Entertainment in Liverpool
Looking for ways to entertain yourself and mates in Liverpool, there’s plenty to check out here
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Abandon Silence At The Buyers Club This NYE
Liverpool venue Buyers Club is set to see the New Year in style later this month as local promoter Abandon Silence takes the helm of the occasion for the second year running. For this year’s edition, Dan Shake – the first ever non-Detroit artist to be signed to Moodymann’s prestigious label Mahogani Music – will be joining resident Abandon Silence DJs Andrew Hill, Harry Sheehan and Tom Lye to kick off the new year at the Hardman…
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Beyond The Beaten Track Celebration 28th January
On Saturday January 28th, The Bluecoat will host BEYOND THE BEATEN TRACK – a one-off closing party event, to celebrate Liverpool’s Above the Beaten Track festivals. The celebration will feature a daytime programme of panels, workshops, talks, roundtable discussions and informal networking, aimed at young people looking to work in the music and creative industries. A free evening gig will close the day’s activity, featuring a selection of acts from previous festivals. The event grew and diversified from a small music festival into a large multi-arts…
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Get The Dickens Scared Out of You At St George’s Hall This Christmas
At St George’s Hall, there is, until 18th December, a piece of theatre available which takes you up close and personal to the story of Ebenezer Scrooge as A Christmas Carol is given an artistic tweaking in the form of Ghosts of Christmas Past. The purpose of this forty five minute show is to not just tell what, in my opinion, is the greatest piece of fiction ever, but to give the audience a context…
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Threshold Announces First Wave of Artists For Seventh Annual Festival
Threshold Festival have announced the first wave of acts that will be performing at their seventh annual festival of grassroots music in 2017. Continuing its story of grassroots success, the festival will return to Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle from March 31st to April 2nd. Joining the already announced Hannah Peel on the line-up are 16 more exciting acts. Following an acclaimed set at the Africa Oye festival last summer, XamVolo will showcase his unique blend of neo-soul which takes elements of jazz, grime and hip…
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Family Friendly Activities Coming Up At FACT
FACT (Foundation For Art & Creative Technology) have got plenty of activities coming up, accompanying their current exhibition No Such Thing As Gravity, which looks into the areas of science where the absence of established facts leave room for new theories, alternative science, and conspiracy theories. Join FACT on Saturday 17th December for a No Such Thing As Gravity themed Do Something! Saturday, where you’ll have the chance to take part in the Ghost Hand Experiment,…
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Golf Fang – Crazy Golf In Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle
Golf Fang (previously called Ghetto Golf) opened less than two weeks ago and is proving to be a popular topic of conversation in the city. This indoor crazy golf course really stands out from the average with its banging music, neon painted walls, caravans, boats and toilets to putt through and plenty of cocktails to help you along the course. From the outside Golf Fang is easy to find; fairy lights cover the open gates and…
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Christmas Events At Sefton Park Palm House
Sefton Park Palm House is preparing to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year with its seasonal programme. As part of its annual festivities, the Grade II* listed glasshouse is offering exciting occasions for visitors of all ages throughout December. Featured events will see guests dancing under the palms, singing along to Christmas carols and watching festive films at the pop-up cinema, many of which coincide with the year-long Flourish at Fifteen celebrations. Kate Martinez of Sefton Park Palm…
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Top Ten Things To Do In Liverpool In December
Warning! This list will be quite festive! Independent Liverpool Christmas Festival – The guys at Independent Liverpool really know how to throw a party! They return to the Great Baltic Warehouse to host another spectacular festival bringing together some of the city’s best independent restaurants, bars and craft shops to get you in the Christmas spirit! Family Friendly event. 8th-11th December. Get tickets here. Christmas Cinema at the Palmhouse – The best Christmas films, screened…
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Sound Bar & Bistro Create The Ultimate Hangover Pack
Sound on Duke Street is known for it’s amazing pizza’s and boss drinks but now they are offering the Ultimate Hangover Pack for Saturday and Sunday mornings. Consisting a bottle of water, a blanket, a hot water bottle, vitamin C and of course an alkaseltzer! As well as this they will be screening classic films and serving full English and veggie breakfasts. So get yourself out of bed and cure your hangover the right way…
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DreamWorks Lights Lantern Experience; 26th November – 15th January At St George’s Hall
The DreamWorks Lights attraction comes to Liverpool’s St George’s Hall on 26th November bringing over 100 figures from three of it’s biggest movies; Shrek, Kung Fu Panda and Madagascar. It’s the first time the event has come to the UK. The walkthrough experience promises surprises round every corner for the family to enjoy. Open daily between 10am & 7pm (last entry between 5.30 & 6pm) it is advised that you book tickets before you go.…
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Evol Announce FestEvol Gardens 2017
FestEvol Gardens returns on Bank Holiday Sunday 30th April 2017 at The invisible Wind Factory. Indie rockers Wild Beasts will return to Liverpool with their infectious sound after the release of their fifth album Boy King in August. After a successful show at The Magnet in August, The Parrots join the line up along with Ulrika Spacek who also impressed with their set at Liverpool Psych Fest. The Parrots will bring plenty of energy to their…
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The Clothes Show Live Moving To Liverpool
The Clothes Show is moving to Liverpool after 27 years in Birmingham. The Clothes Show will certainly attract thousands of locals to the event as well as drawing in crowds of people from outside the city. The new look festival will take place over three days in July 2017. The new event is described as “The British Style Collective presented by The Clothes Show” and will see the city host dozens of catwalk shows. There…
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Laces Out! Trainer Festival Returns To Camp and Furnace
Liverpool has an undisputed long and storied history with trainer culture. Therefore it is obvious that the city would play host to one of the most exciting trainer festivals in Europe, Laces Out!, which presents its autumn-winter edition on Saturday 19th November at Camp and Furnace in the Baltic Triangle. The one-day festival enjoyed unprecedented success for its spring edition in March, where highlights included an eclectic display and sale of new, rare and vintage…
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The Wicked Whispers / DUSST: The Buyers Club
This was the Wicked Whispers‘ first hometown gig in two years to support their excellent latest single release “If I Set You Free / Zodiac Girl”. They, and the main support from DUSST, did nothing on the night to detract from the air of excitement and anticipation. In DUSST, we have a band whose tonight’s short set only served to add to the general buzz that surrounds them at the moment. Borne to be on stage…
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Monthly Open Mic Poetry Night At The Jacaranda
It is often said of Liverpool that many of it’s inhabitants are unaware of the variety of cultural events that occur regularly. Last year I went to my local pub for some much needed refreshment after walking around Light Night. When I began talking to one of the regulars about what I had seen his reply was “I didn’t know about that. It wasn’t well advertised was it?” This seems to be the case all…
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Merseyrail Sound Station Finalists Announced
Ten artists to battle it out at festival in Moorfields railway station in front of panel of judges for coveted prize. Merseyside’s premier grassroots music competition comes to a climax on 19th November with the Merseyrail Sound Station Festival at Moorfields station. Aspiring musicians have been uploading their entries to the music platform’s social media pages throughout the summer to be in with a chance of being picked to play at the auspicious event. Ten artists…
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Liverpool Music Week 2016 Reveal Full Final Line Up
All We Are, Zuzu, Trudy & The Romance, VYNCE, Feral Love, Pink Kink, Seawitches, Whitecliff, Elevant, Indigo Moon, Queen Zee + The Sasstones, AGP, Bathymetry, HAARM, Luna, Mary Miller, Man & The Echo, Lumen, We Are Catchers, Jalen N’gonda, Mysterines, James Canty, Tom Low, The AV Society have all been added to the bill today. Liverpool Music Week have today revealed the complete and final line up for this year’s festival, which begins with the opening party headlined…
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Competition; Win A Pair of Tickets For The Gin Journey
We have teamed up with the guys at Gin Journey Liverpool to give away a pair a tickets to their Gin Journey on Saturday 12th November. The tour runs from 2pm – 6:30pm calling at five of Liverpool’s top bars, PLUS a takeaway cocktail from Filter & Fox. Cocktail Kate leads gin lovers round the bars (they change seasonally, and many are very hidden – Ssshhh!!). In each bar, gin revellers are treated to a bespoke cocktail…
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Circo Relocate To Seel Street
The North West’s only Circus themed dinner show venue Circo is set to relocate to a new 7,000 sq. ft. property on Seel Street in Liverpool. Curtains will close for the final time in The Albert Dock on November 5 when the venue, famous for its unique dining and leisure experience, will move into the Brockbank and Mellor building at 17-19 Seel Street for the ‘next chapter in its journey’. Owner Jason McNeill said that it…
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Finca To Host Unique ‘Home’ Dining Event
Cuban Street Food Restaurant Launches the First in its Series of ‘Paladars’. One of the city’s most unusual dining experiences is set to launch later this month when Cuban street food restaurant FINCA hosts its first ‘FINCA paladar’. Taking place in a unique location, which will seem more like an eclectic living room than a restaurant – diners will be treated to an exquisite four-course tasting menu of Cuban dishes which are not usually on…
