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Radar: Bestival at Nation

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….

On The Threshold: News of this year’s Festival…

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….

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Mathew Street Festival - The Autopsy

“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….

Radar: Big Enterprise Event

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….

Africa Oyé confirmed for 2013

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….

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Radar: ‘The Room’ screening and Tommy Wiseau Q&A at FACT

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….

Moby Dick in Liverpool

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….

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Liverpool Sound City announces first 2013 acts

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….

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The Guardian’s Poetry Night

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….

Top Honour for Museum of Liverpool

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….

Reel Unknown’s secret cinema returns this December

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….

Kazimier Garden to re-open this month

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….

A Kazimier New Year

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….