The Masque set to return in 2013

The Masque.

The Masque set to return in 2013

It’s been a tumultuous 18 months for music venues around Liverpool City Centre, with the well publicised happenings at the Static Gallery, MOJO cutting their live music programme, the Jacaranda shutting down without notice, Le Bateau closing its doors and Mello Mello facing a large bill from the council. So it’s nice for once, to [...]

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Silent shout: Abandon Silence moves to the Masque

It’s been encouraging to see the steady rise of Abandon Silence. From its humble days as a half-full clubnight for a bunch of dance music nerds, to a must-attend event at the Shipping Forecast that regularly sells out, it’s been easily the biggest rise in Liverpool clubbing since Chibuku. Catering for the more experimental side [...]

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Radar: Chibuku. Win Tickets

Apparently we’ve just come to the end of the summer, which to be perfectly honest was indistinguishable from the beginning, the middle, or any point you would like to choose, of summer. It would probably make more sense to do away with these quarterly seasons and just have an annual one called WET! Anyway, the [...]

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Travelling Circus: Steve Lawler interview

Last weekend Circus held it’s last night at The Masque after convincing the powers that be to reopen the doors for one final time and allow the club to say a proper goodbye to the venue it’s called home for the past 10 years. A night renowned for putting on stellar line ups, we caught [...]

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Could the city’s live music shake-up be a good thing?

The city’s been hit with some serious blows to its music scene lately. But is it all gloomy tear-stained misery? Things may not be as bad as they seem…

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What does a venue closure mean to Liverpool?

You know you’re getting on a bit when you don’t just remember a place, but its many past lives. Oh, such-and-such is re-opening again, you’ll mutter in passing. You remember it when it was X, and Y, and maybe even Z before that. There’s a certain pride in knowing you’ve got the years under your [...]

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Masque clubnight fallout: Camp and Furnace jumps in

Worried you’d miss out on some serious partying now the Masque’s shut its doors? Fear not, because the city’s newest space has come to the rescue.

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Venue grieving: The Masque shuts down

Jeez, it’s been a rough November in the city. First the grandfather of newspapers, the Daily Post, announces it’s to be cut down to a weekly, and today (November 28th) we hear that Seel Street venue The Masque has shut down. A series of tweets posted on their official Twitter page reads: “It comes with [...]

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