Festivals
Liverpool’s festivals including music, art, food and drink festivals
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Africa Oyé 2016 Preview – Official Brochure Now Available
On 18th & 19th June Africa Oyé takes over Sefton Park once again, and organisers have now released the official brochure for this year’s event. With thousands of copies going out around Liverpool and as a supplement in The Big Issue, the annual brochure has all the information you need to make the most of the UK’s largest free celebration of African music and culture. You can download a PDF version of the brochure from…
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Liverpool International Music Festival Announces Family & Food Programme For 2016
Liverpool International Music Festival (LIMF) today unveils its family activities and food programme for 2016. Sefton Park’s green spaces will be transformed into a mix of colourful, enticing and exciting spaces to explore and discover. Redefining the Family Zone, the popular beach area returns with several tonnes of sand shipped in to honour the occasion and transport little festival-goers into a seaside paradise. Arts workshops, beach huts and street theatre will be in abundance as…
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Positive Vibration – Festival of Reggae 10th & 11th June
Liverpool’s Reggae party, Positive Vibration, will be returning to Constellations this June. Taking place over 2 days, the festival will play host to a plethora of live music, DJs & Selectas, dub sound systems, food & drink, face painting, a record fair, pop-up stalls, a Q&A session, an art exhibition, and loads of creative workshops for the kids. Dig out your brightest clothes, master your bogle and come join the celebration of all things reggae.…
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Future|Journeys: Afrofuturism At WoWfest On 21st May
As part of this year’s WoWfest (Writing’s on the Wall Fest) comes Future|Journeys: Afrofuturism. Inspired by the work of Afrofuturist artists, writers and musicians like Octavia Butler, George Clinton and Janelle Monae, Future|Journeys looks at how we can find new ways to express the voices of the marginalised, exploring race, gender and alternative technologies for creating new ways of co-existing. Join us for a day of conversation, art and creativity, as we weave the stories of…
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Dead Buttons Play Two of Liverpool’s Biggest Festivals This May
The hottest act to break the Korean Republic, Dead Buttons, are also set to win hearts and minds with an extensive live jaunt. They will be playing across the UK, Mainland Europe, America and Asia in 2016. Cult Liverpool imprint Baltic Records have taken on the duo’s first full length album ‘Some Kind of Youth’ – slated for release in early July to coincide with the band’s performances at FestEvol (1st May) and Liverpool Sound City (28th May). Dead…
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Hope Fest; The Music Festival In Aid of The Homeless Is Back For 2016 Between 11 th – 13 th November Across The UK & Ireland
Hope Fest – the music festival in aid of the homeless – is back for 2016 (11 th -13th November) and this time it is bigger and better than ever! Now in it’s third year, the annual Hope Fest, which is usually held in Liverpool, has now expanded to cover the UK and Ireland. Taking over 40 music venues in Liverpool, Manchester, Brighton, Glasgow and Dublin aiming to raise lots of supplies of food, clothing and cash for the homeless.…
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Festival Fusion At Liverpool Loves 2016
City festivals and culture groups join forces to create a huge event for 2016. Liverpool Loves returns to the world-famous Pier Head on Saturday 6th August 2016 to celebrate and promote the best of Liverpool life under the themes of Culture, Food and Wellbeing. Last year’s event was a resounding success and was hailed one of the stand-out moments of 2015, with over 27,000 people attending across the weekend. Liverpool Loves is working with a…
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Liverpool Tattoo Convention Announces Packed Music Line-Up For May Event
Ahead of their 9th annual event this May, Liverpool Tattoo Convention have revealed a blistering line-up of live music to complement the three days of artists, fire shows, burlesque glitz, glamour and many other tantalising performances. Bands and artists from across the north west will be showcasing their talents at the convention from 6th-8th May, covering post-hardcore, metalcore, ska and punk, all the way through to some stripped-back acoustic and folk. Direct from Liverpool will be…
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Smithdown Road Festival 2016; Band Set Times & Map
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 Colour, Xander…
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Liverpool Calling Announce Full Line Up For July Festival
Liverpool Calling have announced the final wave of acts for this years festival on 9th July at Camp & Furnace. They have revealed that Yak & Findlay will be joining the main stage alongside headliners Coasts and Spector. Yak return to Liverpool after supporting The Last Shadow Puppets on their recent tour, with a scintillating live set they will be sure to draw in the crowds. No stranger to the Liverpool scene, Findlay has built…
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Sound City+ Returns With A World Class Schedule of International Speakers, T.E.D-Style Talks & Much More
Sound City+ is the UK’s premier music and digital business conference that runs in parallel with the award-winning Liverpool Sound City music festival. Sound City+ returns 27th May with an intensive programme of speakers, T.E.D-style talks, debates, workshops and the acclaimed Sound City+ marketplace, that will feature the cream of the UK’s and international independent record labels. Sponsored by Skiddle, the conference on Friday 27th May will bring together industry experts, artists, students and business professionals from around the globe.…
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Threshold Festival Takes Over Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle With Biggest Event Yet
Liverpool’s finest annual showcase of grassroots music and arts – Threshold Six: Alchemy – took over the city’s thriving Baltic Triangle this past weekend with an eclectic festival celebration. An abundance of emerging artists, collaboration, DIY, avant garde and community based projects encompassing music, theatre, film, performance and visual arts showcased just what an embarrassment of riches this city of culture has to offer. Friday’s launch night set the tone with sets from the likes of Natalie…
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Liverpool Craft Beer Expo 16-19th June 2016
The Liverpool Craft Beer Expo returns for it’s fourth year this June and is expected to bring craft beer enthusiasts together for a three day extravaganza. A modern craft beer festival, The Liverpool Craft Beer Expo will feature a new breed of ground-breaking and innovative breweries from the UK, Europe and beyond. With over 300 beers, on both keg and cask and spread across 10+ bars and 100+ beer taps. We will be inviting our…
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Liverpool’s First Binary Festival Launches May 2016
Liverpool’s Binary Festival has announced the first keynote speakers and participants of this year’s inaugural festival; revealing an eclectic mix of pioneering virtual reality software, performances in live coding and poetry, and radical funding ideas. In May 2016, Liverpool’s first Binary Festival will take place. It’ll be a lively two-day festival that celebrates and connects communities of innovators, inventors, leaders, makers and creators of our future. The ambition is to attract new business, new ideas and new people to…
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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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‘Laces Out!’ – Leading UK Trainer Festival Announces Special Screening of Adidas Film
Laces Out! will also be hosting an exclusive screening of the Adidas Originals X SPEZIAL Sole Searching in South America: Directors Cut! This screening will include never before seen footage from the legendary trip to Buenos Aires. Spaces for this screening will be very limited. Gary Aspen from Adidas says: “The two trips to Argentina were incredible and with their cult following have now become part of adidas’s mythology. It was great to be able to document the experience of finding a hoard of…
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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…
