Festivals
Liverpool’s festivals including music, art, food and drink festivals
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Threshold Festival Celebrates Arts Council Success
Ahead of their 2019 event taking place on March 29-30 in venues across the creative quarter of Liverpool, Threshold Festivals CIC are delighted to announce that they have been successful in their ‘Grants for the Arts’, Arts Council funding bid. The annual festival of music and arts, is heading into it’s ninth consecutive year in the Baltic Triangle district of the city, and according to co-founder and festival producer Chris Herstad Carney, the timing of this…
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3 Reasons To be Excited For Liverpool Sound City 2019
Liverpool Sound City returns for its 12th year in 2019 (3- 5 May) and it’s been a rollercoaster ride for what is arguably the city’s biggest music festival. We look ahead to next years event and here’s 3 reasons why we’re excited. The line-up so far: The festival has announced some quality acts to kick off the excitement for the 12th year. Loyle Carner and Mabel head up the national talent on display along with…
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Liverpool Calling Announces Second Wave of Acts for Summer Festival
Liverpool Calling has announced the second wave of acts joining the already impressive Liverpool Calling line-up on 22nd/23rd June, taking over Liverpool City Centre and Baltic Triangle. Topping the next set of additions are Geordie psych-rockers Demob Happy. East London noisemakers False Heads, Welsh indie rockers Himalayas, as well as Yorkshire garage band Avalanche Party. Plus, there will be a whole host of extraordinary Liverpool noise-makers such as Pale Rider, Psycho Comedy, and The Racket.…
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Positive Vibration Announce Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Roni Size & More For This Year’s Festival
The UK’s award-winning festival of reggae, Positive Vibration, continues to impress, as it adds legendary producer & innovator, Lee “Scratch” Perry to this year’s festival line-up. The Godfather of dub, who kickstarted the career of Bob Marley, will be backed by New York-based collective, Subatomic Sound System (Emch, Screechy Dan and Larry McDonald) for a special one-off UK performance. As well as the Godfather of Dub, the festival will also play host to the Godfather…
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Across the Threshold 2018: 2 Days of Music, Arts & Discussion This Weekend
Across the Threshold, a 2 day mini-adventure in the Baltic Triangle featuring a whole host of music, performance, visual arts, workshops & discussion will take place this weekend! Joining the festival from Liverpool, the North West, UK and as far afield as Oslo and New York City,Across The Threshold has a huge array of genre bending, mad cap creative, pop rocking acts for audiences at Unit 51, District and Hobo Pub. Add that to a…
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Festival No.6 Announces Comedy Line-Up
Reginald D Hunter, Tim Key, Lauren Pattison, Stuart Goldsmith, Spencer Jones, Jayde Adams, John Kearns, Fern Brady and more join the bill. Festival No.6 has revealed the first names on this year’s comedy line-up at The Gatehouse as part of the Arts and Culture programme. With a mixture of heritage names and emerging talent, this year is set to be the best edition yet. Reginald D. Hunter makes his debut at Festival No.6 this year. During…
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Liverpool Calling Festival Returns – First Wave of Acts Announced
Liverpool Calling festival has today announced the first wave of acts for their 2018 summer event, after a two year hiatus. Leeds noise-makers Pulled Apart By Horses and Pysch Rockers The Wytches have been announced as co-headliners for the festival which will extend to a two day event. As well as the main event on Saturday, 23rd June (taking over the Baltic Triangle), there will also be a busy Friday night schedule planned in Liverpool City Centre. Friday’s offering will…
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Africa Oyé Announces First Wave of Artists
Artists from Guinea Bissau and the Gambia are all set to take to the Africa Oyé stage this summer. Kicking off the first wave of artists is singer-songwriter Binhan, who broke through in Guinea Bissau back in 2008 with his refreshing songs of love and hope. PLUS pioneering kora player, Sona Jobarteh will be returning to Africa Oye following her 2016 performance at the festival. Mark the dates in your diaries as Sefton Park will once again be…
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Shout About It Live Festival Returns for 2nd year – First acts announced
Shout About It Live – a hybrid festival bringing live music and gig photography together – has announced it’s return for 2018 after a solid debut last year. Staying in the Baltic Triangle, this year’s venue is the multi-purpose venue Constellations on the weekend of 18th & 19th August. And the first acts have been confirmed with Robert Vince, Rews, Nick Ellis, Eleanor Nelly and Emmanuel Nwamadi all set to take to the stage this…
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First acts announced for Liverpool International Music Festival 2018
Liverpool International Music Festival 2018 is heading back to the magnificent setting of Sefton Park for another weekend of unforgettable music on 21st – 22nd July. Over 70 artists including Haçienda Classiçal, Basement Jaxx (DJ Set), Wiley, Example & DJ Wire, Jax Jones, Stefflon Don, Aurora, Young Fathers, Rae Morris, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Trevor Nelson, Gilles Peterson plus many more will perform live as part of this year’s unmissable line-up. With up to 18 hours…
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Franz Ferdinand And Friendly Fires Join THE THE To Headline Festival No.6
Jessie Ware, Everything Everything, The Charlatans, Django Django, Ride, Anna Calvi and many more revealed. Having previously revealed The The as the top of the bill for Saturday night, multi-award winning Festival No.6 (6-9 September ‘18) is proud to announce Franz Ferdinand and Friendly Fires as the remaining headliners for this year’s highly anticipated seventh edition – the highlight of the UK festival season. Following a brief hiatus, indie rockers Friendly Fires are back with…
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Sound City Announces 100 Brand New Artists For 2018 Festival
Sound City is making its hugely anticipated return to the city’s centre, kick-starting the UK’s 2018 festival season into life on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th May. The festival is very much going back to its roots for its 11th year in a vibrant celebration of music and arts from around the world and much closer to home. Sound City will embrace the spirit of the underground and seek out the next generation of talent…
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Threshold Festival Returns with ‘Across the Threshold 2018’ – 13th -14th April
Following the success and building on the legacy of seven consecutive years of their Festival of Music & Arts, Threshold are returning to the Baltic Triangle on April 13th & 14th to bring you a special, scaled down mini-festival and industry event. “We’ve been doing Threshold Festival since 2011 in the Baltic Triangle and over these years the district and the city as a whole has changed exponentially, for the better. 2018 is a big development year for…
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Sound City Reveals First 10 Artists For 2018 Festival
One of Europe’s leading metropolitan festivals of music and arts, Sound City, is making its much anticipated return to the city centre across the first spring bank holiday Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th May. Taking place across the Baltic Triangle and Cains Brewery in Liverpool, the festival is very much returning to its roots for its 11th year, focused on discovering an abundance of emerging new talent for everyone to savour whilst experiencing many iconic…
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Sound City will take place across Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle in the spring 2018
Sound City has announced its 2018 festival will be located across the Baltic Triangle and the Cain’s Brewery area. Taking place across the first spring bank holiday Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th May, Sound City will be taking over the iconic warehouses, intimate spaces, outdoor stages and pop-up places which form the renascent Baltic Triangle and Cain’s Brewery areas of the city. It is here which is the catalyst for much of Liverpool’s creative and…
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Festival No.6 Announce First Headliner for 2018 – THE THE
Multi-award winning Festival No.6 (6-9 September ‘18) has today announced legendary post-punk outfit THE THE as the first headliners on the bill for next year’s festival – the bands only confirmed UK date outside London. One of the most important acts of the new wave era, the cult band were a beacon of passion and truth in Thatcher’s Britain and influenced an entire genre. After a long hiatus of 15 years Matt Johnson has returned…
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Liverpool Music Week 2017 Announce Full Line Up
With just two weeks until Liverpool Music Week 2017 a huge list of additional names have been added to this year’s already bumper festival line up, which begins on Thursday 26th October at the opening party headlined by CHIC feat. Nile Rodgers at Liverpool’s Echo Arena. Newly confirmed to open this year’s festival before CHIC’s appearance with a very special Disco Classic covers set are the 8-strong Sense of Sound Singers choir under the musical…
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2018 Smithdown Road Festival Dates Announced
Smithdown Road Festival is back for a fourth year, and it’s bigger and better than ever before. Taking place as always over the May Day Bank Holiday Weekend 5th – 7th May 2018, expect a jam packed schedule of incredible live music, comedy, theatre, cinema and loads for the kids to do too. Taking place on Wavertree Park, as well as several venues along Smithdown Road itself (including The Handymans, Craft Taproom, Evil Eye and Naked Lunch)…
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Liverpool Calling Music Festival Returning In 2018
Liverpool Calling organisers have announced that the festival will return next year, with a new location, in the Baltic Triangle. The one day festival will return, after a two year break, on Saturday 23rd June 2018 and the first venue confirmed for the event is Constellations. Constellations will host two stages running from 2pm-4am, with additional venues to be confirmed in the coming months. This means that the festival will not be taking place at the Bombed…
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Sound City Is Moving Back To City Centre For 2018 Festival
Sound City has revealed the festival is moving back to the city centre in May 2018 from the docklands, returning to its roots based around discovering new talent in intimate venues. The announcement made today also confirms that the festival organisers are collaborating with lots of curators, including Glastonbury’s Silver Hayes, Kendal Calling, Bluedot, Greg Wilson, Domino and Moshi Moshi, Hospital Records and many more. After several years at the docklands, the festival has faced criticism…
