Festivals
Liverpool’s festivals including music, art, food and drink festivals
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Liverpool International Music Festival Announce Big Name Acts For 2015
Basement Jaxx,Labrinth, Laura Mvula, Echo and the Bunnymen, Katy B, Becky Hill, Space, The Real Thing, Bipolar Sunshine, Naughty Boy and loads more will be joining #LIMF2015 Summer Jam in Sefton Park from 29th – 31st August. For More Info & To Keep Up To Date With Artist Announcements Visit www.limfestival.com.
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Threshold V; Day Two Roundup
After the excellent first day at Threshold, I was looking forward to seeing what the festival could bring me to liven up my Saturday. Continuing my plan to see as many diverse acts as possible, I started my viewing in the outside space at Constellations with a set by the excellent Nini. The verve and gusto brought to the stage by this Brazilian singer and her band brightened the grey Liverpool afternoon, bringing a taste…
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X&Y Music Festival 2015 Announce Hudson Taylor As Headliners
Irish Folk Duo Hudson Taylor will headline this year’s X&Y Music Festival at The East Village Arts Club. The Dublin born brother’s Alfie and Harry Hudson Taylor found fame online, with their acoustic sessions getting more than three million hits on Youtube. They released their debut EP ‘Battles’ in August 2012, which reached #1 on iTunes in Ireland and #14 in the UK. This was closely followed up by their second EP ‘CinematicLifestyle’. In October…
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Threshold V: The Full Line-Up For Next Week's Spectacular 3-Day Festival
Stage By Stage Breakdown Here £20 Weekend Passes Available Here
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Farm Feast At Threshold Festival: Constellations To Host Day Of Events On 29th March
At Threshold Festival this March in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle get a taste of what’s in store at this year’s Farm Feast. At Constellations & The Observatory on Greenland Street sample some of the flavours you can expect at Farm Feast 2015 with food, drink, music and an urban market. Farm Feast is a two day festival at Wirral’s Claremont Farm on Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th of June. Celebrating the best food producers and music,…
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'The Evolution of The Groove' – A Journey Through Dance Music At Threshold Festival
Threshold Presents: The Evolution of The Groove Teaming up with Good Vibrations Magazine and the brand new Fire House Promotions, this year’s Threshold Festival has something special planned for the Baltic Triangle at the end of March… Spread over twelve hours throughout the weekend, ‘The Evolution of The Groove’ will follow modern dance music from its earliest origins in the blues and jazz clubs of the US, to the rich and diverse sounds that have…
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Threshold Laid Bare: Theatre & Performance At Threshold V
The fifth annual Threshold Festival of Music and Arts takes place on 27th-29th March 2015 in venues across the Baltic Triangle district of Liverpool. A strong music and visual arts line-up as always make up the majority of programming at the event, but theatre and performance arts play an increasingly important role for the festival. As a grass-roots, multi-arts event, Threshold aims to platform the very best of what’s happening in the city and a…
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Albert Dock Rum Festival; 7th & 8th March
On Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 March Smugglers Cove is taking the lead on the first Albert Dock Rum Festival. Smugglers Cove are offering seven rum tastings throughout the weekend, each with a space for up to ten people so you can bring your friends. Don’t miss out on the steel drum performance in the bar on the Saturday too. If you like a bit of carnival with your rum head along to Circo where…
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'Liverpool Calling' Music Festival Announce First Wave of Acts For 2015
The beautiful and iconic Bombed Out Church remains as Liverpool Calling’s proud hosts, alongside some of the City’s greatest music venues including The Magnet, Sound Food & Drink, and Maguire’s Pizza Bar. Sheffield indie legends Reverend & The Makers will headline the Bombed Out Church to perform a set like no other. Folk acoustic singer Beans on Toast brings his comedic anthems to the Bombed Out Church. They also have the finest local bands on…
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Africa Oye Announces First Acts For 2015 Festival In Sefton Park
UK soul legend Omar will be joined by Mali’s BKO Quintet and Lindigo from Reunion Island. ‘This isn’t just the largest festival of African and Caribbean music in Britain, it’s the best’– The Sunday Times ‘Perhaps Britain’s best free festival’ – Clash Magazine The UK’s largest, free African music festival Africa Oye will grace Sefton Park once again this summer and organisers have unveiled the first 3 acts of a globally acclaimed line up for…
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Above The Beaten Track Festival Announces 2015 Date At The Bluecoat
Above The Beaten Track returns to the Bluecoat on Saturday 5 September. Save the date as Above The Beaten Track returns on Saturday 5 September with the best in grass-roots live music, DJs, artists, traders, makers and audio visual extravaganzas. Now in it’s eighth year, the festival re-located to the Bluecoat in 2010 to cope with growing demand. Originally conceived to celebrate the range of diverse songwriters in the city, it has since expanded to…
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Threshold V: Festival of Music & Arts Calls For Volunteers
Threshold Festival are looking for volunteers to help! The whole festival is completely volunteer led and any help or time anyone is able to give would be invaluable to them. If you are you interested in getting involved behind the scenes with a grassroots music and multi arts festival then please fill out this form: http://form.jotformeu.com/form/42182604111340 If you have any questions please email Sofija here: [email protected] Find out more about the festival here: http://thresholdfestival.co.uk
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Sound City Announce Third & Final Headliner; The Vaccines
Liverpool Sound City have announced the third and final headliner for this year’s festival, indie rockers, The Vaccines. They join previously announced headliners Belle & Sebastian and The Flaming Lips who will play at the newly located Docklands site. Also announced today were Roni Size Reprazent, The Thurston Moore Band, Gaz Coombes F*cked Up, Evian Christ,Unknown Mortal Orchestra The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, Dum Dum Girls, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Stealing Sheep, Dutch Uncles,…
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Threshold Festival 2015 Early Bird Tickets Now Avaliable
Threshold Festival returns for it’s fifth year, 27-29th March 2015, with early bird tickets available now. An annual three day event in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle. The focus of festival is collaboration, grass-roots music, first view visual arts & Innovative Performance. Established in 2011, Threshold is dedicated to artist development and driving forward the music and arts industry. Watch the Threshold V Teaser video below; [vimeo 111812420 w=500 h=281] Get Early Bird Tickets Here & For More Info…
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Liverpool Music Week 2014 Closing Party; Review
The 10th annual edition of Liverpool Music Week came to a close on Friday 1st and did it ever reach its conclusion in style. The Camp and Furnace, alongside The Kazimier and the O2 Academy, has hosted a glorious array of musical talent right across LMW14 including the likes of Caribou, Mogwai and Wild Beasts. For the closing party it was the turn of Glasgow synthpop specialists CHVRCHES, playing their first ever show in Liverpool, to take centre stage and…
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Belle & Sebastian Announced As First Liverpool Sound City 2015 Headliners
Liverpool Sound City have announced today that Belle & Sebastian will play Liverpool’s biggest music festival on Sunday 24th May. It was also announced that they would be playing at a brand new Liverpool Sound City venue – Liverpool’s iconic abandoned Docklands. Liverpool Sound City has been shortlisted for the “Best Metropolitan Festival” at this year’s UK Festival Awards. The festival attracts big headline names, rising stars from across the country and showcases artists and…
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Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia; Review Part Two
It’s not every Friday afternoon I get to sip beer, in the sunshine, in the presence of some of the most awe-inspiring psych bands I’ve ever heard; the beginning of Liverpool Psych fest 2014 was happily one of those times. Purple Heart Parade kicked off the weekend in Blade with a ragingly energetic set after recently releasing a cassette on local North West label Blak Hand Records. Their roaring vocals and feedback reverberated off the…
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Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia; Review
Psychedelic music, not usually a genre of my choice, however having read many good reviews from last year’s festival, I was excited to attend. Becoming slightly more nervous as I approached the Baltic Triangle, concerned I would stand out like a sore thumb with my dress sense, proving this isn’t my usual listen. When I arrived it quickly became apparent that this festival was for a whole array of people from Mods to Rockers, Goths to Hippies and your…
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Hope Fest Day Three At The Magnet
Arriving just before the first band were due to begin, I had finally got my timings right. Joining my friends in the booth they had secured, I settled down to enjoy another evening of choice local bands, all in the name of a very good cause. The guy introducing the bands seemed to be having a wonderful evening and would best be described as ‘slightly inebriated’, which added a certain comedic aspect to the proceedings.…
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Hope Fest Day Two At The Baltic Social
After the success of the evening at Brink on Friday, I was looking forward to seeing what Saturday night at The Baltic Social had in store. I arrived early to drop some more goodies for the homeless, which was the true point of the whole exercise, then went to meet a friend who needed a little help to find the venue, which is on the edge of town and relatively unknown to those not…
