The Shipping Forecast.

A Tale of Two Cities - ‘notworking’ for creatives

Are you a creative? Of course you are! You’re reading this website. And we have an event you’re going to love.


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Picture This

Picturebook - our favourite Liverpool-Faroe-NYC electronic pop collective - promise to bring their particular blend of trick or treat to the Shipping Forecast this Hallowe’en. SevenStreets isn’t scared…


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Dave McTague’s Spotify Sessions

Dave McTague’s passion for roots, acoustic and, well, just great music takes many forms. Perhaps the best distillation of it all, Mellowtone, takes place again next week. And we’ve got a couple of tickets to win.


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Hey Tourists: Summer Spotify playlist

With support slots for everyone from Babyshambles to The Freelance Whales behind them, Hey Tourists have Premier League stamped all over them. Before they left us behind, we asked them for a Spotify playlist…


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The Hold @ The Shipping Forecast

A new venue on decidedly dodgy Slater Street, The Shipping Forecast is hitting all the right buttons in its cosy basement venue. So far, we’ve seen an inventive and eclectic parade of DJs and indie-electro and folky acts, and, in a city with no Korova (sob) this might be its illegitimate offspring. Gilles Peterson rocked [...]


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Neon nights: Neon Indian plays The Shipping Forecast

There’s some good music coming out of the ol’ US of A lately - from fuzzy beach-rock to swooning folk, lately most of SevenStreets’ iPod seems to consist of artists from ‘over the water’. Texan gang Neon Indian, the brainchild of frontman Alan Palomo, are no different - they appeared last year with an impressive [...]


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Pop Levi at The Shipping Forecast

He’s been threatening to make good on his promise for years. Maybe now it’s Pop Levi time…


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Sound City: 400 bands, 30 venues, four days, one wristband

Jamie Bowman gets the most out his wristband at Liverpool’s sprawling, four-day Sound City music festival.


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Wanted on Voyage

The Shipping Forecast docks on Slater Street. Suddenly, The Ropewalks is a decent port of call again. We speak to its musical captains, Chibuku.


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Good, Becoming Cyclonic

Liverpool’s newest venue The Shipping Forecast is ace


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Nam June Paik Tate/FACT review

Nam June Paik Tate/FACT review

— Mike Pinnington follows the city's green laser beam to a retrospective that gives twice the insight into a pioneering master of new media art.

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Morrissey for Macbeth

Another coup for EverymanPlayhouse, as one of our own comes back home again, this time to tackle Shakespeare's darkest tragedy...

Easter Comes Early

Cream's first event of 2011 promises to ensure the yearly pilgrimage to Parr Street is as potent as ever...

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Think Liverpool ONE is sucking the life out of Liverpool's other shopping areas? Here's one shop that's bucking the trend with a fashion statement that'll please the top end of town.

The Social Network

That Bido Lito, they know a bit about music, yeah? So, imagine if they hosted a night...should be worth checking out, yeah?
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