Picture Book: The Next Chapter

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Picture Book: The Next Chapter

As the song goes, we’ve said it once before but it bears repeating, Picture Book are one of the most exciting live acts in the city these days. Stephanie Heneghan holes them up in the Hold.

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CALM presents RESET at Shipping Forecast

Picturebook and friends help former Liverpool-based charity CALM promote new magazine RESET with a gig at the Shipping Forecast.

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Ghostpoet at Shipping Forecast

Ghostpoet raises hip-hop from the dead, and does it with style to spare. Check him out at The Shipping Forecast this Friday…

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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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The Christmas gig season got off to a good start this week - Stephanie Heneghan hunkered down in The Hold to catch Hot Club and The Futureheads, to discuss the future of music. And the X Factor final…

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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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Mellowtone - with added Chill Factor

The Gus-Gus collective were always the coolest Icelanders on the block. So we’re excited to see the lovely Hafdis Huld heading this way for Mellowtone this week…

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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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Fenech Soler - the return

Fenech-Soler: shiny, spangly and caught in the Hold of the Shipping Forecast once more.

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When Shopping met Shipping

Our autumn wardrobe is overdue. But, frankly, we need help. How about we get Rosaleen Gallagher to bring us unique retro pieces while we get the drinks in?

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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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The Freelance Whales: at The Shipping Forecast

Look what’s been trapped in the nets of The Hold, down in the basement of The Shipping Forecast - the rather excellent Freelance Whales. An EVOL event, this is set to be a far more nuanced and memorable affair than some of the recent nights down in the sweaty Slater Street venue. The Freelance Whales [...]

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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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