Liverpool Events
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WRONG Festival Announce Full Line Up
North West independent record label Loner Noise have unveiled the full line up for WRONG Festival – A Festival For The Freakscene, a one day happening on the 22nd April 2017 at the newly formed creative hub of the Liverpool Docklands. Aiming to create something truly unique and very special for the first time in Liverpool, organisers are proud to announce that Japanese psych legends Bo Ningen will be topping a bill which brings together the disparate scenes from the heavier and stranger…
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Secret Diners Club’s Valentine’s Pop-Up; Tickets On Sale Now
What better way to celebrate the romantic holiday than with a Secret Diners Club dinner in one of our favourite unique spaces? The appropriately named Love Lane Lock-up. The Secret Diners Club pop-up will be open on Thursday 9, Friday 10 and Saturday 11 February. There will be one sitting on Thursday, and two two-hour sittings on Friday and Saturday, with a secret three-course meal served each time. Please double check the ticket timings before purchasing to ensure you purchase…
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Independent Liverpool St Patrick’s Day Weekender
Independent Liverpool make a welcome return to The Great Baltic Warehouse to bring us their St Patrick’s Day Weekender on 17th & 18th March. They will be bringing a little bit of Dublin to The Baltic Triangle where once again they will transform The Great Baltic Warehouse into something special. Expect Guinness, Irish whiskey, gin and more to get you suitably merry and plenty of irish stew and soda bread to soak it all up with.…
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Liverpool Disco Festival & Southport Weekender’s 30th Anniversary Announce First Wave of Acts
Liverpool Disco Festival returns on Saturday 6th May 2017, following on from last October’s incredible debut event. The weekend carries a special resonance across the UK and beyond, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the legendary Southport Weekender, who along with Hustle and SUNcéBeat present an epic showcase of music in the city’s thriving creative quarter, the Baltic Triangle. SUNcéBeat and Hustle are bringing together not only all the best parts that made the first Liverpool…
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Threshold Festival Reveal Second Wave of Artists
Threshold Festival organisers have announced the second wave of acts that will be performing at the seventh annual celebration. Throwing a spotlight on the North West’s grassroots music and arts, the festival will return to the city from March 31st to April 2nd. Following the reveal of the likes of Hannah Peel, Nils Bech, XamVolo and Lilium, nineteen more acts have now been added to the line-up. Thrash heavy Manchester trio False Advertising will take the Threshold stage, playing their first set since…
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Sing-a-Long-a Dirty Dancing Screening At St George’s Hall
Get your dancing shoes at the ready and prepare to go back in time and dance the Merengue and Mambo when St George’s Hall bring Sing-a-Long-a Dirty Dancing on Friday 24 March. The producers of Sing-a-Long-a Sound of Music and Sing-a-Long-a GREASE present their next instalment, the brand new Sing-a-Long-a interactive screening of the classic film starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey. It’s the Summer of 1963, it’s college boys versus dancing hunks, it’s one of the best loved movies of all time which tells the high…
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Organic Food Market Opening On Bold Street
Liverpool will soon be home to a brand new organic food market, bakery and eatery. LIV Food Market, opening on Bold Street in March, will be offering the best in organic, natural and free from food. LIV’s core concept is to promote healthy eating and living to help customers’ live longer, healthier lives and they aim to do this by offering organic and natural products including fresh fruit and vegetables as well as home and…
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Sound City Announce Festival Headliners
Sound City have announced The Human League, John Cale, Metronomy & The Kooks as headliners for their 10th Anniversary. Having already announced a move to the larger Clarence Dock for 2017, Sound City has also revealed that it will host four days of festivities to mark its special birthday. The festival launches on Thursday with a celebration of the English avant-garde featuring a trio of some of the most influential British electronic artists of the modern…
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SPINN To Support The Sherlocks At The 02 Academy In February
Young, indie upstarts, SPINN, have just been booked to support the band on everyone’s lips at the moment, The Sherlocks in Liverpool’s 02 Academy on the 11th February. The Sherlocks have played sold-out show up and down the country, SXSW, Reading and Leeds. The band have also been pushed heavily by Radio one, two, and six, as well as, This Feeling. The band, who originate from Sheffield, have also just hit number one for vinyl sales in the country. And…
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Where To Watch Super Bowl 51 In Liverpool
It’s the biggest event in American sport and it’s been gaining in popularity over this side of the pond over the last few years; here’s where you can watch the Super Bowl in Liverpool. Camp & Furnace – As always we can rely on Camp & Furnace’s fan park to create a great atmosphere to watch America’s biggest sporting spectacle. Free entry. Last entry midnight. Rack & Dollar – Berry Street’s American themed bar and…
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Africa Oyé 2017 Dates Announced
Africa Oyé’s 25th Anniversary Festival The dates have been announced for the UK’s largest FREE celebration of African and Caribbean music and culture as Africa Oyé celebrates its silver anniversary. On 17th & 18th June, a handpicked line-up of acts from Oyé’s 25-year history will descend on Liverpool’s Sefton Park for a weekend of incredible music and cultural celebrations. Oyé‘s Artistic Director, Paul Duhaney is confident that the festival can live up to expectations for such a milestone this…
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New Brighton To Host First Ever Seaside Bank Holiday Festival
Orb Events is delighted to announce a brand-new festival for Spring 2017 – the New Brighton Seaside Festival. The fantastic three-day family festival will take place over the Spring Bank Holiday (27-29 May). It will take over a huge space between Fort Perch Rock and the Floral Pavilion Theatre on the Marine Promenade in New Brighton. As well as offering an exciting programme of fun seaside-themed entertainment, the event is set to showcase the best of homegrown seasonal fayre featuring a host of regional producers and introducing a raft of new…
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MCM Comic Con Liverpool 2017
After the success of the MCM Comic Con 2016, the event returns to Liverpool with fancy dress cult movie characters and superheros set to take over the city once more. The event which pays homage to movies, video games, comics, anime, online video and cosplay attracts thousands of visitors to unleash their inner geek and is ever growing in popularity. There will be the chance to buy the very best from the worlds of Movies, Anime,…
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The Soul Rays At Chester Live Rooms; Review
January – the weirdest month of the year where everyone is super tired and skint from the Christmas madness but also hopeful for what is to come in the New Year. As I stepped in to Chester Live Rooms, it wasn’t clear exactly how the night would pan out. With the DJ playing some old school tracks whilst individuals stood dancing with one hand clutching their pint and the other in the air. The Soul…
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FACT Exhibition ‘How Much of This Is Fiction’ Opens 2nd March
FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) has announced their next exhibition How Much of This Is Fiction; open from 2 March until 21 May, and focusing on politically inspired media art that uses deception in all its forms. The exhibition shows the artist as trickster, using a variety of hoaxes and hacks to reveal the hidden workings of power structures. One local example of a media hoax to make a statement which the Echo…
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Trashmouth Records Event Featuring Wild Fruit Art Collective & More
District host a mix of bands from Liverpool and London on January 28th. Partially The night features bands with a variety of musical styles and will be a high quality, must-see event. The evening starts with a set by Liverpool band Rongorongo. Their sound has a beautiful shoe-gaze quality yet has enough groove to lift it far above the mainstream. Like the ancient cypher the band are named after, they have a mysterious quality. Wild…
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Liverpool Set For Fine Dining Restaurant
Liverpool is set to get a new fine dining restaurant later this month – however, it will only be open for 3-nights. At the end of January, Buyers Club’s renowned Head Chef Daniel Heffy will be going on a European culinary adventure. Already a huge talent in the city, Heffy – who at just 22 years old became head chef at the restaurant – will be taking a sabbatical and heading onto the continent…
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British Music Experience To Open In March
Liverpool’s Cunard Building will soon be home to a brand new music museum. The British Music Experience is dedicated to the history of post-war British music. Liverpool is an ideal home for this permanent music exhibition, with a wealth of musical talent hailing from the city. However, the museum is not just celebrating music from Merseyside, this will be a national museum of British rock and pop music. The attraction promises to be a fun-packed interactive…
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Ditto Live Music Event At Camp & Furnace
Award-winning independent global music distributor, Ditto Music has announced that the launch of it’s first major live event – Ditto Live will take place in Liverpool on Friday 24th March 2017. Hosted by BBC Introducing’s Dave Monks, Ditto Live will showcase some of the best independent artists and record labels from across Merseyside and will take place in Liverpool’s Camp and Furnace; a venue which has previously hosted Psychfest, Liverpool Biennial and Music Week’s Closing Party. With a great line-up that already features XamVolo,…
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Buyers Club Introduce Unique Brunch Menu
Buyers Club – the firm favourite among foodies in the city – has the perfect remedy for those suffering from the blues this January with the introduction of a brand new brunch offering. The Hardman Street restaurant and bar is kicking off 2017 with a range of unique brunch dishes including baked eggs with nduja, smoked haddock kedgeree, and coconut French toast to name just a few of the additions. Available from 12pm-3pm, Tuesday to Saturday, the dishes will…
