LowDown March 2013

MARCH 2013

The definitive Liverpool listings guide

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COMEDY Russell Kane

Edwyn Collins

Posturing Delivery Friday 3 May 8pm £17.50, £23.50

plus special guest Saturday 20 April 8pm £17.50, £23.50

Bill Bailey Thea Gilmore with Strings Friday 10 May 8pm £15-£24.50

Qualmpeddler Friday 4 & Saturday 5 October 8pm £25, £31 SOLD OUT LIMITED AV AILABILITY

Jimmy Carr Gretchen Gretchen Peters Peters

Saturday March Saturday 9 9March The EpsteinTheatre Theatre The Epstein 8pm £19.50 7.30pm £19.50

Sam Lee & Friends

Nasher Thursday 21 March Friday 12 April

Lee Nelson Saturday 20 April St George’s Hall Concert Room 7.30pm £16.50

Friday 12 April 8.30pm £12

Pink Martini Loudon Wainwright III Tuesday 7 May 7.30pm £22.50, £28.50

with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Wednesday 8 May 7.30pm £26.50-£42.50

Back in the Game

Wednesday 1 May 8pm £22.50, £28.50

Saturday 13 April 8pm £25, £31

The Epstein Theatre 8.30pm £12 7.30pm £16

Lau Nasher

Gagging Order

Micky Flanagan

Tuesday 21 May 7.30pm £22.50, £28.50

Ardal O’Hanlon

Reginald D Hunter

In the Midst of Crackers Friday 14 June 8pm £23, £29

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Saturday 2 November 8pm £20, £26

Box Office 0151 709 3789 liverpoolphil.com

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We are very interested in hearing what you like or don’t like about the magazine and we want to hear any ideas you have for ways of improving LowDown. Send any suggestions to info@ thelowdownmagazine.com Back to what’s going on in the city and we have news of an exciting new international music festival with a Neil Young Date at the Echo Arena. We have an exclusive interview with Kelly Jones from Stereophonics and we also have a chat with Nasher and Kev Sampson about their new books. Last but not least we have the massive LowDown listings section letting you know how many great things are going on around us.

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Lowdown selections for March

NEWS 06 PREVIEWS 08 FOOD & DRINK 10 SPORT 12 COMPETITIONS 15

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ARTS & CULTURE 18 Kev Sampson, Nasher

COMEDY 22 Zoe Lyons

MUSIC 24

Kelly Jones plus reviews and more…

ALBUM REVIEWS 27 FILM REVIEWS 32 LISTINGS 33 CLASSIFIEDS 28

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HIGHLIGHTS 1st March Leap Festival 1-16th Various

2nd March Carpet Crawlers O2 Academy

3rd March Hot 8 Brass Band Eric’s

4th March Foals 02 Academy

3rd Courtney Pine

Capstone Theatre

4-30th Hope Royal Court

5th March Ken Loach Fact

7th March Deap Valley Shipping Forecast

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Magic Band & Edgar Jones Eric’s

8-10th March Threshold Festival Various

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16th March Poltergeist The Kazimier

13-16th March Heart & Soul - Tricia Mcteague Epstein

Gretchen Peters Epstein

20th March Johnny Marr O2 Academy

22nd March John Smith Esptein

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NEWS Charity Cake Comp International Music Festival

The bad news: Mathew Street Festival is gone. The good news: The New International Music Festival has been announced, which promises to keep the best bits of the old one, and improve on them. And the cherry on top? None other than Neil Young has been the first big act to be confirmed!

The festival is to take place on the August bank holiday will include the Liverpool Philharmonic in Sefton Park, Beatles influenced outdoor stages at the Waterfront and the Fringe which will celebrate original acts. Organisers say that the new festival will cost 40% less than its predecessor and promise an event with a wide appeal.

Bakers listen up! The O-Very Cake Bake will take place on March 22 and submissions are welcome in the competition to be crowned 2013 champion. Entries for any of the 8 categories, including cheesecake and victoria sponge, cost £5 and should be brought to Leaf on Bold street between 11 - 2pm. Celebrity judges will include TV presenter Cherry Healey and Wirral-native Clair Lara, winner of Masterchef: The Professionals. Winners will be announced after 5pm, and boxes of entry cakes will be available for purchase afterwards.

The competition is held to raise awareness and funds for Ovarian cancer, which affects nearly 7, 000 women every year. For more information see www.nwcr.org

Neil Young and Crazy Horse will play at the Echo Arena on August 18th

Child’s Play: Competition

Wannabe writers, ready your quills – a unique opportunity to have your work professionally produced and performed at the Liverpool Actors Studio Theatre has come up. Judges are looking for a a script aimed at the children’s market of 4 years old and upwards.

Writers must be over 18, the piece must be a maximum of one hour in length and involve no more than 4 actors. The closing date for submissions is Monday, April 1. For more info see theliverpoolactorsstudio.com

Dockside Chippie

It’s hard to believe, but up until now Albert Dock has been without a chippie. That has now been rectified however, with the opening of the brand new and aptly named Docklands Fish and Chips shop. Located on the Colonnades, it’s been opened by an experienced chippie owner and promises to offer all the classics. It’s about time!

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PREVIEWS 4 Poofs and a Piano

THE BRINDLEY RUNCORN, MARCH 14 The poofs are back! After winning hearts over their 9 year run on Jonathan Ross, original member Dave Wickenden has assembled 3 new poofs - and a piano of course - for a spanking new touring show.

We spoke to piano legend Bobby Crush, veteran of 70s show Opportunity Knocks, and who’s had an illustrious 40 year solo career, about joining the group: HOW DID YOU COME TO JOIN THE SHOW? It’s something entirely different from anything that I’ve ever done before, so I decided to give it a whirl and I’ve really really enjoyed it It’s given me an opportunity to do some new writing, I have been writing some special material that will be used in the show - I can’t mention any names though because they are too rude!

HOW DIFFERENT IS THIS TO YOUR USUAL MATERIAL THEN? Especially during the early years of my career, I wouldn’t say boo to a goose - and now I’m onstage delivering material that is very risque! I don’t know what my old followers will make of it as they have never seen me do anything like this...

SO WHAT DO YOU BRING TO THE GROUP? I’m bringing decorum to the proceedings! And as as the eldest member of the group I’m there as a sort of father figure for them - I’m known within the group as ‘Poof Daddy’.

WHAT SHOULD PEOPLE EXPECT FROM THE SHOW? A very varied show: it’s very funny but there’ s also a couple of sort of serious numbers, there’s music, there’s comedy, there’s dance - there’s everything really. Hopefully anyone who comes to see the show will get a buzz out of at least one aspect of it!

IN THESE AUSTERE TIME IS IT IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO LAUGH? Absolutely. It’s a very entertaining evening and we hope everyone leaves with a song in their heart and a smile on their face!

Art of Pop Video at FACT FACT, MARCH 14-MAY26

Remember the pre YouTube days, when you’d wait and wait for that music video to come on TV so you could try and press record quickly enough on the VHS? No? Uh...us neither.

Internet age or not, fact is some of the best directors have cut their teeth making music videos, and some of the best music has been enhanced by a memorable video.

This month FACT launches a celebration of the pop video with a free exhibition exploring the mediums emergence in the 1920s through to present day, featuring over 70 clips in the process.

Threshold Festival VARIOUS, MARCH 8-10 As we shake off the icicles of a very long winter, the city is just about primed for a festival.

Threshold Festival is in its third year and features an extremely varied line up of artists and performers including JC Villafan, Coffee and Cakes for Funerals, Broken Men, Robert Vincent amongst many other speakers, films and events. There will be themed stages and the festival will take place across several venues in the Baltic Triangle over the weekend of March 8-10.

Ticket are £20 for the weekend, see thresholdfestival.com for lineup info.

Vally Girls

SHIPPING FORECAST, MARCH 7 Meet Deap Vally. It’s pretty clear these girls look the part, but the good news is from what we’ve heard so far, LA natives Lindsey Troy (guitar, vocals) and Julie Edwards (drums) can really, really wail.

Not a million miles away from other power duos White Stripes and Black Keys, Deap Vally are all about stripped down bluesy rock n roll.

Having already opened for Muse and Vaccines they’re not a well kept secret, but with their debut album due for release any minute now is the time to see if they can walk the walk.

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SWEET TREATSOF LIVERPOOL

With Easter come early this year we’ve got chocolate on the brain, and it got us thinking - where are the best spots in the city for satisfying the sweet tooth? In the name of research we sacrificed our bodies and scoured the city for the best in delicious decadence and here’s what we came up with…

LEAF PUDDING CLUB The ever innovative tea-loving folk at Leaf have come up with yet another marvelous idea with their monthly Pudding Club, matching five (yes FIVE!) courses of sweetness with a companion tea. While the idea of skipping savoury altogether in favour of pudding feels a little bit naughty, rest assured: this is no cheap and nasty affair.

Communally seated on the second floor, we are presented with placemats doubling as menus as black clad boys and girls buzz around ready to serve and whisk away each course and its accompanying tea with the air of a semi formal dinner party. Only this is the best dinner party in the world as there’s no veg in sight - all killer no filler!

Each course is introduced by James who is the MC of sorts. We start off with a delicate champagne cassis tea accompanying roasted peaches, which James tries to pass off as healthy, though the vanilla syrup and mascarpone cream tell us otherwise. An elegant and light start to proceedings, which

get more hardcore as we move onto the next course: sticky toffee pudding.

Reportedly made from a family recipe of pastry chef Damo, it is thankfully not of the dense and sickly variety that could have seen us knocked out in just the second round. It is rather a light and spongy offering, accessorised with just the necessary amount of toffee sauce, and its companion Lady Grey is a classic and comforting match.

Now I’ll admit I was slightly worried about course three - not being a huge cream enthusiast only the most groundbreaking of tiramisu’s have historically passed my calorieworthy test. But happily this was another thumbs up - not quite enough mascarpone or coffee for my taste buds - but given the chefs were aiming to crowd-please it was expertly done and very easy to eat. Needless to say there was none left on my plate, and the bold choice of rooibos washed it down nicely.

And just as we are starting to fantasise about marmite and salted crisps, course four comes out of nowhere and throws a curveball.

Banana and parfait and two words that don’t get me anywhere near as excited as, say, chocolate and fudge, but that was before I tried the Leaf version, strewn with nuggets of hard praline. Akin to a slice of ice cream, this is the sweetest but most flavourful dish of the menu and it’s divine, especially with the unlikely pairing of Strawberry and kiwi tea which cuts nicely through the cloying.

An excellent round setting us up for our fifth and last. Incredibly, all considering, we’re not feeling too ill to enjoy the chocolate mousse shot - served in a tiny shot glass. It’s rich and delicious and also proves a test of personality as the teaspoon we are given doesn’t allow us to get to the bottom of the glass to reach the final bit of creamy deliciousness. And only the wily or shameless dare to flip the spoon over and use the handle over to scoop it out. Yes, we did.

All in all a wonderful way to bond over mutual dessert appreciation with friends and loved ones, and an absolute steal at £11.95. Leaf wins again: thisisleaf.co.uk

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THE CHOCOLATE CELLAR: WORKSHOP The Chocolate Cellar used to be a shop on Hanover Street but they’re now a dynamic and mobile business selling their chocolates online, straight from owners Bala’s specially converted chocolate factory in her cellar! They also run fantastic Workshops and we went along to one of their 2-hour Dabble workshops - held upstairs at Bar Bodega: To start our session our chocolate expert Tanya talked us through the making of chocolate from the bean to the bar - and also explained why commercial chocolate is far inferior to the good quality stuff. We got to touch and taste samples of the cocoa bean in various stages on its journey to deliciousness and then it was down to business - making our own! We poured glorious ladlefuls of molten chocolate into molds that we’d predecorated with our own designs, using carefully piped white chocolate.

As we let them set we made and decorated our own chocolate lollies on a stick. A drink and an entertaining educational quiz later, our chocolates were set and ready for the wrapping. We each left with a bagful of goodies proudly handmade by us and newfound respect for chocolate making process - to say nothing of the eating process!

Workshops cost £30 a head for a minimum of 6 people; bookings and chocolate orders can be made at thechocolatecellar.co.uk

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OOOMOO A cosy and always bustling cafe on Smithdown Road, there’s also always something fun coming out the oven here (blueberry sour cream cake, apricot white choc flapjacks) but the staple is their epic triple chocolate brownie. To say they are life changing would be an understatement, and once you’ve had one there’s no turning back. Especially when they’re heated up and the inside goes gooey. Ooomoo – 341-351 Smithdown Road

VEGAN TREATS: BAKED SHEBEEN Shebeen: Sibín (Irish) = Illicit whiskey with the idea of secret parties, lock in’s and having a good time. This enterprising pair of Northern Irish ladies are on a mission to: “show people that vegan food doesn’t have to be grey and boring and that it’s not a lifestyle of deprivation.” Armed with delicious cakes and loads of enthusiasm, they are currently selling out of Sound Food and Drink but have plans to start a mobile service very soon - keep an eye out for them at a festival, market or food event near you as they promise to: “create our own little Shebeen wherever we go, spreading vegan love.” facebook.com/bakedshebeenliverpool

FRI 29TH THE FOUNDRY SAT 30TH INSANITY BEACH SUN 31ST FREAKOUT DISCO BAND Tickets available from the venue or online at

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1 Step Forward, 2 Steps Back...

Has Brendan Rodgers’ first season as Liverpool manager been a success so far? Tough question. You will find many people who were not happy, and are still not happy that he was appointed in the first place.

Others will argue he needs longer than 8 months to implement his changes to the club.

At the time of writing, Liverpool sit a disappointing 9th in the premier league, a massive 29 points behind league-leaders and bitters rivals Manchester United, and 12 points off a top four finish, which would guarantee champions league football next season. They are out of both domestic cup competitions and the only hope of a trophy this season is the Europa league, however, even a Europa league trophy may not appease Liverpool’s American owners, who surely want that top 4 finish.

They sacked fan’s favourite Kenny Dalglish last summer after he could only manage an 8th place finish, although he did pick up a league cup trophy and got to the F.A. Cup final during his 18 months in charge.

Rodgers’ team has played well in certain games this season, and haven’t achieved the results their performances have deserved, but there have been games when the Red Men haven’t turned up at all, and have been embarrassingly turned over by lesser sides. The fact we have not beaten any team in the top half of the league tells a depressing story at this stage of the campaign.

Although Brendan Rodgers signed a 3 year contract at the start of this season, his team’s form must undoubtedly be worrying him. His 2 big signings last summer - £10 million forward Fabio Borini and the £15 million spent on his former player at Swansea Joe Allen, have failed to hit it off, and at this stage of the season they have offered the bare minimum to a Liverpool team lacking in killer instinct. His shrewd January transfer deal of snapping up Daniel Sturridge for £12 million from rivals Chelsea has paid off big time, with the striker netting 4 goals in his first 6 games for the club, and his pairing with Luis Suarez is already causing more problems for defensives.

This week’s news that Liverpool’s legendary defender Jamie Carragher will retire at the end of the season, after 16 years in the first team, will be another blow to Rodgers, who has labelled him as ‘his best defender’.

Carragher has been through so many highs and lows with Liverpool, but surely the game he will be remembered for the most will be May 25th 2005, when Liverpool last lifted the European cup. On that unforgettable night, the centre-half caught the attention of the footballing world,

and was heralded as one of the best players in his position. His announcement has come at a strange time, although not considered a first team regular this season, he has been enjoying a good run in the first team lately and has been turning in man of the match performances, especially against Arsenal in January.

Liverpool and Rodgers will find it very difficult to replace the iconic defender this summer. There are not many no-nonsense defenders out there like Liverpool’s No 23 anymore, so surely the search has to start now to find a replacement.

I think Rogers will still be manager beyond this season, but his team MUST start delivering - and pretty quick too! It seems to be a frustrating game of 1 step forward, 2 steps back so far this season and that isn’t good enough for Liverpool Football Club..

RYAN KENNY ||

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Anyone seen the goalkeeper?...

My last missive on my beloved Rovers brimmed with enthusiasm for our chances of outright promotion. I talked of our inventiveness and dedication to the cause, our superb away form and sense of optimism. Now though I’m writing the night after a fourth straight defeat, and a near complete collapse of the season, our morale was last seen legging it down Borough Road with all of it’s cases packed swearing never to come back.

We have plummeted from table toppers to sixth in just ten days, any reasonable Tranmere fan will now tell you automatic promotion is highly unlikely and the play offs represent our only hope of salvaging a season that has promised so much. Optimists might point out that the top of the league has concertinaed so much that if results go well on Saturday we can actually go back top, realists will point out the teams we are being forced to field at the moment are simply not capable of taking us into the play off zone.

Against Swindle Town last night we could of been 4 down by the interval, they were much the better side. We have seven players out right now who were in our primo primo side at the start of the season, and here’s the rub, we won’t get the opportunity to play that side again this season.

Saunders (as a favour to Doncaster perhaps?) is keeping our best goalscorer Jake Cassidy at Wolves, so that’s a major blow. It’s been confirmed today that James Wallace is out for the rest of the season, you can’t over estimate how much this damages our chances.

Gibson, Akpa Akpro, Palmer, Holmes are all due to drift back after injuries and suspensions but without the spine of Wallace and Cassidy it still looks grim.

The splendid early season form of Fon Williams, our Cambrian wonderboy, in goal has dipped noticeably of late too. The aforementioned problem of a severely depressed morale may

well account for this, the stone age old cliche of winning being a habit hanging over us like a Mersey storm cloud.

I really can’t blame the lads who have come in and even after our fourth straight defeat I can’t get angry with the team, Ronnie’s fragile side of loan stars combined with injuries has done for us. Crawling in at 6th and having some play off fun is something I’d bite your hand off for right now.

On a lighter note the Swindon game provided us fans with a comedy moment we won’t forget. As we were pressing for an undeserved late equalizer our goalie Fon Williams went up for the free kick, the ball was immediately cleared and fell to Blacky, our full back, on the half way line... he then passed it back to the goalie… who of course wasn’t there.

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Win Tickets to see Tony Teardrop at St Lukes Tony Teardrop was originally written by award-winning Liverpool playwright Esther Wilson as part of a regional voices scheme with the National Theatre in 2004 but has never been produced as a stage production until now.

Tony Teardrop was originally written as part of a regional voices scheme with the National Theatre in 2004 but has never been produced as a stage production until now.

Esther has also written an alternative radio version, based on true stories of homelessness in Manchester and working in collaboration with producer/director Pauline Harris where they met and followed several characters over many months, and this was first aired in March 2012 on BBC Radio 3’s The Wire, it has since been re-commissioned as a Radio 4 drama for BBC Radio 4 in November 2013.

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FRANK’S TALES OF OLDLIVERPOOL

Kitty Wilkinson – Saint of the Slums If there were technology as we have today in her time, Kitty Wilkinson would have been up there and known globally like the Mother Theresa of today. It seems unfortunate that it’s only people from Liverpool – and not all people from Liverpool – who know of her.

Kitty Wilkinson was 9 when she came over from Northern Ireland with her father, mother, baby brother and sister who was in arms in 1794. Unfortunately on the way over to Liverpool to catch a ship to America the ship floundered and Kitty’s – or as her name was then, Catherine Seaward’s – baby sister was swept away from her mothers arms, and her father drowned.

They were picked up, got to Liverpool, and Kitty and her younger brother who was 7 at the time were indentured up in Lancaster in a cotton workhouse. Her mother was left without a family and through the sheer trauma

of losing her husband and baby - and then her daughter and son – she was institutionalised.

Kitty stayed indentured for 10 years in Lancaster, and then she made her way back to Liverpool with her brother to find her mother.

So from picking up red-hot nails her hands were badly scarred. She was 19 years of age at the time.

Something was wrong with her brother also, as all of the trauma obviously affected his mind.

So Kitty had to look after him. She found her mother, she got 3 jobs and she became the breadwinner.

Kitty was self-taught, and she had the experience of the workhouse. Inside the workhouse there was no education, inadequate food, inadequate drinking water; but she knew how the system worked. It was dreadful – Charles Dickens highlighted the workhouse in his novel Oliver Twist.

One of these jobs was in a nail factory, there were no gloves and health and safety as there is today, no nothing.

What Kitty never forgot was the laissez-faire between the education and the government - no education for the masses. So she saved

a few bob working in these 3 very hard jobs, and what she wanted to do was open a school. It reminded me of Jane Eyre, the great novel by Charlotte Bronte. Because all that girl wanted to do was to open a school and educate the masses because she thought it was unfair, as did Kitty Wilkinson.

She did open a school but unfortunately it never worked because people didn’t trust her – she was self-educated, she was a very intelligent woman, however people thought that it wasn’t quite right that she should be teaching. But also her mother, who suffered from the mental disease, just frightened the kids. So the parents pulled their kids of school and the school folded unfortunately.

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As time went on, Liverpool was suffering from a terrible cholera epidemic during the 1830s.

And Kitty thought; you can’t get rid of this when it’s prevalent all the time, it’s here, it’s lingering. She thought of getting hold of some lime, diluting the lime and then going out in the suburbs and washing clothing.

So she went out and she started to wash the clothes and bed clothes of the middle classes and she charged them. Then she came into the inner city where she was living at the time, in Denison St, and she started to wash clothes for the poorer people for nothing because they were suffering terribly. She manipulated the rich by washing the clothes and charging them so that she could come into the city and wash the clothes of the poor for nothing.

Dr Duncan, the first medical officer of health in 1847, said Liverpool was the unhealthiest place to live. And Kitty helped through sheer hard work, and knowing why the diseases like cholera, typhoid, and dysentery were associated with the conditions and the social issues of Liverpool, the sanitary problems.

She really wanted to get all the people of Liverpool to do something about washing the working classes. She thought - why can’t we open a public baths, let the council pay, let the municipal authorities pay for these people to have a wash at least.

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She fought for that, and she also fought for a washhouse. And what we have to thank Kitty for today are the likes of launderettes, because she opened up the very first washhouse in 1846 in the entire world, funded by the council at the time.

She became one of the most important figures in Liverpool folklore because she took in waifs and strays, and looked after families who lost their breadwinner. This is a woman who never sat back on her laurels, just went and did it. What Kitty symbolises today is compassion, compassion for the people of Liverpool.

She was such a wonderful person that we just had a statue unveiled at St George’s hall dedicated to her. She was one of the greatest of all people, long may she reign, and may her name live forever.

And it’s been a great pleasure to talk about this great lady.

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WILDTHING “My only regret is that I didn’t drink every pub dry and sleep with every woman on the planet.” There are many notorious Oliver Reed quotes and speeches brought out during tonight’s performance, but this is the perhaps one that resonates the most.

February 6 The Epstein Theatre It encapsulates the original bad-boy actor’s insatiable lust for life; an attitude and a way of living that saw him gain a reputation as a loose cannon and stayed with him to his premature death in 1999, aged 61.

This one-man show, set in the Maltese pub that he would die in, sees Reed (a hugely impressive Rob Crouch) summarising a life both misunderstood and played up to, but never compromised.

Tonight the sparsely attended Epstein has become a pub; Crouch hands out beers into the audience and drags unsuspecting members (your reviewer included) into the performance - the disappointing turnout

actually enhancing the intimate effect. And in a case art and life blurring, there are tipsy tweedsuited lads in the audience who tell us that they used to drink at the same rugby club as Reed.

How very fitting.

Tonight we get the abridged life story - drawn from Reed’s autobiography, well documented interviews and now infamous lore. Such as the time he drank over 100 pints on his stag night, the time he vomited on Steve McQueen, the time Shelley Winters poured whiskey on his head on TV, and the time he turned down the lead role in Jaws.

But, in between swigs from his perch at the bar, Crouch as Reed also runs through less documented periods of his life skilfully using the most minimal of costume changes: his undiagnosed dyslexia, unloving father, failed marriages and the pressure of finding out he

was a descendant of Peter the Great.

It is a portrait of a very English man who was happiest in the pub with real people, had no taste for Hollywood frippery and didn’t give a damn what the public thought of him. The fantastic Crouch plays him with the required intensity, while managing to avoid being overly theatrical - no easy feat. While it’s difficult to celebrate the man (reckless drinker, sexist, quick to violence) it’s also difficult to know how much of his persona was a self-fulfilling prophecy, or even an act. The beauty of the performance however, is that it doesn’t judge; it simply snapshots the story of a true force of nature.

One thing is clear, though: Reed was a fantastic drinking buddy.

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THRILLING TIME

Kevin Sampson is a Birkenhead author who has written 7 books, including Stars are Stars, Powder and Awaydays – which was made into a film in 2009.

His new book The Killing Pool is the first in a series of detective thrillers.

YOU HAVEN’T WRITTEN A BOOK ABOUT THE CRIMINAL UNDERWORLD FOR SOME YEARS NOW - WHY THE RETURN? Well, as with all addictions, my fascination with the underworld is ever-present, even if it’s sometimes submerged. Even when a writer is busy on another project, they’ll have several ideas percolating; some of those ideas can take years to fully ferment. That was the case with The Killing Pool; I’ve had the character of Billy McCartney and Liverpool as his stamping ground for quite some time. Over the last few years I’ve been as hooked as anyone by things like The Wire and all the Scandi-thrillers, and it’s fair to say that that gave me a bit of impetus. The common denominator was that all the books and series I loved had a terrific sense of place; Jo Nesbo’s Oslo, the Naples of Roberto Saviano, the different faces of Baltimore in The Wire. They’re all port cities and the cumulative effect was a massive shot in the arm - a reminder that the Liverpool is just as charismatic and frightening a backdrop as any of them.

THIS IS YOUR FIRST NOVEL WRITTEN FROM THE LAW ENFORCEMENT SIDE OF CRIME ISN’T IT? WHY THIS ANGLE NOW? I tend to start with a character, and DCI Billy McCartney is somebody I’ve been working on (working with?) for many a year. It’s hard to talk in too much detail about McCartney without giving away key elements of the book, but my challenge was to find a new and intriguing angle. Every single book shop in the country has a crammed Crime section, so it’s very, very

difficult to make your voice heard in such a crowded and well-established genre. My task was to come up with a great, page-turning thriller that also had a distinctive voice and an unusual flavour to it. I’m hopeful that The Killing Pool provides all this - but it all stems from McCartney. That’s why I’ve told the story, in the main, from his point of view.

WHAT KIND OF SOURCES DID YOU DRAW UPON TO GET A FEEL FOR THE LIFE OF A COP? We all have one the greatest resources in the world, I’d argue, right here on our doorstep in terms of the news stories that crop up every week, on local radio and in The Echo etc.

There’s a Romanzo Criminale every day of the week! But in terms of the minutiae, I was very lucky to have the ear and the advice of two former detectives who are credited in the foreword to the novel. I’m not sure how much they want their names ‘out there’, but their help was invaluable, and eye-opening.

I UNDERSTAND THIS IS TO BE THE FIRST IN A DCI BILLY MCCARTNEY SERIES. WHAT IS THE PLAN? Mac’s speciality is drug cartels. The second DCI Billy McCartney novel takes place in Ibiza and Morocco. Future cases will take him to other drug-traffiking centres around the world; Amsterdam, Bangkok, Caracas...but his roots will always be here in Liverpool.

WHAT KIND OF A COP IS MCCARTNEY? Very good question. I see Mac as a modernday Caped Crusader. He’s quite internal, very

much a loner. He only hints at relationships, past and present. Yet it’s clear that, central to his philosophy, is a desire to save or protect vulnerable women. As McCartney’s back-story emerges, we get a clearer understanding of the historic trauma that underpins that persona and see that, to a degree, Mac is acting out that role; The Lone Ranger, clearing the streets of violent and unprincipled men.

A LOT OF YOUR SUBJECT MATTER TO DATE HAS BEEN RELATIVELY REGIONAL; FOOTBALL GANGS, SPANISH HOLIDAYS, LOCAL MUSIC AND HAUNTS, FRESHERS AND MOSTLY SET AROUND LIVERPOOL. IS IT A CASE OF ‘WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW’?

I’m inspired by my own environment; and my experiences have, to some extent, informed my fiction. But it’s always character first, for me. The backdrop and the palette is important, but you have to foreground your characters and make them central to everything that plays out in the novel. That’s certainly the case with McCartney and The Killing Pool. I don’t think anyone can suggest Mac or any of the characters is inspired by any of my previous lives!

I READ A DESCRIPTION OF YOUR WORK AS ‘LAD LIT’. HOW COMFORTABLE ARE YOU WITH THAT TAG? I don’t really know what Lad Lit is - but 70% of my readers are female so I suspect I’m not very good at it.

The Killing Pool is out on March 21.

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GLAM!

THEPERFORMANCEOFSTYLE

As David Bowie returns to the limelight with his first studio album in 10 years and homosexuality achieves a new level of acceptance in this country (with the recent introduction of the Same Sex Couples Bill), it seems fitting that Tate Liverpool should put on an exhibition that celebrates and evaluates the attitudes and aesthetics of the 1970s Glam era.

With such a wide range of art works and pop artifacts, the show is sure to please both music fans and art lovers alike.

things) with one particularly interesting item being THAT top hat worn by Marc Bolan on the front cover of T.Rex’s ‘The Slider’ album.

There is also a very good short film by John McManus (1977’s ‘Roxette’) which, although made after the Glam bubble burst, points to how the movement (and in particular the music of Brian Ferry) supposedly provided an alternative lifestyle for young people all over the country and not just those living in London.

innovative ‘Celebration? Realife’ installation (which, with its strobe lighting, mirror balls and scattered pop ephemera appears to represent the remnants of an extravagant party).

The exhibition space is divided into two sections: one devoted to ‘Glam Rock’ and another devoted to ‘Glam Art’. The first section showcases a vast collection of posters, magazine covers, album sleeves, short films and costumes (among other

With regards to the ‘Glam Art’ section of the show, particular highlights include Allen Jones’ ‘Chair’ and ‘Table’ sculptures (two lingerieadorned, fibreglass women presented as sexually provocative items of furniture) and a new adaptation of Marc Camille Chaimowicz’s

Glam! The Performance of Style wll be on at Tate Liverpool until May 13, tickets £8

The fact that so many Glam-related relics and artworks are brought together in one space means that fans of the movement are able to completely immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the time, as if the 70s never ended.’

NOAH KELLY ||

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NASHER SAYS RELAX

The thing that might surprise you about Brian Nash (more commonly known as Nasher) if you haven’t been a follower of his solo career, is that the ex-guitarist of Frankie Goes to Hollywood can sing. He can really sing.

And, as it turns out, he can write as well.

The North London-based Scouser released his book ‘Nasher Says Relaxed’ at the end of last year, chronicling the ups and downs of the band and giving a side of the Frankie story that hasn’t been heard yet. Singer Holly Johnson released his book ‘A Bone In My Flute’ in 1994, and as Nasher explains, that was part of the motivation to write the book: “That’s the only book written about Frankie, no one’s ever written a biography or anything. 25 years from now what he has written will be fact; if nobody counters that, that becomes the official story.”

The story, of course, is one of a Liverpool band shot to near-instant global superstardom with two singles ‘Relax’ and ‘The Power of Love’ which remain two of the highest selling UK singles of all time. And the ensuing world tours, Grammy nominations, inevitable dissolution and subsequent reunions of the band.

And as Nasher explains it, his version of events would be much closer to the experience of the other three members of the band.

“There’s a part of the book that explains it, how when Holly started hanging out on his own or had his boyfriend with him all the time, we never saw him. I likened it to like two coaches on the motorway. Like you can see the other

coach but you don’t really know what’s happening. So you’re still on the same road but experiencing completely different things.”

The band notoriously imploded after just a few years at the top, in part due to welldocumented music label complications, but Nasher says even upon reflection he wouldn’t change a thing: “Without sounding too spiritual - once I joined this band and things started to happen, we got a record deal and there was a bit of momentum behind it, we heard this record that we’d made. And you kind of felt..this is something else, this is gonna happen. So if you go back and change any one of these things, you know, cause and effect...”

An honest and fascinating account of a historic band yes, but anyone looking for sordid details should go elsewhere: “The occasional drug taking and stuff, was child’s play compared to like Motley Crew. If it’s not going to be as debauched and desperate as that, then what’s the point in writing it? If you want to read stuff like that go and read the Motley Crew and Aerosmith books.”

Going forward, Nasher remains busy and has been involved in the production of local muso David Tyrrell’s (who goes under the name Ground Pilots) album, as well as planning his fourth solo effort later this year.

Of his solo work, he says: “My last record was very downbeat, very stripped down, representing the song in its purest form (listening to this I sound like the big tortured artist!) Anyway my missus listened to it and said: ‘Anyone listening to it would think you have the worst life in the world, that you were the world’s most miserable bloke and your life is terrible when really - you have the life of Riley!’”

See Nasher perform a solo gig at the Philharmonic’s Rodewald Suit on April 12th, as part of their After Eight series. Nasher Says Relax is out all good bookstores and online now.

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ZOE LYONS

Zoe Lyons is one funny lady. Since appearing on the British comedy scene about 10 years ago she has gone from strength to strength, winning awards, playing festivals and be heard regularly on radio and seen on shows such as Mock The Week. We chat to Zoe on her latest UK tour.

TELL US ABOUT THE POP UP COMIC TOUR...

There is no real theme to this tour show as such, it really is a stand up show. I do talk about a few odd places I have “popped up” in the last few months including a few ill advised television appearances and finding my photograph was being used as an advert on a dating website. I had never thought of myself as “Date Bait” before.

YOU HAVE PROMISED THE SILLY, THE SATIRICAL AND THE PHYSICAL. DO YOU ENJOY DABBLING IN SLAPSTICK? Oh I love a bit of slapstick. Think it stems from when I was a kid and I used to watch the Pink Panther movies with Peter Sellers. There was always an element of clowning that he brought to the part. I don’t care if it is considered low brow to like slapstick, I will laugh at inspector Clouseau clips on YouTube till the day I die.

YOU’RE KNOWN FOR HIGHLIGHTING PARTICULAR URGENT ISSUES AS DOG PRAMS AND AND BLANKETS WITH SLEEVES. WHERE DOES INSPIRATION COME FROM? Yeap, I cover the really heavy life changing topics. I am the brave comedian tackling the problems of modern society. I mean, if I don’t talk about the dangers of motion sensitive air fresheners who the hell will?

LEGEND HAS IT YOU STARTED DOING COMEDY AFTER DOING A FIVE MINUTE STINT AND GETTING HOOKED. WHAT

WAS YOUR LIFE BEFORE COMEDY? Well, I was working as a chimney sweep so the hours were long, dark and humourless.

WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU’VE LEARNED ABOUT BEING A COMEDIAN NOW THAT YOU’RE A VETERAN? I’ve learnt that you are always learning and growing, you never “crack” it, which is both exciting and depressing at the same time. You do pick up some rather random knowledge being a comedian. For example I know now that if you live in the South and you are performing in Nottingham and you are best to take the M40 and cut across country on the A43. If I have two red bulls and a Ginsters pasty at 2.00am the indigestion is enough to kill a horse. Never agree to perform at someone’s wedding, you can really spoil a lot of people’s “special” day. If, when you arrive at a gig in a dodgy pub in the middle of nowhere and the landlord tells you not to mention the recent murders, chances are the gig is going to be a tough one.

HAVE YOU HAD TO DEAL WITH MANY HECKLERS? DO YOU HAVE ANY PRE PREPARED PUT-DOWNS FOR THEM? I have had to deal with surprisingly few. I have had “ get your tits out” shouted at me a couple of times which I always find bemusing because I will be the first to admit my boobs aren’t that special! I don’t tend to have stock put downs for hecklers, usually they are so drunk they

make such an arse of themselves and they effectively put themselves down.

YOU RAN INTO SOME CONTROVERSY, ALBEIT VERY RETROSPECTIVELY, WITH YOUR AMY WINEHOUSE JOKE. IS THERE ANY PARTICULAR NO-GO TOPIC FOR YOU? I don’t set out looking for controversy but it just never fails to amaze me how some people seem to delight in being offended. I don’t think any topic, in the right comedic hands, should be out of bounds.

YOU’VE DONE LOADS OF TV, IF THE OFFER CAME UP WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO YOUR OWN SHOW? WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE IF YOU HAD FREE REIN? I would like to do some off the wall “Arts” show visiting the weird and wonderful makers of unusual things. If that sounds a bit pretentious we could mix it up a bit. I was watching some really old clips from the Tommy Cooper show from the late 70’s not so long ago. It was brilliant because half way through the show for no real reason a dance troop would appear in loads of Lycra and just prance about for a bit.

Whatever show I had, I would want a dance troop!

WHO’S THE FUNNIEST PERSON IN BRITAIN RIGHT NOW? Chris Huhne. www.zoelyons.co.uk

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SOUND ANDVISION

While this month marks the release of Stereophonics 8th album Graffiti on the Tracks, this year also marks an impressive 20-year milestone in the band’s career. Not that Kelly Jones realised it until we brought it up…

“The band formed 93, and we were signed in 96. Our first album release was 1997, but I guess as a band yeah - twenty years! In the blink of an eye...”

Straddling the rock and pop worlds, Jones is a rare breed of frontman; hardworking, friendly and affable, he is the antithesis to the tortured, the bratty and the difficult. He’s had his run-ins with the press in the past, but one gets the feeling that he’s a born rock star who wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. For the first time in 16 years the band took a year off touring in 2012, and decided to spend that time in the studio “making music for the sake of music”. Given the, albeit patchy, success of his band Jones displays surprising insecurity: “We’d never really stopped before because always we wanted to keep the band there in people’s consciousness. After the greatest hits record (Decade in the Sun) was successful it allowed us the confidence to realise that people are fond of the catalogue stuff, and that we shouldn’t be afraid to stop for a little bit longer than we normally do.”

The three songs premiered so far on their website have signaled a turn towards the dark - both ‘Violins and Tambourines’ and ‘In a Moment’ are epic, cinematic songs with suitably moody music videos directed by Jones. It’s a mature sound new helped by collaboration 36-strong orchestra, and Jones tells us the record is part of a larger vision of releasing a film, and a second record of material that was recorded at the same time as the new record.

“There’s quite a lot of different styles in there but I think the main theme is quite beautiful, quite spiritual, quite dark. Underlying the whole thing is a kind of sense of hope beneath it all. And it just takes you on a bit of a journey really.”

The theme for this album sparks from an incident when Jones was at home and caught youths on his roof who were sneaking onto train tracks to graffiti trains. He started writing a story that developed the theme of a Romeo and Juliet type tale involving the graffiti artists, expanding it into a kind of cross-continental travel movie.

“That story ended up becoming a movie screenplay that I was writing and developing at BAFTA, and the music was being written at the same time. They kind of bled into each other really, so the music kind of became a sound bed to this rights of passage story I was writing about two young boys leaving a small town and traveling across Europe.”

Though it might surprise some to learn that Jones (who cites his filmic influences as Robert Altman, Ken Loach “kitchen sink kind of stuff”) is working on a film, it’s something that has always been a part of his life.

“I went to film and animation school when I was 18, and most of the first album started from scenes and scripts and things I was writing, so it’s always been a big love of mine.

At the end of the day I just like telling stories, whether it’s directing, writing or singing them.”

different things together. And some of us handled it well and some of us didn’t.”

Jones is alluding to their former drummer Stuart Cable, who was sacked from the band in 2003 and died in 2010, after a long history of drug and alcohol abuse. Jones and Cable had reconciled by the time of his death, and Jones has spoken openly about his grief for his childhood friend.

The band recently had their second drummer change, as Javier Weyler stepped down after the recording of Graffiti to make way for Jamie Morrison, formerly of the Noisettes.

Despite all of the ambitious plans in the works, Jones is firmly committed to the new record: “This album has to stand on its own legs, as its just 10 songs and you can’t tell that story to everybody who buys the album. Hopefully if you go back in 3 years it will all be there, but for the time being it’s 10 songs, and that’s the inspiration behind the 10 songs.”

Jones recently attended the wedding of Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood, and seeing as they’ve already hit the 20 mark we wonder if the band intend to emulate the Stones and keep rocking till they drop?

Being that the band started out from the tiny Welsh town of Cwmaman, was there an autobiographical element to the story?

“When we started, even if you read the interviews we did in 1997, we always said that we were a band that were in it for the long haul.

“I think when I started it was completely fictional really, from that incident that happened at my house. But when you start delving into it with an editor at BAFTA they start digging into your head a lot and you start realising; ‘Well I guess I left a small town and traveled around the world as well.’

The scene around you will always change, how people sell music and market music will always change, but my job as a songwriter is to make the best records I can make.”

I guess there’s elements of our story, as we all did leave and travel around and experience

See you in another twenty then.

The Stereophonics are doing a limited date UK tour in March with further dates to be announced soon.

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Parlour Flames EPSTEIN, FEBRUARY 9 While former Oasis members have taken different paths since the band split, it’s fair to say Beady Eye and High Flying Birds have not wandered particularly far down those paths. Ex-guitarist Bonehead’s new venture Parlour Flames is on a different plane altogether however, mostly thanks to the influence of idiosyncratic Manchester singer songwriter Vinny Peculiar.

The band don’t yet have a release to their name, however there are a clutch of the faithful and the curious to check them out tonight at the sit-down affair at the glorious Epstein Theatre.

It’s a triple whammy starting with local songsmith Robert Vincent, who is perfectly suited to the intimate surrounds. Vincent’s songs tread folk and country territory but it’s his voice that gives him the edge - on ‘Life in Easy Steps’ recalling the Louisville lilt of Jim James (My Morning Jacket) and elsewhere channeling the intensity of Michael Stipe. His is a distinct voice, however, and his secret weapon is the haunting ‘Demons’.

Locally based Stoke band Sensorites lighten things up next with their cheeky pop rock.

The young band have talent, confidence and a clutch of well written tunes with a sense of humour - see the raunchy ‘Slipstream’.

Elsewhere ‘Fool’ is a straightforward clap-along ditty, and when they do wig out occasionally they prove their musical chops.

Parlour Flames belong to a very English tradition of songwriting, gentle songs that don’t bash you over the head but rather politely win you over. Peculiar is a dedicated lyricist - even though they haven’t pressed anything to disc yet, all of the song lyrics are

already posted on their website. His style is very much of the wry observer who has been around the block: see ‘Never Heard of You’ which features the great line: “Slept with three thousand women in my life / I have a wonderfully understanding and supportive wife” Tonight the Parlour Flames core is padded out with a drummer and bassist, and the band seem to effortlessly engage the crowd despite the unknown material. Onstage Peculiar is compulsively watchable - all fidgety and long limbed in his three-piece vintage suit, there’s more than a hint of Jarvis Cocker here.

For the most part it’s jangly and folky, but when they do go a little bit psychedelic with the likes of ‘Manchester Rain’ it’s to great effect. The band seem genuinely grateful for the positive response from the small but enthusiastic audience.

The band close with the wonderfully titled ‘The Broken Hearted Existentialist’ and leave the crowd wanting more, with calls for an encore left unanswered - perhaps due to lack of material more than anything. Watch this space.

JENNIFER PERKIN ||

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ALBUMREVIEWS

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PISSED JEANS Honeys

NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS Push the Sky Away

JOHNNY MARR The Messenger

Is punk rock dead? Ok rhetorical question - we all know punk rock was slaughtered as soon as it was named - but given the recent ubiquity of feel-good, clean-cut folk pop that your mum would love, it would appear that the kids just aren’t pissed off any more. Or if they are, they’re not expressing it with guitars any more.

Push the Sky Away shows us a very different Nick Cave to the seething, perverted Grinderman we’ve seen of late, and even compared to the last Bad Seeds record (Dig Lazarus Dig) he is remarkably sedate here.

The first Seeds record since the departure of Cave’s longtime collaborator Mick Harvey, this the sound of an elder statesman of rock in contemplative mood.

There’s been a mixed response to axeman Marr’s first bonafide solo record, with the differing opinions seeming to stem largely from expectation. Many of those who have held the record up against some Marr’s now classic work - especially of course with The Smiths and their inimitable frontman - have found it lacking.

Not in this country anyhow. Look across the water to North America and you’ll find much more brash, dischordent noises happening there - see Fucked up, Metz, and of course, Pissed Jeans. With 2007’s Sub Pop-released Hope For Men, they made an impression with not originality so much as timing and sheer intensity. Their pitch black, no-bullshit punk harks back to the likes of Black Flag, even Big Black, but on Honeys they’ve adopted a sludgy, stoner rock element. And it’s kinda groovy.

Don’t get us wrong, they haven’t relented Bathroom Laughter is essentially a sonic vomit but certainly a track like Male Gaze has a distinct swing to it.

And like all of the best and smartest heavy bands (see Shellac, Mclusky) there’s an inherent sense of humour shot through the dark; vocalist Matt Korvette’s lyrics reading like observational vignettes to modern life. Romanticize Me is a funny but quite incisive look at relationship expectations, while You’re Different (In Person) comments on the superficiality of social media friendships.

If you’re tired of anemic rock music - this is the record for you. Needless to say: play it loud.

8/10 JP ||

Minimalism is the key, and you could almost be fooled into thinking he knocked this album out from the comfort of an easy chair without disturbing his whisky. Closer and repeated listening, however, reveal careful arrangements and gentle layering, from the whispery female backing vocals to an unlikely flute section in We No Who U R. It’s a much gentler Cave, heavy neither in vitriol nor melancholia. The edgiest song is the brilliant ‘Water’s Edge’, where Warren Ellis strings’ provides his signature sense of foreboding and tension. It’s an extremely verbose record, but rather than the straightforward storytelling Cave often favours, there’s more stream of consciousness - especially on the rambling and slightly deranged ‘Higgs Boson Blues’ (put it his way, he namedrops Miley Cyrus in it).

The centrepiece to the record is the lethargic, slow strut of ‘Jubilee Street’ and its selfreferential, sort-of companion piece ‘Finishing Jubilee Street’ with it’s haunting melody and almost African-influenced percussion. It might take some adjustment, but what this record proves again is Cave’s status as an ever evolving artist who, like less prolific peers Tom Waits or Leonard Cohen, will continue to engage in whichever form he chooses..

8/10 JP ||

Taken on face value however, we’d argue The Messenger is a highly enjoyable, if slightly retro standalone record. Sure there’s shades of Smiths on there, but upbeat first single ‘Upstarts’ surprises for sounding like mid nineties US College rock more than anything else. As we know Marr spent time playing with American twangy indie band Modest Mouse, and it’s and clear here and also on tracks like ’The Crack Up’ that he’s soaked up the influence to great effect. Likewise his stints with Electronic can be heard on ‘Say Demesne’ and The Cribs on ‘The Messenger’, and this is no bad thing.

To say The Messenger has no signature sound is not a demerit in this case – the songs are well written, the vocals are good and the guitars – as to be expected – are fantastic, if not innovative. It’s likeable, and easy to listen to – and while no, you probably won’t be writing the lyrics on the back of your schoolbook, to release such a solid and enjoyable record is no mean feat.

A deft pastiche of American and British indie, it will find a well earned place in the record collection of many rock fans.

7/10 JP ||

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The Tea Street Band WAXXX IN DREAMS HAUS WAREHOUSE, JANUARY 26

Local Natives THE KAZIMIER, FEBRUARY 12 If you’ve ever felt on a completely different wavelength to your surrounds, or that the zeitgeist has passed you by, you’ll know what it is to stand in a room full of people who are passionately, wholeheartedly enjoying a band who do absolutely nothing for you.

Anyone showing up late to tonight’s show at the Kazimier have missed out on two counts.

Firstly, the sold out show is positively overflowing with punters and unless you’re willing to use elbows, you won’t be seeing much. And secondly, opening band Balthazar are seriously good, and for this reviewer’s money provide the musical highlight of the evening.

Granted Local Natives are preaching to the converted here, but the atmosphere is particularly electrified tonight for the LA four piece whose latest release Hummingbird has been near-universally revered.

First up though, Belgium’s Balthazar combine the laconic classy pop of Phoenix with the slapdash charms of Beirut and pull off some truly impressive group harmonies. There’s a palpable feeling of camaraderie within the band and they are instantly likeable absolutely ones to watch.

But they are clearly not the reason so many are here tonight. And so Local Natives appear, and the love flows thick and unending.

Technically you couldn’t fault the band - this is shimmery, big ideas, emotionally-loaded pop, and on their opening song ‘You and I’ Kelcey Ayer’s vocal achieves an almost Wild Beastslike operatic quality.

They play a set that addresses both of their records equally, and each song is received by the audience as a precious gift from the gods themselves. The band chat little and plough

on, with the extravagantly mustachioed Taylor Rice sharing vocal duties with Ayers. ‘Wide Eyes’, the opener for their first record Gorilla Manor is a standout for it’s frenetic percussion, but for the most part we feel like the only person in the room who isn’t on ecstasy.

There’s something intensely humourless about the band; and while we concede that not every band are Tenacious D, it’s hard to swallow all this earnestness and heartstring pulling of a similar ilk to Temper Trap or Clock Opera. The soaring single ‘Heavy Feet’ brings to mind adverts for life insurance, or the scene in any movie where the estranged couple reunite and live happily ever after. There’s something of a superficial feeling to the music that prevents the emotional engagement that so many appear to feel tonight.

By the time the band return for their encore ‘Who Knows Who Cares’, grown men are jumping up and down with glee. They end with the moody, beats driven, Animal Collective-y ‘Sun Hands’ and by now we’ve accepted that the ship has well and truly sailed.

And so what? The fans are happy, the band shortly afterwards announce an extensive UK Autumn tour, life goes on. Apparently, there are some people out there in the world who don’t like Radiohead; you can’t please everyone.

JENNIFER PERKIN ||

Well, it looks as though 2013 is going to be a promising year for The Tea Street Band. The five Liverpool lads have got solid skills and encouraging horizons A couple of great songs and a matching live performance, quite a few gigs scheduled plus an enthusiastic and growing fan base, together with a decent level of media exposure. And most importantly, an upcoming album set to hit the ears of their many aficionados who will no doubt continue spreading the word.

They kicked the year off in front of an audience of many - predominantly the young and the cheerful. The gig was rather brief (about 40 minutes) though intense, and the crowd responded well enough to the seven songs played, including their new ones.

“We love playing to our home crowd, as they never fail to support us and we love giving our all back when we play”, said keyboardist James Albertina.

And that’s true. The mutual connection between the band and their public was tangible from the first track played, ‘Lost for Words’, and the tone was set by the fantastic ‘Summer Dreaming’, a cracking live tune.

The Tea Street Band have three new singles already recorded – as Albertina confirms – so naturally they performed them tonight. ‘Set Me Free’, due to come out next month, was well received, and ‘Santa Monica’ paved the way for the grand finale: fan favourites ‘Fiesta’ and ‘Disco Lights’. They closed the gig with ‘Push The Feeling On’’, due for release as a single on February 25, and all set to be their next hit.

The Tea Street Band, with their lively tunes and distinct vocoder vocals are clearly loved by the crowd, and they look comfortable onstage.

Supporting The Inspiral Carpets on tour next month, playing in Dublin, London and New York very soon, with and plans to release their new album this summer, it’s full steam ahead for the band.

ORIOL NOGUER ||

Jake Bugg O2 ACADEMY, FEBRURAY 12 The O2 Academy was packed to the rafters for Jake Bugg’s sell out show. The crowd, armed with plastic pint cups of cider, wore smiles of enthused excitement as the buzzing undertone of anticipation began to build as we awaited the young Nottingham Leg-end.

The bluesy grooves of the beautiful US singer Valerie June had warmed everyone up for the infusion of country and folk with rocking guitar riffs that was to come from Bugg. The energy grew as the roadies carried out their checks to the sounds of the Arctic Monkeys and Jimmy Hendrix.

Out of the shadows, greeted with the whistles and screams of 1200 excited fans, Bugg appeared on stage in a cool and blasé fashion, cigarette in hand and wearing jeans with a blue Ralph Lauren shirt.

He threw on his guitar and under ambient tangerine lights kicked it off solo, with a beautiful rendition of the romantic ‘Fire’, the last song on his self-titled debut. His voice was crisp and faultless to the ears, and piercing to the heart. His mature sound had a strong flavour of Johnny Cash, and it’s amazing to think that a year prior to this Bugg had been recording this track on an iPhone.

Just before speeding up the tempo with ‘Kentucky’, Bugg - who has just turned 19 - confidently addressed the audience and thanked everyone for being there in a most down to earth manner. His voice was deep and sexy voice, unfitting and surprising to the boyish youngster stood before us with his mop-top hairdo.

Looking around at the varied age of the eager audience, it was clear to see Bugg’s music appeals to many generations - from the flat-cap wearing folky/ country crowds, to the rocky looking youngsters - and he appears to be taking it all in his stride.

The smell of marijuana drifted through the air as everyone got into ‘Troubled Town’, a song with attitude, and an early Bob Dylan sound to it. It’s a song about Clifton and escaping, beginning with the catchy lyrics, “Stuck in speed bump city where the only thing that’s pretty is the thought of getting out...” A definite crowd pleaser. Another highlight was ‘Country Song’. The realness of the vulnerability, and the beauty of the rawness were very touching to experience live.

Bugg, who has supported Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and is due to support The Stone Roses in the summer, had a cool stage presence with the air of a country/ rock legend from the yesteryears, way beyond his 19 years. He came across like he has lived many lives, and has many a tale to share with us, and this rings true in his song writing ability. The whole performance and his engaging lyrics were totally believable and emotive as he belted out his experiences of love, escapism and living on a council estate. His words totally

compelled the swaying audience, and had everyone, young and old singing along.

His set came to an end with the electrifying ‘Lightning Bolt’ which had everyone throwing shapes and raised hands in the air, clapping along as he indulged in a belting guitar solo. As he thanked everyone and left the stage, there were immediate bellows for an encore, and at that he was back. “It’s been a pleasure so I am going to give you a couple more” Appearing in a trio of white lights like a prophet, he surged into a solo acoustic performance of ‘Broken’. The purity of his voice echoed through the crowd, who in turn wailed out his melancholic, honest lyrics in appreciation.

Following this we all entered a clap along as he took us back to the 50’s finishing on “one of my favourites” - Johnny Cash’s ‘Folsom Prison Blues’. It was clear how much of an influence Cash has been on Bugg’s music, as he proved his vocals to be reaching up there with one of the best country singers to have lived! To conclude in style he clapped either side of the stage before throwing his plectrum into the audience, leaving everyone in a haze of buzzing bewilderment.

BECKY TAVERNOR ||

LOWDOWN ON MUSIC

HAVEBEARD WILLTRAVEL

If you don’t know who Ethan Johns is then you will certainly know the people he has worked with as a producer and musician. A wide range of artists – including Ryan Adams, Kings of Leon, Tom Jones – have enlisted the help of Johns to produce credible and good sounding music. After years working with other people he has finally got round to recording some of his own music and take out out on the road. LowDown caught up with him at the Capstone Theatre.

YOU TRULY HAVE HAD A LIFE OF MUSIC. DID YOU EVER CONSIDER DOING SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT? I thought about photography for a while. And film making too, but I never had time because I was always making music.

YOU STARTED WORKING WITH YOUR FATHER (LEGENDARY PRODUCER GLYN JOHNS) AT AN EARLY AGE. WAS IT SOMETHING YOU WANTED TO DO AND HOW DID IT HELP YOU? I was spending so much time hanging out on sessions when I was younger just because I was so into it. I think it became obvious I’d better be given tasks if I was going to be around so much. I loved it. I couldn’t get enough. I learned so much In those days. It really was the foundation on which I’ve built everything.

YOU ARE AN ACCOMPLISHED MULTI INSTRUMENTALIST. DID YOU CONSIDER RECORDING EVERYTHING ON THE ALBUM YOURSELF AND WHAT WOULD YOU SAY WAS YOUR PRIMARY INSTRUMENT? I didn’t want play everything. I wanted to play the songs with my friends. It meant I could

just focus on the songs and singing them as directly as I could. I’d say my first instrument is drums YOU HAVE BEEN CARRYING SOME OF THE SONGS ON THE ALBUM AROUND FOR A WHILE. WHAT DID IT FEEL LIKE TO FINALLY PUT THEM DOWN ONTO A RECORD? It was great. I can put them down now and watch them grow.

HOW DIFFERENT IS IT SWITCHING FROM PRODUCER TO PERFORMER AND VICE VERSA? I can’t really see much of a difference. Only that the songs are mine and so are a more direct personal statement. I’m so invested in everything I do . Everything gets the same care and attention.

YOU RECENTLY DID A LOW KEY TOUR OF RECORD SHOPS AROUND THE UK. HOW DID IT COME ABOUT AND HOW IMPORTANT ARE THESE PLACES? They are important to me. I love shopping for records. I don’t like much of the music in the top 40 so these are the only places I can find an alternative to that.

IS TECHNOLOGY GETTING IN THE WAY OF GOOD MUSIC? You can’t blame the technology. Blame the people using it.

YOU HAVE BEEN QUOTED AS SAYING ALL MUSIC IS SPIRITUAL. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN TO YOU? I can’t really expand on that. It just is.

HOW IMPORTANT IS A GOOD BEARD IN MUSIC? A good beard is hard to find in music. It can filter out a lot of bullshit.

You can find out more about Ethan Johns and get a free download of ‘Whip Poor Will’ at www.EthanJohns.com

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FILMREVIEWS The DJs bought it: the song (45RPM) became a hit, and when The Alarm subsequently pulled the rug out, they exposed the hypocrisy and ageism of the music industry.

A clever hoax that made headlines globally, and attracted the attention of LA-based Welsh director Sara Sugarman. A film was proposed, and when it failed to get off the ground in the US she decided to take the idea back home to Rhyl to shoot on a shoestring with the help of mates.

Vinyl

Back in 2004 when Welsh rock stalwarts The Alarm – then in their 40s – were told that they were a bit past it, they decided to try something. They released their new song under the guise of a fictitious band The Poppy Fields, and hired a group of youngsters (real band The Wayriders) to play them, and lip synch in the video.

And what a little gem it is. Elements of the story have been changed – in the film the band have long broken up and accidentally write the hit during a drunken reunion for a funeral.

But the core story is a great one, and here it is dealt deftly in a taught, entertaining and at times touching film. Though at times slightly clunky visually due to its grassroots makings, the acting is great and there are some familiar faces amongst the ‘old’ band in Phil Daniels and Keith Allen; both excellent.

There is great young talent as well, and Jamie Blackley as the fake frontman Drainpipe is an inspired find.

On one hand a light-hearted romp with several chuckle-out-loud moments, many of the issues touched upon – but never dwelled on – such as ageing, fertility, relationships and fatherhood do resonate.

For musicians and music fans it is a mustwatch; not entirely unlike School of Rock thematically, the wonderful twist is the very British touch.

As it happens Sugarman went to school with Mike Peters of the Alarm in Rhyl, who jumped on board with the project and provides the soundtrack. His involvement, including the all important ‘hit’ song in the film; ‘Free Rock n Roll’, are one of the keys to it’s success.

JENNIFER PERKIN

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FRIDAY 1ST Music IIRichard Batty & The Rockits The Cavern Club, Mathew St, 8pm, £3, 0151 236 9091 IITim Shaw, Ronny Hughes, Jon Keats, Tony Mac The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music 12-8pm, 0151 236 9091 II3B DJ’s House, Bold Street, 8pm, 0151 709 7141 IIMama The Cavern Live Lounge, Mathew St, 8.30pm, £10, 0151 236 9091 IIMama Rosin The Kazimier, 8pm, £10, 0151 324 1723 IIInternational Jazz Festival The Capstone Theatre, Creative Campus, 7.30pm, £65 Festival Pass, individual tickets available, 0844 8000 410, Led Bib, GORP IIThe Drifters The Brindley, Runcorn, 8pm, £25, 0151 907 8360

IIMad Jack & The Hatters Telford’s Warehouse, Chester, Free Before 9pm/ £4 Thereafter, 01244 390 090

Theatre & Dance IIAnne Boleyn Gladstone Theatre, Port Sunlight, 7.30pm, £7, 0151 643 8757, play about one of England’s most charismatic Queens IIThe Misanthrope The Playhouse, 7.30pm, £12-£23, 0151 709 4776 IIPhantom of the Opera Liverpool Empire Theater, 7.30pm, £10-£51, 0844 871 3017 IIMy Boy Jack Southport Little Theatre, Southport, 7.45pm, £7.50£9.50, 01704 530521, A riveting wartime drama IIIs There Anybody There? The Lantern Theatre, Blundell St, 7.30pm, £8/ £6 Concs, 0151 703 0000

IIRichard Thompson The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 7.30pm, £20-£30, 0151 709 3789, songwriter and guitar virtuosos

IILady White Snake The Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, 8pm, £12/ £10 Concs, 0844 873 2888, Chinese cultural show with beautiful and exciting music, dance and folklore

IILianne La Havas O2 Academy Liverpool, 7pm, £14.62, 0844 477 2000

IIEuropean Opera Centre: The Beggar’s Opera Epstein Theatre, 7.30pm, £25, 0151 709 3789

IIKOF Soul Lounge Session House, Bold Street, 8pm, 0151 709 7141 IIFire Stanley’s Cask, 8pm, 0151 6911093 IISoul Patrol Olde Red Lion, Little Sutton, 0151 3392496 IINeil Griffiths Gallaghers Pub and Barbers, Birkenhead, Wirral, 7.30pm, 0151 649 9095, 80s music

IIKynchinLay Stamps Wine Bar, Liverpool Road, Crosby, 9pm, 0151 286 2662 IICobra Commander vs AK47/247 The Shipping Forecast, 10pm-3am, 0151 709 6901 IIBase 11, Leo Ariel plus more The Lomax, Cumberland St, 7.30pm11.30pm, £3 OTD IIMic Righteous plus support The Zanzibar Club, 7.45pm, £4, 0151 707 0633 IIHigh Frequency Alexanders, Rufus Court, Chester, £5/ £14.95 Dine ‘n Dance, 01244 340005

Comedy IIComedy Central at Albert Dock Baby Blue, Albert Dock, 6pm, £15-£33, 0151 702 5834, Headliner: Carey Marx, Compere: Mark Olver, Supporting: Jeff Innocent, Danny Pensive IISteve Royle plus guest The Slaughter House, Fenwick St, 8pm, £10-£30, 0151 227 5946, MC Chris Cairns introduces Steve Royle along with Pierre Hollins and Guest Comedian IIPierre Hollins plus support The Slug and Lettuce, North John St, 8pm, £10-£30, 0151 236 8820, MC Ste Porter introduces Pierre Hollins along with Steve Royle and Guest Comedian IIAlex Boardman, Ian Moore & Jeff Innocent The Laugh Inn, Chester, 8pm, £13.50, 0800 612 9714

Arts IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Merseyside Maritime Museum, 10am-5pm, this compelling exhibition explores Liverpool’s central role in the Titanic story IIAn Age of Confidence: Photographs by Bedford Lemere

& Co Sudley House, 10am-5pm Photographic exhibition featuring the work of the leading English firm of architectural photographers between 1870 and 1930 IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm IIThe 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’

IISublime to Ridiculous: works

by Derek Couturier The Brindley, Runcorn, 10am-5.30pm, 0151 907 8360 IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, 1st Floor Mersey Ferries Terminal, 10am6pm, 0151 709 1963 IILiverpool Corked Bluecoat Display Centre, Mon-Sat: 10am-6pm, Sun: 12-5pm, 0151 709 4014, 3 contemporary ceramic artists

IIFace to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911

IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, 105pm, 0151 702 7400, exhibition explores powerful themes including British identity, migration and the global effects of regional conflicts

IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963

IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool, 10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art

IIIn Seven Days by Nicola Green Walker Art Gallery, 10am-5pm, story of Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign told in seven iconic silk screen prints

IIGlam! The Performance of Style Tate Liverpool, 10-5pm, £8, 0151 702 7400, a visually extravagant pop style exploded across Britain during the years 1971-5

IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, 10am-5pm, 0151 478 4393, the model made for the blockbuster ‘The Pirates!’

IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, Mon-Sat: 10am-6pm, Sun: 12-5pm, 0151 709 4014, animals and the way they are used to convey narratives

IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, 10am5pm, unique collection of fifteen paintings IIOil boom, Delta burns: photographs by George Osodi International Slavery Museum, 10am-5pm, explore the realities of daily life along the Niger Delta IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery Museum, 10am-5pm, the abuse of labour rights in the cotton industry, primarily in Uzbekistan IIThe 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 IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things - an exhibition curated by Mark Leckey The Bluecoat, School Lane, Mon-Sat: 10am-6pm, Sun: 10am-6pm, 0151 702 5324, explore how our relationships with artworks and common objects are being transformed through new technologies IIJudy 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

IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom, Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton

Family IIDisney On Ice presents Let’s Party Echo Arena, 6.30pm, £13-£36/ £44-£72 family, 0844 8000 400

Other Events IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95, Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool IIChester Heritage Quilt Exhibition Chapter House, Chester Cathedral, 10am to 3.30pm, £3 IIDine ‘n Dance Alexanders, Rufus Court, Chester, £14.95, 01244 340005 IIThe Big Egg Hunt Liverpool ONE and Albert Dock, Over 200 uniquely crafted eggs will be hidden across the country in the lead up to Easter. The eggs will be on display throughout IIBritten: The Beggar’s Opera Insight Day Creative Campus, Liverpool Hope University, 10.15am IISt David’s Day - Welsh Specials The James Monro, 0151 236 9700

35 SATURDAY 2ND Music IITim Shaw, Jay Murray and The Shakers, Richard Batty The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music from 12pm till early evening, 0151 236 9091 IIThe Cave Dwellers plus support Tony Mac The Cavern Club, Mathew St, 8.30pm, £4, 0151 236 9091 IIRonny Hughes, Kappa, Tony Mac The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, live music from 2.30pm, 0152 236 9091 IISaturday With The Beatles ft. the Cavern Club Beatles The Cavern Live Lounge, Mathew St, 8.30pm, £15, 0151 236 9091, Beatles Tribute Show IIInternational Jazz Festival The Capstone Theatre, Creative Campus, 2pm, £65 Festival Pass, individual tickets available, 0844 8000 410, Robert Mitchell, White Canvas, Kit Downes Quintet, Perri and Neil Quartet IIThe Illegal Eagles The Brindley, Runcorn, 8pm, £21, 0151 907 8360, Leading Eagles Tribute Band IISongs from the Shows The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 7.30pm, £9-£19, 0151 709 3789, Join Sing Live as they celebrate 15 years with some of the best musicals around IIThe Carpet Crawlers-The Ultimate Genesis Tribute O2 Academy Liverpool, 7pm, £16.87, 0844 477 2000

Zanzibar Club, 7.45pm, £4, 0151 707 0633 IIColorama Leaf Cafe, Bold St, 8pm, £6, 0151 707 7747 IIElton John & George Michael Tribute The Green Room, 8pm, £15, 0870 787 1866 IIHeymoonshaker with DJ Tony Bear Telford’s Warehouse, Chester, Free Before 9pm/ £4 Thereafter, 01244 390 090 IICharlie Landsborough Southport Theatre and Convention Centre, 7.30pm, £17-£19, 0844 871 3021 IICPO: Commemoration Concert Chester Cathedral, £5-£10, 01244 324 756 IITribute to Larry Levan Brooklyn Mixer, Seel Street, 8pm

Theatre & Dance IIAnne Boleyn Gladstone Theatre, Port Sunlight, 7.30pm, £7, 0151 643 8757, play about one of England’s most charismatic Queens IIThe Misanthrope The Playhouse, 2pm (Matinee) & 7.30pm, £12-£23, 0151 709 4776 IIPhantom of the Opera Liverpool Empire Theater, 2.30pm & 7.30pm, £10-£51, 0844 871 3017 IIMy Boy Jack Southport Little Theatre, Southport, 7.45pm, £7.50£9.50, 01704 530521, A riveting wartime drama IIThe Nightingale of South Bank The Lantern Theatre, Blundell St, 7.30pm, £12/ £10 Concs, 0151 703 0000 IILady White Snake The Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, 8pm, £12/ £10 Concs, 0844 873 2888, Chinese cultural show with beautiful and exciting music, dance and folklore

IIThe Alarm O2 Academy 2 Liverpool, 7pm, £16.87, 0844 477 2000 IIHexmen Stanley’s Cask, 8pm, 0151 6911093 III Panic Olde Red Lion, Little Sutton, 0151 3392496 IIBold Street Coffee Takeover The Shipping Forecast, 10pm-3am, 0151 709 6901, Sam Tawil Dj & Friends IICream Nation, 10pm-6am, Paul van Dyk, Nicky Romero, Eddie Halliwell, Aly & Fila, Third Party, Tim Mason plus many more IIHellwave Vll The Lomax, Cumberland St, 7.30pm, £3 OTD IIThe Veil Society plus guests The

IIHey Moonshaker! Telfords Warehouse, Chester, £4 after 9pm, 01244 390090

Comedy IIFour Candles Comedy House, Bold Street, 8pm, 0151 709 7141 IIComedy Central at Albert Dock Baby Blue, Albert Dock, 6pm, £15-£33, 0151 702 5834, Headliner: Carey Marx, Compere: Mark Olver, Supporting: Jeff Innocent, Danny Pensive IISteve Royle plus guest The Slaughter House, Fenwick St, 8pm, £12.50-£35, 0151 227 5946, MC Chris Cairns introduces Steve Royle along with Pierre Hollins and Guest Comedian

IIPierre Hollins plus support The Slug and Lettuce, North John St, 8pm, £12.50-£32.50, 0151 236 8820, MC Ste Porter introduces Pierre Hollins along with Steve Royle and Guest Comedian IIThe Lancashire Hotpots The Citadel, St. Helens, 8pm, £12, 01744 735436 IIChester Comedy Club Alexanders, Rufus Court, Chester, 8pm, £12/ £19.95 dinner & show, 01244 340005, Christian Steel IIAlex Boardman, Ian Moore & Jeff Innocent The Laugh Inn, Chester, 8pm, £13.50, 0800 612 9714

Arts IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Maritime Museum, see 1st for details IIAn Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm IIThe Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details IIFace to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911

IILiverpool Corked Bluecoat Display Centre, Mon-Sat: 10am-6pm, Sun: 12-5pm, 0151 709 4014, 3 contemporary ceramic artists IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool, 10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art IIGlam! Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, see 1st for details IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom, Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton

Family IIDisney On Ice presents Let’s Party Echo Arena, 11am/ 2.45pm/ 6.30pm, £13-£36/ £44-£72 family, 0844 8000 400

Sports & Leisure IIEverton vs Reading 3pm IIWigan vs Liverpool 5.30pm IILFC Legends Day Tours LFC Stadium, Anfield Road, £40/ £20 Concs, 0844 870 0123, with Alan Kennedy

Other Events

IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963

IIChester Heritage Quilt Exhibition Chapter House, Chester Cathedral, 10am to 3.30pm, £3

IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, see 1st for details

IIUK Glitch Hop Awards tour! Haus, 35-39 Greenland Street, 10pm, £5 adv/ £7 on door

IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, see 1st for details IIIn Seven Days Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details IIOil boom, Delta burns International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details

IINot Just Vintage House, Bold Street, 11am, 0151 709 7141, Vintage Fair IIThe Big Egg Hunt Liverpool ONE and Albert Dock, Over 200 uniquely crafted eggs will be hidden across the country in the lead up to Easter. The eggs will be on display throughout

IIThe 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details

IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95, Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool

IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things The Bluecoat, see 1st for details

IIBaltic Art & Craft Fair Camp and Furnace, Greenland St, 11am-4pm, 0151 227 5946

IIJudy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details

IIFUNdrasing Quiz Southport Conservative Club, 8pm, £5, 01704 226658

IISublime to Ridiculous: works

by Derek Couturier The Brindley, Runcorn, 10am-3pm, 0151 907 8360

IIInternational Film Festival St Mary’s Centre, Chester, 01244 371 750

IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, see 1st for details

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SUNDAY 3RD Music IIThe Selecter ft. Pauline Black O2 Academy 2 Liverpool, 7pm, £16.87, 0844 477 2000 IIJazz Con Fusion The Grapes, 9pm, 07950 828674, Live jazz with a Latin twist IITim Shaw, Made In Liverpool (Beatles Tribute), Madison, The Shakers The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music from 12pm, 0151 236 9091 IIRonny Hughes, Tony Mac, Screaming Citizens The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, live music from 5.30pm, 0152 236 9091 IIInternational Jazz Festival The Capstone Theatre, Creative Campus, 11am, £65 Festival Pass, individual tickets available, 0844 8000 410, Taming the Saxophone, How to Improvise effectively, Denys Baptiste’s Triumvirate, Blind Monk Trio, Courtney Pine House of Legends IIJazz & Jam Night Brewers Arms, Neston Wirral, 8pm, 0151 336 1627

IILunchtime Jazz Six30 Bar & Bistro, Southport, 1pm - 3.30pm, 01704 576770

Theatre & Dance IIEuropean Opera Centre: The Beggar’s Opera Epstein Theatre, 2.30pm, £25, 0151 709 3789 IIBodies in Motion St Georges Hall, 6pm, £6/ £5 Concs, 0151 225 6909, dance

Arts IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Maritime Museum, see 1st for details IIAn Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm IIThe Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details IIFace to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963

IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom, Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton

Family IIDisney On Ice presents Let’s Party Echo Arena, 11am/ 2.45pm/ 6.30pm, £13-£36/ £44-£72 family, 0844 8000 400

Other Events IIThe Big Egg Hunt Liverpool ONE and Albert Dock, Over 200 uniquely crafted eggs will be hidden across the country in the lead up to Easter. The eggs will be on display throughout IIThe Wirral Wedding Show Floral Pavilion Blue Lounge, New Brighton, 11am-4pm, 0151 666 0000 IIThe National Gay Wedding Show BT Convention Centre, 10am, £12/ £15 on the day, 0844 8000 400, around 200 exhibitors IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95, Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool

IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, see 1st for details

IIA Stately Affair, A Grand Wedding Show! Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 11pm-4pm, 0151 529 2640, over 30 exhibitors

IIHot 8 Brass Band Eric’s, Mathew Street, 7.30pm, £19.25, 0151 236 9994

IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, see 1st for details

IIInternational Film Festival St Mary’s Centre, Chester, 01244 371 750

IIMold Town Concert Band Sefton Park Palm House, 2pm, 0151 726 9304, including Oliver, The Lion King,The Magnificent Seven...

IIIn Seven Days Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details

IIInternational Women’s Day Event Hoole Community Centre, 11-4pm

IIDavid Knopov - a Night of Sinatra Jalons, Smithdown Road, 6pm, 0151 734 3984

IIKing Of Harts Stanley’s Cask, 7pm, 0151 6911093

IIOil boom, Delta burns International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details

IITyler DJ set The Shipping Forecast, 4pm-8pm, 0151 709 6901

IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details

IIOpen Mic The Lomax, Cumberland St, 7pm

IIThe 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details

IILive Music - Fire House, Bold Street, 8.30pm, 0151 709 7141

IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things The Bluecoat, see 1st for details

IIDave O’Grady ft. Alan O’Hare & Paul R Dunbar Studio 2, Parr Street, 9pm, 0151 707 3727 IIBrymbo Male Voice Choir with ‘Cymanfa Ganu’ Liverpool Cathedral, St James’ Mount, 7.30pm, £10 on the door, 0151 702 7255 IITribeca Alexanders, Rufus Court, Chester, 01244 340005, Jazz standards and modern classics IIOpen Mic Session with Mercy Elise Telford’s Warehouse, Chester, 01244 390 090 IITrwbador The Compass, Chester, 8pm, £3, 01244 344890

IIJudy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, see 1st for details IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool, 10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art IIGlam! Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, see 1st for details

MONDAY 4TH Music IIPaul Jones, Jon Keats, The Two of Us (Lennon & McCartney Tribute), Jay Murray The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music from 2pm, 0151 236 9091 IIIan Prowse The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, 8pm, 0152 236 9091 IILunchtime Concert Series The Capstone Theatre, 1.10pm, 0844 8000 410 IIFoals O2 Academy Liverpool, 7pm, 0844 477 2000 II#IndieNight With DJ O Studio 2, Parr Street, 8pm, 0151 707 3727 IIFigment of Funk with special guest Ian Matthews Alexanders, Rufus Court, Chester, £10/ £7 with Student ID, 01244 340005

Theatre & Dance IIThe Misanthrope The Playhouse, 7.30pm, £12-£23, 0151 709 4776 IIPhantom of the Opera Liverpool Empire Theater, 7.30pm, £10-£51, 0844 871 3017

Arts IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Maritime Museum, see 1st for details IIAn Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm IIThe Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details IIFace to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963 IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, see 1st for details IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, see 1st for details IIIn Seven Days Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details IIOil boom, Delta burns International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIThe 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things The Bluecoat, see 1st for details IIJudy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details IISublime to Ridiculous: works

by Derek Couturier The Brindley, Runcorn, 10am-5.30pm, 0151 907 8360 IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, see 1st for details IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool, 10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art IIGlam! Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, see 1st for details

37 IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom, Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton

Family IIKey Stage 2 Schools’ Concerts The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 1.30pm, 0151 709 3789

Other Events IIBlue Lantern The Compass, Chester, 8pm, 01244 344890 IIThe Big Egg Hunt Liverpool ONE and Albert Dock, Over 200 uniquely crafted eggs will be hidden across the country in the lead up to Easter. The eggs will be on display throughout IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95, Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool IIJonny Bongo’s Monday Night Quiz The Shipping Forecast, 8pm12am, 0151 709 6901, £1 IIBeach Survey The National Trust Formby, 11am, £3, 01704 878591, Booking Essential, help survey the extraordinary diversity of our shores with Marine Biologists IIInternational Film Festival St Mary’s Centre, Chester, 01244 371 750

TUESDAY 5TH Music IITony Coburn, Jon Keats, Jimmy Coburn, Paul Jones, Jay Murray The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music from 2pm, 0151 236 9091

Court, Chester, £2/ free before 9pm, 01244 340005 IILunchtime Concerts Wesley Methodist Church, Chester, 12.451.45, £3, 01244 379275

Theatre & Dance IIThe Misanthrope The Playhouse, 7.30pm, £12-£23, 0151 709 4776 IIPhantom of the Opera Liverpool Empire Theater, 2.30pm & 7.30pm, £10-£51, 0844 871 3017 IITeechers The Liverpool Actors Studio Theatre, 07906 279258, by John Godber

Comedy IIMy Perfect Mind The Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, 8pm, £12/ £10 Concs, 0844 873 2888, a comic tale of a man not doing King Lear

Arts IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Maritime Museum, see 1st for details IIAn Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm IIThe Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details IIFace to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963 IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, see 1st for details

IIRonny Hughes, Gary Murphy The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, 7.30pm, 0152 236 9091

IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, see 1st for details

IIMaps, Atlases & Tall Ships The Kazimier, 8pm, £10, 0151 324 1723

IIIn Seven Days Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details

IIOut Of The Bedroom: Acoustic Open Mic Night Leaf Cafe, Bold St, 8.30pm, 0151 707 7747, with Johnny Sands

IIOil boom, Delta burns International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details

IIIl Sogno Del Marinaio Eric’s, Mathew Street, 7.30pm, £11, 0151 236 9994 IIThe Savoy Jazzmen Sefton Park Palm House, 2pm-4pm, £5 incl. a cup of tea and piece of cake, 0151 726 9304, six piece band, classics from the 1920’s, 30’s and 40’s IIPARRJAZZ: John Ellis Studio 2, Parr Street, 8.30pm, £ 3 on door/ FREE Students (NUS), 0151 707 3727, Jazz and open jam session, pianist & vocalist IIUnplugged Alexanders, Rufus

IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIThe 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things The Bluecoat, see 1st for details IIJudy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details IISublime to Ridiculous: works

by Derek Couturier The Brindley, Runcorn, 10am-5.30pm, 0151 907 8360

IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, see 1st for details

WEDNESDAY 6TH

IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details

IIRita Hosking with Sean Feder Grateful Fred’s, Formby British Legion, Whitehouse Lane, 8pm, £8, 0797 077 4618

IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool, 10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art IIGlam! Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, see 1st for details IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom, Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton

Family IIKey Stage 2 Schools’ Concerts The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 10.30am & 1.30pm, 0151 709 3789

Sports & Leisure IICycle for Health Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 10am, booking essential, 0151 287 4798 IIElectrified Yoga Leaf Cafe, Bold St, 6.30pm, £8, 0151 707 7747

Other Events IIJake Mills Quiz Night House, Bold Street, 7pm, 0151 709 7141 IIDot-art: Bookbinding The Bluecoat, School Lane, 6.459.30pm, For information, times/ prices and to book, call 0845 017 6660 or email: info@dot-art.com IIDot-art: Life Drawing The Bluecoat, School Lane, 6.459.30pm, For information, times/ prices and to book, call 0845 017 6660 or email: info@dot-art.com IIThe Big Egg Hunt Liverpool ONE and Albert Dock, Over 200 uniquely crafted eggs will be hidden across the country in the lead up to Easter. The eggs will be on display throughout IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95, Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool IIThe Ship Secret Cinema Club The Shipping Forecast, 9pm, 0151 709 6901, free popcorn IIVisit Craft & Design: Pauline Rushton Walker Art Gallery, 10am12am, £5 incl. refreshments, space limited, Pauline Rushton will talk about the Gallery and its collections IIInternational Film Festival St Mary’s Centre, Chester, 01244 371 750

Music

IIPaul Jones, Jon Keats, Jimmy Coburn, Tony Coburn, Richard Batty The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music from 2pm, 0151 236 9091 IIKappa Band The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, 9pm, 0152 236 9091 IIPlaza Concert: Dual Harmony Floral Pavilion Plaza, New Brighton, 12.30pm, 0151 666 0000, Piano and singer IIThe Rollin’ Clones O2 Academy 2 Liverpool, 7pm, £11.25, 0844 477 2000 IIPete Wade’s Acoustic Open Mic Night Gallaghers Pub and Barbers, Birkenhead, Wirral, 7.30pm, 0151 649 9095 IIThe Broadcast The Shipping Forecast, 8pm-10pm, 0151 709 6901 IIWill and the People The Zanzibar Club, 7.45pm, £4, 0151 707 0633 IIBare Foot Fiddler Band Studio 2, Parr Street, 8pm, 01517073727 IIAcoustics: Dave Roberts Duo Alexanders, Rufus Court, Chester, 01244 340005 IIKeith’s Jarrett and guests Keith’s Wine Bar, Lark Lane Sefton Park, 8pm, 0151 728 7688 IIMike Smith’s Ginger Tunes Quartet Mello Mello, Slater St, 8.30pm

Theatre & Dance IIMega Stars - A Grand Variety Charity Show Floral Pavilion Blue Lounge, New Brighton, 7.30pm, £12.50, 0151 666 0000, Cabaret Show IIThe Misanthrope The Playhouse, 7.30pm, £12-£23, 0151 709 4776 IIPhantom of the Opera Liverpool Empire Theater, 7.30pm, £10-£51, 0844 871 3017 IIMiss Saigon The Brindley, Runcorn, 7.30pm, £15, 0151 907 8360, modern world in a moving testament to the human spirit and a scathing indictment of the tragedies of war IIDance Double Bill The Capstone Theatre, Creative Campus, 8pm, £8/ £6, 0844 8000 410, Liquid Gold/ Bonedust/ Grapple IIFreckleface Strawberry the Musical LIPA, Sennheiser Studio

LOWDOWN MARCH

Theatre, 8pm, £8/ £4 Concs, 0844 873 2888, fun-packed show about a freckle-faced US schoolgirl IITeechers The Liverpool Actors Studio Theatre, 07906 279258, by John Godber IIA day of ballet with Anton Alexandrov MDI Studio24, 10am4pm, £15/ £10 Concs

Comedy IIMy Perfect Mind The Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, 8pm, £12/ £10 Concs, 0844 873 2888, a comic tale of a man not doing King Lear

Arts IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Maritime Museum, see 1st for details IIAn Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm IIThe Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details IIFace to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963 IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, see 1st for details IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, see 1st for details IIIn Seven Days Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details IIOil boom, Delta burns International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIThe 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things The Bluecoat, see 1st for details IIJudy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details IISublime to Ridiculous: works

by Derek Couturier The Brindley, Runcorn, 10am-5.30pm, 0151 907 8360 IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, see 1st for details IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details

IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool, 10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art IIGlam! Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, see 1st for details IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom, Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton

Family IIKey Stage 2 Schools’ Concerts The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 10.30am & 1.30pm, 0151 709 3789

Sports & Leisure IILatin Mania Telford’s Warehouse, Chester, 8pm, £4 each/ £6 both,01244 390 090, Salsa Classes and Latin dance night

Johnny Sands ft special guests IIRonny Hughes, Beatles Tribute Night The Cavern Club, Mathew St, 7.30pm, £3, 0151 236 9091 IITony Mac, Jon Keats, Richard Batty The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music from 2pm till early evening, 0151 236 9091 IIXander & The Peace Pirates plus support Tony Mac The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, 7pm, 0152 236 9091 IIMusica en Viva with Andy Williams Alma De Cuba, 10.30pm, 0151 702 7394 IIDuke Special Floral Pavilion Blue Lounge, New Brighton, 8pm, £14, 0151 666 0000, singer/ songwriter IIThe Stranglers O2 Academy Liverpool, 7pm, £25.87, 0844 477 2000

IIWalk for Health Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 1.30pm, 0151 287 4798, enjoy a healthy walk through the park

Other Events IISports & General Knowledge Quiz Cafe Sports England, Stanley Street, 7pm, Free but book a table for dinner or drinks,0151 239 5070, Hosted by Radio City’s Simon Ross or TV’s Ste Fletcher IISpotify Wednesday Leaf Cafe, Bold St, 8pm, 0151 707 7747, Enabling the sharing, creating and modifying of each other’s playlists IIQuiz Night The Compass, Chester, 8.30pm, 01244 344890 IIAn Evening Of Mediumship with Tony Stockwell St. Helens Theatre Royal, 7.30pm, £18, 01744 756 000 IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95, Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool IILamplight Tour Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 6pm, £10 adults/ £8 children, 0151 287 4798 IIJelly Liverpool Leaf Cafe, Bold St, 9am-5pm, 0151 707 7747, casual all day work-together for anyone with a laptop and some grafting to be done IIInternational Film Festival St Mary’s Centre, Chester, 01244 371 750

THURSDAY 7TH Music IIJohnny’s Acoustic Caravan Club Camp and Furnace, Greenland St, 8pm, 0151 227 5946, hosted by

IIRed Rock Olde Red Lion, Little Sutton, 0151 3392496 IISean Stephenson The Shipping Forecast, In The Bar, 10pm-1am, 0151 709 6901 IIJuicy The Shipping Forecast, In The Hold, 10pm-3am, £3, 0151 709 6901 IIDeap Vally, The Dirty Rivers, The Oxygen Thieves The Shipping Forecast, In The Hold, 8pm, £7 adv, 0151 709 6901 IILastwind plus support The Lomax, Cumberland St, 8pm11.30pm, £8 adv/ £10 on the door IIStudio2 Band Night Studio 2, Parr Street, 8pm, 01517073727, Huw Spink, The Swapsies IIThe Hungry Horse Acoustic Folk Club Singers and Musicians Night The Whitby Sports & Social Club, Ellesmere Port, 7.45pm, 0151 678 9902 IIJazz Jam Alexanders, Rufus Court, Chester, £3, 01244 340005 IIWindow Stage Folkazm with Mark Henderson Telford’s Warehouse, Chester, 01244 390 090 IIThe Rat Pack is Back Southport Theatre and Convention Centre, 7.30pm, £19.50, 0844 871 3021, original British tribute to Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jnr IIMark Henderson’s Folkazm

Telfords Warehouse. Chester, 01244 390090

Theatre & Dance IITomorrow I’ll Be Happy The Bluecoat, School Lane, 7.30-10pm, £4, 0151 702 5324, Jonathan Harvey’s bitterly hopeful piece about love, loss and learning to be yourself IIThe Misanthrope The Playhouse, 1.30pm (Matinee) & 7.30pm, £12£23, 0151 709 4776 IIPhantom of the Opera Liverpool Empire Theater, 2.30pm & 7.30pm, £10-£51, 0844 871 3017 IIBlood Wedding LIPA, Paul McCartney Auditorium, 7.30pm, £8/ £4 Concs, 0844 873 2888, classic play of 1933 evokes the heat and passion of Spain IIMiss Saigon The Brindley, Runcorn, 7.30pm, £15, 0151 907 8360, modern world in a moving testament to the human spirit and a scathing indictment of the tragedies of war IIFreckleface Strawberry the Musical LIPA, Sennheiser Studio Theatre, 8pm, £8/ £4 Concs, 0844 873 2888, fun-packed show about a freckle-faced US schoolgirl IITeechers The Liverpool Actors Studio Theatre, 07906 279258, by John Godber IIAll My Sons Southport Little Theatre, Southport, 7.45pm, £8, 01704 541306

Comedy IIMy Perfect Mind The Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, 8pm, £12/ £10 Concs, 0844 873 2888, a comic tale of a man not doing King Lear IIComedy Central at Albert Dock Baby Blue, Albert Dock, 6pm, £15-£33, 0151 702 5834, Headliner: Tanyalee Davis, Compere: Ray Peacock, Supporting: Chris Stokes, Susan Hanks

Arts IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Maritime Museum, see 1st for details IIAn Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm IIThe Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details IIFace to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911

39 IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963 IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, see 1st for details IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, see 1st for details IIIn Seven Days Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details IIOil boom, Delta burns International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIThe 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things The Bluecoat, see 1st for details IIJudy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details IISublime to Ridiculous: works

by Derek Couturier The Brindley, Runcorn, 10am-5.30pm, 0151 907 8360 IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, see 1st for details IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool, 10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art IIGlam! Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, see 1st for details IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom, Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton

Family IIKey Stage 2 Schools’ Concerts The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 1.30pm, 0151 709 3789

Sports & Leisure IIWalk for Health Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 6pm, 0151 287 4798, enjoy an evening healthy walk around the park

Other Events IITony Kehoe House, Bold Street, 8pm, 0151 709 7141, Open Poetry IIBehind the scenes tours St Georges Hall, 2pm, £10, limited availability, 0151 225 6909 IILate Night Vintage The Shipping Forecast, 5.30-9.30pm, 0151 709 6901

IIArtist Talks at The Athenaeum Bluecoat Display Centre, £12.50 incl. artist talk and afternoon tea at The Athenaeum, limited, 0151 709 4014, Jenny Barker explains how she creates stunning and original glass artworks IICapstone World Cinema Series The Capstone, Liverpool Hope University, 7.30pm, £5/ £3 Concs, 0844 8000 410, classic cinema from Bollywood films to science fiction epics IICase Histories...A series of talks St Georges Hall, 12.30-1.30pm, £2.50 payable on the door, 0151 225 6909, by Steve Binns MBE IIDrama and Acting for Absolute Beginners Floral Pavilion Blue Lounge, New Brighton, 1pm, £3, 0151 666 0000 IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95, Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool IIFormby’s Footprints Walk The National Trust Formby, £4, 01704 878591, Booking Essential, Come on a guided walk to seek the prehistoric footprints on Formby’s foreshore IIInternational Film Festival St Mary’s Centre, Chester, 01244 371 750

FRIDAY 8TH Music IIPaul Lamb & Chad Strentz The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 8.30pm, £12, 0151 709 3789, blues harmonica player IINe-Yo Echo Arena, 7.30pm, £36/ £40, 0844 8000 400 IITim Shaw, Ronny Hughes, Jon Keats, Tony Mac The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music 12-8pm, 0151 236 9091 IIRichard Batty & The Rockits The Cavern Club, Mathew St, 8pm, £3, 0151 236 9091 IIWho`s Next The Cavern Live Lounge, Mathew St, 8.30pm, £10, 0151 236 9091 IINeil Griffiths Gallaghers Pub and Barbers, Birkenhead, Wirral, 7.30pm, 0151 649 9095, 80s music IIThe Sterlings Stamps Wine Bar, Liverpool Road, Crosby, 9pm, 0151 286 2662 IIMadnice Marauders 1st Birthday Part 2 The Shipping Forecast, In The Hold, 11pm-3am, £10 adv, 0151 709 6901 IIDeadbeat Echos plus support

The Shipping Forecast, In The Hold, 8pm, £5, 0151 709 6901 IICarl Combover DJ The Shipping Forecast, In The Bar, 10pm-3am, 0151 709 6901 IIMerger, Beard Of Wolves, Driven Overboard, Novice Mathematic The Lomax, Cumberland St, 8pm11.30pm, £3 OTD II3B DJ’s House, Bold Street, 8pm, 0151 709 7141 IIBattle of the Bands Studio 2, Parr Street, 7pm, 0151 707 3727 IIPJ Proby plus special guests The Green Room, 8pm, £15, 0870 787 1866 IIThe Dags Alexanders, Rufus Court, Chester, £5/ £14.95 Dine ‘n Dance, 01244 340005 IICrackling Vinyl Presents The Blue Bottle Veins Telford’s Warehouse, Chester, Free Before 9pm/ £4 Thereafter, 01244 390 090 IICold Committee The Compass, Chester, 8pm, £5, 01244 344890 IIJackson Live in Concert Southport Theatre and Convention Centre, 7.30pm, £18.50-£19.50, 0844 871 3021 IIDave Harding View Two Gallery, Mathew St, 8.30pm, £5, 0151 236 9444 IIThe Blue Bottle Veins Telfords Warehouse, Chester, £4 after 9pm, 01244 390090 IITreshold Festival £20

Theatre & Dance IIThe Crucible Floral Pavilion Blue Lounge, New Brighton, 1pm & 7.30pm, £5-£10, 0151 666 0000, evocative story of passion, jealousy, betrayal and hysteria IIThe Misanthrope The Playhouse, 7.30pm, £12-£23, 0151 709 4776 IIPhantom of the Opera Liverpool Empire Theater, 7.30pm, £10-£51, 0844 871 3017

inspired by a single word IICapital Nights The Capstone Theatre, Creative Campus, 8pm, £8/ £6, 0844 8000 410, Fast Portraits / Exit / Principesse IITomorrow I’ll Be Happy The Bluecoat, School Lane, 7.30-10pm, £4, 0151 702 5324, Jonathan Harvey’s bitterly hopeful piece about love, loss and learning to be yourself IIFreckleface Strawberry the Musical LIPA, Sennheiser Studio Theatre, 8pm, £8/ £4 Concs, 0844 873 2888, fun-packed show about a freckle-faced US schoolgirl IITeechers The Liverpool Actors Studio Theatre, 07906 279258, by John Godber IIAll My Sons Southport Little Theatre, Southport, 7.45pm, £8, 01704 541306

Comedy IIMy Perfect Mind The Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, 8pm, £12/ £10 Concs, 0844 873 2888, a comic tale of a man not doing King Lear IIComedy Central at Albert Dock Baby Blue, Albert Dock, 6pm, £15-£33, 0151 702 5834, Headliner: Tanyalee Davis, Compere: Ray Peacock, Supporting: Chris Stokes, Greg Cook IITanyalee Davis plus guest The Slaughter House, Fenwick St, 8pm, £10-£32.50, 0151 227 5946, MC Neil Fitzmaurice introduces Tanyalee Davis along with Rob Rouse and Andy Askins IIRob Rouse plus support The Slug and Lettuce, North John St, 8pm, £10-£30, 0151 236 8820, MC Chris Cairns introduces Rob Rouse along with Tanyalee Davis and Andy Askins IIJames Acaster, Romesh Ranganathan & Addy van der Borgh The Laugh Inn, Chester, 8pm, £13.50, 0800 612 9714

Arts

IIBlood Wedding LIPA, Paul McCartney Auditorium, 7.30pm, £8/ £4 Concs/ £3 NUS, 0844 873 2888, classic play of 1933 evokes the heat and passion of Spain

IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Maritime Museum, see 1st for details

IIMiss Saigon The Brindley, Runcorn, 7.30pm, £15, 0151 907 8360, modern world in a moving testament to the human spirit and a scathing indictment of the tragedies of war

IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm

IIWord:Play/NWxSW The Lantern Theatre, Blundell St, 7.30pm, £10/ £8 Concs, 0151 703 0000, unique challenge of writing a 15-minute play

IIAn Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details

IIThe Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details IIFace to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911

LOWDOWN MARCH

IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963 IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, see 1st for details IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, see 1st for details IIIn Seven Days Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details IIOil boom, Delta burns International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIThe 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things The Bluecoat, see 1st for details IIJudy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details IISublime to Ridiculous: works

by Derek Couturier The Brindley, Runcorn, 10am-5.30pm, 0151 907 8360 IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, see 1st for details

IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95, Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool IIInternational Film Festival St Mary’s Centre, Chester, 01244 371 750

SATURDAY 9TH Music IISaturday With The Beatles ft. the Cavern Club Beatles The Cavern Live Lounge, Mathew St, 8.30pm, £15, 0151 236 9091, Beatles Tribute Show IIPhil Doleman and Ian Emmerson The Lantern Theatre, Blundell St, 7.30pm, £10/ £8 Concs, 0151 703 0000, jazz, blues, calypso, ragtime and a myriad of folk and roots styles IIArcanto Quartet St Georges Hall, 2.30pm, £25, 0151 225 6909, timeless beauty of Mozart to Mendelssohn IIGretchen Peters Epstein Theatre, 8pm, £19.50, 0844 888 4411, classic country voice and guitar IIClannad The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 8pm, £28.50-33.50, 0151 709 3789

IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details

Family IIKey Stage 2 Schools’ Concerts The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 10.30am & 1.30pm, 0151 709 3789

Sports & Leisure IILFC Legends Day Tours LFC Stadium, Anfield Road, £40/ £20 Concs, 0844 870 0123, with Jan Molby

Other Events IIThe Valentine Brothers Fundraiser Epstein Theatre, 7.30pm, £5, 0844 888 4411, Radio City 96.7 Cash for Kids Charity IICentral Library Reading Group The Bluecoat, School Lane, 6pm8pm, 0151 702 5324

IIAbandon Sounds The Shipping Forecast, 10pm-3am, 0151 709 6901 IIA Culture Less Ordinary Camp and Furnace, Greenland St, 6-11pm, 0151 227 5946 IIWestern Promise plus guests The Lomax, Cumberland St, 8pm, album launch IIReva, We Are Young, Ever Anew, Wet Pelican The Zanzibar Club, 7.45pm, £4, 0151 707 0633 IIBattle of the Bands Studio 2, Parr Street, 7pm, 0151 707 3727 IIBee Gees Tribute plus special guests The Green Room, 8pm, £15, 0870 787 1866 IIThe Jokers Telford’s Warehouse, Chester, Free Before 9pm/ £4 Thereafter, 01244 390 090 IIMotown’s Greatest Hits: How Sweet It Is Southport Theatre and Convention Centre, 7.30pm, £20.50, 0844 871 3021 IIThe Jokers Telfords Warehouse, Chester, £4 after 9pm, 01244 390090

Theatre & Dance

IIGlam! Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details

IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom, Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton

IIThe Luka State, w/ Orange Room & Friends The Shipping Forecast, 7.30pm, £5, 0151 709 6901

IITreshold Festival £20

IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool, 10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art

IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, see 1st for details

Liverpool Road, Crosby, 9pm, 0151 286 2662

IIThe Script Echo Arena, 7.30pm, £29.50, 0844 8000 400 IIGriphook O2 Academy 2 Liverpool, 7pm, £7.05, 0844 477 2000 IIThe Enemy O2 Academy Liverpool, 7pm, £16.87, 0844 477 2000 IIBand Of Friends - A Celebration Of Rory Gallagher The Citadel, St. Helens, 8pm, £14, 01744 735436 IITim Shaw, Jay Murray and The Shakers, Richard Batty The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music from 12pm till early evening, 0151 236 9091 IIThe Cave Dwellers plus support Tony Mac The Cavern Club, Mathew St, 8.30pm, £4, 0151 236 9091 IIRonny Hughes, Kappa, Tony Mac The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, live music from 2.30pm, 0152 236 9091 IIFirefly Olde Red Lion, Little Sutton, 0151 3392496 IIThe Risers Stamps Wine Bar,

IIThe Crucible Floral Pavilion Blue Lounge, New Brighton, 2pm & 7.30pm, £5-£10, 0151 666 0000, evocative story of passion, jealousy, betrayal and hysteria IIThe Misanthrope The Playhouse, Captioned: 2pm (Matinee) & 7.30pm, £12-£23, 0151 709 4776 IIPhantom of the Opera Liverpool Empire Theater, 2.30pm & 7.30pm, £10-£51, 0844 871 3017 IIBlood Wedding LIPA, Paul McCartney Auditorium, 7.30pm, £8/ £4 Concs, 0844 873 2888, classic play of 1933 evokes the heat and passion of Spain IIBe Our Guest St. Helens Theatre Royal, 7.30pm, £14/ £12 Concs, 01744 756 000, all of your favourite musical theatre songs IIMiss Saigon The Brindley, Runcorn, 2pm & 7.30pm, £15, 0151 907 8360, modern world in a moving testament to the human spirit and a scathing indictment of the tragedies of war IITeechers The Liverpool Actors Studio Theatre, 07906 279258, by John Godber

IIAll My Sons Southport Little Theatre, Southport, 7.45pm, £8, 01704 541306 IIA day of Latin American DanceWith One Latin Culture MDI Studio24, 10am-4pm, £15/ £10 Concs IITomorrow I’ll Be Happy The Bluecoat, School Lane, 7.30-10pm, £4, 0151 702 5324, Jonathan Harvey’s bitterly hopeful piece about love, loss and learning to be yourself

Comedy IIFour Candles Comedy House, Bold Street, 8pm, 0151 709 7141 IIMy Perfect Mind The Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, 8pm, £12/ £10 Concs, 0844 873 2888, a comic tale of a man not doing King Lear IIComedy Central at Albert Dock Baby Blue, Albert Dock, 6pm, £15-£33, 0151 702 5834, Headliner: Tanyalee Davis, Compere: Ray Peacock, Supporting: Chris Stokes, Greg Cook IITanyalee Davis plus guest The Slaughter House, Fenwick St, 8pm, £12.50-£35, 0151 227 5946, MC Neil Fitzmaurice introduces Tanyalee Davis along with Rob Rouse and Andy Askins IIRob Rouse plus support The Slug and Lettuce, North John St, 8pm, £12-£32.50, 0151 236 8820, MC Chris Cairns introduces Rob Rouse along with Tanyalee Davis and Andy Askins IIChester Comedy Club Alexanders, Rufus Court, Chester, 8pm, £12/ £19.95 dinner & show, 01244 340005, Dominic Woodward IIJames Acaster, Romesh Ranganathan & Addy van der Borgh The Laugh Inn, Chester, 8pm, £13.50, 0800 612 9714

Arts IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Maritime Museum, see 1st for details IIAn Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm IIThe Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details IIFace to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963

41 IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, see 1st for details

Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool

IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, see 1st for details

IIThe Big ‘Thank You’ Charities Fair Liverpool Cathedral, St James’ Mount, 11am, £10 donation is requested, 0151 702 7255

IIIn Seven Days Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details IIOil boom, Delta burns International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIThe 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things The Bluecoat, see 1st for details IIJudy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details IISublime to Ridiculous: works

by Derek Couturier The Brindley, Runcorn, 10am-3pm, 0151 907 8360 IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, see 1st for details IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details

IIRed Squirrel Walk The National Trust Formby, 9.30am, £3, 01704 878591, Booking Essential, Find out about the work they are doing to protect endangered red squirrels IIA Gift and Craft Fair Holy Trinity Church Hall, Formby, 10am-4pm, 07801816171 IIInternational Film Festival St Mary’s Centre, Chester, 01244 371 750 II5 hours of 5 different dance styles Studio 76, 76-78 West Derby Rd, 11am-4pm, donation, 07716094458, Challenge to raise awareness and funds for International Women’s Day and Oxfam

SUNDAY 10TH Music

IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool, 10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art

IITravelling Band Ellen & The Escapades, Thomas J Speight Eric’s, Mathew Street, 7.30pm, £8.50, 0151 236 9994

IIGlam! Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, see 1st for details IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom, Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton

Family IIWhy The Lion Danced The Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, 11.30am & 2.30pm, £8/ £6 Child, 0844 873 2888, Chinese New Yar, live music, song and dance by award-winning Yellow Earth, Perfect for ages 5

Sports & Leisure IIArsenal vs Everton 3pm

Other Events IIThreshold Festival Camp and Furnace, Greenland St, 12-5.30pm, 0151 227 5946 IIPillbox Vintage Fair at Treshold Festival Baltic Triangle Liverpool, 11-5pm, only Vintage free IINot Just Vintage House, Bold Street, 11am, 0151 709 7141, Vintage Fair IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95,

340005 IIOpen Mic Session with Depo (Shy & The Fight) Telford’s Warehouse, Chester, 01244 390 090 IILive Acoustic Music Studio 2, Parr Street, 8pm, 0151 707 3727 IITreshold Festival £20

Theatre & Dance IISleeping Beauty St. Helens Theatre Royal, 5pm, £18.50/ £16.50 Concs/ £12.50 Child, 01744 756 000, a classic fairy tale set to Tchaikovsky’s magnificent score

Arts IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Maritime Museum, see 1st for details IIAn Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm IIThe Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details IIFace to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911

IIGlam! Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, see 1st for details IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom, Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton

Family IIA Mother’s Day Experience The Lantern Theatre, Blundell St, 10am-1pm, £20 for mother & child/ £ additional tickets, 0151 703 0000, Children will take part in a craft workshop in which, while mums relax with tea and cake

Sports & Leisure IILiverpool vs Tottenham 4pm

Other Events IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95, Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool IIMothers Day Special The James Monro, 0151 236 9700 IIJoe Power Moniques Temple Court, 6pm, £12, 0151 227 1131, leading psychic & mentalist

IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963

IIMother’s Day House, Bold Street, 12-6pm, 0151 709 7141, nice mothers day menu

IIJazz & Jam Night Brewers Arms, Neston Wirral, 8pm, 0151 336 1627

IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, see 1st for details

IIHope University Concert Band Sefton Park Palm House, 2pm, 0151 726 9304

IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, see 1st for details

IIMurder Mystery Night - The Woman Who Knew Too Much Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 7.30pm, £30, 0151 529 2640, Mothering Sunday you won’t forget

IITim Shaw, The Shakers The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music from 12pm, 0151 236 9091

IIIn Seven Days Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details

IIRonny Hughes, Tony Mac, Screaming Citizens The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, live music from 5.30pm, 0152 236 9091 IISlam Jam Stamps Wine Bar, Liverpool Road, Crosby, 6pm, 0151 286 2662 IIJazz Con Fusion The Grapes, 9pm, 07950 828674, Live jazz with a Latin twist IIBernie Connor The Shipping Forecast, 4pm-8pm, 0151 709 6901 IIOpen Mic The Lomax, Cumberland St, 7pm IILive Music - Fire House, Bold Street, 8.30pm, 0151 709 7141 IIMothers Day Special: The Ultimate Divas The Green Room, 2pm, £20, 0870 787 1866, Tina Turner, Diana Ross, Whitney...

IISteve Oakes Quartet Alexanders, Rufus Court, Chester, 01244

IIOil boom, Delta burns International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIThe 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details

IIMother Day Cabaret Lunch Huyton Civic Suite, 12.30-6pm, £15.95, 0151 443 3761, Motown Singer Terry Byrne & Disco IIInternational Film Festival St Mary’s Centre, Chester, 01244 371 750

MONDAY 11TH Music

IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things The Bluecoat, see 1st for details

IIStornoway The Kazimier, 8pm, £13, 0151 324 1723

IIJudy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details

IILunchtime Concert Series The Capstone Theatre, 1.10pm, 0844 8000 410

IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, see 1st for details IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool, 10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art

IIThe Men They Couldn’t Hang Eric’s, Mathew Street, 7.30pm, £13.20, 0151 236 9994 IIPaul Jones, Jon Keats, The Two of Us (Lennon & McCartney Tribute), Jay Murray The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music from 2pm, 0151 236 9091

LOWDOWN MARCH

IIIan Prowse The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, 8pm, 0152 236 9091

for details IISublime to Ridiculous: works

by Derek Couturier The Brindley, Runcorn, 10am-5.30pm, 0151 907 8360 IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, see 1st for details

IISolitaire Studio 2, Parr Street, 8pm, £3, 01517073727, Live Acoustic

Theatre & Dance IIRebound Community Dance Showcase St. Helens Theatre Royal, 7pm, 01744 756 000 IIOut of His Skin The Arts Centre, Edge Hill University, 7.30pm, £10/ £8 Concs, 01695 584480

Comedy IIRich Hall Tour The Laugh Inn, Chester, 8pm, £16.87, 0800 612 9714

Arts IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Maritime Museum, see 1st for details IIAn Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm IIThe Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details IIFace to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963 IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, see 1st for details IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, see 1st for details IIIn Seven Days Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details IIOil boom, Delta burns International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIThe 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things The Bluecoat, see 1st for details IIJudy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st

IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool, 10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art IIGlam! Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, see 1st for details IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom, Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton

Family IIKey Stage 2 Schools’ Concerts The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 10.30am, 0151 709 3789

Sports & Leisure IILFC Legends Day Tours LFC Stadium, Anfield Road, £40/ £20 Concs, 0844 870 0123, with Phil Neal

Other Events IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95, Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool IIJonny Bongo’s Monday Night Quiz The Shipping Forecast, 8pm12am, 0151 709 6901, £1 IIUrban Craft Collective’s Knitting Club Leaf Cafe, Bold St, 7-9pm, 0151 707 7747 IIBlue Lantern The Compass, Chester, 8pm, 01244 344890

Cavern Pub, Mathew St, 7.30pm, 0152 236 9091 IIPARRJAZZ: Tim Thornton Studio 2, Parr Street, 8.30pm, £5 on door/ FREE Students (NUS), 0151 707 3727, Jazz and open jam session, double bassist IIUnplugged Alexanders, Rufus Court, Chester, £2/ free before 9pm, 01244 340005 IIIan McNabb Telford’s Warehouse, Chester, £12.50, 01244 390 090 IILunchtime Concerts Wesley Methodist Church, Chester, 12.451.45, £3, 01244 379275

Theatre & Dance IIPhoenix Dance Theatre: Particle Velocity The Playhouse, 7.30pm, £12-£16, 0151 709 4776, explosive, powerful dance, blistering duet that features his trademark raw, visceral choreography IIInspector Norse The Brindley, Runcorn, 7.30pm, £10, 0151 907 8360, a Swedish self-assembly crime thriller

Comedy IICafe Chaos The Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, 8pm, £10/ £8 Concs, 0844 873 2888, Mixing physical comedy, theatre, dance and music with bizarre storytelling

Arts IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Maritime Museum, see 1st for details IIAn Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm IIThe Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details

IIInternational Film Festival St Mary’s Centre, Chester, 01244 371 750

IIFace to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911

TUESDAY 12TH

IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963

Music IIWilly Mason The Kazimier, £12.50, 0151 324 1723 IIOut Of The Bedroom: Acoustic Open Mic Night Leaf Cafe, Bold St, 8.30pm, 0151 707 7747, with Johnny Sands IITony Coburn, Jon Keats, Jimmy Coburn, Paul Jones, Jay Murray The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music from 2pm, 0151 236 9091 IIRonny Hughes, Gary Murphy The

IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, see 1st for details IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, see 1st for details IIIn Seven Days Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details IIOil boom, Delta burns International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery

Museum, see 1st for details IIThe 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things The Bluecoat, see 1st for details IIJudy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details IISublime to Ridiculous: works

by Derek Couturier The Brindley, Runcorn, 10am-5.30pm, 0151 907 8360 IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, see 1st for details IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool, 10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art IIGlam! Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, see 1st for details IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom, Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton

Sports & Leisure IICycle for Health Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 10am, booking essential, 0151 287 4798 IILFC Legends Day Tours LFC Stadium, Anfield Road, £40/ £20 Concs, 0844 870 0123, with Phil Thompson

Other Events IIDot-art: Life Drawing The Bluecoat, School Lane, 6.459.30pm, For information, times/ prices and to book, call 0845 017 6660 or email: info@dot-art.com IIDot-art: Bookbinding The Bluecoat, School Lane, 6.459.30pm, For information, times/ prices and to book, call 0845 017 6660 or email: info@dot-art.com IISally Morgan: Psychic Sally on the Road Liverpool Empire Theater, 7.30pm, £24.50, 0844 871 3017, Britain’s favorite TV psychic IIThe Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 7.30pm, £6/ £7, 0151 709 3789, film IILunchtime Learning The Philharmonic Hall, Rodewald Suite, Hope St, 1pm, £15, 0151 709 3789, join composer and lecturer Ian Stephens for a daytime series of inspiring music and relaxed learning IIPhilosophy in Pubs The Bluecoat,

43 School Lane, 1pm-2.30pm, 0151 702 5324, resident philosophers debate the important questions IITea Dance amidst the Palms Sefton Park Palm House, 2pm-4pm, £5 incl. a cup of tea and piece of cake, 0151 726 9304, Dance into spring with Neil Allcock IIJake Mills Quiz Night House, Bold Street, 7pm, 0151 709 7141 IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95, Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool IIInternational Film Festival St Mary’s Centre, Chester, 01244 371 750

WEDNESDAY 13TH Music IIPaul Jones, Jon Keats, Jimmy Coburn, Tony Coburn, Richard Batty The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music from 2pm, 0151 236 9091 IIRLPO: Petrushka The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 7.30pm, £13-£36, 0151 709 3789 IIPlaza Concert: The Frantones Floral Pavilion Plaza, New Brighton, 12.30pm, 0151 666 0000, Guitar and Vocal duo IIThe Gathering The Bluecoat, School Lane, 7.30pm-9.30pm, 0151 702 5324, a monthly space for musicians to meet and improvise together IIOlly Murs Echo Arena, 7.30pm, £32.50, 0844 8000 400 IIThe Magic Band plus Edgar Jones Eric’s, Mathew Street, 7.30pm, £20.50, 0151 236 9994 IIThe Dan Reed Band O2 Academy 2 Liverpool, 7pm, £15.75, 0844 477 2000

7.30pm, £13, 01244 371 750

1st for details IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details

IIEnsorrowed, Ramraid, Coronach and more The Lomax, Cumberland St, 7pm

IIThe 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details

IIMozart for Flute and Strings The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 1.05pm, £6, 0151 709 3789

IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things The Bluecoat, see 1st for details

IIRLPO: Petrushka The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 7.30pm, £13-£36, 0151 709 3789

IIJudy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details

IITony Mac, Jon Keats, Richard Batty The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music from 2pm till early evening, 0151 236 9091

Theatre & Dance IIPhoenix Dance Theatre: Particle Velocity The Playhouse, 7.30pm, £12-£16, 0151 709 4776, explosive, powerful dance, blistering duet that features his trademark raw, visceral choreography II“Heart and Soul” A New Musical Epstein Theatre, Mat 2.30pm/ Eve 7.30pm, Mat £10/ Eve £12.50, 0844 888 4411, packed with original songs, spanning the genres from motown to rock, dance, ballads and even jazz IIAllegrodance Company The Brindley, Runcorn, 10.30am & 1.30pm, £6/ £5 conc, 0151 907 8360, Giselle Act I plus West End to Broadway

Comedy IICafe Chaos The Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, 8pm, £10/ £8 Concs, 0844 873 2888, Mixing physical comedy, theatre, dance and music with bizarre storytelling IIJustin Moorhouse The Slaughter House, Fenwick St, 8pm, £14/ £12.00 Conc, 0151 227 5946

Arts IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Maritime Museum, see 1st for details IIAn Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm

IISublime to Ridiculous: works

by Derek Couturier The Brindley, Runcorn, 10am-5.30pm, 0151 907 8360 IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, see 1st for details IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool, 10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art IIGlam! Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, see 1st for details IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom, Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton

Sports & Leisure IIWalk for Health Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 1.30pm, 0151 287 4798, enjoy a healthy walk through the park IILatin Mania Telford’s Warehouse, Chester, 8pm, £4 each/ £6 both,01244 390 090, Salsa Classes and Latin dance night

Other Events

IIKappa Band The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, 9pm, 0152 236 9091

IIThe Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details

IITea Dance St Georges Hall, 1.30pm4pm, £5 payable on the door, 0151 225 6909, live music and dance, dancers of all abilities are welcome

IIPete Wade’s Acoustic Open Mic Night Gallaghers Pub and Barbers, Birkenhead, Wirral, 7.30pm, 0151 649 9095

IIFace to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911

IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95, Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool

IINew Blood Club The Shipping Forecast, 8pm-2am, £2, 0151 709 6901

IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963

IILive Music Studio 2, Parr Street, 8pm, 0151 707 3727

IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, see 1st for details

IISpotify Wednesday Leaf Cafe, Bold St, 8pm, 0151 707 7747, Enabling the sharing, creating and modifying of each other’s playlists

IIDeportees Alexanders, Rufus Court, Chester, 01244 340005

IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, see 1st for details

IIPlay Sound City 2013 HEAT 6 The Zanzibar Club, 7.45pm, £4, 0151 707 0633 IICelebrity Concert: Piatti String Quartet St Mary’s Centre, Chester,

THURSDAY 14TH

IIKeith’s Jarrett and guests Keith’s Wine Bar, Lark Lane Sefton Park, 8pm, 0151 728 7688

IIIn Seven Days Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details IIOil boom, Delta burns International Slavery Museum, see

IIWomen’s Organisation Drop-In Leaf Cafe, Bold St, 10am-12.30pm, 0151 707 7747, free support in your venture to self-employment IIQuiz Night The Compass, Chester, 8.30pm, 01244 344890

Music

IIRonny Hughes, Beatles Tribute Night The Cavern Club, Mathew St, 7.30pm, £3, 0151 236 9091 IIXander & The Peace Pirates plus support Tony Mac The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, 7pm, 0152 236 9091 IIJuicy The Shipping Forecast, In The Hold, 10pm-3am, £3, 0151 709 6901 IISean Stephenson The Shipping Forecast, In The Bar, 10pm-1am, 0151 709 6901 IISongwriters Creation Club Studio 2, Parr Street, 7pm, 01517073727, get together for all songwriters, composers and artitst to collaborate & create new projects IIThe Hungry Horse Acoustic Folk Club Singers and Musicians Night The Whitby Sports & Social Club, Ellesmere Port, 7.45pm, 0151 678 9902 IIPlay Sound City 2013 HEAT 7 The Zanzibar Club, 7.45pm, £4, 0151 707 0633

Theatre & Dance IIAnything Goes Gladstone Theatre, Port Sunlight, 7.30pm, £8/ £7 Concs, 0151 643 8757,Great Sory, Great Songs, “All Aboard” IIBorges and I The Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, 8pm, £10/ £8 Concs, 0844 873 2888, parallels between life, work and readership, revealing a man on the brink of blindness II“Heart and Soul” A New Musical Epstein Theatre, Mat 2.30pm/ Eve 7.30pm, Mat £12.50/ Eve £19.50/ £17.50, 0844 888 4411, packed with original songs, spanning the genres from motown to rock, dance, ballads and even jazz IIRoadshow Two The Black-E, 2-7pm, £15, 0151 709 5109, features a masterclass and panel debate, british dance and the african diaspora

LOWDOWN MARCH

Comedy IIThe New 4 Poofs and a Piano The Brindley, Runcorn, 8pm, £15, 0151 907 8360, Bigger, Louder, Harder, Longer!

Runcorn, 10am-5.30pm, 0151 907 8360 IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, see 1st for details IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool, 10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art IIGlam! Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details

IIComedy Central at Albert Dock Baby Blue, Albert Dock, 6pm, £15£33, 0151 702 5834, Headliner: John Lynn, Compere: Danny McLoughlin, Supporting: David Longley, Sean Mcloughlin IIHormonal Housewives Southport Theatre and Convention Centre, 7.30pm, £17, 0844 871 3021

Arts IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Maritime Museum, see 1st for details IIAn Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm IIThe Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details IIFace to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963 IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, see 1st for details IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, see 1st for details IIIn Seven Days Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details IIOil boom, Delta burns International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIThe 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things The Bluecoat, see 1st for details IIJudy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details IISublime to Ridiculous: works

by Derek Couturier The Brindley,

IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, see 1st for details IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom, Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton IIThe Art of Pop Video Fact, SunFri: 12pm - 6pm, Sat: 11am - 6pm, 01517074444, More More than 70 video clips tell the story of the pop video, marking the medium’s substantial contribution to popular culture

Sports & Leisure IIWalk for Health Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 6pm, 0151 287 4798, enjoy an evening healthy walk around the park

Other Events IIBehind the scenes tours St Georges Hall, 2pm, £10, limited availability, 0151 225 6909 IICase Histories...A series of talks St Georges Hall, 12.30-1.30pm, £2.50 payable on the door, 0151 225 6909, by Steve Binns MBE IIDrama and Acting for Absolute Beginners Floral Pavilion Blue Lounge, New Brighton, 1pm, £3, 0151 666 0000 IITalking Poetry The Bluecoat, School Lane, 6pm-8pm, 0151 702 5324 IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95, Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool IICarny Cabaret Alexanders, Rufus Court, Chester, 8pm, £10/ £8 adv/ £6 NUS, 01244 340005, by Chris Cross ft Burlesque, Sideshow Acts & Cabaret Band

FRIDAY 15TH Music IISt. Mary’s College Festival of Music The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 7.30pm, £5/ £7.50, 0151 709 3789

IIThe Morning Shakes O2 Academy 2 Liverpool, 7pm, £7.05, 0844 477 2000 IITim Shaw, Ronny Hughes, Jon Keats, Tony Mac The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music 12-8pm, 0151 236 9091 IIRichard Batty & The Rockits The Cavern Club, Mathew St, 8pm, £3, 0151 236 9091 IIThe Stones The Cavern Live Lounge, Mathew St, 8.30pm, £10, 0151 236 9091 IIThe Pickups Olde Red Lion, Little Sutton, 0151 3392496 IINeil Griffiths Gallaghers Pub and Barbers, Birkenhead, Wirral, 7.30pm, 0151 649 9095, 80s music IICaptain Flash DJ The Shipping Forecast, 10pm-3am, 0151 709 6901 IIThe Gentle Scars, Soul Saboteur, The Thought Police, Stop The Blackout The Lomax, Cumberland St, 8pm, £3 OTD II3B DJ’s House, Bold Street, 8pm, 0151 709 7141 IIBarry White & Lionel Richie Tribute plus special guest The Green Room, 8pm, £15, 0870 787 1866, Tribute Night IIWorld Upside Down Alexanders, Rufus Court, Chester, £5/ £14.95 Dine ‘n Dance, 01244 340005 IIBy The Sea Telford’s Warehouse, Chester, Free Before 9pm/ £4 Thereafter, 01244 390 090 IIThe Fureys and Davey Arthur Southport Theatre and Convention Centre, 7.30pm, £20, 0844 871 3021 IIThanks Funk its Friday: DJ Mark Wyss Studio 2, Parr Street, 8pm, 0151 707 3727

Theatre & Dance IIUgly Duckling The Playhouse, Matinees: 11.30am, 1.30pm, 5pm, £6-£8, 0151 709 4776, perfect opportunity to introduce your little ones to the magic of live ballet, music and theatre IIAnything Goes Gladstone Theatre, Port Sunlight, 7.30pm, £8/ £7 Concs, 0151 643 8757,Great Sory, Great Songs, “All Aboard” IILet’s Celebrate! The Brindley, Runcorn, 7pm, £8, 0151 907 8360, Dance show by this popular local dance school IIRock Goddess! The Lantern Theatre, Blundell St, 7.30pm, £12/ £9 Concs, 0151 703 0000, an explosion of music and dance

featuring the divine feminine in all her guises IIThe 14th Tale The Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, 8pm, £12/ £10 Concs, 0844 873 2888, from the clay streets of Nigeria to the roof tops of Dublin, and finally to London II“Heart and Soul” A New Musical Epstein Theatre, 5.30pm & 8.30pm, 5.30: £12.50/ 8.30: £22.50/ £20.50, 0844 888 4411, packed with original songs, spanning the genres from motown to rock, dance, ballads and even jazz IIJesus Christ Superstar Echo Arena, 8pm, £30-£65, 0844 8000 400 IIJune Brides The Capstone Theatre, Creative Campus, 7.30pm, £12/ £10 Concs, 0844 8000 410, Wedding Cabaret IISecond Star to the Right IOISIS Studio, 7.30pm, £6/ £4 Concs, 0844 873 2888, a devised dance show based on JM Barrie`s Peter Pan IIFeel About Your Body (How Do You?) The Bluecoat, School Lane, 8pm, £10/ £8 Concs, 0151 702 5324

Comedy IIComedy Central at Albert Dock Baby Blue, Albert Dock, 6pm, £15£33, 0151 702 5834, Headliner: John Lynn, Compere: Danny McLoughlin, Supporting: David Longley, Pete Otway IIPaul Sinha plus guest The Slaughter House, Fenwick St, 8pm, £10-£32.50, 0151 227 5946, MC Chris Cairns introduces Paul Sinha along with Steve Harris and Allyson Smith IISteve Harris plus support The Slug and Lettuce, North John St, 8pm, £10-£30, 0151 236 8820, MC Ste Porter introduces Steve Harris along with Paul Sinha and Allyson Smith IIAndy Askins, Marlon Davis & Dave Longley The Laugh Inn, Chester, 8pm, £13.50, 0800 612 9714

Arts IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Maritime Museum, see 1st for details IIAn Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm IIThe Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details IIFace to face with the statues

45 of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963 IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, see 1st for details IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, see 1st for details IIIn Seven Days Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details IIOil boom, Delta burns International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIThe 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things The Bluecoat, see 1st for details IIJudy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details IISublime to Ridiculous: works

by Derek Couturier The Brindley, Runcorn, 10am-5.30pm, 0151 907 8360 IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, see 1st for details IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool, 10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art IIGlam! Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, see 1st for details IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom, Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton IIThe Art of Pop Video Fact, see 14th for details

Other Events IIThe Bluecoat’s 5th Anniversary The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10am8pm, 0151 702 5324, exciting programme IIJanet Hodgson: Re-Run The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10am-6pm, 0151 702 5324, opportunity to see again the critically acclaimed film commissioned for the 2008 reopening IIJanet Hodgson in conversation The Bluecoat, School Lane, 7pm8pm, 0151 702 5324, artist talk with

the Bluecoat’s Artistic Director, Bryan Biggs

9pm/ £4 Thereafter, 01244 390 090

Rufus Court, Chester, 8pm, £12/ £19.95 dinner & show, 01244 340005, Mike Milligan

IIBook Fair The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10.30am-5pm, 0151 702 5324, Collectors’ and bargain second hand books

IIReversion meets Diztorshon second birthday featuring Andy Whitby The Compass, Chester, 8pm, £6.50, 01244 344890

IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95, Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool

IIThe Solid Silver 60s Show Southport Theatre and Convention Centre, 7.30pm, £27.50, 0844 871 3021

IIMurder Mystery Night Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 7.30pm, £30, 0151 529 2640

IIFaintest Idea Mello Mello, Slater St, 8pm, £4, Liberation, Broken 3 Ways

SATURDAY 16TH

IIAnything Goes Gladstone Theatre, Port Sunlight, 7.30pm, £8/ £7 Concs, 0151 643 8757,Great Sory, Great Songs, “All Aboard”

IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm

II“Heart and Soul” A New Musical Epstein Theatre, Mat 2.30pm/ Eve 7.30pm, Mat £19.50/ £17.50 / Eve £22.50/ £20.50, 0844 888 4411, packed with original songs, spanning the genres from motown to rock, dance, ballads and even jazz

IIFace to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911

Music IIAmadeus Metropolitan Cathedral, Crypt Concert Room, 7pm, £10/ £7, 0151 707 3525 IITake Phat The Brindley, Runcorn, 8pm, £10, 0151 907 8360, Fantastic & Funny Take That Tribute IIKarl Jenkins: The Armed Man and William Walton: Belshazzar’s Feast The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 7.30pm, £10-£20, 0151 709 3789, best of British choral music IIPoltergeist The Kazimier, 8pm, £10, 0151 324 1723 IITim Shaw, Jay Murray and The Shakers, Richard Batty The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music from 12pm till early evening, 0151 236 9091 IIThe Cave Dwellers plus support Tony Mac The Cavern Club, Mathew St, 8.30pm, £4, 0151 236 9091 IIRonny Hughes, Kappa, Tony Mac The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, live music from 2.30pm, 0152 236 9091 IISaturday With The Beatles ft. the Cavern Club Beatles The Cavern Live Lounge, Mathew St, 8.30pm, £15, 0151 236 9091, Beatles Tribute Show IIJazzy Jade DJ The Shipping Forecast, 10pm-3am, 0151 709 6901 IIGet Down The Shipping Forecast, 11pm-3am, £4, 0151 709 6901 ,DJ James Rand, DJ Mallo, DJ CDC, DJ Carlton Hudson IIGo! Zilla, The 69 Watts, Old House Playground, The Swinging Bricks, Rowan Reid The Lomax, Cumberland St, 8pm, £3 OTD IIThe Strypes Leaf Cafe, Bold St, 7.30pm, £5, 0151 707 7747 IISteve Charles plus special guest The Green Room, 8pm, £15, 0870 787 1866, IIThe Musgraves Telford’s Warehouse, Chester, Free Before

Theatre & Dance

IIClassical Spectacular Echo Arena, 7.30pm, £27.50-£118.50, 0844 8000 400 IISink Or Swim The Citadel, St. Helens, 7pm, £10, 01744 735436, comic tale of three men’s maddening struggles at sea IISecond Star to the Right IOISIS Studio, 7.30pm, £6/ £4 Concs, 0844 873 2888, a devised dance show based on JM Barrie`s Peter Pan

Comedy IIComedy Central at Albert Dock Baby Blue, Albert Dock, 6pm, £15£33, 0151 702 5834, Headliner: John Lynn, Compere: Danny McLoughlin, Supporting: David Longley, Pete Otway IILaughterhouse Comedy Cafe Sports Express, Liverpool One, 8.30pm, £12.50 Conc/ £17.50 Comedy Seated Ticket/ £30.00 Premier Seated Ticket & 2 Course Meal, 0151 227 5946, MC Ste Porter with comediens - Steve Harris, Paul Sinha & Allyson Smith IIPaul Sinha plus guest The Slaughter House, Fenwick St, 8pm, £12.50-£35, 0151 227 5946, MC Chris Cairns introduces Paul Sinha along with Steve Harris and Allyson Smith IISteve Harris plus support The Slug and Lettuce, North John St, 8pm, £12.50-£32.50, 0151 236 8820, MC Ste Porter introduces Steve Harris along with Paul Sinha and Allyson Smith IIChester Comedy Club Alexanders,

IIAndy Askins, Marlon Davis & Dave Longley The Laugh Inn, Chester, 8pm, £13.50, 0800 612 9714

Arts IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Maritime Museum, see 1st for details IIAn Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details

IIThe Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details

IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963 IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, see 1st for details IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, see 1st for details IIIn Seven Days Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details IIOil boom, Delta burns International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIThe 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things The Bluecoat, see 1st for details IIJudy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details IISublime to Ridiculous: works

by Derek Couturier The Brindley, Runcorn, 10am-3pm, 0151 907 8360 IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, see 1st for details IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool, 10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art IIGlam! Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, see 1st for details IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom,

LOWDOWN MARCH

Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton IIThe Art of Pop Video Fact, see 14th for details

Family IIMDI Family Dance Day Floral Pavilion Plaza, New Brighton, 11am-3pm, 0151 666 0000, a fun packed day full of dance workshops, performances and games for all the family

Sports & Leisure IIEverton vs Man City 12.45pm IISouthampton vs Liverpool 3pm IILFC Legends Day Tours LFC Stadium, Anfield Road, £40/ £20 Concs, 0844 870 0123, with Ian Callaghan

Other Events IIDave Spikey Floral Pavilion Blue Lounge, New Brighton, 7.30pm, £16.50-£18.50, 0151 666 0000, Inspired by his Best Medicine Tour, this hilarious new show examines many of life’s situations where words really don’t come easy IIApple Pie for Orchestra The Philharmonic Hall, Rodewald Suite, Hope St, 11am, £15 per session/ £90 for a series of 7 sessions, 0151 709 3789, Discover the Classics IIThe Bluecoat’s 5th Anniversary The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10am8pm, 0151 702 5324, exciting programme IIJanet Hodgson: Re-Run The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10am-6pm, 0151 702 5324, opportunity to see again the critically acclaimed film commissioned for the 2008 reopening IIIf Only...! The Bluecoat, School Lane, 12pm-6pm, 0151 702 5324, music, dance, live art, poetry and contributions by their creative community tenants IIBook Fair The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10.30am-5pm, 0151 702 5324, Collectors’ and bargain second hand books IINawal Gebreel: Creating texture for flower painting The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10am-4pm, £30, 0151 702 5324 IINot Just Vintage House, Bold Street, 11am, 0151 709 7141, Vintage Fair IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95, Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool

SUNDAY 17TH Music IITir na nOg The Lantern Theatre, Blundell St, 7.30pm, £12/ £10 Concs, 0151 703 0000, Alt Folk, Prog Folk, Psych Folk, and even Space Folk IILiverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestra with Petrenko The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 7.30pm, £6-£9, 0151 709 3789 IIOne Direction Echo Arena, 7.30pm, £25/ £32.50, 0844 8000 400 IIEasy Street Big Band Sefton Park Palm House, 2pm, 0151 726 9304 IITim Shaw, Made In Liverpool (Beatles Tribute), The Shakers The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music from 12pm, 0151 236 9091 IIRonny Hughes, Tony Mac, Screaming Citizens The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, live music from 5.30pm, 0152 236 9091 IIJazz Con Fusion The Grapes, 9pm, 07950 828674, Live jazz with a Latin twist IIHogan’s Goat Stamps Wine Bar, Liverpool Road, Crosby, 6pm, 0151 286 2662 IINu Northern Soul The Shipping Forecast, 4pm-8pm, 0151 709 6901 IILive Music - Fire House, Bold Street, 8.30pm, 0151 709 7141 IIEasy Like Sunday Afternoon with Steve Macfarlane Studio 2, Parr Street, 4pm, 01517073727 IISt Patrick’s Day The Green Room, 2pm, £15, 0870 787 1866, join Ricky for afternoon of music, laughter and plenty of sing-a-longs!

IIThe Sessions Rhythm & Blues Big Band Alexanders, Rufus Court, Chester, £3, 01244 340005 IIDave Roberts Quartet Alexanders, Rufus Court, Chester, 01244 340005 IIOpen Mic Session with Alx Green Telford’s Warehouse, Chester, 01244 390 090 IIThe Road to Out of The Ashes HEAT 5 The Compass, Chester, 7pm, 01244 344890 IIJazz & Jam Night Brewers Arms, Neston Wirral, 8pm, 0151 336 1627

Theatre & Dance IIRevealing the History of Irish Migration Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 6pm, £15, 0151 529 2640, drama

Arts IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Maritime Museum, see 1st for details IIAn Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm IIThe Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details IIFace to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963 IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, see 1st for details IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, see 1st for details IIIn Seven Days Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details IIOil boom, Delta burns International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIThe 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things The Bluecoat, see 1st for details IIJudy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, see 1st for details

Sports & Leisure IILFC Legends Day Tours LFC Stadium, Anfield Road, £40/ £20 Concs, 0844 870 0123, with John Aldridge

Other Events IIDot-art: Liverpool Photowalk The Bluecoat, School Lane, 12am, For information, times/prices and to book, call 0845 017 6660 or email: info@dot-art.com IIEmma Rodgers Ceramic Bird Making Workshop Bluecoat Display Centre, 11am-4pm, £39 incl materials and refreshments, 0151 709 4014 IIThe Bluecoat’s 5th Anniversary The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10am8pm, 0151 702 5324, exciting programme IIJanet Hodgson: Re-Run The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10am-6pm, 0151 702 5324, opportunity to see again the critically acclaimed film commissioned for the 2008 reopening IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95, Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool IISt Patricks Day - Irish Special The James Monro, 0151 236 9700 IINordic Walking Technique Course The National Trust Formby, 10am, £30, 01704 878591, Booking Essential, ‘Part of the Great Biritish Walk’

MONDAY 18TH Music

IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details

IIWild Nothing The Kazimier, 8pm, £8, 0151 324 1723

IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool, 10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art

IIPaul Jones, Jon Keats, The Two of Us (Lennon & McCartney Tribute), Jay Murray The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music from 2pm, 0151 236 9091

IIGlam! Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, see 1st for details IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom, Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton IIThe Art of Pop Video Fact, see 14th for details

Family IIJuste Dance Liverpool Empire Theater, 2pm, £16, 0844 871 3017, a fantastic show consisting of competition and display dance acts

IIIan Prowse The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, 8pm, 0152 236 9091 IIPause The Shipping Forecast, 10pm-3am, £3, 0151 709 6901 IIAfuriko on Tour Studio 2, Parr Street, 8pm, 01517073727, Jim Furnell duo Jazz keyboards IISpectrum Alexanders, Rufus Court, Chester, 01244 340005, new music night IIThe Uke do - UKULELEZAZA Mello Mello, Slater St, 8pm

47 Theatre & Dance IIElements Gladstone Theatre, Port Sunlight, 7.30pm, £14/ £10 Concs, 0151 643 8757, a wide range of Dance and Musical Theatre, Something for everyone IIA Midsummer Night’s Dream The Capstone Theatre, Creative Campus, 7.30pm, £12/ £10 Concs, 0844 8000 410 IIOthello The Forum Studio Theatre, Chester, 7.30pm, £10/ £8 Concs, 01244 341296. Shakespeare’s classic tragedy

Arts IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Maritime Museum, see 1st for details IIAn Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm IIThe Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details IIFace to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963 IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, see 1st for details IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, see 1st for details IIIn Seven Days Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details IIOil boom, Delta burns International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIThe 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things The Bluecoat, see 1st for details IIJudy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details IISublime to Ridiculous: works

by Derek Couturier The Brindley, Runcorn, 10am-5.30pm, 0151 907 8360 IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, see 1st for details IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool,

10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art IIGlam! Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, see 1st for details IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom, Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton IIThe Art of Pop Video Fact, see 14th for details

Sports & Leisure IIFloral Tea Dance Floral Pavilion Winter Gardens, New Brighton, 1pm, £5 adv/ £6 door, 0151 666 0000

Other Events IIThe Liverpool Philharmonic Experience The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 12.30pm, £7-£15, 0151 709 3789, Public Tour of Liverpool Philharmonic Hall IIThe Bluecoat’s 5th Anniversary The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10am8pm, 0151 702 5324, exciting programme IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95, Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool IIJonny Bongo’s Monday Night Quiz The Shipping Forecast, 8pm12am, 0151 709 6901, £1 IIBlue Lantern The Compass, Chester, 8pm, 01244 344890

TUESDAY 19TH Music IITony Coburn, Jon Keats, Jimmy Coburn, Paul Jones, Jay Murray The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music from 2pm, 0151 236 9091 IIRonny Hughes, Gary Murphy The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, 7.30pm, 0152 236 9091 IIPARRJAZZ: Corey Mwamba Studio 2, Parr Street, 8.30pm, £3 on door/ FREE Students (NUS), 0151 707 3727, Jazz and open jam session, vibraphonist IIOut Of The Bedroom: Acoustic Open Mic Night Leaf Cafe, Bold St, 8.30pm, 0151 707 7747, with Johnny Sands IIUnplugged Alexanders, Rufus Court, Chester, £2/ free before 9pm, 01244 340005 IISex Hands Irma Vep Telford’s Warehouse, Chester, £6 adv, 01244 390 090

IILunchtime Concerts Wesley Methodist Church, Chester, 12.451.45, £3, 01244 379275

Theatre & Dance III Was A Rat! The Playhouse, 7pm, £12-£20, 0151 709 4776, A glorious and gripping tale... with a tail!

IIChinese State Circus: Yin Yang Liverpool Empire Theater, 7.30pm, £17-£26, 0844 871 3017 IIA Strange Wild Song The Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, 8pm, £10/ £8, 0844 873 2888, mix absurdist humour and an original musical score to tell a touching story about finding light in the darkest of places IIHalton Dance Festival The Brindley, Runcorn, 7pm, 0151 907 8360 IISkellig Southport Little Theatre, Southport, 7.30pm, 01704 541306, highly acclaimed play from an award-winning children’s novel by David Almond IIOthello The Forum Studio Theatre, Chester, 7.30pm, £10/ £8 Concs, 01244 341296. Shakespeare’s classic tragedy

Arts IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Maritime Museum, see 1st for details

IIJudy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details IISublime to Ridiculous: works

by Derek Couturier The Brindley, Runcorn, 10am-5.30pm, 0151 907 8360 IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, see 1st for details IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool, 10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art IIGlam! Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, see 1st for details IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom, Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton IIThe Art of Pop Video Fact, see 14th for details

Sports & Leisure IICycle for Health Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 10am, booking essential, 0151 287 4798

Other Events

IIAn Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details

IIThe Bluecoat’s 5th Anniversary The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10am8pm, 0151 702 5324, exciting programme

IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm

IIJake Mills Quiz Night House, Bold Street, 7pm, 0151 709 7141

IIThe Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details

IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95, Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool

IIFace to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963 IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, see 1st for details IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, see 1st for details IIIn Seven Days Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details IIOil boom, Delta burns International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIThe 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things The Bluecoat, see 1st for details

IIBranching Out Networking Event Leaf Cafe, Bold St, 9pm, 0151 707 7747, Talk about your business without feeling like it’s a sales pitch

WEDNESDAY 20TH Music IIPaul Jones, Jon Keats, Jimmy Coburn, Tony Coburn, Richard Batty The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music from 2pm, 0151 236 9091 IIFrakture presents Acoute 6: Fluxus Fest The Bluecoat, School Lane, 7.30pm, £3/ £5, 0151 702 5324, exploring the possibilities of acoustic music in a digital age IIGirls Aloud Echo Arena, 7.30pm, £42.50, 0844 8000 400 IIJohnny Marr O2 Academy Liverpool, 7pm, £21.93, 0844 477 2000

LOWDOWN MARCH

IIKappa Band The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, 9pm, 0152 236 9091 IIPete Wade’s Acoustic Open Mic Night Gallaghers Pub and Barbers, Birkenhead, Wirral, 7.30pm, 0151 649 9095 IIMy First Tooth The Shipping Forecast, 7.30pm, £5 adv, 0151 709 6901 IILooking Glass presents... Studio 2, Parr Street, 8pm, 0151 707 3727 IIThe ‘Riding the Storm’ Tour Liverpool Cathedral, St James’ Mount, 7.30pm, £12 adv/ £14 on door, 01903 705360 IIAcoustics: Out of Nowhere Alexanders, Rufus Court, Chester, 01244 340005 IIKeith’s Jarrett and guests Keith’s Wine Bar, Lark Lane Sefton Park, 8pm, 0151 728 7688 IISpring Wine Evening Sefton Park Palm House, £15, 0151 726 2415

Theatre & Dance IIOthello Floral Pavilion Blue Lounge, New Brighton, 7.30pm, £8-£10, 0151 666 0000, dynamic and engaging production

225 6911 IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963 IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, see 1st for details IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, see 1st for details IIIn Seven Days Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details IIOil boom, Delta burns International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIThe 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things The Bluecoat, see 1st for details IIJudy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details IISublime to Ridiculous: works

by Derek Couturier The Brindley, Runcorn, 10am-5.30pm, 0151 907 8360

III Was A Rat! The Playhouse, 7pm, £12-£20, 0151 709 4776, A glorious and gripping tale... with a tail!

IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, see 1st for details

IIMagic of the Musicals 2 The Brindley, Runcorn, 7pm, £12/ £10 Concs, 0151 907 8360, Fabulous songs, fabulous singers and a wonderful cause

IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details

IIThe Curse Of Sherlock Holmes The Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, 8pm, £10/ £8 Concs, 0844 873 2888, follows Jeremy as he fights for his sanity...His life

IIGlam! Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details

IISkellig Southport Little Theatre, Southport, 7.30pm, 01704 541306, highly acclaimed play from an award-winning children’s novel by David Almond IIThe Yeoman of the Guard Richard Colmer Theatre, Southport College, £7.50, 01704 578232

Arts IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Maritime Museum, see 1st for details IIAn Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm IIThe Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details IIFace to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151

IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool, 10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art

IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, see 1st for details IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom, Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton IIThe Art of Pop Video Fact, see 14th for details

Sports & Leisure IIMolson Coors Raceday Haydock Park Racecourse, St Helens, 1.405.30pm, £20-£45, 01942 725963 IIWalk for Health Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 1.30pm, 0151 287 4798, enjoy a healthy walk through the park IILatin Mania Telford’s Warehouse, Chester, 8pm, £4 each/ £6 both,01244 390 090, Salsa Classes and Latin dance night

Other Events IIThe Bluecoat’s 5th Anniversary The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10am8pm, 0151 702 5324, exciting

programme IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95, Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool IILamplight Tour Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 6pm, £10 adults/ £8 children, 0151 287 4798 IISpotify Wednesday Leaf Cafe, Bold St, 8pm, 0151 707 7747, Enabling the sharing, creating and modifying of each other’s playlists IIQuiz Night The Compass, Chester, 8.30pm, 01244 344890

THURSDAY 21ST Music IIMusic Through The Decades The Brindley, Runcorn, 7.30pm, £8, 0151 907 8360, Mayor’s Civic Charity Night IISam Lee and Friends Epstein Theatre, 7pm, £16, 0844 888 4411, ‘traditional folk’ IIRLPO: Mahler’s 10th Symphony The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 7.30pm, £16-£40, 0151 709 3789 IITony Mac, Jon Keats, Richard Batty The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music from 2pm till early evening, 0151 236 9091 IIRonny Hughes, Beatles Tribute Night The Cavern Club, Mathew St, 7.30pm, £3, 0151 236 9091 IIXander & The Peace Pirates plus support Tony Mac The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, 7pm, 0152 236 9091 IIHush Olde Red Lion, Little Sutton, 0151 3392496 IIWot Gorilla? The Shipping Forecast, 7.30pm, £4.50 adv, 0151 709 6901 IISean Stephenson The Shipping Forecast, In The Bar, 10pm-1am, 0151 709 6901 IIJuicy The Shipping Forecast, In The Hold, 10pm-3am, £3, 0151 709 6901 IIMuffin Men with Denny Walley The Zanzibar Club, 7.45pm, £4, 0151 707 0633 IIBelicious Beats Studio 2, Parr Street, 8pm, £4, 0151 707 3727, live music IIRoddy Woomble Leaf Cafe, Bold St, 8pm, £15.95, 0151 707 7747 IIArchie Fisher The Whitby Sports & Social Club, Ellesmere Port, 7.45pm, £9, 0151 678 9902 IIDJ Ono & Tatty Jeans Telfords Warehouse, Chester, £4 After 9pm, 01244 390090

IIA Ray of Charles The Lomax, Cumberland St, 7.30pm

Theatre & Dance III Was A Rat! The Playhouse, 1.30pm (Matinee) & 7pm, £12-£20, 0151 709 4776, A glorious and gripping tale... with a tail!

IIThe Blues Brothers... Approved Liverpool Empire Theater, 7.30pm, £10-£29.50, 0844 871 3017 IIThe Curse Of Sherlock Holmes The Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, 8pm, £10/ £8 Concs, 0844 873 2888, follows Jeremy as he fights for his sanity...His life IISkellig Southport Little Theatre, Southport, 7.30pm, 01704 541306, highly acclaimed play from an award-winning children’s novel by David Almond IIThe Yeoman of the Guard Richard Colmer Theatre, Southport College, £7.50, 01704 578232 IITony Teardrop: Cut To The Chase Productions St Lukes ‘Bombed Out’ Church, 8pm, £10, biting, humorous play about people living on the edges of society

Comedy IIComedy Central at Albert Dock Baby Blue, Albert Dock, 6pm, £15-£33, 0151 702 5834, Headliner: Barry Dodds, Compere: Jonathon Mayor, Supporting: Junior Simpson, Nick Dixon

Arts IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Maritime Museum, see 1st for details IIAn Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm IIThe Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details IIFace to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963 IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, see 1st for details IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, see 1st for details IIIn Seven Days Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details IIOil boom, Delta burns International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details

49 IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIThe 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things The Bluecoat, see 1st for details IIJudy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details IISublime to Ridiculous: works

by Derek Couturier The Brindley, Runcorn, 10am-5.30pm, 0151 907 8360 IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, see 1st for details IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool, 10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art IIGlam! Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, see 1st for details IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom, Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton IIVide Exhibition The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10am-6pm, 0151 702 5324, Fine Art Students Exhibition, mixed-media works exploring a range of approaches including the use of drawing and digital technologies IIThe Art of Pop Video Fact, see 14th for details

Family

IIEaster Egg Hunt Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 10.30am-5pm, normal Hall admission, 0151 287 4798, fun for younger children and parents

Sports & Leisure

IIWalk for Health Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 6pm, 0151 287 4798, enjoy an evening healthy walk around the park

Other Events

IIBehind the scenes tours St Georges Hall, 2pm, £10, limited availability, 0151 225 6909 IICase Histories...A series of talks St Georges Hall, 12.30-1.30pm, £2.50 payable on the door, 0151 225 6909, by Steve Binns MBE IIDrama and Acting for Absolute Beginners Floral Pavilion Blue Lounge, New Brighton, 1pm, £3, 0151 666 0000 IIThe Bluecoat’s 5th Anniversary The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10am-

8pm, 0151 702 5324, exciting programme IIScrips The Bluecoat, School Lane, 1pm-2.30pm, 0151 702 5324, informal space for creative writing, from poetry to short stories IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95, Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool IIJelly Liverpool Leaf Cafe, Bold St, 9am-5pm, 0151 707 7747, casual all day work-together for anyone with a laptop and some grafting to be done

FRIDAY 22ND Music IIJohn Smith Epstein Theatre, 7.30pm, £12.50, 0844 888 4411, “One man, a guitar and an incredible voice” IIIn Harmony Liverpool: Celebrating Four Years The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 1pm, Free but booking is essential, 0151 709 3789 IITwelve Gauge O2 Academy 2 Liverpool, 7pm, £7.05, 0844 477 2000 IILiverpool College Lunchtime Concert Sefton Park Palm House, 1.15pm-2pm, 0151 726 9304 IIJune Tabor The Capstone Theatre, Creative Campus, 7.30pm, £17.50, 0844 8000 410 IIKing King feat. Alan Nimmo The Citadel, St. Helens, 8pm, £12, 01744 735436 IITim Shaw, Ronny Hughes, Jon Keats, Tony Mac The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music 12-8pm, 0151 236 9091 IIRichard Batty & The Rockits The Cavern Club, Mathew St, 8pm, £3, 0151 236 9091 IIThe Kinx The Cavern Live Lounge, Mathew St, 8.30pm, £10, 0151 236 9091 IINeil Griffiths Gallaghers Pub and Barbers, Birkenhead, Wirral, 7.30pm, 0151 649 9095, 80s music IISchmame Industries DJs The Shipping Forecast, 10pm-3am, 0151 709 6901 II3B DJ’s House, Bold Street, 8pm, 0151 709 7141 IIThank Funk Its Friday: The Robert Mather Band Studio 2, Parr Street, 9.30pm, 0151 707 3727 IINeil Diamond Tribute plus special guests The Green Room,

8pm, £15, 0870 787 1866 IIGoodfellas Alexanders, Rufus Court, Chester, £7/ £14.95 Dine ‘n Dance, 01244 340005 IIMy First Tooth Telford’s Warehouse, Chester, Free Before 9pm/ £4 Thereafter, 01244 390 090 IIUlrich Schnauss The Compass, Chester, 8pm, £10, 01244 344890 IIAcoustic Live: youth special View Two Gallery, Mathew St, 8.30pm, £5, 0151 236 9444, Dominic Dunn, Sophia Ben-Yousef, George Lawless, Dylan Tierney, and Milly Pye IILock In The Lomax, Cumberland St, 8pm, £5

Theatre & Dance III Was A Rat! The Playhouse, 7pm, £12-£20, 0151 709 4776, A glorious and gripping tale... with a tail!

IIThe Blues Brothers... Approved Liverpool Empire Theater, 7.30pm, £10-£29.50, 0844 871 3017 IIWild Flowers The Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, 8pm, £8, 0844 873 2888, hard-hitting honest drama, reminds that there is always a laugh to be had, even in times of hardship and adversity IIMcCartney: Yesterday and Today Floral Pavilion Blue Lounge, New Brighton, 7.30pm, £14, 0151 666 0000, from The Beatles to Wings and the solo years IIA Night You Will Never Forget!

The Brindley, Runcorn, 7pm, 0151 907 8360 IISkellig Southport Little Theatre, Southport, 7.30pm, 01704 541306, highly acclaimed play from an award-winning children’s novel by David Almond IIThe Yeoman of the Guard Richard Colmer Theatre, Southport College, £7.50, 01704 578232 IITony Teardrop: Cut To The Chase Productions St Lukes ‘Bombed Out’ Church, 8pm, £10, biting, humorous play about people living on the edges of society

Comedy IIComedy Central at Albert Dock Baby Blue, Albert Dock, 6pm, £15-£33, 0151 702 5834, Headliner: Barry Dodds, Compere: Jonathon Mayor, Supporting: Junior Simpson, Nick Beaton IIChris Martin plus guest The Slaughter House, Fenwick St, 8pm, £10-£32.50, 0151 227 5946, MC Neil Fitzmaurice introduces Chris Martin along with Richard Morton and

Guest Comedian IIRichard Morton plus support The Slug and Lettuce, North John St, 8pm, £10-£30, 0151 236 8820, MC Chris Cairns introduces Richard Morton along with Guest Comedian and Chris Martin IIBarry Dodds, Brendan Dempsey & Phil Nicol The Laugh Inn, Chester, 8pm, £16.87, 0800 612 9714 IIMilton Jones: On the Road 2013 Southport Theatre and Convention Centre, 7.30pm, £21, 0844 871 3021

Arts IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Maritime Museum, see 1st for details IIAn Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm IIThe Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details IIFace to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963 IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, see 1st for details IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, see 1st for details IIIn Seven Days Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details IIOil boom, Delta burns International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIThe 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things The Bluecoat, see 1st for details IIJudy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details IISublime to Ridiculous: works

by Derek Couturier The Brindley, Runcorn, 10am-5.30pm, 0151 907 8360 IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, see 1st for details IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool,

LOWDOWN MARCH

10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art IIGlam! Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, see 1st for details IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom, Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton IIVide Exhibition The Bluecoat, see 21st for details IIThe Art of Pop Video Fact, see 14th for details

Family IIEaster Egg Hunt Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 10.30am-5pm, normal Hall admission, 0151 287 4798, fun for younger children and parents

Sports & Leisure IIMen’s and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics British Championships 2013 Echo Arena, 12.30pm & 6.45pm, £10-£65, 0844 8000 400

Other Events IIThe Bluecoat’s 5th Anniversary The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10am8pm, 0151 702 5324, exciting programme IISalsa Dancing Evening Sefton Park Palm House, 7.30pm, £7, 0151 726 9304, Salsa under the Palms IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95, Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool

SATURDAY 23RD Music IILiverpool Mozart Orchestra Floral Pavilion Blue Lounge, New Brighton, 7.30pm, £5-£15, 0151 666 0000 IIVia Crucis Metropolitan Cathedral, 7pm, £10/ £7, 0151 707 3525 IIMusic for The Mind and Soul The Capstone, Liverpool Hope University, 1pm, 0844 8000 410, Indian music IIStudio2 Hullaballoo...Electronica Studio 2, Parr Street, 8pm, 0151 707 3727, synthy poppy 80s tunes IIRLPO: Mahler’s 10th Symphony The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 7.30pm, £16-£40, 0151 709 3789 IIThe Operators O2 Academy 2 Liverpool, 7pm, 0844 477 2000 IIUlrich Schnauss The Kazimier,

9pm, £10, 0151 324 1723 IIMusic for the Mind & Soul The Capstone Theatre, Creative Campus, 1pm, 0844 8000 410, Indian Music Concert Series IIMartin Turner’s Wishbone Ash The Citadel, St. Helens, 8pm, £14, 01744 735436 IITim Shaw, Jay Murray and The Shakers, Richard Batty The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music from 12pm till early evening, 0151 236 9091 IIThe Cave Dwellers plus support Tony Mac The Cavern Club, Mathew St, 8.30pm, £4, 0151 236 9091 IIRonny Hughes, Kappa, Tony Mac The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, live music from 2.30pm, 0152 236 9091 IISaturday With The Beatles ft. the Cavern Club Beatles The Cavern Live Lounge, Mathew St, 8.30pm, £15, 0151 236 9091, Beatles Tribute Show II80’s Gold Olde Red Lion, Little Sutton, 0151 3392496 IIZutekh Bekuz presents DJs The Shipping Forecast, 10pm-3am, £6 adv, 0151 709 6901 IIGunning For Tamar, Midnight Playground, We Were Beautiful The Shipping Forecast, In The Hold, 7.30pm, 0151 709 6901 IINo Fakin DJs The Shipping Forecast, 10pm-3am, 0151 709 6901, Selectors Set IIBrazen Goods’ The Lomax, Cumberland St, 6pm, £5, album launch party IIRadcliffe-on-Trent Male Voice Choir Liverpool Cathedral, St James’ Mount, 12.45-1.45pm, 01509 853700

with a tail!

IIPeter Pan Gladstone Theatre, Port Sunlight, 7.30pm, £8, 0151 342 1323 IIThe Blues Brothers... Approved Liverpool Empire Theater, 5.30pm & 8.30pm, £10-£29.50, 0844 871 3017 IIA Night You Will Never Forget!

The Brindley, Runcorn, 7pm, 0151 907 8360 IISkellig Southport Little Theatre, Southport, 7.30pm, 01704 541306, highly acclaimed play from an award-winning children’s novel by David Almond IIThe Yeoman of the Guard Richard Colmer Theatre, Southport College, £7.50, 01704 578232 IITony Teardrop: Cut To The Chase Productions St Lukes ‘Bombed Out’ Church, 8pm, £10, biting, humorous play about people living on the edges of society

Comedy IIComedy Central at Albert Dock Baby Blue, Albert Dock, 6pm, £15-£33, 0151 702 5834, Headliner: Barry Dodds, Compere: Jonathon Mayor, Supporting: Junior Simpson, Nick Beaton IIChris Martin plus guest The Slaughter House, Fenwick St, 8pm, £12.50-£35, 0151 227 5946, MC Neil Fitzmaurice introduces Chris Martin along with Richard Morton and Guest Comedian IIRichard Morton plus support The Slug and Lettuce, North John St, 8pm, £12.50-£32.50, 0151 236 8820, MC Chris Cairns introduces Richard Morton along with Guest Comedian and Chris Martin

IIRod Stewart Tribute The Green Room, 8pm, £15, 0870 787 1866

IIChester Comedy Club Alexanders, Rufus Court, Chester, 8pm, £12/ £19.95 dinner & show, 01244 340005, Windsor

IIFather Sculptor Telford’s Warehouse, Chester, Free Before 9pm/ £4 Thereafter, 01244 390 090

IIBarry Dodds, Brendan Dempsey & Phil Nicol The Laugh Inn, Chester, 8pm, £16.87, 0800 612 9714

IIABBA Forever Southport Theatre and Convention Centre, 7.30pm, £18.50-£19.50, 0844 871 3021, Tribute Show IIThe Songbook Session, Red Sails, The Midnight Waltz, Johnny & The Fever, Buffalo Riot The Zanzibar Club, 7.45pm, £4, 0151 707 0633

Theatre & Dance III Was A Rat! The Playhouse, 2pm (Matinee) & 7pm, £12-£20, 0151 709 4776, A glorious and gripping tale...

Arts IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Maritime Museum, see 1st for details IIAn Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm IIThe Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details IIFace to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151

225 6911 IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963 IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, see 1st for details IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, see 1st for details IIIn Seven Days Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details IIOil boom, Delta burns International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIThe 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things The Bluecoat, see 1st for details IIJudy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details IISublime to Ridiculous: works

by Derek Couturier The Brindley, Runcorn, 10am-3pm, 0151 907 8360 IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, see 1st for details IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool, 10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art IIGlam! Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, see 1st for details IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom, Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton IIRobyn Woolston: Strangers in a Strange Land Walker Art Gallery, 10am-5pm, powerful sculptural interventions that comment on our collective experiences of aspects of society such as consumption, power and identit IIVide Exhibition The Bluecoat, see 21st for details IIThe Art of Pop Video Fact, see 14th for details

Family IIEaster Egg Hunt Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 10.30am-5pm, normal Hall admission, 0151 287 4798, fun for younger children and parents

51 Sports & Leisure IIMen’s and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics British Championships 2013 Echo Arena, 11.30am, £10-£65, 0844 8000 400

Other Events IIWe Are The Dead The Brindley, Runcorn, 8pm, £5, 0151 907 8360, Orwellian nightmare where individual freedom and state control leads to tragedy IIThe Bluecoat’s 5th Anniversary The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10am8pm, 0151 702 5324, exciting programme IINot Just Vintage House, Bold Street, 11am, 0151 709 7141, Vintage Fair IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95, Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool IIStrictly Come Dancing Dinner Dance Floral Hall, Southport, 7pm, £35, 0151 529 2640

SUNDAY 24TH Music IITim Shaw, The Shakers The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music from 12pm, 0151 236 9091 IIRonny Hughes, Tony Mac, Screaming Citizens The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, live music from 5.30pm, 0152 236 9091 IITone Junkies Olde Red Lion, Little Sutton, 0151 3392496 IIJazz Con Fusion The Grapes, 9pm, 07950 828674, Live jazz with a Latin twist IIWill Jazz DJ The Shipping Forecast, 4pm-8pm, 0151 709 6901 IILive Music - Fire House, Bold Street, 8.30pm, 0151 709 7141 IIFreek plus guests Studio 2, Parr Street, 8pm, 0151 707 3727, punkmetal band IIRenaissance Music Group Liverpool Cathedral, St James’ Mount, 8pm, £8/ £5 Concs, 0151 702 7255 IISteve Melling Trio with special guest Nigel Hitchcock The Royal Clifton Hotel, The Promenade, Southport, 8pm, £15/ £14 Members/ £8 Students, 0845 373 0796, Southport Melodic Jazz

Court, Chester, 01244 340005

Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details

Lane, 10.30am-4.30pm, £50 materials incl, 0151 702 5324

IIOpen Mic Session hosted

by Heidi Browne Telford’s Warehouse, Chester, 01244 390 090

IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things The Bluecoat, see 1st for details

IIMaghull Wind Orchestra Sefton Park Palm House, 2pm-4pm, 0151 726 9304

IIThe Road to Out of The Ashes HEAT 6 The Compass, Chester, 7pm, 01244 344890

IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, see 1st for details

IIJazz & Jam Night Brewers Arms, Neston Wirral, 8pm, 0151 336 1627

IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details

IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95, Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool

Theatre & Dance IIPeter Pan Gladstone Theatre, Port Sunlight, 2.30pm, £8, 0151 342 1323 IIMother Africa Liverpool Empire Theater, 7.30pm, £16-£29, 0844 871 3017, experiential feast for the senses IITony Teardrop: Cut To The Chase Productions St Lukes ‘Bombed Out’ Church, 8pm, £10, biting, humorous play about people living on the edges of society

Comedy IIF:Rated Comedy Club Floral Pavilion Blue Lounge, New Brighton, 8pm, £10/ £22 plus Meal, 0151 666 0000

Arts IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Maritime Museum, see 1st for details IIAn Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm IIThe Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details IIFace to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963 IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, see 1st for details IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, see 1st for details IIIn Seven Days Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details IIOil boom, Delta burns International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details

IIStepping Out Alexanders, Rufus Court, Chester, £6, 01244 340005

IIThe 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details

IIRoot Chords Alexanders, Rufus

IIJudy Chicago: Voices From The

IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool, 10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art IIGlam! Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details

IICapstan’s Bazaar Leaf Cafe, Bold St, 12-5pm, 0151 707 7747, arts and crafts market IILife Drawing Leaf Cafe, Bold St, 7-10pm, £9 OTD, 0151 707 7747

IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, see 1st for details

IIRicky’s Royle Variety Show The Green Room, 2pm, £10, 0870 787 1866, Charity

IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom, Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton

IIAntiques & Collectors Fair Dunes Leisure Centre, Southport, 10am4pm, 01938 580438

IIStrangers in a Strange Land Walker Art Gallery, see 23rd for details

IISouthport Clothes Show Southport Theatre and Convention Centre, 12-6pm, £8.50, 0844 871 3021

IIVide Exhibition The Bluecoat, see 21st for details IIThe Art of Pop Video Fact, see 14th for details

Family IIEaster Egg Hunt Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 10.30am-5pm, normal Hall admission, 0151 287 4798, fun for younger children and parents IIThe Train and Toy Collectors Fair Haydock Park Racecourse, St Helens, 10.30am-3pm, £2 adult/ 50p child, 01942 725963

Sports & Leisure IIMen’s and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics British Championships 2013 Echo Arena, 10.30am, £10-£65, 0844 8000 400 IILFC Legends Day Tours LFC Stadium, Anfield Road, £40/ £20 Concs, 0844 870 0123, with John Aldridge

Other Events IIThe Vintage Wedding Festival Camp and Furnace, Greenland St, 11am-4pm, 0151 227 5946 II“Tiara and Black Tie” Grand Line Dancing Day Great Hall, 1.30pm-6pm, £7 pay on door, 0151 225 6909

MONDAY 25TH Music IIPaul Jones, Jon Keats, The Two of Us (Lennon & McCartney Tribute), Jay Murray The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music from 2pm, 0151 236 9091 IIIan Prowse The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, 8pm, 0152 236 9091 IISolitaire Studio 2, Parr Street, 8pm, £3, 01517073727, Live Acoustic

Theatre & Dance IISleeping Beauty Epstein Theatre, 7pm, £9, 0844 888 4411, classical ballet IIThe Liverpool Passion Plays: Act One Liverpool Cathedral, St James’ Mount, 7.30pm, 0151 702 7255 IITony Teardrop: Cut To The Chase Productions St Lukes ‘Bombed Out’ Church, 8pm, £10, biting, humorous play about people living on the edges of society

Arts IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Maritime Museum, see 1st for details IIAn Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details

IIThe Bluecoat’s 5th Anniversary The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10am8pm, 0151 702 5324, exciting programme

IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm

IIDot-art: One day watercolour workshop The Bluecoat, School

IIFace to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall,

IIThe Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details

LOWDOWN MARCH

10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963 IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, see 1st for details IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, see 1st for details IIIn Seven Days Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details IIOil boom, Delta burns International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIThe 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things The Bluecoat, see 1st for details IIJudy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details IISublime to Ridiculous: works

by Derek Couturier The Brindley, Runcorn, 10am-5.30pm, 0151 907 8360 IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, see 1st for details IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool, 10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art IIGlam! Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, see 1st for details IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom, Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton IIStrangers in a Strange Land Walker Art Gallery, see 23rd for details IIVide Exhibition The Bluecoat, see 21st for details IIThe Art of Pop Video Fact, see 14th for details

Family IIEaster Egg Hunt Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 10.30am-5pm, normal Hall admission, 0151 287 4798, fun for younger children and parents

Other Events IIDerren Brown Liverpool Empire Theater, 8pm, £36-£45, 0844 871 3017, acknowledged master of psychological illusion IIThe Bluecoat’s 5th Anniversary The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10am8pm, 0151 702 5324, exciting programme IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95, Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool IIJonny Bongo’s Monday Night Quiz The Shipping Forecast, 8pm12am, 0151 709 6901, £1 IIBlue Lantern The Compass, Chester, 8pm, 01244 344890

TUESDAY 26TH Music

Arts IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Maritime Museum, see 1st for details IIAn Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm IIThe Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details IIFace to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963 IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, see 1st for details IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, see 1st for details

IISing-a-long Afternoon Singing Our Socks Off Sefton Park Palm House, 2pm-4pm, £5 (incl. a cup of tea and piece of cake), 0151 726 9304

IIIn Seven Days Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details

IITony Coburn, Jon Keats, Jimmy Coburn, Paul Jones, Jay Murray The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music from 2pm, 0151 236 9091

IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details

IIRonny Hughes, Gary Murphy The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, 7.30pm, 0152 236 9091 IIPARRJAZZ: Daniel John Martin Studio 2, Parr Street, 8.30pm, £3 on door/ FREE Students (NUS), 0151 707 3727, Jazz and open jam session, violinist IIOut Of The Bedroom: Acoustic Open Mic Night Leaf Cafe, Bold St, 8.30pm, 0151 707 7747, with Johnny Sands IIUnplugged Alexanders, Rufus Court, Chester, £2/ free before 9pm, 01244 340005 IILunchtime Concerts Wesley Methodist Church, Chester, 12.451.45, £3, 01244 379275

Theatre & Dance IISleeping Beauty Epstein Theatre, 7pm, £9, 0844 888 4411, classical ballet IIThe Liverpool Passion Plays: Act One Liverpool Cathedral, St James’ Mount, 7.30pm, 0151 702 7255 IITony Teardrop: Cut To The Chase Productions St Lukes ‘Bombed Out’ Church, 8pm, £16/ £12 Concs/ £10 Students, biting, humorous play about people living on the edges of society

IIOil boom, Delta burns International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details

IIThe 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details

IIThe Art of Pop Video Fact, see 14th for details

Family IIEaster Egg Hunt Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 10.30am-5pm, normal Hall admission, 0151 287 4798, fun for younger children and parents

Sports & Leisure IICycle for Health Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 10am, booking essential, 0151 287 4798

Other Events IIDerren Brown Liverpool Empire Theater, 8pm, £36-£45, 0844 871 3017, acknowledged master of psychological illusion IIQuartet The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 7.30pm, £6/ £7, 0151 709 3789, film IIThe Bluecoat’s 5th Anniversary The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10am8pm, 0151 702 5324, exciting programme IIPhilosophy in Pubs The Bluecoat, School Lane, 1pm-2.30pm, 0151 702 5324, resident philosophers debate the important questions IIJake Mills Quiz Night House, Bold Street, 7pm, 0151 709 7141

IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things The Bluecoat, see 1st for details

IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95, Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool

IIJudy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details

IILeaf Pudding Club Leaf Cafe, Bold St, 6.30pm, £11.95, 0151 707 7747, five homemade puddings

IISublime to Ridiculous: works

by Derek Couturier The Brindley, Runcorn, 10am-5.30pm, 0151 907 8360

WEDNESDAY 27TH

IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, see 1st for details IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool, 10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art IIGlam! Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, see 1st for details IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom, Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton IIStrangers in a Strange Land Walker Art Gallery, see 23rd for details IIVide Exhibition The Bluecoat, see 21st for details

Music IIPaul Jones, Jon Keats, Jimmy Coburn, Tony Coburn, Richard Batty The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music from 2pm, 0151 236 9091 IIOlly Murs Echo Arena, 7.30pm, £32.50, 0844 8000 400 IIKappa Band The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, 9pm, 0152 236 9091 IIPete Wade’s Acoustic Open Mic Night Gallaghers Pub and Barbers, Birkenhead, Wirral, 7.30pm, 0151 649 9095 IIFiction plus support The Shipping Forecast, 8pm, £6 adv, 0151 709 6901 IITru Skool Session Studio 2, Parr Street, 8pm, 0151 707 3727, Hip Hop night with Deejay Rasp and DJ LSG IIVernon High School Choir,

53 Chicago USA Liverpool Cathedral, St James’ Mount, 12.30-1.30pm, 0151 702 7255

Runcorn, 10am-5.30pm, 0151 907 8360

IIAcoustics Alexanders, Rufus Court, Chester, 01244 340005

IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, see 1st for details

IIKeith’s Jarrett and guests Keith’s Wine Bar, Lark Lane Sefton Park, 8pm, 0151 728 7688

IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details

Theatre & Dance IISleeping Beauty Epstein Theatre, 7pm, £9, 0844 888 4411, classical ballet IIThe Liverpool Passion Plays: Act One Liverpool Cathedral, St James’ Mount, 7.30pm, 0151 702 7255 IITony Teardrop: Cut To The Chase Productions St Lukes ‘Bombed Out’ Church, 8pm, £16/ £12 Concs/ £10 Students, biting, humorous play about people living on the edges of society

Arts IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Maritime Museum, see 1st for details IIAn Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm IIThe Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details IIFace to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963 IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, see 1st for details IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, see 1st for details IIIn Seven Days Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details IIOil boom, Delta burns International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIThe 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things The Bluecoat, see 1st for details IIJudy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details IISublime to Ridiculous: works

by Derek Couturier The Brindley,

IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool, 10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art IIGlam! Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, see 1st for details IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom, Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton IIStrangers in a Strange Land Walker Art Gallery, see 23rd for details IIVide Exhibition The Bluecoat, see 21st for details IIThe Art of Pop Video Fact, see 14th for details

Family IIEaster Egg Hunt Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 10.30am-5pm, normal Hall admission, 0151 287 4798, fun for younger children and parents

Sports & Leisure IIWalk for Health Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 1.30pm, 0151 287 4798, enjoy a healthy walk through the park IILatin Mania Telford’s Warehouse, Chester, 8pm, £4 each/ £6 both,01244 390 090, Salsa Classes and Latin dance night

Other Events IIDerren Brown Liverpool Empire Theater, 8pm, £36-£45, 0844 871 3017, acknowledged master of psychological illusion IIThe Bluecoat’s 5th Anniversary The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10am8pm, 0151 702 5324, exciting programme IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95, Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool IISpotify Wednesday Leaf Cafe, Bold St, 8pm, 0151 707 7747, Enabling the sharing, creating and modifying of each other’s playlists IIQuiz Night The Compass, Chester, 8.30pm, 01244 344890

THURSDAY 28TH Music IILost Voices View Two Gallery, Mathew St, 8.30pm, £6/ £4 on the door, Jesus Penarannda, Superimpose IIEverclear O2 Academy 2 Liverpool, 7pm, £18.56, 0844 477 2000 IITony Mac, Jon Keats, Richard Batty The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music from 2pm till early evening, 0151 236 9091 IIRonny Hughes, Beatles Tribute Night The Cavern Club, Mathew St, 7.30pm, £3, 0151 236 9091 IIXander & The Peace Pirates plus support Tony Mac The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, 7pm, 0152 236 9091 IISean Stephenson The Shipping Forecast, In The Bar, 10pm-1am, 0151 709 6901 IIJuicy The Shipping Forecast, In The Hold, 10pm-3am, £3, 0151 709 6901

House, see 1st for details IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm IIThe Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details IIFace to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963 IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, see 1st for details IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, see 1st for details IIIn Seven Days Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details IIOil boom, Delta burns International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details

IISongwriters Creation Club Studio 2, Parr Street, 7pm, 01517073727, get together for all songwriters, composers and artitst to collaborate & create new projects

IIThe 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details

IIMusic For The Greater Good Alexanders, Rufus Court, Chester, £5/ £4 adv/ £3 NUS, 01244 340005

IIJudy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details

IIThe Black Diamond Express Telford’s Warehouse, Chester, 01244 390 090 IITea Jazz Dobbies Garden Centre Tea Room, 5-7pm, 01704 552920

Theatre & Dance IIHarlem Globetrotters ‘You Write The Rules’ World Tour Echo Arena, 7.30pm, £12.50-£40, 0844 8000 400 IITony Teardrop: Cut To The Chase Productions St Lukes ‘Bombed Out’ Church, 8pm, £16/ £12 Concs/ £10 Students, biting, humorous play about people living on the edges of society

Comedy IIComedy Central at Albert Dock Baby Blue, Albert Dock, 6pm, £15-£33, 0151 702 5834, Headliner: Dan Nightingale, Compere: Alex Boardman, Supporting: Kiri Pritchard Mclean, Chris Turner

Arts IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Maritime Museum, see 1st for details IIAn Age of Confidence Sudley

IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things The Bluecoat, see 1st for details

IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, see 1st for details IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool, 10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art IIGlam! Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, see 1st for details IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom, Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton IIStrangers in a Strange Land Walker Art Gallery, see 23rd for details IIVide Exhibition The Bluecoat, see 21st for details IIThe Art of Pop Video Fact, see 14th for details

Family IIEaster Egg Hunt Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 10.30am-5pm, normal Hall admission, 0151 287 4798, fun for younger children and parents

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Sports & Leisure IIWalk for Health Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 6pm, 0151 287 4798, enjoy an evening healthy walk around the park IILFC Legends Day Tours LFC Stadium, Anfield Road, £40/ £20 Concs, 0844 870 0123, with Jan Molby

Other Events IIBehind the scenes tours St Georges Hall, 2pm, £10, limited availability, 0151 225 6909 IIDerren Brown Liverpool Empire Theater, 8pm, £36-£45, 0844 871 3017, acknowledged master of psychological illusion IICase Histories...A series of talks St Georges Hall, 12.30-1.30pm, £2.50 payable on the door, 0151 225 6909, by Steve Binns MBE IIDrama and Acting for Absolute Beginners Floral Pavilion Blue Lounge, New Brighton, 1pm, £3, 0151 666 0000 IIThe Bluecoat’s 5th Anniversary The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10am8pm, 0151 702 5324, exciting programme IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95, Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool IIMurder Mystery Night Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 7.30pm, £30, 0151 529 2640

FRIDAY 29TH Music IINeil’s Children The Compass, Chester, 8pm, £6, 01244 344890 IIThe Twelve Bars O2 Academy 2 Liverpool, 7pm, 0844 477 2000 IITim Shaw, Ronny Hughes, Jon Keats, Tony Mac The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music 12-8pm, 0151 236 9091 IIRichard Batty & The Rockits The Cavern Club, Mathew St, 8pm, £3, 0151 236 9091 IIGood Friday with The Cavern Beatles The Cavern Live Lounge, Mathew St, 8.30pm, £10, 0151 236 9091 IIThe Foundry Olde Red Lion, Little Sutton, 0151 3392496 IINeil Griffiths Gallaghers Pub and Barbers, Birkenhead, Wirral, 7.30pm, 0151 649 9095, 80s music IIThe Monthly Review The Shipping Forecast, 10pm-3am, 0151

709 6901 II3B DJ’s House, Bold Street, 8pm, 0151 709 7141 IIThank Funk Its Friday: Brickhouse Studio 2, Parr Street, 8pm, £3, 0151 707 3727, plus DJ No-Bed IIThe Stylistics Tribute The Green Room, 8pm, £15, 0870 787 1866 IIShy & The Fight Telford’s Warehouse, Chester, Free Before 9pm/ £4 Thereafter, 01244 390 090

IIAn Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm IIThe Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details IIFace to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963

IIMolly Jones & Lee Southhall, Rachael Wright & The Good Sons, Clever Little Tramps, Just By Chance The Zanzibar Club, 7.45pm, £5.50, 0151 707 0633

IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, see 1st for details

IIRonan Keating Tribute Huyton Civic Suite, 7.30pm, £12.50, 0151 443 3761

IIIn Seven Days Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details

Theatre & Dance IIWhistle plus Support The Lantern Theatre, Blundell St, 7.30pm, £5/ £4 Concs, 0151 703 0000, beautiful and moving coming-of-age story IIWild Flowers Epstein Theatre, 7pm, £10/ £12, 0844 888 4411, poignant reminder of Liverpool’s own history or its very own identity IITony Teardrop: Cut To The Chase Productions St Lukes ‘Bombed Out’ Church, 8pm, £16/ £12 Concs/ £10 Students, biting, humorous play about people living on the edges of society

Comedy IIComedy Central at Albert Dock Baby Blue, Albert Dock, 6pm, £15-£33, 0151 702 5834, Headliner: Dan Nightingale, Compere: Alex Boardman, Supporting: Doc Brown, Mike Newall IIKeith Carter as Nige plus guest The Slaughter House, Fenwick St, 8pm, £10-£32.50, 0151 227 5946, MC Chris Cairns introduces Keith Carter as Nige along with Sol Bernstein and Guest Comedian IISol Bernstein plus support The Slug and Lettuce, North John St, 8pm, £10-£30, 0151 236 8820, MC Kevin Dewsbury introduces Sol Bernstein along with Keith Carter as Nige and Guest Comedian IIAndrew Ryan, Charlie Baker & guest The Laugh Inn, Chester, 8pm, £13.50, 0800 612 9714

Arts IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Maritime Museum, see 1st for details

IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, see 1st for details

IIOil boom, Delta burns International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIThe 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things The Bluecoat, see 1st for details IIJudy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, see 1st for details IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool, 10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art IIGlam! Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, see 1st for details IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom, Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton IIStrangers in a Strange Land Walker Art Gallery, see 23rd for details IIThe Art of Pop Video Fact, see 14th for details

Family IIEaster Egg Hunt Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 10.30am-5pm, normal Hall admission, 0151 287 4798, fun for younger children and parents IIEaster Bunny Joke Trail Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 11am-5pm,

normal Hall admission, 0151 287 4798 IIDonkey Rides Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 12-4pm, small charge for rides, 0151 287 4798, Great fun for younger children

Other Events IIDerren Brown Liverpool Empire Theater, 8pm, £36-£45, 0844 871 3017, acknowledged master of psychological illusion IIThe Bluecoat’s 5th Anniversary The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10am8pm, 0151 702 5324, exciting programme IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95, Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool

SATURDAY 30TH Music IIAmy Wadge Pete Riley Duo The Philharmonic Hall, Rodewald Suite, Hope St, 8.30pm, £12, 0151 709 3789 IIDennis Locorriere The Philharmonic Hall, Hope St, 7.30pm, £20-£26, 0151 709 3789 IIRadstock Festival 2013 O2 Academy 2 Liverpool, 1pm, £28.12, 0844 477 2000 IILimehouse Lizzy Plus ACE/DC The Citadel, St. Helens, 8pm, £13, 01744 735436 IITim Shaw, Jay Murray and The Shakers, Richard Batty The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music from 12pm till early evening, 0151 236 9091 IIThe Cave Dwellers plus support Tony Mac The Cavern Club, Mathew St, 8.30pm, £4, 0151 236 9091 IIRonny Hughes, Kappa, Tony Mac The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, live music from 2.30pm, 0152 236 9091 IISaturday With The Beatles ft. the Cavern Club Beatles The Cavern Live Lounge, Mathew St, 8.30pm, £15, 0151 236 9091, Beatles Tribute Show IIInsanity Beach Olde Red Lion, Little Sutton, 0151 3392496 IIBad Brown Acid Stamps Wine Bar, Liverpool Road, Crosby, 9pm, 0151 286 2662 IIMe & Him Bring You... The Shipping Forecast, 7.30pm, £5, 0151 709 6901 IIDJ Night Studio 2, Parr Street,

55 9pm, 0151 707 3727 IIThe Backbeat Beatles The Green Room, 8pm, £15, 0870 787 1866 IIThe Congo Faith Healers Telford’s Warehouse, Chester, Free Before 9pm/ £4 Thereafter, 01244 390 090 IIBestival Benefit Nation, Wolstenholme Square, 10pm, £16.25, Charity Fundraiser

Theatre & Dance IIWild Flowers Epstein Theatre, 7pm, £10/ £12, 0844 888 4411, poignant reminder of Liverpool’s own history or its very own identity IITony Teardrop: Cut To The Chase Productions St Lukes ‘Bombed Out’ Church, 8pm, £16/ £12 Concs/ £10 Students, biting, humorous play about people living on the edges of society

Comedy IIComedy Central at Albert Dock Baby Blue, Albert Dock, 6pm, £15-£33, 0151 702 5834, Headliner: Dan Nightingale, Compere: Alex Boardman, Supporting: Doc Brown, Mike Newall IIKeith Carter as Nige plus guest The Slaughter House, Fenwick St, 8pm, £12.50-£35, 0151 227 5946, MC Chris Cairns introduces Keith Carter as Nige along with Sol Bernstein and Guest Comedian IISol Bernstein plus support The Slug and Lettuce, North John St, 8pm, £12.50-£32.50, 0151 236 8820, MC Kevin Dewsbury introduces Sol Bernstein along with Keith Carter as Nige and Guest Comedian IIChester Comedy Club Alexanders, Rufus Court, Chester, 8pm, £12/ £19.95 dinner & show, 01244 340005, Brendan Riley IIAndrew Ryan, Charlie Baker & guest The Laugh Inn, Chester, 8pm, £13.50, 0800 612 9714

Arts IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Maritime Museum, see 1st for details IIAn Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm IIThe Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details IIFace to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911

IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963 IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, see 1st for details IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, see 1st for details IIIn Seven Days Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details IIOil boom, Delta burns International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIThe 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things The Bluecoat, see 1st for details IIJudy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, see 1st for details IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool, 10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art IIGlam! Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, see 1st for details IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom, Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton IIStrangers in a Strange Land Walker Art Gallery, see 23rd for details IIThe Art of Pop Video Fact, see 14th for details

Family IIThe Wizard Of Oz St. Helens Theatre Royal, 1pm & 5pm, £36 Family/ £10 Adult / £9 Concs, 01744 756 000, wonderful Easter treat IICrafty Easter Fun The Lantern Theatre, Blundell St, 12pm-3pm, £15, 0151 703 0000, egg hunt, food and refreshments, Face Painting, quiz & games IIEaster Egg Hunt Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 10.30am-5pm, normal Hall admission, 0151 287 4798, fun for younger children and parents IIDonkey Rides Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 12-4pm, small charge for rides, 0151 287 4798, Great fun

for younger children IIEaster Eggstravaganza! The National Trust Formby, 11am, Child £3, 01704 878591, Booking Essential, Easter Egg trail

Sports & Leisure IIAll Star Superslam Wrestling Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton, 7.30pm, £13-£15, 0151 666 0000 IIEaster Saturday Family Fun Raceday Haydock Park Racecourse, St Helens, 2-5.30pm, £20-£45, 01942 725963 IIBetfair: Tony Bellew vs Isaac Chilemba Echo Arena, 6pm, £30£60, 0844 8000 400 IIEverton vs Stoke 5.30pm

Other Events IIDerren Brown Liverpool Empire Theater, 8pm, £36-£45, 0844 871 3017, acknowledged master of psychological illusion IIThe Bluecoat’s 5th Anniversary The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10am8pm, 0151 702 5324, exciting programme IIThe UK’s Big Vintage & Fashion Fair The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10am-5pm, £4, 0151 702 5324 IINot Just Vintage House, Bold Street, 11am, 0151 709 7141, Vintage Fair IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95, Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool IIFood, Drink & Lifestyle Festival The Racecourse, Chester, 10am5pm, 01244 405 615

SUNDAY 31ST Music IIOne Direction Echo Arena, 7.30pm, £25/ £32.50, 0844 8000 400 IITim Shaw, Made In Liverpool (Beatles Tribute), The Shakers The Cavern Club, Mathew St, live music from 12pm, 0151 236 9091 IIRonny Hughes, Tony Mac, Screaming Citizens The Cavern Pub, Mathew St, live music from 5.30pm, 0152 236 9091 IIEaster With The Beatles ft. the Cavern Club Beatles The Cavern Live Lounge, Mathew St, 7.30pm, £15, 0151 236 9091, Beatles Tribute Show IIFreakout Disco Band Olde Red

Lion, Little Sutton, 0151 3392496 IIJazz Con Fusion The Grapes, 9pm, 07950 828674, Live jazz with a Latin twist IIThe Rioters Dixieland Jazz Band Stamps Wine Bar, Liverpool Road, Crosby, 6pm, 0151 286 2662 IILive Music - Fire House, Bold Street, 8.30pm, 0151 709 7141 IISoul4Soul presents Funky Soul Studio 2, Parr Street, 8pm, £4, 0151 707 3727 IIRicky’s Country Special The Green Room, 2pm, £10, 0870 787 1866, Country acts from across the UK IIThe Willow Alexanders, Rufus Court, Chester, 2-5pm, 01244 340005 IIOpen Mic Session with Rusty Mahone Telford’s Warehouse, Chester, 01244 390 090 IIJazz & Jam Night Brewers Arms, Neston Wirral, 8pm, 0151 336 1627

Theatre & Dance IITony Teardrop: Cut To The Chase Productions St Lukes ‘Bombed Out’ Church, 8pm, £16/ £12 Concs/ £10 Students, biting, humorous play about people living on the edges of society

Arts IITitanic and Liverpool: the untold story Maritime Museum, see 1st for details IIAn Age of Confidence Sudley House, see 1st for details IIDLA Piper Series: This is sculpture TATE, 10am-5.50pm IIThe Games of Art The Black-E, see 1st for details IIFace to face with the statues of the great hall The Great Hall, 10am-5pm, admission £1, 0151 225 6911 IIElvis and Us Experience The Beatles Story Pier Head, 10am-6pm, £6 incl. Fab 4D, 0151 709 1963 IIThe Pirate Ship! World Museum Liverpool, see 1st for details IIBeryl Bainbridge, painter Museum of Liverpool, see 1st for details IIIn Seven Days Walker Art Gallery, see 1st for details IIOil boom, Delta burns International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details IIWhite Gold: the true cost of cotton International Slavery Museum, see 1st for details

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IIThe 43 Game: Invitation The Black-E, see 1st for details IIThe Universal Addressability of Dumb Things The Bluecoat, see 1st for details IIJudy Chicago: Voices From The Song of Songs The Black-E, see 1st for details IIThe Beatles Hidden Gallery The Beatles Story Pier Head, see 1st for details IIThresholds Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IISylvia Sleigh Tate Liverpool, 10-5pm, 0151 702 7400, modern & contemporary art IIGlam! Tate Liverpool, see 1st for details IICatrin Howell Bluecoat Display Centre, see 1st for details IIFour Seasons dot-art Showroom, Queen Ave, 12-6pm, 0845 017 6660, by Angela Burton IIStrangers in a Strange Land Walker Art Gallery, see 23rd for details

IIThe Art of Pop Video Fact, see 14th for details

Family IIThe Wizard Of Oz St. Helens Theatre Royal, 1pm & 5pm, £36 Family/ £10 Adult / £9 Concs, 01744 756 000, wonderful Easter treat IICrafty Easter Fun The Lantern Theatre, Blundell St, 12pm-3pm, £15, 0151 703 0000, egg hunt, food and refreshments, Face Painting, quiz & games IIEaster Egg Hunt Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 10.30am-5pm, normal Hall admission, 0151 287 4798, fun for younger children and parents IIEaster Bunny Joke Trail Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 11am-5pm, normal Hall admission, 0151 287 4798 IIDonkey Rides Croxteth Hall and Country Park, 12-4pm, small charge for rides, 0151 287 4798, Great fun for younger children

Sports & Leisure IIAston Villa vs Liverpool 1.30pm

Other Events IIRetro Sunday Leaf Cafe, Bold St, 11am-5pm, 0151 707 7747, vintage feast fit for kings IIThe Bluecoat’s 5th Anniversary The Bluecoat, School Lane, 10am8pm, 0151 702 5324, exciting programme IIMagical Mystery Tour Albert Dock, 11.30am & 2pm, £15,95, Tickets from www.cavernclub.org, 2h Tour of Beatles Liverpool IIEaster Sunday Special The James Monro, 0151 236 9700 IICircus Easter Sunday Party Camp and Furnace, Greenland St, 8pm4am, £20 adv, 0151 706 8045 IICreative Craft Fair Haydock Park Racecourse, St Helens, 10am4.30pm, £1, 01942 725963

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Dave O’Grady plus guests #IndieNight PARR JAZZ: John Ellis Bare Foot Fiddler, Folk Live Indie Pop Lovelines Battle of the Bands, Indie Rock Battle of the Bands, Indie Rock Chapter 2, Acoustic Music Solitaire, Acoustic Music PARR JAZZ: Tim Thornton Live Music Songwriters Creation Club DJ Mark Wyss, Funk Easy Like Sunday Afternoon Afuriko on Tour, Jazz PARR JAZZ: Corey Mwamba Looking Glass: Live Music and DJ Songwriters Creation Club The Robert Mather Band, Funk Hullaballoo: Electronica, 80’s Pop Freek and guest, Punk Metal Solitaire, Acoustic Music PARR JAZZ: Daniel John Martin Tru Skool Session, Hip Hop Belicious Beats, Live Music Brickhouse, Funk DJ Night Soul4Soul

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CLASSIFIEDS CLASSIFIED ADS 30P PER WORD, BOX & BOLD £5, COLOURED HIGHLIGHT £5 CONTACT: CLASSIFIEDS@THELOWDOWNMAGAZINE.COM Food & Drink, Nightlife SANTINO Authentic Italian cuisine now available at 449 Smithdown Road, Wavertree.

0151 733 3644 SOUND FOOD & DRINK, Duke Street. A friendly cafe/bar, open 10am til 1am 7 days a week offering hearty soups, ace pizzas, great coffee, world beers and live bands/ DJs. Sound Food & Drink, 52 Duke St, Liverpool, L1 5AA, 0151 707 6363

Music/Entertainment PROFESSIONAL STUDIO Budget rate. Newly refurbished analogue/digital recording studio.

Soundcraft 24 track 2 inch tape machine with Soundcraft 2400 series desk. Unbeatable drum sound. Tape recordings streamed into Pro Tools or Logic on an up to date iMac. Ideal for serious demos or self release EP/album projects.

Archiving of tapes to digital format can be arranged. Introductory rate of £100 for 6 hour session.

2/3 hour sessions available - rates negotiable. Contact dombryan@ hotmail.com CURLY MUSIC Cash Paid for Quality Used Instruments and Equipment. Large range of New & Used Guitars & Amps, Accessories, Effects, Drums & PA etc in Stock.

45 Ranelagh Street Liverpool, 0151 709 8383 – curly.music@ btconnect.com.

AFRICAN DRUM GROUP. Every Tuesday night from 7-9pm in the old police station off lark lane.

And every Thursday night from 7-9pm in mello mello (40-42 slater street, entrance on parr street.

All welcome. Contact Steve for further details on 07724450867 POLTERGEIST featuring original Bunnymen members Will Sergeant and Les Pattinson live at Kazimier, Liverpool Sat 16th March www.daspoltergiest.com

ATTENTION ORIGINAL ARTISTS/BANDS/POETS The Ian Prowse Monday Club is at Cavern Pub 8-11pm every week (Mon - just in case...) No covers strictly original material.

Shopping JACKSON’S FASHION specialise in being unique. Our collections contain one of a kind clothing and accessories for women who want to stand out. Each item is made here in Liverpool with the highest quality, as we believe in putting our customers first. Please view our items on-line for an affordable, eye catching wardrobe. Jacksons Fashion. www.facebook.com/ JacksonsFashion PILLBOX VINTAGE FAIRS An endearing, lovely, and unique shop for hand crafted accessories and ideas for your hand crafted life.

Visit our website at www.eluganu. com Pillbox Vintage Fairs offer the very best in vintage and retro at their regular monthly events. Leaf on Bold St – Last Sun of every month and The Shipping Forecast – First Thurs of every month.

Health, Beauty, Wellness BLEACH Whether you want to feel good, look good or just be totally pampered. Bleach Hair and Spa has it all! Specialising in all aspects of ladies and gents hairdressing, beauty treatments and spa facilities you can treat your mind body and soul. www.bleachliverpool.co.uk

Arts PERCY GULLIVERS PRINT SHOP & SOCIAL, 15 Slater St (above The Shipping Forecast), Liverpool. Housing one of the NW’s largest affordable selections of screen printed gig posters and highly collectable art prints, we act as both a gallery and event space.

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CREATIVE EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS by CRAFT CREATIVE EVENTS. Vintage Hen Parties, Kids Birthdays, Baby Showers, Corporate Team Building, Community & Educational Events, Charity Workshops, plus many more. Contact becky@thecraftcreative.com 01512032409 LIVERPOOL BASED DESIGNER and illustrator Sara Cullen works under the name Cat and Fox Adventures. As well as designing for television shows including Nickelodeons ‘House of Anubis’, Sara produces personal work in the form of limited edition Woodland Collection prints which were featured in Creative Review’s blog and The Guardian’s Buy of the Day. You can buy them from her online shop www.catandfoxadventures.com

Misc NEW PROBLEM PAGE Send your questions to LowDown for some no nonsense advice. help@ thelowdownmagazine.com FOR SALE Busy cafe in popular area must sell due to strong dislike of general public. 9876 WANTED Light for the end of a long dark tunnel, no canvassers or oncoming trains.

ESCORTS FOR MUMS Range of types and outfits. Perfect for Mother’s Day gift. 6373 FOR SALE Flux capacitor .

Would suit anyone interested in time travel all reasonable offers considered .Can deliver anytime last year. 7353 WANTED members for tennis based religious organisation must be broad minded and willing to serve. 0393 TAXI The gentleman who gave me £10 for a taxi home last saturday. The fare actually came to £13 but thanks anyway i suppose.

FOR SALE home pharmacy everything you need to treat you and your family must sell due to poor health. 6252 BLONDE GIRL on the 86 bus sunday morning. I was genuinely looking for change in my pocket.

If you fancy meeting for a coffee call me or meet me in Ate Days on Sunday morning. 8373 HOMES FOR CATS NEEDED 3 really stinky, mangy cats with fleas need homes. Not housetrained and love crapping behind tv’s and in shoes. Would be great for very lonely person. 0393 TECHNOLOGY PROBLEMS If you really hate a piece of your technology I will come around and shout at it free of charge. If that’s not enough i will drive over it with my car. 9282 LARGE BAG of used but cleaned male and female underwear. Large variation in styles and sizes. Free to whoever wants them. Get in touch with Shirley at Bankview nursing home for the elderly. 9998 MAKE MONEY FROM HOME. Earn money by coming up with excuses for the state of the economy and even more by coming up with a range of scapegoats to blame contact George or David 2037 FOR SALE Large pointy white hat and matching robes. Selling due to early retirement. Suit someone who likes role playing games. 8303

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