Liverpool Music Artists
Features, news, reviews and interviews with Liverpool musicians
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Artist Feature; Natalie McCool
Natalie McCool’s latest single ‘Wind Blows Harder’ is another hauntingly beautiful release from the singer/songwriter. Winner of Female Artist of the Year award at last year’s Liverpool Music Awards, Natalie McCool is gaining further success since the release of her debut self-titled album and recent follow-up single. Having also received a one-to-one songwriting session with Paul McCartney back in 2009, there is undeniably something special about the LIPA-educated singer/songwriter, which has continued to blossom since.…
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Band Feature; Broken Men
Broken Men are one of the rising stars coming out of Liverpool at the moment. This is a band with the production value and sheer quality of those in the ever changing, big leagues. A well thought out and stylised approach to not only their music, but also their stage presence, has given Broken Men that certain undefinable edge. Riffs that tear through the air and bass that breaks through your body tell of the…
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Liverpool Calling: Final Line-Up Confirmed – Top Venues & Fantastic Talent Added
Saturday July 26th, 2014 Locations; The Bombed Out Church, The Kazimier, Korova, Zanzibar, Maguires Pizza Bar, Sound Food & Drink, Next to Nowhere, Studio 2 Anticipation for Liverpool Calling is rising as the final line-up is confirmed and a whole host of top venues and fantastic talent is added. Amongst all the newly added talent there are also new venues to accommodate them. The Bombed Out Church will host Liverpool Calling for the second year…
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Party In The Palms; Sefton Park Palm House To Play Host To An Assortment Of Music Events This July
With summer in full swing, Sefton Park Palm House is set to host an unmissable line-up of seasonal sound sensations this July. The much adored Victorian glass house will deliver a varied array of audio attractions, which will appeal to both adults and children. Kick starting the merriments on Thursday, 1 will be the Savoy Jazzmen, who will deliver an afternoon filled with classic summer symphonies. The event will be followed by a trio of…
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Parquet Courts At The Kazimier; Review
With most people flocking to beer gardens and parks to lap up the sun’s rays and bask in its scorching heat, it’s a wonder why anyone would want to steal themselves away in the halls of Liverpool’s own The Kazimier, with it’s rickety décor and fairground haunted house entrance. Though the weather was a pleasing spectacle, it’s solar might could not distract from another heat seeking creature of mythical proportion, namely, the SunBathing Animal. Not a…
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Flux Festival: A Summer of Art
As many of us well and truly know summer has been christened with the title ‘Festival Season’ and with many people jetting off to the likes of Glastonbury and Leeds it’s very easy to find yourself in a gloom watching the highlights on TV. However never fear because the glory of living in Liverpool is the showcases of culture it provides which includes this year’s fortnight long festival; Flux Festival. What is Flux festival? It…
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Africa Oyé 2014 Preview; Sefton Park 21st & 22nd June
With the recent spell of glorious weather we’ve been having set to continue, it seems only fitting that this weekend should see the return of Africa Oyé. Now in its 22nd year the African music festival is the largest of its kind in the UK and, without a doubt, one of the cultural highlights of the summer for Liverpool. The two-day event celebrates African music and culture and looks to showcase the very best of…
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Paul Weller To Play East Village Arts Club 3rd July
Today it was announced that legend Paul Weller will play an intimate gig at Liverpool’s East Village Arts Club. The show will be part of Be One Percent charity initiative where individuals commit to giving 1% of their income each month to help the world’s poorest people. Paul Weller: East Village Arts Club Thursday 3rd July. Tickets go on sale 4th June at 9am from &
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Liverpool Calling Final Line Up Announcements Include Space & Jetta
Today Liverpool Calling announced their line up for the Bombed Out Church stage with headliner’s the legendary Space. Platinum selling band Space came to prominence in the mid 1990′s, with hit singles such as Female of the Species, Neighbourhood, Avenging Angels, Me and you Verses the World and The Ballad of Tom Jones. They also worked with Tom Jones and Cerys Matthews. Also announced was rising star Jetta. Stepping out of the shadows of…
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Liverpool Team Up With Barcelona To Create First LIV-BCN Music Festival At Kazimier Gardens
‘Focused on music (but also including illustration and gastronomy), LIV-BCN isn’t about bringing Barcelona to Liverpool, it is a real exchange, a cultural meeting between the two places, artists and publics to experience and share.’ LIV-BCN The festival line up includes both local Liverpool artists (Broken Men, Dominic Dunn, Etches & Ghostchant) as well as some of Barcelona’s finest (DJ Coco, Joana Serrat & Begun). LIV-BCN at Kazimier & Kazimier Gardens; Saturday 21st June 3pm-3am.…
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Light Night Review
There is a certain charm Liverpool has that is impossible to ignore, and the city certainly lived up to its reputation last Friday night. The annual culture festival, Liverpool Light Night, took place across the city at over 40 venues, showcasing the best arts and culture exhibitions the city has to offer. The exhibitions showed incredible variety, ranging from Chinese calligraphy to ice sculpting,reminding the public just why Liverpool held the ‘city of culture’ title back…
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The Legendary ‘Jungle Brothers’ Play The Kazimier 2nd October ’14
Legendary US daisy-hop merchants, The Jungle Brothers, whose chilled-out funky style and tongue-in-cheek lyrics have a legion of fans, return with a career-spanning live set. The American hip hop group pioneered the fusion of jazz and hip-hop and also became the first hip-hop group to use a house-music producer. The group began performing in the mid-1980s and released its first album, Straight Out the Jungle, in July 1988. With Afrocentric lyrics and innovative beats, the…
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Liverpool Light Night 16th May 2014 Highlights
We look at some of our highlights for this years Light Night; Friends of the Flyover & BEGAN Lighting The Way (Churchill Way Flyover, Cuerden Street, L3,10pm-11.30pm) Friends of the flyover invite you to join design professionals and students in creating a light installation on the walkways of Churchill way flyover. Carnival Show (St Peter’s Sq, 9pm-10pm) Liverpool Samba School and dancers take to the streets to celebrate LightNight. Experience a Rio style carnival show. Make A Liver Bird…
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Liverpool Sound City 2014 Preview
On the 1st-3rd May 2014, some of Liverpool’s best intimate music venues will be host to more than 360 of the industries finest artists for the Sound City Festival. Around 400 music fans and 300 industry professionals will be pouring into some of the city’s top spots, from the Liverpool Cathedral to the renowned cavern club for a weekend of music, digital and film. The three day festival including conferences with celebrity keynote speakers is now…
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Liverpool Calling Announces First Wave Of Acts For Its 2nd Annual Festival
Saturday July 26th, 2014 Locations; The Kazimier, Korova, Maguires Pizza Bar Liverpool Calling storms into its second year, announcing a mighty first wave of acts “Liverpool Calling was another event that drew all kinds of people from far and wide to partake in a very modern form of worship” – Liverpool Echo/Getintothis Rating * * * * * – Liverpool Sound and Vision Having sold out across St. Luke’s Bombed Out Church and The Shipping Forecast in its…
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FACT & The Mersey Forest Get Into The ‘Zone’ To Create A New Art Project
A new project commissioned by FACT and The Mersey Forest is encouraging people throughout the North West to explore the forgotten woodlands of Bidston Moss. ‘Zone’ is an innovative performance and film by the highly renowned international artists, Close and Remote, and is inspired by the Russian film, Stalker and 1971 science fiction novel Roadside Picnic. The unique creative project, which will run between now until the end of June, is set to capture the…
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Threshold Festival; Part One
Last weekend Threshold Festival returned for it’s fourth year and has come a long way in that time. Located around the ever expanding bars and cafes and music venues of the Baltic Triangle. It was a unique weekend which delivered some of the best up and coming talent the city has to offer. With all the locations within a sensible walking distance it was a fun weekend of dashing from venue to venue trying to…
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Threshold Festival; Part Three
Threshold Festival – Sunday With the Saturday sun deciding to stay another day, Threshold Festival’s final curtain seems set to come down in style, and I decide to start the day in a relaxed manner and head to The Baltic Social, where James Sills has taken the stage. However I seem to have overlooked the date. It is, of course, Mother’s Day, and The Baltic Social is still a functioning restaurant. It’s therefore nearly impossible…
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Threshold Festival; Part Two
Threshold Festival – Saturday I was unfortunately out of town for the first day of this year’s Threshold Festival, but as I drift through the Baltic Quarter as the Saturday commences the tales I’ve heard of torrential rain for the inaugural day seem all but an impossibility. The lukewarm sun goes hand in hand with an overwhelmingly positive atmosphere, and though there’s hardly a big name in sight on the line-up there’s an all-encompassing sense of common…
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Dan Croll – Sweet Disarray; Album Review
It’s hard to see how things could be going better for LIPA’s own Dan Croll at the moment. With a coveted GIT nomination, Radio 1 airplay and support slots with the likes of Bastille and London Grammar, there’s a sense that Sweet Disarray, his debut album, might just be the catalyst for super-stardom. Having said that, history is littered with almost-rans, and the significant hype surrounding the release has also served to put tremendous pressure on the…
