The Masque set to return in 2013

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The Masque set to return in 2013

It’s been a tumultuous 18 months for music venues around Liverpool City Centre, with the well publicised happenings at the Static Gallery, MOJO cutting their live music programme, the Jacaranda shutting down without notice, Le Bateau closing its doors and Mello Mello facing a large bill from the council. So it’s nice for once, to [...]

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Simian at Chibuku: Win tickets

It seems like so long ago when we were bemoaning the Chibuku summer hiatus, now we’re heading towards the end of November and they still serve up knock out line ups, week after week. This Saturday is no exception, as Ford and Shaw, aka Simian Mobile Disco bring their live show to the Masque. Currently [...]

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Fall Backwards: October Club Highlights

These next 28 days are gonna be very messy indeed. We’ve got a leviathan of a birthday party, the reawakenings of some city favourites, and the return of a much-loved Coke-peddling producer (c’mon, those Olympic adverts were dire)… Cream Birthday 6th & 13th October To celebrate reaching their landmark 20th birthday, Cream has opted for [...]

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Radar: Chibuku. Win Tickets

Apparently we’ve just come to the end of the summer, which to be perfectly honest was indistinguishable from the beginning, the middle, or any point you would like to choose, of summer. It would probably make more sense to do away with these quarterly seasons and just have an annual one called WET! Anyway, the [...]

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Radar: Chibuku at Easter

It’s Easter. And it’s time for the longest weekend of your year, courtesy of a couple of Belgians, a Housecat and a cast of brilliant support acts, at Chibuku.

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Win Chibuku Birthday Tickets

Never get invited to birthday parties? Here’s your chance to get on the guest list at the biggest birthday bash in town this weekend, as Chibuku celebrates with a double night of shake shake and birthday cake.

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Scruff with the smooth: Mr Scruff at The Magnet

For the last February show before the big birthday double whammy (no, we can’t wait for it either) Chibuku are welcoming back a very old friend – one of the first guest they ever booked all those years ago. Worryingly, we can remember that gig quite clearly which suggests that a) we’re getting pretty old [...]

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Clubbing comp: Jesse Rose and Duke Dumont at the Magnet

Throughout the month of February, Chibuku are making good use of their sister bar Magnet and hosting a number of intimate partaaays in the cool underground club there. We’re using the term underground in both senses of the word there – be careful on those stairs (heels + tequila + stairs = bruises – we’ve [...]

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Seven Reasons To Start Dancing Again

It’s January, yes. But you’ve just been paid? Possibly. Possibly you’re not working. Anyway, what are we, your careers advisor? It doesn’t matter. Just dance…

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Year in Review 2011: Samizdat & Chibuku

2012′s but a few hours away, and so we’re reaching the conclusion of our Year In Review series. Today we bring together two of the city’s best live music promoters and DJs-about-town, Andrew Ellis from Samizdat and Wingwalker, alongside Lewis Boardman from Chibuku, Circus and The Shipping Forecast, to see how the last twelve months [...]

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10 of the best Boxing Night & New Year’s Eve parties

Liverpool’s finest venues and promoters come together this festive season for some serious shindigs. Stephanie Heneghan picks out 10 of the best. Plus: win Chibuku and Circus tickets!

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Masque clubnight fallout: Camp and Furnace jumps in

Worried you’d miss out on some serious partying now the Masque’s shut its doors? Fear not, because the city’s newest space has come to the rescue.

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Venue grieving: The Masque shuts down

Jeez, it’s been a rough November in the city. First the grandfather of newspapers, the Daily Post, announces it’s to be cut down to a weekly, and today (November 28th) we hear that Seel Street venue The Masque has shut down. A series of tweets posted on their official Twitter page reads: “It comes with [...]

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