There was shock and sadness last year when news of a bus crash, revellers on their way back from Bestival, killed three Merseyside men and injured fifty more. The festival, devastated at what happened, promised….
For Threshold Festival 2013, MelloMello have teamed up with kindred Manchester spirits Debt Records to take over The Picket on Saturday 9th March. A pairing, Festival Director Chris Herstad Carney thinks, that’s long overdue. “I’ve….
“The festival degenerated, there is no other way to put it,” the Cavern Club’s Bill Heckle looks mildly pissed off when, during this morning’s press call, a chap from another website (who’d arrived with a….
Got an idea for a business? Great. Is it to start a new Liverpool culture website? Bad move. So, assuming you’ve got a better idea (thanks) Liverpool is a good place to start. And The….
Like many of you, we were disappointed last year that Africa Oyé was the result of a rather unfortunate summer rainfall. With a rain-sodden ground in Sefton Park after hours of heavy showers, the festival….
The best news we’ve read all week: director/writer/producer Tommy Wiseau is set to visit FACT for a special screening of his cult movie ‘The Room’ next month. If you’re not familiar with ‘The Room’, it’s….
Hands up if you knew Herman Melville visited Liverpool? The man who gave the world the greatest American novel visited our city in 1837 to sketch out much of the flesh of his novel Redburn….
Yes, we know it’s only January, but festival announcements start early nowadays, granddad. Liverpool Sound City’s back this spring, and it’s promising to be the biggest and best yet. Hooray! Coupled with the fact Liverpool….
In a cold snap like this we need the warmth of sparky words to huddle around, and rekindle our mushy post-Christmas brains. Fortunately, our good friends at The Guardian are onto it. They’re coming to….
It’s great to end a year of cultural cut backs and closures with a bit of good news. And well deserved news at that: The ace Museum of Liverpool has won Museum of the Year….
We’re big fans of Reel Unknown, a shadowy organisation that runs the increasingly popular secret cinema events in the city. Mixing a cult film classic with unique theatre and interactive performance, it’s a cool little….
As much as we love the festive season, it’s also a bit, y’know, rubbish. It’s cold, and it rains, and it snows, and basically it’s not summer. The highlight of our summer this year was….
There’s no special event like a Kazimier special event. So when they drop a tantalising video like this, you know that all bets are off. We’ve seen sharks and spacemen and journeys to the lake….