Bars & Nightlife

  • Freshly Squeezed: Life at The Brink

    By on October 3, 2011

    Not many bars in the Ropewalks offer your five a day, and an alternative way to kick back with mates. Then again, as Tori Hywel-Davies...

  • Magnetic Attraction: The Return of The Magnet

    By on September 30, 2011

    From Roy Ayres to Andy Weatherall, Gus Gus to the, ahem, Courteeners - the Magnet's constantly been the source of evenings that are as eclectic...

  • Bier: Review

    By on September 28, 2011

    A curious, lesser-explored side street off Bold Street? We're only here for the Bier...

  • Circus Skills

    By on September 16, 2011

    Where does the time go? And how much of it can you remember? Stephanie Heneghan meets the ringmaster general, Yousef, ahead of this month's ninth...

  • Radar: Chibuku Opening Party - Win Tickets!

    By on September 1, 2011

    September is shaping up to be even hotter than summer - if the opening night's line up to Chibuku's anything to go by. Stephanie Heneghan...

  • Brief Encounters: Liverpool’s Hotel Bars

    By on August 31, 2011

    Sometimes it’s good to be a stranger in your home town - good to go to a bar where nobody knows your name. SevenStreets celebrates...

  • Radar: Super Best Friends at Kazimier

    By on August 22, 2011

    Who doesn't love a bit of dressing up? Who doesn't love a bit of 90s shell-suit house? Who needs an excuse to raid their mum's...

  • Stuart Price at Chibuku/Shipping Forecast

    By on August 10, 2011

    The man with a thousand aliases, Stuart Price, is coming to set the Hold alight this month, as his alter-ego, Jacques lu Cont. Stephanie Heneghan...

  • When Good Bars Turn Bad

    By on July 29, 2011

    This weekend sees the rebirth of Concert Square as a safe, welcoming and fun place to hang out again. Or does it? David Lloyd wonders...

  • My Twee Box: Outsider Indie Pop

    By on June 29, 2011

    A new night stripping back and celebrating pop gems from the past is making Thursdays very definitely the new Fridays up Parr Street.

  • Club Fight

    By on May 25, 2011

    Two heavyweights of the Liverpool clubbing scene slug it out this weekend. The rules of Club Fights? Rule One, you do not talk about what...

  • RIP Korova

    By on April 13, 2011

    One of the city's best bars went up in flames last year. Now, finally, it's been confirmed that it's gone forever.

  • Freeze at the Cathedral

    By on April 11, 2011

    The gospel according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and, er, Danny? It works - you just gotta believe, says Stephanie Heneghan.