In a world premiere, DJ Spoony will present a UK Garage classics live with the backing of the 40 piece RNCM Session Orchestra as part of the LIMF Presents programme in 2017. As the performance curator, he will be joined for an unforgettable experience by UK Garage legends Kele Le Roc, Elizabeth Troy, Lonyo, Master Of Ceremonies, Lifford, Richie Dan, Nay Nay and Sweet Female Attitude, with additional performances on the evening from So Solid Crew, Donaeo,…
The annual LightNight festival is coming back to Liverpool for its 8th consecutive year. Mark your calendars for Friday, 19th May – with the festivities kicking off at 5pm until late. Festival-goers can choose from over 100 different events across the city, with something for everyone, including art, music, performances, workshops, walking tours and arts and crafts. The theme for this year’s festival is ‘Time’ so you can expect a unique look at the past,…
Laces Out! returns to Camp & Furnace on Saturday 29th April. Laces Out! Festival is one of the UK’s best and biggest celebrations of trainer culture. The one day festival brings together thousands of vintage, rare, box fresh and deadstock trainers for collectors to buy, swap or just covet. It is the only major event of its kind in the North of England, a place renowned for its love, appreciation and historic relationship with sneaker…
Legendary rapper Nas has announced a show at Liverpool’s Mountford Hall as part of his UK tour this Summer. The hip hop icon will bring his tour to the city on 10th July, with a new album potentially coming out later this year which is one of the most anticipated albums of 2017. Tickets go on sale now here.
With just a few weeks to go until the annual free Smithdown Road festival, there is no doubting that the program of events has grown considerably this year – and that festival goers are in for a brilliant weekend of music, art, food and dance. Perhaps the biggest news of all is that due to the overwhelming popularity of last year’s festival, there will be a huge outdoor area on the Saturday and Sunday to be held…
We decided to put Liverpool’s Independent Music Promoters in the spotlight for a change…. Liverpool seems to be enjoying a musical resurgence of late with an abundance of quality gigs across the city. From attracting big names to the Echo Arena to the sold out shows at the O2 Academy and the fresh musical talent being given the opportunity to shine in small independent venues. Everywhere you turn in the city centre nowadays you are…
The Baltic Market will open in Cain’s Brewery warehouse this summer. What have Lisbon, Amsterdam and soon to be Liverpool all got in common? They’ve all got a food hall. From the guys behind Independent Liverpool and street food legend Tim Haggis, chief hot dog perfectionist behind the beloved Meet Frank – a true foodie revolution is upon us in the shape of a 4 days a week food hall. Its a dream come true…
Starting from 22 March 2017, the durational art project HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US by LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner will be adopted by FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool, UK. A flag emblazoned with the words “HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US” will be continuously live-streamed from the arts organisation to www.hewillnotdivide.us for four years, or the duration of the 45th Presidency of the United States. The artwork is conceived by the artists as a resistance to division, and to the…
Salt The Snail’s Caffeine-Fuelled Debut Single Is A Riotous Belter Salt the Snail are clearly no strangers to noise. From the first few seconds of their debut track ‘Coffee’ you can tell that things are about to get a little crazy. Sat, seemingly calm, behind a table of paper cups filled with everyone’s favourite ‘jitter juice’, it doesn’t need a genius to figure out what’s to come in the video. Building momentum with the thundering…
A brand new music & arts festival will launch this summer at St George’s Hall with Hacienda Classical and Reverend & The Makers announced to play. The two day festival will take place on 4th & 5th August at St George’s Plateau with over 50 performers to be announced. The festival will include music, art, exhibitions, magic shows, spoken word poetry and more as the festival aims for a Victorian Carnival Theme. Hacienda Classical will…
Meet Esty Tomas, the man who can fly across buildings, scale them like Spiderman and hang off them like it’s the most natural thing in the world. That’s because to him, it is. When did you first start parkour and climbing buildings? I first started doing parkour around 12-13 years ago when my older brother started training, climbing buildings is something that I’ve only started to do in recent years. What’s been your favourite building…
International photographer Luke Ching, has created a work of art at Titanic Hotel & Rum Warehouse, Stanley Dock for LOOK/17, Liverpool’s International Photography Festival. Ching, who is widely acknowledged as one of Hong Kong’s most exciting conceptual artists was commissioned to turn one of Titanic’s rooms into a pinhole capture camera photographing the Tobacco Warehouse opposite. Interested in regeneration, Ching combined a camera and architectural space to create a work reflecting on Liverpool’s grand warehouse…
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…
After giving fans a taster of what was to come, with their first single ‘Feeling In My Pocket’, The Shipbuilders’ debut EP Something In The Water was released at the close of 2016. The four-piece, comprising Matty Loughlin, Danny Lee, Nicky McGrane and Graeme Sully, were busy at the end of last year tying up all the loose strings for their album, so 2017 is set to be an exciting year of gigs and festivals…
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…
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…
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…
Smithdown Road Festival has announced the first wave of acts ahead of this years festival in April. Former Zutons frontman Dave McCabe is the most notable announcement to play the free, three day event along with London rockers Jim Jones & The Righteous Mind. Former frontman of indie band The Bluetones, Mark Morriss is also on the bill and HAARM will be performing off the back of supporting Bloc Party at the Roundhouse in London. The…
Golf Fang (previously called Ghetto Golf) opened less than two weeks ago and is proving to be a popular topic of conversation in the city. This indoor crazy golf course really stands out from the average with its banging music, neon painted walls, caravans, boats and toilets to putt through and plenty of cocktails to help you along the course. From the outside Golf Fang is easy to find; fairy lights cover the open gates and…
Virtual Reality is now a reality. It’s one of the biggest growing technologies of 2016 and is predicted to have a huge year in 2017, so you can imagine our excitement when we stumbled upon a virtual reality gaming centre right here in Liverpool. VR-Here brings virtual reality gaming to a studio based just outside of the city centre. Here they have the latest and arguably the best in VR equipment – the HTC Vive.…