Liverpool is a diverse and iconic city known for its famous landmarks and successful musical acts. Above all else, this is undoubtedly one of the best places in the United Kingdom for partying. With a vibrant nightlife, you’re guaranteed to experience a night out that you won’t forget – unless you have one too many drinks! It’s no surprise that Liverpool is an attractive city for students, young people and anyone looking to enjoy a…
The Jockey Club Live and Haydock Park Racecourse are excited to welcome genre-defying, BRIT-Award winning band Rudimental for a headline DJ set performance on Friday 5 August. Bursting out of London’s underground music scene with its thrilling world of pirate radio, crude DJ set ups, improvised studios and bleeding edge beats, Rudimental cracked into the mainstream on the release of their double-platinum selling debut album Home in 2013, which has since sold over 1 million units worldwide. Hits…
LEAF are busy once more across the city and Wirral with a selection of March dates across their three venues to choose from spanning music, arts and the return of pudding clubs. Across Bold Street, Smithdown Road and West Kirby, there’s plenty of music, mindfulness and marvellous menus, to yoga and the return of a very real dating night returning for a second date on Tuesday 22 March – with not an app in sight.…
This Spring the Bombed Out Church will be opening their doors to an eclectic mix of Easter events. After successfully hosting over 200 events and community projects last year, The Bombed Out Church are looking forward to another busy venue calendar for 2022, which kicks off this Easter with events hosted underneath their renowned clear-roof marquee. The season starts with Hoppy Easter Party on the 15 of April in partnership with Jumping Jacks. Expect Easter…
An inclusive dance performance by the Freestylers is coming to Liverpool’s Bluecoat for two dates this Spring. The Freestylers are a fantastic group of artists with and without disability and will be performing their Unlimited x CONTINUOUS commission, Everybody With Me, Always at Bluecoat, Liverpool on Saturday 30 April and Sunday 1 May, 2022, 2pm-4:30pm. In this relaxed show using film, dance and activities, Freestylers (alongside local performers) share films and activities for everybody. They believe that…
Dorothy Bird is a singer-songwriter based between Liverpool and Berlin. With ringing endorsements from BBC Introducing, Tom Robinson’s Fresh On The Net and BBC6music Mixtape, Mersey Radio and a plethora of tastemaking magazines both in England and her native Germany. We had a chat with her ahead of her upcoming Liverpool show and debut album release. Liverpool Noise: It looks like 2022 is going to be an exciting year for you, what with your upcoming…
A free programme of short films, audio plays and podcasts by women from Liverpool and West Lancashire is launching to coincide with this year’s Earth Hour. The 400 Parts Per Million Festival, produced by Theatre in the Rough, explores young women’s experience of the Climate Crisis – as women are statistically most likely to be affected by the impacts of climate change. The participants have been working with climate activists, artists and scientists from around…
dot-art announce their Spring Programme of Creative Courses. Discover your inner artist, try something new and develop your skills across a range of fantastic venues: The Bluecoat, The Reader, FACT, Baltic Creative, Liverpool Arts Bar and the dot-art Darkroom. At The Bluecoat, dot-art will be delivering popular 3 week courses in Portrait Drawing and Abstract Painting as well as 1 day courses in Drawing for Everyone, Introduction to Kintsugi (which sold out in record time last term!) and two new single day…
Manchester Collective are preparing to visit Future Yard in Birkenhead to present a boundary-pushing concert with South African cellist, composer and singer Abel Selaocoe on Thursday 31 March 2022. It will see the long-time friends and collaborators come together to present The Oracle, a brand new show that promises to lift the spirits and take audiences of all ages on a spellbinding musical ride through time and space. A figure who stands alone as an…
On the 15 April, 2022, indie rock trio Starcoast will hit Liverpool on their UK and Ireland tour, accompanied by local bands Lunar Vertigo, Thunder and the Giants, and Thom Morecroft. The show will take place at District, the second to last stop on their three week venture following the release of their EP, We Three. They aim to create a show experience that blends all kinds of sounds and to spread a message of…
Create new memories with your mum this Mother’s Day with an evening of floristry, fizz, and canapes at Gino D’Acampo Old Hall Street. The special evening, on Tuesday 29 March and staged in partnership with A Slower Space, will see guests invited to learn how to make their own modern beautiful bouquet, using the best seasonal blooms. A glass of fizz and classic Italian canapes created by Gino’s esteemed team of chefs promises to add…
Way back a hundred years ago, during ancient times, it was extremely difficult to get people’s attention. We do not have the means of communication to a large number of audiences. We do not have the medium to communicate to a wide area or location. Fast forward to our modern world where we live in an advanced culture. People had so many inventions that made life easier. It is easier to get people’s attention nowadays…
Ma Boyle’s Alehouse and Eatery is celebrating being voted Liverpool’s best brunch for students by bottomelessbrunch.com It’s a tremendous accolade for the intimate and historic hideaway, tucked away down Water Street and nestled by the beautiful St Nick’s church gardens. Ma Boyle’s Alehouse and Eatery reached its 150th birthday in 2020, a truly historic venue which is one of the city’s most-loved for social get-togethers. It caters from early breakfasts and late diners to liquid…
The Klee Music EdenHurst Sessions was a programme to record and film twelve artistes over the course of 2021 at Liverpool’s 3rd Planet Recording Studios, under the watchful eye of up and coming Producer / Engineer Jose Ibanez. Each Artiste performed, under live conditions, a five song set including one cover song from the Klee Music Publishing UK catalogue. The sessions were filmed and edited by Scott Mealey, and the tracked audio mixed and mastered…
The latest tour de force album from Liverpool four-piece The Mysterines is a fuzz-ridden stress reliever. Reeling has 13 tracks of pure garage rock energy, with vocalist/guitarist Lia Metcalfe bringing a huge span of delivery from a scope of emotions that the album gives. “It’s a pretty ambiguous title for most people, but for me ‘Reeling’ sums up every emotion of the album in just one word,” says Lia. “It was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do,” she explains. Backed up…
A samba-reggae group of 50 drummers will take to the streets of Liverpool this weekend to raise money for the Ukraine Crisis Appeal. Batala Mersey have linked up with the Red Cross to organise the fundraising performance on Church Street in Liverpool on Sunday 20 March. The Liverpool-based drumming group will be joined by members of sister bands, Batala Lancaster, Batala Bangor and Batala Bermo, to make as much noise as possible for the people…
Independent Liverpool bar operator Ma Pub Group, led by Iain Hoskins, has announced its plans for a third Liverpool site. Nova Scotia opens in May as the city’s hospitality sector continues to bounce back. Set in the stunning Mann Island building in the shadow of the Museum of Liverpool and the spectacular Three Graces on Liverpool’s iconic waterfront, the new location will capture the city’s maritime past. It’s little known that at the end of…
Lu Ban Liverpool has been crowned the city’s best restaurant after being one of the big winners at the 2021 Liverpool City Region Tourism awards. The fine dining Chinese restaurant, based in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle, walked off with the highly prized Restaurant of the Year award and doubled up its trophy haul with the Resilience and Innovation award. The ceremony was held in Liverpool Cathedral on Thursday 10 March, with a strong team from the restaurant…
A Wirral brain tumour and cancer charity, set up by a former world kickboxing champion and a former Premier League footballer, is organising a coastal walk to raise vital funds to support its health and wellbeing work. Ahead of the Game Foundation, based in Wallasey and established by Dave Bolton and Dominic Matteo, is asking people to walk the 10-mile route from West Kirby to New Brighton as part of March Brain Tumour Awareness month.…
Seeing in a new season with colour and scenes of sunshine, this new exhibition at dot-art brings together a selection of artworks from dot-art artists as a group show; landscapes, photographic collages and sun filled scenes that tell us spring has sprung. This exhibition helps us look forward to brighter times with an optimistic air despite recent worldwide events. Colourful and using nature as a muse, this collection of works can provide some respite and…