Liverpool Arts and Culture magazine
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Activities in Liverpool
LightNight Liverpool Returns on Friday 18th May
LightNight returns on Friday 18 May 2018, unlocking the doors of Liverpool’s best-loved and lesser-known arts, culture and heritage venues late into the night. A culture crawl like no other, visitors of all ages are invited to follow an unforgettable trail of events in celebration of the city’s year-round world-class cultural offer. LightNight showcases the creative lifeblood of Liverpool, presenting new and ambitious artistic commissions amidst a vibrant programme of more than 100 events including…
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Liverpool Art Fair 2018 – Artist Submissions Now Open
Liverpool Art Fair is back for a seventh year in the summer of 2018 and looking for hundreds of local artists to get involved. For 10 weeks in 2017, Liverpool Art Fair, as part of Pier Head Village, took up residence on the iconic Liverpool Waterfront, in the shadow of the Port of Liverpool Building and the Museum of Liverpool. The event was a huge success, welcoming over 25000 visitors, showcasing the work of over…
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Leighton Baines Discusses Mental Health In Football To Launch Liverpool Based Mental Health Social Enterprise The Mind Map
Everton and England footballer Leighton Baines helped launch new mental health social enterprise The Mind Map on Tuesday evening. A crowd gathered at Unit 51, in Liverpool to watch Leighton in conversation with BBC sports journalist Giulia Bould, discussing ‘Mental Health in Football’ Founded by editor and mental health first aider Phil Bridges, The Mind Map is an interactive website with articles, videos, mindfulness, exercise and nutrition resources, which seek to normalise and de-stigmatise mental health and…
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It’s Gonna Taste Great – Living the cereal lover’s dream at Tiny Rick’s
2023 Update – Unfortunately Tiny Rick’s is now permanently closed. Why not check out our 100 Things To Do In Liverpool guide instead? Yes, it’s finally here. The novelty café that everyone’s been waiting for. London did it, Manchester followed suit and now us Scousers finally get a go. Forget eating a quick bowl of cereal at home, in fact you can forget just putting one type of cereal in a bowl altogether and instead…
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Health and Fitness in Liverpool
Bike & Go publishes quirky bike rides guide to mark English Tourism Week
A warehouse-lined canal path from the Pier Head to Crosby beach, a trip to the smallest pub in Britain, and a little-known route that provides the best spot for city skyline selfies are just some of the alternative cycle rides to be found in a new publication. Bike & Go’s Quirky Bike Rides Guide is being published to coincide with English Tourism Week, which runs from March 17-25, and has been compiled with the help…
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Garage-rockers Mouses to play Liverpool as part of UK tour
Teeside garage rockers Mouses will embark on a Spring 2018 UK Tour, which will include a stop off at Liverpool’s EBGBS on 12th April. The band have received high praise from the likes of Louder Than War, CLASH and Drowned in Sound, with regular festival slots (including one at Reading and Leeds), and over 200 gigs all in their name; EBGBS will hosts a loud, energetic show not to be missed. Describing themselves as “The bastard…
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Shout About It Live Festival Returns for 2nd year – First acts announced
Shout About It Live – a hybrid festival bringing live music and gig photography together – has announced it’s return for 2018 after a solid debut last year. Staying in the Baltic Triangle, this year’s venue is the multi-purpose venue Constellations on the weekend of 18th & 19th August. And the first acts have been confirmed with Robert Vince, Rews, Nick Ellis, Eleanor Nelly and Emmanuel Nwamadi all set to take to the stage this…
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Liverpool’s silver screen secrets to be told on Reel Tour’s journey around city film locations
A walking tour of Liverpool is set to tell the secrets of Liverpool’s filming locations, as Reel Tours showcases the Liverpool locations featured in some of Hollywood biggest films. Avid film fans will have the opportunity to see Liverpool from an entirely different angle, as the city continues to grow its reputation as a film hotspot for the big and small screens. Reel Tours takes film fans on a tour of the city where people…
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The Botanical Garden is re-opening Friday 16th March
The Botanical Garden is returning for its fourth season this summer, taking pride of place in the city’s Baltic Triangle from the opening weekend across March 16th, 17th and 18th through to October. Occupying an urban oasis with a heated greenhouse, the intimate hideaway was one of early residents of the now bustling area, and continues to attract a diverse demographic reflective of Liverpool itself, all drawn to the wonderful al-fresco setting. For the fourth…
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First acts announced for Liverpool International Music Festival 2018
Liverpool International Music Festival 2018 is heading back to the magnificent setting of Sefton Park for another weekend of unforgettable music on 21st – 22nd July. Over 70 artists including Haçienda Classiçal, Basement Jaxx (DJ Set), Wiley, Example & DJ Wire, Jax Jones, Stefflon Don, Aurora, Young Fathers, Rae Morris, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Trevor Nelson, Gilles Peterson plus many more will perform live as part of this year’s unmissable line-up. With up to 18 hours…
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Liv Sync Battle is back at Camp & Furnace and will be raising money for the homeless
Liv Sync Battle returns to Camp & Furnace on Friday 9th March 2018 from 7pm as a brand new group of hopefuls takes to the stage as their favourite stars. Following the success of last year’s sell-out event, which saw John Gibbons of The Anfield Wrap, crowned as champion for his incredible impression of Taylor Swift, Liv Sync Battle is gearing up for another fundraiser with a difference. Hosted by Jay Hynd from The Guide Liverpool, Liv Sync Battle is…
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Hugely popular Edinburgh Fringe stand-up comedy is coming to Liverpool’s Hot Water Comedy Club
Yolav and Graham’s Jovial Trauma Refugee Stand Up Comedy is coming to Hot Water Comedy this Spring. The daringly dark and illegally funny double act, Yolav and Graham, are set to bring their subversive stand up style to the now legendary Hot Water Comedy Club. The character act created by Michael Burton (Yolav) and Danny Bradley (Graham) is quickly becoming established as one of the most unique acts on the UK comedy circuit. The premise?…
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Bob Log III at Drop The Dumbells: Preview
Bob Log III is an enigma. In the early 00s there were rumours (largely put about by an already increasingly dumbed-down NME) that the man behind the mask was an errant Stroke. Initial press releases also told tales of a bluesman who owed his lightning fast picking style to a monkey paw, grafted in place of his real hand after a childhood accident. Whether you like to picture an aging Casablancas sweating under the visor…
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Entertainment in Liverpool
The curious tale of a local man’s alleged alien encounter has been turned into a book by a Liverpool author
Ask any group of Ufologists who holds the dubious honour of being Britain’s first alien abductee and it is likely that the name James Cooke will emerge from the majority of their lips. Not to be confused with the 18th Century explorer James Cook (no ‘e’), this James Cooke hailed from Runcorn and in September 1957 claimed he had been taken by aliens to the Planet Zomdic. “I’d been brought up in Runcorn and fascinated…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Breakfast on Bold Street: LIV Organic gives us a healthy start to the morning
Whilst brunching on pancakes with crispy bacon and lashings of maple syrup or sweet waffles oozing in Nutella is definitely an amazing Saturday pastime, sometimes its nice to get a delicious AND healthy start to the weekend, which is exactly what we did when we headed down to LIV Organic, the recently opened supermarket at the bottom of Bold Street. As well as stocking a great range of well-known brands, healthy snacks and organic fruit…
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Music
Mutant Vinyl – ‘Kick The Reel’ EP Review
Image Credit: Alice Conway Photography This may sound slightly strange – but I have sometimes viewed music as in terms of night and day. What I mean by this is that to me, some music evokes the night, while others the day, For example, “Happy” by Pharrel is a massive sun-shiny day of a song; “Riders of the Storm” by The Doors is definitely of the night. And Edwin Pope’s latest offering under his Mutant Vinyl…
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Lord Huron to headline Liverpool’s Invisible Wind Factory, 29th October
Lord Huron have announced their biggest UK tour to date, including a show at Liverpool Invisible Wind Factory on 29th October. The band’s forthcoming album is out April 20th and to promote the upcoming release, Lord Huron will make their way to the UK in October, playing five shows across the country. Originally a musical and visual solo project by Michigan-native-turned-Angeleno Schneider, Lord Huron now includes members Mark Barry (percussion), Miguel Briseño (bass) and Tom Renaud (guitar). After a pair of independent EPs,…
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On the Corner – A brand-new three day event series landing on the corner of Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle.
Global vibrations, local melodies and a cross section of the UK’s freshest young talent, On the Corner is a panorama of tomorrow’s music scene. Taking place at Constellations, with after-parties at two of Liverpool’s newest creative spaces – The Reeds on London Road and a newcomer to the Baltic Triangle, Brick Street. Featuring a prolific line-up of long overdue city debuts, the series will launch with a huge opening party on Friday 27th April. Taking…
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City’s First Ever Chilli Carnival Coming To Liverpool This May
Liverpool will be feeling hot, hot, hot this May as it welcomes its first ever ‘Chilli Carnival’. The two-day spice extravaganza will showcase a range of chilli-fuelled concoctions from cooking shows to cocktails and even a chilli eating competition on Saturday, May 12 and Sunday, May 13. Hosted by Bond Events Group, whose team have worked on a number of North West festivities including Chinese New Year, Liverpool Arab Arts Festival and Laces Out to name…