7 brilliant things to do this Bank Holiday
Waxxx fair, Thursday You like fairs? And you like clubbing? Oh, that’s handy. Because Waxxx are putting on both at the same time. The rather mental sounding Waxxx Fair sees DJs like Boddika, Levon Vincent and Loefah do their thing at the Baltic Triangle’s HAUS space while punters can enjoy a mini funfair. See you [...]
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A Time Of Waste: Strangers In A Strange Land
Has waste ever been so thought-provoking? Robyn Woolston’s new exhibition at the Walker may be rubbish but you may never look at your bin in the same way again
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Kevin Sampson: Here’s Where The Story Starts
There are two questions writers get asked more than any other, and they are: where do you get your ideas? What do you do for research? But, whatever answer we trot out, the truth very seldom comes into it. It’s not that you can’t or don’t want to answer. The truth is that you don’t [...]
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Self-Harm and the City
The first time I cut myself I was asleep. I’d been having one of those classic stress dreams – running around, chasing my tail. Never being quite in the right place at the right time. I must have closed the lid of my laptop sometime after 1 am. Fiddling over a feature, replying to tweets, [...]
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SevenStreets introduces: Liverpool Underlined
Two years ago, we embarked on a journey to rediscover the city under our feet. We’re amazed, and dead chuffed, that so many of you have come along with us. And it’s a voyage that continues. Hooray! But out and about in Liverpool, we’ve bumped into tourists from places like Venezuela, Boston, Reykjavik and, er, [...]
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First look: NoLIta Cantina deli restaurant on Bold Street
When it comes to food, we love a new independent voice to add to the chorus of enticing local eateries that you can find around the city centre. Sure, the impending arrival of Byron Burgers might warm the cockles of those who like the comfort of a chain restaurant but our attention is elsewhere – [...]
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Sound and Vision: 7 Brilliant Music Videos
When we heard FACT were planning an ultra-special exhibition dedicated to pop videos this year, we were kinda-sorta-very excited. Music videos have gone through varying states of flux – from MTV’s glory years, with 24/7 music video programming, to the on-demand streaming of YouTube, but they’ve always been one thing: relentlessly creative. These short bursts [...]
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Radar: ‘Superheroes’ exhibition at Wall To Wall gallery
If, like us, you grew up with your head buried in inky comic books and wore your underpants over your trousers to pretend you were Superman (alright, we still do it), then ‘Superheroes’, a new exhibition at the Metquarter, is worth a look on your lunch hour. A selection of Marvel Comics’ most celebrated covers [...]
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7 must-see things at Threshold Festival 2013
Let’s get this clear right away: there is a lot of stuff at this year’s Threshold Festival. A lot. Music, arts, talks, food, film screenings. Across two days in various Baltic Triangle venues, they’re absolutely bloody packing it in. You’ll never, ever see everything you want to at arts festivals like this. It’s the nature [...]
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7 Mother’s Day Menus
Don’t go for flowers and chocs for Mothering Sunday when there are so many home-grown delights you can treat your Mum to. Here are a few options…
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Review: Eating with our eyes – a night in San Carlo
In San Carlo, no-one has secrets. We dine as one. 175 of us; dangly earring snagged to dangly earring, tumbled together in a tangled mass of Elnett and Swarovski. As we wait in the holding pen of the bar, a maître d’ ushers later arrivals than us (a cast of people who obviously spend more [...]
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The Ten Tescos Tour
We’ve got yellow duck ones, fab four ones and scary ghost ones. But SevenStreets has devised a tour that really gets to the soul of our city. You want to know where we’re at, right now? It’s inside a Tesco Express, mulling over a ready meal. We take to the trail of the Ten Tescos [...]
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Birkenhead Must Die: Seven Reasons Why
Birkenhead needs a reason to exist, and for people to invest in it. ‘Failed post-industrial town’ isn’t it. ‘Liverpool’s south bank’ could well be. The town (and Wallasey) is facing a fight for survival, of that there is little serious doubt. Unemployment runs at nearly twice the national average (at 6.6%). Long-term youth unemployment rose [...]
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New Life For Old Buildings
A couple of months ago, we came to the somewhat alarming conclusion that the majority of Liverpool’s UNESCO protected ‘maritime mercantile maritime mercantile City’ (protected as an example of a major trading centre of the 18th and 19th centuries) is, how shall we put this? Empty. All those grand old banking halls, Venetian palazzo-styled office [...]
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The Rag Trade: H Coleman, Tailor
A middle aged biker, a couple in their 60s and a young student pass SevenStreets by as we squeeze our way up the narrow wooden staircase to H.Coleman Ladies and Gents Tailors. Whether any, or all of them had just been for a fitting with Ken Ellis, the sole remaining tailor at the 24 Newington [...]
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Review: Matt Berry at the Kazimier
— Matt Berry comes to the Kazimier with his set of psych-folk and tracks from his new album, Kill The Wolf.
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