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Streetsourcing: Best Sunday Lunch in Liverpool

Streetsourcing: Best Sunday Lunch in Liverpool

According to you these are the best places for a roast dinner and a pint on the day of rest in Liverpool. Look out for frozen Yorkshires…


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Wild Eyes: Worth Watching

Wild Eyes: Worth Watching

With a set list spiked with a sound as distinctive as it is dramatic, Wild Eyes are staring success in the face – Caroline Bunford chats to them ahead of this week’s surefire blinder at the Shipping Forecast.


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Picture Book: The Next Chapter

Picture Book: The Next Chapter

As the song goes, we’ve said it once before but it bears repeating, Picture Book are one of the most exciting live acts in the city these days. Stephanie Heneghan holes them up in the Hold.


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CALM presents RESET at Shipping Forecast

CALM presents RESET at Shipping Forecast

Picturebook and friends help former Liverpool-based charity CALM promote new magazine RESET with a gig at the Shipping Forecast.


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Ghostpoet at Shipping Forecast

Ghostpoet at Shipping Forecast

Ghostpoet raises hip-hop from the dead, and does it with style to spare. Check him out at The Shipping Forecast this Friday…


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The Social Network

The Social Network

That Bido Lito, they know a bit about music, yeah? So, imagine if they hosted a night…should be worth checking out, yeah?


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Future Proof

Future Proof

The Christmas gig season got off to a good start this week – Stephanie Heneghan hunkered down in The Hold to catch Hot Club and The Futureheads, to discuss the future of music. And the X Factor final…


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A Tale of Two Cities – ‘notworking’ for creatives

A Tale of Two Cities – ‘notworking’ for creatives

Are you a creative? Of course you are! You’re reading this website. And we have an event you’re going to love.


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Mellowtone – with added Chill Factor

Mellowtone – with added Chill Factor

The Gus-Gus collective were always the coolest Icelanders on the block. So we’re excited to see the lovely Hafdis Huld heading this way for Mellowtone this week…


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Picture This

Picture This

Picturebook – our favourite Liverpool-Faroe-NYC electronic pop collective – promise to bring their particular blend of trick or treat to the Shipping Forecast this Hallowe’en. SevenStreets isn’t scared…


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Fenech Soler – the return

Fenech Soler – the return

Fenech-Soler: shiny, spangly and caught in the Hold of the Shipping Forecast once more.


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When Shopping met Shipping

When Shopping met Shipping

Our autumn wardrobe is overdue. But, frankly, we need help. How about we get Rosaleen Gallagher to bring us unique retro pieces while we get the drinks in?


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Dave McTague’s Spotify Sessions

Dave McTague’s Spotify Sessions

Dave McTague’s passion for roots, acoustic and, well, just great music takes many forms. Perhaps the best distillation of it all, Mellowtone, takes place again next week. And we’ve got a couple of tickets to win.


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Hey Tourists: Summer Spotify playlist

Hey Tourists: Summer Spotify playlist

With support slots for everyone from Babyshambles to The Freelance Whales behind them, Hey Tourists have Premier League stamped all over them. Before they left us behind, we asked them for a Spotify playlist…


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The Hold @ The Shipping Forecast

A new venue on decidedly dodgy Slater Street, The Shipping Forecast is hitting all the right buttons in its cosy basement venue. So far, we’ve seen an inventive and eclectic parade of DJs and indie-electro and folky acts, and, in a city with no Korova (sob) this might be its illegitimate offspring. Gilles Peterson rocked [...]


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Fresh & new
Review: The Kite Runner at Liverpool Playhouse

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.

Our picks

Radar: Festival Bombarda at Williamson Tunnels

A colourful two-day fiesta down in the tunnels this weekend. Expect sunny world-straddling music, eye-opening performances and, er, fruit volleyball.

“It’s easy to get sniffy about pop music”: Thea Gilmore interviewed

Cerebral songwriter Thea Gilmore now comes with strings attached, as you'll witness at Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall this Friday. Alan O’Hare finds out more…

Radar: Rockaoke at Camp and Furnace

It's karaoke! But cool! And with - yes, really - a live band. What's not to love? Get your lungs around Camp and Furnace's new night...

Radar: UpItUp’s 10th birthday weekend

The most exciting Liverpool electronic music label celebrates a decade, with a weekend of unique, must-see parties...
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