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Now Playing: The Magnetic North

Hannah Peel’s back with another ace - this time collaborating with Erland and the Carnival and Simon Tong of the Verve. And she’s gone a long way to make this collaboration something very special.

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Gig for goodness: ‘Be The One’ fundraiser, the Zanzibar

Charity gigs ain’t what they used to be. This one will be though. We told you all about Steve Pilgrim’s Be One Percentcharity a while back. Now, the Liverpool musician who currently occupies Paul Weller’s drum stool, is hosting a fundraiser (‘Gig for Goodness’) for his 1% network. The group celebrated their first birthday recently [...]

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Radar: Laurel Halo

Classical musician turns contemplative, and compassionate electronic artist? Yep, we’ll have a bit of that, please.

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Radar: Lucky Dragons

Improvised electronica that does away with that outdated concept of a song? That’s got to be worth hearing, surely? Lucky Dragons show us another way.

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Radar: Dexys, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall

They might only have three proper studio albums, but during the 80s Dexys made a huge, ridiculous impact on British pop music. And a dungaree-shaped mark on pop culture itself. Though they’re most known for that song (we don’t even need to mention it, because it’s probably in your head already), they’ve a small but [...]

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Win: Guns N’ Roses tickets, Liverpool Echo Arena

If you’ve not had at least one evening of your life wailing along to ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’ in a dingy karaoke bar after 5 tequilas on a work night out, you’ve just not lived properly. Sorry. Guns N’ Roses were one of the most important - and iconic - rock bands of the 80s [...]

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Review: Elvis Costello & The Imposters, Liverpool Empire

You can have it all in music. Being great and successful are not mutually exclusive. Elvis Costello & The Imposters proved this and more at a packed Liverpool Empire last night. The Birkenhead bard brought his Spectacular Spinning Songbook across the Atlantic and treated his adopted hometown to a night of hits, horsing around and [...]

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