Liverpool Music Artists

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  • Smithdown Road Festival 2016

    Smithdown Road Festival 2016

    The Smithdown Road Festival returns for 2016 as a completely free weekend of music, art and food around some of South Liverpool’s finest bars and cafes, with a massive outdoor area and big top on Wavertree Playground. There will be stages at The Mystery, Kelly’s Winebar, Evil Eye Beer & Burrito Shack, Franks, Brookhouse, Fat Flamingo, Caffee Oro, Sefton Park Cricket Club and Gregson Institute. There will be performances from the likes of Natalie McCool,…

  • Liverpool Calling Announce First Wave of Acts For 2016 Festival

    Liverpool Calling Announce First Wave of Acts For 2016 Festival

    Liverpool Calling returns for its fourth consecutive year, this time at a temporary new home in the Camp and Furnace, and the Blade Factory on Saturday 9th July. This year they have announced two headliners for the one-day event, as Coasts and Spector top the bill. Bristol-based Coasts come to Liverpool for the first time since the release of their debut album. Spector are also set to make a triumphant return to the Liverpool scene,…

  • Threshold Six: Festival Puts Out Call For Visual Artists 1

    Full Live Music Line Up Now Confirmed For Threshold Festival 2016

    It’s just one month to go until the 6th annual Threshold Festival of Music & Arts and the full music and visual arts line-up have now been released, as Day Tickets go on sale on Skiddle & Party For The People outlets. Organisers have declared this their most exciting event yet, with the 12 venues in the Baltic Triangle hosting a huge and diverse offering for all. Festival Producer Chris Carney said: “A long time…

  • FACT Presents New Pop-up Exhibitions With Strong  Community Links

    FACT Presents New Pop-up Exhibitions With Strong Community Links

    This spring, a special programme of pop-up exhibitions will be showcased in the FACT Connects space, in the foyer at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology). FACT Connects is a wide- ranging programme, which engages with members of the community, and allows FACT to connect even more with artists, musicians, and makers. The first two FACT Connects exhibitions of 2016 will explore perspectives on disability and empowerment, as well as delving into Liverpool’s position as a catalyst for digital…

  • Liverpool Acoustic Festival To Showcase Acclaimed Artists Next Month Across Hope Street 2

    Liverpool Acoustic Festival To Showcase Acclaimed Artists Next Month Across Hope Street

    The annual Liverpool Acoustic Festival is set to return on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th March 2016 with a ‘free fringe festival’ programme sprawling out to venues all along Hope Street. Now in its third year, the festival has expanded out of Unity Theatre and Liverpool Philharmonic and onto the historic street in Liverpool’s cultural quarter, for what promises to be a fantastic event to kick off the festival calendar. The festival boasts intimate live performances…

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    Threshold Reveal 24 More Acts As Advance Tickets Sell-Out For April Festival

    With less than six weeks to go before Threshold Festival takes over Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle once again, organisers have revealed twenty-four more acts who will be playing as part of the 6th annual festival of grassroots music and arts. The third wave of acts join the eighteen already announced for what is set to be a fantastic celebration on April 1st, 2nd & 3rd. More Threshold announcements, including reveals on this year’s Visual Arts, Performance and Film components of the festival…

  • #TOUCHMYSOUL LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner Live At FACT

    New Mini Documentary From LaBeouf , Rönkkö & Turner’s #TOUCHMYSOUL Performance at FACT

    There is now a mini documentary from LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner’s #TOUCHMYSOUL performance at FACT available online. The project #TOUCHMYSOUL by LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner took place at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool from 10 to 13 December 2015, as part of the group exhibition Follow, open to visitors until 21 February 2016 (admission free). Over the four days, LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner invited the public to pick up the telephone…

  • Sound City Announces New Artist & Industry Focused Conference For 2016

    Sound City Announces New Artist & Industry Focused Conference For 2016

    World famous industry conference to become Sound City+ Following last month’s major line-up announcement including The Coral and Catfish and the Bottlemen as headliners and a major new partnership with electronic dance music promoters Freeze, multi-award winning Sound City has revealed a brand new format for its renowned music industry conference. Rebranded as Sound City+, the new-look conference will be purely artist and industry focused and take place on the day preceding the main festival…

  • Liverpool Festival for 80,000 Announced For May Bank Holiday

    Liverpool Festival for 80,000 Announced For May Bank Holiday

    Records will be set on May Bank Holiday 2016 with a festival announced for 80,000 guests to be held at Aintree Racecourse Liverpool. We Luv Festival will be the first festival event focused predominantly on families. The colossal family-oriented event will be held in Liverpool at the Aintree Racecourse on 28th and 29th May 2016. With over 80,000 visitors expected to attend over two days and over thirty artists set to perform across two stages,…

  • 'The Army of Noise' Bring Their Innovative Show To Constellations

    ‘The Army of Noise’ Bring Their Innovative Show To Constellations

    The Army of Noise is an innovative theatrical production merging puppetry, video-projection mapping and live turntablism provided by DJ Rasp. Think digital theatre production merging puppetry, 3D video-projection mapping and a Live DJ… “Sometimes the voices inside our head are all we have left. They speak of the things we fear the most, make the sounds we need tohear and compose our innner song, enabling our souls to dance. It’s just sometimes… sometimes other people’s frequencies…

  • Ryoichi Kurokawa: unfold  Exhibition at FACT, Liverpool  11 March – 12 June 2016

    Ryoichi Kurokawa: unfold Exhibition at FACT, Liverpool 11 March – 12 June 2016

    unfold is a major new commission by acclaimed Japanese artist Ryoichi Kurokawa, exploring the birth and evolution of stars in a groundbreaking immersive and tactile audiovisual installation. This unique sensory experience will be part of Kurokawa’s first ever solo exhibition in the UK, premiering at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool 11 March – 12 June 2016. unfold will offer viewers an artistic, yet scientific, representation of how the solar system was born, and how…

  • Catfish And The Bottlemen Make A Triumphant Return To Sound City 1

    Catfish And The Bottlemen Make A Triumphant Return To Sound City

    UK Festival Awards crowned Sound City the Best Metropolitan Music Festival of 2015 and Sound City is going for gold yet again with a 2016 line up that’s bigger, better and even more diverse than ever. Having already announced The Coral as a headliner, the festival has today revealed that Catfish and the Bottlemen is the second headliner.  The festival is also declaring an exciting new partnership with hugely innovative dance music promoters Freeze who…

  • Liverpool International Music Festival Announce First Wave of Acts

    Liverpool International Music Festival Announce First Wave of Acts

    Liverpool International Music Festival (LIMF) have announced SIGMA, The Wombats, Lianne La Havas, Kwabs, Netsky, Ms. Dynamite, Maverick Sabre, Frances, DJ TARGET, John Power Band and many more will be playing ‪#‎LIMF2016‬ 21 – 24th July.  LIMF Summer Jam has fast become the leading family festival of its kind, completely free to enjoy. Taking place at Sefton Park, it will mark the start of the summer and the culmination of a spectacular series of events as…

  • Threshold Reveal 2nd Wave Of Acts Ahead Of April Festival

    Threshold Reveal 2nd Wave Of Acts Ahead Of April Festival

    Threshold Festival returns in 2016 for its sixth annual festival of grassroots music and arts, and organisers have now revealed an alchemic array of acts set to play the event on the 1st-3rd April in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle. The twelve acts join the six already released in December of last year and Artistic Director, Kaya Herstad Carney is looking forward to seeing her programming work come to fruition for the sixth edition of the festival: “We aim to…

  • Metal Presents; Big Mouth Art Exhibition In Liverpool City Centre - Church Street

    Metal Presents; Big Mouth Art Exhibition In Liverpool City Centre – Church Street

    As part of Liverpool Provocations, Metal presents BIG MOUTH, by MEYOUANDUS. Each evening from 18th January, an illuminated orb will appear in central Liverpool, within which a human mouth appears to silently repeat and absorb the deepest thoughts and secrets of the public. Big Mouth, a mobile installation, aims to tempt participants to speak in confidence away from the superficial veneer of social dialogue. The thoughts are then displayed on the 360° projection, before being…

  • Left Hand to Back of Head: New Art Exhibition At The Bluecoat 23rd Jan-28th March

    Left Hand to Back of Head: New Art Exhibition At The Bluecoat 23rd Jan-28th March

    Bluecoat launches its new exhibtion this month exploring how we can experience art beyond what we are able to say about it. The exhibition presents a collection of works that set out to affect the audience on a physical level, through sensations and emotions. Artists include: Rowena Harris // Mary Hurrell // Natalie Finnemore // Mitra Saboury // Marianna Simnett // Marie Toseland // Hannah James // Becky Beasley Left Hand to Back of Head…

  • The Fifth GIT Award Launches For 2016 Edition 1

    The Fifth GIT Award Launches For 2016 Edition

    Launch Party On Friday 29th January 2016 At The Buyers Club ////£1000 Cash Prize To Winner At Showcase Event At Constellations On 14th May 2016 Liverpool music prize The GIT Award launches its fifth edition today culminating in a spectacular event at Constellations in Liverpool’s thriving Baltic Triangle on Saturday 14 May 2016. The process to find The GIT Award’s 12 nominees begins today with artists and bands invited to send their four tracks to…

  • #TOUCHMYSOUL by LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner 2

    #TOUCHMYSOUL by LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner

    The project #TOUCHMYSOUL by LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner took place at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool from 10 to 13 December 2015. Over the four days, LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner invited the public to pick up the telephone and touch their soul on +44 (0)151 808 0771 during gallery opening hours, while being sat in FACT’s Gallery one which was open for visitors. The performance culminated in Rönkkö tattooing the words…

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    Threshold Announce First Six Acts For 2016 Festival

    With less than 4 months until Threshold Festival 2016 takes place in Liverpool, organisers have revealed the first six acts set to light up the Baltic Trangle’s stages in April. Making a welcome return to the festival are genre-busting 13-piece The Destroyers as well as Threshold favourite Natalie McCool, along with first-timersBaba Soul & The Professors of Funk and local funk/dance/hip-hop purveyors, Galactic Funk Militia. Completing the first wave of artists are folk duo Gilmore & Roberts and Brighton’s finest psychadelic outfit,…

  • #TOUCHMYSOUL LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner Live At FACT

    #TOUCHMYSOUL LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner Live At FACT

    From 11am GMT on 10 December 2015, #TOUCHMYSOUL by LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner will commence at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), 88 Wood Street, Liverpool. Over the following four days, LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner invite you to pick up your telephone and touch their soul on +44 (0)151 808 0771 between the hours of 11am – 6pm GMT. The project will also be broadcast live for the duration at touchmysoul.net #TOUCHMYSOUL is part…