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