The Weekly Seven: 17th June 2013
Africa Oyé – 22/23 June, Sefton Park EVENT Always one of the early highlights of the summer calendar (is it even summer yet?), Africa Oyé puts last year’s rain-soaked madness behind them and pitches back up at Sefton Park – hopefully Mother Nature’s in the mood to dance this time. Artists from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nigeria [...]
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Review: Turning FACT Inside Out
Ten years on and FACT is breaking out of its physical boundaries with a dizzying, playful and occasionally bemusing new exhibition.
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Video: check out this rather lovely snapshot of Liverpool
We’re always surprised just how great Liverpool looks on camera. We’re one of the biggest growth cities when it comes to film locations, don’tchaknow. But we, like you, don’t walk around gobsmacked day-to-day at the gorgeous architecture and views. We just take it for granted most of the time. So it’s brilliant to see the [...]
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Review: Chagall, Modern Master, at Tate Liverpool
If ever there was a time for a Chagall reassessment, it’s now. Accused of wearing his heart of his sleeve a little too willingly, the man’s stock value’s plummeted in recent years. But a saunter around Chagall, Modern Master, at Tate Liverpool reveals a man in love with beauty, romance, the pull of home, the [...]
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The Weekly Seven: 10th June 2013
Raw Spirit (In Search of the Perfect Dram) by Iain Banks BOOK We were very sad to hear of Iain Banks’ death to cancer yesterday. Raise a glass to his memory with a copy of his brilliant, warm and funny travelogue in praise of his homeland’s favourite export. Visiting far flung distilleries, Banks’ journey is [...]
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Tabitha Moses – Liverpool Art Prize Winner
Another year, another impressive clutch of work on show at the increasingly essential Liverpool Art Prize – with, encouragingly, artists working in a healthy variety of media represented on the shortlist. At last week’s winning ceremony held at the Grand Hall in the Albert Dock, Tabitha Moses managed an impressive double: securing both the judges’ [...]
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The Weekly Seven: 3rd June 2013
Star Gazing: Battle of the Atlantic ART As part of the 70th commemoration of the Battle of the Atlantic, FACT have been working with its Veterans in Practice digital arts group and Liverpool schoolchildren to create a series of projects, now showing across FACT and Merseyside Maritime Museum. Soundscapes, created from voice recordings of the [...]
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Cover Story: The Black Pearl Sails Again
There was a period once, when every cover of In Style magazine resulted in terrible things happening to the cover star. Kate Winslett carping on about how in love she was, only to get divorced a month later, Victoria Beckham gurning away about her beloved David, only to read ‘those’ text messages the next month. [...]
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Introducing: The SevenStreets Almanac
We’ve got a confession. We love the internet, but we’ve been fooling around with print on the side. And our first periodical – the SevenStreets Alamanac – is out today…
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Happy Birthday Tate Liverpool
Despite what Tates Modern and Britain think, Tate Liverpool is Tate. Tate is Liverpool. And the Tate way of seeing things, of seeing art, is a democratic, inclusive and unstuffy way of seeing it. We remember when it opened. When Carl Andre’s bricks (Equivalent VIII) were plonked, teasingly, into the newly-opened gallery’s gorgeous, brick vaulted [...]
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7 of the best Light Night highlights
We’re a huge fan of Light Night – an evening where the city’s cultural institutions and good places all leave their doors open a little bit longer. It makes a real difference. Rather than scrabbling around after work to catch an exhibition before closing time, the city comes alive with moochers and explorers. It’s one [...]
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The Weekly Seven: 13th May 2013
Suuns at the Kazimier, 17th May GIG We’re big fans of this poppy prog gang from Canada, so it’s rather thrilling that they’re playing one of the best spaces in the city this Friday night. A little bit psychedelic, a little bit krautrock, and very excellent, the band hit town this Friday for a preview [...]
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The Weekly Seven: 6th May 2013
Women of Punk SITE If, like us, you were blown away by Savages at Sound City, you’ll enjoy checking out their esteemed lineage on this online archive of women in punk. From rare interviews to live gigs and TV shows, they’re all here – from Siouxsie to Poly Styrene to Vivienne Westwood. Go in and [...]
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The Weekly Seven: 29th April 2013
Save The Caledonia IMPORTANT We’ve all seen places come and go in Liverpool. As one closes, another opens. But the homely Caledonia pub’s been a really crucial part of not only the Georgian Quarter, but the city as a whole, over its lifespan. And we really don’t want to see it go. Threatened with closure, [...]
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The 17 In Liverpool
Bill Drummond had an idea. Recorded music had run its course. The future of music, he believed, was freedom. Of internal choirs belting out oratorios as you speed along the motorway. Of nation singing to nation. Of music that related specifically to a time, and to a place. “Once,” he says, “all music celebrated time, [...]
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Review: The Kite Runner at Liverpool Playhouse
— Despite strong performances and moment of beauty, The Kite Runner never develops a sense of threat or urgency that such a lengthy, weighty production requires.
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