Festivals
Liverpool’s festivals including music, art, food and drink festivals
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‘Laces Out!’ – The Ultimate Celebration of Sneaker Culture Returns To Liverpool
Laces Out! Festival invites sneaker heads across the country to congregate on March 5th in Liverpool’s famous Camp & Furnace to celebrate their shared love of the footwear and culture. The fourth edition sees the return of the renowned market place featuring thousands of vintage, rare, box fresh and deadstock trainers ready to be bought, swapped and admired. Brand new for Laces Out! SS16 is the Laces Out! Lab – a multi-faceted programme of curated sneaker culture and lifestyle…
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Sound City Announces New Artist & Industry Focused Conference For 2016
World famous industry conference to become Sound City+ Following last month’s major line-up announcement including The Coral and Catfish and the Bottlemen as headliners and a major new partnership with electronic dance music promoters Freeze, multi-award winning Sound City has revealed a brand new format for its renowned music industry conference. Rebranded as Sound City+, the new-look conference will be purely artist and industry focused and take place on the day preceding the main festival…
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Independent Liverpool Announce Spring Food & Drink Festival 25th & 26th March
After the huge success of their Winter Wonderland in December, Independent Liverpool have announced their latest event; The Spring Food & Drink Festival. They will return to the Great Baltic Warehouse in the Baltic Triangle where there’ll be Easter Egg hunts, street food, daffodils and the grand re-opening of Liverpool’s gin garden. Once again some of the finest restaurants in the city will have stalls set up to bring you tasty treats all day, along…
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Liverpool Festival for 80,000 Announced For May Bank Holiday
Records will be set on May Bank Holiday 2016 with a festival announced for 80,000 guests to be held at Aintree Racecourse Liverpool. We Luv Festival will be the first festival event focused predominantly on families. The colossal family-oriented event will be held in Liverpool at the Aintree Racecourse on 28th and 29th May 2016. With over 80,000 visitors expected to attend over two days and over thirty artists set to perform across two stages,…
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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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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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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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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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Threshold Six: Festival Puts Out Call For Visual Artists
With less than a month until their submission window closes, Threshold are on the look out for applications from artists to be part of Threshold Festival 2016. For 2015, their exhibition was entitled ‘Contrasting Geometries’ and platformed the work of over 30 artists across 3 venues in the Baltic Triangle including the fantastic Liverpool Craft Beer Space, a warehouse on the cusp of renovation that was turned into a pop-up gallery. As they look forward to their 6th Festival, the…
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Sound City+ 2016 Passes On Sale Now in Partnership with Skiddle
The Sound City conference will return in 2016 as Sound City+ Taking place on Friday 27th May at the mesmerising Titanic Hotel, the UK’s premier international music & digital business conference will feature Sound City’s most incisive conference programme yet. Sound City+ passes are now on sale in partnership with Skiddle. For £150 + booking fee, your pass will grant you access to all Sound City+ has to offer AND entrance to the Sound City music…
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Fiestival Bombarda – Carnival Across The Baltic Triangle; 21st November
The carnival of colour rolls into town as Fiesta Bombarda transforms a number of incredible warehouse spaces into a geometric jungle for our biggest ever event & inaugural festival. Four stages of reggae, afrobeat, jungle, brass & carnival sounds will engulf an entire area of the Baltic Triangle for a day and night of riotous rhythms, which includes the pioneering Jungle MC, CONGO NATTY, and the legendary Chicago cohort of horn-blowing brothers; HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE.…
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Independent Liverpool; Winter Wonderland Coming To The Baltic Triangle 11th-13th December
On the 11th, 12th and 13th of December the Independent Liverpool team are turning a warehouse in the Baltic Triangle into a winter wonderland. There’ll be Christmas trees, a secret mulled wine garden, Santa’s grotto, street food, an arts market, choir singing, mince pies and more. Exclusive weekend tickets are available now, get them here.
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Threshold Six: Alchemy – First Details Released For April 2016 Festival
As with every year, the creative side of Threshold Festival will be driven by a theme and the event’s organisers are very proud to reveal this to you today: “Alchemy in its basic definition is the obsessive pursuit of something greater, turning base metal into gold or creating the elixir of life. To us, it’s a chance to get back to our true multi-arts roots. More than ever before we will be combining music, arts, performance and…
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Sound City To Return As 2 Day Festival in 2016; Pre Sale Registration Open Now
Liverpool Sound City have announced that they will return as a 2 day festival on 28th & 29th May 2016. The festival will return to Bramley Moore Docks after a successful first year on the waterfront site earlier this year. Sound City organisers say that their decision to make the festival a 2 day event rather than 3 day will allow them to bring a more ‘content-rich festival’. They have increased their artist budget in…
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Award Nominations For Liverpool Festivals Inc. Africa Oye, Threshold & Sound City
Boutique marketing and publicity agency, One Fell Swoop are pleased to announce Festival Award nominations for the three of their major clients – Threshold Festival, Africa Oyé and Sound City. One Fell Swoop director Dave McTague said: “We work with a range of festivals, and it’s great to see these fantastic organisations being recognised for the sterling job they do, year in year out.” Based in Static Gallery in Liverpool, One Fell Swoop provide everything from a full marketing service…
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Apply to Play Liverpool Sound City 2016 Now
Artist applications are now officially open in partnership with Gigmit – the entire process is completely free and the Sound City team of promoters listen to every application. Apply to play here.
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Liverpool Music Week 2015; 23rd to 31st October
Liverpool Music Week is the UK’s biggest indoor music festival, with shows spread over nine days and some of the cities best music and arts venues, it is a truly independent jewel in the musical crown. This years bountiful bill opens with Richard Hawley at The Dome and an Opening Party at the Kazimier featuring Micachu & The Shapes, Holly Herndon and Darkstar. Through the week their is a unique Stealing Sheep & The Immix Ensemble collaboration at the Bluecoat, Health and…
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ATBT Teams With Merseyrail Sound Station, Red Sofa Sessions & Capstan’s Bazaar For Eclectic Festival
Following their live music line-up announcement, Above the Beaten Track have released details on the elements of the festival away from the main music stages. Merseyrail Sound Station will be presenting a fantastic opportunity for young Merseyside talent as they give a limited amount of artists the opportunity to play an unplugged, acoustic, buskers-style set at the festival. They will be bringing their Pop-Up Stage to Bluecoat for the day and are sure to unearth some gems as they have done…
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Live Music Line-up Announced For Above The Beaten Track Festival Next Month At The Bluecoat
Liverpool’s grassroots celebration, Above the Beaten Track returns to the Bluecoat for its eighth year next month and has just announced a selection of artists for this year’s festival. The event celebrates the best in grass-roots live music, DJs, artists, traders, makers and audio-visual extravaganzas. This year will see the debut performance from The Blue Soul. These beat modernists are the new project of songwriter Nick Ellis: soulful and bluesy – with a Scouse filter…
