Peter Hook returns to Liverpool to play New Order’s Movement and Power, Corruption and Lies albums.

Glasgow’s Holy Mountain and Rungs Play the Lomax this Thursday - two fine Scottish bands making their Liverpool debut, Holy Mountain and Rungs play their only north-west date in advance of their respective album releases…..

We love the sound of this new photography competition by the people who’ve taken our empty buildings baton and done something much better with it. Placed, the social enterprise committed to inspiring young people about….

The Poetry Takeaway Van offers fast food for the soul. For this year’s Chester Literature Festival, the world’s first purpose-built mobile poetry emporium will be in Ellesmere Port on Saturday 19th October. The poetry takeaway….

Trick or treat? Well, this one’s a treat. Bird, Lovecraft and loads more all head up a Hallowe’en-tastic evening by local promoters Everisland.

Yes, we know. It’s Chester. But you can get Merseyrail straight through these days. And this week’s festival offers a fortnight’s worth of excellent talks, workshops and readings. Our highlights include Desmond Olivier Dingle’sThe National….

Pert peaches, plump melons, curvaceous cantaloupes, however you take your bottoms you’ll get your five a day in one sitting at Walker/Homotopia’s David Hockney exhibition. The man, it has to be said, knows his way….

Pete Bentham’s indie music festival returns this weekend at another unusual venue…

If you don’t love Efterklang…you’re not in our gang. The elfin Danish mavericks bring their lush, high-minded electronica to town this month: showcasing a career that skates wilfully through orchestral pop to glitchy jazz and….