Entertainment in Liverpool
Looking for ways to entertain yourself and mates in Liverpool, there’s plenty to check out here
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Two New Bars Set To Open In The Baltic Triangle Tonight
The Botanical Garden, the idyllic hideaway nestled away in the Baltic Triangle, is set to open two brand new spaces on Friday 30th June in Liverpool. Dockleaf and Kiosk are both stunning venues for very different reasons; each is set in a part of Liverpool’s rich history, placed in the grounds and the actual main building of the immense and historic Cain’s Brewery. Yet they both have the same DNA, too, featuring a range of…
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World’s Longest Inflatable Obstacle Course Is Coming To Merseyside
The world’s longest, continuous, inflatable obstacle course, is hitting the North West in July. Thrill-seekers can enjoy the 1,000ft long Labyrinth Challenge when it visits Haydock Park Racecourse across the weekend of July 29-30. The giant inflatable playground, designed for grown-ups (ages 12+) to unleash their inner child, features more than 30 interactive and wacky obstacles including jump-offs, hurdles, biff n’ bash sections, balance beams and giant balls. Set across five themed zones – the Lava Zone, Jungle Zone, Toxic…
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Brouhaha International Street Festival Heads To Sefton Park For 2017
Brouhaha International has announced that it is broadening its appeal and relocating its International Street Festival and Liverpool Carnival to Sefton Park this Summer. Giles Agis, executive director also revealed that Brouhaha is collaborating for the very first time with LIMF and Liverpool City Council as part of the wider context of the music festival, enabling the Toxteth-based charity to expose its work to new audiences. “We’re really excited to be performing alongside LIMF’s line up…
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Artists Announced For Liverpool Book Art Fair 2017
Visitors to Liverpool Central Library during the weekend of July 8th-9th will walk into the fourth chapter of an amazing story. Liverpool Book Art, fresh from successfully creating 2016’s popular Shakespeare-themed exhibition, returns this summer for the fourth time to occupy the refurbished city centre gem with the diverse work of a wide array of leading book artists. What is book art? – We’re glad you asked… the book art banner houses a whole host of interesting, intriguing and…
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Aperol Spritz Gets Set To Kick-Start The Summer Evenings With A Series Of Rooftop Events
Aperol, Italy’s favourite aperitif, will be ‘spritzing up’ the nation’s evenings with a series of rooftop events, popping up including a special event in Liverpool. These ‘Aperol Spritz Socials’ will encourage revellers to make the most of the after-work moment, taking the Italian Aperitivo experience to the next level. The Aperol Spritz Socials will play host to one-off collaborations and surprise moments throughout. From Sunset Spritz DJ sets with headline acts, to one of the…
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Liverpool Loves Expands As Liverpool One Is Named Second Festival Location
Organisers of Summer festival Liverpool Loves have confirmed Liverpool ONE as a second new festival site for 2017. The award-winning event is on the move, and this year it will be located in the heart of the city for the very first time. This is the third consecutive year of Liverpool Loves, which takes place on Saturday 5 August and Sunday 6 August. Organisers Orb CIC are thrilled to reveal that the family, community and well-being festival programme and activities will be located at host venue, Liverpool ONE. Liverpool Loves will take place…
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Liverpool Afterparties Announced For Africa Oyé’s 25th Anniversary
When Africa Oye’s 25th Anniversary festival wraps up at Sefton Park, those wanting to carry on the party should make the short journey to the city centre where a host of Liverpool-based promoters and venues have put together fantastic Oyé after parties to keep you dancing into the small hours. The parties will feature a dazzling array of African and world styles, including Afrobeat, reggae, dub, highlife, soukous, deep Afro house, disco, dancehall, Afro funk, jazz, huduro,…
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Brazilica Festival Announce Music Programme
Brazilica Festival has revealed the first names in a magnificent musical line-up which will have Liverpool carnival goers Samba-ing on the city street this summer. Some of the most exciting and talented musicians from home and abroad are set to bring the pulsating sounds of the Latin American beat to the banks of the Mersey thanks to Liverpool’s International Samba Festival. The historic Pier Head on the city’s world heritage waterfront will be transformed by colourful carnival action…
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Hope & Glory Festival Preview & One’s To Watch
HOPE & GLORY Festival launches this summer boasting an impressive 12,500 capacity event in the heart of Liverpool, with the stunning Victorian backdrop of the World Museum, City Library and St.George’s Hall and St.John’s Gardens. Try to imagine your favourite bands, huge tunes, combined with a decadent Victoriana carnival, wicked fun, with a heavy dose of outrageous sideshows, and you’ll begin to get a picture of what HOPE & GLORY Festival is. A festival of proper…
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Free Dance, Music & Instrument Workshops At Africa Oyé’s Anniversary Festival
Liverpool’s leading world dance company Movema are back to rock Africa Oyé’s 25th anniversary festival with a bumper Active Zone full of free workshops for all ages. The Oyé Active Zone is FREE and open to everyone with the whole cultural programme focused on promoting health and wellbeing, learning and participation. Liverpool dance company Movema will be teaching the latest African dance moves for 2017 and young dancers can put their moves to the test in the Unlock…
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The Merchant Is Hosting A GTA Vice City 80’s Themed Party
To celebrate Grand Theft Auto Vice City’s 15th anniversary the Slater Street bar are throwing one hell of an 80’s party with a massive soundtrack. A game that most of us grew up with is turning 15 and The Merchant is not going to let this anniversary slip by unnoticed. They have lined up a soundtrack that includes: Frankie Goes To Hollywood // Tears For Fears // Blondie // The Human League // Toto //…
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The Metquarter Is Getting A Boutique Cinema
New stylish cinema to open in the Metquater next year. Liverpool’s exclusive shopping area The Metquarter is set to welcome the Everyman Cinema with four screens, sofa seating, at-seat food and drink, a wine bar and a private screening lounge which will be available for private hire and corporate events. Everyman Cinema’s are know for showing a host of screenings including the latest big releases, independent cinema or live broadcast arts eventr such as the National Theatre…
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Award-Winning Positive Vibration Festival Returns This Weekend
Liverpool’s award-winning celebration of reggae music and Jamaican heritage returns in this weekend – 9th & 10th June – for a jam-packed weekend of cultural appreciation and positivity. Winner of Best New Festival – UK Festival Awards, Positive Vibration is set to be even bigger and better in 2017. Taking place over the 9th and 10th June 2017 in various venues across the Baltic Triangle, the festival will play host to a plethora of internationally renowned bands, legendary sound systems & selectors,…
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Celebrate World Gin Day At The Botanical Garden This Saturday 10th June
Now fully in bloom, The Botanical Garden in Liverpool is the city’s most idyllic hideaway, nestled in the backstreets of the Baltic Triangle in the shadow of the Anglican Cathedral. There’s a special day taking place there on Saturday 10th June, as The Botanical Garden celebrates World Gin Day – if ever there were two concepts more suitable together, it is these – featuring a day and night of education and entertainment. Throughout the day…
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DJ Spooky Heads To The Philharmonic For Sgt Pepper At 50 Event ‘Getting Better?’
Paul McCartney sang, “it’s getting better all the time?” Or is it a case, as the laconic John Lennon responded, that it “couldn’t get no worse”? That’s what Paul D Miller, aka DJ Spooky, sets out to answer. The Washington DC-born composer, artist and author will explore the question through a mixture of performance and an audio-visual installation. DJ Spooky will take to the stage at the Philharmonic Hall’s Music Room with Liverpool String Quartet…
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Pier Head Village Announces Programme For This Summer’s Village Festival
Pier Head Village announces its programme of entertainment in the run up to the official opening on 30th June. The festival takes over Liverpool’s iconic waterfront next month with an action-packed, summer-long programme combining a wide range of enticing offers from thrills to music and art to culture with all things in between, and all on the most iconic waterfront in Europe. The Pier Head Village is Liverpool’s newest and most ambitious leisure attraction and will…
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Liverpool Disco Festival Returns Sat 7th October; Tickets Go On Sale This Week
The Liverpool Disco Festival is back, once more taking place across the renascent Baltic Triangle district of the city. The action takes place on Saturday October 7th, and will bring together some of the most iconic global names together from the disco, house, garage, soul and funk spectrums for one magical day and night. Liverpool Disco Festival is a celebration of all things soulful, seductive and scintillating, and following on from May’s epic collaboration with…
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Becky Hill, M.O, Jessie Reyez & More Join The LIMF 2017 Line Up
She Drew The Gun, The Vryll Society, ZuZu, the twenty LIMF Academy ‘Class Of 2017’ and more also announced for the fifth anniversary . Liverpool International Music Festival (LIMF) has announced the final acts for its 2017 Summer Jam line-up at Sefton Park with Becky Hill, M.O, Jessie Reyez, She Drew The Gun, The Vryll Society, Zuzu, Paris Youth Foundation, Pixey, Pink Kink, Jo Mary, Charlie Straw and the 20 LIMF Academy ‘Class Of 2017’ joining the likes of the…
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New Liverpool Bar YARD Now Open In The Baltic Triangle
YARD – Liverpool’s newest outdoor bar, opened it’s doors on Friday. Situated in the heart of the Baltic Triangle, next to District, YARD is an intimate and vibrant space, offering a fine selection of drink, music, and soon-to-be, food (with ItalFresh bringing back their Thursday night pop-up from 8th June). Using a 15ft shipping container as the bar and scaffolding boards as tables, YARD truly embraces and celebrates its industrial surroundings. YARD will continue the good vibes over the Bank Holiday…
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PreckyFest Preview
Merseyside music festival to mark the ten year anniversary of The Steve Prescott Foundation. After receiving surgery to remove tumors following a diagnosis of pseudomyxoma peritonei, a rare form of cancer, in 2006 Steve Prescott began rising money for charity. This led to the formation of The Steve Prescott Foundation which has to date raised over one million pounds for Try Assist (formally The Rugby League Benevolent Fund) and The Christie Hospital. Before his death…
