Liverpool Arts and Culture magazine
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Taste Eastern Asia in Liverpool At Tiger Rock Hawker Food
We might love our Full English breakfasts and our Sunday roasts here in Liverpool but we sure know how to get innovative with our international cuisine too. Hell, there isn’t much we wouldn’t sacrifice for a big bowl of Scouse with a bread & butter mop on the side but you certainly don’t need to rack up any air miles to get a taste of the Orient right here on Scouse soil. With the sad,…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Shake Your Baubles At The Titanic Hotel Fire & Ice Christmas Party Nights 2017
We might have only just hit mid-September and the sun is still most definitely doing its almighty best to peek through the clouds but I’m going to drop the C-bomb anyway. That’s right, Christmas is on its merry old way and I for one am buzzing my you-know-whats off about it. I am the Christmas Queen; I am festive AF so it’s no wonder that I was the lucky little elf that headed down to…
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Liverpool Events
Free Shake Fridays Are Coming To Archie’s
Burger Joint Archie’s will be giving customers the Friday Feeling over the next six weeks with free Milkshakes. Archie’s will be giving away free shakes with every burger and fries that’s ordered on Fridays in the popular fast food restaurant. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Archie’s, they are a cool and casual diner and the only place to serve top quality handmade burgers together with the thickest, tastiest shakes; famous as far…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Brunch Is Back At Constellations
The return of brunch at Constellations marks the comeback of Liverpool’s most exciting weekend menu. Want to pair ice cream with bacon and waffles? Are you after a vegan full English? Constellations have got you covered. After a short summer break, the Baltic Triangle-based hangout is once again serving up the best eggs Benedict and blueberry pancakes in town. An extensive menu of food and drink, the Constellations brunch has all bases covered when it comes to…
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Music
Siobhan Wilson Live At 81 Renshaw: Review
81 Renshaw is a venue extremely well suited to host a Siobhan Wilson gig, especially when it is to promote her new album, There Are No Saints. The venue is compact and intimate, and works beautifully in portraying works with sparse, intricate arrangements. Hence Siobhan Wilson’s new album, one of haunting beauty, intricate and delicate, is in the perfect environment to allow her compositions to breathe and let her voice – yes that beautiful voice…
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Liverpool Events
Watch The Blair Witch Project At The Dome This Halloween
The Independent Liverpool lads have lined up a night of scares at The Grand Central Dome on 31st October with a special screening of The Blair Witch Projects and plenty of jumps and scares planned on the night. If you fancy the idea of watching a notoriously creepy film in the dark with characters planted within the Dome to scare you senseless throughout the movie then you’ll love this event. Discovered video footage tells the…
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Liverpool Events
A Home Alone Themed Bar Is Coming To Liverpool This Christmas
We’re sorry but you’re going to have to get used to hearing the word Christmas because the countdown is officially on with the news that there’s a Home Alone themed bar coming to the city we can’t wait for the festive season. The team behind the amazing Ghetto Golf has announced that they will be opening a bar in homage to one of the greatest Christmas films of all time. They announced the news on…
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Liverpool Events
WRONG Announces 2018 Dates For Second Annual ‘Festival For The Freakscene’
WRONG is set to return to the Liverpool Docklands on 28th April, 2018 for its sophomore outing of visceral, vital and weird rock music from the Freakscene. For one day, a cornucopia of outsiders will descend to provide a feast for the senses. Following the success of last year’s debut event, which saw the likes of Bo Ningen, The Wytches, Part Chimp and Heck unleash their aural savagery, it’s happening again. WRONG continues to tie together an extremely talented, if…
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Review
The Jackobins Latest Single Brims With Energy, Proving Summer’s Not Yet Over
It’s been an exciting few months for The Jackobins. After playing a handful of sets at festivals throughout the summer – including Reading and Leeds, Kendal Calling, and Isle of Wight Festival – the four-piece have just this month announced their deal with the UK independent record label, Zy Records. To coincide with this, new single ‘Outside’ is set for official release on 22nd September. The single has already received airtime on BBC Introducing on…
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Liverpool Events
Festival No.6 Review
Festival No.6 returned for its sixth year last weekend with a packed music, arts and cultural feast in the picturesque Welsh village of Portmeirion. It’s a festival that brings something refreshing to the festival scene with the unique surroundings of the village, Castell Park and Gardens, seafront and woodlands, there’s something to discover around every turn. The Castell Gardens could be described as the most typical part of the festival, home to the main stage…
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Liverpool Events
Liverpool Cycle Studio Charity Ride For Mental Health Charity CALM
On Saturday 9 September Rise Cycle Studio will be hosting a very special pop-up event to raise awareness of men’s mental health issues. Cut Throat Pete will be joining the team live in the studio offering taster trims, cuts & shapes. He says, “I’m really excited to be doing this pop up barbershop at Rise. Their concept is great and something that is a topic of many conversations in my chair. I decided, rather than taking a…
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Music
The Boston Shakers’ Rap-Rock Is A Cocktail of Noise
Blasting through speakers with a brutal concussion of sound, yet a swaggering sleekness that’s admirable, The Boston Shakers have carved out a space in the rap-rock realm. Originally hailing from France and the USA, the band are now based in Liverpool, and have spent the summer disrupting stages across the North West with plenty of festivals under their belts. Their tracks are the perfect mix of party spirit and grit. The boys have a background…
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Liverpool Events
The Brink Supports Local Community During Recovery Month As Part of Sixth Birthday Celebrations
Liverpool’s only and the UK’s first dry bar is encouraging the community to get involved in Recovery Month this September. The Brink has teamed up with Life Rooms (Mersey Care NHS) to introduce a ‘Recovery College’ programme tackling subjects such as recovery principles, assertiveness, self-esteem and feeling better through comedy. Exclusively throughout the month of September, the Brink are also hosting ‘Nutritional Workshops’ which offer informative and practical advice on how to improve health, vitality…
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Music
Shout About It Live Festival: Review
A brand new music festival burst onto the Liverpool scene last month with the inaugural Shout About It Live taking place at Baltic Triangle venue District. Shout About It Live is a festival that combines music photography and live music brought to you by local music photographer Georgia Flynn, who was out to prove that music photography is an integral part of the music scene. The two day event featured performances by The Cheap Thrills,…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Slim’s Pork Chop Express Presents Pudding Club X Bake-O-Rama
With The Great British Bake Off finally back on our screens, desserts and cakes are once again the talk of the Nation, and Liverpool hot-spot Slim’s Pork Chop Express have announced a mouth-watering one-off event next month, sure to sate even the biggest sweet-tooth. On Thursday 14th September Seel Street’s Slim’s Pork Chop Express will be playing host to Pudding Club with Bake-O-Rama; where sugar-loving dessert aficionados and cocktail lovers can enjoy five indulgent courses, for one night only. Originating from Manchester, Pudding Club is the brainchild of…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Rumi By Bukhara: Review
Just what does make a great Indian restaurant? Well, probably the chefs’ attitude and passion to their cuisine, the freshness and integrity of the ingredients used, and the philosophy of customer experience. It’s not really that hard, but some establishments over emphasise one aspect and neglect others. But the problem I have had over the years with Indian Cuisine is that it has tended to go hand in hand with the consumption of alcohol, so…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Hellmann’s Bringing The Heat To Archie’s With New Hot As Hell-Mann Burger
When I think of Hellmann’s mayonnaise, I think of those polystyrene trays you see lashed by a bin somewhere after a party-goer tried to aim the last of their cheesy chips into it after one too many Vodbulls. I think of the squeezy sauce bottle I’ve had at the back of the fridge for weeks which only comes out when there are curly fries in the freezer. I don’t think of bitchin’ burgers from absolute…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Eat Free Initiative Proves A Hit With Kids At Healthy Izakaya
Japanese-inspired restaurant Izakaya is treating kids to some amazing food for free this summer. Japan may be renowned for sushi and sumo wrestlers, but the Japanese should be celebrated for a recently published phenomenon – they are the healthiest people on the planet. According to global analysis, a child born in Japan will live a longer, healthier life than one bone in any other country. Likewise, the Britsih Medical Journal found those who ate a Japanese diet had a longer…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Frickin’ Hell Mann, You’ve Got To Check Out This Burger At Almost Famous
I’ve been an Almost Famous fan since the food served on frisbee days; since the girl with jaw lock hit the headlines after tackling one of their infamous burger towers. Almost Famous has been the go-to eatery for dirty, Instagrammable junk food since it’s opening on Liverpool’s Parr Street way back in 2013 and is still as well loved by locals and visitors alike today. So, as you can imagine, I didn’t hesitate at the…
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Liverpool Events
Capstan’s Bazaar Returns With Monthly Makers Market
After a successful opening weekend, Capstan’s Bazaar have returned with a monthly Makers Market in Liverpool’s newest venue. Capstan’s Bazaar is back, popping up for its fifth year, and now at Independent Liverpool’s fantastic Baltic Market. A huge range of intriguing arts and craft stalls will be setting up shop, offering bespoke and handcrafted goods – representing the cream of Liverpool’s artists and artisans. Expect over 20 stalls, selling everything from prints to postcards, t-shirts…
