Category: Live

Liverpool’s own Cal Ruddy is bringing his vintage bluesy country sound to record with the help of you lovely people. 23 year old Cal is a singer/ songwriter based in Liverpool and is considered one of the most exciting songwriters on the scene. Last year saw Cal embark on a musical journey to the hometown…

The Men-in-Black return for their yearly visit to Liverpool with a hit-filled set at the O2 Academy, this time with guests Therapy?. It’s a Tuesday night, it’s cold outside and Liverpool FC play a Champion’s League game, yet the O2 Academy is packed with fans waiting for the legendary Stranglers. Many moons ago, The Stranglers…

Russ Soloman, the legendary founder of Tower Records, the iconic multi-plex superstore that brought music to life, has died at age 92. Russ created an empire of music selling during the sixties and into the seventies. Tower Records was the main hub for buying records, where everyone from the average Joe to Elton John shopped…

British indie-rock royalty Wolf Alice hit up the Gorilla in Manchester for a special intimate show for War Child and the BRIT Awards. Cass Hyde writes: As part of the legendary series of gigs raising money for War Child, hundreds of lucky fans from across the country made their way to Gorilla in Manchester to…

The quirky cult Leeds maestros Hookworms return to Liverpool this Friday (23rd) in support of their acclaimed third album Microshift. The visicral live act are set to bring Microshift, the acclaimed third album from the five-piece that has gained full marks across the board, to the Invisible Wind Factory courtesy of Harvest Sun. The band’s…

The final night in a venue is sad, usually rowdy for the sake of it, but tonight it was the band’s domain, and that band was Cabbage. The Magnet bids farewell, bon voyage, fucking off to become a laughable comedy venue. It’s a sad day for the local music scene when a decent venue ditches…

It ends as it began, a perfect bookend. The disparate quintet, having bared souls to one another over the past hour or so, go their separate ways, back to their lives. A narration plays- the very words spoken during the opening- written to appease their captor, simultaneously an act of subservience and defiance. The piece…

35 years in the game, synth-pop icons Erasure have never left and their constant, somehow always relevant sound, alongside a marathon set and the dynamic Andy Bell, makes tonight’s show a smash. Opening the night were Welsh electronic band Bright Light Bright Light, who if they had been dueling during the same age as Erasure…

Three years ago, Sean Martin, lead singer of The Night Café, was barred from the East Village Arts Club. Three years later, he’s back with his band who have sold out the place. In a venue where confetti always seems to be falling down from the roof, The Night Café bring their show home for…

The start of February 2018 has proven to be a rather special time in term of astrology, with a Super Blue Blood Moon hanging in the sky. There are all manner of extraordinary implications within this phenomena that resonates strongly in psychedelia, everything from witchcraft through to astral projection- and the aptly named Moon Duo…