Festivals

  • Bands in Liverpool
    Sound City 2020 Reveals First Wave of Acts for Festival

    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…

  • Entertainment in Liverpool
    The Dead of Night Film Festival Horror Film Festival To Return In October

    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…

  • Activities in Liverpool
    Scalarama Film Festival 2019 Guide 1

    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…

  • Activities in Liverpool
    Royal Albert Dock Food Festival 'Feast' Preview

    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…

  • Bands in Liverpool
    Future Yard Festival Review 1

    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…

  • Activities in Liverpool
    New Brighton Pirate Fest - August 17 and 18

    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…

  • Music
    LIMF 2019 Full Line Up And Set Times

    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…

  • Festivals
    Brazilica Festival 2017 Date Confirmed 1

    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…

  • Liverpool Event Reviews
    Sound City 2019 Review 1

    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…

  • Liverpool Event Reviews
    Free Dance, Music & Instrument Workshops At Africa Oyé's Anniversary Festival

    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…

  • Festivals
    Leasowe Castle To Host Skeleton Coast Music Festival 2019

    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…

  • Liverpool Event Reviews
    Threshold Festival Celebrates Arts Council Success 1

    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.…

  • Liverpool Event Reviews
    LIMF First Wave Line Up Announced

    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…

  • Liverpool Events
    Cream Classical In The Park Featuring Faithless, Paul Oakenfold And More

    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…

  • Liverpool Music Scene
    Threshold Announce First Acts for 2019 Festival

    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…

  • Art Exhibitions in Liverpool
    Shout About It Live Music and Gig Photography Festival Announces Set Times 2

    Shout About It Live Music and Gig Photography Festival Announces Set Times

    Do you fancy watching some amazing bands for just £1 each? Shout About It Live returns for its second year on 18 and 19 August and your weekend ticket price means that you pay just £1 per band over the two day event! The festival takes place at Constellations in the Baltic Triangle and will see some of the best up and coming acts around, including Himalayas, REWS, Tom Speight and M.A.N.E. The one of…

  • Gigs in Liverpool
    Liverpool Calling 2018 Guide - 11 Acts You Can't Miss and Set Times 1

    Liverpool Calling 2018 Guide – 11 Acts You Can’t Miss and Set Times

    Liverpool Calling music festival returns this weekend (Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd June) after a two year hiatus and it turns out that it was more definitely worth the wait. First of all we should probably say, compiling a list of just 11 bands you must see this weekend was a near impossible task. The long and short of it is that you should come along to this incredibly good value for money music festival…

  • Liverpool Events
    WRONG Festival 2018 Announces First Wave of Artists: Future Of The Left & More

    WRONG Festival 2018 Announces First Wave of Artists: Future Of The Left & More

    WRONG Festival 2018 has announced their return to the Liverpool Docklands on the 28th of April 2018 for a second-year outing of vital oddball rock music from both the burgeoning local and UK-wide Freakscene. £12 Super Early Bird tickets are now sold out, with the next allocation of £15 Early Bird on sale now via Skiddle, See Tickets and Dice FM from:https://wrongfestival.com/tickets Following the success of last year’s debut event, which saw the likes of Bo Ningen, The…

  • Liverpool Events
    Liverpool Music Week 2017 Announces Everything Everything, Jungle & More 1

    Liverpool Music Week 2017 Announces Everything Everything, Jungle & More

    Liverpool Music Week 2017 has announced that Everything Everything will be the headliners for this year’s outing of the now-legendary LMW Closing Party, with the Manchester quartet having just released their critically acclaimed fourth studio album A Fever Dream, produced by Simian Mobile Disco’s James Ford. Taking place across multiple rooms and stages on 4th November at the Liverpool Guild of Students, they’ll be joined by Heavenly Recordings chillwave/surf-pop tinged indie trio The Orielles, alongside…

  • Liverpool Events
    Africa Oyé 2017 Dates Announced 1

    Africa Oyé 2017 Dates Announced

    Africa Oyé’s 25th Anniversary Festival The dates have been announced for the UK’s largest FREE celebration of African and Caribbean music and culture as Africa Oyé celebrates its silver anniversary. On 17th & 18th June, a handpicked line-up of acts from Oyé’s 25-year history will descend on Liverpool’s Sefton Park for a weekend of incredible music and cultural celebrations. Oyé‘s Artistic Director, Paul Duhaney is confident that the festival can live up to expectations for such a milestone this…