Liverpool Arts and Culture magazine
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Titanic Hotel’s Stanley Bar & Grill Restaurant Review
When the Executive Chef has a past that spans the QE2, Sydney Olympics, Chester Grosvenor and the DoubleTree in Chester you can pretty much guarantee that the food is going to be good. And we were not disappointed by the new summer menu at Stanley’s Bar & Grill at the Titanic Hotel. With everything from Fish and Chips to duck breast, pork chops and scallops there’s something for all tastes. The hotel itself is luxury…
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Liverpool Events
DJ Spooky Heads To The Philharmonic For Sgt Pepper At 50 Event ‘Getting Better?’
Paul McCartney sang, “it’s getting better all the time?” Or is it a case, as the laconic John Lennon responded, that it “couldn’t get no worse”? That’s what Paul D Miller, aka DJ Spooky, sets out to answer. The Washington DC-born composer, artist and author will explore the question through a mixture of performance and an audio-visual installation. DJ Spooky will take to the stage at the Philharmonic Hall’s Music Room with Liverpool String Quartet…
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Liverpool Events
Africa Oyé Announce Main Stage Running Order
Africa Oyé have revealed the running order for their Main Stage acts ahead of the 25th Anniversary Festival on June 17th and 18th in Sefton Park. The host of international stars such as Mokoomba and Max Romeo are complemented by local acts, Nutribe & Butcha B as well as Anwar Ali & Dave Owen and there are also welcome returns from Liverpool community acts such as drumming troupe Beatlife. To keep Sefton Park moving in between the main…
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Review
Deliah Release New Single ‘Waiting For The Rain’
RnB duo Deliah released their new track ‘Waiting For The Rain’ on Monday, tying in the release in conjunction with water charity Pump Aid. Hailing from Liverpool, Deliah is fronted by lead singer Michelle Harris and instrumentalist Alex Dopierala. Having had previous releases premiered by Fortitude Magazine and GigSlutz, as well as being featured on The Only Way Is Essex and Hollyoaks, the new single, Waiting For The Rain, is out now, available on all platforms including…
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Liverpool Events
Chef Gary Usher Smashes UK’s Largest Ever Kickstarter Campaign For A UK Restaurant – Wreckfish Liverpool Is Coming!
Chef owner, Gary Usher, launched an ambitious £200k Kickstarter campaign on 2nd May to open a 100-cover restaurant in the Ropewalks area of Liverpool city centre. With high profile and humbling support from the likes of Tom Kerridge, Simon Rimmer and several other Michelin star chefs, Usher’s campaign reached the £200k goal with 45 hours to go, from the support of 1,441 backers and counting. The record-breaking £200k crowdfunding campaign is the largest ever amount…
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Liverpool Events
Pier Head Village Announces Programme For This Summer’s Village Festival
Pier Head Village announces its programme of entertainment in the run up to the official opening on 30th June. The festival takes over Liverpool’s iconic waterfront next month with an action-packed, summer-long programme combining a wide range of enticing offers from thrills to music and art to culture with all things in between, and all on the most iconic waterfront in Europe. The Pier Head Village is Liverpool’s newest and most ambitious leisure attraction and will…
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Liverpool Events
Liverpool Disco Festival Returns Sat 7th October; Tickets Go On Sale This Week
The Liverpool Disco Festival is back, once more taking place across the renascent Baltic Triangle district of the city. The action takes place on Saturday October 7th, and will bring together some of the most iconic global names together from the disco, house, garage, soul and funk spectrums for one magical day and night. Liverpool Disco Festival is a celebration of all things soulful, seductive and scintillating, and following on from May’s epic collaboration with…
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Liverpool Events
Becky Hill, M.O, Jessie Reyez & More Join The LIMF 2017 Line Up
She Drew The Gun, The Vryll Society, ZuZu, the twenty LIMF Academy ‘Class Of 2017’ and more also announced for the fifth anniversary . Liverpool International Music Festival (LIMF) has announced the final acts for its 2017 Summer Jam line-up at Sefton Park with Becky Hill, M.O, Jessie Reyez, She Drew The Gun, The Vryll Society, Zuzu, Paris Youth Foundation, Pixey, Pink Kink, Jo Mary, Charlie Straw and the 20 LIMF Academy ‘Class Of 2017’ joining the likes of the…
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Liverpool Events
New Liverpool Bar YARD Now Open In The Baltic Triangle
YARD – Liverpool’s newest outdoor bar, opened it’s doors on Friday. Situated in the heart of the Baltic Triangle, next to District, YARD is an intimate and vibrant space, offering a fine selection of drink, music, and soon-to-be, food (with ItalFresh bringing back their Thursday night pop-up from 8th June). Using a 15ft shipping container as the bar and scaffolding boards as tables, YARD truly embraces and celebrates its industrial surroundings. YARD will continue the good vibes over the Bank Holiday…
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Music
New Music Promotion Company Launch First Live Event This Week
Music Promoters 5minuetswith will launch at Hangar 34 on Thursday 1st June. Patrick Oulton started 5minuetswith as a blog just before Christmas 2016. From there it has rapidly evolved into a “PR and events based” company for up and coming artists. Whilst it’s work is mainly Liverpool based there are plans to expand in to Manchester and even London in the near future. Patrick grew up in a working class family in Prescot and chose the…
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Liverpool Events
PreckyFest Preview
Merseyside music festival to mark the ten year anniversary of The Steve Prescott Foundation. After receiving surgery to remove tumors following a diagnosis of pseudomyxoma peritonei, a rare form of cancer, in 2006 Steve Prescott began rising money for charity. This led to the formation of The Steve Prescott Foundation which has to date raised over one million pounds for Try Assist (formally The Rugby League Benevolent Fund) and The Christie Hospital. Before his death…
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Music
Follakzoid Live At The Magnet; Review
There is something about the seventies retro kitsch that is The Magnet that makes it seem right for just about any type of act that would not fill a bigger venue. Those who do not attend it too often always end up commenting on the Star Wars figures on display to whoever is checking the tickets before realising there is no mobile signal for them to send a picture message to their friends who could…
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Liverpool Events
LIV Food Market Celebrates Vegan & Plant Based Lifestyles This Sunday
This bank holiday Sunday, LIV Food Market is holding a Plant Based Power Celebration in their cultural home of Radiant House on Bold Street. Promoting the hugely popular plant based diets, LIV will celebrate the power of plants and the many different benefits that this diet and lifestyle comes with. With an array of delicious free samples for customers and locals to try and taste, including lots of their freshly baked vegan cakes, cheeses and…
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Liverpool Events
Neon Waltz Hit The Buyers Club This Bank Holiday Monday
Scottish indie rockers Neon Waltz have a new album set for release at the end of the summer and have recently released a single Heavy Heartless. With another recent single, Dreamers, Neon Waltz are stamping their mark on the current indie scene. Band members Jordan Shearer, Jamie Swanson, Kevin Swanson, Calvin Wilson, Liam Whittles and Darren Coghill got together in 2013. Hailing from John O’ Groats, these Scottish lads have a pure and beautiful sound.…
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Liverpool Events
The Countdown Is On For The First Ever New Brighton Seaside Festival
With the end of May coming swiftly over the horizon, the countdown is now on for a big, exciting attraction to sail into the shores of New Brighton. There’s just over a week to go until the first ever New Brighton Seaside Festival will make a huge splash – transforming the town into one huge seaside extravaganza like no other. Coming to the Wirral resort this Spring Bank Holiday, the festival brings three days of seaside fun for everyone! The festival…
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Music
Sort Rehearsal Rooms Axe Their Marketing Budget To Promote Unsigned Bands
Sort Rehearsal Rooms have announced that they will axe their marketing budget to “promote unsigned bands instead of promoting themselves”. The idea has already caught the eye of Ed Sheeran, Two Door Cinema Club and Dan Croll who posted about the campaign on social media since it was announced last week. The idea comes as a response to the huge amount of money being spent in the music industry at the minute – notably from other rehearsal rooms promoting…
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Vegan Places in Liverpool
Down The Hatch Food Review
Liverpool is fast becoming a vegan food hotspot, with new and exciting restaurants opening in rapid succession. That being said, it’s only at this point that we are finally getting our very first establishment specialising in vegetarian and vegan junk food. Yes, vegans like junk food too! Down The Hatch is changing the face of the vegan food scene in Liverpool. Based on Duke Street, Down the Hatch is a bar and restaurant that boasts…
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Music
The Debt Stars Live Review – The Jacaranda 12th May
You have to admit it, but given that a very good argument could be made for the UK economy being propped up by consumer spending – laying the plastic down – the name of this band actually is right on the money for currency. The Debt Stars – possibly a reflection of us all. Usually a three piece, tonight they performed a quick seven song set as an austerity affected two-piece, guitars and drums, which…
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Liverpool Events
Liverpool Loves Is Back And On Tour To The City-Centre
The award-winning festival Liverpool Loves will return to the city this Summer. Liverpool’s best loved, feel-good festival will take place on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th August – with the main stage zone being held in Derby Square at the heart of the Commercial District, under the gaze of the Queen Victoria monument. Festival director, Josh Boyd said: “After the continued success of last year’s event – and picking up a nomination for Best Small Tourism Event once again – we’re excited to be…
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Music
The Mono LPs ‘Cherry Red Lips’ Review
The new single by Liverpool band The Mono LPs is as up-beat and righteous as they come. The fine rock this band produce has feet tapping and pulses quickening. There is a certain fascination in hearing a band incorporating an instrument not usually heard in their genre of music. Vicky Mutch’s cello gives an edge to their sound, raising it above the ordinary. Cherry Red Lips shows off their musical credentials perfectly. Already a live…
