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    Rebecca Ferguson To Be Awarded The Keychange Inspiration Award At Sound City+ 2022

    Rebecca Ferguson To Be Awarded The Keychange Inspiration Award At Sound City+ 2022

    With less than two weeks to go until Sound City returns to its famed Spring weekend home, even more details have been announced as part of the Sound City+ Conference – including a landmark award announcement and programming from the pioneering Keychange initiative as part of their partnership with Sound City as their lead UK festival partner.  Receiving its special Keychange Inspiration Award is singer, songwriter, campaigner, Ivors Academy Director and Liverpool’s own Rebecca Ferguson.…

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    Sound City 2022 Preview - Top 10 One's To Watch At This Year's Festival 5

    Sound City 2022 Preview – Top 10 One’s To Watch At This Year’s Festival

    Sound City returns for its 15th anniversary on 30 April – 1 May, with the music festival taking over Liverpool’s independent music venues once again. A multitude of acts will be heading to hotspot venues such as LEAF, Phase One and The Jacaranda Club. As excitement grows for music lovers, Sound City get to welcome back some familiar faces and introduce some up and coming acts.  Here are some artists that should definitely be on…

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    Mellowtone Presents: Downstairs At The Everyman Live Music Night 28 April

    Mellowtone Presents: Downstairs At The Everyman Live Music Night 28 April

    Mellowtone will return to the Everyman (Downstairs) on 28 April for another top night of live music with The Pelican Band, Muireann, Spoken word from Sam Batley and DJ Richie Vegas. Pelican Band Songwriting duo Sean Butler (Sonic Hearts) and Andy Campbell (previously of The Tenements) create beautiful music, like Sparklehorse mixed with the Everley Brothers. Country inspired, folk inflections, and delivered through a Wirral Instagram filter.  Live, they play with members of Eyesore and…

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    Live Review: Frank Turner At The Arts Club

    Live Review: Frank Turner At The Arts Club

    Frank Turner is one of the good guys. His foray into folk, now over a decade ago, brought with it a tribe of fans gained from hazy summer sets as he became one of the UK’s premier festival artists. It’s a role he’s enjoyed, with he and his band The Sleeping Souls showing no signs of slowing down. Here in 2022, he still sports the same warm smile as he makes his way around the…

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    Live Review: Bill Ryder-Jones With The Liverpool String Quartet: Tung Auditorium

    Live Review: Bill Ryder-Jones With The Liverpool String Quartet: Tung Auditorium

    Bill Ryder-Jones played a special set at the brand new Tung Auditorium on Saturday night (9 April) as part of the first run of concerts to open the University of Liverpool’s Yoko Ono Centre. Bill was joined by the Liverpool String Quartet to perform a reimagined version of his 2019 album Yawny Yawn, itself a reworking of his album Yawn from the previous year.  Those familiar with Bill will be aware of the way in…

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    Dance For Plants: Throwing Sustainable Parties To Help Environmental Charities

    Dance For Plants: Throwing Sustainable Parties To Help Environmental Charities

    Dance For Plants is the amazing initative of two Liverpool DJs who are all about good music and throwing sustainable dance parties to help environmental charities. Dance for Plants are back with another day party – venturing across to the glorious Left Bank (i.e. Birkenhead) for the first time. They are partnering up with Bloom Building to bring 7 hours of uninterrupted jams from all around the world on what is set to be an…

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    Paul Iwan 'PRESENT' Album Review

    Paul Iwan ‘PRESENT’ Album Review

    Paul Iwan’s latest album, PRESENT, will be released tomorrow (Friday 8 April) and the excitement and noise around the latest release is certainly justified.  His previous music has followed a futuristic style of driving guitar loops and booming vocals which really capture his unique style. Since winning the 2019 Liverpool Acoustic 24 hour Song-writing challenge at Threshold, Paul has come out with a few singles, but this April is set to be his biggest and…

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    In Conversation - Lady and the Dies

    In Conversation – Lady and the Dies

    Lady and the Dies are a young female DIY synth duo from Liverpool. Having released two singles already since February, these girls are determined to pave their way onto the Liverpool music scene and beyond. Whatever That Means and Villain show a clear direction in which the duo’s music is heading, and despite being produced solely in a bedroom, the tracks are high quality and show a high level of skill that both band members…

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    Natalie McCool Releases New Single 'Memory Girl'

    Natalie McCool Releases New Single ‘Memory Girl’

    Liverpool Based Singer-Songwriter, Natalie McCool, has released her latest single Memory Girl. The song was written as a follow up to her latest album, of the same name which was released in 2021.  The album explores themes such as childhood and love which led to Natalie reaching out to fans for their stories for the single so it ‘felt exciting and inclusive’. With songs like Devils and Take Me To Your Leader, both on the Memory…

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    Brooke Combe Supports Miles Kane in Liverpool

    Brooke Combe Supports Miles Kane in Liverpool

    Soulful Edinburgh-born newcomer Brooke Combe will be supporting Miles Kane on his UK tour this Spring/Summer. This will include his Liverpool tour date on 14 May. Combe has recently unveiled her brand new single and video Miss Me Now on Island Records. The music video spirits Brooke Combe a world away from the small working class town she grew up in just outside of Edinburgh with her harking back to her heroes of soul music…

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    iamkyami teases new EP with track 'When I Call'

    iamkyami teases new EP with track ‘When I Call’

    Manchester-based iamkyami has released her new single When I Call, featuring fellow bedroom-popper Lazygirl. The track, released ahead of her upcoming EP The Kenny Klubhouse, describes the trials of modern dating. iamkyami explained: “Beth (Lazygirl) and I didn’t really have an understanding of the lyrical meaning behind the song until we wrote the bridge over FaceTime. We had all these lyrics which basically sounded like a lesbian love song (which I wasn’t mad about) but…

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    Sound City+ Conference Announces Full 2022 Programme Co-Curated By AIM 2

    Sound City+ Conference Announces Full 2022 Programme Co-Curated By AIM

    Established as the definitive new music discovery weekend that points the way to the future of the music industry we know today, Sound City continues to build anticipation ahead of its 15th Anniversary celebrations with full details of its Sound City+ Conference – taking place from Friday 29 April and kickstarting the festival weekend with a full programme of insights, discussions and panels pointing towards the future of the music industry.  Taking place in 2022…

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    Future Yard and The Learning Foundry Launch Exciting New Sound Check Training and Employment Programme 1

    Future Yard and The Learning Foundry Launch Exciting New Sound Check Training and Employment Programme

    Future Yard, a new community music venue in Birkenhead, has joined forces with The Learning Foundry, an Ofsted-Good rated local training provider, to support young people into careers in live events and the live music industry. All music venues, theatres and clubs need skilled people to make their events happen, including sound and lighting engineers and event managers, all the way up to massive stadiums and festivals. The new Sound Check training and employment programme…

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    Arpanet & 'The Book Of Drexciya' Only UK Date At The Invisible Wind Factory This April 1

    Arpanet & ‘The Book Of Drexciya’ Only UK Date At The Invisible Wind Factory This April

    Jacques Malchance and the Invisible Wind Factory are presenting an exclusive only UK date for Arpanet (Gerald Donald) and The Book of Drexciya (Abu Qadim Haqq) on Friday 8 April.  An unique evening with an incredibly rare line-up and gathering of minds with a very strong drexciyan connection, in the unique setting of the IWF Substation.  Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of Arpanet’s first release, Wireless Internet, Gerald Donald (from Drexciya, Dopplereffekt, Der Zyklus, Heinrich…

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    Milap's 'Music for the Mind & Soul' Concert Series Returns To Live Audiences This April

    Milap’s ‘Music for the Mind & Soul’ Concert Series Returns To Live Audiences This April

    The ‘Music for the Mind & Soul’ concert series welcomes back live audiences to The Capstone Theatre in Liverpool this April, brought to you by Milap – the UK’s leading Indian arts and culture company.  This unique concert series is a flagship of Milap’s performance work – an enchanting musical experience providing audiences with a window into Indian arts and culture. Over the past 26 years, ‘Music for the Mind & Soul’ has featured established…

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    Euan Blackman Releases Beautiful New Single ‘I’m Not Scared’

    Euan Blackman Releases Beautiful New Single ‘I’m Not Scared’

    Liverpool based singer songwriter Euan Blackman has released his highly anticipated new single I’m Not Scared. His fourth single release, Blackman’s previous single HIGHHIGHHIGH achieved radio play on BBC Radio One with support from Jack Saunders and has since been streamed over 10,000 times on Spotify.  As an independent artist, Euan has built a loyal audience of fans on TikTok where he has over 11k followers and over 2.5 million views. His music has been…

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    Africa Oyé Is Back June 2022, Celebrating 30th Anniversary

    Africa Oyé Is Back June 2022, Celebrating 30th Anniversary

    A Grammy Award-winning Malian musician, an Afrobeats pioneer, and a reggae legend will headline The Africa Oyé Festival this summer. The festival team are delighted to announce that Oumou Sangaré, Fuse ODG and Eek-A-Mouse will top the bill at this year’s free celebration of African and Caribbean culture in Liverpool, along with a host of other acclaimed acts appearing on the line-up. Following a two-year hiatus brought on by the pandemic, the festival returns to…

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    Sound City 2022 Preview: Bandit Q&A

    Sound City 2022 Preview: Bandit Q&A

    Lively northern, indie rock 4-piece Bandit will be playing at Sound City this year, so we caught up with them to talk about their music, performing live and what 2022 has in store for them. Liverpool Noise: For anyone reading this who might not know who you are, how would you best describe yourselves as a band? Bandit: Y’alreet mon cheri’s, we are Bandit. We’re the indie poster boys, but we’re on the darker end…

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    CRAWLERS Release New Single 'I Can't Drive' Ahead of Sold Out Arts Club Shows

    CRAWLERS Release New Single ‘I Can’t Drive’ Ahead of Sold Out Arts Club Shows

    Liverpool-based four-piece CRAWLERS have released their stunning new single I Can’t Drive. The track is the band’s debut release on Polydor Records since signing to the label in January. It comes hot on the heels of their hit single Come Over (Again), which crashed into the Official UK Singles Chart thanks to fan power alone. To date it has racked up over 24 million streams on Spotify, 1.4 million views on YouTube and was a…

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    Rudimental To Play Haydock Park Racecourse - 5 August 2022

    Rudimental To Play Haydock Park Racecourse – 5 August 2022

    The Jockey Club Live and Haydock Park Racecourse are excited to welcome genre-defying, BRIT-Award winning band Rudimental for a headline DJ set performance on Friday 5 August. Bursting out of London’s underground music scene with its thrilling world of pirate radio, crude DJ set ups, improvised studios and bleeding edge beats, Rudimental cracked into the mainstream on the release of their double-platinum selling debut album Home in 2013, which has since sold over 1 million units worldwide. Hits…