams of popularity finally start to come true when she’s taken under the wings of the three…
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Africa Oyé Announce First Wave of Acts Ahead of 2023 Festival In Liverpool
The first three acts heading to Liverpool’s Sefton Park for this summer’s Africa Oyé Festival have been revealed. Artists from Ghana, Guinea-Bissau and Cameroon make up the first wave of performers to be announced by organisers with plenty more still to come. Following an incredible 30th anniversary year in 2022, one of Merseyside’s most picturesque green spaces will once again be filled with the music and culture of Africa, the Caribbean and the Diaspora, for two free days…
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Details of Two-Week Eurovision Cultural Festival – EuroFest – Announced
The first details of a two-week cultural festival – EuroFest – which will take over Liverpool in the lead up to The Eurovision Song Contest have been unveiled. Running from Monday 1 to Sunday 14 May, the festival will present 24 brand new commissions – 19 of which are collaborations between UK and Ukrainian artists – that will transform the city as fans from across the world descend on Liverpool. Although full details of all…
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Punch Tarmey’s Hosting Liverpool’s Biggest Four-Day Paddy’s Party
Punch Tarmey’s, Liverpool’s biggest and best Irish bar, have put together four days of fun-filled shenanigans to celebrate this year’s Paddy’s Day on 17 March. The action-packed line up has everything you need to paint the town green as you celebrate one of the most important dates in the scouse social calendar. The Guinness and the bunting are ordered and the St. Patrick’s Day celebrations are set to be the biggest and best yet. If you are looking for…
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Atomic Pro Wrestling Brings The Action To One of Liverpool’s Best New Breweries
Top professional wrestlers from the North West clash thanks to the brand new Atomic Pro Wrestling promotion company, who are dedicated to putting on dazzling shows in a unique venue. Pulling pro wrestling out of dark social clubs and into an exciting environment at Azvex Brewery, just a five minute walk from the iconic Liver Building! The North West is blessed with a wealth of wrestling talent, including graduates of Liverpool’s Fighting Spirit Training School…
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Moor Mother Meets Crumb’s Black Angels In New Manchester Collective Show Coming To Future Yard
Touring across the UK from 16–24 March 2023, Manchester Collective invites audiences to journey into the black of the night with Black Angels – a new show for string quartet and live electronics. Avant-garde masterpieces lie at the centre of the programme with George Crumb’s cult 1970 work Black Angels sitting alongside a new commission by Los Angeles-based hip-hop artist, activist, poet and composer Moor Mother (Camae Ayewa). The show, that stops at Future Yard,…
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James, The Coral, Red Rum Club Announced For On The Waterfront
On the Waterfront festival returns to Liverpool’s Pier Head this summer, following a triumphant debut in 2021 which attracted over 40,000 people, the 4-day festival has just revealed the line-up for the finale show on Sunday 2 July, curating a northern powerhouse of legendary bands. First up are Manchester legends James, whose performance coincides with the bands 40th Anniversary tour and soon to be released double album which features a full orchestra and gospel choir in celebration. A band…
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Bored Of Dating Apps Celebrates Its 1st Birthday With A 90s Party
Bored of Dating Apps – or BODA as it’s affectionately known by regulars – is all about traditional face-to-face dating set in a relaxed social get together. There’s no pressure to mingle and chat, but that’s exactly what everyone does; guests come in groups of singles but many come on their own and have been for almost the last year, drawn to something new happening in Liverpool and rejecting the culture of dating apps. The…
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CONTENT Announces Unknown Mortal Orchestra Show & Exclusive DICE Ticketing Partnership
CONTENT, the state-of-the-art events space in Cains Brewery Village, has announced it is partnering with DICE, the event discovery platform and world’s largest independent music ticketing company, to bring major live music artists and bands to perform in Liverpool. DICE is the event discovery platform and world’s largest independent music ticketing company. As DICE’s first exclusive ticketing partnership with a venue in the city, this multi-year deal with CONTENT cements DICE’s arrival in Liverpool with…
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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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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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Quirky Quarter – Interactive Attraction That Instagrammers Will Love
Everyday life can feel pretty normal from day to day, however, Quirky Quarter are ensuring things stay far from it with its cacophony of optical illusions, mysteries and a world where nothing is what it seems. We headed over to the Duke Street attraction to check out the experience firsthand and were not disappointed. For a few months during its construction, some of you who may have wondered what was hiding behind the scrubbed out…
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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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‘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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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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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 &…
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Celebrate Valentine’s Day at Royal Albert Dock Liverpool
Visitors to Royal Albert Dock can keep their love burning this Valentine’s Day with Fiesta of Fire. From 5pm-8pm, the newly launched celebrations are set to brighten up the dark winter sky for an extra night with spectacular fire performances across the dock, perfect to watch as pre dinner date entertainment or to enjoy as part of a romantic sunset stroll with loved ones. On Tuesday 14 February, lovebirds can marvel at dazzling displays of…
