Festivals
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Bands in Liverpool
Sound City 2020 Announces Friendly Fires As Headliners And More Artists Revealed
The Sound City 2020 lineup is bolstered by English Indie-rock outfit Friendly Fires alongside Liverpool’s finest Louis Berry, SPQR and many more. Returning to the Baltic Triangle for its third year Sound City 2020 edition will feature an exclusive Friendly Fires headline show. Picture the music festival, which was established in 2008 as a sprawling block party where pop-up bars, clubs and warehouses make way for the hottest new music talent from around the globe.…
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Festivals
Award-winning Reggae Festival, Positive Vibration Returns This June
After a year-long hiatus, the UK’s award-winning celebration of reggae music and Jamaican culture, Positive Vibration Festival returns to the Baltic Triangle, Liverpool on 12 and 13 June 2020. Since its inception in 2016, Positive Vibration Festival of Reggae has established itself as one of the country’s most exciting and eclectic reggae festivals, playing host to internationally renowned bands, legendary sound systems + selectors and some of the brightest new talent. This year’s festival is…
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Festivals
INDIKA: Europe’s finest festival of Indian arts returns to Liverpool for 2020
Indika, Europe’s finest festival of Indian arts, returns to Liverpool for 2020, taking over the city for a vibrant 10-day celebration. Looking ahead to its 10th year, the Indika festival, presented by Milap, is renowned for hosting some of the biggest names in Indian arts, as well as some of the very best rising talent from India and the Diaspora. Indika will return in 2020 with an expanded and eclectic programme of events, featuring contemporary Indian…
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Festivals
Krewe Liverpool 2020 – The Mardi Gras Experience: Krewes Announced and How To Get Involved
Krewe Liverpool is a surreal masquerade ball with music, dance, costume and carnival, housed in Sefton Park’s iconic Palm House and ahead of the inaugural event organisers have announced more information about how you can get involved with their surrealist masquerade ball. Traditionally the festivities, balls and parades arranged for the New Orleans’ Mardi Gras were created by social organisations or clubs known as “Krewes”. The term “Krewe” was originally coined by ‘The Mystic Krewe of…
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Activities in Liverpool
Cirqadia Circus Festival Coming To Liverpool Next Weekend
Liverpool’s circus pioneers Freefall will be hosting city’s first ever Festival of Contemporary Circus – Cirqadia which runs from 8th – 10th November. Cirqadia is a pioneering weekend of events, produced by Freefall, celebrating the talent of UK based circus performers and providing a platform for new work from performers across the region as well as allowing young people new to circus the opportunity to learn from the professionals. 2019 sees the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall…
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Bands in Liverpool
Sound City 2020 Reveals First Wave of Acts for Festival
Sound City, the UK’s leading independent festival and industry conference for emerging music, arts and discovery, returns for its 13th year across Friday May 1st – Sunday 3rd 2020 to launch next year’s festival season in fine style. Tickets go on sale from 10am Friday 25th October. The festival has revealed its first headline artists, the goth-pop champions Pale Waves taking centre stage with their female front-woman, Heather Baron-Gracie, and their music emboldened from last…
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Entertainment in Liverpool
The Dead of Night Film Festival Horror Film Festival To Return In October
The Dead of Night Film Festival is returning for its third year bringing new independent horror short and feature films to the genre loving public of Liverpool. This is a festival made for horror fans by horror fans as a collaboration between Two-Headed Snake Entertainment and The Liverpool Horror Club. The festival will screen 10 short and 6 feature films within the horror genre bracket, there will also be special guests and a whole lot of…
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Activities in Liverpool
Scalarama Film Festival 2019 Guide
Scalarama Film Festival is back (1-30 September 2019) celebrating cinema with a mix of classic movies, obscure hidden gems and some fascinating feature length documentaries. This year you can catch screenings of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), The Help, Moonrise Kingdom, Hairspray, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and so much more. Inspired by the energy and creativity of the legendary Scala Cinema (1978-1993), in 2011 a new festival was created that invited all…
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Activities in Liverpool
Royal Albert Dock Food Festival ‘Feast’ Preview
Royal Albert Dock Liverpool has announced its incredible programme of jam-packed activities for its brand new free food and drink festival, FEAST, taking place from 7-8th September 2019. Offering a variety of chef demos, interactive masterclasses, children’s activities and much more spanning over the two days, this festival will showcase the amazing food and drink line up at the Dock, encompassing some of Liverpool’s finest and most innovative independents. Kicking off the festivities on the…
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Bands in Liverpool
Future Yard Festival Review
It’s all over to Birkenhead this weekend as we celebrate for the first time the beauty of Future Yard Festival. Tucked away next to the mouth of the Queensway Tunnel is a corner of land that looks out over to Liverpool on one side and North Wales on the other, home to some serious musical talent and of course not forgetting the late John Peel. Jumping off at Hamilton Square it’s a short walk over…
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Activities in Liverpool
New Brighton Pirate Fest – August 17 and 18
It’s time to hoist the flags for the New Brighton Pirate Fest – The Battle for Devil’s Nest – is a swashbuckling extravaganza setting sail on the weekend of August 17 and 18. The free, two-day attraction celebrates the history of pirates and much more, including two stunning stars of the sea taking part – a pair of specially created galleons. One will lead the parade and become our entertainment stage. The larger craft will…
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Music
LIMF 2019 Full Line Up And Set Times
LIMF 2019 Full line up and set times for Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st July. Get ready for Liverpool International Music Festival 2019 as it returns to the stunning Sefton Park for another weekend of unforgettable live music. On 20-21 July, the stage will be set once again to bring global household names alongside the most exciting emerging new talent that LIMF is renowned for. Headlining the Saturday is none other than the multi Grammy-winning…
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Festivals
Brazilica Festival Returns This July
Brazilica Festival 2019 from Liverpool Carnival Company will feature a packed programme taking over Liverpool’s city streets from Friday 12 – Sunday 14 July. A variety of fringe events including club nights, live music, film programme, workshops and the Carnival Queen competition all form part of this year’s festival. Organisers will be releasing the full line-up over the coming weeks. New for 2019 will see the addition of a Carnival King who, along with this year’s crowned Carnival Queen, will lead the sensational night-time…
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Liverpool Event Reviews
Sound City 2019 Review
Sound City’s best decision was bringing the annual festival back to the city centre and its second year in the Baltic Triangle has proved to be a big success with stand out moments from Liverpool’s own Clean Cut Kid, Salford’s The Lottery Winners and headliner Loyle Carner. Saturday saw a big turnout in the Baltic Triangle and a buzz that typifies the festival, with people (us included) briskly walking from stage to stage to catch the…
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Liverpool Event Reviews
Africa Oyé announce third wave of acts for 2019 festival
The Garifuna Collective from Belize and legendary reggae artist Horace Andy will headline the 27th annual Africa Oyé 2019 festival this summer. Taking place in Liverpool’s Sefton Park on the 22nd and 23rd of June, the music and culture of Africa and the Diaspora will once again take centre stage for two free days of fantastic live performances, DJ sets and multi-arts workshops. Leading the way for this latest announcement, and performing as part of…
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Festivals
Leasowe Castle To Host Skeleton Coast Music Festival 2019
Leasowe Castle is set to host Wirral’s premier music festival, Skeleton Coast Festival 2019, for the second consecutive year on Saturday, August 31 as part of its ongoing events offering. The 16th century hotel will welcome headline act Miles Kane and artists such as Dream Wife, The Mysterines, The Snuts, The Fernweh and The Peach Fuzz with more to be announced as part of the annual music event. General Manager of Leasowe Castle Mike Dewey…
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Liverpool Event Reviews
Liverpool Threshold Festival 2019
The Threshold Festival of Music and Arts 2019 is almost upon us – having leap-frogged Brexit – and this year it has to be said is simply sensational. Being incorporated into the BBC6 Fringe, the latest and last artistic announcement is an absolute corker! Our very own and very excellent Popped Music are bringing us the mighty “Bang Band Romeo”, but that’s only the icing on the festival cake. Other highlights come thick and fast.…
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Liverpool Event Reviews
LIMF First Wave Line Up Announced
Liverpool International Music Festival (LIMF) has announced hip hop legends De La Soul, chart-topping Ella Eyre and DJ Duo Sigma amongst the line up for 2019’s festival which returns to Sefton Park on 20 & 21 July. Also on the bill is the hugely talented singer-songwriter and rapper Maverick Sabre and electro rnb star NAO. LIMF has also lined up Disco Classical – Camerata Orchestra reworking iconic disco tracks – with special guests Sister Sledge, for…
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Liverpool Events
Cream Classical In The Park Featuring Faithless, Paul Oakenfold And More
Cream, the award-winning promoters behind some of the world’s biggest electronic music events, have announced plans for an all-new 20,000 capacity festival in their spiritual home Liverpool – ‘Cream Classical In The Park’ on Friday 19 July 2019. Following the success of the Cream Classical shows at Liverpool Cathedral, there’s going to be a huge summer spectacular with the amazing 50 piece Kaleidoscope Orchestra performing some of Cream’s biggest tracks in the surroundings of Sefton…
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Liverpool Music Scene
Threshold Announce First Acts for 2019 Festival
With 4 months to go until Threshold Festival 2019, the team have revealed 12 artists from their burgeoning programme set to take over Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle on March 29-30. The line-up is the first information out of the blocks by the event production team behind the festival who last month celebrated Arts Council funding success. Expanding again after the more compact ‘Across the Threshold’ event in 2018, the 2019 event will take place across Baltic…
