NOVEMBER 2013
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WELCOME Satellite of Love We have a bumper set of interviews this month starting with this month’s cover, Agnes Obel. The softly spoken Dane has been making waves all over Europe since the release of Philharmonics 3 years ago and is now doing the same in the UK. She talks about her new album Aventine and making music on your own terms. We also have interviews with Editors, Turin Brakes, Dweezil Zappa, Public Service Broadcasting and Low ahead of their Anglican Cathedral show. The former Vogue model and actress April Ashley has an exhibition at The Museum of Liverpool and it is a key part of Homotopia’s 10th Anniversary. We talk to her about her life and her return to Liverpool. And finally, a sad farewell to Lou Reed, songwriter, poet and political activist. I know from my own experience what a huge influence he was on Liverpool artists as well as his massive impact on popular culture worldwide. www.thelowdownmagazine.com
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CHARITY BEER FESTIVAL COMPETITION THIS YEAR SEES the launch of Mossley Hill Athletic Club’s Charity Beer Festival. Over 80 beers and 20 ciders will be available, mostly from local breweries as well as food and live entertainment. The festival runs from 22-24th November and entry is £5. (£4 Sunday) The club grounds were a ‘deed of gift’ made in 1927 by local philanthropist Emma Holt. It now operates on a not-for-profit basis and offers the local community facilities for archery, cricket, crown green bowling, football, hockey, rugby, running and tennis. Funds raised will support Mossley Hill Athletic Club, The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, LCVS and United Way. For times and tickets call 0151 724 4377 www.mossleyhillbeerfestival.org.uk
THE DAY IS DAWNING FILM AND TV WHOVIANS REJOICE AS this month is the celebration of the one and only legendary show Dr Who! For over 50 years generations have delighted in his travels through space and time, and now ‘The Day of the Doctor’ is to be screened in 3D at FACT, Liverpool. Starring Matt Smith, David Tennant, John Hurt and Billie Piper, this special feature length anniversary episode has been long awaited and anticipated. If you fancy sharing the experience with other fans, then head down to FACT Liverpool on Saturday 23rd November for an evening you’ll remember for a lifetime. Tickets are priced at the normal cost of a 3D ticket, and make sure to check after 14th November for the exact screening time. See you there! To find out more please visit www.picturehouses.co.uk or pop into FACT on Wood Street.
ENTERTAINMENT BIGGER, BETTER AND more magical than ever is the return of the Ice Festival to Liverpool One this November. Don’t let the weather get you down - come along to Chavasse Park and delight in the wonder of winter. Gaze upon fabulous street entertainers and marvellous live ice sculpting sessions, whilst the little ones try out rides and a miniature ice rink. Adults can also try not to fall down in their very own full-size ice rink, as the festival provides entertainment for all ages. The ever-popular Ice Bar (now twice as big) is back, complete with ice sculptures and specially crafted ice glasses to drink from. There’s also Après, a special Alpine-themed cafe, to warm any winter chills. So what are you waiting for? Head down to Chavasse Park at Liverpool One and let the winter magic begin! To find out more please visit: www.liverpool-one.com/icefestival
HALLOWEEN LANTERN PARADE ENTERTAINMENT THE AUTUMNAL SPLENDOUR heralds the onset of a new season, bringing with it new beginnings and a chance to look at things in a different light. There’s also new feelings, whether it be nostalgia or the chance to try something new or a little different. One indisputable fact is that we have no control over the changing seasons. When the leaves begin to fall and winds begin to change, sometimes it’s necessary to put on your warm coat and just be. The region’s parks are exquisite at this time of year. The crisp Autumn days are upon us and it’s always a must to take a walk amongst the fallen leaves and witness the change in colour and light. One must-visit is the Hallowe’en Lantern Parade which takes place in Sefton Park on Friday 1st November this year. Now in its eleventh year, the company behind the parade keep the details a closely guarded secret, but each year thousands turn out to watch the displays and follow the parade. Expect to see the lilac-tinged sky casting a chilly atmospheric shadow over the lake, the reflections of lanterns bobbing up and down adding a shiny, glowing quality to the night, mystical creatures set against the backdrop of the black silhouetted trees. Friday 1st November, 6.30pm. Sefton Park. www.lanterncompany.co.uk
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WINTER WONDERLAND
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LIVERPOOL SOUND HARVEY NICHOLS CITY APPLICATIONS POP-UP FOOD MARKET OPENED MUSIC WANT TO BE part of one of Europe’s largest and most popular city music festivals? Then why not apply to play Liverpool Sound city 2014? Taking place over three days every May, Liverpool Sound City is an exciting and vibrant city-wide festival that showcases music from artists all around the world. Previous artists to have played include Bastille, Dexys and Aluna George, in addition to local talent Bird and Baltic Fleet and next year, it could be you! This year applications are powered by Sentric, so applying to play LSC has never been easier. Even if you don’t have a Sentric profile, signing up is fast and simple and you could be on your way to performing for thousands of avid music lovers. Applications close 31st January 2014. To find out more about the festival and to apply, visit www.liverpoolsoundcity.co.uk. Good luck!
FOOD HAVING ORIGINALLY OPENED in November 2012 as a must-go destination for beauty, fashion, lifestyle and food, Harvey Nichols Beauty Bazaar have proudly opened their Pop-up Food Market in Liverpool One for the third year running! Home to luxurious hampers and wide variety of gifts, you’ll be spoilt for choice as you decide how to treat your relatives (and yourself of course!). Tuck into a gourmet treat, recline back with a range of fine wines or even sample Harvey Nichols’ own-brand ‘Riot of Colour’ range. Beauty as they say, is in the eye of the beholder... or shopper. Trading until after Christmas, lucky shoppers can also find a range of seasonal promotions in store and even be in with a chance to win a Christmas Shopping and Pamper Package! Harvey Nichols Pop-up Food Market is located on Manestys Lane, between Harvey Nichols Beauty Bazaar and Paradise Place. Opening hours (Hours due to extend nearer to Christmas): Monday-Friday: 9.30am-8pm, Saturday: 9am7pm, Sunday: 11am-5pm
COMPETITION THE NEW RANGE of Zeal Ski Goggles including a HD camcorder and camera model, and another featuring GPS display are coming to Liverpool along with the new collection of Zeal Ace sunglasses, the first sunglasses that are fully biodegradable, you can be fully confident that if you have an accident when you’re on the slopes you’re not going to leave an impact on the mountain. The launch event on Saturday 30th November will be raising money for Royal SchooL. For The Blind, Liverpool with ski competition in store on a ski simulator! The range is exclusive to Silverberg Opticians in Liverpool.
BEERDFEST IS BACK FOOD AND DRINK BEARDS ARE THE new black. Never before has it been more acceptable to follow the hirsute pursuit. From Jeremy Paxman to Brian Blessed, beards are back baby! Liverpool’s finest beard and moustache contest is back for a second innings at Camp & Furnace. On November 29th you could be the proud owner of Best Beard or Best Moustache in Liverpool when you join the hairy hoorah that is Beerdfest 2013. Beerdfest is music too. Confirmed for the fest that is beardy are local rockers with plenty of facial fuzz Mervin Gersh. Jay Gersh, one hairy drummer boy, is excited: “We are definitely playing the hairiest gig in town. We can’t miss it!” This year Beerdfest is supporting Liverpool charity CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) collecting donations during the fest, and rumours are rife that Brian Blessed is going to accept the first Lifetime Achievement Award Beerdfest takes place on Friday November 29th To register simply email beerdfestliverpool@gmail.com with your name and category of choice.
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SILVERBERG CHARITY SKI COMPETITION
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Britain’s first outwardly known transsexual, Vogue model and actress, Ashley, MBE, is now, at 78 years old, a campaigner for gender equality.
by MALENA RAMÍREZ
Yes; in fact the other day you said “my mother hated me because I was so different”, on the BBC radio. Did she ever love you for who and how you are? No. She was my enemy right up to the end. At the time of my divorce my solicitor suggested I went to Manchester to see her, and I told him I was wasting my time but I went. When I got back to London I said, “we’d better just hope they don’t call her as a witness”. The solicitor didn’t believe me and went to Manchester himself, but he returned agreeing with me.
You left Liverpool at the age of 15 because of the negative experiences you associated with the city. What are your feelings towards Liverpool? What does the city mean to you now? Liverpool was so badly damaged by the war and the bombs that to come back now and see it so beautiful is wonderful. It’s a beautiful city and I love coming back.
You must have had plenty of conflicts while growing up. Are you joking?! I was the fastest runner in Liverpool, I had to run away from so many people picking on me. There was also the conflict of me losing my religion at 15. I missed church and communion one Sunday, and when I went to confession and told the priest it was because I was having doubts, he threw me out, which made me think there was a reason to have doubt.
Tell me about your upbringing. When did you realize that you were not like the other boys? From the year dot. You allegedly had quite a female figure. Could that have influenced you? I had the perfect female figure 36-17-36 - it was extraordinary and amazing to me, but not influential. How was your relationship with your family? I adored my father but he was away at sea. I did see him before he died in 1964 and he just said to me, “darling, I always knew”. But I have had no contact with my brothers since 1960. My mother, who was living with my sister, died in 1974 and nobody told me for ten years. So you can see how close we were.
To be honest, the Church hasn’t been very benevolent – and still isn’t – towards LGBT… No, the Church is not benevolent. I do think that being brought up in the Church was good for me, in that I learned to be strong and forgiving and kind – my parents didn’t teach me those things because my father was away at sea and my mother was wicked. But then I discovered the priests and nuns were all hypocrites because the priests were drunk every Friday night and the nuns at school were vicious. When I was young I had thought them gods. When you left Liverpool for London, did you find there the freedom that you couldn’t find in your hometown? After the devastation of war-torn Liverpool and the austerity of rationing, London was the most wonderful, glamourous city with all the
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Homotopia pays homage to April Ashley in a new exhibition displaying her private archive for the firsts time, to tell the story of life as Britain’s first transsexual. What do you think of the exhibition? What would you say is the most interesting part of it? For me the loveliest part is the recreation of the Carrousel club, Olivia (DuMonceau) the designer has done a marvelous job, she’s really caught the atmosphere of the place. She’s terribly imaginative.
“When I was a child I prayed to God to let me wake up a woman, but it was Dr Burou who became my god.”
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“I had 6 months worth of work booked, but after my friend’s exposé all of it was cancelled” theatres and so on. I didn’t just waitress, I also worked in a theatrical agency delivering messages and I met Diana Dors and Joan Collins. It was exciting. You moved from London to Paris - why? I was offered a job at the club (the Carrousel) - I had been introduced to the club by some English friends of mine. It was there where you decided it was time to undergo gender reassignment surgery, despite the risks involved. What made you take the step? It was an inevitability. I had set myself a target of having the surgery by the time I was 25 or I would kill myself. When I was a child I prayed to God to let me wake up a woman but it was Dr Burou (who performed the surgery) who became my god. I told his son, when we were making a documentary about Burou’s early patients, that I still wake up every day with some of that joy still in me and it was his father who gave that to me. The ‘Sunday People’ tabloid paid a friend of yours £5 for revealing your operation. That shut a lot doors for you... I was furious that they only got £5 - they could have got so much more! I had 6 months worth of work booked, but after the exposé all of it was cancelled, and not by the photographers, by the way, who had always known about me. It was the advertising companies who didn’t want me associated with their products. Even when I moved to the States people would realise who I was and jobs would evaporate, full time hours would become part time. The only jobs I didn’t get sacked from was when I worked in art galleries where the owners knew nothing about art and relied on my knowledge. Is society tolerant nowadays? What can you say about people´s attitudes? Well yes, in some countries attitudes to lesbians and gays are more tolerant, we have made marvelous strides, but that’s not true in countries
like Uganda and Russia. And Trans people still go through hell, I don’t know why but if you can pass easily you are OK, but you have a rough time if you can’t. You met The Beatles. Can you describe your relationship with them? They called me the ‘fucking duchess’! I thought John and Paul were nice and George was sweet but Ringo was a terrible bore. I was terribly sad about John’s death. I think he was very curious about me and had been perhaps a little bit intimidated by me. Homotopia celebrates its 10th birthday this year. Do you think, ten years from now, it will still be necessary to fight for equality? There will always be inequality, like between the rich and poor, but I hope in 10 years time there will be greater tolerance.
APRIL ASHLEY, PORTRAIT OF A LADY MUSEUM OF LIVERPOOL, FROM NOVEMBER 2014. The sample has an online microsite to collect the testimonies of thanks to Ashley, who currently lives in London. She received the British Empire Medal in 2012 and is considered a symbol of the struggle of transgender discrimination.
MAGIC WORLDS EXHIBITION PREVIEW, WORLD MUSEUM LIVERPOOL. UNTIL MARCH’14
Remember when you were younger and all the world seemed to be filled with magic? Remember that dream to be whisked off into a fantasy land where your pets could actually speak, the handsome prince would come to save you and everything seemed possible. If you feel as if the magic is lost then fear not, fair people of the land; your pathway to enchantment and wonder has reopened at World Museum Liverpool!
Magic Worlds is a touring exhibition organised by the V&A Museum of Childhood, London. Stumble into your favourite childhood stories including Snow White and Cinderella in the storytelling tent, or even imagine yourself at the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. Change places with Alice - there’s plenty more people coming to join the fun. For the nostalgic and the fantasy lovers, you can view more than 150 articles including Sooty and his magic wand and even...wait for it...Harry Potter’s broomstick. My cauldron is brimming with excitement already and now I think it’s about to overflow. All together now - go go Gryffindor! Of course wizards, witches, faeries and elves are all steeped in history and folklore. The infamous Cottingly Fairy photos are on display, a true feat of amazement and mystery in the British countryside. Plus, the sight of a Mandrake Root will be surprisingly familiar to any fans of one particular fantasy saga... It’s perfect for all the family (and us fantasy lovers), as the little ones have the chance to dress up as characters from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe or Alice in Wonderland. Once your trip to the Other Side is over, you can nip down to the World Museum shop and treat yourself to tricks and vintage games, so the adventure will never end. You are never too old to rediscover the stories you love. A completely free exhibition, Magic Worlds looks set to be one of the best World Museum experiences to date. Hop on your broomstick (or go by foot - whichever you prefer) and become lost in these familiar tales.
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by SARAH O’HARA
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BOY GEORGE & TRADEMARK Renowned club artist TradeMark brings his collaborative exhibition with Boy George to Camp & Furnace this month as part of Homotopia Festival. Sarah O’ Hara spoke to TradeMark to discover the inspiration behind it and hear his recollections of the Blitz club...
‘This Way Out’ is a collaborative exhibition by Boy George and yourself, taking part at Homotopia - could you tell us more about it? George and I have known each other since 1978 when we met at a club called The Blitz. After I left Art School in Wallasey, I headed down to London and gravitated towards that scene. I was blown away by the way people there looked, and people like George looked amazing! He was the first real live person I did a painting of and we’ve been friends since then. We’ve worked together over the years on various projects, record covers and such, but this exhibition explores invented identities, constructed identities of imaginary characters and people who have created an alternative identity. It sort of follows on from the Bowie influence. George has been taking photos for a few years now and we share a similar aesthetic sense, so we work together very well. Speaking of creating identities, was this inspired by clubs like The Blitz? Well people at The Blitz, who were labelled ‘new romantics’ even though we hated the label, took the lead and called themselves whatever they wanted and looked however they wanted. I’ve always based my art around all these amazing people with exaggerated personas and identities. Some of the amazing people painted and photographed for this event include Lou Reed, Iggy Pop and Steve Strange. Did you get to know Steve through George and The Blitz club? I’ve known Steve since the Blitz days as well, and in fact he was the second person in 1978 after George that I painted. I did some record covers for him and Visage too. It’s almost like a mixture in the exhibition of looking back at those days, but there’s also a contemporary twist. George has been photographing people like Steve as they are now, so it’s spanning an entire time period in the exhibition.
As an artist, what was the appeal of participating in Homotopia? I’ve participated at Homotopia since the beginning really. I first exhibited at the festival and designed posters for them. I loved the idea of Homotopia because when I was growing up it seemed unimaginable that you would have a gay arts festival as society was very different back then, but I love the progress that is being made now. After Homotopia what are your plans for the future? I’m carrying on with my painting and I’m hoping to exhibit in London and the States. Tying in with what we’re doing in this exhibition, I’m hoping to write a book - not an autobiographical one, but more of an anecdotal piece featuring the club scenes. If this show goes well at Homotopia we may do an expanded version in 2015. One of the things that inspired us was the Glam exhibition at TATE Liverpool earlier in the year, which was brilliant. We don’t have a lot of articles on display in our exhibition, mainly photographs and paintings, but if we were to expand the exhibition we may include some of George’s costumes.
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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
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REVIEW, LIVERPOOL PLAYHOUSE, THURSDAY 3RD OCTOBER
Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s infamous classic has been brought to life in this gripping and dark adaptation from writer Chris Hannan and Director Dominic Hill. As a fan of the original novel I was eager to see how it would be transferred to stage - needless to say, it did not disappoint… by SARAH O’HARA
Following student Raskolnikov through his torment and anguish after committing two murders, his isolation from society was perfectly characterised by actor Adam Best. Mesmerising to watch, particularly in monologues to the audience, his quick change from guilt-ridden man to full blown anger at society encapsulated Raskolnikov with each word uttered. The murder scenes themselves were tense and anxious, with a screen brought down onto the stage to cover the act. The splashes of red onto the plastic screen were unexpected and highly effective, to the point where I nearly jumped out of my seat. Remaining on stage throughout the performance, the cast’s quick scene changes using doors and minimal sets were seamless. The use of minimal staging was indication enough of character locations in each scene, as the script and cast performance filled in the rest of the gaps with ease. After the brutalness of the first half hour, the dialogue about changing society provided moral reactions to everyday dos and don’ts that leave Raskolnikov slightly disoriented. Enter Marmeladov (the impeccable George Costigan) and Ilya Petrovich (John Paul Hurley), two policemen who suspect Raskolnikov of the double murder. George Costigan’s serious inquisition mixed with more dry-humoured wit were a breath of fresh air in such a gritty drama. However this served to intensify the impact of the sentence dealt to Raskolnikov when his true part in the crime is revealed. Throughout the production Jessica Hardwick’s perfor-
mance as Prostitute Sonya was beautiful and poetic; a character whose sorrow resonates with the audience as she tries to redeem her past acts and save Raskolnikov from himself. Accompanying the entire performance was the majestic music of Composer and Sound Designer Nikola Kodjabashia. Haunting lyrics including “Through the dark night we hope and we pray like Sentries that long for the dawn” that reflects Raskolnikov’s eternal hope for salvation, and added atmosphere to an already dramatic production. It was fantastic to see the multi-talents of the cast as they played various instruments including the Clarinet, adding an extra dimension to an already glorious piece of theatre. Even if you are not a fan of classical literature, this adaption of Crime and Punishment is one of the best pieces of serious drama to have graced the stage in a long time. Full of suspense and moral lessons, this is one play that will stay with you long after you leave the auditorium. Absolutely stunning.
THE GRAND GESTURE LIVERPOOL PLAYHOUSE TUESDAY 12TH NOVEMBER - SATURDAY 16TH NOVEMBER WE ALL HAVE, our ups and downs, but sadly for
unemployed Simeon Duff, one problem too many is tipping him over the edge. As he contemplates his own existence, a whole hoard of people come along to take advantage of his situacion - with unusual consequences. This hilarious and heartwarming play is directed by Conrad Nelson and adapted by Deborah McAndrew.
ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET: THE NUTCRACKER LIVERPOOL EMPIRE THEATRE, WEDNESDAY 20TH NOVEMBER - SATURDAY 23RD NOVEMBER MAJESTIC AND MAGICAL, this classic tale is brought to
PREVIEW, LIVERPOOL ECHO ARENA, SATURDAY 30TH NOVEMBER RENT IS ONE of the most iconic modern day musicals of the last 20 years. Full of show-stopping songs and foot-tapping rhythms, this phenomenal production is touring the UK and will be onstage for one night only at the Echo Arena - get ready for Rent’s 20th Anniversary Concert tour.
Following a group of friends who live in the East Village of New York City, this heartwarming and brilliant story is all about one year of their lives in a society dealing with HIV/ AIDs. It’s about picking yourself up, living for the moment and loving those dearest to you. Any fan of the musical will know the classic ‘Seasons of Love’, but if you are new to the show you will certainly not be disappointed. It can be guaranteed that you will still be singing the songs long after the show has ended - trust me, I’m still singing them now! Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical and Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Rent is back by popular demand, with local Wirral talent Rory Taylor reprising his role as Roger. Singer in band 54321 and runner-up in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Superstar’ TV show, Taylor is no stranger to the stage. Complimenting Taylor is ex-Atomic Kitten and West End star Natasha Hamilton, giving a dynamic performance as Maureen. If you’re looking for a brilliant night out then head down to Liverpool Echo Arena on 30th November and witness this classic show for yourself.
AGATHA CHRISTIE’S GO BACK FOR MURDER THE FLORAL PAVILLION, MONDAY 28TH OCTOBER - SATURDAY 2ND NOVEMBER BASED ON A TALE by one of the most infamous and
classic crime novelists in history, this is one production full of twists, turns and dramatic tension. Presented by the Official Agatha Christie Theatre Company and Bill Kenwright, Go Back for Murder tells the story of Carla, who after uncovering a mysterious letter, sets out to discover once and for all who killed her father.
THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO FAZAKERLEY LIVERPOOL PLAYHOUSE, TUESDAY 12TH NOVEMBER - SATURDAY 16TH NOVEMBER IF YOU THOUGHT you knew Douglas Adam’s classic
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxi then think again. Comic genius Fred Lawless (Scouse Pacific, Little Scouse on the Prairie) brings another helping of hilarity to the stage in this brilliant extraterrestrial experince. When one of the Murphy family is abducted by aliens, it’s time to go where no scouser has gone before - Venus! by SARAH O’HARA
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RENT’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY
life by the incredible English National Ballet. Follow Clara, the nutcracker and the magician Drossmeyer through their adventures in Edwardian London and beyond as your festive season begins. Featuring the music of the tremendous Tschaikovsky, this is the perfect family show for all generations.
LIVERPOOL’S INTERNATIONAL ARTS VENUE
WHAT’S ON Full listings www.thecapstonetheatre.com Autumn Season 2013
Northern Baroque: Baroque and Roll
Jimmy Carl Black Memorial Barbeque Band
Saturday 2nd November, 7.30pm £11.50 (£9.50 concessions)
Matt Ridley Quartet
Friday 8th November, 7.30pm £14 (£11.50 concessions)
Much Ado About Nothing
With Harry Meacher and Judi Bowker Thursday 14th November, 7.30pm £11.50 (£9.50 concessions)
Tuesday 5th November, 7.30pm £14 (£11.50 concessions)
´ Branka Parlic: The Cone Gatherers Tuesday 12th November, 7.30pm £14 (£11.50 concessions)
Double Bill: Natasha Davis and Two Destination Language Friday 15th November, 7.30pm £13.50 (£11.50 concessions)
BOX OFFICE 0844 8000 410
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OCTOBER
DEAN FRIEDMAN
12
SHAKESPEARE SCHOOL’S FESTIVAL
14 - 18
AN EVENING WITH HOWARD KENDALL
17
MARTINI LOUNGE
19
GINA YASHERE
23
THE ELEPHANT BRIDESMAID
24
LHK PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS GLEE
26
NOVEMBER HANDEL FURIOSO
2
CLAPPERBOARD PRESENTS… BECOMING JOHNNY VEGAS 6 GYPSY FIRE
8
THE MERSEY BEATLES
9
ROY CASTLE CHANCE2DANCE
10
WE’RE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT STEPHEN LYNCH LIVE MOVING ADVENTURES -
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EUROPEAN OUTDOOR FILM TOUR
FOY VANCE
21 22
POSITIVE IMPACT
23-24
MUSIC HALL TAVERN
29
MAGIC CIRCLE – WORLD STARS OF MAGIC
30
DECEMBER ANNIE
1-2
AN EVENING WITH JOHN BARNES
3
BUDDY HOLLY & THE CRICKETERS
4
MOTHERSHIP - LED ZEPPELIN TRIBUTE
6
MARTINI LOUNGE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
7
PHILHARMONIC KERFUFFLE
17
SNOW WHITE CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME
12 - 5 JAN
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AGNES OBEL Berlin based Agnes Obel has been on the Low Down radar for a while. Already a platinum selling artist across Europe, the unassuming Danish singer-songwriter-pianist has been steadily gathering critical acclaim in the UK, culminating in a handful of sold out shows and a performance at the itunes festival. We have been big fans of her first album Philharmonics from the first time we heard Riverside and we jumped at the chance to talk to her about her new album Aventine. by PAUL TSANOS
You are originally from Copenhagen but decided to relocate to Berlin. What was the attraction? The City was so different from Copenhagen. The first time I went there I went to a restaurant where it was up to you what you wanted to pay for your food. I thought that was really wonderful. Seeing things growing from beneath, Copenhagen’s very often from the top. It’s big and people are coming from all places of the world, things appear in a different way. And there is also a vibe that anything is possible. I think this was speaking to me very much. Did it help you to grow musically by being in a place like that? Yeah definitely, it was really great. I had a lot of music around me before but a lot of the people were thinking very career-like about music which didn’t really work so well for me in the early days. In Berlin I found a different vibe, more about having fun and following your intuition and you didn’t think of the whole pragmatic aspect of music and this is how I experienced it. It worked really well for me and seemed like a lot of ideas could come about in a more natural way. A career in music is a bit like running away to join the circus. Were your family supportive in what you wanted to do? They were supportive but on the other hand sometimes they were wishing I would go and study and do something less risky. Now they are like ‘Nothing is secure anymore, maybe It’s not so bad being a musician’ because It’s the same for everybody, everybody is insecure at the moment. On your first album Philharmonics, you wrote and performed
everything, did you record everything yourself as well? When I was seventeen I went to a school and learned about music recording and studio recording techniques and working on a big analogue desk. So I learned quite early on to record and sequence music. In Germany I didn’t have any connections so I had to do it myself and it turned out to be very interesting for me because I could write a song and I could record it immediately and figure out how it worked. The whole process of writing and recording a song was no longer devolved. It was more melded together. It was way faster for me to find out whether it was a good song or not. It helped me to sing and perform better because I had the freshness of the song in me still and the words were new to me because I had just written them. So I discovered how wonderful it is to write and then record immediately after. I needed a bigger space so we found the old GDR Radio house in East Berlin where you can rent space cheaply. I recorded everything there. The sound is also good because I had a Stem mastering module and an analogue studio to warm everything up. I also bought good preamps and good compressors. There’s a lot
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“ I learned English from music, so I have a wonderful musical relationship with the English language which makes it somehow more interesting to write lyrics.”
“I don’t think I could make music with someone telling which direction I should go or who I should work with.”
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of Neumann mic’s in Berlin so I could borrow really wonderful mic’s from friends. Berlin is a very good place if you want to have good equipment and find good microphones. There are some very lush string arrangements on Aventine. Who did you get to perform them? On Aventine for example I wrote the song on piano and then we used samples to construct them. Then I had Anna Müller in to play cello and violin. She doesn’t play violin so she borrowed her father’s and played it like a little cello. Then I had to edit it and it was really a big work. It was definitely the most challenging song on the album. Your songs are very descriptive and dreamlike, especially on the first album. Is this deliberate or does it just happen? It just happens I think, the song is a story and I just try to tell it. For example Riverside, I felt this song was a story and I just had to tell it and I felt the song was also about water so the piano sounded like water. In a way I felt like the music really informed the story. I want to evoke something without baiting it. You’re never sure how it’s coming across because it’s just your own subjective feeling but this is something I really like also in classical music. You seem to have a lot of control of your career. A lot of artists don’t have that. Do you think that it is important that artists do what they want to do? I don’t think I could make music with someone telling which direction I should go or who I should work with. What drives the clockwork of what I am doing is my own curiosity towards what’s coming out. I just go into a room and shut everything out and don’t think about the rest of the world. If I would open that room up I’m not sure I would be so curious any more. But maybe. I don’t know. I don’t think a record label could decide that. Maybe another musician who was doing something really interesting and I could get inspired by that. So far the music I have been doing on my own has been growing by itself, that’s how I feel when I haven’t been thinking about anything. Making the song and letting it grow organically and not think about how it’s going to be perceived by anybody. Do you have any plans to work with a full band or are there any people out there you would like to work with? I still like to write on my own and I think I will always do that but I would definitely like to work with other people and also try to record outside of my own little studio thing at some point. It could be great to record in a bigger room and see how it’s going to sound but I don’t think I would like to just write a song and hand it to a producer to finish. I think that would be difficult for me. I think I would more like it to grow together
with somebody else collaborating but I’m not really sure how we would do that, I haven’t really done that with my own stuff. You used Myspace to get your music out at the beginning and had a song picked up for a Deutsche Telekom advert that helped get things going. Do you still use social networking sites, do you have time? There was a lot of people including myself who were doing music and didn’t have a record deal. Myspace was there and everybody was using it as a platform to show what they were doing and also to have a deadline. ‘Ok I have to finish this song and put it up on Myspace’ It was wonderful to pressure yourself. It sounds antiquated now because of Youtube and Soundcloud and other sites but at that time it was good for a musician. I was talking to musicians from all over the world and checking out their music. But it’s not like that anymore, it’s been overshadowed by other platforms. At the moment I’m trying not to spend too much time on it as it can get really confusing but it was really helpful early on me when I didn’t have a place to put my music. I use it now to check out social media to learn about new music but it doesn’t have the same function as before because I have a label. Do you sing in your native language? I learned English from music, so I have a wonderful musical relationship with the English language which makes it somehow more interesting to write lyrics. I think I can say things I wouldn’t be able to say in Danish because I would be way to analytical. I could do it with other languages, for example Swedish but I’m not sure I could do it with Danish. Have you been to Liverpool? I played in Liverpool supporting I Am Kloot in 2010...I don’t remember the name of the venue just that it was very long with pillars. (O2 Academy) It was 3 years ago and it was the day Philharmonics was released, 4th October. We went to the record store and took a photo of my CD next to Oasis on the shelf. It was really a great day. Do you have any advice for aspiring singer/songwriters out there? I think it’s important to not believe that there is any sort of formula. Everything is getting defined in a new way all the time. You shouldn’t hold back because your music doesn’t fit in to some scheme or because somebody tells you it doesn’t have the right genre or nobody is listening to that. You should not listen to that. You should just do exactly what you want and believe in your own instincts.
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It has taken 20 years and 10 albums for Low to perform in Liverpool, but that day is finally coming -the 18th, and they play the Cathedral. We ask the band’s frontman Alan Sparhawk -who is Mormon- about his feelings towards playing in such venue, as well as their last, beautiful record, produced by Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, and discuss their longevity and slowcore universe.
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by ORIOL BOSCH It’s quite a long way, and you’ve done it with a definite M.O, as you pointed out: “slow, quiet, sometimes melancholy, and, we hope, sometimes pretty...” Yes. I think we’ve maybe leaned more towards pretty in the last couple of records and ended up not as ugly as sometimes before. Maybe this is turning now. Yes. The quite aggressive intensity and even slight sense of anger in Drums and Guns and in The Great Destroyer is definitely gone in The Invisible Way, and the album is more minimalist than C’mon. Was that sort of simplicity pre-conceived? Yes, I think so. We worked a long time on the songs, on the arrangements, before we went to the studio, trying to find sort of the essence for their simple amount, and I think with the way that Jeff Tweedy was seeing what we were doing he was also very into keeping it very minimal. There were a couple of times when there would be a song where we thought “Okay, maybe we should add this, we should add this” etc and he was good at kind of encouraging us saying “No, no, it sounds good with just the very few things”, so he was really helpful to remind us that we were in there with the plan of keeping it very simple. We go into almost every record thinking it has to be minimal, very simple, but a lot of times, because we are thinking about the way we play live -,
and to me the most interesting recordings are the ones where you could hear that it’s three people, and it’s closer to the sets of just three people playing behind of this. There’s a struggle, there’s a certain kind of tension that happens there, and if we add more things it makes it blurry I think. You certainly managed to evolve and endure being faithful to your slowcore universe. Haven’t you ever felt constrained by its limited palette? Sure, yes. But that’s part of it. I think that everybody has limits in what they are working with, whether it´s their abilities or maybe a certain way a band is or may-
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“We might start doing things that are a bit different from the last couple of records”
they are collaborating with another person and the way they are just makes this kind of music. Sometimes it’s just the natural way, and this is what happens when you are with this person and play music, so it’s not something you have to think about very much. Hopefully it grows and changes naturally, and you find a common ground, the voice together. It’s always kind of a mystery sometimes, especially going to the studio. Sometimes, a song, you don’t know how it’s going to sound until you stew it and then that’s the most natural way it’s presented. But it’s hard, I can tell, sometimes. Low still sounds quite fresh after 20 years and you seem excited to keep going and sorting out limits and mysteries. Well, having limits forces me to be more creative, you know. I have this idea and I need to present it through these limits. Sometimes those limits actually make your idea even stronger. The limitations, they are there, yes, and they can be frustrating sometimes, but in the end it is what moves you forward. What are your feelings about Low’s 20th anniversary? I don’t know. We didn’t necessarily have a big party or anything. 20 years is interesting, a lot of the people who we look up to have been going for even longer, so it’s not so much anything that we can be too proud of. Most of the contemporary bands do not have that long a life, or if they do, sometimes they get a bit lost along the way. Yes, it’s dangerous to keep going (laughs). Do you ever feel this fear of crossing that line and becoming not that meaningful, not that relevant, the fear of sort of going along as opposed to going ahead? Of course I’m afraid, of course. Everyone who has done it this long is afraid of that. But I don’t know, the key I hope is to be honest with yourself and always make the music that you feel the most strongly about. I hope (laughs). That’s what we are going to do.
Do you feel like... Old? (laughs) Like Low carrying on for another decade, I was about to ask (laughs). I think we probably will, yeah. Mimi and I are together, this is our life, and it doesn’t seem to me that anything is changing either, as far as priority, this is what we do and we are always looking for the new challenge, and right now we are at a place where we might start doing things that are a bit different from the last couple of records. We’ll see. To me that’s the key, I think we are always trying to find where it is to be uncomfortable. I think it’s time for a new way to think. Is it time to go even beyond your slowcore aesthetic? I don’t know. We know it’s going to always be sort of minimalistic, it’s always going to be our voices, but in the last few records, I think we realised that we can do whatever we want and try many possibilities and still sound like us. You recorded C’mon in a church and you have in fact played in several churches, but have you ever played in a cathedral? Yeah, we’ve played in some crazy bigger buildings like that. It’s really strange, I’ve just been reading this book by David Byrne, from Talking Heads, and he talks about space and how where people perform music changed music. How big spaces like churches inspired music to have very long notes and simple changes and a certain approach to harmonics that keeped it from getting too clouded and confusing in a big room that has long reverb. Playing at a big stage like that, it’s really beautiful but it’s also a huge challenge, sometimes certain songs just don’t work there, because there’s too many things going on and you are sending too much information into the air. So for us being kind of quieter, minimal, it really can enhance it, but even with us, we have to be very aware, sort of adjust our set according to the space. Cathedrals are really beautiful but they are also the most challenging.
I saw you at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound Festival in 2011 and that was kind of a spiritual experiencie. I can only imagine how your concert is going to be at Liverpool’s Cathedral, which, by the way, is UK’s largest cathedral. REALLY? Yes. At least that’s what they say. Oh, wow. Wow, that’s going to be crazy then. I will have to think really hard about that now. Well, don’t take it as too much of a challenge. It is, though (laughs). I’m excited. That’s strange, interesting, the biggest one, good. You once said that music is a particularly good conduit for you to feel closer to God. Do you think that in a place like that, a huge cathedral, both ingredients get together? It can be, but sometimes with our generation the very idea of a church can throw some people off. To some people it’s unfamiliar, they think “Oh, a church is a church” and then there’s a bit of a wall that builds up, so maybe there is a little bit of resistance. In a dirty club you don’t expect it, so then you have no preconceptions about what it means to feel something spiritual in that space, because there’s no reference to it. It’s almost more honest and free when it happens somewhere else, whereas when you are in a place where normally these kind of feelings are brought out, sometimes there can be a little bit of a resistance. But then you open up and realize that this space has had many, many thousands of people in there, some of them with very, very deep concerns of fear and hope, and whenever I’m in a place like that I feel those things. I don’t feel God as much as I feel the presence of all the people that have come there searching for God. To me, that’s what that space is. It can be very humbling and very challenging to be honest to that spirit. If you are making music there, you are becoming part of that spirit, and it’s not the place for a dishonest man.
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EDITORS
After a dark period of turmoil, Chris Urbanowicz left the Birmingham band last year. That has left Editors without his signature guitar sound and creative inputs but paved the way to Editors 2.0, now a five-piece. Four years after their last record, the indie rockers are back with The Weight of Your Love, an album with potential to open a door to a new legion of fans, but one that may well become a two-way door. Editors will bring it, and their previous efforts, to the 02 Academy on the 18th -with support from British Sea Power- so we had a chat about it, and them, with bassist Russell Leetch.
Editors and Chris Urbanowicz parted ways after a disagreement over the band’s “future musical direction”. Was his aim to follow the ‘In This Light and On This Evening’ electronic path? No, it wasn’t like that, really. We just didn’t have a direction. We knew we wanted to move away from the electronic sounds, but we just didn’t have a direction at all. Usually there’s a song where you think “Oh, yeah, we could go this way”, but it
just wasn’t happening. There was no distinct direction we wanted to go in. Then you lost Chris but gained an extra member, becoming a five-piece band. What made you take that decision, instead of just replacing Chris? Well, we had this show at Rock Werchter booked in 2012 and we didn’t want the burden to be one just one new guitarist, we want-
The album was produced by American producer Jacquire King (Kings of Leon, Modest Mouse, Norah Jones...) and recorded in Nashville. Yeah, we were trying to think of a producer to work with, we had done two sessions with Flood and it just hadn’t worked out, it wasn’t working out, we didn’t want to go in for a third time because you’ve got so much experience of these songs, so, yeah, we were thinking who could we work with, and Jacquire came in and we thought “Oh”, he records organically, we wanted to go to America to make it, and so yeah, he said “Come to Nashville”, because that’s where he likes working out of, and we did. Did you want to soak up an American feel, going to America to record with an American producer? Maybe a little bit. We definitely wanted, you know, I think the sort of tradition with guitars is more prominent in America sometimes, we definitely wanted that feel back to the band, so maybe that was an intention. Tom (Smith, frontman) said that you wanted to make a big rock statement that harks back to Echo and The Bunnymen, U2 or REM. Before this record, I would never imagined putting you and REM, especially U2, in the same sentence. Right, yeah, I think there’s always been a little bit of that kind of there, especially maybe on the second record, on songs like ‘Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors’. You know, we’ve been compared to a lot of bands, and the list seems to get bigger every year.
No, just that song, a little bit. Yeah, that’s a moodier song. Our moodiest songs definitely go into that old raincoat Britannia.
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ed two people to come in. First of all it was for that specific gig but then I guess you thought that would be good for the sound you were aspiring to achieve to get an extra member? Yeah, I think that makes it. You need to learn your parts better, because you need to know where everything is going to fit, you need to figure out the frequencies of where everything is going to go, which is actually really good for songs. Is The Weight of Your Love, and everything entailed in it, a new starting point for Editors? Yeah, we are playing quite a few tracks off it, yes, so it’s going down really well. But... do you think it is a new starting point for Editors? Oh, yes, it definitely feels like Editors part two, I think. We are fully aware that the first three albums, Chris used to produce work, you know, used to produce his riffs on it, his sound. And now he is gone, so that sound is gone.
The Weight of Your Love is quite a varied record but the theme is certainly love and its complexity. Would you say that complexity, the conjuction of both the brutal and the positive side, can be extrapolated to Editors very nature? I think so, yeah, I think we like to explore all parts, Iwe like to show that in our show as well, there’s the down parts and the up parts, so that’s always something we try and do. How do you feel playing a new song like ‘A Ton Of Love’ compared to ‘Munich’, ‘An End Has A Start’ or ‘Papillon’? It feels good, it feels really strong, the reaction is really big, seems to get bigger as time goes on. ‘Papillon’ was a slow starter and now it’s the biggest songs in the set. I think when we put the songs out there to the public, they start to transform. Your album is less thick or dense than the previous ones... I think, to be honest, for that song, ‘A Ton Love’, it’s becoming a highlight. It’s definitely becoming up there. And that song is quite representative of the new era of Editors, a song that can be a stadium song in a way as well. People say that, but we play different venues all over the world. We play big arena shows and we play small club shows, and that song gets down well in all of them. I think we’ve always had a big sound though. Something like ‘Bullets’, our first single, it was a big rock song. How are you feeling in the new band, with the five of you? How are things going on tour for the first time as a five-piece? Great, pretty good, we are enjoying it a lot. The band dynamic is different, it feels really strong, we feel happy touring together, and glad that we made the record together, so yes, it’s seeming strong. by ORIOL BOSCH
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I can still see some resemblance with Joy Division in ‘Two Hearted Spider”. I wonder what are your thoughts about this particular and so talked about comparison. I don’t know, really. I think that was more of a first album thing. Perhaps people think with the voice, the guitars... that again, I think that’s the first album. I don’t think this album sounds anything like Joy Division.
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Gale Paridjanian, one half of the London band’s core, talks to us about their new album, We Were Here, which has been made as a four-piece and echoes the psychedelia of Pink Floyd at some points. TB are not to hit the brakes on touring this month, and will play at The Kazimier on the 5th.
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Twelve years after ‘The Optimist’, are you still feeling optimistic? Yes, more now than three years ago. This album has given us a good focus and it’s been very healthy. Right, but you must have been optimistic three years ago as well, no? Two years ago we were actually looking at what was going on and wondering if we were going to make another Turin Brakes album. And we had not much support from any kind of management or anything, we were kind of on our own. We were fighting to pay the rent on our studio, and so we kind of started changing a few things, and largely playing live music seemed to kind of pull us out from a little hole for a while. Really, doing these kind of small gigs kept us all together and kept us playing and kept the idea of music being fun, of music being satisfying, alive for us, and it really pulled us through a bit of a quiet time when we were considering whether to carry on. How much influence has Olly’s solo album If Not Now When had in We Were Here? Strangely, Olly doing that solo album meant that we could get a slightly clear understanding of what Turin Brakes was, because if he hadn’t made that album then a lot of those songs or some of those ideas probably wouldn’t have been pushed through into Turin Brakes land. And I think it’s really okay to have lots of different ideas for music, but they don’t all necessarily have to come under Turin Brakes, and that led to us trying to work out what Turin Brakes was, which is what led to this album, and I think we probably got it down reasonably well, what TB is about. What moved you to record live to tape? This is just something we were talking about a lot. Our last album, Outbursts, we had our own studio space, we made it part-time over about two years, demoing, because we were
on digital we could just build up a demo into big things and we were realizing that a lot of the restrictions of tape are really useful restrictions, and they mean that you for example have to play a lot of stuff live and you have to consider what you are doing. There are a lot of things that you consider to be a pain that actually are very useful in the studio, like having to wait for the tape to rewind and generally having to play a song from top to bottom, from start to finish, and not just play the chorus once and copy and paste, and copy and paste...The digital thing is wonderful, but it has taken a little bit of the uniqueness of the music. The music that we were listening to sounded like it was recorded in a studio by people playing instruments, and what we were trying to be, really, was put ourselves back as the people playing instruments, rather than the people being engineers and pressing records and copying and pasting. Several songs from your first three albums got into the UK Singles Chart, even scoring a number five, but none from the last three, including We Were Here, have made it. As a band who’s been there, how do you feel about that situation? (Sighs) It’s tricky. This album was released as a Top 40 and it was the in the top 10 in the indie charts. Midweek, it was number 31 in the UK chart, so it’s not doing too badly as an album, but yeah, I have to question what the point of putting out singles is if you are not charting. We haven’t had a single in the charts for a while and that’s very true, and we know it, but I guess we are just very forgiving of ourselves, because we know that when we did have the stuff on the charts, we were with a big company [Source Records, which was part of EMI] and we had a lot of wind in our sails, a lot of backing, because we were new and everyone is curious, and all those things help. We kind of had our time with that, and now we are not a new band, and now we don’t have a big company behind us. We know that things have changed, and we kind of forgive ourselves, and I think that
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Has the change from being in a more mainstream sphere to the indie one changed you as an artist? I don’t know, I guess we are still working that out. You definitely feel like you are working on your own a lot more, not being in the mainstream, the pressure is not there from an outside source, we are completely left to our own devices, so I guess that probably has changed us slightly as artists, but I think that we are also still aiming for the same thing that we were aiming for originally, I just think we are doing it in a different context now. The album’s cover artwork is pretty much like Tame Impala’s single editions, especially ‘Elephant’, and you actually flirt with a more psychedelic sound, but it’s as if you are just testing the waters, as you don’t quite dive into it... Yeah, I guess so. Quite a lot of the album came from playing with the band live as a four-piece, and quite a lot of that involved jamming and having long instrumentals, mucking about a bit with music, and I think that’s kind of where that thing came from. We didn’t really conceive too much about becoming slightly psychedelic or not psychedelic. The psychedelic moments just came naturally, and I think previously we would have stopped and would have said “Okay, that’s too psychedelic, it has to be more acoustic”, but I think we just let it run, because it felt a very good place for us to go. I don’t know if we are going to go more psychedelic, I don’t know which way things are going but I think the two work very well together. ‘Blindsided again’, in my opinion the best song of the album, and ‘Stop the world’ are the two songs
“We know that things have changed and we forgive ourselves”
that are more psychedelic. They are there, but feel decontextualized in the album, perhaps that’s because of what you just said in that it wasn’t pre-conceived to include psychedelic tones or undertones on the album. Yeah, I mean, there was also stuff that wasn’t psychedelic as well (laughs). We just had to try and make it all fit on there, really. But I feel like it came out very naturally, I didn’t even really consider the word ‘psychedelic’ until we finished mixing and recording it. We never mentioned the word ‘psychedelic’ amongst us, it just seemed to be kind of what we had to do at the time. Would you say We Were Here is a work in progress of the band in terms of “this is what we are now, the music we wanted to do, and our next album may portray our definitive sound”? I definitely think we kind of nailed this album a little bit how we wanted it to be, we wanted to go back to how, even in technology, of how things were when we started. I think we kind of got a few of the ideas, back about where we were, where we are really and where we started, so I don’t know if it is the definitive album, although I think it’s a very lean, good example of Turin Brakes. I don’t know what we are going to do next, who knows.
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YEAH, YEAH, YEAH THE STORY OF MODERN POP
Growing up we’ve all had those moments of pure music bliss; acts who have defined a relationship or albums that have accompanied journeys of a lifetime.
by SARAH O’HARA
If you haven’t been to a Faber Social before, needless to say you will not be disappointed! Organised in conjunction with Waterstone’s Liverpool, I waltzed into the grand and beautiful architecture of West Africa House; the vibe in the room electric. The audience and myself awaited the arrival of our esteemed panel of guests - Author Bob Stanley, Former NME journalist Paul De Noyer, Big in Japan’s Jayne Casey and synth-pop pioneer Andy McClusky of OMD - eagerly anticipating their reflections on modern popular music and its future. Whatever your opinions on the current debates in the music industry (and believe me, my own views can be quite feisty!), this panel certainly knew the ins and outs of it all. Of course pop music means different things to most people. When asked what popular music is, our panel’s answers ranged from music that fits an audience to music that quite literally is just popular. Reflecting on the bygone era where the charts dominated, both Andy and Jayne commented on the chart show as the competition and the sales man’s game, an essential benchmark previously for any musician. Shedding a metaphorical tear at the demise of sitting in your bedroom listening to the chart show (a rite of passage for any teenager), it was clear that the era of television chart
shows may sadly be over - a thought re-emphasised when only one person in the room actually knew who was at number one that week. Delving into discussion about Liverpool’s musical heritage, how the industry is trying to adapt with new technological developments and the music press’ influence, their fascinating and revealing reflections were finally opened for questioning by the audience - and I was raring to go. Although their discussions were relatively about the recording industry, I was interested to know their thoughts about the flourishing live industry. Paul De Noyer’s rhetorical question about whether popular music is created first in the live terrain or in the studio was equally matched by Jayne’s statement that massive leaps forward creatively can only be made in the live terrain - satisfactory answers to my own curiosities. Even if the the recording music industry seems to be in decline, Modern Popular Music (and the love of more so) is a bustling business. It was an absolute thrill to hear this wonderful panel of guests talk about a subject that is so ingrained into society. Speaking to Paul De Noyer, Andy McClusky and Jayne Casey after the event, I felt honoured to be discussing music with three people who I have so much respect and admiration for and I will certainly be reading Bob Stanley’s book. The recording industry may be dead, but its legacy is ever lasting.
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Some say the golden age of popular music may be over - or is it? Bob Stanley’s new book Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop is a revealing insight into popular music, and as a devotee of popular culture, I ventured down to Leaf on Water Street to see what some of the industry professionals had to say.
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PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING · MONDAY, 25TH NOVEMBER · EVAC
Taking BBC’s mission statement as its own, London duo Public Service Broadcasting have crafted a curious, delightful and quite extraordinary debut album by repurposing old propaganda films. We talk to J. Willgoose, Esq, the brains of this operation, prior to their November UK tour, that will see them playing at the EVAC on the 25th. by ORIOL BOSCH
“I am keen to broaden the scope and horizons on every level, not just in the way we use samples” wanting to move on from that that led me to start work on The War Room, I suppose.
You released EP One, which included ‘Theme from PSB’, in 2010, when Public Service Broadcasting was only you. Did you have by then a clear idea of what music you wanted to make in the future and how you wanted to do and present it? No, not really, it’s been an ongoing growth I suppose, it’s all growing quite naturally and reasonably slowly. I mean, I started the first song about five years ago, so to get to the debut album was quite a long journey. Around the days of EP One I think I was just still just finding my feet with it, doing stuff that I found amusing and entertaining and playing in pubs, and getting mostly a good reaction, but still kind of finding my feet with it. It was really
Would you stand by the tagline “teach the lessons from the past through the music of the future”? Absolutely, a hundred percent. We’re a hundred percent behind that, it’s an absolutely cast iron truth, as far as we are concerned. Producers and bands such as DJ Shadow, UNKLE and Manic Street Preachers have built songs out of samples before. In your opinion, what makes PSB stand on its own, distinguishing it from other artists? I’m not in the best place to answer that, I’m far too closely involved with it. It’s hard for me to get an accurate hold on it. I think, if I was forced to answer it, I’d say probably what makes us slightly different is the fact that the concept and the way it’s presented and the way we
The combination of vintage samples and modern music that you do is very interesting. In a way, it could be said that Public Service Broadcasting is music’s equivalent to Blade Runner, don’t you think? Yeah, I’m very pleased you said that, kind of retrofitting, I suppose, isn’t it? Taking something old and bolting something new on top of it and in the process hopefully making something new. Without getting too pretentious, it’s quite postmodern what we do, which is another reason to have an element of humour in it. I think postmodernism works a lot better when it’s got a slight mischievous air to it rather than being po-faced. And yeah, Blade Runner is one of my favourite films of all time, I think it’s an absolutely staggering film. Thinking about the future, do you see yourself expanding your ‘sampling scope’ into non-propaganda material, using classic films such as Citizen Kane? Yeah, I am keen to broaden the scope and broaden the horizons on every level really, not just in terms of the way we use samples, but the music around it and the concept in general. I think there’s a lot of different ways we could go with it, which is quite exciting, and we certainly don’t want to just fall into a pattern of doing the same things again and again. The next thing is kind of forming in my head as we are travelling around, I am thinking of different ideas and different subjects and I am pretty confident that we’ll end up with quite a different record but one that still sounds enough like us to make it a continuation rather than a total departure. So, you are thinking of changing the concept in your next thing? Well, not as much as changing the concept, but changing the way we use samples. We might still use a lot of samples, but maybe they won’t be quite as centrally placed, maybe there might be a more human voice element in there, whether that’s in the form of ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’, or a choir or... you know, some kind of a more human element in that respect. And then you can rely slightly less on the speech samples to give character and emotion. And in terms of changing the scope of the music around it, I think we need to keep it developing and growing as we keep travelling around. Otherwise, a) we are going to get bored of it, and b) more importantly, the audience is going to get bored of it.
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While The War Room EP was a five-track conceptual record, about WWII, Inform-Educate-Entertain is more focused on each song as a unit, with different themes such as speed, fashion style, colour, death... Is it all under the umbrella of informing, educating, entertaining? Yes, I think so, with the emphasis very much on entertaining. It’s quite a tongue-in-cheek title to the album, we are not intending to inform or educate to a particularly great extent. It’s much more about being entertaining listened to and certainly being entertaining live, to come and see. Yeah, I think there’s elements of each of those in each song. The album, if there’s a concept behind the album, is more the concept of the band and what we do, what kind of music we are interested in making and what kind of subject matter are we interested in using.
present ourselves and the way we play it live, is quite strong conceptually. It does all tie in together and fit into its own world, really, which I think is part of the appeal for some people, because it is quite a strong sort of visual identity as well as sonic identity, I think that’s possibly what we’ve got going for us.
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Dweezil Zappa returns to Liverpool with his Grammy Award winning band later this month. Tom Mills spoke to him about all things Zappa.
So you’ve been touring on the Zappa plays Zappa project since 2006 now, tell us a little bit about how these past few years have been for you working on the various different projects and how the audience receptions have been? Well right from the outset it was well received but prior to any public performance, there was all kinds of anticipation from people, much of which was your expected kind of grumbling that people do on the internet or whatever where they’re like “oh the son of a famous person here to ruin his father’s work, won’t that be great!?”, all very sarcastic and that kind of stuff. My feeling of what we were going to accomplish was that if we were to play the music to the highest standards that we could and that if you were to be able to ‘A-B’ it against the original and recognise that we’re playing it to the same standards then the music would speak for itself. It doesn’t matter what I have to say about it; that was the goal from the beginning. I knew we had done our due diligence and learned the stuff properly and focussed on all the same details that Frank focussed on in the music. That’s how we’ve continued to operate and that’s why there’s been a continued support of the project. Aside from the vast amounts of time you need to decipher your father’s music, have you, like your father found yourself engaging quite heavily with the works of composers such as Varese, Strauss et al. in order to further your own understanding of composition and structure? I haven’t really had any time in this past decade to explore anything outside of my dads music which is strange to say but there is so much in it and as we continue to learn more of the orchestral works and other sophisticated, complex things that he wrote, it really is my favourite music of all time and I’m fascinated by it so much so that I haven’t had a real interest in other kinds of music throughout this time. I haven’t had that much time to work on my own music although I am delving into it more now that I have more opportunities than in the past. My own music and my own process of writing music is so different now than it was when I was making my own records or working with my brother on the band Z; it’s a completely different process with a completely different result. Ultimately I have an interest in the things that my father had as influences; I like to listen and see where you can interpret what he gleaned from what his influences were and see how he might have put them to use. by TOM MILLS
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DENIM & LEATHER IN CELEBRATION OF OUR BRILLIANT new Spanish blog, ‘La Mosca Cojonera’, this month I’m looking at bands from around the world who choose to sacrifice potentially reaching broader audiences by opting to sing entirely in their native tongue, something that happens frequently in the more extreme genres such as pagan black and viking metal. However, in an industry where obscurity is everything, this kind of reclusive music can often end up breaking out into the UK, the rest of Europe and beyond, and bring some degree of success to the bands playing it. Here are some of my favourites, both established and upand-coming, from the world of native metal.
SÓLSTAFIR Formed by three friends in 1995, Iceland’s Sólstafir are as difficult to define as they are not to fall in love with. Working tirelessly since their formation, Sólstafir’s latest offering is 2011’s ‘Svartir Sandar’, saw the band’s initial vision come to fruition with their finest piece of work yet. album of the month BEASTMILK · ‘CLIMAX’ · SVART RECORDS Born in 2010 during a nuclear winter in Helsinki, the voidmothers of Beastmilk kick out an irradiated dust of what they appropriately dub ‘apocalyptic post-punk’ with their debut full length release. Ghoulish death rock matched with a wicked sense of humour will have you falling in love with the fallout.
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HAWKIND · 9TH NOVEMBER, O2 ACADEMY Performing their classic album ‘Warrior on the Edge of Time’ in full, prog rock legends Hawkwind bring their signature mind-bending, psychedelic light show to Liverpool this month.
This release also saw them really start to gain the recognition and success that they deserve with glowing reviews all round, including a few Album of the Year awards in top publications and even a number one single in their native Iceland for the mesmerisingly beautiful ‘Fjara’ which was accompanied by a captivating music video directed by Bowen Staines. Tracks like ‘Fjara’ are what take Sólstafir out of the heavy metal sub-genre category and into their own etheric plane that can be enjoyed by people from all walks of life, but the rest of their work, although still easily accessible to outsiders, maintains a Primordial-like sound that still gives them a place to call home in the heavy metal community. ALCEST Starting out as another project of French multi-instrumentalist Stéphane (Neige) Paut but turning into more of a neverending quest, Alcest began playing raw black metal but soon evolved into the atmospheric, post-rock shoegazing music they’re known for today. Driven entirely by Neige’s childhood dreams of a fantastical transitional realm, these transient visions spoke of a place where the soul rests free from the burden of incarnation and all music, lyrics and artwork are intensely linked into the aim of depicting that place and the profound, arcane feelings one can experience there. Alongside the music, this concept works exceptionally well when delivered, as Alcest do, in the French language and 2012’s ‘Les voyages de l’âme’ brings the listener closer than ever to understanding the vision laid out by the band. As enchanting to reflect on listening to as they are to watch live, Alcest are my number one pick for foreign music you need to hear. by NICK MALONE @BandsPlayedOn Read the extended version online
Cult rockers Seremonia, which is Finnish for ‘Ceremony’
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SEREMONIA Arising from the ashes of The Devil’s Blood alongside the likes of Jess and the Ancient Ones and engulfed in the occult rock renaissance are the creepy, acid-drenched Seremonia. Unleashed by Svart Records in 2012 with their debut self-titled release, Seremonia have taken their unique brand of endtime psychedelic rock to a range of venues around the world, including a notable slot at Holland’s Roadburn. Singing entirely in Finnish, Seremonia’s sophomore release ‘Ihminen’ sees them expand their style away from the Occult Rock revival movement and incorporate a more punky and at times epic sound to their music. ‘Ihminen’, which means human, focuses on the truly evil state of man in the 21st century, and the combination of 60s sludge sounding riffs alongside the hypnotic vocals of Noora Federley give Seremonia a horrifying and apocalyptic outlook on mankind’s future.
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TEMPLES, THE KAZIMIER, OCTOBER 15
“Hopefully it will be busy and we all will have fun”, they told us last month. It wasn’t too much too ask, but yes, it was busy, and yes, we all had fun. text by ORIOL BOSCH/ photo by GAZ JONES Formed only a year ago in Kettering, Northamptonshire, Temples have yet to release a debut album and they are already touring all over the world and selling out venues, at least in the UK. The young four-piece band have been stirring excitement ever since ‘Shelter Song’ was released with cities all over the UK falling for their charm, and Liverpool is no exception. But first, Telegram, a London guitar band described by Temples’ Adam Smith (keyboards) as “absolutely brilliant”. Well, we have to disagree. Their half hour set was intense and they proved to be skilled, and had one remarkable song, but they were no more than the perfect supporting act to us: great for a warm-up, but I wouldn’t bother about seeing a headline show of theirs. The Kazimier filled up quickly, and not with just impressionable youngsters but music-lovers of all ages. Frontman James Edward Bagshaw came in wearing a sequin jacket appropriate for his misfit-popstar appearance and the band began to play ‘Sun Structures’, and it got better
and better with fantastic B-side ‘Prisms’ and their second official single, ‘Colours To Life’. At this point, anyone who was wondering why Noel Gallagher seems to have picked them as his protégés could see the reason. Temples are the wunderkinds of the new wave of British psychedelic bands; their material released so far is brilliant; they are magnetic, likeable and surprisingly good live. Bagshaw’s delicate but rich voice agreeably navigates in a sea of magical, hazy music, which has no problem reaching instrumental climax, as in ‘Prisms’ and ‘Ankh’, one of the most well-received songs tonight and, to be honest, one of their best tracks. Besides all that, what’s more interesting about Temples is their enormous potential. They are to release their highly anticipated debut LP early next year, and we got a sample of it at The Kazimier: new song ‘Move With The Season’, an elegant, fine, trippy track, lead by a few guitar chords and Bagshaw’s softest voice. The gig came to an end with the newest single ‘Keep In The Dark’ - excellent - and, of course, the hit ‘Shelter Song’, for the audience to sing, dance and rejoice to and, eventually, to say goodbye.
text by ORIOL BOSCH/ photo by GAZ JONES
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THE LIVERPOOL QUINTET were not to support Everything Everything at the O2 Academy on the 13th of October, so they put on a Liverpool show the day before, and you could tell from minute zero that it was a wise and much-appreciated decision. The audience gathered at EVAC wanted to see Outfit play a long set for them, and that’s exactly what happened, in a friendly, delightful ambience. The powerful, spooky ‘House on Fire’ spectacularly opened the concert, which included 12 tracks from EP A.N.D.R.E.A. and debut album Performance. The first question we brought to the gig was answered immediately: yes, it’s not just a great record, it’s also great live. Their distinctive sound is impressively enveloping onstage, a considerable amount of cold but pleasant emotion flows freely all over the place and the evocative ‘Spraypaint’ even makes you shiver. People remain silent to take it in; they know that song; they know what Outfit is about. The guy behind me did shout during ‘Thank God I Was Dreaming’, but it was just to prove to his mate that he “fu*king loves that song”. The EVAC loft proved to be the right venue for Outfit at this point, the perfect size to get their fanbase together in a close gig. And it felt like the band needed a show like that, after a few early, short supporting slots.
OUTFIT, EVAC, OCTOBER 12
A dark ‘Performance’ closed the first set of songs; then the repertoire got more vivid and engaging. Overall, all five members played flawlessly – guitarist Nick Hunt’s style amusingly reminded me of Blink 182 at one point – and Thomas Gorton’s backing vocals gave a good counterpoint to Andrew Hunt’s and brought more nuance to the songs. There were a few moments when the visual sense of the band as a unit was lessened and they seemed more like five individuals playing onstage. Perhaps that’s just their shyness. We weren’t convinced by their EP’s Prince-esque ‘Dashing in Passing’, but it was a hold-on-to-your-hat set after that: ‘The Great Outdoors’, ‘Nothing Big’, ‘I Want What’s Best’, ‘Elephant Days’, ‘Everything All The Time’ and, finally, ‘Two Islands’. All of them were excellent, but ‘Nothing Big’ was immense; single ‘I Want What’s Best’ was performed with particular grace and the dancier ‘EATT’ and ‘Two Islands’ are certainly fan-favourites. We left the venue ratifying the quality of the band’s performance and the brilliance of their record, aware that we had just been to a very special gig, one that may be impossible to repeat by the time they release a second album.
The Hummingbirds: a sold out gig on a fresh autumn evening, taking place in the quirky surroundings of the first floor of Leaf on Bold Street. text by PIPPA HENDERSON/ photo by MIKE BRITS Not having heard of the band before tonight, but now aware of their popularity, I was keen to discover what the hype was about. I arrived at the venue early, when only a smattering of people lurked uncommitedly around the edges of the room: when the first supporting act started it seemed to take everyone by surprise, as though no one had noticed that it was now musicians playing and not sound-guys sound-checking. But with The Romleys’ infectious enthusiasm came more and more gig-goers, gradually filling the room to the upbeat, foot-tapping, Beatlesesque tunes, apparently perfectly executed (no one noticed the lead singer’s guitar string snap) by the Liverpool trio. The performance was jovial and lively, setting a great tone for the evening, and I would have been happy to listen to The Romleys all night, but they were soon replaced by the second supporting band, Springtime Anchorage. Gone was the classic rock’n’roll vibe; instead we were lulled by mellow folk tunes. The band’s stage presence was less energised and their songs more thoughtful and romantic - with the exception of one more lively number towards the end of the set, the music seemed little more than background noise to which the audience could engage in more interesting conversation. Before long it was time for the main event, and the preppy poloneck/buttoned-up-shirtclad Hummingbirds wasted no time in kicking off their set with a typically upbeat number. Their bluegrass guitar rhythms, catchy, well-harmonised vocals and bright riffs got everybody moving, and the musicians’ enjoyment was obvious as they chuckled and joked to each other between lines and bopped in unison. The strength of the local love and affection was evident from the audience’s knowledge of the lyrics: they sang along faithfully to the hits ‘Emma’, ‘Talking of To-
morrow’, ‘Out of the Rain’ and ‘Stop Me Feeling Blue’, with lead singer Jay Davies turning the mic to the crowd to allow them to sing back the choruses - not a wise move if the audience’s response is not a surety - but in this case warranted, and successful. The band put on a charming, energetic and technically perfect performance - not a note was out of place - but the music itself struck me as formulaic, with little variation between songs and nothing new brought to the table in their previously-unheard new material. To the disappointment of lead singer Jay Davies (he later told me) these unreleased songs were given a lukewarm reception by the crowd, whose appreciation lay with the better-known hits. Unsurprisingly, their rendition of The Beatles’ ‘Something’ also went down a treat. The set was about the right length, mixing the old with the new. The band satisfied the audience without overstaying their welcome, declining to come back on for an encore. They certainly more than met their fans’ expectations, staying afterwards to mingle with the crowd, take pictures and sign various things. The general feeling was that it had been a successful night and no one was disappointed - but I remain unconverted.
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THE HUMMINGBIRDS, LEAF, OCTOBER 10
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PAUL MCCARTNEY · NEW
Looking to steer Pearl Jam towards a fifth number-one in their 22 year career is ‘Lightning Bolt’, the band’s second release on Monkeywrench, which sees them really start to enjoy the freedom of putting out music on their own label. Apart from Cameron who is currently pulling double duty with Soundgarden, writing credits are shared out across the group which helps to give each track an identity of it’s own. Vedder’s hardcore influences are prevalent throughout ‘Mind Your Manners’ while elements of his solo work shine through on the morosely acoustic ‘Sleeping by Myself’. ‘Let the Records Play’ emanates Gossard’s country heritage while Ament’s dynamic bass brings home the bitter ‘My Father’s Son’. Finally Pearl Jam’s classic rock backbone Mike McCready delivers one of the finest tracks on the album in the heartfelt, piano embellished ‘Sirens’. For most bands, this ambitious range of styles would end up as a mish mash of sounds that refuse to blend, but for a group that has spent many years and many more miles on the road together, ‘Lightning Bolt’ all comes together with the seemingly impossible fluidity that help define alternative rock’s favourite sons. Bringing the album to a close is the beautifully sincere ‘Future Days’, which shows Pearl Jam ten albums in and at last truly comfortable in their own skin, ready to explore a new chapter in their career. NM
Paul McCartney is 71 years old. Still touring globally and releasing music, the man shows no sign of stopping. The release of New marks Paul’s first ‘proper’ album since 2007 if you discount last year’s covers album and side-projects. Comprising 14 tracks, New is a tough album to pigeonhole. Each song is diverse and purposefully so, as four producers of notable experience have taken the helm: Paul Epworth (Adele), Ethan Johns (Kings of Leon), Mark Ronson (Amy Winehouse) and Giles Martin (Son of George). The result is a somewhat disjointed experience rather than an interesting one, which misses more than it hits. Problems arise with the more upbeat numbers such as Strokes-like ‘Save Us’ which is numbed by its clichéd arrangement and simplistic lyrics. That’s not to say there isn’t anything to like. Track ‘Early Days’ shows Paul reflecting on false nostalgia: “I don’t see how they can remember when they weren’t where it was at”. Sung with age, it’s delivered poignantly and is a good counterpoint to the subsequent optimistic title track. That said, New overall feels dated rather than untrodden, which to be fair will be OK by most as he has nothing new to prove. SJ
AGNES OBEL · AVENTINE Already a multi-platinum, award winning artist in Europe, Danish singer-songwriter and pianist Agnes Obel has released her follow up to the critically acclaimed Aventine. Still recording everything herself in a small studio in the old GDR Radio Building in East Berlin, she has retained total creative control of everything she does. Quite unusual in the modern music industry but definitely something that works perfectly for her. (And many other classic artists) The first single The Curse is a beguiling, string led track that pulls you in and begs for another listen. Fuel to Fire is a haunting track with the line “Do you want me on your mind, or do you want me to go home?” Words like mesmerising and captivating are used a lot but they apply well to Aventine, it’s delicate and bewitching at the same time. If you are a fan of intimate female singer-songwriters check out Aventine and also her first album Philharmonics. A perfect autumn album to relax and listen to while watching the leaves drop. PT
TALES OF US · A JOURNEY FROM MOUNTAIN TO MEADOW Between the release of their debut album Felt Mountain in September 2000 and their latest offering, Tales of Us, Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory have released four other studio albums, each one taking its cues from a different Pop genre with varying levels of success. With the exception of the odd track all failed to soar to the heights reached by the bewitching soundscapes of their original release. That is until now. After catching the lead single Drew on the radio I was pleased to hear that they had returned to the sound that had once made me fall in love with Miss Goldfrapp hauntingly beautiful vocal. Upon hearing the album I discovered that it’s a lot more Folk influenced than previous offerings, which certainly works well with the trademark ethereal vocal, but remains less effective when used in tandem with the bigger, more voluptuous, electro sound effects as they have a tendency to overpower the romantic themes of the lyric. Although this album doesn’t reach the cinematic landscapes achieved by their debut album it would have made a far better follow up to it than Black Cherry ever did. You can almost see and feel the mist rolling in over the moonlit meadows when listening to the melancholic atmosphere created by listening to Annabel. I could be falling in love all over again. SS
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BLACK MILK · NO POISON NO PARASIDE
Indie pop favourites since their self-titled 2011 debut, Cults have always been linked to potential. In fact, the New York duo were signed by Columbia having released just one official single, ‘Go Outside’, which was later to become a hit. Guitarist Brian Oblivion and singer Madeline Follin haven’t scored any such infallible singles on Static, but that doesn’t seem to be their intention. Inspiration from 1960s pop can be found in Cults’ second album and Follin’s vocals are chirpy as ever, but their music is stronger, they dip into heavy instrumentation and explore a gloomier aesthetic, timidly stepping away from their distinctive melodic sweetness. It has probably something to do with their breakup – take a look at the cover: Oblivion and Follin are now turning their backs on each other. The two-piece band were a couple but split up prior to entering the studio to record the album. Static isn’t as instant, fresh or naive as their debut, but it is richer and more mature, and it gets better after a few listens. ‘High Road’ and ‘So Far’ are two of the best songs here, and clear examples of their much thicker sound, one that often threatens to overwhelm the delicate vocals of Follin. Her voice is attractive, but she really needs to learn how to express nuances if they are ever to become a band of cult success. OB
A real sense of wisdom and maturity that can only come through time are prevalent throughout what’s already being called one of the hiphop albums of the year. Detroit based producer/emcee Curtis Cross a.k.a. Black Milk has gone down the concept road for his sixth studio album, ‘No Poison No Paradise’, and it’s transpired into something both heartfelt and meaningful. Milk details his upbringing through the eyes of the character ‘Sonny’, seemingly meant to represent himself at that age, dealing with all the hardships he struggled with when growing up. Throughout the album Sonny is straddling the line between right and wrong, facing peer pressure and dealing with overtly Christian parents forcing their beliefs on him, and he often doesn’t come out doing the right thing despite his best intentions. Musically the production on this album is for the most part excellent, but that’s no different from past Black Milk work. What’s different here is his leap forward in skill and delivery as an emcee (notably ‘Sunday’s Best’), finally matching his ability as a producer that makes this album feel so much more sincere when listening through it as a concept. This is definitely an exciting new direction for Black Milk, and one that looks set to pay off both commercially and critically in an age where hip-hop is all but dead. NM
HAIM · DAYS ARE GONE
GARY NUMAN · SPLINTER
Three sisters and a drummer make up Californian Haim. Their sound, although obvious in its influence from Soft Rock to Synthpop, brings a fresh, unique sound to a stale marketplace. Vocals are a combination from all three sisters that range from light and delicate to strong and compelling. The drums incorporate influences that keeps the pace interesting. Lead and bass vary effects with distorted, heavy basslines adding weight to certain tracks. Hits ‘Falling’ and ‘The Wire’ are reminiscent of Michael Jackson and Enya while ‘My Song 5’ reminds of Joan Jett. In ‘Honey & I’ The Police are recalled, and strong synth leads are prevalent through the title track itself, and this diverse sound plus lyricism that will resonate with many make for great listening. Holding back the album slightly is the occasional lack of texture that prevents a potentially richer sound, but the album remains a fantastic debut from Haim with more to offer on every listen. PH
For more than 3 decades, Gary Numan has been one of the undisputed Kings of Synth. Having dabbled in heavier guitar laden sounds for his last few albums, Splinter is a sensational and catchy blend of the two. It seems his past has now met up with his present - and I am loving it. The stand out aspect has to be the build ups between verse and chorus. The echoing and haunting synth build to a riff-tastic chorus in ‘I am dust’ quite literally sends shivers up your spine. Even if you think that Numan’s darker sounds are not your thing, then try to give personal favourite ‘Love Hate Bleed’ a listen. Combining power chords with a 4-beat pop rhythm, you’ll find yourself dancing and swaying along rather unexpectedly! Lyrics such as “In a world of grim obsession” might seem pessimistic, but this album is actually full of upbeat tracks that will leave you positively beaming. If you like me have been yearning for the days of ‘Are friends electric?’ then look no further Numanoids - Splinter is one of Numan’s best albums in years. A perfect balance of sing along mixed with moody and retrospective, this is one album you’ll want to listen to over and over. SOH
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Gothic Season at FACT continues throughout November and into December. To find out more please visit: www.fact.co.uk
by SARAH O’HARA
GOTHIC FILM SEASON REVIEW, FACT LIVERPOOL
HALLOWEEN MAY HAVE passed but Gothic film is still in the hearts and minds of avid cinema fans across the world. In association with BFI (British Film Institute), FACT Liverpool are screening some of the most infamous, revolutionary and terrifying films to have ever graced the silver screen. Go and watch - if you dare… Kicking off Gothic Film season is David Lynch’s Elephant Man, starring Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt. Following Hurt’s character Merrick as he is saved from cruelty, this heartbreaking tale is a perfect way to kick start the season. However, if classic monster movies are more your style (they’re certainly mine!) you’ll be treated to a whole host of classic black and white monster movies featuring all-time great Boris Karloff. Both Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein will be there to satisfy your appetites for horror, and show you how the original masters of scream made it all happen.
Of course, it goes without saying that no Gothic film season would be complete with a screening of The Exorcist. Controversial at the time and still as frightening even in this age of special effects, this classic film is not for the faint-hearted. Plus the addition of Mike Oldfield’s phenomenal ‘Tubular Bells’ adds that taste of phenomenal nail biting tension - just don’t drop your popcorn when you scream! BFI have brought another fantastic experience to our screens. Following on from the success of their Alfred Hitchcock season, this Gothic round-up looks set to be one of the most memorable yet! Just remember that these films aren’t all about making you jump and creating one-dimensional scary monsters - imbedded within any good horror film is the battle between good and evil, and of course a moral relating to modern society. So settle back, get ready to shiver and remember...maybe Frankenstein’s monster was more scared than we were. Enjoy the shows!
SAVING MR BANKS FROM 29 NOVEMBER WE’VE ALL SEEN and heard the magical tale of Mary
Poppins, but do you know the real and fascinating story behind it? Disney’s latest venture follows Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) and his epic attempts to obtain rights to the Poppins novels. Reluctant to have Mary represented in certain ways or to say particular things, author P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) shows just how much the Poppins character means to her. It’s a fascinating true story and you’ll be humming along to the creation of now-infamous tunes, and rediscovering the wonder of the classic film.
LAST VEGAS TO BE CONFIRMED THE HANGOVER TOOK us to Vegas and back, but
REVIEW, FACT LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY 20TH OCTOBER FAMILY IS EXTREMELY PRECIOUS. When you lose someone you love, it never goes away. Stephen Frears’ latest film Philomena, based on true events, takes you on one mother’s journey to find the son that was taken away from her - and it is absolutely breathtaking. Philomena (Judi Dench) gives birth to a son Anthony out of wedlock, and he is then adopted much to her heartbreak. After 50 years of keeping this a secret, journalist Martin Sixsmith (Steve Coogan) helps her to find the son she tragically loved and lost. Judi Dench is outstanding and majestic in one of the most defining roles of her career. Even without the dialogue, Dench’s facial and bodily expressions give the sense of an emotionally broken woman desperate to rekindle her motherly role. She and Coogan compliment one another in ways that you would not expect. Usually the funnyman of film and cinema, Coogan’s take on the serious Sixsmith is glorious to behold and the character’s developing care towards Philomena is evident in his later angry outbursts. Whilst the story is at times heartbreaking, the quick whips of humour throughout the dialogue are testaments to seeing the positive in a bad situation. Stephen Frears has dealt with the subject sensitively, taking care to show each character’s own personal journey and opinions on the situation. If there is one film you see this November, I highly recommend Philomena - a cinematic triumph and a remarkable true story.
THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE FROM 22 NOVEMBER KATNISS EVERDEEN MIGHT have survived the last
Hunger Games, but when she is forced back into battle it seems that her true torment has only just begun. Embarking on the 75th Hunger Games, follow Katniss as she delves into the brutal and unbelievable in an attempt to save her loved ones. Returning to the saga are stars Jennifer Lawrence and Liam Hemsworth, in one of the most highly anticipated sequels of the year.
YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL FROM 29 NOVEMBER DURING THE COURSE of a single year, 17-year-old
Isabelle (Vacth) is transformed from a sexually curious ingénue into something altogether darker. Writer-director Ozon (Potiche, Swimming Pool) delivers a beguilingly scripted, georgeous-looking and sensitively performed little masterpiece.
by SARAH O’HARA
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PHILOMENA
now it’s time to see how the original boys on the block take on the party city. When Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman and Robert De Niro embark on a stag night to Vegas, their lives are turned upside down by the changed city, no longer the home of Sinatra and the Rat Pack. Follow their hilarious journey as they take on an entirely new lifestyle and show how friends remain friends for life.
THE SELFISH GIANT
A FILM MORE NORTHERN THAN KILLING YOUR BROTHER’S KESTREL REVIEW, FACT, SUNDAY 20TH OCTOBER
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For those of you familiar with Oscar Wilde’s fairy tale of the same name - you know the one: a bad tempered ogre chases all the local children out of his walled garden which then falls into a perpetual winter - don’t expect a similar happy ending here. The “magic” elements of Wilde’s fable have been replaced by hard-edged and gritty realism. by SELBY STRANGE
nearest scrap merchant, Kitten (Sean Gilder) and cash it in. Wilde’s walled garden has now been replaced by the scrapyard.
‘The Selfish Giant’ is directed by Clio Bernard
Barnard’s film is set in a struggling working-class community that exists on an unnamed sink estate in Bradford. It tells the story of two inseparable schoolmates: Arbor (Connor Chapman), a scrappy, ADHD-suffering mouth almighty and Swifty (Shaun Thomas) who is altogether more reserved and mature, and acts as a calming influence on his forever-hyperactive friend. In the opening sequence, the boys spot some thieves stealing copper cable from the railway line. They stand transfixed by what they see and when circumstances dictate that they end up with the cable for themselves, they take it to the
Once the boys have discovered that they can get their hands on some cash with which they can both ease their families’ financial burdens, they decide to collect more scrap metal for Kitten, the dodgy scrap dealer with a penchant for gypsy horse racing. Desiring the wealth that Kitten seems to have, Arbor is keen to please, but when Swifty’s rare equestrian talents are discovered by Kitten, jealousy soon sets in and threatens to break the bond between the two schoolboys. That’s the set up for the film, which I have to say is hauntingly perfect, due in various degrees to the astonishingly strong performances from its leads, the beautifully layered script, the exquisite cinematography that makes the streets of Bradford shimmer in the mist and the rain, and the fact that Barnard has evoked the energy and attention to cultural detail found in the early work of Ken Loach - Kes in particular. This made me wonder whether, like Loach, the director was hinting at a desire to return the British people to the ways of “Albion”: there was a definite sense of an older way of life being buried somewhere under the piles of rubbish, from the wide-angle shots of horses standing in mist-filled landscapes to the mesmerising closing scenes that call for redemption and maybe a hint of reincarnation. Clio Bernard has not only produced an extraordinary soul-searching fable about scrap men, scrap women and scrap children who are to be eternally doomed to sift through the rubbish dump of life; she has created an altogether stunning piece of work that tells us that hope, above all else, will in the end be our salvation. If you see no other film this year, I beg you to see this one, a British film, shot in Britain by a British director for the British people which provokes a discussion as to where we are as a nation. Is that not what film is supposed to do?
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: COVEN
American Horror Story made it clear in its very first scene: it was going to be a dark, deviant, horrific TV show, keen to mess with your mind. Created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk (strangely enough, the same duo behind Glee), the twisted, explicit erotic-psychological thriller featured a first-class cast, with the likes of Jessica Lange, Connie Britton, Dylan McDermott, Frances Conroy, Denis O’Hare and Zachary Quinto, and it turned out to be terrific. As the series went on, it seemed genuinely impossible for it to ever have a season two, and eventually the mystery was explained: each season would be a different horror story, with practically the same cast but playing completely different characters. In its second run, titled Asylum, the show was set in a mental institution in the Sixties, and now, some exorcisms, murders, nazi experiments and plenty of ‘Dominique’ later, American Horror Story: Coven is set both in modern day and the 1830s, taking withcraft and voodoo as the main theme. “It’s Salem all over again”, warns Oscar and Emmy winner Jessica Lange through her new character, Fiona, a Supreme witch obsessed with eternal youth who is in charge of a special school for young girls with powers. It’s nothing like Hogwarts or the X-Men Institute, but that’s the concept, albeit not as family-friendly –one of the teen’s gifts is to have killing sex, literally. Female
sexuality is in fact central to the mini-series, along with violence, sadistic brutality and gruesome scenes in general. There’s time to be extremely surreal and play God in Coven as well, but it feels like psychological games and thrill are much set aside, compared to the previous seasons. Although Zachary Quinto, Joseph Fiennes and James Cromwell are not part of the show this time, many of the series regulars are still around, including Asylum favourites Sarah Paulson (who played journalist Lana Winters) and Lily Rabe (Sister Mary Eunice), and they are joined by Angela Bassett, Emma Roberts, Patti LuPone, Gabourey Sidibe and Mare Winningham. The most celebrated newcomer is Kathy Bates though. The veteran actress plays the psycho-socialite Madame Delphine LaLaurie, who has spent the last 180 years buried in a hole. 19-year-old Taissa Farmiga (Zoe) takes the lead a little bit too much in the first episodes, but the brilliant Jessica Lange makes things clear: “I’m Fiona Goode, I’m in charge everywhere”. She certainly is, and the Lange-Bates tandem in an extravagant show like this is one to look up to.
American Horror Story may in a way be the horror’s equivalent to Spartacus, an exaggerated TV spectacle, but it comes with a dose of sharp humour in Coven. More than a few viewers will find it amusing, for instance, when Misty Day (Lily Rabe), a witch with the power of resurgence, worships Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks and refers to her as “the white witch” while listening to ‘Rhiannon’. A fun scene that has reignited in the US old rumours that the acclaimed singer practices magic. by ORIOL BOSCH
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A haunted house, a wicked mental institution and now a witch school that’s nothing like Hogwarts. The third season of ‘American Horror Story’ has just started on Fox and it seems determined to keep pushing the limits of horror in TV, this time in a gory, grotesque way more than psychological. Kathy Bates jumps on board, so expect some humour as well.
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DOCTOR WHO 50 YEARS January 1977: The year of Lydon’s sneer and Elizabeth’s smile. My brother John, a major influence on me in all areas of my life; makes a suggestion: if I like ‘Space 1999’, I might like ‘Doctor Who’. Hmm. by KEV MCCREADY
I watch ‘The Robots Of Death’, and I am immediately hooked. It also causes me to sleep with the lights on for several weeks, lest a humanoid robot comes into my bedroom and strangles me. It’s only years later I look at it now, I realise it’s a fabulously written homage to Agatha Christie’s ‘Ten Little Indians’, a discussion about paranoia and features a female lead wearing a leather bikini. And this is a children’s programme? The fear of being strangled by a humanoid robot is still there though. I describe myself as a ‘choosy Whovian’. It’s something I love, but not something I am obsessed with. My life, gentle reader, is a jumble of many things: redheads, teashops, bookshops, LFC and the city of Edinburgh. I own but twelve DVD’s and several items of TARDIS-shaped merchandise. I would have had more, but adolescence and ex-girlfriends got in the way: as a result, I am on first name terms with the staff in the Bold Street Oxfam. This leads me to the local connections. Two Doctors are from Liverpool: Tom Baker and Paul McGann, as is my first crush Elizabeth Sladen. We owe her a debt of thanks too: as a child, she vomited in her classmate Edwina Cohen’s (later Currie) face in a school produc-
tion of ‘Alice in Wonderland’. This is the first welcome instance of a stomach bug in local history. And yet, there was a time when I stopped watching the programme completely. I couldn’t stand Colin Baker. Watching him twatting about in a multi-coloured coat was a poor alternative to my teenage experiments in alcohol and sexuality. And yet: it’s always been part of my life: already heartbroken by Tom Baker’s regeneration in ‘Logopolis’, I found out I was to be an Uncle at the tender age of 12. We start early, us McCready’s. My degree in counselling was coming to an end when the programme returned, with Christopher Eccleston as an abrasive, passionate, haunted Doctor. I learned to read using the Target novelisations; I wouldn’t be here now if I hadn’t written my own Doctor Who stories. My play, ‘Beautiful Eccentrics’ features two Whovians in love. It’s a celebration of that: The Doctor is a slightly bonkers, but passionate man who solves a problem, and then disappears. He is as much a fantasy figure as Malcolm Tucker, which is why I think Peter Capaldi is an inspired choice: Just think of The TARDIS as a dimensionally transcendental swearbox. Terrance Dick’s guidelines for writing The Doctor are: ‘Never cruel or cowardly. Never gives up, never gives in’. That’s good advice for life, let alone Gallifreyan renegades. That’s why; I will be in a local cinema on November 23rd, dressed as Matt Smith. That’s why, I am spending Christmas on Trenzalore this year and I’ll probably cry when he regenerates. Happy birthday Doctor. Your lives have been part of mine. Thank you.
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Your business has just opened - could you tell us a bit more about it? I made furniture for about two years and I ended up with a house full of furniture, so I decided to open a shop. It was a place where I could sell my furniture, but also a place where other people could sell their handmade goods. Each item is handmade and individual. I discovered that loads of my friends were talented and could make things too, and there’s loads of people and designers in Liverpool so I managed to find plenty of people who wanted to sell their goods in a shop.
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So there’s a big network of crafts artists in Liverpool? Well I went to lots of arts and crafts fairs to find designers, and I went up to people and said “I really love your work, would you be interested in selling it in a shop?”. A lot of them don’t have other places where they sell their work so some of the goods are exclusive to Penningtons. They sell their goods at craft fairs but no other stores in town. Are there any items in store that you particularly love? I love these vintage style handbags, made by Lauren Burke - she’s amazing. The bags are so well made and the clasps are just fantastic. We also have vintage clothes; they’re brand new but in that vintage style. I love the kids’ range. My friend from school makes them - the baby shoes and the canvases are just gorgeous. There’s a little bit of everything in store, so everyone who comes in might be able to find something that they like.
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LOCAL HANDMADE ARTS AND CRAFTS
Why do you think more people are becoming interested in handmade goods and crafts? It’s nice to have something that’s unique and that you know someone has put care and attention into making. You know someone has sat there and lovingly crafted that thing. The people who do this love what they’re doing. For me, I love sitting here sewing all day and making blankets, cushions and things. it’s nice for the customer to know that everything they get is different. You’ll end up with something that is one-off, unique and just for you.
Recently opened at Unit 2 on Slater Street, Pennington’s is a fabulous new handmade arts and crafts store selling a wide range of unique and beautiful goods. Owner Caroline Pennington tells us more...
What are your plans for the year ahead? I really want to promote the work of the other designers. I already put their cards next to their goods, and people ask me about their other ranges. It’s great to promote them. I hope to keep building interest in the shop, and I’ve had a lot of people interested already. I’m always on the lookout for new designers.
by SARAH O’HARA
Can you sum up your business in three words? Unique, local and fun.
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STUDIO 2 STUDIO 2 IS NOW the kind of place that Liverpool doesn’t
really have. Once a middling bar with an impressive past (the likes of Bjork, Coldplay and Black Sabbath have recorded here), it is now establishing a firm identity as a jazz, swing and blues live music venue. There is live music on Tuesdays with Parr jazz, on Fri-Sun there is a more formal seated arrangement in the main room, with table service and food. Having visited for casual drinks before, this time we decided to make an evening of it. Sat at a check-clothed table at front of the stage, the vibe is semi-formal but not stuffy and the service attentive, but not overbearing. Our waitress recommends selecting 2-3 plates from the menu of tapas-style dishes (around £4-5 each), to be served on a large sharing board. The selection of euro-centric dishes is small but carefully
chosen and portions are generous; a vegetarian plate of sweet potato wedges, falafel and green beans is happily more than enough to feed a hungry music fan. The wedges are particularly tasty, and I’m informed that the chicken skewers are a meaty highlight. Washed down with a huge glass of crisp New Zealand white, it’s the ideal prelude to a show. Full but unable to resist dessert, the oozing chocolate mud with cherry compote shared between three people is a happy compromise, but the potted banoffee pie being devoured at the table over seems an equally sure bet. Hunger now sated, it’s time to relax and watch the show. Tonight it’s smooth commercial jazz with a Latin twist, but a quick look at the listings shows that the Studio 2 have an ambitious booking policy, spanning the spectrum from classic to experimental jazz, swing and blues. Considering that the evening’s entertainment is free when a meal is purchased, it’s hard to deny good value. As a classy date venue it’s a no-brainer, but judging by the group next to us getting stuck into the cocktails it’s no one-trick pony. JP
Food is available from 7-9.15pm Friday and Saturday. 0151 707 3727 for booking
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FRIDAY 1ST Music
II One Night of Elvis The Brindley, Runcorn, 7.30pm, £19, 0151 907 8360. Elvis Presley tribute artist Lee Memphis King II Asa Murphy The Green Room, Duke Street, doors 6.30pm/ start 8pm. Sold out II Rob Jones & Rob White View Two Gallery, Mathew St, 8pm, £3, 0151 236 9444. Original music by the singers with guitar, saxophone and piano, plus support acts. II The Smiths Indeed East Village Arts Club, Seel St, 7pm, £12/ £10 NUS, 0844 847 2472. Smiths tribute band II Nine Lives Stamps Wine Bar, Crosby, 9pm, 0151 286 2662. Local 4-piece indie rock/pop cover band II The Necks The Capstone Theatre, Shaw St, 7.30pm, £16.50/ £14 concs, 0844 8000 410. Unique Australian improv trio described as "a revolutionary consortium redefining music"
II Blind Monk Trio The Caledonia, Caledonia St, 0151 708 0235 II Live Music The Cavern Club, Mathew St, from 12pm, free before 10pm, then £4 OTD/ £3 adv. Weekly acoustic night with Tim Shaw, Ronny Hughes, Jon Keats, Tony Mac. With Johnny and the Moondogs at 10pm II Soom T The Kazimier, Wolstenholme Sq, 10pm, £7 adv/ £9 OTD, 0151 709 3789. MC Soom T is accompanied by reggae acts Extra Love & The Corinthians, & DJ Lohi II Ríoghnach Connolly Duo Studio 2, Parr St, doors 7pm for dining & drinks/ start 9.30pm, 0151 707 3727. Acoustic jazz duo II The Rest is Noise: The 1970s The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 7.30pm, £7-£36, 0151 709 3789. The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra perform music by Berio, Britten and Shostakovich II Mamadou Sound, Duke St, 8pm, 0151 707 6363. Senegalese/ Afrobeat band
Theatre&&Dance Dance Theatre II Blood Brothers Liverpool Empire Theatre, 7.30pm, £12.90-£38.90,
II The Phantom Of The Opera St. Helens Theatre Royal, 7.30pm, £14£16, 01744 756 000 II 1984 The Playhouse, 7.30pm, £12£23, 0151 709 4776. An age of mass surveillance, 'total' policing and GPS tracking II Go Back For Murder Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 7.30pm, £16-£22, 0151 666 0000. Agatha Christie's crime classic II Cirque Du Soleil - Alegria Echo Arena, 8pm, £56, 0844 8000 400. Gravity-defying acrobatics II Over the Garden Fence The Lantern Theatre, Blundell St, 7.30pm, £8.50/ £6.50 Concs, 0151 703 0000. Humourous and poignant 2-woman show about memories, life and family II Chelsea Hotel The Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, 8pm, £12/ £10 concs, 0844 873 2888. Exploration into the infamous Chelsea Hotel in NYC with dance, live music & film II Carlisle to London The Citadel, St Helens, 7pm, 0174 473 5436. Lighthearted comedy
Comedy II Hot Water Comedy Club The Crown Hotel Pub, Lime St, 7pm/ start 8pm, £5, 0777 211 2344. 'Comedian of the Year 2013' II Vikki Stone - Definitely The Brindley, Runcorn, 8pm, £13/ £11 concs, 0151 907 8360. Comedian, singer and musician II Joe Lycett plus guests The Slaughter House, Fenwick St, 8pm, £15, Meal Deal options from £26, 0151 227 5946 II Milton Jones Echo Arena, 8pm, £22.75, 0844 8000 400. The "fast, absurd" comedian on his 'On the Road' tour
Arts Arts II The Games of Art The Black-E, Mon-Fri: 9am-5pm, Sat & Sun: 10am-4pm, 0151 709 5109, selection of imaginative artworks created over the last 40 years of 'Artful Games' II Face to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 II The 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, Mon-Fri: 9am-5pm, Sat & Sun: 10am-4pm, 0151 709 5109, open-submission of photographs celebrating the venue's birthday
II Judy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, Mon-Fri: 9am-5pm, Sat & Sun: 10am-4pm, 0151 709 5109, contemporary prints, a series of six paired prints with accompanying documentation II Messing about in boats Merseyside Maritime Museum, 10am-5pm. Display of 4 pleasure & leisure craft II The Drawings of Edward BurneJones Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, Wirral, 10am-5pm, 0151 478 4136. See how a pre-Raphaelite master explored ideas & techniques through drawings II Tim Hetherington: You Never See Them Like This Open Eye Gallery, Mann Island, 10.30am5.30pm, 0151 236 6768. Tribute to the work of Liverpool-born photojournalist Hetherington (1970-2011) in an exhibition of photography and film work II British Dance: Black Routes International Slavery Museum, 10am-5pm, explores the experiences of Black British dancers from 1946 to 2005 and highlights their contributions to British dance II Pop Icons: Stage, Screen & Stadium View Two Gallery, Mathew St, 12-4pm, 0151 236 9444 II Deaf School: The Art School Dance Goes On Forever Liverpool John Moores University School of Art & Design, 10am- 5pm, celebrates 40 years since archetypal art school band, Deaf School II David Hockney: Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, 10am-5pm, 0151 478 4199. Unique selection of paintings and prints by the artist II Magic Worlds World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, enter a world of enchantment, illusion and fantasy II Echo FACT, Wood St, Sun-Fri: 12pm6pm, Sat: 11am-6pm, 01517074444, An ambitious new installation by artist-filmmaker Mark Boulos II 3am: wonder, paranoia and the restless night The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10am-6pm, 0151 702 5324. Artists explore various themes related to 3am: a time for nightmares and ghouls, but also for refuge and release II Blacksoup - Vengeance is Mine! Dot-Art Showroom, Castle Street, 12pm-6pm, 0845 017 6660. Blacksoup is an enigmatic illustrator with fantastical, tongue in cheek imagery II An Age of Confidence Sudley House, Mossley Hill, 10am-5pm,
0151 478 4016. Exhibition showing prints of Liverpool during an age of prosperity and confidence II Germ Free Adolescents The Met Quarter, 11am-5pm. Exhibition documents the life and music of the iconic Poly Styrene, a revolutionary musical and cultural figure II This Way Out: Boy George & Trademark Camp and Furnace, Greenland St, 11am-5pm. The pop icon exhibits his photo/graphic artworks with club culture pop painter Trademark II Council House Movie Star Camp and Furnace, Greenland St, 12-5pm. An immersive live arts installation exploring themes of ageing and the homosexual experience. Part of Homotopia
Family II Parent and Baby Walker Art Gallery, 10am &1pm, 0151 478 4199. A chance to meet other parents and babies in 'Big Art'
Other Events II Magical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15.95, tickets from www.cavernclub.org. 2h tour of Beatles Liverpool II Halloween Lantern Carnival Sefton Park. Parade of 100s of people with handmade lanterns, musicians and dancers, and the Lantern Company's illuminated giant puppets. II Ghostly Green Hop Festival Gallagher's Pub and Barbers, Birkenhead. 3-day green beer festival with 25 different varieties II Lunchtime Learning The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 1.15pm. Ian Stephens' daytime series of inspiring music and relaxed learning. Sold out II Halloween Ghost Hunt Calderstones Mansion House, 9.3011.30pm, £15. Step into the shoes of a ghost hunter for the evening. Tickets from skiddle.com
SATURDAY 2ND Music
II Ardal O'Hanlon The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 8pm, £20/ £26, 0151 709 3789. The 'Father Ted' star in stand-up II Breabach The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 8pm, £15, 0151 709 3789. Contemporary folk music, Gaelic and Scots songs, on Celtic trad instruments
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II Enemies The Shipping Forecast, Slater St, 7.30pm, £6 adv, 0151 709 6901. With The RNC, Juniors, and Midas Touch
0844 871 3017. Epic tale of Liverpool life
I Liverpool Mozart Orchestra Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 7.30pm, £5 - £15, 0151 666 0000. Including works by Haydn and Holst I Live Music The Cavern Club, Mathew St, from 12pm, free before 8pm, then £4 OTD/ £3 adv. Weekly live music night with Tim Shaw, Jay Murray, The Shakers, Ronny Hughes, The Verdict, Tom Macfie and The Cave Dwellers I Live Music The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, from 2.30pm. Artists include Ronny Hughes, The Amazing Kappa Band, Jay Murray I Saturday With The Beatles ft. the Cavern Club Beatles The Cavern Live Lounge, Mathew St, 8.30pm, £15, 0151 236 9091, Beatles Tribute Show I Bee Gees Tribute Show The Green Room, doors 6.30pm/ start 8pm. Sold out I Bipolar Sunshine & Taylor Fowls East Village Arts Club, Seel St, 6.30pm, £6 adv, 0844 847 2472. Solo project of Manchester-based Adio Marchant I Rory & Ned Album Launch MelloMello, Slater St, 8pm-12am, £3/ £5 entry CD. Also with Pete Bentham and the Dinner Ladies, Dingus Khan, a fortune teller, pinata and party bags. I Quadrophenia Night O2 Academy 2 Liverpool, Hotham St, doors 8pm, £11.25, 0844 477 2000. Featuring The Atlantics and DJ Drew Stansall I The Carpet Crawlers O2 Academy Liverpool, Hotham St, doors 7pm, £16.87, 0844 477 2000. Genesis tribute performing 'Genesis Selling England by the Pound' I Jimmy Carl Black Memorial Barbeque Band The Capstone Theatre, 7.30pm, £16.50/ £14 Concs, 0844 8000 410. UK premiere screening of film about Jimmy Carl Black, with his exbandmates the Barbeque Band providing musical relief I For the Record The Shipping Forecast, Slater St, 11pm-3am, £8, 0151 709 6901. With DJs Adam Shelton, Gavin Clarke and Sam Power I Mausi The Shipping Forecast, Slater St, 7.30pm, £5 adv, 0151 709 6901. Power-dance, pop charm and infectious electro-indie hooks I Sam Tawil & Friends The Shipping Forecast, Slater St, 7.30pm, 0151 709 6901. Bold St Coffee staff take to the decks playing disco, soul, house, and italo music I Swingin' Bricks The Caledonia,
Caledonia St, 0151 708 0235 I Empirical Studio 2, Parr St, doors 7pm for dining & drinks/ start 9.30pm, 0151 707 3727. "The coolest of Britain's young jazz bands" I Martín Alvarado Nordic Church, Park Ln, 7pm, £12 OTD/ £10 adv, tickets from musicglue.com. Argentina's award-winning 'voice of tango', with Finnish accordionist/ pianist Mikko Helenius I Johnny's Acoustic Sessions Heebie Jeebies, Seel St, 3-6pm. An afternoon of acoustic talent hosted by Johnny Sands I DJ Fresh Redlight East Village Arts Club, Seel St, 10pm, £16/ £14 NUS, tickets available online. With Dread, Breach, EZ Pause and more TBA I Joe Symes and the Loving Kindy The Zanzibar Club, Seel St, 8pm, 0151 707 0633. Five-piece acoustic rock outfit
Theatre&&Dance Dance Theatre I Blood Brothers Liverpool Empire Theatre, 2.30pm & 7.30pm. See 1st for details I The Phantom Of The Opera St. Helens Theatre Royal, 2.30pm & 7.30pm, £14-£16, 01744 756 000 I 1984 The Playhouse, 2pm & 7.30pm, £12-£23, 0151 709 4776. An age of mass surveillance, 'total' policing and GPS tracking I Go Back For Murder Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 2.30pm & 7.30pm, £16-£22, 0151 666 0000. Agatha Christie's crime classic I Cirque Du Soleil - Alegria Echo Arena, 4pm & 8pm, £56, 0844 8000 400. Gravity-defying acrobatics I Joe Longthorne The Brindley, Runcorn, 7.30pm, £22, 0151 907 8360. Endless repertoire of voices including hundreds of top singers I Dave Giles, BriBry and Danny Gruff The Lantern Theatre, Blundell St, 7pm, £10.50, 0151 703 0000. Three singer/songwriters on their "An Englishman, an Irishman and a Welshman" tour I Handel Furioso Epstein Theatre, Hanover St, 7.30pm, £15/ £12 concs, 0844 888 4411. A love story told through arias and duets I Chelsea Hotel The Unity Theatre, see 1st for details I Halloween - Circus of Horrors Alma De Cuba, 0151 702 7394 I Carlisle to London The Citadel, St Helens, 7pm, 0174 473 5436. Lighthearted comedy
Comedy I Hot Water Comedy Club The Crown Hotel Pub, Lime St, doors 7pm/ start 8pm, £10/ £5 concs, 0777 211 2344. MC Paul Smith introduces some of the finest comedians on the comedy circuit I Neil Fitzmaurice plus guests The Slaughter House, Fenwick St, 8pm, £17.50, Meal Deal options from £28.50, 0151 227 5946
Arts Arts I The Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details I Face to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 I The 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details I Judy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details I Messing about in boats Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 1st for details I The Drawings of Edward BurneJones Lady Lever Art Gallery, see 1st for details I You Never See Them Like This Open Eye Gallery, see 1st for details I British Dance: Black Routes International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details I Pop Icons: Stage, Screen & Stadium View Two Gallery, Mathew St, 12-5pm, 0151 236 9444 I Deaf School Liverpool John Moores University, see 1st for details I Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Magic Worlds World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, enter a world of enchantment, illusion and fantasy I Echo FACT, see 1st for details I The Day of the Dead of Night The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10am-3am, daytime talks free, evening events £5/ £4, full evening programme £10/ £8, 0151 702 5324. Special nightthemed marathon I 3am: wonder, paranoia and the restless night The Bluecoat, see 1st for details I An Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details I David Hockney: Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Germ Free Adolescents The Met Quarter. See 1st for details I This Way Out: Boy George & Trademark Camp and Furnace. See
1st for details I Council House Movie Star Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details
Family I Remember Remember The Brindley, Runcorn, 11am & 1.30pm, £6, 0151 907 8360. Fairytale interactive experience combining music, animation and play, suitable for ages 4-7 I Tales of Titanic Objects Merseyside Maritime Museum, Albert Dock, 1pm-4pm at intervals, 0151 478 4499. Find out more about the facts and myths surrounding the sinking of the Titanic I The Big Draw - Future Moves Merseyside Maritime Museum, Albert Dock, 1pm-4pm, 0151 478 4499. Come and draw the future! I Parent and Baby Walker Art Gallery, 10am. See 1st for details I Family Art Club Walker Art Gallery, 11am & 2pm, 0151 478 4171. For children aged 7-12 I Diwali World Museum, William Brown St, 1pm-4pm, 0151 478 4393. Hands-on activity making rangoli to take home I Magical World of Science World Museum, William Brown St, 11am4pm, 0151 478 4393. Interactive event looking at chemical and physical reactions
Sports & Leisure Sports I Capoeira Club International Slavery Museum, Albert Dock, 2pm-4pm, 0151 478 4046. Weekly classes, all ages and fitness levels welcome I SAE Bootcamp Greenbank Park, 8.30-9.15am, £4.50/ £3.50 NUS per session, 07940 721 122. Cardio and Interval I Nordic Walking Taster Session The National Trust Formby, 10am, 11.30am, 1pm, £5, 01704 878591. Intro to Nordic Walking I Everton Vs Tottenham Hotspur 2pm I Arsenal Vs Liverpool 5.30pm
Other Events I Florrie Market The Florrie, Mill St, 10am-3pm, 0151 728 2323, beauty products, delicious cakes, general bric a brac, books and second hand goods I Ghostly Green Hop Festival Gallagher's Pub and Barbers. See 1st for details
SUNDAY 3RD Music I Gospel Choir: Soulful Voices Alma De Cuba, 1.30-5pm, 0151 702 7394, plus great Sunday brunch I Jazz Con Fusion The Grapes, Roscoe St, 9pm, 07950 828674. Live jazz with a Latin twist I Acoustic Recovery The Lomax, Cumberland St, 7pm. A mix of open mic and guest slots I Live Music The Cavern Club, Mathew St, from 12pm, free before 8.30pm, then £4 OTD/ £3 adv. Weekly tribute night with Tim Shaw, Madison, The Shakers and The Mersey Beatles I Richard Batty, Tony Mac, Xander & The Peace Pirates The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, live music from 5.30pm, 0152 236 9091 I Live Music Sudley House, Mossley Hill, 12pm and 2pm, 0151 478 4016. Tony Crotty performs 19th Century music on an authentic 19thC guitar I Villagers East Village Arts Club, Seel St, 7pm, £12 adv, 0844 847 2472. Indie folk band from Dublin
I Hazel O'Connor O2 Academy 2 Liverpool, Hotham St, doors 7pm, £16.87, 0844 477 2000. Awardwinning singer/songwriter on her 'Greatest Hits' tour, Geoghegan Jackson supporting I Timepiece & The Wayfarers Barbershop Chorus Sefton Park Palmhouse, 2-4pm, 0151 726 2415. Dixieland cover band and Southport-based 30-strong a capella choir I Liverpool Guitar Society: Introspection The Capstone Theatre, Shaw St, 7.30pm, £5/ £3 concs, 0844 8000 410. An evening of calm, meditative stillness with classical guitar music I Martin Smith Quartet The Caledonia, Caledonia St, 0151 708 0235 I Robyn Hitchcock The Kazimier, Wolstenholme Sq, 8pm, £10, 0151 709 3789. London-born singer/ songwriter and guitarist I Charlie Landsborough The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 7.30pm, £19/ £23, 0151 709 3789. Highly acclaimed singer/songwriter, with support from Just Midnight choir I Breabach The Philharmonic Hall.
Theatre&&Dance Dance Theatre I Cirque Du Soleil - Alegria Echo Arena, 1pm & 5pm, £56, 0844 8000 400. Gravity-defying acrobatics
Comedy I Hot Water Comedy Club The Crown Hotel Pub, City Centre, doors 7pm/ start 8pm, £3/ £1.50 concs, 0777 211 2344. Some of the best up and coming comedic talent
Arts Arts I The Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details I Face to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911
restless night The Bluecoat, see 1st for details I An Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details I David Hockney: Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Germ Free Adolescents The Met Quarter. See 1st for details I This Way Out: Boy George & Trademark Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details I Council House Movie Star Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details
Family I Titanic Crafts Merseyside Maritime Museum, Albert Dock, 1pm-4pm, 0151 478 4499. Creative fun inspired by the Titanic I Family Art Club Walker Art Gallery, 11am, 0151 478 4171. For children aged 7-12 I Diwali World Museum. See 2nd for details
I The 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details
I Magical World of Science World Museum. See 2nd for details
I Judy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details
I The Little Mermaid World Museum, William Brown St, 12pm & 2pm, 0151 478 4393. Performance of the original story by Hans Christian Andersen
I Messing about in boats Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 1st for details I The Drawings of Edward BurneJones Lady Lever Art Gallery, see 1st for details I You Never See Them Like This Open Eye Gallery, see 1st for details I British Dance: Black Routes International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details I Deaf School Liverpool John Moores University, see 1st for details
Sports & Leisure Sports I Nordic Walking Technique Course The National Trust Formby, 10am-3.30pm £30, 01704 878591. Part of the Great British Walk
Other Events I Life Drawing Leaf Cafe, Bold St, 7-10pm, £9, 0151 707 7747. All levels welcome, guidance provided
I Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details
I Ghostly Green Hop Festival Gallagher's Pub and Barbers. See 1st for details
I Magic Worlds World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, enter a world of enchantment, illusion and fantasy
MONDAY 4TH
I Echo FACT, see 1st for details I The Day of the Dead of Night The Bluecoat, see 2nd for details I Black & White Photography with Bryn Davies The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10.30am-4.30pm, £40, 0151 702 5324. Award winning photographer shares artistic and technical knowledge I Improvisation Sundays The Bluecoat, School Lane, 11am and 1.30pm, £2-£8, 0151 702 5324. For people interested in movement and improvisation I 3am: wonder, paranoia and the
Music
I Jessie J 2013 Echo Arena, 7.30pm. Sold out I Gabrielle Aplin O2 Academy Liverpool, Hotham St, 7pm, £15.75, 0844 477 2000. 20yo singer/ songwriter from Bath with brand new album 'English Rain'
Theatre&&Dance Dance Theatre I Blood Brothers Liverpool Empire Theatre. See 1st for details
Arts Arts I The Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details I Face to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 I The 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details I Judy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details I Messing about in boats Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 1st for details I The Drawings of Edward BurneJones Lady Lever Art Gallery, see 1st for details I British Dance: Black Routes International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details I Deaf School Liverpool John Moores University, see 1st for details I Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Magic Worlds World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, enter a world of enchantment, illusion and fantasy I Echo FACT, see 1st for details I 3am: wonder, paranoia and the restless night The Bluecoat, see 1st for details I Blacksoup - Vengeance is Mine! Dot-Art Showroom, see 1st for details I An Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details
I Liverpool Acoustic Sound, Duke St, 8pm, 0151 707 6363. Weekly acoustic open mic night. Book ahead
I David Hockney: Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details
I Live Music The Cavern Club, Mathew St, from 2pm. Weekly acoustic night with Nick Robinson, Jon Keats, Jimmy Coburn, Tony Coburn and Jay Murray
I This Way Out: Boy George & Trademark Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details
I Ian Prowse Monday Club The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, 8pm. Different artists perform covers and original material, hosted by Ian Prowse
I Germ Free Adolescents The Met Quarter. See 1st for details
I Council House Movie Star Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details
Family I Parent and Baby Walker Art Gallery, 10am. See 1st for details
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I No Joy East Village Arts Club, Seel St, 7pm, £6 adv, 0844 847 2472. Two-piece female Canadian shoegaze band, Fear of Men supporting
See 2nd for details I Bluegrass Brunch Sound, Duke St, 4-6pm, 0151 707 6363. Featuring Loose Moose band
I Circus Skills Workshops The Black-E, Great George St, Mon-Fri: 4pm-7pm, 0151 709 5109. For ages 7-14 with an interest in acrobalance, circus skills or gymnastics
Sports Sports & Leisure I SAE Bootcamp Greenbank Park, 5.45pm, £4.50/ £3.50 NUS per session, 07940 721 122. Cardio and interval
Other Events I Jonny Bongo's Monday Night Quiz The Shipping Forecast, In The Bar, 8pm, £1, 0151 709 6901
TUESDAY 5TH Music I Out Of The Bedroom: Acoustic Open Mic Night Leaf Cafe, Bold St, 8.30pm, 0151 707 7747, with Johnny Sands I ParrJazz - Partikel Studio 2, Parr Street, 8.30pm, £3 on door/ free NUS, 0151 707 3727. Jazz and open jam session I Live Music The Cavern Club, Mathew St, from 2pm. Weekly acoustic night with Tony Coburn, Jon Keats, Jimmy Coburn and Jay Murray I Cavern Bands Entertain The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, 9pm. The Cavern resident bands perform I 36 Crazyfists O2 Academy 2 Liverpool, doors 7pm, £14.06, 0844 477 2000. Alaskan heavy metal unit I The Savoy Jazzmen Sefton Park Palmhouse, 2-4pm, £5 (incl. tea & cake), 0151 726 9304. 6-piece band playing classics from the '20s, '30s and '40s I Northern Baroque: Baroque and Roll The Capstone Theatre, Shaw St, 7.30pm, £14/ £11.90 concs, 0844 8000 410. Exploring the relationship between baroque dance and music I Lloyd Cole The Citadel, St Helens, doors 7.30pm, 0174 473 5436. Indie/alternative American musician I Turin Brakes The Kazimier, Wolstenholme Sq, 7.30pm, £20, 0151 709 3789. Acoustic/ indie/ folk rock duo
Theatre&&Dance Dance Theatre I Blood Brothers Liverpool Empire Theatre. See 1st for details I The Circus of Horrors - London After Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 7.30pm, £18 - £20, 0151
666 0000. Cast of 26 performing daredevil circus acts with live music
I David Hockney: Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details
I Memories are Made of This The Brindley, Runcorn, 8pm, £10, 0151 907 8360. Music and dance show featuring the greatest hits of the past six decades
I Mrs Tinne's Wardrobe Walker Art Gallery, 1pm-2pm, 0151 478 4199. Tour focusing on a selection of 1920s daywear, evening wear, coats and hats
I 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Royal Court Theatre, Roe St, 8pm, £13-£21, 0871 787 1866. Tony Award-winning musical about six adolescents in a spelling competition
I Germ Free Adolescents The Met Quarter. See 1st for details
I An Evening of Mediumship The Liverpool Actors Studio Theatre, Seel St, 7.30pm, £10, 0151 709 9034. With Pete Jackson
Comedy I Sandi Toksvig: My Valentine The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 8pm, £20/ £26, 0151 709 3789. Comedian, novelist, actor and broadcaster. Part of Homotopia
Arts Arts I The Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details I Face to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 I The 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details I Judy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details I Messing about in boats Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 1st for details I The Drawings of Edward BurneJones Lady Lever Art Gallery, see 1st for details I You Never See Them Like This Open Eye Gallery, see 1st for details I British Dance: Black Routes International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details I Deaf School Liverpool John Moores University, see 1st for details I Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Magic Worlds World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, enter a world of enchantment, illusion and fantasy I Echo FACT, see 1st for details I 3am: wonder, paranoia and the restless night The Bluecoat, see 1st for details I Blacksoup - Vengeance is Mine! Dot-Art Showroom, see 1st for details I An Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details
I This Way Out: Boy George & Trademark Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details I Council House Movie Star Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details
Family I Circus Skills Workshops The Black-E. See 4th for details
Sports & Leisure I SAE Bootcamp Greenbank Park, 7-7.45am, £4.50/ £3.50 NUS per session, 07940 721 122. Cardio and strength I Cycle for Health Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 10am, booking essential, 0151 296 7054 I Electrified Yoga Leaf Cafe, Bold St, first floor, 6.30pm, £8 (incl. Chai and tiffin), 0151 707 7747. Yoga with a DJ
Other Events I The Brindley Bonfire Night Party The Brindley Terrace Cafe, Runcorn, 6-8pm, 0151 907 8360. I The House of Memories Museum of Liverpool, The Waterfront, 9.30am-3.30pm, 0151 478 4240. Dementia awareness training programme for social care staff. Booking essential
WEDNESDAY 6TH Music I Pete Wade's Acoustic Open Mic Night Gallaghers Pub and Barbers, Birkenhead, Wirral, 7.30pm, 0151 649 9095 I Joe Brown in concert Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 7.30pm, £25, 0151 666 0000. Rock'n'roll/ rockabilly/ folk fivepiece band I Live Music The Cavern Club, Mathew St, from 2pm. Weekly acoustic night with tribute artists including Nowhere Boys, Jon Keats, Tony Coburn, Jimmy Coburn, Steve Howard and Richard Batty I The Amazing Kappa Band The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, 9.30pm. The Cavern resident band blend rock'n'roll, rockabilly, melodic
ballads and lots more I Keith Jarrett and guests Keith's Wine Bar, Lark Lane, 8pm, 0151 728 7688 I Freddie Smith Big Band Bebington British Legion, Wirral CH63, 8.30pm, 0151 608 2270 I Asaf Sirkis Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 10pm, 0151 666 0000. Aftershow jazz gig following Joe Brown I Requiem for a Polka St George's Hall, St George's Place, doors 6.30pm/ start 7.30pm, £10, 0151 233 3020. Works by 20th Century masters Britten, Gorecki and Henze I Future of the Left East Village Arts Club, Seel St, 7pm, £10 adv, 0844 847 2472. Cardiff-based alternative/ noise rock group I Rod Picott Grateful Fred's, Formby, 8pm, £8, 0797 077 4618. Darkly humorous folk singer/songwriter from Maine, with support from Mark Saunders and The Grateful Fred Band I Gospeltronic House, Bold Street, 8pm, 0151 709 7141. Exploring avenues of electronica I King Dinosaur The Shipping Forecast, Slater St, 7.30pm, £5 adv, 0151 709 6901. Fast-rising electronica producer in his debut Liverpool show I Three Decker String Band The Caledonia, Caledonia St, 0151 708 0235 I Bryan Ferry The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 7.30pm, 0151 709 3789. Sold out I Liverpool Acoustic Sound, Duke St, 8pm, 0151 707 6363. Weekly acoustic open mic night. Book ahead
Theatre&&Dance Dance Theatre I Blood Brothers Liverpool Empire Theatre, 2.30pm & 7.30pm. See 1st for details I Memories are Made of This The Brindley, Runcorn, 2pm & 7pm, £10, 0151 907 8360. See 5th for details I Nostalgia The Lantern Theatre, Blundell St, 7.30pm, £8.50/ £6.50 Concs, 0151 703 0000. Contemporary experimental theatre show taking the audience through 70s, 80s and 90s I 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Royal Court Theatre, see 5th for details I Of Saints and Go-Go Boys The Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, 9pm, £10/ £8 concs, 0844 873 2888. Erotically charged descent into
the card payments co op
I a hedonistic world of misfits and sinners, very explicit sexual content I Dicky Beau - Lost in Trans The Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, 7.30pm, £10/ £8 concs, 0844 873 2888. Lip synching using multimedia and spoken word texts, inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses
Comedy I The Laughter Factor The Slaughter House, Fenwick St, 8pm, £5/ £3 concs, 0151 227 5946 I An Audience with Johnny Vegas Epstein Theatre, Hanover St, doors 6.30pm/ start 7.30pm, £20, 0844 888 4411
Arts Arts I The Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details I Face to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 I The 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details I Judy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details
I The Drawings of Edward BurneJones Lady Lever Art Gallery, see 1st for details I You Never See Them Like This Open Eye Gallery, see 1st for details I British Dance: Black Routes International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details I Deaf School Liverpool John Moores University, see 1st for details I Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Magic Worlds World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, enter a world of enchantment, illusion and fantasy I Echo FACT, see 1st for details I Fanny & Stella The Bluecoat, School Lane, 6pm, £6/ £5, 0151 702 5324. Neil McKenna talks about his new book, a tale of cross-dressing and gay sub-culture I 3am: wonder, paranoia and the restless night The Bluecoat, see 1st for details I Blacksoup - Vengeance is Mine! Dot-Art Showroom, see 1st for details I A Stitch in Time Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, Wirral, 1pm4pm, 0151 478 4136. The Wirral Embroiderers' Guild demonstrate
I An Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details I Opinion Service: Social History Museum of Liverpool, The Waterfront, 2pm-4pm, 0151 478 4063. For anyone with a social history object they wish to know about. Booking essential I David Hockney: Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Introductory Tour Walker Art Gallery, 2pm, 0151 478 4199. Introductory tour of the gallery focusing on its history and highlights from the collection I Germ Free Adolescents The Met Quarter. See 1st for details I This Way Out: Boy George & Trademark Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details I Council House Movie Star Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details
Family I Victorian Lamplight Tour Croxteth Hall and Country Park, from 7pm, £10 adults/ £8 children, 0151 287 4798. Characters from the past will share tales and secrets I Circus Skills Workshops The Black-E. See 4th for details
Sports & Leisure Sports I SAE Bootcamp Your Yoga Studio, Wood St, 7-7.45pm, £4.50/ £3.50 NUS per session, 07940 721 122. Fit Fusion I Walk for Health Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 1.30pm, 0151 287 4798, enjoy a healthy walk through the park
Other Events I Spotify Wednesday Leaf Cafe, Bold St, 8pm, 0151 707 7747. Sharing, creating and modifying of playlists I Women's Organisation Drop-In Leaf Cafe, Bold St, 10am, 0151 707 7747. Free advice and support for aspiring businesswomen I Seven Sessions Leaf Cafe, Bold St, 7.30pm, £4, 0151 707 7747. Series of workshops exploring fiction writing I The House of Memories Museum of Liverpool, see 5th for details I Quiz & Bingo Sound, Duke St, 8pm, 0151 707 6363
THURSDAY 7TH Music I Musica en Vivo Alma De Cuba, 10.30pm, 0151 702 7394. Spontaneous, high energy night with great live music I Cup Of Tea The Lomax, Cumberland St, 8.30pm, open mic I Live Music The Cavern Club, Mathew St, from 2pm, free before 8pm, then £3 OTD. Tony Mac, Jon Keats, Nowhere Boys, Ronny Hughes, and Beatles Tribute night at 10.30pm I Tony Mac The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, 7pm. Solo acoustic artist I Show of Hands Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 7.30pm, £18, 0151 666 0000. Awardwinning folk/ rock/ blues/ trad trio I My Darling Clementine Floral Pavilion Blue Lounge, New Brighton, 8pm, £15/ £13 concs, 0151 666 0000. Husband and wife country music duo I Fenech-Soler East Village Arts Club, Seel St, 7pm, £12.50 adv, 0844 847 2472. Four-piece electrofunk/pop band, with New Young Pony Club and Duologue I Lucy Spraggan O2 Academy Liverpool, Hotham St, doors 7pm, £14.06, 0844 477 2000. The most Googled UK artist of 2012 releases her debut album 'Join The Club' I Johnny Go Fast, Vertigo Casino, Cousin Avi The Lomax, Cumberland St, 7pm, £3 I The Tillerman Open Mic Show The Lomax, Cumberland St I Big Deal The Shipping Forecast, Slater St, 7.30pm, 0151 709 6901. Two London/California female guitarists/singer-songwriters, with support from Sisters I The Liverpool Philharmonic Experience The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 1.30pm, £15/ £7 concs, 0151 709 3789. 3-hour-long behindthe-scenes introduction to the Hall I Greyish Quartet Studio 2, Parr St, doors 7pm/ start 9.30pm, 0151 707 3727. Contemporary jazz idiom I Johnny's Acoustic Caravan Club Camp and Furnace, Greenland St, 8pm. Johnny Sands hosts the very best of Liverpool's acoustic music scene I Slap Your Mammy Sound, Duke St, 8pm, 0151 707 6363. Garage punk DJ night
Theatre&&Dance Dance Theatre I Blood Brothers Liverpool Empire Theatre. See 1st for details I The Wiz LIPA, Paul McCartney Auditorium, 7.30pm, £8/ £4 Concs, 0844 873 2888. Musical of The Wizard of Oz I Essence of Ireland St. Helens Theatre Royal, 7.30pm, £21.50, 01744 756 000. Irish music and dance show I 1994 The Lantern Theatre, Blundell St, 8pm, £8.50/ £6.50 Concs, 0151 703 0000. Solo performer Lina Simic's homage to Kurt Cobain I 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Royal Court Theatre, see 5th for details I Of Saints and Go-Go Boys The Unity Theatre, 7pm & 9pm, see 6th for details I Casus - Knee Deep The Black-E, Great George's St, 7.30pm, £8/ £6 concs/ £20 family, 0151 709 3789. Australia's new contemporary circus company bring their premiere work to Liverpool
Comedy I The Complete Works of William Shakespeare The Brindley, Runcorn, 7.30pm, £14/ £12, 0151 907 8360. Fast-paced, farcical romp through Shakespeare's plays I Paul Foot The Slaughter House, Fenwick St, 8pm, £12.50, 0151 227 5946
Arts Arts I The Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details I Face to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 I The 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details I Judy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details I Messing about in boats Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 1st for details I The Drawings of Edward BurneJones Lady Lever Art Gallery, see 1st for details I You Never See Them Like This Open Eye Gallery, see 1st for details I British Dance: Black Routes International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details I Deaf School Liverpool John Moores University, see 1st for details
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I Messing about in boats Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 1st for details
their textile artwork I Burne-Jones drawings Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, Wirral, 2pm-3pm, 0151 478 4136. The Director of Art gives a tour of the Burne-Jones exhibition
I Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Magic Worlds World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, enter a world of enchantment, illusion and fantasy I Echo FACT, see 1st for details I Sex: What Do Queer Women Want? The Bluecoat, School Lane, 6pm, 0151 702 5324. Jane Czyzselska and panelists discuss this fascinating and arousing subject. Booking essential I 3am: wonder, paranoia and the restless night The Bluecoat, see 1st for details I Blacksoup - Vengeance is Mine! Dot-Art Showroom, see 1st for details I An Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details I David Hockney: Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Germ Free Adolescents The Met Quarter. See 1st for details I This Way Out: Boy George & Trademark Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details I Council House Movie Star Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details
Sports Sports & Leisure I SAE Bootcamp Greenbank Park, 7-7.45am, £4.50/ £3.50 NUS per session, 07940 721 122. Cardio and Interval
Other Events I Late Night Vintage The Shipping Forecast, 5.30-9.30pm, 0151 709 6901
FRIDAY 8TH Music I The Johnny Cash Roadshow The Brindley, Runcorn, 7.30pm, £17.50, 0151 907 8360. UK's no.1 tribute Clive John I Magic - a kind of Queen Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 7.30pm, £17.50, 0151 666 0000. Queen tribute band I Regenesis - Selling England by the Pound Floral Pavilion Blue Lounge, New Brighton, 8pm, £15, 0151 666 0000. Genesis tribue band I The Stylistics The Green Room, doors 6.30pm/ start 8pm, £15 (incl. champagne reception), 0870 787 1866. Tribute show I Matt Ridley Quartet The Capstone Theatre, Shaw St, 7.30pm, £14/
£11.50 concs, 0844 8000 410. Combining foot-tapping grooves, modern jazz improv, exotic middleeastern music and gut-wrenching melodies I Marley Chingus Jazz Explosion The Caledonia, Caledonia St, 0151 708 0235 I AC/DC UK The Cavern Live Lounge, Mathew St, 7.30pm, £10, 0151 236 9091. Tribute to the rock legends I Live Music The Cavern Club, with Made In Liverpool. See 1st for details I Natalie McCool The Kazimier, Wolstenholme Sq, 8pm, £5 adv, 0151 709 3789. The award-winning singer/songwriter, with support from Ravens plus special guests TBA. I Chew Disco: Vol 12 The Kazimier, Wolstenholme Sq, 10pm, £7/ £5 NUS, 0151 709 3789. Featuring drag-punk icon Ms Vaginal Davis, with Shopping and more TBA. Part of Homotopia I Jo Harman Studio 2, Parr St, doors 7pm for dining & drinks/ start 9.30pm, £5, 0151 707 3727. Classic sounds of gospel, blues and soul I The Charlatans St George's Hall, St George's Place, doors 6pm, £35.75. Rescheduled, part of LIMF. English indie rock band I MONEY Camp and Furnace, Greenland St, 7.30pm, £9/ £8 concs. Tickets from seetickets.com. Highly acclaimed Manchester band I Reva Korova, Fleet St, 7pm, 50p, tickets available online. 4-piece Liverpool Britpop band I John Waters: This Filthy World The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 8pm, £20/ £26, 0151 709 3789. One-man "vaudeville" act celebrating Waters' career and obsessional tastes I Kingdom plus guests Sound, Duke St, 8pm, 0151 707 6363. Indie rock band
Theatre&&Dance Dance Theatre
ignorance, racism and modern British society I 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Royal Court Theatre, see 5th for details I Gypsy Fire Epstein Theatre, Hanover St, doors 7pm/ start 8pm, £15, 0844 888 4411. Acoustic quartet with 2 guitars, double bass and violin I Casus - Knee Deep The Black-E, see 7th for details
Comedy I Hot Water Comedy Club The Crown Hotel Pub, Lime St, doors 7pm/ start 8pm, £8/ £4 concs, 0777 211 2344. MC Paul Smith introduces some of the finest comedians on the comedy circuit I Ste Porter plus guests The Slaughter House, Fenwick St, 8pm, £15, Meal Deal options from £26, 0151 227 5946
Arts Arts I The Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details I Face to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 I The 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details I Judy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details I Messing about in boats Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 1st for details
I Art Turning Left Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock, 10am-5.50pm, £8/ £6 concs, 0151 702 7400. How the production and reception of art has been influenced by left-wing values I The Office of Useful Art Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock, free with exhibition ticket, 0151 702 7400. A working office and education centre located in 'Art Turning Left', exploring the idea of usership back into art I Germ Free Adolescents The Met Quarter. See 1st for details I This Way Out: Boy George & Trademark Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details I Council House Movie Star Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details
Family I Parent and Baby Walker Art Gallery, 10am and 1pm. See 1st for details
Other Events I Behind the Scenes Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 1pm, £3.50, 0151 233 3020. Discover the fascinating Victorian world I Paranormal Night at Croxteth Hall Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 9pm-2am. Sold out
SATURDAY 9TH Music
I The Drawings of Edward BurneJones Lady Lever Art Gallery, see 1st for details
I Live Music The Cavern Club. See 2nd for details
I You Never See Them Like This Open Eye Gallery, see 1st for details
I Live Music The Cavern Pub. See 2nd for details
I British Dance: Black Routes International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details
I The ELO Experience St. Helens Theatre Royal, 7.30pm, £19/ £18 concs, 01744 756 000. ELO tribute band
I Deaf School Liverpool John Moores University, see 1st for details
I Blood Brothers Liverpool Empire Theatre. See 1st for details
I Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details
I The Wiz LIPA, Paul McCartney Auditorium, 7.30pm, £8/ £4 Concs, 0844 873 2888. Musical of The Wizard of Oz
I Magic Worlds World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, enter a world of enchantment, illusion and fantasy
I Elvis meets Abba Gladstone Theatre, Port Sunlight, 7.30pm, £14/ £12 Concs, 0151 643 8757, tribute show
I 3am: wonder, paranoia and the restless night The Bluecoat, see 1st for details
I True Colours The Lantern Theatre, Blundell St, 7.30pm, £10.50/ £8.50 Concs, 0151 703 0000. New play by Adam Hughes dealing with
House, see 1st for details I David Hockney: Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details
I Echo FACT, see 1st for details
I Blacksoup - Vengeance is Mine! Dot-Art Showroom, see 1st for details I An Age of Confidence Sudley
I The Mersey Beatles Epstein Theatre, Hanover St, doors 7pm/ start 8pm, £13.50, 0844 888 4411. Beatles tribute act I Mike Robbins Trio Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 12.30pm, 0151 666 0000. Guitar, string bass and drums jazz trio I Kitten and the Hip Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 8pm, £10, 0151 666 0000. The duo combine elements of R'n'B, pop, dubstep, and electro swing I Steve Charles The Green Room, doors 6.30pm/ start 8pm, £15 (incl.
I champagne reception), 0870 787 1866. Soul & motown
I True Colours The Lantern Theatre, see 8th for details
I Bain, Möller & Molsky St George's Hall, St George's Place, doors 6.45pm/ start 7.30pm, £15, 0151 233 3020. Collaboration by three of the world's leading folk musicians
I 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Royal Court Theatre, 2pm & 8pm, see 5th for details
I P-U-L-S-E 2013 Echo Arena, 8pm, £11.50-£44, 0844 8000 400. 'The Pink Floyd Ultimate Light and Sound Experience' I Hawkwind O2 Academy Liverpool, Hotham St, doors 7pm, £22.50, 0844 477 2000. Performance by the English space rock group in sequential entirety of 'Warrior on the Edge of Time' I Catalyst O2 Academy 2 Liverpool, Hotham St, doors 7pm, £7.05, 0844 477 2000 I Stillia plus guests The Citadel, St Helens, doors 7.30pm, 0174 473 5436. The rock'n'roll band's official launch party for their debut EP Living Loud I Nick Harper The Lomax, Cumberland St, £8.50 adv/ £10 OTD. "Colossal talent" guitarist and singer/songwriter
I The Tea Street Band The Zanzibar Club, Seel St, 7.30pm, £7.70, 0151 707 0633. Five lads making sound waves for people to dance to I Phosphorescent The Kazimier, Wolstenholme Sq, 8pm, £13.50, 0151 709 3789. American singer/ songwriter Matthew Houck I Julia Biel Studio 2, Parr St, doors 7pm for dining & drinks/ start 9.30pm, £5, 0151 707 3727. British multi-instrumentalist I Johnny's Acoustic Sessions Heebie Jeebies, Seel St, 3-6pm. An afternoon of acoustic talent hosted by Johnny Sands I Mozart's Requiem The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 7.30pm, £7-£36, 0151 709 3789. Conducted by Alexander Shelley and performed by the Orchestra and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir
Theatre&&Dance Dance Theatre I Blood Brothers Liverpool Empire Theatre, 2.30pm & 7.30pm. See 1st for details I The Wiz LIPA, Paul McCartney Auditorium, 2.30pm & 7.30pm, £8/ £4 Concs, 0844 873 2888. Musical of The Wizard of Oz
I Triple Dance Bill The Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, 7pm, £10/ £8 concs, 0844 873 2888. A night of new works featuring all female dancers
Comedy I Hot Water Comedy Club The Crown Hotel Pub, see 2nd for details I Ed Byrne: Roaring Forties Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 8pm, £22.50, 0151 666 0000 I Ste Porter plus guests The Slaughter House, Fenwick St, 8pm, £17.50, Meal Deal options from £28.50, 0151 227 5946
Arts Arts I The Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details I Face to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 I The 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details I Judy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details I Messing about in boats Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 1st for details I The Drawings of Edward BurneJones Lady Lever Art Gallery, see 1st for details I You Never See Them Like This Open Eye Gallery, see 1st for details I British Dance: Black Routes International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details I Deaf School Liverpool John Moores University, see 1st for details I Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Magic Worlds World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, enter a world of enchantment, illusion and fantasy I Echo FACT, see 1st for details I 3am Exhibition Tour The Bluecoat, School Lane, 2pm, 0151 702 5324. Reg Orme leads a tour of the 3am exhibition I 3am: wonder, paranoia and the
I An Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details I Georgian Portraiture Sudley House, Mossley Hill, 1pm, 0151 478 4016. Talk on this wonderful period in British art I David Hockney: Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Exhibition Tour Open Eye Gallery, Mann Island, 1.30pm, 0151 236 6768. The curatorial team give a tour of the exhibitions I Art Turning Left Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details I The Social with Tate Collective Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock, 11am4pm, 0151 702 7400. Monthly drop-in event for young people aged 15-25
I Crystal Palace Vs Everton 2pm
Other Events I Antiquarian and Secondhand Book Fair Haydock Park Racecourse, Newton-le-Willows, 10am-4pm, 01942 402 623 I Car Boot Sale Metropolitan Cathedral, 8am-12pm, 20p, 0151 709 9222
SUNDAY 10TH Music I Martin Taylor Floral Pavilion Blue Lounge, New Brighton, 7.30pm, £24, 0151 666 0000. Solo, duet and trio jazz performances
I The Office of Useful Art Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details
I Glass Animals East Village Arts Club, Seel St, 7pm, £7 adv, 0844 847 2472. Oxford psychedelic indie band, plus guests Woman's Hour and Etches
I Cinema Soloriens MelloMello, Slater St, 8pm, £10 adv. Multimedia performance consisting of experimental and personal film images with live soundtracks
I Toseland O2 Academy 2 Liverpool, Hotham St, doors 7pm, £9.05, 0844 477 2000. Former superbike champion James Toseland's new two-piece rock band
I Germ Free Adolescents The Met Quarter. See 1st for details
I Liverpool Guitar Society Sefton Park Palmhouse, 2-4pm, 0151 726 2415. Classical guitar ensemble, playing Bach, Latin rhythms from Cuba and Brazil, Scott Joplin and Metallica!
I This Way Out: Boy George & Trademark Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details I Council House Movie Star Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details
Family I Future Tate: Monthly Art Club Tate Liverpool, 2-4pm, Booking required, 0151 702 7400, interactive workshops led by young people from Tate Collective, for ages 11-14 I Model Magic Merseyside Maritime Museum, Albert Dock, 1pm-4pm, 0151 478 4499. Hands-on activity on the theme of endangered animals I Dino-Expert! World Museum, William Brown St, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 0151 478 4393. Discover fascinating facts about dinosaurs I Magic Marathon World Museum, William Brown St, 10am-4pm, 0151 478 4393. Drop in event - 5 hours of non-stop magic
Sports Sports & Leisure I Capoeira Club International Slavery Museum, see 2nd for details I SAE Bootcamp Greenbank Park, 8.30-9.15am, £4.50/ £3.50 NUS per session, 07940 721 122. Cardio and Interval I Liverpool Vs Fulham 3pm
I Jazz Con Fusion The Grapes, Roscoe St, 9pm, 07950 828674. Live jazz with a Latin twist I Acoustic Recovery The Lomax, Cumberland St, 7pm. A mix of open mic and guest slots I Loose Moose String Band The Caledonia, Caledonia St, 0151 708 0235 I Live Music The Cavern Club. See 3rd for details I Blind Monk Trio Studio 2, Parr St, doors 7pm/ start 9.30pm, 0151 707 3727. Heavy rootjazz I Colin Papa Stuart Sound, Duke St, 8pm, 0151 707 6363. Reggae band, plus DJs
Theatre&&Dance Dance Theatre I North West Dance Challenge 2013 Liverpool Empire Theatre, 7.30pm, £18.90, 0844 871 3017 I Snow White St. Helens Theatre Royal, 5pm, £18.50/ £12.50-£17 concs, 01744 756 000. Brand new production by Vienna Festival Ballet I Chance2Dance Epstein Theatre, Hanover St, 9am-5pm, price TBC, 0844 888 4411. Charity dance event to raise money for the Roy
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I Medlar The Shipping Forecast, Slater St, 11pm-3am, £6 adv, 0151 709 6901. Hiphop/ boogie/ UK garage/ techno. With DJs Rich Furness, RoBaSca and Jimmy Allen
I David Hoyle The Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, 9pm, £12/ £10 concs, 0844 873 2888. Avant-garde performance art with poetry and music
restless night The Bluecoat, see 1st for details
I Castle Lung Foundateion
Comedy I Starcrossed Lovers Royal Court Theatre, Roe St, 7pm, £4, 0871 787 1866. 45-minute love story packed with music and comedy, devised by young people I Albert Herring Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 7.30pm, £18/ £16 concs, 0151 666 0000. Comedy opera about village life I Hot Water Comedy Club The Crown Hotel Pub, see 3rd for details
Arts Arts I The Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details I Face to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 I The 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details I Judy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details I Messing about in boats Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 1st for details I The Drawings of Edward BurneJones Lady Lever Art Gallery, see 1st for details I You Never See Them Like This Open Eye Gallery, see 1st for details I British Dance: Black Routes International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details I Deaf School Liverpool John Moores University, see 1st for details I Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Magic Worlds World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, enter a world of enchantment, illusion and fantasy I Echo FACT, see 1st for details I Night Run The Bluecoat, School Lane, 3am-5am, 0151 702 5324. Local runners run 10k around the city centre (related to the 3am exhibition) I 3am: wonder, paranoia and the restless night The Bluecoat, see 1st for details I An Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details I David Hockney: Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Art Turning Left Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details I The Office of Useful Art Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details
I Germ Free Adolescents The Met Quarter. See 1st for details
I Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details
I Cavern Bands Entertain The Cavern Pub. See 5th for details
I This Way Out: Boy George & Trademark Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details
I Magic Worlds World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, enter a world of enchantment, illusion and fantasy
I Council House Movie Star Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details
I Echo FACT, see 1st for details
I Submotion Orchestra The Kazimier, Wolstenholme Sq, 12am, £10, 0151 709 3789. A 7-piece ensemble of multi-instrumentalists with dubstep/ soul/ ambient electronica/ jazz influences
Other Events I Creative Craft Fair Haydock Park Racecourse, Newton-le-Willows, 10am-4.30pm, £1.50, 01942 402 623
MONDAY 11TH Music I Live Music The Cavern Club. See 4th for details I Dave Lloyd Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 12.30pm, 0151 666 0000. Singer/guitarist/songwriter I Craig Colton O2 Academy 2 Liverpool, Hotham St, doors 7pm, £9.56, 0844 477 2000. X Factor singer I Ian Prowse Monday Club The Cavern Pub. See 4th for details
Theatre&&Dance Dance Theatre I The Shakespeare Schools Festival Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 7pm, £6.50/ £8, 0151 666 0000. Four schools perform four different Shakespeare plays I Terriers Royal Court Theatre, Roe St, 6.30pm, £6/ £4 concs, 0871 787 1866. Play exploring immense pressures put on gang members
Arts Arts I The Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details
I 3am: wonder, paranoia and the restless night The Bluecoat, see 1st for details I Blacksoup - Vengeance is Mine! Dot-Art Showroom, see 1st for details I An Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details I David Hockney: Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Art Turning Left Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details I The Office of Useful Art Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details I Germ Free Adolescents The Met Quarter. See 1st for details I This Way Out: Boy George & Trademark Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details I Council House Movie Star Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details
Family I Parent and Baby Walker Art Gallery, 10am. See 1st for details
Sports Sports & Leisure I SAE Bootcamp Greenbank Park, 5.45pm, £4.50/ £3.50 NUS per session, 07940 721 122. Cardio and interval
TUESDAY 12TH Music
I ParrJazz - The Outlanders Studio 2, Parr St, 8.30pm, £3/ free NUS, 0151 707 3727. Open jazz/ funk/ soul jam session with instrumental band
Theatre&&Dance Dance Theatre I Annie The Brindley, Runcorn, 7.30pm, £15/ £14 concs, 0151 907 8360. The musical I The Grand Gesture The Playhouse, 7.30pm, £12-£23, 0151 709 4776. Comedy about a man on the edge, with live onstage music I The Shakespeare Schools Festival Floral Pavilion Theatre, see 11th for details
Comedy I Micky Flanagan Echo Arena, 8pm, £27.50, 0844 8000 400. One of British comedy's biggest stars on his 'Back in the Game' tour
Arts Arts I The Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details I Face to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 I The 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details I Judy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details
I Tom Doughty Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 12.30pm, 0151 666 0000
I Messing about in boats Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 1st for details
I The 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details
I Walter Trout plus support Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 8pm, £20, 0151 666 0000. Blues/ rock guitarist
I The Drawings of Edward BurneJones Lady Lever Art Gallery, see 1st for details
I Judy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details
I Out Of The Bedroom: Acoustic Open Mic Night Leaf Cafe, see 5th for details
I Messing about in boats Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 1st for details
I Sweet Baboo Leaf Cafe, Bold St, 7.30pm, £7, 0151 707 7747. Indiepop singer/songwriter
I The Drawings of Edward BurneJones Lady Lever Art Gallery, see 1st for details
I The Cone Gatherers The Capstone Theatre, Shaw St, 7.30pm, £14/ £11.50 concs, 0844 8000 410. Performance by pianist Branka Parlic, prominent interpreter & promoter of new music
I Face to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911
I British Dance: Black Routes International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details I Deaf School Liverpool John Moores University, see 1st for details
I Live Music The Cavern Club. See 5th for details
I You Never See Them Like This Open Eye Gallery, see 1st for details I British Dance: Black Routes International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details I Deaf School Liverpool John Moores University, see 1st for details I Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Magic Worlds World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, enter a world of enchantment, illusion and fantasy I Echo FACT, see 1st for details I Philosophy in Pubs The Bluecoat,
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I School Lane, 1pm-3.20pm, 0151 702 5324. Drop in for some deep thinking and debating I 3am: wonder, paranoia and the restless night The Bluecoat, see 1st for details I Blacksoup - Vengeance is Mine! Dot-Art Showroom, see 1st for details I An Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details I David Hockney: Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Talk Tuesday: Le Plongeur Walker Art Gallery, 1pm, 0151 478 4199. Talk on the painting by David Hockney I Fireworks Rathbone Studio, Birkenhead, 1pm-5pm, 0790 333 7995. Open exhibition: Light the Muse I Art Turning Left Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details I The Office of Useful Art Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details I Germ Free Adolescents The Met Quarter. See 1st for details I This Way Out: Boy George & Trademark Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details
I SAE Bootcamp Greenbank Park, 7-7.45am, £4.50/ £3.50 NUS per session, 07940 721 122. Cardio and strength
Other Events I Royal Court Heritage Tour The Royal Court Theatre, City Centre, 2pm, £5, 0870 787 1866, the theatre is one of Liverpool's most enduring and iconic building and has a rich history I Tea Dance amidst the Palms Sefton Park Palmhouse, 2-4pm, £5 (incl. tea & cake), 0151 726 9304. An afternoon of dancing. Adv. booking recommended I A Room With A View The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 7.30pm, £6/ £7, 0151 709 3789. 1985 film based on the novel by E.M. Forster
WEDNESDAY 13TH Music I Blancmange Eric's, Mathew Street, 8pm - 11.30pm, £16.75, 0151 236 9994. 1980's English synthpop band
I The Gathering The Bluecoat, School Lane, 7.30pm-9.30pm, 0151 702 5324. Monthly space for musicians to meet and improvise together I The Maine & We Are The Ocean O2 Academy 2 Liverpool, Hotham St, doors 6.30pm, £14.62, 0844 477 2000. With support from Fort Hope I Yuck The Shipping Forecast, Slater St, 8-11pm, £8, 0151 709 6901. Scuzzy shoegaze pop trio, supported by slacker pop mob Polterghost I Cajun Session The Caledonia, Caledonia St, 0151 708 0235 I Live Music The Cavern Club. See 6th for details I The Amazing Kappa Band The Cavern Pub. See 6th for details I Lanterns on the Lake The Kazimier, Wolstenholme Sq, 8pm, £8, 0151 709 3789. 5-piece indie rock band, cinematic post-pop I Colours of the South The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 7.30pm, £7-£36, 0151 709 3789. Classic FM Series, with harp interpretations of music by Debussy, Rodrigo and Ravel I Clive Carroll The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 8pm, £12, 0151 709 3789. UK acoustic fingerpicking guitarist, fusing trad Irish, rock, newgrass and jazz I Keith Jarrett and guests Keith's Wine Bar, Lark Lane, 8pm, 0151 728 7688 I Liverpool Acoustic Sound, Duke St, 8pm, 0151 707 6363. Weekly acoustic open mic night. Book ahead
Theatre&&Dance Dance Theatre I The Slipper and the Rose Liverpool Empire Theatre, 7.30pm, £16.90-£26.90, 0844 871 3017. Cinderella musical I Annie The Brindley, Runcorn, 7.30pm, £15/ £14 concs, 0151 907 8360. The musical I The Grand Gesture The Playhouse, 5.30pm, £12-£23, 0151 709 4776. Comedy about a man on the edge, with live onstage music I Mis Les The Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, 8pm, £14/ £12 concs, 0844 873 2888. Musical double act by Keddy Sutton and Gillian Hardy I The Seance of Dickens
MelloMello, Slater St, 8pm, £5. One man theatre show about an eccentric man who claims he can contact the dead and becomes obsessed with Dickens' characters
Comedy I The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 7.30pm, £27/ £25, 0151 666 0000. Stage production of the radio show I Micky Flanagan Echo Arena. See 12th for details
Arts Arts I The Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details I Face to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 I The 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details I Judy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details I Messing about in boats Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 1st for details I The Drawings of Edward BurneJones Lady Lever Art Gallery, see 1st for details I You Never See Them Like This Open Eye Gallery, see 1st for details I British Dance: Black Routes International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details I Deaf School Liverpool John Moores University, see 1st for details I Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details
work I Introductory Tour Walker Art Gallery. See 6th for details I Fireworks Rathbone Studio. See 12th for details I Art Turning Left Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details I The Office of Useful Art Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details I Germ Free Adolescents The Met Quarter. See 1st for details I This Way Out: Boy George & Trademark Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details
Family I We're Going on a Bear Hunt Epstein Theatre, Hanover St, 10.30am and 1.30pm, 0844 888 4411. Music, laughter, songs, puppetry, paint, and a bear, based on the much-loved picture book
Sports Sports & Leisure I Walk for Health Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 1.30pm, 0151 287 4798, enjoy a healthy walk through the park I SAE Bootcamp Your Yoga Studio, Wood St, 7-7.45pm, £4.50/ £3.50 NUS per session, 07940 721 122. Fit Fusion
Other Events I Spotify Wednesdays Leaf Cafe, see 6th for details I Tea Dance St George's Hall, St George's Place, doors 1.30pm-4pm, £5, 0151 233 3020. The Great Hall comes to life with live music and dance, for dancers of all abilities and spectators
I Magic Worlds World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, enter a world of enchantment, illusion and fantasy
I Quiz & Bingo Sound, Duke St, 8pm, 0151 707 6363
I Echo FACT, see 1st for details
THURSDAY 14TH
I 3am: wonder, paranoia and the restless night The Bluecoat, see 1st for details I Blacksoup - Vengeance is Mine! Dot-Art Showroom, see 1st for details I An Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details I Introductory Tour Sudley House, Mossley Hill, 10am-5pm, 0151 478 4016. Introduction to Sudley House I David Hockney: Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Old Masters: Heroines Walker Art Gallery, 1pm, 0151 478 4199. Talk on the work of transvestite artist Phil Sayers, referencing David Hockney's
Music I Live Music The Cavern Club. See 7th for details I Gerry Murphy Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 12.30pm, 0151 666 0000. Swamp-soul influenced six-string symphonies I John Williams Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 7.30pm, £20, 0151 666 0000. Grammy Award-winning classical guitarist I Liverpool Guitar Society Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 10pm, 0151 666 0000. Aftershow concert following John Williams I Musica en Vivo Alma De Cuba. See
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Sports Sports & Leisure I Cycle for Health Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 10am, booking essential, 0151 296 7054
I Adam Palma Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 12.30pm, 0151 666 0000. Mixture of blues, rock, jazz, funk and country
I 7th for details
Comedy
I Young Knives O2 Academy Liverpool, Hotham St, doors 7pm, £11.25, 0844 477 2000. Mercurynominated musical experimenters, with Ralfe Band supporting
I Hal Cruttenden The Slaughter House, Fenwick St, 8pm, £12/ £10 concs, 0151 227 5946
I The Tillerman Open Mic Show The Lomax, Cumberland St
I The Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details
I Kins The Shipping Forecast, Slater St, 7.30pm, £6 adv, 0151 709 6901. Brighton-based quartet, impatient, icy guitar pop
I Face to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911
I The Cavern Today The Cavern Live Lounge, Mathew St, 8pm, £4/ £3 adv, 0151 236 9091. Monthly gig featuring 3 of the best original Liverpool bands
I The 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details
I Tony Mac The Cavern Pub. See 7th for details I Greg Abate Studio 2, Parr St, doors 7pm/ start 9.30pm, 0151 707 3727. American saxophonist I A Celebration of Benjamin Britten The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 1.05pm, £6, 0151 709 3789. Part of Britten Centenary celebration I Colours of the South The Philharmonic Hall. See 13th for details I The Liverpool Jazz Club The Liner Hotel, Lord Nelson St, 8pm. Fortnightly jazz session, with varied performers and LIPA student talent I Syd Barret.. Was My Grandad Sound, Duke St, 8pm, 0151 707 6363. An evening full of good vibrations, film projections & psychedelic sounds
Theatre&&Dance Dance Theatre I The Slipper and the Rose Liverpool Empire Theatre, 7.30pm, £16.90-£26.90, 0844 871 3017. Cinderella musical I Annie The Brindley, Runcorn, 7.30pm, £15/ £14 concs, 0151 907 8360. The musical I The Grand Gesture The Playhouse, 1.30pm & 7.30pm, £12-£23, 0151 709 4776. Comedy about a man on the edge, with live onstage music I Black The Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, 7.45pm, £10/ £8 concs, 0844 873 2888. Intimate portrait of the life of Nigerian singer Le Gateau Chocolat I Mis Les The Unity Theatre, 9.15pm, see 13th for details I Much Ado About Nothing The Capstone Theatre, Shaw St, 7.30pm, £11.50/ £9.50 concs, 0844 8000 410. Fast-paced production of the Shakespeare classic
Arts Arts
I Judy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details I Messing about in boats Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 1st for details I The Drawings of Edward BurneJones Lady Lever Art Gallery, see 1st for details I You Never See Them Like This Open Eye Gallery, see 1st for details I British Dance: Black Routes International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details I Deaf School Liverpool John Moores University, see 1st for details I Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Magic Worlds World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, enter a world of enchantment, illusion and fantasy I Echo FACT, see 1st for details I Rage against the dying of light The Bluecoat, School Lane, 6pm-8pm, 0151 702 5324. Part of the monthly Talking Poetry series exploring a wide range of poetry. Ticket required I 3am: wonder, paranoia and the restless night The Bluecoat, see 1st for details I Blacksoup - Vengeance is Mine! Dot-Art Showroom, see 1st for details I An Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details I David Hockney: Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Impossible Images Open Eye Gallery, Mann Island, 5.30pm, 0151 236 6748. Talk by Prof. Robert Burgoyne on the challenges of representing the war in images I Fireworks Rathbone Studio. See 12th for details I Art Turning Left Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details I The Office of Useful Art Tate
Liverpool. See 8th for details I Screening: The Irlam House Bequest Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock, 6pm, 0151 702 7400. David Jacques introduces his film about artisan-entrepreneur George Tutill. Adv. booking recommended I Germ Free Adolescents The Met Quarter. See 1st for details I This Way Out: Boy George & Trademark Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details I Boy George & Trademark in conversation St George's Hall, St George's Place, 6pm, £16, 0151 709 3789. Janice Long interviews the pop icon, DJ, director and photographer with artist Trademark
Family I We're Going on a Bear Hunt Epstein Theatre. See 13th for details
Sports Sports & Leisure I SAE Bootcamp Greenbank Park, 7-7.45am, £4.50/ £3.50 NUS per session, 07940 721 122. Cardio and Interval
Other Events I Le Vian Chocolatier Ernest Jones Store, Liverpool ONE, 0151 709 7533. Largest showcase of exclusive Le Vian designer jewellery
FRIDAY 15TH Music
I Tony Remy and the Stolen Clones Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 8pm, £18.50, 0151 666 0000. Blues fused with funk, rock and jazz I All New Guitar Legends Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 7.30pm, £16, 0151 666 0000. Show highlights different guitar styles, performed by Gary Murphy and his band I Julia Holter Leaf Cafe, Bold St, 7.30pm, £13.50, 0151 707 7747. Cutting edge experimental/pop multi-intsrumentalist I Beatlemania The Green Room, doors 6.30pm/ start 8pm, £15 (incl. champagne reception), 0870 787 1866. Beatles tribute show I Coheed and Cambria O2 Academy Liverpool, Hotham St, doors 7pm, £20.81, 0844 477 2000. Progressive rock/ punk/ metal band from New York I The Spares O2 Academy 2 Liverpool, Hotham St, doors
7pm, £7.05, 0844 477 2000. Alt-country/ Americana duo from Chicago, plus special guests I Kynchinlay Stamps Wine Bar, Crosby, 9.30pm, 0151 286 2662. Local band covering artists such as Arctic Monkeys & The Killers I The Cubical plus guests The Lomax, Cumberland St, 7.30pm, £TBC. Rock'n'roll Liverpool band; "gritty, growly swamp blues" I Audiojack The Shipping Forecast, Slater St, 11pm-3am, £7 adv, 0151 709 6901. Leeds duo with support from DJs Makes No Sense and Jack Brown I Downtown Dixieland Band The Caledonia, Caledonia St, 0151 708 0235 I Live Music The Cavern Club, with The Rockits. See 1st for details I Joan of Arc The Kazimier, Wolstenholme Sq, 8pm, £8.50, 0151 709 3789. Indie rock band from Chicago I Zappa Plays Zappa: Roxy & Elsewhere The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 7.30pm, £29.50-£39.50, 0151 709 3789. Celebrating Frank Zappa's album, with new and original material I In By Ones Sound, Duke St, 8pm, 0151 707 6363. Scouse indie band
Theatre&&Dance Dance Theatre I The Slipper and the Rose Liverpool Empire Theatre, 7.30pm, £16.90-£26.90, 0844 871 3017. Cinderella musical I Annie The Brindley, Runcorn, 7.30pm, £15/ £14 concs, 0151 907 8360. The musical I Coincidences The Brindley, Runcorn, 7.30pm, £8, £7 concs, 0151 907 8360. Play based on real collection of spookily coincidental stories I Arise Love Goddess The Lantern Theatre, Blundell St, 7.30pm, £12.50/ £9.50 Concs, 0151 703 0000. Uplifting celebration of divine female power I The Grand Gesture The Playhouse, 7.30pm, £12-£23, 0151 709 4776. Comedy about a man on the edge, with live onstage music I Mis Les The Unity Theatre, 9.15pm, see 13th for details I Black The Unity Theatre, 2.30pm & 7.45pm, see 14th for details I Natasha Davis & Two Destination Language The Capstone Theatre, Shaw St, 7.30pm, £13.50/ £11.50 concs, 0844 8000 410. Two unusual and heartfelt performances
I including installations, films, crows, cages and carnations
Comedy I Hot Water Comedy Club The Crown Hotel Pub, see 8th for details I Neil Fitzmaurice plus guests The Slaughter House, Fenwick St, 8pm, £15, Meal Deal options from £26, 0151 227 5946
Arts Arts I The Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details I Face to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 I The 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details I Judy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details I Messing about in boats Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 1st for details I The Drawings of Edward BurneJones Lady Lever Art Gallery, see 1st for details
I British Dance: Black Routes International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details I Deaf School Liverpool John Moores University, see 1st for details I Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Magic Worlds World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, enter a world of enchantment, illusion and fantasy I Echo FACT, see 1st for details I 3am: wonder, paranoia and the restless night The Bluecoat, see 1st for details I Blacksoup - Vengeance is Mine! Dot-Art Showroom, see 1st for details I An Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details I David Hockney: Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Fireworks Rathbone Studio. See 12th for details I Art Turning Left Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details I The Office of Useful Art Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details I Germ Free Adolescents The Met Quarter. See 1st for details I This Way Out: Boy George & Trademark Camp and Furnace. See
Family I We're Going on a Bear Hunt Epstein Theatre. See 13th for details I Parent and Baby Walker Art Gallery, 10am & 1pm. See 1st for details I Pyjama Party with Jumping Jacks Sefton Park Palmhouse, 5-7pm, £5, 0151 726 2415. Music, games, dancing, prizes, balloons, face-painting. Proceeds to Children in Need
Other Events I Photowalk The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10.30am-2pm, £25, 0151 702 5324. City photowalk with photographer Stewart Ellett I Book Fair The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10.30am-5pm, 0151 702 5324. Collectors' and bargain second-hand books
SATURDAY 16TH Music Music I Capercaillie Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 7.30pm, £22, 0151 666 0000. Traditional Celtic music I Robbie & Kylie The Green Room, doors 6.30pm/ start 8pm, £15 (incl. champagne reception), 0870 787 1866 I Ricky's Country Special The Green Room, doors 12.30pm/ start 2pm, £10, 0870 787 1866. Afternoon charity show I Archie Fisher St George's Hall, St George's Place, 7.30pm, £14, 0161 296 4481. Scottish folk singer/ songwriter and guitarist, with supporting act Homegrown I Adrian Edmondson and the Bad Shepherds O2 Academy 2 Liverpool, Hotham St, doors 7pm, £20.81, 0844 477 2000. British folk-punk trio I Mad Dog Mcrea The Lomax, Cumberland St, 7.30pm, £8 adv/ £10 OTD. Folk rock/ pop/ gypsy jazz/ bluegrass band from Plymouth, with Jessica's Ghost I Jaymo & Andy George The Shipping Forecast, Slater St, 11pm-3am, £6 adv, 0151 709 6901. With support from DJs Tom Davies, Carlton Hudson and Orlagh Dooley I Live Music The Cavern Club. See 2nd for details I Live Music The Cavern Pub. See 2nd for details I James Holden The Kazimier,
Wolstenholme Sq, 10pm, £12 adv, 0151 709 3789. British electronic music artist & DJ, with Luke Abbott, Ghosting Season and Adele Moss I Johnny's Acoustic Sessions Heebie Jeebies, Seel St, 3-6pm. An afternoon of acoustic talent hosted by Johnny Sands I Dusky East Village Arts Club, 10pm, £16/ £14 NUS, tickets available online. With Klangkarussell, Ben Pearce, T Williams, Cyril Hahn I KT Tunstall The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 7.30pm, 0151 709 3789. Sold out
for details I Messing about in boats Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 1st for details I The Drawings of Edward BurneJones Lady Lever Art Gallery, see 1st for details I You Never See Them Like This Open Eye Gallery, see 1st for details I British Dance: Black Routes International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details I Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details
I Affront 81 Renshaw St, 9pm, £5 OTD. Psychedelic performances by Liverpool LGBT artists. Rounding off Homotopia
I Magic Worlds World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, enter a world of enchantment, illusion and fantasy
I The Mickey 9s Sound, Duke St, 8pm, 0151 707 6363
I House of Suarez: Vogue Deco and Other Stories The Bluecoat, School Lane, 6pm-7pm, £10/ £8, 0151 702 5324. A new dance work from House of Suarez
Theatre&&Dance Dance Theatre I The Slipper and the Rose Liverpool Empire Theatre, 2.30pm & 7.30pm, £16.90-£26.90, 0844 871 3017. Cinderella musical I Annie The Brindley, Runcorn, 2pm & 7.30pm, £15/ £14 concs, 0151 907 8360. The musical I Wrong 'Un The Lantern Theatre, Blundell St, 7.30pm, £10.50/ £8.50 Concs, 0151 703 0000. Onewoman musical, a suffragette's story I The Grand Gesture The Playhouse, 2pm & 7.30pm, £12-£23, 0151 709 4776. Comedy about a man on the edge, with live onstage music I Mis Les The Unity Theatre, 8pm, see 13th for details
Comedy I Stephen Lynch Live Epstein Theatre, Hanover St, doors 7.30pm/ start 8.30pm, £20, 0844 888 4411. Musical-based comedy I Hot Water Comedy Club The Crown Hotel Pub, see 2nd for details I Neil Fitzmaurice plus guests The Slaughter House, Fenwick St, 8pm, £17.50, Meal Deal options from £28.50, 0151 227 5946
Arts Arts I The Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details I Face to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 I The 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details I Judy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st
I Echo FACT, see 1st for details
I 3am: wonder, paranoia and the restless night The Bluecoat, see 1st for details I An Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details I I Am a Woman Now Museum of Liverpool, The Waterfront, 2pm, 0151 478 4545. Powerful documentary accompanying the April Ashley exhibition, part of Homotopia I David Hockney: Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Ronald Wright in conversation Walker Art Gallery, 2pm, 0151 478 4199. Talk on the spiritualist writer, gay magazine illustrator, artist, author, and psychic medium. Part of Homotopia I Fireworks Rathbone Studio. See 12th for details I Art Turning Left Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details I The Office of Useful Art Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details I Germ Free Adolescents The Met Quarter. See 1st for details I This Way Out: Boy George & Trademark Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details
Family I We're Going on a Bear Hunt Epstein Theatre, 11am and 2pm. See 13th for details I African Music International Slavery Museum, Albert Dock, 1pm-4pm at intervals, 0151 478 4499. Learn to play African musical instruments I Customs Contraband Merseyside
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I You Never See Them Like This Open Eye Gallery, see 1st for details
1st for details
I Maritime Museum, Albert Dock, 1pm-4pm, 0151 478 4499. Hands-on activity on the theme of smuggling I Punch and Judy show World Museum, William Brown St, 11am4pm, 0151 478 4393. Drop-in event I M-Zone The Citadel, St Helens, 4pm, 0174 473 5436. Monthly social event for ages 10-18, with live music, DJs, performances and more
Sports & Leisure Sports I Capoeira Club International Slavery Museum, see 2nd for details I SAE Bootcamp Greenbank Park, 8.30-9.15am, £4.50/ £3.50 NUS per session, 07940 721 122. Cardio and Interval
Other Events I The Butler's Duties Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 1pm, £3.50, 0151 296 7054. Learn how servants lived 'Downstairs' in the hall I Remembrance Banquet Anglican Cathedral, St James Mount, 7pm, £65 (incl. 3 course dinner and entertainment), 01905 319 782. In aid of Help for Heroes and The Royal British Legion I Book Fair The Bluecoat. See 15th for details
SUNDAY 17TH Music I Paul Carrack plus support Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 7.30pm, £29.50/ £39.50, 0151 666 0000. Carrack links up with his Sheffield-based band I Xuefei Yang Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 8pm, £18, 0151 666 0000. Classical guitar performance I Cerebral Ballzy East Village Arts Club, Seel St, 7pm, £8 adv, 0844 847 2472. Launch of the Monster NME Radar Tour 2013, with The Amazing Snakeheads and guests TBA I The Virginmarys O2 Academy 2 Liverpool, Hotham St, doors 7pm, £8.55, 0844 477 2000. Macclesfield based rock band I Slam Jam Stamps Wine Bar, Crosby, 6pm, 0151 286 2662. An opportunity to get onstage and perform with a live band I Jazz Con Fusion The Grapes, Roscoe St, 9pm, 07950 828674. Live jazz with a Latin twist I Acoustic Recovery The Lomax,
Cumberland St, 7pm. A mix of open mic and guest slots I Martin Smith Quartet The Caledonia, Caledonia St, 0151 708 0235 I Them Beatles The Cavern Live Lounge, Mathew St, 7.30pm, £10, 0151 236 9091. The Beatles tribute band I Live Music The Cavern Club. See 3rd for details I Music in the Afternoon Studio 2, Parr St, doors 4pm/ start 5pm, 0151 707 3727. With Steve MacFarlane I Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestra The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 7.30pm, £9/ £6 concs, 0151 709 3789. Dvorák's 'New World' symphony, Beethoven and Britten I Bluegrass Brunch Sound, Duke St, 4-6pm, 0151 707 6363
Comedy I Comedy Cracker The Brindley, Runcorn, 7.30pm, £12, 0151 907 8360. Pauline Daniels hosts and stars in a line-up of comedy acts I Hot Water Comedy Club The Crown Hotel Pub, see 3rd for details
Arts Arts I The Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details I Face to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 I The 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details I Judy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details I Messing about in boats Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 1st for details I The Drawings of Edward BurneJones Lady Lever Art Gallery, see 1st for details I You Never See Them Like This Open Eye Gallery, see 1st for details I British Dance: Black Routes International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details I Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Magic Worlds World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, enter a world of enchantment, illusion and fantasy I Echo FACT, see 1st for details I 3am: wonder, paranoia and the restless night The Bluecoat, see 1st for details
I An Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details I David Hockney: Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Beefcakes & Dripping Walker Art Gallery, 2pm, 0151 478 4199. Talk on bodybuilding and male physique magazines and the underground gay culture after WWII. Part of Homotopia I Art Turning Left Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details
Hotham St, doors 7pm, £22.50, 0844 477 2000. The alt-rock band tour the UK for the release of their 4th album I Live Music The Cavern Club. See 4th for details I Ian Prowse Monday Club The Cavern Pub. See 4th for details I Spread The Jam The Brink, Parr St, 8pm. Jazz night
Arts Arts
I The Office of Useful Art Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details
I The Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details
I Germ Free Adolescents The Met Quarter. See 1st for details
I Face to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911
I This Way Out: Boy George & Trademark Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details
Family I We're Going on a Bear Hunt Epstein Theatre, 11am and 2pm. See 13th for details I Customs Contraband Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 16th for details I Spotlight on the Titanic Merseyside Maritime Museum, Albert Dock, 1.30pm, 2.30pm, 3.30pm, 0151 478 4499. Talk on the unusual facts and myths about the Titanic I Punch and Judy show World Museum, William Brown St, 11am4pm, 0151 478 4393. Drop-in event
Sports Sports & Leisure I SuperEnduro Grand Prix Race Day Echo Arena, 2pm, £11.50-£33.50, 0844 8000 400. Motorcycles, cycles and balance bikes all compete on a challenging indoor track
Other Events I Life Drawing Leaf Cafe, Bold St, first floor, 7pm-10pm, £9 OTD. All levels welcome I Photowalk The Bluecoat. See 15th for details
MONDAY 18TH Music I David Hirst Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 12.30pm, 0151 666 0000. Folk singer/songwriter with melancholic melodies I Low Anglican Cathedral, St James Mount, 7.30pm, £19.50, purchase online. American indie rock trio I Editors O2 Academy Liverpool,
I The 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details I Judy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details I Messing about in boats Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 1st for details I The Drawings of Edward BurneJones Lady Lever Art Gallery, see 1st for details I British Dance: Black Routes International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details I Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Magic Worlds World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, enter a world of enchantment, illusion and fantasy I Echo FACT, see 1st for details I 3am: wonder, paranoia and the restless night The Bluecoat, see 1st for details I Blacksoup - Vengeance is Mine! Dot-Art Showroom, see 1st for details I An Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details I David Hockney: Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Art Turning Left Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details I The Office of Useful Art Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details I Germ Free Adolescents The Met Quarter. See 1st for details I This Way Out: Boy George & Trademark Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details
Family I A Christmas Carol St. Helens Theatre Royal, 7.30pm, £15/ £12 concs/£48 family, 01744 756 000. Musical based on the novel by
the card payments co op
I Charles Dickens I Parent and Baby Walker Art Gallery, 10am. See 1st for details
Sports & Leisure Sports I SAE Bootcamp Greenbank Park, 5.45pm, £4.50/ £3.50 NUS per session, 07940 721 122. Cardio and interval
TUESDAY 19TH Music I SJ Downes Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 12.30pm, 0151 666 0000. Acoustic blues journey from the '20s to the 21st century I Out Of The Bedroom: Acoustic Open Mic Night Leaf Cafe, see 5th for details
I Face to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 I The 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details I Judy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details I Messing about in boats Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 1st for details I The Drawings of Edward BurneJones Lady Lever Art Gallery, see 1st for details I You Never See Them Like This Open Eye Gallery, see 1st for details I British Dance: Black Routes International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details I Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Magic Worlds World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, enter a world of enchantment, illusion and fantasy
I Five Echo Arena, 7.30pm, £42/ £31, 0844 8000 400. The hugely successful boyband are touring (minus one member)
I Echo FACT, see 1st for details I 3am: wonder, paranoia and the restless night The Bluecoat, see 1st for details
I Live Music The Cavern Club. See 5th for details
I Blacksoup - Vengeance is Mine! Dot-Art Showroom, see 1st for details
I Cavern Bands Entertain The Cavern Pub. See 5th for details I Autre Ne Veut The Kazimier, Wolstenholme Sq, 7pm, £6 adv, 0151 709 3789. Brooklyn experimental soul singer/producer I ParrJazz - Ben Clatworthy Studio 2, Parr St, 8.30pm, £3/ free NUS, 0151 707 3727. Jazz open jam session, with ex-Pat Maverick tenor player I Claire Martin & the BBC Big Band The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 7.30pm, £18.50-£30, 0151 709 3789. Jazz vocalist Claire Martin OBE celebrating Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee and more
Theatre&&Dance Dance Theatre I Advice for the Young at Heart The Brindley, Runcorn, 7.30pm, £8/ £6 concs, 0151 907 8360. Modern tale set in London, exploring race and family I Alice in Wonderland The Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, 8pm, £12/ £10 concs, 0844 873 2888. Unusual take on Lewis Carroll's classic
Arts Arts I The Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details
I An Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details I Introductory Tour Sudley House, see 13th for details I David Hockney: Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I David Hockney Tour Walker Art Gallery, 1pm, 0151 478 4199. A closer look at the highlights of the exhibition I Fireworks Rathbone Studio. See 12th for details I Art Turning Left Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details I The Office of Useful Art Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details I Germ Free Adolescents The Met Quarter. See 1st for details I This Way Out: Boy George & Trademark Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details
Family I Christmas Decorating Workshops Speke Hall, 1pm-4pm, £15, 0151 427 7231. Make your own traditional Victorian Christmas decorations
Sports Sports & Leisure I Cycle for Health Croxteth Hall
I SAE Bootcamp Greenbank Park, 7-7.45am, £4.50/ £3.50 NUS per session, 07940 721 122. Cardio and strength
Other Events I The House of Memories Museum of Liverpool, see 5th for details
WEDNESDAY 20TH Music Music I Mikey Kenney Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 12.30pm, 0151 666 0000. Gifted multiinstrumentalist with folk, bluegrass and Celtic influences I An Evening with Carl Chase Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 8pm, £14/ £10, 0151 666 0000. An evening of country and blues music I Thao and the Get Down Stay Down East Village Arts Club, Seel St, 7pm, £7 adv, 0844 847 2472. California-based alternative folkrock group I Gospeltronic House, Bold Street, 8pm, 0151 709 7141. Exploring avenues of electronica I The Manouchetones The Caledonia, Caledonia St, 0151 708 0235 I Live Music The Cavern Club. See 6th for details I The Amazing Kappa Band The Cavern Pub. See 6th for details I Molotov Jukebox The Kazimier, Wolstenholme Sq, 8pm, £10, 0151 709 3789. 6-piece outfit incorporating trumpet, accordion, violin and vocals with "gypstep" rhythms I Keith Jarrett and guests Keith's Wine Bar, Lark Lane, 8pm, 0151 728 7688 I Liverpool Acoustic Sound, Duke St, 8pm, 0151 707 6363. Weekly acoustic open mic night. Book ahead I Raptusound Sound, Duke St, 7-8pm, 0151 707 6363. Alternative electro rock band plays before the quiz
Theatre&&Dance Dance Theatre I A Kick in the Baubles Gladstone Theatre, Port Sunlight, 7.30pm, £8, 0151 643 8757, raucous Christmas comedy (contains adult humour) I The Nutcracker Liverpool Empire Theatre, 7.30pm, £12.90-£43.90, 0844 871 3017
I Alice in Wonderland The Unity Theatre, see 19th for details I The Nutcracker Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 7.30pm, £21/ £19, 0151 666 0000. Moscow Ballet - La Classique
Comedy I Chris Ramsey The Brindley, Runcorn, 8pm, £16.50, 0151 907 8360. The most dangerous man on Saturday morning TV
Arts Arts I The Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details I Face to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 I The 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details I Judy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details I Messing about in boats Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 1st for details I The Drawings of Edward BurneJones Lady Lever Art Gallery, see 1st for details I You Never See Them Like This Open Eye Gallery, see 1st for details I British Dance: Black Routes International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details I Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Magic Worlds World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, enter a world of enchantment, illusion and fantasy I Echo FACT, see 1st for details I 3am: wonder, paranoia and the restless night The Bluecoat, see 1st for details I Blacksoup - Vengeance is Mine! Dot-Art Showroom, see 1st for details I An Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details I Opinion Service: Archaeology Museum of Liverpool, The Waterfront, 2pm-4pm, 0151 478 4063. For anyone with an archaeological object they wish to know about. Booking essential I Wreath Laying Museum of Liverpool, The Waterfront, 3pm. Transgender Day of Remembrance, commemorating lives taken due to transphobia I David Hockney: Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details
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I Organ Recital St George's Hall, St George's Place, 12.45pm, £2.50 OTD, 0151 233 3020. Popular lunchtime recital series on the magnificent Wills organ
and Country Park, 10am, booking essential, 0151 296 7054
I Introductory Tour Walker Art Gallery. See 6th for details
I Musica en Vivo Alma De Cuba. See 7th for details
I Fireworks Rathbone Studio. See 12th for details
I Dilated Peoples plus guests East Village Arts Club, Seel St, 7pm, £13.50 adv, 0844 847 2472. LAbased hip-hop group
I Art Turning Left Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details I The Office of Useful Art Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details I Germ Free Adolescents The Met Quarter. See 1st for details I This Way Out: Boy George & Trademark Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details
Family I Victorian Lamplight Tour Croxteth Hall and Country Park, see 6th for details I Christmas Decorating Workshops Speke Hall, see 19th for details
Sports & Leisure Sports I Walk for Health Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 1.30pm, 0151 287 4798, enjoy a healthy walk through the park I SAE Bootcamp Your Yoga Studio, Wood St, 7-7.45pm, £4.50/ £3.50 NUS per session, 07940 721 122. Fit Fusion
Other Events I Spotify Wednesdays Leaf Cafe, see 6th for details I The House of Memories Museum of Liverpool, see 5th for details I Lunchtime Learning The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 1.15pm. Ian Stephens' daytime series of inspiring music and relaxed learning. Sold out I Quiz & Bingo Sound, Duke St, 8pm, 0151 707 6363
THURSDAY 21ST Music Music I Glenn Tilbrook The Brindley, Runcorn, 8pm, £16, 0151 907 8360. New and old numbers in an intimate gig I Natalie McCool Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 12.30pm, 0151 666 0000. A singular voice surrounded by a constellation of guitar I Emily Barker and the Red Clay Halo Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 8pm, £12, 0151 666 0000. Blend of classical, rock, country and folk influences. Support: Chris T-T
I 3am: wonder, paranoia and the restless night The Bluecoat, see 1st for details
Theatre, Hanover St, 7.30pm, £12 adv/ £14 OTD, 0844 888 4411. Northern Irish traditional musician
I Blacksoup - Vengeance is Mine! Dot-Art Showroom, see 1st for details
I Dave Owen Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 12.30pm, 0151 666 0000. Owen plays original material along with old and new folk classics
I The Tillerman Open Mic Show The Lomax, Cumberland St
I An Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details
I Old Time Session The Caledonia, Caledonia St, 0151 708 0235
I David Hockney: Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details
I Live Music The Cavern Club. See 7th for details
I Impossible Art Open Eye Gallery, Mann Island, 5.30pm, 0151 236 6768. Prof. Sue Malvern examines the role of war photographers as witnesses to conflict
I Tony Mac The Cavern Pub. See 7th for details I Great Britten The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 7.30pm, £7-£36, 0151 709 3789. With violinist Vilde Frang, part of the Britten Centenary celebration
Theatre&&Dance Dance Theatre I A Kick in the Baubles Gladstone Theatre, Port Sunlight, 7.30pm, £8, 0151 643 8757, raucous Christmas comedy (contains adult humour) I The Nutcracker Liverpool Empire Theatre, 2pm & 7.30pm, £12.90£43.90, 0844 871 3017
Comedy I Tom Stade The Slaughter House, Fenwick St, 8pm, £15/ £13 concs, 0151 227 5946
Arts Arts I The Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details I Face to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 I The 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details I Judy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details I Messing about in boats Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 1st for details I The Drawings of Edward BurneJones Lady Lever Art Gallery, see 1st for details I You Never See Them Like This Open Eye Gallery, see 1st for details I British Dance: Black Routes International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details I Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Magic Worlds World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, enter a world of enchantment, illusion and fantasy I Echo FACT, see 1st for details
I Fireworks Rathbone Studio. See 12th for details I Art Turning Left Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details I The Office of Useful Art Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details I Germ Free Adolescents The Met Quarter. See 1st for details I This Way Out: Boy George & Trademark Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details
Family I Christmas Decorating Workshops Speke Hall, see 19th for details
Sports & Leisure Sports I SAE Bootcamp Greenbank Park, 7-7.45am, £4.50/ £3.50 NUS per session, 07940 721 122. Cardio and Interval
Other Events I Skeptics in the Pub Head of Steam, Lime St, 8pm, Paolo Viscardi: Alien Mummies, Monsters and Mermaids: Challenging the Mystery Mongers I Blood Donor Session Metropolitan Cathedral, 9am-5pm. Members of the public may give blood by the National Blood Transfusion Service
I Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 7.30pm, £32.50/ £42.50, 0151 666 0000. Former Rolling Stones bassist with his band, plus special guest Maria Muldaur I Neil Campbell - Guitars and other Machines Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 8pm, £14, 0151 666 0000. Minimalism meets electronica and experimental rock I Nick Ellison and Phil Doran Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 10pm, 0151 666 0000. Aftershow concert following Bill Wyman I Queen Special The Green Room, doors 6.30pm/ start 8pm, £15 (incl. champagne reception), 0870 787 1866. Tribute night I Absolute Bowie O2 Academy 2 Liverpool, Hotham St, doors 7pm, £13.50, 0844 477 2000. 5-piece David Bowie tribute band I Marley Chingus Jazz Explosion The Caledonia, Caledonia St, 0151 708 0235 I Live Music The Cavern Club, with The Rockits. See 1st for details I Alex McKown Band Studio 2, Parr St, doors 7pm for dining & drinks/ start 9.30pm, 0151 707 3727. British Blues band I The Stylistics The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 7.30pm, £23/ £29, 0151 709 3789. 4-piece '70s soul group I Catfish Keith The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 8pm, £12, 0151 709 3789. Blues and American roots music by the singer/songwriter and slide guitarist
Theatre&&Dance Dance Theatre
I Scrips The Bluecoat, School Lane, 1pm-2.30pm, 0151 702 5324. Informal meetings for those interested in creative writing
I A Kick in the Baubles Gladstone Theatre, Port Sunlight, 7.30pm, £8, 0151 643 8757, raucous Christmas comedy (contains adult humour)
FRIDAY 22ND
I The Nutcracker Liverpool Empire Theatre, 7.30pm, £12.90-£43.90, 0844 871 3017
Music I We Three Kings - of Rock and Roll St. Helens Theatre Royal, 7.30pm, £16/ £15 concs, 01744 756 000. Tribute show to Elvis, Billy Fury and Buddy Holly I Foy Vance UK Tour Epstein
I Beauty & the Beast The Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, 8pm, £12/ £10 concs, 0844 873 2888. Adult version of the fairytale with a disabled actor and a beauty pageant winner
Comedy
I Hot Water Comedy Club The Crown Hotel Pub, see 8th for details I The Hitchhiker's Guide to Fazakerley Royal Court Theatre, Roe St, 8pm, £18, 0871 787 1866. Marty from Fazakerley becomes the first Scouser in Space when he is abducted by aliens I Chris Cairns plus guests The Slaughter House, Fenwick St, 8pm, £15, Meal Deal options from £26, 0151 227 5946
Arts Arts I The Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details I Face to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 I The 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details I Judy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details I Messing about in boats Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 1st for details
I You Never See Them Like This Open Eye Gallery, see 1st for details I British Dance: Black Routes International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details I Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Magic Worlds World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, enter a world of enchantment, illusion and fantasy I 3am: wonder, paranoia and the restless night The Bluecoat, see 1st for details I Blacksoup - Vengeance is Mine! Dot-Art Showroom, see 1st for details I An Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details I David Hockney: Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Fireworks Rathbone Studio. See 12th for details I Art Turning Left Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details I The Office of Useful Art Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details I Germ Free Adolescents The Met Quarter. See 1st for details I This Way Out: Boy George & Trademark Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details
I The Lost Present The Brindley, Runcorn, 10.30am & 1.30pm, 3-7 years, £6, 0151 907 8360. Enchanting puppetry show about true friendship I Parent and Baby Walker Art Gallery, 10am & 1pm. See 1st for details
SATURDAY 23RD Music I Ian McNabb plus Cold Shoulder Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 7.30pm, £16, 0151 666 0000. Ex-singer of The Icicle Works performing solo original material I The Blues Band Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 8pm, £20, 0151 666 0000. Great rhythm and blues
Citadel, St Helens, doors 7.30pm, 0174 473 5436. Stone Roses tribute band I Lomax 2nd Birthday Party The Lomax, Cumberland St, 7.30pm, £4. Featuring The Beautiful Word and Fiona Clayton Band plus guests I Tempers The Shipping Forecast, Slater St, 7.30pm, £5 adv, 0151 709 6901. Post-punk/ dark electro duo I Waze & Odyssey The Shipping Forecast, Slater St, 11pm-3am, £8 adv, 0151 709 6901. NYC/Toronto DJs with house/ dubstep music I The Rory Gallagher Convention The Cavern Live Lounge, Mathew St, 8pm, £15, 0151 236 9091. Tribute night I Live Music The Cavern Club. See 2nd for details
surrounding the death of JFK I Beauty & the Beast The Unity Theatre, see 22nd for details
Comedy I Ken Dodd Southport Theatre and Convention Centre, 7pm, £18-£20, 0844 871 3021, a true legend, icon and national treasure I The Hitchhiker's Guide to Fazakerley Royal Court Theatre, 2pm & 8pm, see 22nd for details I Hot Water Comedy Club The Crown Hotel Pub, see 2nd for details I Chris Cairns plus guests The Slaughter House, Fenwick St, 8pm, £17.5-, Meal Deal options from £28.50, 0151 227 5946
Arts Arts
I Live Music The Cavern Pub. See 2nd for details
I The Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details
I The Chris Corcoran Trio Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 10pm, 0151 666 0000. The Blues Band aftershow, blues and jazz music
I Alice Russel The Kazimier, Wolstenholme Sq, 8pm, £12 adv, 0151 709 3789. Much-loved soul singer/songwriter, with Beaten Tracks DJs, Ragz Nordset and special guests TBA
I Face to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911
I UB40 plus support Anglican Cathedral, St James Mount, doors 7pm/ start 8.30pm, £32.50, purchase from skiddle.com. British dub/reggae/pop band with huge international following
I The Retrosettes Sister Band Studio 2, Parr St, doors 7pm for dining & drinks/ start 9.30pm, 0151 707 3727. Sassy, soulful band with a gypsy jazz/ disco edge
I Viennese Classics Metropolitan Cathedral, 7.30pm, £10/ £7, 0151 709 9222. Music by Beethoven, Gluck and Haydn
I Johnny's Acoustic Sessions Heebie Jeebies, Seel St, 3-6pm. An afternoon of acoustic talent hosted by Johnny Sands
I The Drifters The Green Room, doors 6.30pm/ start 8pm, £15 (incl. champagne reception), 0870 787 1866. Tribute night
I Cream's 21st Birthday Part 2 Nation, Wolstenholme Sq, 9pm, £33/ £30 NUS. A night of DJs including Chuckie, Zane Lowe and Hard Rock Sofa
I Singing in Harmony with Sense of Sound The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10am-4pm, £25, 0151 702 5324. Explore varoius musical styles through a cappella group singing
I Boss Saturday Session Sound, Duke St, 3.30-8pm, 0151 707 6363. Post-football session with various live acts
I Gold Panda East Village Arts Club, Seel St, 7pm, £12 adv, 0844 847 2472. Essex-born electronic music producer, composer and performer I Nickelback Echo Arena, 7.30pm, £41.50, 0844 8000 400. Rock superstars on their 'The Hits' tour I UK Foo Fighters O2 Academy 2 Liverpool, Hotham St, doors 7pm, £11.25, 0844 477 2000. The No. 1 Foo Fighters tribute I Make Some Noize: Event 2 O2 Academy Liverpool, Hotham St, doors 9pm, £14.06/ 22.50 VIP, 0844 477 2000. Featuring Bad Habit Boys, Ultrabeat, John Cotton and Lee Butler I The Clone Roses & Clint Boon The
Theatre&&Dance Dance Theatre I A Kick in the Baubles Gladstone Theatre, Port Sunlight, 7.30pm, £8, 0151 643 8757, raucous Christmas comedy (contains adult humour) I The Nutcracker Liverpool Empire Theatre, 2.30 & 7.30pm, £12.90£43.90, 0844 871 3017 I Motion Picture The Brindley, Runcorn, 7pm, £8, 0151 907 8360. Art in Motion Dance School's second big dance show I "So, Mr Oswald, what were you doing when President Kennedy was shot?" The Brindley, Runcorn, 7.30pm, £10/ £8 concs, 0151 907 8360. Multi-media piece of political agitprop about the mystery
I The 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details I Judy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details I Messing about in boats Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 1st for details I The Drawings of Edward BurneJones Lady Lever Art Gallery, see 1st for details I You Never See Them Like This Open Eye Gallery, see 1st for details I British Dance: Black Routes International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details I Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Magic Worlds World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, enter a world of enchantment, illusion and fantasy I 3am: wonder, paranoia and the restless night The Bluecoat, see 1st for details I An Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details I David Hockney: Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I David Hockney Tour Walker Art Gallery, 1pm, 0151 478 4199. A closer look at the highlights of the exhibition I Fireworks Rathbone Studio. See 12th for details I Art Turning Left Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details
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I The Drawings of Edward BurneJones Lady Lever Art Gallery, see 1st for details
Family
I The Office of Useful Art Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details I One-day screen printing workshop Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock. Sold out I Germ Free Adolescents The Met Quarter. See 1st for details I This Way Out: Boy George & Trademark Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details
Family I African Masks International Slavery Museum, Albert Dock, 2pm4pm, 0151 478 4499. Learn about the design of West African masks and make your own I Titanic Survivor Merseyside Maritime Museum, Albert Dock, 1.30pm, 2.30pm, 3.30pm, 0151 478 4499. The story of Titanic survivor Charles Joughin I Punch and Judy show World Museum, William Brown St, 11am4pm, 0151 478 4393. Drop-in event I Egyptian Coffins World Museum, William Brown St, 1pm-4pm, 0151 478 4393. Hands on activity looking at Ancient Egyptians
Sports Sports & Leisure I Capoeira Club International Slavery Museum, see 2nd for details I SAE Bootcamp Greenbank Park, 8.30-9.15am, £4.50/ £3.50 NUS per session, 07940 721 122. Cardio and Interval I Everton Vs Liverpool 12.45pm
Other Events I Winter 2d art market The Bluecoat, School Lane, 11am-5pm, 0151 702 5324. Drop in to browse, chat and buy original, affordable work direct from the artist I Catfish Keith Blues Guitar Workshop The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 10am, £30, 0151 709 3789
SUNDAY 24TH Music Music I The Phil Chisnall Band Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 7.30pm, £5, 0151 666 0000. Folk, blues and country cover band with Phil's own original songs I Orchestra dell'Arte St George's Hall, St George's Place, doors 6.30pm/ start 7pm, £15, 0844 8000 410. Also featuring the Liverpool Welsh Choral. Pieces by Elgar, Handel, Parry and Coates, on the theme of 'Our Heritage'
I The Wirral Ukelele Orchestra in concert St George's Hall, St George's Place, doors 1.30pm/ start 2.30pm, 0151 233 3020 I Daughn Gibson East Village Arts Club, Seel St, 7pm, £9 ADV, 0844 847 2472. American singer/ songwriter, with support from Brokeback I Bruno Mars Echo Arena, 7.30pm, £43, 0844 8000 400. The singer/ songwriter on 'The Moonshine Jungle World Tour' I Scouting for Girls O2 Academy Liverpool, Hotham St, doors 7pm, £25.31, 0844 477 2000. British pop band, with special guests I The Rioters Stamps Wine Bar, Crosby, 4pm, 0151 286 2662. Dixieland jazz band I Jazz Con Fusion The Grapes, Roscoe St, 9pm, 07950 828674. Live jazz with a Latin twist I Acoustic Recovery The Lomax, Cumberland St, 7pm. A mix of open mic and guest slots I Loose Moose String Band The Caledonia, Caledonia St, 0151 708 0235 I Band of Friends The Cavern Live Lounge, Mathew St, 1pm, £15, 0151 236 9091. Rory Gallagher tribute act featuring Gerry McAvoy I Live Music The Cavern Club. See 3rd for details I Soul4Soul Studio 2, Parr St, doors 8pm/ start 8.30pm, £4, 0151 707 3727. Soulful mix of live music I Crystal Stilts The Shipping Forecast, Slater St, 7.30pm, £8.80, tickets available from ticketline. co.uk. American post-punk band I Britten and Mahler The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 2.30pm, £7-£36, 0151 709 3789. Music by Britten, Mahler and Korngold I Catfish Keith The Philharmonic Hall. See 22nd for details I Rue Royale The Zanzibar Club, Seel St, 6.30pm, £5.50, 0151 707 0633. Soulful Anglo-American duo
Theatre&&Dance Dance Theatre I Motion Picture The Brindley, Runcorn, 2pm, £8, 0151 907 8360. See 23rd for details I Ricky Royle's Variety Show The Green Room, doors 12.30pm/ start 2pm, £15 (incl. champagne), 0870 787 1866. Afternoon charity show
Comedy I Hot Water Comedy Club The Crown Hotel Pub, see 3rd for details
Arts Arts I The Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details I Face to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 I The 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details I Judy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details I Messing about in boats Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 1st for details I The Drawings of Edward BurneJones Lady Lever Art Gallery, see 1st for details I You Never See Them Like This Open Eye Gallery, see 1st for details I British Dance: Black Routes International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details I Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Magic Worlds World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, enter a world of enchantment, illusion and fantasy I Clock and Watch Exhibition Haydock Park Racecourse, Newtonle-Willows, 9am-3pm, £5/ £2.50 after 10.30am, 01942 402 623 I 3am: wonder, paranoia and the restless night The Bluecoat, see 1st for details I Ismay's Titanic Merseyside Maritime Museum, Albert Dock, 1.30, 2.30 and 3.30pm, 0151 478 4499. Find out the real story behind the accusations against Bruce Ismay I An Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details I Georgian Portraiture Sudley House, see 9th for details I David Hockney: Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details
4393. Fully trained troupe of fleas! I Egyptian Coffins World Museum, William Brown St, 1pm-4pm, 0151 478 4393. Hands on activity looking at Ancient Egyptians
Other Events I Retro Sunday Leaf Cafe, Bold St, 11am-5pm, 0151 707 7747, vintage feast fit for kings I Christmas Market Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 10.30am-4pm, £1.50 adults/ 70p concs, 0151 296 7054. Festive stalls inside the atmospheric hall I Quilters Exhibition Sefton Park Palmhouse, 12-4pm, 0151 726 2415. The Quilters' Guild show off their expert needlework
MONDAY 25TH Music Music I Live Music The Cavern Club. See 4th for details I Public Service Broadcasting East Village Arts Club, Seel St, 7pm, £12 adv, 0844 847 2472. Unique live AV Transmissions using old public info. films, archived footage & propaganda material I Ian Prowse Monday Club The Cavern Pub. See 4th for details
Theatre&&Dance Dance Theatre I The Ladyboys of Bangkok Glamorous Amorous St. Helens Theatre Royal, 7.30pm, £22/ £20.50 concs, 01744 756 000. Comedy, cabaret and carnival show
Comedy I The Hitchhiker's Guide to Fazakerley Royal Court Theatre, see 22nd for details
Arts Arts
I Art Turning Left Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details
I The Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details
I The Office of Useful Art Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details
I Face to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911
I Germ Free Adolescents The Met Quarter. See 1st for details I This Way Out: Boy George & Trademark Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details
Family
I The 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details I Judy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details
I Customs Contraband Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 16th for details
I Messing about in boats Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 1st for details
I Flea Circus World Museum, William Brown St, 11am-4pm, 0151 478
I The Drawings of Edward BurneJones Lady Lever Art Gallery, see
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I British Dance: Black Routes International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details I Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Magic Worlds World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, enter a world of enchantment, illusion and fantasy I An Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details I David Hockney: Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Art Turning Left Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details I The Office of Useful Art Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details I Germ Free Adolescents The Met Quarter. See 1st for details I This Way Out: Boy George & Trademark Camp and Furnace. See 1st for details
Family I Parent and Baby Walker Art Gallery, 10am. See 1st for details
Sports & Leisure Sports
TUESDAY 26TH Music Music
I Out Of The Bedroom: Acoustic Open Mic Night Leaf Cafe, see 5th for details I Dante Quartet with Nicholas Daniel St George's Hall, St George's Place, doors 6.30pm/ start 7.30pm, £25, 0151 709 3789. Award-winning quartet, renowned oboist Nicholas Daniel, music by Haydn, Schubert and Britten I Singalong Afternoon Sefton Park Palmhouse, 2-4pm, £5 (incl. tea & cake), 0151 726 9304. Sing along to old favourites with Su Grainger and Billy Hui. Adv. booking recommended I The Night VI The Cavern Live Lounge, Mathew St, 8pm, £5, 0151 236 9091. Anglo-French 6-piece with emotional, seductive music. With support from Rachel Wright and the Good Sons I Live Music The Cavern Club. See 5th for details I Cavern Bands Entertain The Cavern Pub. See 5th for details I ParrJazz - Ollie Howell Quartet Studio 2, Parr St, 8.30pm, £3/ free
I John Wilson & the John Wilson Orchestra The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 7.30pm, £27-£52, 0151 709 3789. With special guest singers, celebrating MGM film musicals
Theatre & Dance I The Ladyboys of Bangkok Glamorous Amorous Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 7.30pm, £22.50/ £20.50, 0151 666 0000. Comedy, cabaret and carnival show
Comedy I The Hitchhiker's Guide to Fazakerley Royal Court Theatre, see 22nd for details I For the Love of Mrs Brown Echo Arena, 7.30pm, £24.50/ £35.50/ £44, 0844 8000 400. BAFTAaward winning Mrs Brown's Boys on tour, starring Brendan O'Carroll as Agnes Brown
Arts Arts I The Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details I Face to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 I The 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details I Judy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details I Messing about in boats Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 1st for details I The Drawings of Edward BurneJones Lady Lever Art Gallery, see 1st for details I British Dance: Black Routes International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details I Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Magic Worlds World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, enter a world of enchantment, illusion and fantasy I Philosophy in Pubs The Bluecoat, School Lane, 1pm-3.20pm, 0151 702 5324. Drop in for some deep thinking and debating I An Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details I Introductory Tour Sudley House, see 13th for details I David Hockney: Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details
I Artists and Disability Walker Art Gallery, 1pm, 0151 478 4199. Talk on the impact of visual impairments on Degas and Monet I Fireworks Rathbone Studio. See 12th for details I Art Turning Left Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details I The Office of Useful Art Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details
Sports & Leisure Sports I Cycle for Health Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 10am, booking essential, 0151 296 7054 I SAE Bootcamp Greenbank Park, 7-7.45am, £4.50/ £3.50 NUS per session, 07940 721 122. Cardio and strength
Other Events I The House of Memories Museum of Liverpool, see 5th for details
WEDNESDAY 27TH Music Music I Hacktivist East Village Arts Club, Seel St, 7pm, £8 adv, 0844 847 2472. Rock/grime/metal/hip-hop 5-piece band I Cajun Session The Caledonia, Caledonia St, 0151 708 0235 I From the Jam The Cavern Live Lounge, Mathew St, 7pm, £20, 0151 236 9091. Original Jam bassist Bruce Foxton with his band I Live Music The Cavern Club. See 6th for details I The Amazing Kappa Band The Cavern Pub. See 6th for details I Pzyk Night The Kazimier, Wolstenholme Sq, 7.30pm, £12.50. With Dead Skeletons and special guests Follakzoid, Sound of Salvation DJs, and more guests TBA I Go West, Hue & Cry The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 7.30pm, £26-£34, 0151 709 3789. Three critically acclaimed artists of the '80s, with special guests The Christians I Keith Jarrett and guests Keith's Wine Bar, Lark Lane, 8pm, 0151 728 7688 I Liverpool Acoustic Sound, Duke St, 8pm, 0151 707 6363. Weekly acoustic open mic night. Book ahead
Theatre&&Dance Dance Theatre I The Nutcracker The Brindley, Runcorn, 7.30pm, £14, 0151 907
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Comedy I Variety Lunch Club The Royal Court Theatre, City Centre, 12.30pm, £3/ £6 incl. bowl of Scouse, 0870 787 1240. The best in local entertainment with variety of comedians, actors and entertainers I The Hitchhiker's Guide to Fazakerley Royal Court Theatre, see 22nd for details I For the Love of Mrs Brown Echo Arena. See 26th for details
Arts Arts I The Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details I Face to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 I The 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details I Judy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details I Messing about in boats Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 1st for details I The Drawings of Edward BurneJones Lady Lever Art Gallery, see 1st for details I British Dance: Black Routes International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details I Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Magic Worlds World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, enter a world of enchantment, illusion and fantasy I An Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details I David Hockney: Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Introductory Tour Walker Art Gallery. See 6th for details I Fireworks Rathbone Studio. See 12th for details I Art Turning Left Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details I The Office of Useful Art Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details
Sports & Leisure Sports I Walk for Health Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 1.30pm, 0151 287 4798, enjoy a healthy walk through the park I SAE Bootcamp Your Yoga Studio, Wood St, 7-7.45pm, £4.50/ £3.50 NUS per session, 07940 721 122. Fit Fusion
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I SAE Bootcamp Greenbank Park, 5.45pm, £4.50/ £3.50 NUS per session, 07940 721 122. Cardio and interval
NUS, 0151 707 3727. Jazz and open jam session, with multi-award winning drummer
Other Events I Spotify Wednesdays Leaf Cafe, see 6th for details I Synthesizers and Computer Music The Bluecoat, School Lane, 6pm-8pm, 0151 702 5324. Forum Digital Music offer an exchange of ideas, experience and advice (bring own laptop) I The House of Memories Museum of Liverpool, see 5th for details
I The Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details I Face to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 I The 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details I Judy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details
I Quiz & Bingo Sound, Duke St, 8pm, 0151 707 6363
I Messing about in boats Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 1st for details
THURSDAY 28TH
I The Drawings of Edward BurneJones Lady Lever Art Gallery, see 1st for details
Music Music I Steeleye Span Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 7.30pm, £19.50, 0151 666 0000. Folk rock pioneers with a mixture of new and classic material I Glenn Tilbrook Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 8pm, £16, 0151 666 0000. Solo acoustic performace I Musica en Vivo Alma De Cuba. See 7th for details I Crystal Fighters East Village Arts Club, Seel St, 7pm, £10 adv, 0844 847 2472. British alternative dance band, with special guests I The Tillerman Open Mic Show The Lomax, Cumberland St I Hunky Tonk & Bayou Noir The Caledonia, Caledonia St, 0151 708 0235 I John Coghlan's Quo The Cavern Live Lounge, Mathew St, 8pm, £12, 0151 236 9091. Original Status Quo drummer John Coghlan with his band I Live Music The Cavern Club. See 7th for details I Tony Mac The Cavern Pub. See 7th for details I The Liverpool Jazz Club The Liner Hotel, Lord Nelson St, 8pm. Fortnightly jazz session, with varied performers and LIPA student talent
Comedy I The Hitchhiker's Guide to Fazakerley Royal Court Theatre, see 22nd for details I Daliso Chaponda The Slaughter House, Fenwick St, 8pm, £12/ £10 concs, 0151 227 5946 I For the Love of Mrs Brown Echo Arena. See 26th for details
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I British Dance: Black Routes International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details I Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Magic Worlds World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, enter a world of enchantment, illusion and fantasy I Liverpool Poetry Cafe The Bluecoat, School Lane, 7.30pm9.30pm, £3/ £2, 0151 702 5324. Readings by local and national poets, plus music I An Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details I The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Sudley House, Mossley Hill, 1pm2pm, 0151 478 4016. Talk on the influential brotherhood, looking at various paintings I David Hockney: Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Fireworks Rathbone Studio. See 12th for details I Art Turning Left Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details I The Office of Useful Art Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details
Sports Sports & Leisure I SAE Bootcamp Greenbank Park, 7-7.45am, £4.50/ £3.50 NUS per session, 07940 721 122. Cardio and Interval
Other Events I BlamBlamBlam Sound, Duke St, 8pm, 0151 707 6363. Poetry & music spoken word event
FRIDAY 29TH Music Music I Frank Sinatra Tribute The Huyton Suite, Huyton, 7.30pm, £12.50 (incl. a hot supper), 0151 443 3761. Jay
Oxenham is the voice of Sinatra I Royal Corps of Signals in Concert Anglican Cathedral, St James Mount, 7pm, £11, 0151 702 7255. Music from The Corps Band I Soul Night The Green Room, doors 6.30pm/ start 8pm, £15 (incl. champagne reception), 0870 787 1866. Ray Charles & James Brown tribute show I The Doors Alive O2 Academy 2 Liverpool, Hotham St, doors 7pm, £12.37, 0844 477 2000. British tribute act to The Doors I Ricky Gleason & The Silhouettes Stamps Wine Bar, Crosby, 9pm, 0151 286 2662 I Mostly Autumn The Citadel, St Helens, doors 7.30pm, 0174 473 5436. British rock outfit with '70s rock influences I Metrofest 2013 The Lomax, Cumberland St, 7.30pm. A 3-day festival curated by Metro Manila Aide I Vuvuvultures The Shipping Forecast, Slater St, 7.30pm, £7 adv, 0151 709 6901. London gothic electro-fuzz art collective I Blind Monk Trio The Caledonia, Caledonia St, 0151 708 0235 I The Mersey Beatles The Cavern Live Lounge, Mathew St, 7.30pm, £10, 0151 236 9091. Tribute band I Live Music The Cavern Club, with The Rockits. See 1st for details I Jonathan Wilson The Kazimier, Wolstenholme Sq, 8pm, £12, 0151 709 3789. American singer/ songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer I Ríoghnach Connolly Duo Studio 2, Parr St, doors 7pm for dining & drinks/ start 9.30pm, 0151 707 3727. Acoustic jazz duo I Andy Carroll DJ Sound, Duke St, 8pm, 0151 707 6363. Sums afterparty
Comedy I Hot Water Comedy Club The Crown Hotel Pub. See 8th for details I The Hitchhiker's Guide to Fazakerley Royal Court Theatre, see 22nd for details I Music Hall Tavern Epstein Theatre, Hanover St, doors 6.30pm/ start 7.30pm, £20, 0844 888 4411. Music, laughter and razzmatazz I The Ken Dodd Happiness Show Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 7pm, £21, 0151 666 0000. 7 titters per minute! I Neil Fitzmaurice plus guests The
Slaughter House, Fenwick St, 8pm, £22, 0151 227 5946 I For the Love of Mrs Brown Echo Arena. See 26th for details
Arts Arts I The Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details I Face to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 I The 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details I Judy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details I Messing about in boats Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 1st for details I The Drawings of Edward BurneJones Lady Lever Art Gallery, see 1st for details I British Dance: Black Routes International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details I Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Magic Worlds World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, enter a world of enchantment, illusion and fantasy I An Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details I David Hockney: Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Fireworks Rathbone Studio. See 12th for details I Art Turning Left Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details I The Office of Useful Art Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details
Family I Hansel & Gretel's Super Sweet Adventure The Brindley, Runcorn, 7pm, £8/ £6/ £24 family, 0151 907 8360. Quirky and colourful show with talking bears and crazy characters I Parent and Baby Walker Art Gallery, 10am & 1pm. See 1st for details
Other Events I Psychic Sally: on the road St. Helens Theatre Royal, 7.30pm, £23.50, 01744 756 000. Britain's favourite TV psychic on her nationwide tour I Murder Mystery Night Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 7.30pm, £35, 0151 296 7054. Food, drink and a murder mystery with professional actors
SATURDAY 30TH Music Music I Son of Dave East Village Arts Club, Seel St, 7pm, £13 adv, 0844 847 2472. Canadian musician and singer/ songwriter I Rent 20th Anniversary Concert Echo Arena, 7.30pm, £30-£39, 0844 8000 400. Iconic concert of the smash-hit musical, starring Natasha Hamilton and Rory Taylor I Antarctic Monkeys O2 Academy 2 Liverpool, Hotham St, doors 7pm, £8.05, 0844 477 2000. Arctic Monkeys tribute band I Don Broco O2 Academy 2 Liverpool, Hotham St, doors 7pm, £14.06, 0844 477 2000. 4-piece alternative rock band, with support from American band Bad Rabbits I The Soul Train The Citadel, St Helens, doors 7.30pm, 0174 473 5436. Cover band with soul music from the '60s and more I Metrofest 2013 The Lomax, Cumberland St, 7.30pm. A 3-day festival curated by Metro Manila Aide
I The Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details I Face to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 I The 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details I Judy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details I Messing about in boats Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 1st for details I The Drawings of Edward BurneJones Lady Lever Art Gallery, see 1st for details I British Dance: Black Routes International Slavery Museum I Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Magic Worlds World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, enter a world of enchantment, illusion and fantasy I An Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details I David Hockney: Early Reflections Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details I Fireworks Rathbone Studio. I Art Turning Left Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details
I Live Music The Cavern Pub. See 2nd for details
I The Office of Useful Art Tate Liverpool. See 8th for details
I Britten's Inspirations The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 7.30pm, £7-£36, 0151 709 3789. Conductor Andrew Manze, soprano Lisa Larsson, music by Schumann, Britten & Mahler I N'Faly Kouyaté The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 8pm, £12, 0151 709 3789. Grammy Award nominee singer and musician plays the kora, a 21-string harp
Comedy I The Hitchhiker's Guide to Fazakerley Royal Court Theatre, 2pm & 8pm, see 22nd for details I Hot Water Comedy Club The Crown Hotel Pub, see 2nd for details I Neil Fitzmaurice plus guests The Slaughter House, Fenwick St, 8pm, £22, 0151 227 5946 I For the Love of Mrs Brown Echo Arena, 2pm & 7.30pm. See 26th for details
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I Live Music The Cavern Club. See 2nd for details
I David Lyttle and Interlude Studio 2, Parr St, doors 7pm for dining & drinks/ start 9.30pm, 0151 707 3727. Jazz, hip-hop and dance music
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Family I World Stars of Magic Epstein Theatre, Hanover St, doors 6.30pm/ start 7.30pm, £15/ £12.50 concs, 0844 888 4411. Internationally renowned magicians, illusionists and speciality performers I A Viennese Strauss Christmas Gala Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 7.30pm, £21/ £19, 0151 666 0000. Selection of music from Vienna plus Christmas sing-alongs and soloists I Victorian Christmas Weekends Speke Hall, 12.30pm-4pm, 0151 427 7231. Christmas family activities and crafts I Spotlight on the Titanic Merseyside Maritime Museum, see 17th for details
Sports Sports & Leisure I Olympian MMA Championships Liverpool Olympia, West Derby Road, 6pm, £25-£45, 0151 263 6633. OMMAC 19 Vendetta I SAE Bootcamp Greenbank Park, 8.30-9.15am, £4.50/ £3.50 NUS per session, 07940 721 122.
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