Can you tell us one person who hasn’t seen and doesn’t love Friends? Well now is the time to prove just how much you love them, in the ultimate F.r.i.e.n.d.s Quiz taking place at Liverpool bar The Merchant. Unbelievably, F.r.i.e.n.d.s is celebrating is almost 25 years old so what better way to celebrate the classic 90’s, endlessly quotable show. So if you know the answer to vital questions like What’s Chandler Bing’s job? then we think…
Vegan Mondays at Santa Maluco, every Monday and just £3 a slice. Liverpool is fast becoming one of the best places to be vegan. Over the last few years we have seen a sharp increase in the number of meat-free restaurants opening. Not only that but existing eateries are also getting in on the action by offering vegetarian and vegan menus- ranging from a few options, to a wide variety of choice. One such restaurant…
Band Meeting! Musical comedy duo Bret McKenzie and Jermaine Clement have announced a string of UK tour dates for 2018 including the Echo Arena, after a seven year hiatus. The New Zeland pair will be hitting the road in Spring to perform classic hits including Hiphopapotamus v Rhymenocerous, Business Time, Hurt Feelings and Inner City Pressure. After meeting at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, the duo began writing and composing spoof songs which led…
Artists can now apply to play at Sound City 2018, which will take place from May 4 – 6 in the heart of Liverpool. Voted the UK’s best metropolitan festival and best festival for emerging talent at the UK Festival Awards, Sound City combines two days of incredible live music and arts with a one-day music and digital industry conference. The event has grown over the past 20 years into one of the most important events on…
Gary Usher’s latest restaurant, Wreckfish, explodes on to Liverpool restaurant scene with exclusive launch event. Chef owner, Gary Usher, broke crowdfunding records earlier in the year by raising over £200,000 to open Wreckfish in Liverpool, smashing records for the most money ever raised for a restaurant on Kickstarter UK and the third most money raised for a restaurant worldwide. Five months on and a full renovation of the derelict Ropewalks building completed, the bistro opened…
Find out what Tiger Rock Hawker is offering those in search of authentic Thai food…. During the mid 1990’s, when Oasis and Blur were battling head to head for Brit Pop honours, and Tony Blair was confidently perceived as a great political hope, The G and myself were frequent visitors to the Siam Garden on Smithdown Road. Here, we always enjoyed great food and hospitality to match, and it proved to be a worthwhile introduction…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…