Liverpool Arts and Culture magazine

  • Entertainment in Liverpool
    Fiesta Bombarda Announces Plans For Its 4th Birthday Celebrations

    Fiesta Bombarda Announces Plans For Its 4th Birthday Celebrations

    After touring across the UK, partying in the Palm House and the upcoming underground Fiesta in the Williamson Tunnels, Fiesta Bombarda will celebrate four years of unforgettable events in the incredible surroundings of Liverpool’s Grand Central Hall. Early Bird tickets are £14 plus booking fees & available here. 

  • Bands in Liverpool
    Liverpool Festival for 80,000 Announced For May Bank Holiday

    Liverpool Festival for 80,000 Announced For May Bank Holiday

    Records will be set on May Bank Holiday 2016 with a festival announced for 80,000 guests to be held at Aintree Racecourse Liverpool. We Luv Festival will be the first festival event focused predominantly on families. The colossal family-oriented event will be held in Liverpool at the Aintree Racecourse on 28th and 29th May 2016. With over 80,000 visitors expected to attend over two days and over thirty artists set to perform across two stages,…

  • Art Exhibitions in Liverpool
    'The Army of Noise' Bring Their Innovative Show To Constellations

    ‘The Army of Noise’ Bring Their Innovative Show To Constellations

    The Army of Noise is an innovative theatrical production merging puppetry, video-projection mapping and live turntablism provided by DJ Rasp. Think digital theatre production merging puppetry, 3D video-projection mapping and a Live DJ… “Sometimes the voices inside our head are all we have left. They speak of the things we fear the most, make the sounds we need tohear and compose our innner song, enabling our souls to dance. It’s just sometimes… sometimes other people’s frequencies…

  • Activities in Liverpool
    brink liverpool guitar lessons

    Guitar Lessons At The Brink

    The Brink offer guitar lessons at all levels on Mondays & Tuesdays. See above poster for all details. For More Info Visit The Official Brink Website Here.

  • Bars in Liverpool
    Neighbourhood Eateries In Liverpool Sharing Messages of Love For Valentines Day

    Neighbourhood Eateries In Liverpool Sharing Messages of Love For Valentines Day

    Two popular Georgian Quarter neighbourhood cafe bars and restaurants in Liverpool have adorned their windows with messages of love for Valentine’s Day hoping guests will do the same. Co-owner Gary Manning came up with the idea for The Quarter & Host after looking at how the industry broadly markets the day and wanted to come up with an alternative. “I think ironically, some people have fallen out of love with Valentine’s Day perhaps because of…

  • Activities in Liverpool
    New Catacombs Tours At St Georges Hall; Victorian Gangs Special

    New Catacombs Tours At St Georges Hall; Victorian Gangs Special

    Following on from the success of Series 5 of the catacomb promenade tours, Lovehistory are about to delve even further into Liverpool’s past and expose the savage and lawless Gangs of Victorian Liverpool. The promenade performances will take you into the dark cells below the grandness of the Great Hall, where those waiting to be condemned would spend their final moments. In the dark shadows of Liverpool’s history, visitors will encounter characters telling their tormented…

  • Activities in Liverpool
    The Interesting Eating Company Hosts ‘Flipping Fun’ Competition To Mark Pancake Day

    The Interesting Eating Company Hosts ‘Flipping Fun’ Competition To Mark Pancake Day

    The Interesting Eating Company is getting its frying pans at the ready ahead of Pancake Day and is asking YOU to get involved. As part of the Liverpool ONE venue’s Pancake Toss Contest, avid flippers will be given the chance to don an apron and grab a pan in an attempt to keep their pancakes in the air for as long as possible. Director of The Interesting Eating Company Nichola Lee said: “Being renowned across…

  • Bars in Liverpool
    [Lost Inhibitions] – Vol. 1 New Alternative Party Night At Constellations Launches Sat 27 February

    [Lost Inhibitions] – Vol. 1 New Alternative Party Night At Constellations Launches Sat 27 February

    The first installment of [Lost Inhibitions] – the newest and most alternative party in Liverpool – is coming to Constellations this February. Not content with announcing themselves quietly, the new promoters have booked disco visionary The Reflex to headline. The London-based French native Nicolas Laugier counts Kid Creole, Nile Rodgers and Greg Wilson amongst his fans. The Reflex’s remixes have found their way onto the playlists of tastemakers such as Craig Charles and Gilles Peterson. Expect…

  • Art Exhibitions in Liverpool
    Luminous Landscapes At Festival Gardens 18th-20th February

    Luminous Landscapes At Festival Gardens 18th-20th February

    The Lantern Company in partnership with Liverpool City Council, are bringing a brand new Spring Festival of Light, Luminous Landscapes, to the Festival Garden site at Otterspool, Liverpool. The environmentally themed Lantern Festival will take place over 3 evenings, 18th 19th 20th February 2016. The gardens and woodlands will be transformed into an extraordinary and strange luminous landscape, where what is usually hidden beneath the lake beds and woodland floors creep, crawl and belch up…

  • Art Exhibitions in Liverpool
    Ryoichi Kurokawa: unfold  Exhibition at FACT, Liverpool  11 March – 12 June 2016

    Ryoichi Kurokawa: unfold Exhibition at FACT, Liverpool 11 March – 12 June 2016

    unfold is a major new commission by acclaimed Japanese artist Ryoichi Kurokawa, exploring the birth and evolution of stars in a groundbreaking immersive and tactile audiovisual installation. This unique sensory experience will be part of Kurokawa’s first ever solo exhibition in the UK, premiering at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool 11 March – 12 June 2016. unfold will offer viewers an artistic, yet scientific, representation of how the solar system was born, and how…

  • Bands in Liverpool
    Catfish And The Bottlemen Make A Triumphant Return To Sound City 1

    Catfish And The Bottlemen Make A Triumphant Return To Sound City

    UK Festival Awards crowned Sound City the Best Metropolitan Music Festival of 2015 and Sound City is going for gold yet again with a 2016 line up that’s bigger, better and even more diverse than ever. Having already announced The Coral as a headliner, the festival has today revealed that Catfish and the Bottlemen is the second headliner.  The festival is also declaring an exciting new partnership with hugely innovative dance music promoters Freeze who…

  • Bands in Liverpool
    Minor Moguls Return To Launch New EP At Leaf After Two Year Hiatus

    Minor Moguls Return To Launch New EP At Leaf After Two Year Hiatus

    MINOR MOGULS will play a rare live set at Leaf on Bold Street in Liverpool to celebrate the launch of their new EP. Forming as ‘Moguls’ and releasing the ’24 Hours in Paris EP’ in 2010, the band soon enjoyed a number of high profile support slots, including those with the likes of “Wild Beasts”, “Jesca Hoop” and “Royal Bangs”, whilst becoming a familiar name on Liverpool and Manchester live music scene. After a two year…

  • Bands in Liverpool
    Liverpool International Music Festival Announce First Wave of Acts

    Liverpool International Music Festival Announce First Wave of Acts

    Liverpool International Music Festival (LIMF) have announced SIGMA, The Wombats, Lianne La Havas, Kwabs, Netsky, Ms. Dynamite, Maverick Sabre, Frances, DJ TARGET, John Power Band and many more will be playing ‪#‎LIMF2016‬ 21 – 24th July.  LIMF Summer Jam has fast become the leading family festival of its kind, completely free to enjoy. Taking place at Sefton Park, it will mark the start of the summer and the culmination of a spectacular series of events as…

  • Bars in Liverpool
    Malmaison Liverpool Brasserie; Review 2

    Malmaison Liverpool Brasserie; Review

    Now the first thing I must say is that we don’t usually go to hotel restaurants – never been fussed on them and always tend to try somewhere else before giving them a go; but our recent visit to the Malmaison has definitely changed our opinions of hotel eating. So, it was a chilly Friday night when myself and my partner made our way to the Malmaison hotel. We were booked in at 7pm and had been looking…

  • Cafes in Liverpool
    The Interesting Eating Company Marks Breakfast Week With Charitable Scheme

    The Interesting Eating Company Marks Breakfast Week With Charitable Scheme

    The Interesting Eating Company is marking Breakfast Week (Sunday, January 24 – Saturday, January 30), with an altruistic scheme. The quirky eatery, located on Allerton Road and in Liverpool ONE, is set to donate a selection of breakfast ingredients to The Whitechapel Centre in a bid to offer its guests a hearty morning meal. Director of The Interesting Eating Company Nichola Lee said: “As we are well known for our signature pancakes, speciality waffles and…

  • Bars in Liverpool
    Club Night Specialists Gold Teeth Launch In Liverpool With Beyonce Special

    Club Night Specialists Gold Teeth Launch In Liverpool With Beyonce Special

    Nationwide party starters Gold Teeth are launching in Liverpool on Thursday 4th February with their world famous BEYONCE SPECIAL. Expect all the classics and loads of Queen B extras. This event has sold out across the country so they are expecting this event to sell out soon. Expect strictly Beyonce and Destiny’s Child on the jukebox 12-2am. Extra’s to include: – Elevator kickboxing with SOLANGE KNOWLES – Booty enhancement charity on call – Someone hopefully putting a ring…

  • Liverpool Events
    Liverpool Girl Geeks Partner With Tech North To Offer Free Coding Courses

    Liverpool Girl Geeks Partner With Tech North To Offer Free Coding Courses

    Liverpool Girl Geeks have tackled 2016 head on by offering their ‘Get Your Head Around Code’ courses for free in partnership with Tech North, a government funded initiative whose aim is to accelerate the development of the North’s digital economy.  Having begun in early December Liverpool Girl Geeks met with Suzanne Jameson from Liverpool City Council and Coral Grainger, Tech North’s Head of Talent, whilst on a visit to discover everything wonderful and techy the…

  • Art Exhibitions in Liverpool
    Threshold Reveal 2nd Wave Of Acts Ahead Of April Festival

    Threshold Reveal 2nd Wave Of Acts Ahead Of April Festival

    Threshold Festival returns in 2016 for its sixth annual festival of grassroots music and arts, and organisers have now revealed an alchemic array of acts set to play the event on the 1st-3rd April in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle. The twelve acts join the six already released in December of last year and Artistic Director, Kaya Herstad Carney is looking forward to seeing her programming work come to fruition for the sixth edition of the festival: “We aim to…

  • Art Exhibitions in Liverpool
    Metal Presents; Big Mouth Art Exhibition In Liverpool City Centre - Church Street

    Metal Presents; Big Mouth Art Exhibition In Liverpool City Centre – Church Street

    As part of Liverpool Provocations, Metal presents BIG MOUTH, by MEYOUANDUS. Each evening from 18th January, an illuminated orb will appear in central Liverpool, within which a human mouth appears to silently repeat and absorb the deepest thoughts and secrets of the public. Big Mouth, a mobile installation, aims to tempt participants to speak in confidence away from the superficial veneer of social dialogue. The thoughts are then displayed on the 360° projection, before being…

  • Art Exhibitions in Liverpool
    Left Hand to Back of Head: New Art Exhibition At The Bluecoat 23rd Jan-28th March

    Left Hand to Back of Head: New Art Exhibition At The Bluecoat 23rd Jan-28th March

    Bluecoat launches its new exhibtion this month exploring how we can experience art beyond what we are able to say about it. The exhibition presents a collection of works that set out to affect the audience on a physical level, through sensations and emotions. Artists include: Rowena Harris // Mary Hurrell // Natalie Finnemore // Mitra Saboury // Marianna Simnett // Marie Toseland // Hannah James // Becky Beasley Left Hand to Back of Head…