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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Electro pop starlet ROE is heading to The Magnet for the Liverpool leg of her UK tour. The 18 year old has had a huge year to date after playing the BBC Introducing stage at Glastonbury as well as performances at The Great Escape Festival in Brighton and Output in Belfast. ROE will play popular Hardman Street venue The Magnet on 30th October, along with support from local artists including Tabitha Jade, Pizzagirl (formally LUMEN),…
Liverpool is marking World Mental Health Day on 10th October with a 2-week Festival. In the wake of substantial cuts to the funding of 3rd sector organisations providing essential services to people experiencing mental distress, talking about our mental health is more important than ever. Liverpool Mental Health Consortium, the organisers of Liverpool Mental Health Festival 2017, have been working hard, along with their partners, to put together a programme packed with creative, engaging and, most importantly,…
With more than 50,000 students expected to arrive in Liverpool this month, the Liverpool BID Company is holding its annual ‘Student Take Over Week’ campaign across the city centre from 25th September – 1st october. Over 50 Liverpool BID companies have got involved to bring student discounts across the city with cafes and restaurants including American Pizza Slice, Pho, Love Thy Neighbour, LIV Organic Food Market, The Italian Club, El Mexicana, Changos Burritos, Artisane and Ziferblat all…
We might love our Full English breakfasts and our Sunday roasts here in Liverpool but we sure know how to get innovative with our international cuisine too. Hell, there isn’t much we wouldn’t sacrifice for a big bowl of Scouse with a bread & butter mop on the side but you certainly don’t need to rack up any air miles to get a taste of the Orient right here on Scouse soil. With the sad,…
We might have only just hit mid-September and the sun is still most definitely doing its almighty best to peek through the clouds but I’m going to drop the C-bomb anyway. That’s right, Christmas is on its merry old way and I for one am buzzing my you-know-whats off about it. I am the Christmas Queen; I am festive AF so it’s no wonder that I was the lucky little elf that headed down to…
Burger Joint Archie’s will be giving customers the Friday Feeling over the next six weeks with free Milkshakes. Archie’s will be giving away free shakes with every burger and fries that’s ordered on Fridays in the popular fast food restaurant. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Archie’s, they are a cool and casual diner and the only place to serve top quality handmade burgers together with the thickest, tastiest shakes; famous as far…
The return of brunch at Constellations marks the comeback of Liverpool’s most exciting weekend menu. Want to pair ice cream with bacon and waffles? Are you after a vegan full English? Constellations have got you covered. After a short summer break, the Baltic Triangle-based hangout is once again serving up the best eggs Benedict and blueberry pancakes in town. An extensive menu of food and drink, the Constellations brunch has all bases covered when it comes to…
81 Renshaw is a venue extremely well suited to host a Siobhan Wilson gig, especially when it is to promote her new album, There Are No Saints. The venue is compact and intimate, and works beautifully in portraying works with sparse, intricate arrangements. Hence Siobhan Wilson’s new album, one of haunting beauty, intricate and delicate, is in the perfect environment to allow her compositions to breathe and let her voice – yes that beautiful voice…
The Independent Liverpool lads have lined up a night of scares at The Grand Central Dome on 31st October with a special screening of The Blair Witch Projects and plenty of jumps and scares planned on the night. If you fancy the idea of watching a notoriously creepy film in the dark with characters planted within the Dome to scare you senseless throughout the movie then you’ll love this event. Discovered video footage tells the…
We’re sorry but you’re going to have to get used to hearing the word Christmas because the countdown is officially on with the news that there’s a Home Alone themed bar coming to the city we can’t wait for the festive season. The team behind the amazing Ghetto Golf has announced that they will be opening a bar in homage to one of the greatest Christmas films of all time. They announced the news on…
WRONG is set to return to the Liverpool Docklands on 28th April, 2018 for its sophomore outing of visceral, vital and weird rock music from the Freakscene. For one day, a cornucopia of outsiders will descend to provide a feast for the senses. Following the success of last year’s debut event, which saw the likes of Bo Ningen, The Wytches, Part Chimp and Heck unleash their aural savagery, it’s happening again. WRONG continues to tie together an extremely talented, if…
It’s been an exciting few months for The Jackobins. After playing a handful of sets at festivals throughout the summer – including Reading and Leeds, Kendal Calling, and Isle of Wight Festival – the four-piece have just this month announced their deal with the UK independent record label, Zy Records. To coincide with this, new single ‘Outside’ is set for official release on 22nd September. The single has already received airtime on BBC Introducing on…