Festivals
Liverpool’s festivals including music, art, food and drink festivals
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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…
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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…
