Music Festivals

  • Liverpool Festivals
    Sound City Announces 2021 Festival Dates and First Acts

    Sound City Announces 2021 Festival Dates and First Acts

    Sound City Festival have set their 2021 dates for April 30th – May 2nd, with the first phase of artists set to inspire a promising comeback event. After the devastating cancellation of Sound City Festival 2020, alongside the abundance of tormenting cancellations that have ensued from this global pandemic, the festivals management team have decided to make next year’s jamboree a celebration of the inspiring music that has been released within this chaotic year. This…

  • Festivals
    Sound City Online Festival: Saturday 2 May

    Sound City Online Festival: Saturday 2 May

    Sound City online festival will feature Friendly Fires (DJ Set), The Wombats, Red Rum Club, over 30 artists and conference speakers. With this year’s festival postponed until September, Sound City are partnering with the Music Venues Trust #saveourvenues and taking the event online this Saturday with a stellar line-up of artists on streaming platform Guest House. Headliners Friendly Fires will join the party with a DJ set, while The Wombats, Red Rum Club, The Night…

  • Festivals
    Sound City 2020 Festival Extra Day And More Artists Announced

    Sound City 2020 Festival Extra Day And More Artists Announced

    ***Sound City 2020 Cancelled Due To Ongoing Coronavirus Concerns*** Sound City 2020 festival has announcd that it has expanded its re-scheduled event to 25, 26, 27 September. With Friendly Fires headlining on Friday 25 September, Pale Waves on Saturday 26 and Red Rum Club on Sunday 27, the festival will launch on Thursday 24 September with a party at District headlined by Fickle Friends. The Sound City + conference will now include a revised programme…

  • Music
    Sound City 2020 Announces New Festival Dates: 25-27 September 2

    Sound City 2020 Announces New Festival Dates: 25-27 September

    Sound City 2020 rearranged dates have been announced due to the Coronavirus outbreak. The festival is now scheduled to take place 25 – 27 September 2020. Returning to the Baltic Triangle for its third year Sound City 2020 edition will feature an exclusive Friendly Fires headline show. Picture the music festival, which was established  in 2008 as a sprawling block party where pop-up bars, clubs and warehouses make way for the hottest new music talent…

  • Bands in Liverpool
    Future Yard Festival Announce Series of 2020 Events 1

    Future Yard Festival Announce Series of 2020 Events

    The team behind Future Yard Festival has announced Near Future, a pop-up music venue and Birkenhead’s only dedicated live music space. Initially Near Future will be showcasing a series of live events between 25th April – 20th June 2020. It will present some of the most exciting emerging new artists from across the UK – and very special returning local icons. The success of the first Future Yard Festival last year proved that there is…

  • Culture in Liverpool
    Africa Oyé Announce First Wave of Artists Including Female Supergroup Les Amazones d’Afrique 1

    Africa Oyé Announce First Wave of Artists Including Female Supergroup Les Amazones d’Afrique

    Africa Oyé have revealed the first three live music acts for their 2020 festival of music and culture in Liverpool. Female pan-African supergroup, Les Amazones D’Afrique, Ghanian highlife stars,Santrofi and Cameroonian songstress Valerie Ekoume will all grace the Sefton Park stage when the festival returns for its 28th annual event on 20th and 21st June, 2020. An all-female collective of West African musicians, Les Amazones D’Afrique made a huge impact across the globe with their 2017 debut album, République Amazone. Singing out against gender…

  • Festivals
    Cream Classical 2020 Lineup Announced

    Cream Classical 2020 Lineup Announced

    Cream Classical 2020 has announced the lineup for its return to Sefton Park on 18 July.  The 2020 edition will include DJ sets from Basement Jaxx, Faithless and Leftfield. There will also be appearances from Cream legends including David Morales, Roger Sanchez, Danny Rampling, Seb Fontaine, John Kelly, Tall Paul, Paul Bleasdale and Andy Carroll. One of the highlights of the event will be the 50-piece Kaleidoscope Orchestra – an orchestra made for the 21st…

  • Festivals
    Africa Oyé Needs Your Help To Keep The Festival Free

    Africa Oyé Needs Your Help To Keep The Festival Free

    The organisers of Liverpool’s Africa Oyé have called upon local investors and the people of Liverpool to help keep the festival free. From its humble beginnings in 1992 as a series of gigs in the city centre, Oyé has showcased the finest in African and Caribbean music in the likes of Concert Square, Princes Park and even across the water in Birkenhead. The festival made Sefton Park its home in 2005, where it has since…

  • Festivals
    Björk, Groove Armada and Metronomy To Headline Bluedot Festival 2020 1

    Björk, Groove Armada and Metronomy To Headline Bluedot Festival 2020

    Bluedot Festival 2020 has released the first wave of artists with Björk, Groove Armada and Metronomy headlining the fifth instalment of the award-winning music, science and culture event at Cheshire’s iconic Jodrell Bank Observatory taking place 23–26 July 2020. One of the most influential and ground-breaking musicians of all time, Björk’s festival exclusive set will close bluedot  with a uniquely commissioned performance alongside Manchester’s famed Halle Orchestra featuring incredible bespoke projections on the Lovell Telescope.…

  • Bands in Liverpool
    New Music Festival Melon Yellow Coming To Invisible Wind Factory 2

    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. …

  • Bands in Liverpool
    Sound City 2020 Announces Friendly Fires As Headliners And More Artists Revealed 1

    Sound City 2020 Announces Friendly Fires As Headliners And More Artists Revealed

    The Sound City 2020 lineup is bolstered by English Indie-rock outfit Friendly Fires alongside Liverpool’s finest Louis Berry, SPQR and many more. Returning to the Baltic Triangle for its third year Sound City 2020 edition will feature an exclusive Friendly Fires headline show. Picture the music festival, which was established  in 2008 as a sprawling block party where pop-up bars, clubs and warehouses make way for the hottest new music talent from around the globe.…

  • Festivals
    Award-winning Reggae Festival, Positive Vibration Returns This June

    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…

  • Liverpool Festivals
    Sound City 2013

    Sound City 2013 Preview

    Sound City gets bigger and better each year and this year we have some particular favourites to share with you. Here’s our Sound City 2013 Preview. Noah And The Whale @ Liverpool Anglican Catherdral. THURS 2nd. Our favourite Folk-Pop band Noah & The Whale will play in one of the coolest venues for this years Sound City at The Anglican Cathedral where they will be showcasing some of their new material from their new album…