Liverpool Arts and Culture magazine
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Bands in Liverpool
Liverpool Sound City 2014 Preview
On the 1st-3rd May 2014, some of Liverpool’s best intimate music venues will be host to more than 360 of the industries finest artists for the Sound City Festival. Around 400 music fans and 300 industry professionals will be pouring into some of the city’s top spots, from the Liverpool Cathedral to the renowned cavern club for a weekend of music, digital and film. The three day festival including conferences with celebrity keynote speakers is now…
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Bands in Liverpool
Liverpool Calling Announces First Wave Of Acts For Its 2nd Annual Festival
Saturday July 26th, 2014 Locations; The Kazimier, Korova, Maguires Pizza Bar Liverpool Calling storms into its second year, announcing a mighty first wave of acts “Liverpool Calling was another event that drew all kinds of people from far and wide to partake in a very modern form of worship” – Liverpool Echo/Getintothis Rating * * * * * – Liverpool Sound and Vision Having sold out across St. Luke’s Bombed Out Church and The Shipping Forecast in its…
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Art Exhibitions in Liverpool
FACT & The Mersey Forest Get Into The ‘Zone’ To Create A New Art Project
A new project commissioned by FACT and The Mersey Forest is encouraging people throughout the North West to explore the forgotten woodlands of Bidston Moss. ‘Zone’ is an innovative performance and film by the highly renowned international artists, Close and Remote, and is inspired by the Russian film, Stalker and 1971 science fiction novel Roadside Picnic. The unique creative project, which will run between now until the end of June, is set to capture the…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Meat & Liquor, Lark Lane; Review
Fancy a proper burger? Get down to Meat & Liquor. This new establishment on trendy Lark Lane has all the elements you’d expect to find of an American burger joint and bar. Meat & Liquor (M&L) opened its doors in December last year and fits in well on one of Liverpool’s liveliest streets. Meat & Liquor is joining the ranks of the burger trend that seems to be popping up through the city and if…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Nolita Cantina; The Boldest of Bold Streets Burgers
Bold Street is awash with great places to eat nowadays; almost every taste is catered for. Nolita Cantina caters to meat lovers, and boy does it cater well. Nolita is styled after New York burger and deli joints, and as a result offers a great range of deli sandwiches and meaty dishes (as well as vegetarian options for those less carnivorous). The Restaurant itself manages to be long and narrow without feeling cramped, with an…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
New York Bakery Co. Brings A Mini Taste Of The Big Apple To Liverpool
Authentic bagel expert, New York Bakery Co., will be treating hungry passers-by on Liverpool’s Wall Street to a true taste of New York – giving away thousands of its delicious new Mini Bagels on Wednesday 16th April from 10.00am – 4.00pm Soak up the sights and sounds of New York City as New York Bakery Co. brings Liverpool a real flavour of the Big Apple. Featuring iconic landmarks, bagel stalls and so much more, this will…
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Art Exhibitions in Liverpool
Hidden Liverpool’s ‘People’s History’ Exhibition Opens 19th April
People’s History Exhibition; Sharing the secrets that lie behind Liverpool’s closed doors. What lies behind the closed doors of Liverpool’s empty buildings? What stories and memories do these fantastic buildings hold? How long have they lain empty and why? This Easter Hidden Liverpool, a year-long programme funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund delivered by Liverpool based social enterprise PLACED, will launch its’ second exhibition – People’s History Exhibition at Liverpool Albert Dock. The interactive exhibition will…
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Bands in Liverpool
Threshold Festival; Part One
Last weekend Threshold Festival returned for it’s fourth year and has come a long way in that time. Located around the ever expanding bars and cafes and music venues of the Baltic Triangle. It was a unique weekend which delivered some of the best up and coming talent the city has to offer. With all the locations within a sensible walking distance it was a fun weekend of dashing from venue to venue trying to…
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Bands in Liverpool
Threshold Festival; Part Three
Threshold Festival – Sunday With the Saturday sun deciding to stay another day, Threshold Festival’s final curtain seems set to come down in style, and I decide to start the day in a relaxed manner and head to The Baltic Social, where James Sills has taken the stage. However I seem to have overlooked the date. It is, of course, Mother’s Day, and The Baltic Social is still a functioning restaurant. It’s therefore nearly impossible…
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Bands in Liverpool
Threshold Festival; Part Two
Threshold Festival – Saturday I was unfortunately out of town for the first day of this year’s Threshold Festival, but as I drift through the Baltic Quarter as the Saturday commences the tales I’ve heard of torrential rain for the inaugural day seem all but an impossibility. The lukewarm sun goes hand in hand with an overwhelmingly positive atmosphere, and though there’s hardly a big name in sight on the line-up there’s an all-encompassing sense of common…
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Cafes in Liverpool
The Egg Cafe; Review
Whilst out and about in Liverpool, any vegan, or even vegetarian, may find it fairly difficult to discover a café or restaurant skilled in this specific meatless cuisine and dietary requirement. However, open 9am-10:30pm on the weekdays and 10am-10:30pm on the weekend, located a stone’s throw away from the central train station and down a quiet street covered in creative street art, The Egg Café can be found behind a rustic entrance and up two flights…
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Cafes in Liverpool
East Avenue Bakehouse Is Rising Fast
This new addition to the eclectic and already vibrant Bold Street is not just your average café. This all female-led bakehouse opened its doors on 8th coincide with International Women’s Day and has already made a blooming impression on the foodies of Liverpool. Named after the street where the business partners, Jo Byers and Charlotte and Ellie Jones, grew up, East Avenue Bakehouse (EAB) prides itself on their speciality breads, which are all freshly baked…
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Bars in Liverpool
Baltic Social; Another Sparkle In The Ever Growing Baltic Triangle
Update August 2022: The Baltic Social is now permanently closed. Do you like shiny, glitzy places? Do you like indifferent service from po-faced staff? Do you like overpriced food that’s style over substance? Yes? Well, you go find somewhere like that, go on, and leave the rest of us to enjoy the lovely Baltic Social. You really wouldn’t like it… Where Elevator used to be, on Parliament Street it’s a great space with stripped wooden…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Sapporo Teppanyaki Restaurant; Duke Street
The rule of Sapporo Teppanyaki is it’s all about spectacle. It’s about those places we saw on American TV in the mid to late 90’s where things were cooked in the middle of your table, and it took us staunch Brits a while to catch up. Me and the boyfriend took full advantage of one of the menu’s special offers by going on a Monday. This is the day when Sapporo’s offers customers a steak…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
BBQ Bootcamp In Liverpool 9th-11th May
The Monkey Shoulder Trailer tours the UK this summer for a series of Scotch and BBQ events. It will roll into Liverpool from 9-11th May. Don’t know your brisket from your baby back ribs? Monkey Shoulder will be at your service this summer with its new BBQ Bootcamps. Hosting DIY cocktail experiences, the best barbequed meats in the land and enough music to keep the festivalgoers stomping, BBQ Bootcamp will be stopping off at three cities and two festivals during…
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Bands in Liverpool
Dan Croll – Sweet Disarray; Album Review
It’s hard to see how things could be going better for LIPA’s own Dan Croll at the moment. With a coveted GIT nomination, Radio 1 airplay and support slots with the likes of Bastille and London Grammar, there’s a sense that Sweet Disarray, his debut album, might just be the catalyst for super-stardom. Having said that, history is littered with almost-rans, and the significant hype surrounding the release has also served to put tremendous pressure on the…
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Review
‘Friends Of The Flyover’ Project Aims To Turn Flyover Into Urban Park
The ‘Friends Of The Flyover’ project are raising money in an aim to turn Liverpool’s Flyover into a beautiful urban park. Much like New York’s Highline park, it could offer the city a thriving green space in the heart of the city and an iconic attraction for visitors. The Flyover is the ultimate in urban re-purposing & regeneration, delivered by citizens coming together to conceive, develop & implement. The plan is to take an existing…
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Liverpool Events
One Of The UK’s Biggest Drive-in Cinemas To Open In Liverpool 4th April
Drive-In Cinema Coming To Liverpool Summer 2020 ***Edited 2017 – The Drive-In Cinema is now permanently closed*** The owners of Manchester’s hugely successful drive-in cinema, Route 66, which attracts cinema-goers from throughout the North West, have confirmed that they’ll be opening an even bigger outdoor cinema in Liverpool on Friday 4th April. The new Route 66 cinema will be sited on the waterfront at Canning Dock, the Atlantic Pavilion, and will have a capacity of…
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Bars in Liverpool
Berry & Rye; A Bar Worth Discovering
Old fashioned vintage bars are hard to come across these days. It’s very rare that we find ourselves sitting in a dim-lit room with men in suits and hats drinking gin and smoking cigars and women in classy gorgeous dresses sipping wine, like something from a 60’s movie. So have you come across any bars like that lately? Settled right at the top of Bold Street is an American styled bar known as Berry &…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Salthouse Bacaro
Turn your back for a minute and a new bar or restaurant opens in Liverpool. One of the most recent, and most hotly anticipated, is Bacaro on Castle Street. The sister restaurant of Salthouse Tapas and Hanover St Social, it offers a menu of ‘small plates’ of Italian delicacies. Think ‘Italian tapas’ and you’re just about there. So there are cured meats and charcuterie, salads, little pizzas called pizzete and meat and fish selections. Like…
