Entertainment in Liverpool
Looking for ways to entertain yourself and mates in Liverpool, there’s plenty to check out here
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Luminous Landscapes At Festival Gardens 18th-20th February
The Lantern Company in partnership with Liverpool City Council, are bringing a brand new Spring Festival of Light, Luminous Landscapes, to the Festival Garden site at Otterspool, Liverpool. The environmentally themed Lantern Festival will take place over 3 evenings, 18th 19th 20th February 2016. The gardens and woodlands will be transformed into an extraordinary and strange luminous landscape, where what is usually hidden beneath the lake beds and woodland floors creep, crawl and belch up…
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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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Minor Moguls Return To Launch New EP At Leaf After Two Year Hiatus
MINOR MOGULS will play a rare live set at Leaf on Bold Street in Liverpool to celebrate the launch of their new EP. Forming as ‘Moguls’ and releasing the ’24 Hours in Paris EP’ in 2010, the band soon enjoyed a number of high profile support slots, including those with the likes of “Wild Beasts”, “Jesca Hoop” and “Royal Bangs”, whilst becoming a familiar name on Liverpool and Manchester live music scene. After a two year…
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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…
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Threshold Reveal 2nd Wave Of Acts Ahead Of April Festival
Threshold Festival returns in 2016 for its sixth annual festival of grassroots music and arts, and organisers have now revealed an alchemic array of acts set to play the event on the 1st-3rd April in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle. The twelve acts join the six already released in December of last year and Artistic Director, Kaya Herstad Carney is looking forward to seeing her programming work come to fruition for the sixth edition of the festival: “We aim to…
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Metal Presents; Big Mouth Art Exhibition In Liverpool City Centre – Church Street
As part of Liverpool Provocations, Metal presents BIG MOUTH, by MEYOUANDUS. Each evening from 18th January, an illuminated orb will appear in central Liverpool, within which a human mouth appears to silently repeat and absorb the deepest thoughts and secrets of the public. Big Mouth, a mobile installation, aims to tempt participants to speak in confidence away from the superficial veneer of social dialogue. The thoughts are then displayed on the 360° projection, before being…
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Pao! To Serve Up Banquet For Chinese New Year At Claremont Farm
Liverpool’s Asian Street Food purveyors Pao! are cooking up a traditional Chinese New Year banquet at Claremont Farm on the Wirral next month. Some firm old favourites and some more unusual dishes will make their way to your table, all made using locally sourced ingredients. The menu will also feature some of Claremont Farm’s winter produce, putting a spin on the traditional! This year will be the Year of the Monkey, which represents curiosity and mischievousness, so Pao! are…
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The KANAVAL Is Coming To Town For A Monumental Night of DJs, Dance & Dress-up
The minds behind ‘The Voodoo Ball’ and ‘Threshold Festival of Music & Arts’ present an unforgettable evening of chaos. KANAVAL is a night like no other, shamelessly shaking the foundations of the city with DJs, dance and dress-up. On Friday 5th February, a tribe of terrifying party partakers will embrace the madness, demolish the dance floor and hail to the Haitian heretics of hedonism. So get in your animal get-ups, whether it be in the form of…
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Homegrown Festival @ The Lantern Theatre; 18th -22nd January
Homegrown @ The Lantern is selection of local companies and theatre groups based in the Merseyside area. The Lantern Theatre first ran this festival in August 2015 with the intention to give local companies the chance to perform developing work with no financial risk. There is no hire fee or cost to the companies who perform at the festival and all ticket monies are given to the companies involved. This festival is currently funded solely by the Lantern Theatre…
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Africa Oyé 2016 Dates Announced – 18th & 19th June
After attracting crowds of 80,000 people across the event’s weekend last year, Africa Oye returns to Sefton Park for its 24th festival of African and Caribbean music and culture this June. The Liverpool institution will once again bring together the finest artists, traders and workshops for a weekend of eclectic festivities on 18th and 19th June. Artistic Director, Paul Duhaney is looking ahead to the summer as preparations get underway. “We’ve already got some exciting…
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The Fifth GIT Award Launches For 2016 Edition
Launch Party On Friday 29th January 2016 At The Buyers Club ////£1000 Cash Prize To Winner At Showcase Event At Constellations On 14th May 2016 Liverpool music prize The GIT Award launches its fifth edition today culminating in a spectacular event at Constellations in Liverpool’s thriving Baltic Triangle on Saturday 14 May 2016. The process to find The GIT Award’s 12 nominees begins today with artists and bands invited to send their four tracks to…
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Liverpool’s Own ‘Be Lovely Day’ Goes Global – Saturday 23rd January
Liverpool born Be Lovely Day has become a global annual event with people signing up to take part across the world. Just before the traditional Blue Monday, local ambassadors across the UK, Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand will be putting smiles on faces in a traditionally miserable time of the year. Be Lovely Day is fun, inexpensive and easy to take part in. Inspired by Banksy artwork ‘Flower Thrower’, the Liverpool event quickly caught…
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Fiesta Bombarda Returns To The Williamson Tunnels!
On the back of selling out their Palm House party, Fiesta Bombarda’s second carnival of 2016 will be in the immersive underground structure of The Williamson Tunnels. Full line-up announcement coming shortly. Follow the Facebook page to keep up with the latest news: www.facebook.com/fiestabombarda Super Early Bird – Sold Out Early Bird – Sold Out Standard Advance – 100 Available Tickets Available Here.
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Threshold Announce First Six Acts For 2016 Festival
With less than 4 months until Threshold Festival 2016 takes place in Liverpool, organisers have revealed the first six acts set to light up the Baltic Trangle’s stages in April. Making a welcome return to the festival are genre-busting 13-piece The Destroyers as well as Threshold favourite Natalie McCool, along with first-timersBaba Soul & The Professors of Funk and local funk/dance/hip-hop purveyors, Galactic Funk Militia. Completing the first wave of artists are folk duo Gilmore & Roberts and Brighton’s finest psychadelic outfit,…
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Fiesta Bombarda Returns To Sefton Park Palm House
Fiesta Bombarda’s first carnival of 2016 will be hosted in the amazing glass structure of Sefton Park Palm House. They return to the amazing venue after the near-instant sell-out and incredibly memorable carnival there in early 2014. Full line-up announcement coming shortly. Follow the Facebook page to keep up with the latest news: www.facebook.com/fiestabombarda