Music
Liverpool’s music scene featuring local bands and musicians as well as news on upcoming gigs from international and national touring acts
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Support Announced For Audio Visual Techno Pioneer Max Cooper Live 3D/AV Show This Friday At IWF
This Friday, 10 February, the incredible Max Cooper is performing his Live 3D/AV show at Invisible Wind Factory. His 3D show involves 2 huge mesh screens back and front projected, creating a truly immersive three dimensional AV experience. Support for this Liverpool show comes from local legends Luna Thee Frenchie (Queensway) and Fourclef (Melodic Distraction). Max Cooper Max Cooper has carved a unique space as an audio-visual artist with a science PhD and an international…
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Addley Releases Heartfelt Debut Single ‘Where You Were’
Addley is an alternative songwriter based in Liverpool that incorporates hints of electronic music into his own sound. He draws inspiration from artists such as Bicep, Daughter, Florence and the Machine, Faithless and London Grammar. As most of us know, grief and loss is a difficult topic to discuss and express. Addley finds a way to convey his personal feelings of grief and loss into his debut single Where You Were. The song leads with…
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Frederiks Launches New Disco Night With A Difference
Disco heads are counting the hours ’til Friday as Frederiks launch a brand new disco night – ‘Cover Me In Disco’. Billed as the ‘complete’ disco experience, the new night brings a whole new format to Frederiks’ music events, and sees singers and musicians perform live covers of classic anthems, alongside DJ John Dean. Powerhouse vocal queen Dixie Daye kicked off the launch proceedings, taking to the mic and putting her own personal interpretation of…
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Jamie Webster, Lady Leshurr & Bob Vylan Announced For Sound City 2023 Conference
Liverpool Sound City, the UK’s independent music conference and AIM UK’s ‘Conference in The North’, has announced its first wave of speakers and panels for the upcoming 2023 conference. For over 15 years, Sound City has remained at the fore of global music conference and industry leadership, welcoming leading industry figures, emerging artists and aspiring music business professionals to Liverpool for a full-day programme of educational panels, in-conversations and networking parties. Sound City 2023 is a must-attend for music professionals, artists, entrepreneurs and aspiring creatives alike, as music…
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Get To Know: Earth Angel
Alternative RnB singer-songwriter Earth Angel is part of a new generation of artists who are releasing music independently and rejecting industry norms. Authenticity prevails, and truth-telling is more important than exposure. I wanted to find out about Earth’s personal journey, and everything that has led her to where she is now. Liverpool Noise: You spent a part of your life in South East Asia – how did this shape your childhood? Earth Angel: I was…
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Liverpool’s Eurovision Theme Is Revealed Ahead of City Hosting Famous Song Contest
The theme for the 67th Eurovision Song Contest, set to take place in Liverpool in May, has been revealed, including the slogan: ‘United By Music’. The new slogan demonstrates the unique partnership between the United Kingdom, Ukraine and Host City Liverpool to bring the Eurovision Song Contest to audiences across the globe and the incredible power of music to bring communities together. It also reflects the very origins of the Contest, developed to bring Europe…
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Fun-Filled Eurovision Dinner Coming To Hilton Hotel
As the city prepares to host one of the largest musical extravaganzas in the world and welcome Eurovision to Liverpool, the countdown is on for one of the biggest parties the city has ever seen. Liverpool will step up for last year’s winners Ukraine and pull out all the stops to make Eurovision 2023 a showstopping spectacle. Carolyn Hughes, owner of Carolyn Hughes PR has organised a fun-filled Eurovision Final Dinner right in the heart…
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Sound City Announces Second Wave of Artists For 2023 Including Sheffield’s Heavyweights The Reytons
Sound City is thrilled to announce that Sheffield indie heavyweights The Reytons will be headlining this year’s festival on Saturday 29 April, alongside rapidly rising pop star Maisie Peters who will headline on Sunday 30 April. Fresh off the back of releasing their new album What’s Rock And Roll? which is set to become the band’s first UK #1 album imminently, The Reytons are gaining momentum at immense speed. Their live shows are renowned for their electrifying energy and almost tribalistic, unified atmosphere. Their anthemic blend of huge…
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Euan Blackman’s New Track Is An Anthem For When ‘Everybody Lets You Down’
Euan Blackman is a rising Indie Folk-pop artist and singer-songwriter based in Liverpool. The last few years have seen him forming an impressive catalogue of original music, and building a loyal audience of listeners (in part through his large TikTok following, where he regularly posts original music and covers). Drawing inspiration from artists including Phoebe Bridgers, Bruce Springsteen and Claude Debussy, Euan creates introspective, acoustically driven songs which tell “tales of the human condition in…
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Find Out About the Sound Check Music Programme From Their Programme Lead Nick Simcock
The Learning Foundry and Future Yard are offering another chance to get into the live music industry. The Sound Check programme is back again. The Learning Foundry sat down for a coffee with our Head of Live Events at Future Yard, and their Sound Check Programme Lead, Nick Simcock, to get the lowdown on all things Soundcheck, creative careers and getting into gigs! “Sound Check is an industry skills programme that provides an entry level route for…
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In Conversation – Sophie Li
We had a chat with rising Liverpool indie-rock artist Sophie Li to find out about her! Liverpool Noise: For our readers who don’t know you, tell us a bit about yourself. Sophie: Hey, I’m Sophie! I’m a 20 year old asian indie-rock artist from Crosby, Liverpool. I write music about my own personal experiences in the hopes that someone else can relate to them, such as mental health issues, relationships and other typical teenage girl…
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Sugababes To Play Aintree Racecourse This May
Following the reveal of Pete Tong’s Ibiza Classics making their Red Rum Garden debut in June, The Jockey Club Live and Aintree Racecourse have announced they will welcome the Sugababes to headline live after evening racing for the first time on Friday 19 May. One of the most successful British bands of the 21st century, Sugababes clocked up six Number One singles, multiple multi-platinum albums and became one of the most spectacular stories of the modern pop era. Fast forward two decades,…
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Celebrate 60 years of Please Please Me And With The Beatles This March
In 2016 a group of local, national and international musicians fronted by Roxanne de Bastion and Thom Morecroft gathered together at LEAF on Bold St to recreate the groundbreaking Beatles album Revolver, 50 years to the day since its release. In 2017 Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band received the ’50 Years of’ treatment with The Ragamuffins as house band, followed in 2018 by the entire White Album from start to finish. In 2019 the…
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Jazz Saturdays Back At Ma Boyle’s Alehouse & Eatery
Liverpool institution Ma Boyle’s Alehouse & Eatery and longstanding jazz promoters Parrjazz are proud to announce Jazz Saturdays is back from this weekend. The weekly regular has had a much-needed winter break and returns on Saturday 21 January with a brand-new run of intimate shows at the iconic maritime venue – its subterrain and off-circuit setting has made Ma Boyle’s the perfect home for jazz in Liverpool. As a weekly event, 2023 marks 8 years…
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Christopher Gosudarski and Mike Ryan win the Liverpool Acoustic Songwriting Challenge 2022
The Liverpool Acoustic Songwriting Challenge 2022 Showcase Final took place at LEAF on Bold Street on Saturday 14 January 2023. A packed venue saw each of the ten finalists performing their song with a picture of the work of art that inspired it projected onto the big screen for all to see. At the end of the night Christopher (Krzysztof) Gosudarski was announced as the winner of the Judges’ Award for 2022 with his song In Sands Of Time, performed…
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Legendary Indian Vocalist Bombay Jayashri To Make Rare Visit To The UK This March
In just over two months, Milap will present one of India’s most celebrated and undisputed stars of classical music, Bombay Jayashri, as she returns to England for the first time in over a decade to perform two very special shows of Carnatic compositions and improvisations. Having performed her first concert in 1982, Bombay Jayashri is known for her distinctive vocal range and quality, and her incredibly varied repertoire featuring songs from various Indian languages including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and…
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Fate Releases Powerful New Single ‘Luck’
Fate is a talented independent artist from Merseyside. Following her previous single Ghosted, she is back with another personal track called Luck. Although she is fresh on the scene, she is already beginning an impressive catalogue of well-produced songs that come straight from the heart. Many of us have been through a difficult relationship that took more away from us than it gave. Luck is about the reflection of a relationship Fate once had that…
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4 Local Bands & Musicians To Watch In 2023
Jo Makabayi takes a look at some of the freshest local bands and musicians who you should be keeping an eye on and an ear out for in 2023. Bill Nickson Credit: Lens of A Wool Bill Nickson is a young lo-fi musician from the Merseyside music scene who had a busy 2022 touring around Liverpool with his live band, bringing the electricity to his soft, playful, bedroom pop sound. His latest EP release Thoughts…
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Pleasure Island Return With Their First Post- Pandemic Single: Shallow Grave
Liverpool’s punchy, indie-rock duo, Pleasure Island, will be releasing their newest track, Shallow Grave, 25 January 2023. With Sean Ekins’s on guitar and vocals, and Sam Pierpoint on the drums, the two artists are notorious for their bold, outspoken and edgy music, which took root in light of the Covid19 pandemic. Their songs do not shy away from controversy or political discussion, but rather weigh in with candid and impactful insight; with earlier releases such…
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LEAF Announce ‘All About Music’ In January
January includes the return of LEAF’s open mic nights, live gigs, a pop-up vinyl shop, Pudding Club specials, special themed cocktails and more. The idea for LEAF’s All About Music month is inspired by the signed tea tins from the legends who have taken the stage at Bold Street’s first floor or performed at LEAF’s venues over the years. Music is a big part of LEAF, from supporting local acts to hosting big stars, and…
