Liverpool Events

Festival No.6 Announce First Headliner for 2018 – THE THE

Multi-award winning Festival No.6 (6-9 September ‘18) has today announced legendary post-punk outfit THE THE as the first headliners on the bill for next year’s festival – the bands only confirmed UK date outside London. One of the most important acts of the new wave era, the cult band were a beacon of passion and truth in Thatcher’s Britain and influenced an entire genre. After a long hiatus of 15 years Matt Johnson has returned…

Entertainment in Liverpool

Beauty & The Beast At The BLACK-E Liverpool This Christmas

This Christmas, The Black-E Liverpool will transform in to an enchanted castle as Liverpool based theatre company Drops of Light CIC present their festive offering for 2017, Beauty & the Beast. Book your tickets for the show throughout October and pay no booking fee. Beauty and the Beast is written by Jessica Lea and directed by Sam Donovan. Jessica currently writes for Hollyoaks and Eastenders and enjoys writing for children’s television with credits including The…

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TV Star & Comedian Paul ‘The Sinnerman’ Sinha Comes To Hot Water Comedy Club

Paul Sinha returns to Hot Water in Liverpool with his latest solo show, direct from this year’s Edinburgh Festival. In his 2015 Edinburgh Fringe show, the stand-up comedian and doyen of daytime, weaved an intricate tale of happiness based on a combination of doing the two jobs he loved, enjoying parental approval, and, actually being in a proper, grown-up, long-term relationship. The day after he returned home from Edinburgh, the illusion of happiness was shattered.…

Food and Drink in Liverpool

Vegan Mondays have begun at Rodizio Pizza Place Santa Maluco

In anticipation of World Vegan Month, the pizza masters at Liverpool’s Santa Maluco, have launched a new weekly vegan Rodizio menu. Taking place every Monday, this new initiative allows diners to pay a fixed price for unlimited pizza, and choose from a huge variety of plant based pizza base and topping options, taking the hassle out of eating out for vegans, vegetarians and health conscious foodies across Liverpool. In recent years, an unprecedented amount of people…

Music

Sugarmen’s Debut Album, Local Freaks, is Full of Indie Bliss

Not many new bands can hold the crown of supporting some of Britain’s most prolific artists so early on in their musical career. But, for Liverpudlian four-piece, Sugarmen, their slot supporting Blur at London’s Hyde Park a few summers ago was just the start of something special. Since then, the band have been collecting accolades as easily as picking up bruises in a mosh pit. Since first hitting the music scene back in 2013, the…

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Liverpool Music Week 2017 Announce Full Line Up

With just two weeks until Liverpool Music Week 2017 a huge list of additional names have been added to this year’s already bumper festival line up, which begins on Thursday 26th October at the opening party headlined by CHIC feat. Nile Rodgers at Liverpool’s Echo Arena. Newly confirmed to open this year’s festival before CHIC’s appearance with a very special Disco Classic covers set are the 8-strong Sense of Sound Singers choir under the musical…

Food and Drink in Liverpool

SPOTLIGHT: Liverpool Independent Drinks Maker Bringing A Refreshing Taste To The City

It is no secret that Liverpool is the home of many artisan and independent food and drink companies. A brief look around the new Baltic Market gives only a taste of what this city has to offer. A newcomer to this vibrant and exciting scene is Hami with his range of canned sodas. Hami has always had ambitions to produce his own food and/or drink product. This lead to him working in an ingredients company…

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Award Winning Comedian John Robins Comes To The Epstein Theatre

Double Chortle Award winning comedian John Robins will be bringing his new show The Darkness of Robins to The Epstein Theatre on Saturday 24 February and tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday 13th October. One of the most exciting and distinctive voices in comedy, John’s new show reflects on love, loss and lamenting the fact he can’t break up with himself. The stand-up, vibe magnet and London’s saddest DJ ™ would love to…

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Suites Hotel & Spa Celebrates ‘Best Urban Spa’ Nomination With A Luxury Giveaway

Suites Hotel & Spa has been nominated in the ‘Best Urban Spa’ category in this year’s prestigious Good Spa Guide’s Readers’ Choice Awards. For the past three years, the award-winning spa, located in the heart of the North West, has been the proud recipient of the highly sought after ‘Five Bubble’ status thanks to its luxury offering, but it now hopes to add to its already impressive trophy cabinet with the Reader’s Choice Award. And…

Review

The Jjohns ‘Lucy’ Single Review

Some tracks just sneak up on you, passively, and work their way into your musical memory like a slowly undulating ear-worm. And then, there are tracks like Lucy, which as polar opposite, kick in the door and demand priority access to your own personal musical archive. Lucy is loud, confident, immediate and irresistibly anthemic. It is the resulting acoustic splinter when an aspect of Liverpool musical heritage is accelerated, hadron collider-like, into the legacy of Oasis…

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Pack Your Bags Ready For A Weekend At Salty’s

If you’ve stumbled across this article in a bid to find something cool and off the beaten track ahead of an imminent trip to Liverpool then ding ding, you’ve found a winner. Salt Dog Slim’s has long been one of the ultimate places to be in the city if you prefer your watering holes to be grungy, urban and way sicker than yo’ average cocktail bar. Not a regular on your bog standard tourist recommendations…

Review

Things To Do In Liverpool This Halloween

Farmageddon (Now until 31st October) Farmageddon is a Merseyside Halloween staple, with even more scares than ever before. For its eleventh year there’s more happening than ever with 5 unique scare zones to enjoy or not enjoy as the case may be. More info and tickets here Ottersghoul (Otterspool Adventure Centre) 28th – 31st October Ottersghoul will put participants nerves to the test as they embark on a journey around the adventure park undertaking on…

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Liverpool Disco Festival Returns For Third Annual Extravaganza This Weekend

Liverpool Disco Festival is back this weekend, returning to the resplendently renascent Baltic Triangle area of the city. The forthcoming music extravaganza is all set to be a spectacular union of iconic names performing live and on the decks to a rapturous crowd from across the region and beyond. With the warm up party at Buyer’s Club on Friday 6th and the official closing show featuring 5 years of Hustle at 24 Kitchen Street on Sunday 8th October, the main event on…

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Otterspool Adventure Centre Announce the Return of Ottersghoul – Interactive Halloween Experience

Otterspool Adventure Centre are set for the return of Ottershoul – Halloween Experience. The event which runs from 28th – 31st October will put participants nerves to the test as they embark on a journey around the adventure park undertaking on a series of different challenges and unnerving surprises. After arriving at the event you will be ushered onto the ghost train, taken on a ride into the the dark wood and through our haunted…

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Coyote Ugly Bar Opening In Liverpool

Coyote Ugly bar will open in Liverpool this December. The original New York city bar Coyote Ugly was such a huge success and talking point that it inspired a movie about it and now the legacy is spreading to the UK following the launch of the first British Coyote Ugly bar in Cardiff last year, Liverpool is the next city that will experience the lively saloon-style bar. After the general public were asked to vote…

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2018 Smithdown Road Festival Dates Announced

Smithdown Road Festival is back for a fourth year, and it’s bigger and better than ever before. Taking place as always over the May Day Bank Holiday Weekend 5th – 7th May 2018, expect a jam packed schedule of incredible live music, comedy, theatre, cinema and loads for the kids to do too. Taking place on Wavertree Park, as well as several venues along Smithdown Road itself (including The Handymans, Craft Taproom, Evil Eye and Naked Lunch)…

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Pop-Up Cinema Set For The Clubhouse’s ‘Winter Lodge’

The Clubhouse at Chavasse Park, Liverpool One, has announced the opening of a pop-up cinema this winter showing some classic films including family favourites The Goonies, Frozen, Lion King, Inside Out, Finding Nemo, Minions and Toy Story. There will also be plenty for the adults to enjoy with Mean Girls, Dirty Dancing, Legally Blonde, The Hangover, Pulp Fiction, and American Pie. You will be able to enjoy a classic film screening with a two or…

Food and Drink in Liverpool

The Dramatic New Look Penny Farthing Opens This Weekend

Have you been wondering what has been going on at the old Penny Farthing? Liverpool’s Royal Court bought the building earlier this year and are now set to open Courtyard Bar & Kitchen, a drinking and dining space that will be open seven days a week. With food being served from midday until 10.30pm it will be a great place to go for lunch, dinner or a late bite after a show. The opening will take place on…

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Liverpool Calling Music Festival Returning In 2018

Liverpool Calling organisers have announced that the festival will return next year, with a new location, in the Baltic Triangle. The one day festival will return, after a two year break, on Saturday 23rd June 2018 and the first venue confirmed for the event is Constellations. Constellations will host two stages running from 2pm-4am, with additional venues to be confirmed in the coming months. This means that the festival will not be taking place at the Bombed…

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Sound City Is Moving Back To City Centre For 2018 Festival

Sound City has revealed the festival is moving back to the city centre in May 2018 from the docklands, returning to its roots based around discovering new talent in intimate venues. The announcement made today also confirms that the festival organisers are collaborating with lots of curators, including Glastonbury’s Silver Hayes, Kendal Calling, Bluedot, Greg Wilson, Domino and Moshi Moshi, Hospital Records and many more. After several years at the docklands, the festival has faced criticism…