Liverpool Arts and Culture magazine
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Music
Salt the Snail Hit Back with New Single and SNAILMANIA Anarchy
Since plummeting onto the Liverpool music scene with their caffeine-fuelled debut ‘Coffee’, Salt the Snail have been busily working away behind-the-scenes. Amidst a number of live slots last year, the band have focused their attention towards the studio, prepping for more riotous belters to be fired out. Newest single, ‘Spanish Announce Table’, follows on from where ‘Coffee’ left off, propelling the chaos tenfold. Once again, the video is a perfect pairing to the band’s earsplitting…
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Review
Ping Pong House Party Returns To Constellations
Ping Pong House Party returns after the Christmas break. With free-to-use ping pong tables, giant jenga, house party vibes, beer pong, and fantastic drink offers, this will be the place to be on a Wednesday night! Imagine teaming a club night with a ping pong social…well now you can! So expect bats, beats and beverages and bring your stamina, as the tournaments are set to get heavy. Free entry but register your attendance through Skiddle. 31st January, 2018 Constellations, Liverpool…
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Liverpool Events
Bongo’s Bingo Announce B*Witched For St Patrick’s Day Special 3 Date Event
Following on from the recent incredibly fast sell-out of shows for March, there’s some extra special Bongo’s Bingo news to now be revealed at Camp and Furnace. In keeping with the show’s tradition of select special events, this promises to be a spectacular trio of shows for the city on Thursday 15th, Friday 16th and Saturday 17th March. The very special guests touching down in Liverpool are legendary Irish quintet B*Witched, making a very welcome…
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Entertainment in Liverpool
The Peaky Blinders Bar in the Baltic Triangle: Why Liverpool Loves the Theatrics of a Good Themed Venue
The Peaky Blinders bar in Liverpool’s Baltic Trinagle has proved to be very popular; here, we try to explore why Liverpool loves a themed bar. Liverpool is known for a vibrant cultural scene, and big the personalities who populate it. Its reputation is perhaps rooted in music: the infamous Mersey Beat, carved out in the 60s, by those four boys we all know and love, who don’t even need to be mentioned by name. There…
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Music
Liverpool’s own Hi, Charity just dropped their debut EP and it will make you want to do good things
It’s quite simple: three brand new tracks, from the project lead by all round musician-producer Rob Langford, from Liverpool, build consistently on the success of previous singles Dopamine and Kids, and speak to the part of you that craves escapism, love and achievement. And they do this in a clever way that combines a retro upbeat sound, super clean production and an intuition that speaks to the inner, slightly uncertain you, and reassures it that…
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Liverpool Events
Klee Music Label Announce Acoustic Nights – 2018 Programme
Liverpool and Merseyside is absolutely bristling with fabulous musical talent, and the acoustic scene with its abundant open night mic nights and events led by the likes of Graham Holland at Liverpool Acoustic and Dave McTague and the team at Mellowtone testify for this. However, while discussing this thriving scene, the team at Klee Music wondered if the following would work: an evening where three singer-songwriters shared the stage together, sing a couple of songs…
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Music
Debut Single by New Kids on the Block, Skinner’s Lane, is a Triumphant Indie Opener
Liverpool’s given us many great musicians over the years, from The Beatles and Frankie Goes to Hollywood, to newer bands such as The Wombats and The Zutons. Like many bands that have gone before them, new-kids-on-the-block, Skinner’s Lane, don’t originally hail from the city; rather the city brought them together. The three-piece – comprising Zak Langford-Do, Rob Holland, and James Kerr – have roots beyond the city, but if their debut single is anything to…
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Liverpool Events
The Brink Prepares For A Healthy New Year
The Brink is ringing in the New Year by encouraging Liverpool locals to have a happy and healthy 2018. Located on Parr Street, the UK’s first dry-bar will begin the year by marking Dry January, whereby it will be serving up a range of 130 alcohol-free beverages including mocktails, juices, detoxing presses and smoothies. In line with its innovative initiative, throughout the next 12 months the venue will regularly introduce classes, seminars and activities devised…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
January Dining Offers – Save Money At Your Favourite Restaurants This Month
Read our January Food and Drink Deals for 2023 feature here. We all know that January can be a tricky month after over-indulging through the festive period and holding out until pay day but the fun doesn’t have to stop! Loads of our favourite Liverpool restaurants are treating us to some special offers to get us through the month. Almost Famous 50% off all burgers, Monday-Friday Happy hour two for one cocktails 3-7pm, every day…
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Liverpool Events
Goonies Theme Bar Opening In Liverpool In 2018
A themed bar will be opening in the city in early 2018, paying homage to the cult classic 80’s movie The Goonies. Following the arrival of the likes of the Home Alone and Peaky Blinders themed bars this year, Liverpool will be home to another quirky venue. In case you’ve never watched the film, The Goonies is a classic coming of age tale of two brothers’ adventure to find pirate’s treasure in order to save…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Festive Afternoon Tea At The Richmond Hotel
It’s no secret that overindulgence is a huge part of Christmas time from traditional mulled wine and mince pies, endless food stalls at your local Christmas markets and that familiar feeling of never wanting to ever eat again after demolishing your fourth course of Christmas dinner followed by an overdose of Brie, Stilton and crackers. As well as food, Christmas is all about tradition and what better way to celebrate the festive season than with…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Silk Rd Adds Liverpool City Centre To Culinary Trail
Silk Rd is set to open a second eatery in the heart of Liverpool City Centre next month. Owned by business partners Chris Williams and Javier Mellado, the restaurant concept takes its inspiration from the cross-continental Silk Road trail, serving up a unique blend of flavours sourced from the Pacific to The Mediterranean. Silk Rd first established its Heswall site earlier this year and has invested a five-figure sum into the opening of a second…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Vegan Monday’s at Love Thy Neighbour: Review
It might be hard to believe, but even just a few years ago the term Veganism was virtually unheard of on foodie and restaurant scenes, with many people unaware of what following a Vegan diet actually entailed and for Vegans themselves the struggle to find an exciting, flavourful option (or even any option at all) when eating out in restaurant was far too real. Fast forward a few years and more and more restaurants, coffee…
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Review
Craft Taproom team with Signature Living to feed city’s homeless population
Liverpool’s craft beer and hotdog joint Craft Taproom will be working alongside Signature Living to provide free food for the people staying at the Hatton Garden Temporary Homeless Shelter, donating a meal for every one they sell at their Smithdown Road bar until the end of January. Craft Taproom will be donating the profits from their food sales towards the shelter and will be regularly dropping off hot food at least once a week – as well as cakes and…
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Liverpool Events
Pete Price is the Bad Santa at Camp & Furnace’s grown-up Grotto
Legendary city DJ Pete Price will be getting into the festive spirit next week as he pulls on the classic red suit and white beard, to make his debut at Camp and Furnace’s six-day Snö Garden winter festival. However, anyone that expects Pete to appear at the Baltic Triangle venue as a traditional Father Christmas figure may be disappointed – this Santa has claws. Sharp-tongued Pete, who’s known for his trademark ‘tell it like it…
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Liverpool Events
New brewpub Gibberish to open in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle
The Baltic Triangle’s newest venue opens Thursday 14th December and it’s a fresh concept from a familiar face. Gaz Matthews, co-founder of Mad Hatter Brewing, launches GIBBERISH BREWPUB offering a host of beers with the experimental flair the brewer has become known for. The Caryl Street venue will allow Matthews to brew and sell all his creations on the same premises and constantly rotate the menu of craft beers and other beverages. Matthews said: “Gibberish…
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Liverpool Events
Bongo’s Bingo Helping Liverpool Children’s Charity KIND This Christmas
Bongo’s Bingo has announced they are working with KIND this Christmas. KIND are a Merseyside based charity who work to help disadvantaged children and their families, and this Xmas the aim is to make a difference to as many as possible across the region. Bongo’s Bingo would like to invite all customers coming to the forthcoming Bongo and the Beast shows to donate any unwanted toys in the run up to Christmas. There will be a…
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Liverpool Events
Threshold Festival Returns with ‘Across the Threshold 2018’ – 13th -14th April
Following the success and building on the legacy of seven consecutive years of their Festival of Music & Arts, Threshold are returning to the Baltic Triangle on April 13th & 14th to bring you a special, scaled down mini-festival and industry event. “We’ve been doing Threshold Festival since 2011 in the Baltic Triangle and over these years the district and the city as a whole has changed exponentially, for the better. 2018 is a big development year for…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Bean There yet? Independent Coffee Shop embraces the (delicious) spirit of Christmas
Bean There Coffee Shop contributed to the ever growing standard of Liverpool’s independent food and drink scene in May of this year and with this December being their first Christmas, they have produced a delightful and inventive new menu to help you celebrate all things merry and bright. Despite being the season of goodwill, Christmas is also a time for a little over-indulgence, and at Bean There you can do exactly that with their carefully…
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Liverpool Events
Custom House brings some festive craic to the Baltic Triangle this Christmas
This week, our beloved Baltic Triangle is set to welcome yet another kooky and charmingly unique watering hole to its ever-expanding repertoire. Custom House will be bursting its doors open on New Bird Street as of Thursday 7th December through to early 2018 with heaps of Irish character and traditional Gaelic beverages on tap. It’s being described as a “corner of Ireland” and with Liverpool’s rich, historical relationship with Ireland; Custom House is set to…
