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  • Pride at GPO - Kiki Pain

    Celebrate Liverpool Pride At GPO In Metquarter

    Liverpool’s biggest party of the year is back! To celebrate love and inclusivity, GPO Food Market at Metquarter is hosting a fun-filled lineup of events sure to get visitors feeling fabulous for this year’s Liverpool Pride.  On Saturday 27 July, the food market will be filled with a jam-packed schedule of exciting entertainment, perfect for those looking to celebrate this year’s Pride with friends and family, including a DJ set hosted by Liverpool’s own Kiki…

  • Special Pride Events To Be Hosted At The Royal Liver Building This Month - The Queen of Heartbreak

    Special Pride Events To Be Hosted At The Royal Liver Building This Month

    The Royal Liver Building is the most famous building in Liverpool and the team there are keen to use its iconic status as a platform to show solidarity with the City’s LGBTQIA+ community. Frequently lighting up its majestic towers to support inclusive days, the building has also hosted a number of events to help raise awareness for all kinds of positive causes.  Since April the riverside reception of RLB has housed an arts installation called…

  • ChessFest Liverpool ONE - Credit Liverpool ONE

    Liverpool ONE To Host Fourth Annual ChessFest 

    Liverpool ONE is set to transform Chavasse Park into a giant chess festival this summer as ChessFest makes a return for a fourth year.  The event, which takes place on Sunday 21 July, is being brought to Liverpool ONE by Chess in Schools and Communities (CSC), a charity that uses chess to enhance children’s educational and social development.   Held on the five-acre park, ChessFest promises a day full of free chess activities for everyone from…

  • Ultimate Show Liverpool - F1 Credit Active Simulators

    Mercedes F1 Racing Simulator Set For Liverpool’s Ultimate Show

    Thousands of automotive enthusiasts are expected at next month’s Ultimate Show which is being held on the Liverpool waterfront. Organisers have partnered up with Mercedes to bring an official F1 racing simulator to this year’s show with a range of low rider cars also on display for the first time. They join some of Europe’s best modified builds, high performance, Retro and Supercars with live entertainment and DJs on the main stage as well as…

  • Laces Out! - Trainer Festival

    Laces Out! Trainer Festival Celebrates 10th Anniversary With Two Huge Events

    Laces Out! is celebrating its 10th anniversary in Liverpool with two huge events – and the first drops in on Saturday 18 May. The city is hosting the biggest ever Laces Out! to date. As one of Europe’s more influential get-togethers of sneaker culture, the immersive experience continues to unite sneakerheads from across the UK and beyond and it’s become the go-to destination for enthusiasts. And to begin the 10th anniversary proper there are some…

  • The Reader At Calderstones Park Announces Summer Season 2024

    The Reader At Calderstones Park Announces Summer Season 2024

    Highlights at Liverpool’s Calderstones Park include a new season of outdoor shows and events from open-air theatre and garden parties to the first ever one-day ukulele festival, ‘From Page to Stage’ Shared Reading and wellbeing workshops. Liverpool-based charity The Reader has unveiled a fun-packed summer programme of curated outdoor events, brand-new family-friendly productions including The Fabularium’s Reynard the Fox, music and literary-inspired wellbeing activities, all immersed in nature. As warmer days and lighter evenings approach…

  • Liverpool Loves Eurovision - Series of Free Events To Take Place In The City

    Liverpool Loves Eurovision – Series of Free Events To Take Place In The City

    Liverpool Loves Eurovision – a series of free events – will take place on Saturday 11 May, transporting visitors to that incredible fortnight in May last year by paying homage to elements of 2023’s incredibly popular programme which helped attract around 500,000 people to the city centre. The FREE events taking place on 11 May include: Between 1-7pm Beats on the Streets will take over Castle Street, Liverpool ONE and the Royal Albert Dock Liverpool when 30…

  • BOXPARK Liverpool Anncounces Exciting Programme of Events

    BOXPARK Liverpool Reveals Exciting Programme of Events Including Festival-Style Weekender 

    BOXPARK Liverpool, the 1,500 capacity award-winning food and entertainment venue, has revealed its stacked events programme as we approach summer 2024. With an epic launch party and a serious line-up of festival-style events across the opening weekend (19 – 21 April) followed by a series of specially curated events from Comedy Supper Clubs with British personality Joel Dommett and Bottomless Brunch with Atomic Kitten to a screening of the Merseyside Derby, the opening few weeks…

  • Catfish and the Bottlemen To Headline Sefton Park Liverpool. Credit - Sara Getson

    Catfish And The Bottlemen To Headline Sefton Park This July

    Multi Platinum-selling, BRIT Award-winning, arena-filling giants Catfish and the Bottlemen‘s epic return continues to hit new heights with the announcement of a massive outdoor show on Thursday 11 July in Liverpool’s stunning Sefton Park. One of the largest outdoor concerts the city of Liverpool has ever seen, the 32,000 capacity site promises to be the biggest headline show of the band’s career to date. Tickets will be on general sale at 10:00 BST this Friday 19 April. Sign up…

  • My Big Fake Wedding Disco - Liverpool

    My Big Fake Wedding Disco Is Coming Back To Liverpool

    Imagine all of the best parts of a wedding. Imagine what really makes the biggest day of two people’s lives the best day for everyone gathered with them. In taking out the actual getting married part of ‘The Big Day’, what do you have left? Well, it’s My Big Fake Wedding Disco of course – with 100% dance floor bangers all night long. Imagine all of those glorious elements – the dancing, the joy, cutting…

  • Ibiza Club Classics With Live Orchestra Comes To Liverpool This Summer - Symphonica Orchestra

    Ibiza Club Classics With Live Orchestra Comes To Liverpool This Summer

    Live music is at the beating heart of Liverpool’s cultural centre, and this summer is due to start with a banging launch, as Revival Nation presents Ibiza Club Classics at the Invisible Wind Factory on Saturday 1 June 2024. Featuring the Symphonica Orchestra and Mr Switch DJ as part of its headline appeal, this is an evening taking guests right back to 80’s anthems, iconic 90’s beats and the unforgettable tunes of the noughties. With…

  • Fiesta of Fire Returns To The Royal Albert Dock With Thrilling Fire Walk 

    Fiesta of Fire Returns To The Royal Albert Dock With Thrilling Fire Walk 

    This February, Royal Albert Dock Liverpool is welcoming the return of Fiesta of Fire, which is back bigger and hotter than ever. Taking place from 12-17 February to provide the ultimate half-term programme, warm up this winter with unmissable fire performances and thrilling experiences on Liverpool’s iconic waterfront. Bringing a spectacle of fire and light to the Martin Luther King Jr. plateau, Fiesta of Fire will welcome back captivating choreographed fire shows and freestyle fire…

  • Africa Oye 2024 Festival Dates Announced - ZieZie at Oye 2023 - Photo Credit - Mark McNulty

    Africa Oyé 2024 Festival Dates Announced

    The country’s biggest celebration of African and Caribbean music and culture, Africa Oyé has announced its festival dates for this summer in Liverpool. Following record breaking attendances last year, Africa Oyé will take over Sefton Park once again for two packed days of live music, dance, workshops, DJ stages, food stalls, traders and more. The much-loved event will this year take place on 22 and 23 June 2024 with the festival running from 12:30pm to…

  • DJ Battle II Burnham vs Rotheram 2024

    DJ Battle II: Burnham vs Rotheram To Take Place At Camp & Furnace In February 2024

    Tickets are now on sale for the charity DJ battle follow up between Mayors Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram. The pair will be taking to the decks on Friday 2 February 2024 on Camp and Furnace, as Greater Manchester and the Liverpool City Region go head-to-head in a good-natured music battle, all to raise funds to tackle homelessness and end the need for rough sleeping. Ticketholders will be treated to the musical stylings of singers…

  • Craig Charles

    Craig Charles Funk & Soul Boxing Day House Party Coming to CONTENT Liverpool

    CONTENT is hosting one of the UK’s legendary DJs, entertainers and all round party-starting icons – get ready for Craig Charles and his Funk & Soul Boxing Day House Party. This features an all-new DJ show for 2023 and invites fans to enter Craig’s living room as he delves into his extensive record collection bringing straight-up groove bangers, exclusive funk and soul cuts and much more. CONTENT on Boxing Day will be transported to a…

  • Halloween in Liverpool 2023 Events Guide

    Halloween In Liverpool 2023 Events Guide

    Halloween is just around the corner, and Liverpool is gearing up for a frightfully good time. There’s a whole load of spooky events and activities happening in the city that will make for a hair-raising time. From haunted houses and drag brunches to costume competitions and carnivals, there’s something for everyone. Sink your fangs into our guide of the ultimate Halloween happenings of the year. Dare to be Scared Newsham Scream Park Prepare for the…

  • Caroline Polachek at CONTENT, Liverpool

    CONTENT Reveals Its First Full Season Of Shows Into Spring 2024

    A sold-out show from The Pretenders is followed by heavyweight shows from The Vaccines, Stereolab, Maisie Peters, Homotopia Festival, Craig Charles Funk & Soul House Party, The Cheap Thrills and Bill-Ryder Jones with many more to come. Over at CONTENT in Liverpool, the venue is now gearing up for a sensational first full season of live music running all the way into spring 2024.  As one of the UK’s newest destinations for live music and…

  • Indika Festival 2023 - Family-Friendly Events Announced

    Family-Friendly Events Announced For All Ages At Indika Festival 2023

    With just weeks to go until one of the country’s biggest festivals of Indian Arts and Culture takes over Liverpool, Milap have revealed the full line-up of family-friendly events taking place at Indika Festival, with performances and activities suitable for the entire family to enjoy. From 1 – 12 November, Indika 2023 will take over Liverpool in a celebration of Indian music, dance, arts, discussion and culture. With something suitable for all ages to enjoy, events aimed…

  • River of Light 2023 - United By Music Installation

    River of Light 2023 Details & Map

    River of Light 2023 will bring Liverpool’s waterfront to life once again with a trail of 11 spectacular illuminated artworks. From Friday 27 October to Sunday 5 November, the the city and waterfront will transform into a mesmerising outdoor art gallery, illuminating the streets from 5 pm to 9 pm. Under the theme ‘United By Light,’ this year’s festival pays tribute to the spirit of unity invoked during the Eurovision Song Contest with its ‘United…

  • El Kiddo Family Halloween Party Comes To Liverpool Via Ibiza & Dubai - Harrison

    El Kiddo Family Halloween Party Comes To Liverpool Via Ibiza & Dubai

    Aged just 17, DJ and music innovator Harrison McDonald, known as Harry MC, has already enjoyed the type of career that his peers could only dream of. After a sell out summer in Ibiza, running his own hugely successful family event called ‘El Kiddo’ based at the island’s infamous Bam Bu Ku, following a popular run in Dubai, Harry is now bringing this music-based extravaganza to Liverpool’s noted live events venue, The Dome at Grand…