Festivals
Liverpool’s festivals including music, art, food and drink festivals
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Sound City+ Conference Announces Full 2022 Programme Co-Curated By AIM
Established as the definitive new music discovery weekend that points the way to the future of the music industry we know today, Sound City continues to build anticipation ahead of its 15th Anniversary celebrations with full details of its Sound City+ Conference – taking place from Friday 29 April and kickstarting the festival weekend with a full programme of insights, discussions and panels pointing towards the future of the music industry. Taking place in 2022…
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Africa Oyé Is Back June 2022, Celebrating 30th Anniversary
A Grammy Award-winning Malian musician, an Afrobeats pioneer, and a reggae legend will headline The Africa Oyé Festival this summer. The festival team are delighted to announce that Oumou Sangaré, Fuse ODG and Eek-A-Mouse will top the bill at this year’s free celebration of African and Caribbean culture in Liverpool, along with a host of other acclaimed acts appearing on the line-up. Following a two-year hiatus brought on by the pandemic, the festival returns to…
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Sound City 2022 Preview: Bandit Q&A
Lively northern, indie rock 4-piece Bandit will be playing at Sound City this year, so we caught up with them to talk about their music, performing live and what 2022 has in store for them. Liverpool Noise: For anyone reading this who might not know who you are, how would you best describe yourselves as a band? Bandit: Y’alreet mon cheri’s, we are Bandit. We’re the indie poster boys, but we’re on the darker end…
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bluedot Festival Reveals Family Offering For 2022 Featuring Tim Peake
Award-winning festival announces UK’s pioneer astronaut as headliner of its family programme alongside Clangers and Brainiac Live. bluedot 2022 will take place 21-24 July and Tim Peake will headline an out-of-this world line up for families at this year’s festival, taking place at Cheshire’s Jodrell Bank Observatory. Now in its fifth year, bluedot is an award-winning music, science and culture festival hosted at the site of the awe-inspiring Lovell Telescope – one of the biggest…
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Liverpool’s Theatre In The Rough Launch Climate Crisis Arts Festival To Coincide With Earth Day
A free programme of short films, audio plays and podcasts by women from Liverpool and West Lancashire is launching to coincide with this year’s Earth Hour. The 400 Parts Per Million Festival, produced by Theatre in the Rough, explores young women’s experience of the Climate Crisis – as women are statistically most likely to be affected by the impacts of climate change. The participants have been working with climate activists, artists and scientists from around…
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The One In The Woods Announces 2022 Line Up – DJ Hazard, Dax J, Calyx & Teebee, Fatima Hajji, Kings of the Rollers, Perc, Dillinja, SPFDJ, Matrix & Futurebound & Many More
The One In The Wood completes its full line-up for June 3 and 4 2022 with drum & bass icons Pendulum, Nastia, Luke Slater, Dax J, Fatima Hajji, Perc, AMC, The Protoypes, DJ Hazard, Kings Of The Rollers, Dillinja, Drumsound & Bassline Smith, Ragga Twins and more. Excitement is building for the second edition of this gigantic festival, which pairs the best in techno with the best in drum & bass across four stages. It…
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bluedot Festival Headliners Announced
Björk, Groove Armada, Mogwai, Metronomy and Hannah Peel to headline bluedot 2022. Award-winning festival reveals music, science and culture line-up featuring a UK Festival Exclusive from Björk Orchestral. bluedot has revealed the first wave of artists for this year with Björk, Groove Armada and Mogwai headlining the fifth instalment of the award-winning music, science and culture event at Cheshire’s iconic Jodrell Bank Observatory taking place 21–24 July 2022. One of the most influential and groundbreaking…
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Crapfest Returns With Wonk Unit Topping The Bill
Crapfest is curated by Birkenhead’s finest topical punk duo Crapsons and celebrates the amazing DIY underground punk and alternative rock scene, its bands, its followers, and everything in between. The event will pick up from last year and take place once again across Liverpool city centre, primarily from EBGBs and the Jacaranda club. As always, Crapfest will take place on the bank holiday weekend on Sunday 28 August. Each year they finish Crapfest, shattered, exhausted,…
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Parklife release a killer 2022 line-up
Parklife is back for 2022, with one of their best line-ups yet. The metropolitan festival at Heaton Park on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 June will kick-off the festival season and has bagged Tyler the Creator, 50 Cent and Megan Thee Stallion. An incredible selection of DJs will have everyone hyped with the likes of Carl Cox, Peggy Gou, Camelphat, Nina Kraviz, Amelie Lens, Sonny Fodera and many more. Bicep headlines The Valley, with Tyler…
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The One in the Woods announces full line up, including Pendulum, A.M.C, The Protoypes and many more
The One in The Woods completes its full line-up for June 3rd and 4th 2022 with drum & bass icons Pendulum, Nastia, Luke Slater, Dax J, Fatima Hajji, Perc, AMC, The Protoypes, DJ Hazard, Kings Of The Rollers, Dillinja, Drumsound & Bassline Smith, Ragga Twins and more. Tickets for this huge, community-minded Liverpool festival are up now at https://theoneinthewoods.com. Excitement is building for the second edition of this gigantic festival, which pairs the best in…
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The Africa Oyé Festival returns this June in its 30th Anniversary year
Following a two-year hiatus brought on by the pandemic, The Africa Oyé Festival returns to Liverpool’s Sefton Park this summer in what will be their 30th anniversary year. One of the region’s most beautiful green spaces will once again be filled with the music and culture of Africa, the Caribbean and the diaspora, for two free days of live music, DJs and dance, as well as workshops, food stalls and a range of traders in the Oyé…
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The One In The Woods Announces 2022 Line Up
While people continue to talk about the legendary The One In The Woods debut back in September, all eyes now turn to next year as the Liverpool juggernauts return with an even bigger line-up. From June 3 to 4, the all-encompassing festival will set up in Orrell Hill Woods, Liverpool with the first wave of names including DJ Hazard, Dillinja, Dax J, Calyx & Teebee, Drumsound & Bassline Smith b2b DJ SS b2b Kenny Ken,…
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Sound City 2021 Review & Artist Playlist
Sound City made a triumphant comeback last weekend and for the first time in a long time things felt kind of normal. The festival’s return to city centre venues certainly brought back some nostalgia as well as acting as a reminder of what life felt like pre-pandemic. It felt good to be heading from venue to venue, despite the bad weather and some full capacity lockouts at certain times over the three days. There was…
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Katumba Halloween Carnival Headlines New Liverpool festival for Black History Month
A new festival comes to Liverpool this month and it includes the annual Katumba Halloween Carnival. Routes & Roots will see two weeks of free family-friendly cultural, arts and wellbeing activities & events across Liverpool, created to celebrate Black History Month and to include the iconic annual carnival. Every October, Liverpool drumming and movement troupe, Katumba holds events across L8 and L1 that culminate with the Katumba Halloween Carnival in Liverpool City Centre. This year, Katumba is partnering with…
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Liverpool Digital Music Festival 2021 – Artists Announced
Liverpool Digital Music Festival has revealed its line-up for the free entry, and free to watch live streamed festival happening from the 7 to the 9 October at St Barnabas Church, Penny Lane. The venue will open its doors with performances from Ask Elliot, Bedside Manners, Gallia, Glamboy, Gen and the Degenerates, Jack Gill, Munkey Junkey, Mutant Vinyl, Room D, The Merchants, The Jagz, The JJohns, Venus Demiilo and Meg Shaw. Now in its fourth iteration, Liverpool…
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Sound City 2021 Preview: Our Top Ten Artists Not to Be Missed
Sound City returns to Liverpool city centre venues this weekend and we can’t wait to catch sets from some amazing local talent across the three day festival. I think we share the excitement of many who are so glad to see Sound City return to its roots, with festival goers milling around town heading from one venue to another, immersing in the party-like atmosphere. Over 175 acts will take over the city’s music venues with…
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Smithdown Festival 2021: Preview
Liverpool’s renowned Smithdown Festival will return this weekend for its fifth year running. After the 2020 line-up was cancelled, the organisers revealed an impressive list of acts for this year’s festival last month. Alongside some of Smithdown Road’s most popular venues, a handful of new additions have been added to the line-up including Leaf Smithdown, Tavern Co, St Barnabas Church, Foghertys and Meatless. Since 2015 Smithdown Road festival has been home to a range of…
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LA FERIA – Liverpool’s Festival of Latin American Arts and Culture Is Happening This Month
LA FERIA, a festival of Latin American Arts and Culture is set to take over city centre venues in Liverpool this month. For their 10th Anniversary activities, local arts organisation LUMA Creations are proud to present LA FERIA, an innovative and colourful celebration of Latin American Arts and Culture. The programme of events, featuring an exciting line-up of dance, musical performances and activities, will give audiences the opportunity to experience the diversity of Latin American Arts and Culture at different…
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bluedot 2022 confirms Björk as closing headliner
In a UK festival exclusive, bluedot Festival (21-24 July 2022) has announced a unique Björk performance as Sunday night headliner. The genre-spanning pioneer will be joined by The Hallé Orchestra at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Jodrell Bank Observatory, accompanied by a projection mapping spectacle. The audio-visual performance will feature video and animated projections on the iconic Lovell Telescope, for a unique show exclusive to bluedot. This will be the first-time audiences at bluedot…
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Liverpool Digital Music Festival Announce Hybrid Festival For October
Now in its fourth iteration, Liverpool Digital Music Festival returns as a live streamed online and attend in-person event. The hybrid digital music festival takes place at recently opened live venue St Barnabas Church on one of the most famous musical streets, Penny Lane, on 7 – 9 October 2021. Holding its inaugural event during the pandemic and mindful of the restrictions it imposed, the festival started as a four day online-only festival showcasing over…
