Music in Liverpool
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Bands in Liverpool
Paint Me In Colour Release New Track ‘1968’
Paint Me In Colour are on the scene! With a musical project and journey spanning around 3 years in the making, it’s no surprise that their ready-to-go package is a hit. Fresh off the back of their last release ‘Feel It’ back in January, it’s straight back to it for this plucky trio with their newest single ‘1968′. After a couple of years recording, honing their musicality and laying the framework for the future in…
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Liverpool Events
The Flaming Lips Announce Liverpool Show At Invisible Wind Factory
The Flaming Lips will return to Liverpool this summer as part of their UK tour. The American rock band will playing the Invisible Wind Factory on 20 July. The last time The Flaming Lips were in Liverpool they were headlining Sound City in 2015 at the Bramley Moore Dock for what was a hugely memorable performance. Their live shows are famously eccentric, colourful and energetic. At Sound City their massive silver ‘Fuck Yeah Liverpool’ helium…
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Bands in Liverpool
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.…
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Gigs in Liverpool
In Conversation – Thom Morecroft
Liverpool Noise caught up with Thom Morecroft to talk about his new album and being part of 81 Renshaw’s brand new record label. Liverpool Noise: Congratulations on your new album “The Feng Shui and the Sushi”! Tell us how long it took to write and where did you record it …. Thom Morecroft: Hello thanks for having me! This album is a collection of songs; some were written when I was 16 and some I…
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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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Liverpool Events
Liverpool Record Shop To Launch Pop-Up ‘Dig At The Dock’ At The Royal Albert Dock
One of Liverpool’s most loved independent record stores, Dig Vinyl, is launching a six-month pop-up at the Royal Albert Dock Liverpool on Monday 28th October. Dig at the Dock will be much more than a replica of its Bold Street store, adding something completely new to the growing mix of independent retailers at the Dock with a collection of new and vintage stock, for music fans of all ages. Founded by music enthusiasts, Anthony Nyland…
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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
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…
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Music
Tarek Musa – In Conversation
Former Spring King frontman Tarek Musa talks to Liverpool Noise about his latest music project, Dead Nature, as well as discussing what it’s like working from his Liverpool-based studio as a producer for some promising up-and-coming bands. Liverpool Noise: So Tarek, firstly thanks for your time we understand it’s a pretty busy and exciting time ahead for you at the moment, are you managing the find the balance between promoting, producing and getting some time…
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Gigs in Liverpool
Damien O’Kane and Ron Block Gig Preview
To the uninitiated a banjo is a banjo. Due to its absence from most contemporary and so called “radio-friendly” music the public at large are not as familiar with it as they would be with it’s six stringed relative. However, if one album was likely to remedy this situation it is Damien O’Kane and Ron Block’s 2018 platter “Banjophony.” Messrs O’Kane and Block have quite a pedigree. Coleraine born O’Kane has more than one acclaimed…
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Bands in Liverpool
Future Yard Festival Review
It’s all over to Birkenhead this weekend as we celebrate for the first time the beauty of Future Yard Festival. Tucked away next to the mouth of the Queensway Tunnel is a corner of land that looks out over to Liverpool on one side and North Wales on the other, home to some serious musical talent and of course not forgetting the late John Peel. Jumping off at Hamilton Square it’s a short walk over…
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Bands in Liverpool
Ben Burke – In Conversation
Liverpool Noise catches up with local lad Ben Burke following up on his first single Leaving Tomorrow, his Merseyrail Sound Station development programme and his current mission to bring his classic Liverpool sound to the ears of the world. Liverpool Noise: So first of all, Ben, your brand new single ‘Leaving Tomorrow’ was released on 9th August, where did the inspiration come from for this one? Ben Burke: The inspiration is a mix actually, it’s from some of my own life…
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Bands in Liverpool
They’re Coming To Get You Barbara – Release New Single
For fans of The IT Crowd, this new release from Liverpool locals They’re Coming To Get You Barbara, is bound to have some heads turning with their nod to Matt Berry in their latest single Damn! These Electric Sexpants. With a flurry of singles to follow and an EP coming out in October there’s plenty to be shouting about off the back of their latest EP, Nothing Changes. Their music’s references reach and pull in…
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Music
Neil Tilly (81 Renshaw) – In Conversation
At the helm of probably the best small venue in Liverpool, we met Neil Tilly (owner of 81 Renshaw) and discovered how, after a break from the local music scene, he returned to his promoting roots. We talked iconic bands, the rise of vinyl, and the current good health of the local music scene. Oh, and the time he had a personal audience with Macca and delivered an honest review of his new song….. Liverpool…
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Bands in Liverpool
Fiesta Bombarda Announce Constellations Carnival
Following their birthday celebrations this summer, Fiesta Bombarda are set to return to Liverpool in September for a packed night at Constellations in the Baltic Triangle. The Fiesta Bombarda Constellations Carnival will feature legendary ragga deejay, General Levy as the headliner. Few people have contributed as much to the urban music scene in the UK as General Levy. Reggae and black culture has come to define what he does and the sets he plays, as…
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Music
Chris Currie – In Conversation
Chris Currie has been the backbone to the Merseyside music scene for ages…infact, he is our very own John Peel. His regular radio show is essential listening for those people interested in the local music scene. We caught up with Chris for a chat, and talked about 16 Tambourines, The Real People, getting your gig ticket early and some sage advice for new musicians dipping their toes into creative waters…. Liverpool Noise: Promoting Merseyside bands…
