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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…
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Irish Singer-Songwriter ROE To Play The Magnet
Electro pop starlet ROE is heading to The Magnet for the Liverpool leg of her UK tour. The 18 year old has had a huge year to date after playing the BBC Introducing stage at Glastonbury as well as performances at The Great Escape Festival in Brighton and Output in Belfast. ROE will play popular Hardman Street venue The Magnet on 30th October, along with support from local artists including Tabitha Jade, Pizzagirl (formally LUMEN),…
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Liverpool Mental Health Festival Kicks off 1st October With A Fortnight of Events
Liverpool is marking World Mental Health Day on 10th October with a 2-week Festival. In the wake of substantial cuts to the funding of 3rd sector organisations providing essential services to people experiencing mental distress, talking about our mental health is more important than ever. Liverpool Mental Health Consortium, the organisers of Liverpool Mental Health Festival 2017, have been working hard, along with their partners, to put together a programme packed with creative, engaging and, most importantly,…
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Student Takeover Week Brings Loads of Student Discounts
With more than 50,000 students expected to arrive in Liverpool this month, the Liverpool BID Company is holding its annual ‘Student Take Over Week’ campaign across the city centre from 25th September – 1st october. Over 50 Liverpool BID companies have got involved to bring student discounts across the city with cafes and restaurants including American Pizza Slice, Pho, Love Thy Neighbour, LIV Organic Food Market, The Italian Club, El Mexicana, Changos Burritos, Artisane and Ziferblat all…
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Free Shake Fridays Are Coming To Archie’s
Burger Joint Archie’s will be giving customers the Friday Feeling over the next six weeks with free Milkshakes. Archie’s will be giving away free shakes with every burger and fries that’s ordered on Fridays in the popular fast food restaurant. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Archie’s, they are a cool and casual diner and the only place to serve top quality handmade burgers together with the thickest, tastiest shakes; famous as far…
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Watch The Blair Witch Project At The Dome This Halloween
The Independent Liverpool lads have lined up a night of scares at The Grand Central Dome on 31st October with a special screening of The Blair Witch Projects and plenty of jumps and scares planned on the night. If you fancy the idea of watching a notoriously creepy film in the dark with characters planted within the Dome to scare you senseless throughout the movie then you’ll love this event. Discovered video footage tells the…
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A Home Alone Themed Bar Is Coming To Liverpool This Christmas
We’re sorry but you’re going to have to get used to hearing the word Christmas because the countdown is officially on with the news that there’s a Home Alone themed bar coming to the city we can’t wait for the festive season. The team behind the amazing Ghetto Golf has announced that they will be opening a bar in homage to one of the greatest Christmas films of all time. They announced the news on…
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WRONG Announces 2018 Dates For Second Annual ‘Festival For The Freakscene’
WRONG is set to return to the Liverpool Docklands on 28th April, 2018 for its sophomore outing of visceral, vital and weird rock music from the Freakscene. For one day, a cornucopia of outsiders will descend to provide a feast for the senses. Following the success of last year’s debut event, which saw the likes of Bo Ningen, The Wytches, Part Chimp and Heck unleash their aural savagery, it’s happening again. WRONG continues to tie together an extremely talented, if…
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Festival No.6 Review
Festival No.6 returned for its sixth year last weekend with a packed music, arts and cultural feast in the picturesque Welsh village of Portmeirion. It’s a festival that brings something refreshing to the festival scene with the unique surroundings of the village, Castell Park and Gardens, seafront and woodlands, there’s something to discover around every turn. The Castell Gardens could be described as the most typical part of the festival, home to the main stage…
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Liverpool Cycle Studio Charity Ride For Mental Health Charity CALM
On Saturday 9 September Rise Cycle Studio will be hosting a very special pop-up event to raise awareness of men’s mental health issues. Cut Throat Pete will be joining the team live in the studio offering taster trims, cuts & shapes. He says, “I’m really excited to be doing this pop up barbershop at Rise. Their concept is great and something that is a topic of many conversations in my chair. I decided, rather than taking a…
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The Brink Supports Local Community During Recovery Month As Part of Sixth Birthday Celebrations
Liverpool’s only and the UK’s first dry bar is encouraging the community to get involved in Recovery Month this September. The Brink has teamed up with Life Rooms (Mersey Care NHS) to introduce a ‘Recovery College’ programme tackling subjects such as recovery principles, assertiveness, self-esteem and feeling better through comedy. Exclusively throughout the month of September, the Brink are also hosting ‘Nutritional Workshops’ which offer informative and practical advice on how to improve health, vitality…
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Liverpool Music Week 2017 Announces Everything Everything, Jungle & More
Liverpool Music Week 2017 has announced that Everything Everything will be the headliners for this year’s outing of the now-legendary LMW Closing Party, with the Manchester quartet having just released their critically acclaimed fourth studio album A Fever Dream, produced by Simian Mobile Disco’s James Ford. Taking place across multiple rooms and stages on 4th November at the Liverpool Guild of Students, they’ll be joined by Heavenly Recordings chillwave/surf-pop tinged indie trio The Orielles, alongside…
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Slim’s Pork Chop Express Presents Pudding Club X Bake-O-Rama
With The Great British Bake Off finally back on our screens, desserts and cakes are once again the talk of the Nation, and Liverpool hot-spot Slim’s Pork Chop Express have announced a mouth-watering one-off event next month, sure to sate even the biggest sweet-tooth. On Thursday 14th September Seel Street’s Slim’s Pork Chop Express will be playing host to Pudding Club with Bake-O-Rama; where sugar-loving dessert aficionados and cocktail lovers can enjoy five indulgent courses, for one night only. Originating from Manchester, Pudding Club is the brainchild of…
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Capstan’s Bazaar Returns With Monthly Makers Market
After a successful opening weekend, Capstan’s Bazaar have returned with a monthly Makers Market in Liverpool’s newest venue. Capstan’s Bazaar is back, popping up for its fifth year, and now at Independent Liverpool’s fantastic Baltic Market. A huge range of intriguing arts and craft stalls will be setting up shop, offering bespoke and handcrafted goods – representing the cream of Liverpool’s artists and artisans. Expect over 20 stalls, selling everything from prints to postcards, t-shirts…
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THE MUSIC MANUAL PRESENTS…SUMMER SHINDIG FULL LINE UP REVEALED
To celebrate five years of the award shortlisted music blog, The Music Manual will host a Summer Shindig, which will bring together all that is good about Liverpool’s ever growing music industry over the August Bank Holiday Weekend. The Music Manual Presents series over the last few years have featured artists such as Blossoms, Purple Heart Parade and Kashmere. The full line up for the event will feature; Nick Ellis, Edgar Jones, Mike Murphy (The…
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Liverpool Prosecco Festival Brings Extra Fizz & Food To Camp & Furnace For The Bank Holiday Weekend
Camp & Furnace will be hosting a brand new, two-day Prosecco Festival for the August Bank Holiday weekend. The ultimate celebration for Prosecco lovers will include exclusive producers from across Northern Italy hosting tastings and masterclasses in Camp & Furnace, so it’s not just about drinking favourites it’s about discovering new ones too. Each day will be split into four-hour afternoon and evening sessions – from 1-5pm and 7-11pm – plus 5 free glasses of…
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Scottish Rising Star Siohban Wilson To Play Liverpool Tour Date
Following her triumph at Green Man Rising finals in London and the release of her LP There Are No Saints, Glasgow-based multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Siobhan Wilson has announced she will play in Liverpool on her upcoming September UK tour. Siobhan will play Liverpool’s 81 Renshaw, which is quickly developing a reputation as one of the city’s best intimate music venues. Since the release of her UK debut album earlier this month, Siobhan Wilson has been featured…
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Porky’s Ski Hutte Brings A Taste Of The Alps To Liverpool City Centre
The party-starters, pizza-eaters and cheap cocktail-sippers of Liverpool have been mourning the loss of their beloved city centre Tribeca since the tragic announcement of its closure earlier this year. Its Berry Street threshold has opened its doors to more generations of university freshers than you could shake a glow stick at and more #datenights than the Instagram servers can handle so the question on everybody’s lips has been: can Tribeca ever be replaced? Will we…
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Liverpool Comedy Festival 2017 Line Up Revealed
Top comedians from around the UK will be descending on Liverpool for two weeks to turn the funniest city in the UK into the funniest city across the world. This year’s festival will welcome some of the biggest names on the comedy scene including Rob Brydon, Micky Flanagan, Greg Davies and Jerry Sadowitz. They will be complemented by the very best of home-grown Scouse talent including Liverpool legend Stan Boardman, rising star Adam Rowe, Twitter pseudo-celebrity Ant Campbell, and…
