Music

Mike Blue Lays His Innermost Thoughts Bare In a Series of Acoustic Tracks

Musician Mike Blue has been steadily building a name for himself over the past few years. With a selection of gigs at some of the best start-up venues around the UK, as well as regular open mic nights in Liverpool pubs and bars, the young singer has captured the attention of the crowd due to his haunting vocals and stripped-back sets. There’s nothing slick or mastered about his songs – it is precisely this rough…

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The Metquarter Is Getting A Boutique Cinema

New stylish cinema to open in the Metquater next year. Liverpool’s exclusive shopping area The Metquarter is set to welcome the Everyman Cinema with four screens, sofa seating, at-seat food and drink, a wine bar and a private screening lounge which will be available for private hire and corporate events. Everyman Cinema’s are know for showing a host of screenings including the latest big releases, independent cinema or live broadcast arts eventr such as the National Theatre…

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Award-Winning Positive Vibration Festival Returns This Weekend

Liverpool’s award-winning celebration of reggae music and Jamaican heritage returns in this weekend – 9th & 10th June – for a jam-packed weekend of cultural appreciation and positivity. Winner of Best New Festival – UK Festival Awards, Positive Vibration is set to be even bigger and better in 2017. Taking place over the 9th and 10th June 2017 in various venues across the Baltic Triangle, the festival will play host to a plethora of internationally renowned bands, legendary sound systems & selectors,…

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Takotsubo Men 3rd of 4 Album Review

The debut album from Takotsubo Men is a piece of post punk joy with breathless energetic and passionate music. The Liverpool band appear to have burst onto the local scene following their album launch show with Yeah Buddy DIY last week. The band made up of  lead singer and bassist, Ste Williams, guitarist, Paddy Harrison and drummer Stu Carswell have been delivered an album of real quality and it feels exteremely relevant in the current economic…

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Liverpool Noise Hosts A Whitechapel Centre Fundraiser With Superb Bands At 24 Kitchen Street

Continuing their series of charity fundraising concerts, Liverpool Noise are proud to present their latest gig at 24 Kitchen Street on July 7. With a number of musical styles on offer, the event has something for everyone. There are five acts, all from the Merseyside area, performing on the night. R n’ B duo Deliah, who have a single Waiting For The Rain currently available on most digital platforms, are first on the line up.…

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Celebrate World Gin Day At The Botanical Garden This Saturday 10th June

Now fully in bloom, The Botanical Garden in Liverpool is the city’s most idyllic hideaway, nestled in the backstreets of the Baltic Triangle in the shadow of the Anglican Cathedral. There’s a special day taking place there on Saturday 10th June, as The Botanical Garden celebrates World Gin Day – if ever there were two concepts more suitable together, it is these – featuring a day and night of education and entertainment. Throughout the day…

Food and Drink in Liverpool

Titanic Hotel’s Stanley Bar & Grill Restaurant Review

When the Executive Chef has a past that spans the QE2, Sydney Olympics, Chester Grosvenor and the DoubleTree in Chester you can pretty much guarantee that the food is going to be good. And we were not disappointed by the new summer menu at Stanley’s Bar & Grill at the Titanic Hotel. With everything from Fish and Chips to duck breast, pork chops and scallops there’s something for all tastes. The hotel itself is luxury…

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DJ Spooky Heads To The Philharmonic For Sgt Pepper At 50 Event ‘Getting Better?’

Paul McCartney sang, “it’s getting better all the time?” Or is it a case, as the laconic John Lennon responded, that it “couldn’t get no worse”? That’s what Paul D Miller, aka DJ Spooky, sets out to answer. The Washington DC-born composer, artist and author will explore the question through a mixture of performance and an audio-visual installation. DJ Spooky will take to the stage at the Philharmonic Hall’s Music Room with Liverpool String Quartet…

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Africa Oyé Announce Main Stage Running Order

Africa Oyé have revealed the running order for their Main Stage acts ahead of the 25th Anniversary Festival on June 17th and 18th in Sefton Park. The host of international stars such as Mokoomba and Max Romeo are complemented by local acts, Nutribe & Butcha B as well as Anwar Ali & Dave Owen and there are also welcome returns from Liverpool community acts such as drumming troupe Beatlife. To keep Sefton Park moving in between the main…

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Deliah Release New Single ‘Waiting For The Rain’

RnB duo Deliah released their new track ‘Waiting For The Rain’ on Monday, tying in the release in conjunction with water charity Pump Aid. Hailing from Liverpool, Deliah is fronted by lead singer Michelle Harris and instrumentalist Alex Dopierala. Having had previous releases premiered by Fortitude Magazine and GigSlutz, as well as being featured on The Only Way Is Essex and Hollyoaks, the new single, Waiting For The Rain, is out now, available on all platforms including…

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Chef Gary Usher Smashes UK’s Largest Ever Kickstarter Campaign For A UK Restaurant – Wreckfish Liverpool Is Coming!

Chef owner, Gary Usher, launched an ambitious £200k Kickstarter campaign on 2nd May to open a 100-cover restaurant in the Ropewalks area of Liverpool city centre. With high profile and humbling support from the likes of Tom Kerridge, Simon Rimmer and several other Michelin star chefs, Usher’s campaign reached the £200k goal with 45 hours to go, from the support of 1,441 backers and counting. The record-breaking £200k crowdfunding campaign is the largest ever amount…

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Pier Head Village Announces Programme For This Summer’s Village Festival

Pier Head Village announces its programme of entertainment in the run up to the official opening on 30th June. The festival takes over Liverpool’s iconic waterfront next month with an action-packed, summer-long programme combining a wide range of enticing offers from thrills to music and art to culture with all things in between, and all on the most iconic waterfront in Europe.  The Pier Head Village is Liverpool’s newest and most ambitious leisure attraction and will…

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Liverpool Disco Festival Returns Sat 7th October; Tickets Go On Sale This Week

The Liverpool Disco Festival is back, once more taking place across the renascent Baltic Triangle district of the city. The action takes place on Saturday October 7th, and will bring together some of the most iconic global names together from the disco, house, garage, soul and funk spectrums for one magical day and night. Liverpool Disco Festival is a celebration of all things soulful, seductive and scintillating, and following on from May’s epic collaboration with…

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Becky Hill, M.O, Jessie Reyez & More Join The LIMF 2017 Line Up

She Drew The Gun, The Vryll Society, ZuZu, the twenty LIMF Academy ‘Class Of 2017’ and more also announced for the fifth anniversary . Liverpool International Music Festival (LIMF) has announced the final acts for its 2017 Summer Jam line-up at Sefton Park with Becky Hill, M.O, Jessie Reyez, She Drew The Gun, The Vryll Society, Zuzu, Paris Youth Foundation, Pixey, Pink Kink, Jo Mary, Charlie Straw and the 20 LIMF Academy ‘Class Of 2017’ joining the likes of the…

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New Liverpool Bar YARD Now Open In The Baltic Triangle

YARD – Liverpool’s newest outdoor bar, opened it’s doors on Friday. Situated in the heart of the Baltic Triangle, next to District, YARD is an intimate and vibrant space, offering a fine selection of drink, music, and soon-to-be, food (with ItalFresh bringing back their Thursday night pop-up from 8th June). Using a 15ft shipping container as the bar and scaffolding boards as tables, YARD truly embraces and celebrates its industrial surroundings. YARD will continue the good vibes over the Bank Holiday…

Music

New Music Promotion Company Launch First Live Event This Week

Music Promoters 5minuetswith will launch at Hangar 34 on Thursday 1st June.  Patrick Oulton started 5minuetswith as a blog just before Christmas 2016. From there it has rapidly evolved into a “PR and events based” company for up and coming artists. Whilst it’s work is mainly Liverpool based there are plans to expand in to Manchester and even London in the near future. Patrick grew up in a working class family in Prescot and chose the…

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PreckyFest Preview

Merseyside music festival to mark the ten year anniversary of The Steve Prescott Foundation.  After receiving surgery to remove tumors following a diagnosis of pseudomyxoma peritonei, a rare form of cancer, in 2006 Steve Prescott began rising money for charity. This led to the formation of The Steve Prescott Foundation which has to date raised over one million pounds for Try Assist (formally The Rugby League Benevolent Fund) and The Christie Hospital. Before his death…

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Follakzoid Live At The Magnet; Review

There is something about the seventies retro kitsch that is The Magnet that makes it seem right for just about any type of act that would not fill a bigger venue. Those who do not attend it too often always end up commenting on the Star Wars figures on display to whoever is checking the tickets before realising there is no mobile signal for them to send a picture message to their friends who could…

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LIV Food Market Celebrates Vegan & Plant Based Lifestyles This Sunday

This bank holiday Sunday, LIV Food Market is holding a Plant Based Power Celebration in their cultural home of Radiant House on Bold Street. Promoting the hugely popular plant based diets, LIV will celebrate the power of plants and the many different benefits that this diet and lifestyle comes with. With an array of delicious free samples for customers and locals to try and taste, including lots of their freshly baked vegan cakes, cheeses and…

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Neon Waltz Hit The Buyers Club This Bank Holiday Monday

Scottish indie rockers Neon Waltz have a new album set for release at the end of the summer and have recently released a single Heavy Heartless. With another recent single, Dreamers, Neon Waltz are stamping their mark on the current indie scene. Band members Jordan Shearer, Jamie Swanson, Kevin Swanson, Calvin Wilson, Liam Whittles and Darren Coghill got together in 2013. Hailing from John O’ Groats, these Scottish lads have a pure and beautiful sound.…