Liverpool Music Scene
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Bands in Liverpool
New Music Festival Melon Yellow Coming To Invisible Wind Factory
Liverpool music promoters I Love Live Events’ new music festival, Melon Yellow, is set to take place this Spring. The festival is described as a celebration of Shoegaze, Punk, Arts & Sustainability. Taking place on Saturday 14th March at the Invisible Wind Factory, legendary shoegazers Ride have been announced as headliners. Other acts announced for the inaugural event are The Regrettes, Turnover, St Martiins, Lauren Hibberd and NewMoon with more names set to be announced soon. …
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Bands in Liverpool
The Kairos Release Roaring New Track ‘Teetotal’
The New Year as ever comes with promises of change. Dry January, resolutions and all that jazz. However some old habits never die hard. Liverpool’s genuine no nonsense rock’n’rollers The Kairos return with a second single Teetotal that is filled with all of the elements that their fan base have come to love. This follow up to first single Money Mind is another passionate and aggressive nod to society that leaves your feet pounding the…
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Bands in Liverpool
Leonie Jakobi Releases Debut Single ‘Are You Lonely Enough?’
Hailing from Frankfurt, Liverpool welcomes Leonie Jakobi and her no-nonsense, heavy-hitting rock sound to our city. Growing up with sounds like The Beatles and Bruce Springsteen, her style combines a mixture of folk, pop and rock, evident of those early influences to present a wide variety of movement and emotion in a single track. Leonie states her upcoming single Are You Lonely Enough? as a ‘product of years of sound and soul searching’. Certainly the accumulated work stemming into…
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Festivals
Award-winning Reggae Festival, Positive Vibration Returns This June
After a year-long hiatus, the UK’s award-winning celebration of reggae music and Jamaican culture, Positive Vibration Festival returns to the Baltic Triangle, Liverpool on 12 and 13 June 2020. Since its inception in 2016, Positive Vibration Festival of Reggae has established itself as one of the country’s most exciting and eclectic reggae festivals, playing host to internationally renowned bands, legendary sound systems + selectors and some of the brightest new talent. This year’s festival is…
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Bars in Liverpool
Melodic Distraction Radio Release Winter/Spring Music Guide 2020 Alongside Massive Competition
Melodic Distraction has launched a printed Winter/Spring Music Guide designed by local artist Neil Keating. To coincide with the release they have announced a never-before-seen competition; The ‘Golden Key To The City’. The Melodic Distraction Winter/Spring Music guide provides the perfect bite sized introduction to Liverpool’s independent music and cultural scene. Created by local artist Neil Keating, the dazzling poster design incorporates some of Liverpool’s most iconic landmarks, all beautifully collated into a picturesque cityscape. …
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Bands in Liverpool
The Jagz – Cathedral Dreams EP Review
The waves on the River Mersey are thunderous this time of year. The tide crashing against the shore at a ferocious rate with no sign of a white flag. It’s only fitting perhaps that our resident “Mersey surfers” The Jagz return with a second EP as they plan an assault on the music scene. Four new tracks that showcase the variation and quality of The Jagz as they strut onto your playlist and make the…
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Bands in Liverpool
The Cheap Thrills Live at O2 Academy Liverpool Review
There was feel in the air on Saturday. A feel of promise and anticipation. Excitement a plenty. The Liverpool music scene is thriving at the moment. Swaggering more than it has for a long time it feels. Across town, another local hit Jamie Webster is performing in The Jacaranda. At the 02 Academy, 550 adoring fans eagerly arrive to see The Cheap Thrills in a headline gig to unveil their new EP Vue Du Monde.…
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Gigs in Liverpool
In Conversation – Dave McTague (Mellowtone)
Liverpool Noise: We are about to celebrate Mellowtone’s 15th Anniversary. How did it all start? Dave McTague: It started as the idea of a night i’d like to go to … an evening of live music, DJs, intimate and interesting venues, laid back vibes, nice people in attendance … and we built from there. I’d had the idea for a while, but when i walked into the View Two Gallery on Mathew Street, I knew…
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Liverpool Music Scene
In Conversation – Steve Roberts
Liverpool Noise: You have reconvened 16 Tambourines to celebrate the up-coming 30th anniversary of the release of the “How Green Is Your Valley?” album. How did this come about? Steve Roberts: We have spoken on and off about doing it for years now but hadn’t managed to get it sorted. Organising bands is difficult and as you get older it becomes more so. We have families, jobs, live in different parts of the country, all…
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Bands in Liverpool
Ukebox Release Track ‘Sing The Hooky Line’
Sing The Hooky Line is the latest showpiece from Ukebox as they add another upbeat, catchy soundbite to their eclectic smorgasbord. The track is early afternoon listening in it’s brightest form as the local act unveil three minutes and three seconds of happiness personified blended into a cocktail of contagious joy. Drink it in ladies and gentlemen. Ukebox as an act are unconventional in the sense that they don’t arm themselves with multiple instruments and…
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Bands in Liverpool
KEEF Release New Track ‘Day In Day Out’
KEEF’s brand new single, Day In Day Out is certainly one that is guaranteed to be on repeat in your head for the rest of the day. The idea of a repeating, blues-like chord progression, coupled with the theme of the song of monotony and the disillusionment of everyday life, hammers home the message both lyrically and rhythmically. With nods in their latest single to their psycadelic and alternative roots and influences spanning across the Northwest, this was…
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Bands in Liverpool
Sound City 2020 Reveals First Wave of Acts for Festival
Sound City, the UK’s leading independent festival and industry conference for emerging music, arts and discovery, returns for its 13th year across Friday May 1st – Sunday 3rd 2020 to launch next year’s festival season in fine style. Tickets go on sale from 10am Friday 25th October. The festival has revealed its first headline artists, the goth-pop champions Pale Waves taking centre stage with their female front-woman, Heather Baron-Gracie, and their music emboldened from last…
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Music
In Conversation – This Island
We spoke to Rachael from This Island about the “Into Stars” EP, the Liverpool Music Scene and where This Island fit into it… Liverpool Noise: ‘This Island” seems to have arrived out of nowhere. What is the background to the band, and what are your musical philosophies? Rachael: Philosophy? Song, melody, harmony, song, melody, harmony, song, melody harmony…and repeat…what better way is there to connect with an audience? Any audience, anywhere. LN: The “Into Stars”…
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Bands in Liverpool
The Cheap Thrills ‘Vue du Monde’ EP Review
The Cheap Thrills Vue Du Monde EP has got Jamie Hankin extremely excited and here’s why.… Shout it from the steps of St Georges Hall and bellow it from the roof of the Liver Buildings. The Cheap Thrills are back with a six song EP to cement their place and rightful standing alongside all of your local music mainstays. Vue du Monde is 20 minutes & 26 seconds of fist pumping pride and youthful exuberance.…
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Liverpool Music Scene
Mutant Vinyl – Live at Studio 2
Flush from his success of his debut album, the sublime “Daffodils In Angell Town” the gig-machine that is Edwin Pope aka “Mutant Vinyl” bestrode the stage like a prize fighter, a musical Raging Bull. The Mutant Vinyl live show is very much about the sonic experience, with beats drenching he atmosphere, lyrics sharpened to a political point, and virtuoso sax playing from the man himself. In fact, it’s pretty exhausting for all concerned, as the…
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Bands in Liverpool
SPINN Acoustic EP Review
Ahead of a headline show at the 02 Academy on 6th December, SPINN present a four-track acoustic EP where they strip back and rewire a few of their fan favourites. Popular tracks Who You Are, Is There Something That I Missed & Foundations are the selected few to be revamped alongside a cover of the Lana Del Rey hit Video Games as the Liverpool band present themselves in a new light. First in the chair…
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Bands in Liverpool
Pleasure Island ‘The Game’ Single Review
The Oxford dictionary describes a relaunch as “the act of starting or presenting something again in a new or different way”. Pleasure Island is Sean Ekins and his entourage’s latest project for their next assault on the Rock’n’roll scene as they unveil a new single previewed on SoundCloud. We often hear of artists who inform of the trials and tribulations of their path to the spotlight, yet the background story of Sean Ekins and his…
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Liverpool Music Scene
In Conversation – Daisy Gill
We recently caught up with Liverpool Singer – Songwriter and actress Daisy Gill, and got an insight into her new single release “Twisted Lies & Lullabies”, her musical inspirations and her joy at playing at the recent Liverpool Pride celebrations… Liverpool Noise: You have just dropped the excellent track “Twisted Lies & Lullabies”. How did it come about? What’s the story behind the composition and recording process? Daisy Gill: Thank you! I wrote “Twisted Lies…
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Bands in Liverpool
In Conversation – Pleasure Island
We talked to Pleasure Island frontman, Sean Ekins about his new project and an eventful career starting out in Australia… Liverpool Noise:Hi Sean, we’ve heard your debut single The Game and it’s a really energetic, lively track with some stand out lyrics. Would you say the single is a good marker for what we can expect from Pleasure Island? Yeah we’re hoping we can write a few more like that one. It’s a lot of…
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Music
Gen and The Degenerates Release Must-Listen Tracks Cocaine/Yoko Oh No
Gen and The Degenerates are back with a double release that has already caused a stir before it’s arrival on our playlists. Quite some feat you must say. The no-nonsense North West rockers released a thirty second promo video of their new tracks which the law suits at Facebook HQ deemed inappropriate for it’s “sexual content” causing a backlash from their army of adorers. Now we are provided with 12 minutes and 2 seconds in…
