Festivals
Liverpool’s festivals including music, art, food and drink festivals
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Liverpool International Music Festival; 27th-31st August Sefton Park & Various Venues
This five-day festival is Europe’s biggest free music event, celebrating music from all over the world in addition to our own musical heritage. Headliners for this year’s festival include Basement Jaxx, Labrinth and Echo and the Bunnymen. Other notable performers include Katy B, Laura Mulva, Naughty Boy, Rae Morris, Bipolar Sunshine and heaps of local artists including Louis Berry, Hooton Tennis Club, The Visitors, Luke Cusato, Silent Sleep, Little Grace and She Drew The Gun.…
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Above The Beaten Track Announces Partners Ahead of 2015 Festival
Ahead of their first line-up reveal next week, organisers of the Above the Beaten Track festival have announced their partnerships for this year’s event. Liverpool’s grassroots celebration, Above the Beaten Track returns to the Bluecoat for its eighth year this coming September. The festival celebrates the best in grass-roots live music, DJs, artists, traders, makers and audio-visual extravaganzas. The festival re-located to the Bluecoat in 2010 to cope with growing demand. Originally conceived to celebrate…
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Liverpool Loves To Welcome Popular Urban Market Capstan’s Bazaar
Capstan’s Bazaar to bring its popular urban market to Liverpool Loves. Liverpool’s urban market, Capstan’s Bazaar will pop up at this year’s Liverpool Loves festival providing an exciting selection of local artists and makers. Now in their fifth year, the Bazaar has established a strong reputation for celebrating local independent businesses and artisans and their home-grown produce. Capstan’s Bazaar’s latest outing continues a Summer of collaborations which includes last month’s Farm Feast, and a forthcoming…
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Brouhaha’s International Carnival Parade 11 July 12pm-2.30pm
The UK’s second biggest carnival to hit the streets this weekend in Liverpool. Liverpool will be treated to an awesome display of carnival revelry this Summer with Brouhaha’s unique flavour of International Carnival spreading to more parts of the city and the globe than ever before maintains Brouhaha Intl Festival director Giles Agis. Musicians, dancers, circus performers, carnival artists from around the world will again take to the streets for this year’s festival, with new…
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Liverpool Calling 25th July 2015; Preview
Liverpool Calling returns on 25th July for it’s third year and this year the line up is huge. From festival headliners Reverend & The Makers who will be making the Bombed Out Church bounce, to Allusondrugs rocking Maguire’s Pizza Bar and The Tea Street Band providing the official afterparty shenanigans at The Magnet, yes there will be gig clashes leading to difficult decisions throughout the day and that is what is helping to establish Liverpool…
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Brazilica 2015 Festival Liverpool; 17th-19th July
From Africa Oye’s sprawling Setfon Park celebrations to the recent Liverpool Arab Arts Festival – Liverpool’s cultural continent hopping continues with Brazilica in July. The UK’s only Brazilian samba festival brings music, workshops and exhibitions, with the Brazilica night time parade taking over the city streets on Saturday 18 July. The parade will see Liverpool’s streets filled with music and dance. The parade begins at Abercromby Square, through the city centre and finishing in Nelson…
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Above The Beaten Track; The Bluecoat Saturday 5th September
Now in it’s eighth year, Above The Beaten Track returns with the best in grass-roots live music, DJs, artists, traders, makers and audio visual extravaganzas. Originally conceived to celebrate the range of diverse songwriters in the city, the festival has since expanded to reflect the full range of musicians, DJs, artists and makers of Liverpool to provide a fully immersive cultural experience. Bringing the Bluecoat’s historic building alive, each room will house different aspects of…
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Africa Oye 2015: The World Celebrates With Liverpool In Sefton Park
After an early scare of rain on Saturday morning, Oye 2015 brought the sun, sights and sounds of Africa to Liverpool’s Sefton Park to truly make it a weekend to remember. The festival matched last year’s record breaking footfall of 80,000 across the weekend as the masses flocked to to see artists from Africa, the Caribbean and South America as well as home-grown talents tear up the Oye stage and to also take part in…
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Hope Fest 2015; Music Festival In Aid of Liverpool’s Homeless
The tabloids might like to show Liverpool as a city of work-shy, dishonest types, dependent on hand- outs, but that paints a very biased picture of the city and the people who live there. The truth of the matter is, if you are genuinely in need, many Liverpool people will go out of their way to help you. It sounds trite and obviously doesn’t apply to all its residents, but Liverpool has a heart bigger than most. In…
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Festival 31; Merseyside’s First Official Festival Exploring Refugee Experience, Arts & Culture 15th June – 15th July
Liverpool’s official festival celebrating arts & culture from refugee communities and creating discourse around the refugee experience. FESTIVAL 31 brings together refugees, wider communities, individuals, grassroots, small and larger organisations for a 31 day experience across the whole city from 14th June – 15th July 2015. The official launch party will take place at The Brink, Parr Street, Sunday 14th June 4-7pm with craft stalls and live music from The Peacemakers, Oscar & Francisco Carrasco, Mojo Storm…
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Celebrating Everything Homegrown At Wirral’s Farm Feast – June 13th/14th
Homegrown food, drink and music is on the menu for Wirral’s Farm Feast festival this 13th and 14th June. With The Farm headlining a music programme celebrating Merseyside talent along with a championing of the region’s foodie talent and enthusiasm it has all the ingredients for a memorable weekend. Food, Glorious Food! Signed up for the summer festival this year is chef and British baker John Whaite. Since winning 2012’s Great British Bake Off,…
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Liverpool Noise Presents; Liverpool Calling At The Magnet 25th July
We are excited to announce our line up for The Magnet stage as part of Liverpool Calling Music Festival on 25th July. Our stage will focus on local talent featuring some brilliant up and coming bands as well as some of Liverpool’s most popular acts. To clue you up on our line up check out the band features below; Last Line Out are a slick blues inspired rock band who are all about ‘getting…
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Liverpool Sound City 2015; Preview
Liverpool Sound City is now just a few days away from it’s biggest line up to date at it’s brand new home at Bramley-Moore Dock. As well as big name headliners, The Vaccines, The Flaming Lips and Belle & Sebastian, the likes of Gaz Coombes, The Cribs, Everything Everything and The Thurston Moore Band add to the solid main stage names. The Baltic Stage curated by EVOL promises to be a real highlight for festival…
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Astral Coast Music Festival; Marine Point 11th July
From The Rolling Stones to The Beatles, New Brighton has played an unlikely host to some iconic acts in the past. The Wirral seaside resort has long punched above its weight when it comes to championing new music. This year’s festival promises to showcase the region’s most exciting emerging artists along with established Merseyside headliners. In addition to music, there will art exhibitions, interactive stalls, food and drink. Astral Coast is the focal point of…
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X&Y Festival Announces First Waves of Acts
After announcing Irish folk duo Hudson Taylor as this year’s festival headliners, X&Y have announced the first waves of acts to grace the Arts Club stage on 11th July. They include the brilliant indie rockers Amber Run who have just released their début album 5am. Home grown talent, The Hummingbirds and VYNCE return to the festival along with the likes of Fickle Friends, Fatherson , Model Aeroplanes, Blaenavon, BANFI, RedFaces & Polar States. Saturday 11th July at Arts Club Liverpool Tickets Are On Sale Now…
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Farm Feast Grows A Culture of Homegrown Food Passion
Chefs, local food producers and campaigns like Real Junk Food Project, Adopt a Chef and Love Food Hate Waste come together to champion food education. Wirral’s Farm Feast festival, held on 13th and 14th June 2015, unveils its food programme with a celebration of locally sourced, homegrown food producers, celebrity chefs that advocate using the freshest ingredients in an innovative way and food champions who teach about the importance of having a closer relationship and…
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Liverpoool International Festival of Psycadelia Returns To The Blade Factory
British space-psych pioneers Spiritualized are the first headliners for Liverpoool International Festival of Psycadelia 2015. This year’s edition will benefit from an additional performance space, with District – a converted manufacturing facility (formerly The Picket) – joining the existing complex of warehouses across Camp and Furnace and the Blade Factory. Baltic Triangle, Liverpool 25th & 26th September Tickets are available here
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Liverpool Light Night Returns 15th May
LightNight, Liverpool’s one-night arts and culture festival returns to illuminate the city for a sixth year on Friday 15 May from 4pm until late as the launch event of One Magnificent City. You, your friends and your family are invited to explore Liverpool as our world-class galleries, museums and public spaces stay open late for a free showcase of the city’s arts and culture. Follow your own trail of unexpected happenings as the city centre…
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Threshold V: Weekend Review and Bay TV Special Tomorrow Night
It was a festival to remember last weekend as Threshold put on its biggest and most successful event to date at venues all across Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle. But don’t just take our word for it…you can catch a special episode of ‘The Guide’ on Bay TV this Thursday night – channel 8 on Freeview and Virgin Media channel 159 – at 8:30pm, which looks at the whole of the weekend’s festivities. Be sure not to…
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Threshold V; Day Three Roundup
The last day of Threshold V seemed a little subdued at first. Perhaps folks were getting over the riotous shenanigans of the previous night, or maybe it was the bitingly windy weather. I had put aside the afternoon session for a suitably restrained look at the static art on show at the festival in The Craft Beer venue. I thought the exhibition, ‘Contrasting Geometries’, had some vital contemporary art and sculpture on show, and that the sophisticated way the…
