Liverpool Music Week began in 2003 and over the last 8 years has gone onto become a nationally recognised event and highlight of the music calendar. Resulting in Liverpool Music Week becoming the UK’s biggest indoor winter music festival, a musical showcase that features big name acts and gi…ves a performance platform for fresh emerging talent, a number of which have gone on to reach nationwide success. Last years event attracted a record breaking 65,000 people to the city and is a combination of free and ticketed shows. The winning format returns in 2010 to stage yet another splendid November line up of shows…

DATES ANNOUNCED SO FAR:-

Leftfield
Thursday 25th November
Liverpool University (Mountford Hall)
£24+BF / Age: 14+ / Doors: 7.00pm

Chase & Status
Saturday 13th November
02 Academy Liverpool (Main Room)
£14+BF / Age: 14+ / Doors: 7.30pm

Efterklang
Sunday 7th November
02 Academy Liverpool (Main Room)
£10.00+BF / Age: 14+ / Doors: 8.00pm

Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip
Wednesday 3rd November
02 Academy Liverpool (Main Room)
£14.50+BF / Age: 14+ / Doors: 7.30pm

Beardyman
Friday 29th October
Liverpool University (Stanley Theatre)
£10.00+BF / Age: 14+ / Doors: 7.30pm

Hadouken
Saturday 30th October
Liverpool University (Stanley Theatre)
£12.50+BF / Age: 14+ / Doors: 7.30pm

K’naan
Saturday 13th November
Liverpool University (Stanley Theatre)
£12.50+BF / Age: 14+ / Doors: 7.30pm

Tickets available from www.ticketline.co.uk / Tel: 0844 888 4401. More acts to be announced over the coming months.

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Peter Price is a blues sensation in demand to play festivals the world over, and his sell-out shows at the International Guitar Festival of Great Britain have become an annual fixture of the festival’s programme. Inspired by the likes of blues greats such as Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Willie McTell, and Robert Johnson, Pete’s amazing guitar-work and inspire…d blues voice takes the listener on a journey through the blues and beyond. A rare appearance in Liverpool, this chance to see Peter Price play at the View Two Gallery is one not to be missed.

Blue C play their own style of blues straight from the Mersey Delta. Raphael Callaghan on slide guitar and Christine Purnell on bass have already made an impression, winning the Great British Blues Festival’s first Blues Song of the Year, and playing with the likes of Bonnie Rait and Eric Bibb.

The Orchestra comes from Sweden and is an exciting mix of genres and emotions. Be prepared for plenty of low-down, full-on, dirty blues!

Tickets are £5 in advance from https://www.wegottickets.com/event/89872 and £6 on the door.

Doors open at 8.00pm and music runs from 8.30pm to 11.15pm

Time 24 September · 20:00 – 23:00

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Location:
The View Two Gallery
Mathew Street
Liverpool, United Kingdom

The evening will be called Just Acoustics.

The boys will be playing a selection of new songs from there forthcoming second studio album Hurricanes along with songs from there debut album Weary Nights.

Support comes from a fine singer songwriter Al Wycherley who is coming from Felixstowe for the gig.

Entrance is £4.00 on the door

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LIVERPOOL’S FIRST EVER LGB&T PRIDE ANNOUNCES GLITTERING MAIN STAGE LINE UP

‘Roll Up, Roll Up’ boys and girls! The Ring Mistress of the Rainbow Circus’ is cracking her whip and the acts are flocking in! A glittering line up of local and national stars has been announced to play the Main Stage at the first ever official Liverpool Pride festival, which takes place in and around Liverpool’s Dale St on Saturday 7^th August.                                                                 

Headlining the day are Gay Icon and Coronation St star Adam Rickitt, who will perform his brand new single as well as an updated version of his 1999 hit ‘Breathe Again’,  and Club Diva Rozalla, who will perform her club land smash ‘Everybody’s Free’ in addition to some of her other hits including ‘Are You Ready To Fly’ and ‘I Love Music’.  Also sure to wow the crowds is Happy Mondays and X-Factor star Rowetta, who will be joined by the Liverpool based AJ Productions dance troupe to perform a number of classic tunes in the way that only this soul diva can. 

Rowetta said ‘I can’t wait to perform at the first ever Liverpool Pride. I have loved singing at all the Prides over the years, and always wanted Liverpool to have their own. I love Liverpool and can’t wait to sing, celebrate and party with everyone.’

Liverpool’s Britain’s Got Talent stars, MD Productions, kick start the main stage action with their anti-bullying dance number “They don’t really know about us”. Other local acts taking part include Tyler Menser who will sing the Michael Jackson classic ‘Man in the Mirror,’ before local songstress Chelcee Grimes (currently working with Lady GaGa and Beyoncé’s producers ) and Mark Thompson (who has worked with Tinchy Stryder) perform some of their own pop tunes. The city’s own vogue supremacists House of Suarez bring a spectacular 12 minute taste of what can be expected at the ‘JUSTICE’ Vogue Ball, to be held in October.

Artistic Director, Darren Suarez said; ‘House of Suarez is ecstatic to be part of Liverpool Pride’s celebrations. House of Suarez has performed nationally in prides across the country, it’s so great that we can finally perform at our own city’s pride festival.

Adding a touch of sparkle to the main stage is Liverpool drag artiste Doreen Kum Kwik (aka Darren Edge) who, in honour of Liverpool Pride, has set up her own Glee Club with Hope and Harmony choir and the Singing Hands choir for deaf people. She’ll be belting out some of your all time favourite camp tunes.

Other highlighted performers include one of the UK’s biggest ‘all gay’ bands, Cubstars, and singer Nikki Belle, who will be along to rock out her  two club-land Number 1 hit singles, ‘Teardrops’ and ‘Sex Shooter’.  Juice FM and Garlands DJ’s Dave Wheelan and Anton Powers will also be on hand throughout the day to keep Pride-goers entertained with some of their infamous DJ sets. Revellers can also expect to see the one and only Lady Cyan pop up throughout the day as one of the compares, cracking the whip and keeping all of the acts in tow.

Towards the end of the day, we strike up the Batala and Republic of Swing Samba Bands to play us into the balloon release vigil. The Vigil will take place from 7.30pm with Gerry Potter reciting his beautiful and moving poem “We Travel” before Natasha Hamilton, accompanied by Liverpool’s drag artistes, sings the Atomic Kitten hit ‘Whole Again’. A rainbow sea of balloons will be released from the stage to commemorate those who have fought for equality and in honour of friends of Liverpool’s LGB&T community.

Councillor Louise Baldock, Liverpool’s Assistant Cabinet Member for Community Safety, said: “Liverpool’s Pride Festival will be a vibrant celebration of our city’s great diversity. It will bring together people of all ages and backgrounds to promote real respect and appreciation of difference.”

Plenty of exciting acts are lined up to play on the Cabaret and Acoustic stages, to be unveiled shortly.  The first ever Liverpool Pride festival is sure to be one to be remembered! Make sure you’re there to be a part of it!

About Liverpool Pride

Liverpool Pride 2010 is the first official Liverpool Pride festival by and for the Liverpool lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGB&T) communities. It is a two day event with a one day festival on the 7 August 2010 and a ‘Chilled Out Sunday’ on 8 August with cultural and sports events spread throughout the city.

Before choosing a date, organisers took a number of factors into consideration; such as other pride events, the Liverpool event calendar and key dates for the LGB&T community. LGB&T members of the community were consulted on a potential date. The consensus was that people wanted festival date to mean something important and asked that it reflect the anniversary of Michael Causer’s death, 2 August 2010.

Liverpool Pride is funded through contributions made from our delivery partners as well through advertising and sponsorship. We also receive a significant amount of ‘in-kind’ support from organisations and volunteers.

Liverpool Pride does not make a profit; all funds raised go to the delivery of the festival. Any surplus we make will be put towards the development of the next festival. We are also looking at how we can help support charities that share our values.

About Citysafe – Key Delivery partner of Liverpool Pride 2010

Citysafe is the Community Safety Partnership for Liverpool. Partners include Liverpool City Council, Merseyside Police, Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service, Health, Merseytravel, National Probation Service Merseyside, the universities, local businesses, community organisations and many others all working together to build safer communities. It also looks towards building more prosperous, cleaner, safer, stronger and sustainable communities in which every citizen will have a right to live in confidence without fear for personal safety or for the safety of others.

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Doors open at 8.00pm with music starting at 8.30pm. The night finishes at 11.15pm

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Venue Information:

View Two Gallery

www.viewtwogallery.co.uk

23 Mathew Street

Liverpool

L2 6RE

0151 236 9444

Note: if you haven’t been before you are looking for single doorway about halfway down Mathew Street on your left if coming from the Cavern Club end!

Rob Clarke is a Liverpool based singer/songwriter his new album Portraits was released early 2010. His work has an honest tone and quality which makes his finely crafted music all the more listenable. The Liverpool Echo has praised his work as being “memorable songs that… evoke the spirit of Liverpool.” Rob spoke to me about his upcoming album and about how he goes about writing.


So in the beginning, what made you want to write your own songs?

I was listening to Gimme Shelter by the Stones – had it on downstairs loud enough I could hear it upstairs in the bath- I knew some other people who played guitar so I’d thought I’d leave that to them – didn’t want to follow the herd so to speak – but then it just suddenly struck me I was prepared to do whatever it took or spend any amount of time to play guitar even a bit, even just a few notes or chords…


Who influenced you as you began writing? Do these people still influence you?

From there I always wanted to write songs, everyone that I admired did that and it became the biggest part of it almost straight away – I was trying to write songs before I could play to any standard at all really and I soon found that was pretty much the best part. Have you read Shakey?(The biography of Neil Young by Jimmy McDonough) To me if I’m not sure about something I always try to think what Dylan or Neil Young would do – and if that doesn’t work I think what the Beatles or Stones might do – so they pretty much cover if for me.


Your song Long Way north, has some strong imagery, it reminds me of early Bob Dylan, would you say Dylan is one of your influences?

Yes, a friend of mine offered to get me a copy of North Country Girl when I said I’d heard it ages ago and was trying to remember it but he took a long time to give it to me – after a while I thought it must be easy to play from my memory of it – it didn’t occur to me to get it off the Internet for some reason – anyway in doing that I ended up doing my own type of version, thought that would be more productive.





So that’s how it happened – it was that and also playing in folk clubs where a lot of the songs people sing have narratives to them so I’ve also been influenced by that sometimes as well. Funny though when I play it very few people seem to pick up on how similar it is structurally…


What’s you’re instrument of choice?

Guitar is good, also piano although it sometimes seems more difficult to write on…


What would you say your muse is, what inspires you when you write?

Songs are all around but in saying that they can be easy or difficult to find depending on your state of mind. I think you can write about absolutely anything, anything that’s happened domestically or socially, people you come into contact with and especially things or events that go on in the world or where you live – I’m surprised really that more people don’t write songs about some of the big things that actually happen in the world for good or bad – maybe that’s a part of ‘dumbing down’? John Lennon or Dylan weren’t afraid to write songs about real subjects… so what’s to fear? To me a song is basically just your own point of view about something – the judgement about how good or bad it is for later…


Once you get in the zone you can write about anything really – the ideas are all around but once you come out of the zone it can be difficult to see that – Recording and rehearsing can break the flow because you almost inevitably get into a different mindset…what does that tell you – stop rehearsing and recording!


Your song North to West, from you’re forthcoming album, is just you and a piano. Do you favour a stripped back sound?

Yes very much – I like real sounding things but then again I like electric guitar as well so I want to do that ASAP as well…


How do you approach song writing, do you find it is different each time or do you have a formula?

No formulas for me anyway but wouldn’t rule anything out -instinct is probably better though…


You have a new album coming out soon called Portraits, what’s the album have in store for listeners?

Ten stripped down acoustic portraits of people and in some cases animals… so if that’s your bag this one’s really for you! The publicity for it will say something like ‘Or an artist, two footballers and a hedgehog’.


How would you describe your music, genre wise? A lot of musicians struggle or are reluctant to categorise their music.

I’m trying to make it timeless I think.

The album is available to buy by clicking the link on Rob’s MySpace profile myspace.com/robclarkeunplugged

You can buy the download from iTunes and read the Liverpool Acoustic review here.

This interview was originally published on Matthew Moss’ blog, The Harmless Musician Type, which consists of Matt’s ramblings about music in general, and the local scene in particular. You can find the blog at theharmlessmusician.blogspot.com

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Portraits is the second album by Woolton singer songwriter Rob Clarke. In many ways this is even more stripped down and introspective than his previous collection Long Way North. The set was produced by Fran Ashcroft at The Garage Studios last year.


The program begins with North To West, a short piano ballad that picks up where the previous CD left off by informing listeners that he’s changing course. A mellow, sensitive mood is maintained throughout, with songs that are often dark and intimate. Clarke keeps the instrumentation to a minimum, so that his message comes across.


Highlights include Spike and Tracey Emin’s Blues. Other songs worth a look are the deceptive Our Friend in America and The Heirs Of Johnny Cash which is played in the spirit of Cash’s American Recordings.


However the song that may be closest to the author’s heart is Ball Of Fire a tribute to the Everton Football legend Alan Ball, who steered the team to the League title in 1969/70.


The program ends with a short reprise of North To West.


Overall this is an understated collection that thrives on melodic introspection.

The album is available to buy by clicking the link on Rob’s MySpace profile myspace.com/robclarkeunplugged

You can buy the download from iTunes.

© 2010 Stuart Todd – stuart[at]liverpoolacoustic.co.uk
Liverpool Acoustic – liverpoolacoustic.co.uk

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There’s a fantastic gig coming up this Friday 2nd July at Liverpool Hope’s new Capstone Theatre at its Creative Campus in Everton.


Neil Campbell is a talented and respected composer-guitarist from Liverpool, whose classical crossover guitar music has drawn sell-out audiences in Merseyside and beyond. He will be playing a selection of his solo guitar music, as well as music from a special collaboration with composer and vocalist Perri Alleyne-Hughes (Sense of Sound), who will also be appearing on the night.


In an innovative change to the normal classical concert format, soloists and ensembles from the Liverpool Guitar Society will be playing a support slot, warming up the audience and kicking off a great night of top quality classical guitar music. On the programme is a mix of beautiful music including a new work by local Composer and Society member Richard Harding.


The concert starts at 8pm sharp, tickets are £8 (£6 concessions and £5 for Guitar Society Members) and are available through Liverpool Philharmonic Hall Box Office, Hope Street, Liverpool L1 9BP. Tel: 0151 709 3489 or book on-line here.

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Neil Campbell in concert this Friday

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