Gigs in Liverpool

Music gigs happening in Liverpool from local bands to national touring acts at music venues in the city

  • Sound City 2021 Preview: Our Top Ten Artists Not to Be Missed 9

    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…

  • Watch Red Rum Club Live From The Palm House

    Watch Red Rum Club Live From The Palm House

    Red Rum Club – Live from The Hollow of Humdrum Red Rum Club play one of Liverpool’s most beautiful, and unusual venues to beat the lockdown blues, bringing their brass-fired heat to the stunning Palm House in Sefton Park. A ray of sunshine when we need it the most, the band’s bright, optimistic, summertime tunes find a perfect backdrop in the 1896 architectural treasure. In light of a second national lockdown, Red Rum Club have…

  • Blondie To Play Liverpool M&S Bank Arena in 2021

    Blondie To Play Liverpool M&S Bank Arena in 2021

    Blondie will play their ‘Against The Odds’ UK Tour at the Liverpool M&S Bank Arena in November 2021 with special guests Garbage. Blondie have announced their first UK tour in over 4 years and will play in Liverpool on 6 November 2021. Formed in 1974, Blondie, led by iconic frontwoman Debbie Harry and guitarist Christ Stein, shaped the New York and American punk and new wave music scene. With 19 UK Top 40 hits and…

  • Epstein Lounge Sessions Live Stream Returns This Week Following 10k Audience For Their Opening Show 1

    Epstein Lounge Sessions Live Stream Returns This Week Following 10k Audience For Their Opening Show

    Epstein Lounge Sessions live stream connects local musicians with thousands watching at home. The Epstein Lounge Sessions is a project set up by Rach Hankin and Helen Maw of the Liverpool Noise team, along with their colleague and friend Anthony Cunningham. The concept was formed through a desire to make use of the Epstein Theatre’s stunning bar, Brian’s Bar, as a creative space, as well as a platform for upcoming local creatives to share their…

  • Future Yard Festival Announce Series of 2020 Events 1

    Future Yard Festival Announce Series of 2020 Events

    The team behind Future Yard Festival has announced Near Future, a pop-up music venue and Birkenhead’s only dedicated live music space. Initially Near Future will be showcasing a series of live events between 25th April – 20th June 2020. It will present some of the most exciting emerging new artists from across the UK – and very special returning local icons. The success of the first Future Yard Festival last year proved that there is…

  • Paint Me In Colour Release New Track '1968'

    Paint Me In Colour Release New Track ‘1968’

    Paint Me In Colour are on the scene! With a musical project and journey spanning around 3 years in the making, it’s no surprise that their ready-to-go package is a hit. Fresh off the back of their last release ‘Feel It’ back in January, it’s straight back to it for this plucky trio with their newest single ‘1968′.  After a couple of years recording, honing their musicality and laying the framework for the future in…

  • Circa Waves Release 'Sad Happy' and Curate Festival Supporting Local Emerging Liverpool Acts 1

    Circa Waves Release ‘Sad Happy’ and Curate Festival Supporting Local Emerging Liverpool Acts

    It’s been a busy few days for Liverpool natives Circa Waves following the announcement of their specially curated music festival, Circa Fest.  We know that small independent venues across the country are being forced to close their doors, making it more and more difficult for budding new bands to be discovered, so the support of established bands like Circa Waves can have a big impact on the local scene. The band decided to take action…

  • New Music Festival Melon Yellow Coming To Invisible Wind Factory 2

    New Music Festival Melon Yellow Coming To Invisible Wind Factory

    Liverpool music promoters I Love Live Events’ new music festival, Melon Yellow, is set to take place this Spring. The festival is described as a celebration of Shoegaze, Punk, Arts & Sustainability.  Taking place on Saturday 14th March at the Invisible Wind Factory, legendary shoegazers Ride have been announced as headliners. Other acts announced for the inaugural event are The Regrettes, Turnover, St Martiins, Lauren Hibberd and NewMoon with more names set to be announced soon. …

  • In Conversation - Thom Morecroft

    In Conversation – Thom Morecroft

    Liverpool Noise caught up with Thom Morecroft to talk about his new album and being part of 81 Renshaw’s brand new record label. Liverpool Noise: Congratulations on your new album “The Feng Shui and the Sushi”! Tell us how long it took to write and where did you record it ….  Thom Morecroft: Hello thanks for having me! This album is a collection of songs; some were written when I was 16 and some I…

  • The Cheap Thrills Live at O2 Academy Liverpool Review 1

    The Cheap Thrills Live at O2 Academy Liverpool Review

    There was feel in the air on Saturday. A feel of promise and anticipation. Excitement a plenty. The Liverpool music scene is thriving at the moment. Swaggering more than it has for a long time it feels. Across town, another local hit Jamie Webster is performing in The Jacaranda. At the 02 Academy, 550 adoring fans eagerly arrive to see The Cheap Thrills in a headline gig to unveil their new EP Vue Du Monde.…

  • In Conversation - Dave McTague (Mellowtone)

    In Conversation – Dave McTague (Mellowtone)

    Liverpool Noise: We are about to celebrate Mellowtone’s 15th Anniversary. How did it all start? Dave McTague: It started as the idea of a night i’d like to go to … an evening of live music, DJs, intimate and interesting venues, laid back vibes, nice people in attendance … and we built from there. I’d had the idea for a while, but when i walked into the View Two Gallery on Mathew Street, I knew…

  • Disco & Dinner - A Brand New Pop-Up from Constellations 2

    Live Music Thursdays Launching At Constellations

    Constellations has announced their 2019 Live Music Thursdays programme in collaboration with Liverpool “bass connoisseurs”, Rubber Dub.  Incorporating funk, punk, hip-hop, jazz and psychedelia into a reggae and dub foundation, Rubber Dub are one of the most exciting and innovative bands to come out of the North West in the past few years. Such is their popularity, they have already played a number of high-profile events and festivals across the UK and continue to garner…

  • Damien O'Kane and Ron Block At The Philharmonic: Review 1

    Damien O’Kane and Ron Block At The Philharmonic: Review

    Damien O’Kane and Ron Block live at The Philharmonic Music Room, 24.09.19. The Philharmonic Music Room is perhaps the most civilised and well thought out venue of it’s size in the city. The temporary dividing wall separating the stage area from the bar provides a comfortable place to wait before “doors.” Whilst gig goers at venues such as The Zanzibar and The O2 Academy have to queue outside here you can get a drink and…

  • Gen and The Degenerates Release Must-Listen Tracks Cocaine/Yoko Oh No

    Gen and The Degenerates Release Must-Listen Tracks Cocaine/Yoko Oh No

    Gen and The Degenerates are back with a double release that has already caused a stir before it’s arrival on our playlists. Quite some feat you must say. The no-nonsense North West rockers released a thirty second promo video of their new tracks which the law suits at Facebook HQ deemed inappropriate for it’s “sexual content” causing a backlash from their army of adorers. Now we are provided with 12 minutes and 2 seconds in…

  • Damien O'Kane and Ron Block Gig Preview

    Damien O’Kane and Ron Block Gig Preview

    To the uninitiated a banjo is a banjo. Due to its absence from most contemporary and so called “radio-friendly” music the public at large are not as familiar with it as they would be with it’s six stringed relative. However, if one album was likely to remedy this situation it is Damien O’Kane and Ron Block’s 2018 platter “Banjophony.”  Messrs O’Kane and Block have quite a pedigree. Coleraine born O’Kane has more than one acclaimed…

  • Future Yard Festival Review 1

    Future Yard Festival Review

    It’s all over to Birkenhead this weekend as we celebrate for the first time the beauty of Future Yard Festival. Tucked away next to the mouth of the Queensway Tunnel is a corner of land that looks out over to Liverpool on one side and North Wales on the other, home to some serious musical talent and of course not forgetting the late John Peel. Jumping off at Hamilton Square it’s a short walk over…

  • Liverpool Gig Preview: Mini Mansions @ Liverpool District, 27th May

    Liverpool Gig Preview: Mini Mansions @ Liverpool District, 27th May

    Mini Mansions, the Los Angeles band comprising members of Queens of the Stone Age and Arctic Monkeys will be stopping by Liverpool’s District next week as part of their UK tour. While all three bandmates are occupied with other gigs (notably Dawes plays in The Last Shadow Puppets, Parkford in Arctic Monkeys and Shuman plays bass in Queens Of The Stone Age, Mini Mansions is their priority. And, for this album, Shuman relinquished his role…

  • Lizzie Nunnery & Vidar Norheim - In Conversation

    Lizzie Nunnery & Vidar Norheim – In Conversation

    Liverpool Noise caught up with Lizzie Nunnery and Vidar Norheim ahead of their up- coming show at probably Liverpool’s best small venue, 81 Renshaw Street. We talked about past projects, new projects and artistic influences…. LN: What have you two been working on in the last twelve months, both individually and collectively? Lizzie: We’re always working on new songs together. Over the last year we’ve been piecing together material for a new album and live…

  • Nick Ellis - In Conversation 2

    Music Preview: Nick Ellis – Speakers’ Corner At St Brides Church

    Nick Ellis is dedicated to the concept of “Song” and “Melody”. Some people call it folk, some just call it good old fashioned song craft. Currently based in Liverpool, Ellis blends streetscape narrative-noir with a classic British acoustic approach. Following his latest album ‘Speakers’ Corner’, Nick returns to Liverpool’s St Brides Church to grace the weathered brick walls with his rhythmic attack and quick-finger lucidity. The team at Mellowtone provide evenings of live acoustic music…

  • Chrissie Hynde, Andy McCluskey and Erin Tonkon Revealed For Sound City+

    Chrissie Hynde, Andy McCluskey and Erin Tonkon Revealed For Sound City+

    The countdown is now on for the Sound City festival and its sister conference Sound City+ in Liverpool, creating the most packed edition to date across Friday 3rd– Sunday 5th May. Now the award-winning, independent and champion of new and emerging music is incredibly proud to reveal more amazing guests coming to the city as part of an illuminating, inspiring and enchanting weekend of music, arts, conversation, creativity and exploration.   And first up, it…