Ex-Easter Island Head's mallet'd guitars - live in the Philharmonic's Music Room this Autumn

Go see Programme Hyperlinks 21.01.2022
Follow Jenny Lee Tsai for more spoken word gems

Go see the Dialect Bandcamp page here
FInd out more about Melodic Distraction
John Hegley at The Unity Theatre on 22/01/22 and then
Macondo by SIlvia Mercuriali on Feb 11th
on the same night Leave The Capital Project presents JW PAris, Luna Rosa and more at Jimmy's 

Touch Records Bandcamp is here (we played a wonderful cassette by Behzad that was released by Touch

Programme Hyperlinks 07.01.2022

For more info on Writing on the Wall go here.

Isn't It Good To Be Lost In The Wood? With The Hermit, Lucy Mercer & Martin Smith and Nick Branton & Jonathan Raisin at the Ullet Road Unitarian Church

Check out the now Rescheduled Futurama Festival  featuring The Skids, A Certain Ratio, New Model Army and Pete Bentham and The Dinnerladies.

Find out more about what's on at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall including Cellist Jonathan Aasgaard, an Afirca Oye Showcase and Echo and The Bunnymen!

See the free Louise Bourgeois Exhibition at Tate Liverpool

10th December 2021
What's going on in the world of Creative culture over the next few weeks? Here's a Santa Dash through some of the season's highlights
 
Opening at the Royal Standard gallery in Mann Street at the heart of the Baltic Village on Tuesday and running daily till Thursday is the exhibition Colourful Stories: A Queer Retelling of Liverpool's History. It's very definitely a young perspective on Liverpool and bound to be a bit controversial. [NOW POSTPONED UNTIL NEW YEAR]
https://comicsyouth.co.uk/safe-spaces-trail
The Bido Lito end-of-year Review is now out and you can pick up a copy at,-
Future Yard, Birkenhead
Dig Vinyl, Bold Street
Open Eye Gallery, Mann Island
Tate Liverpool Shop, Albert Dock 
https://bidolito.bandcamp.com/
Gigs-wise there's a Moonfrog All Nighter at Quarry on Sat 18th Dec. with bands including Lonesaw, and God On My Right,  8pm til 4am: https://www.quarrysound.co.uk/event-details/moonfrog-all-nighter-2 
and Bido Lito's Xmas quiz in aid of the Whitechapel Centre and Mind is on Monday 13th Dec at 7pm at Futureyard: https://futureyard.org/listings/bido-lito-liquidation-christmas-music-quiz-2021/ 
Also at Futureyard on New Years Eve Hogmanay has a punk-tinged edge to it with VLURE and Courting acting as dual headliners: https://futureyard.org/listings/new-years-eve-hogmanay-2021-vlure-courting/ 
and The Kazimier have a New Year's Eve event at the Wind Factory https://ra.co/events/1477501 
Manchester Collective’s are performing their new ‘Heavy Metal’ show at Future Yard at 8pm tomorrow night. This will be their second performance after bringing their ‘Voice of the Whale’ show to the venue in October. The show will feature new work they have commissioned from Sebastian Gainsborough (aka Vessel) and Ben Nobuto. 

[You can find out more here: https://manchestercollective.co.uk/metal]

In early 2022 we can look forward to,-
BIDSTON OBSERVATORY ARTISTIC RESEARCH CENTRE on the weekend of Friday 21st - Sunday 23rd January 2022 are offering a weekend of  poetry, ritual and magical practices, involving spells, meals and bonfires. Check the web-site for more details. http://www.bidstonobservatory.org/upcoming

Liverpool International Jazz Festival is back from 24th-27th February 

and will feature artists as different as Camilla George and Jason Rebello
http://www.thecapstonetheatre.com/jazzfestival/
and 
Africa Oyé have announced a Hip Hop showcase at the Philharmonic Music Room on Thursday 3rd February featuring Camden rapper Awate [AWARTTEY?] and various local artists. We'll do more on this event nearer the time.
https://africaoye.com/2021/12/africa-oye-announce-hip-hop-showcase-at-the-philharmonic-this-february/


Programme Hyperlinks - 26.11.21
Saturday 27th Quarry is hosting an evening of industrial, minimal synth, darkwave & noise, featuring...Nation Unrest [LDN] (Hard Rhythm Electronics), LONESAW [LVP] (Ritualistic Noise Gore),  NAPE [LDN] (Live Modular Techno), Polexia [LVP] (Harsh noise wall meets cold wave sensibilities), God On My Right [LVP] (Industrial Pop)
FROM 8PM-LATE
https://facebook.com/events/s/spnfrg1-nation-unrest-lonesaw-/434937048327828/
 Sunday 28th - Moroccan Gnawa groove masters Electric Jalaba are making an appearance at Future Yard in Birkenhead.
 December 3rd - Art punkers SPQR are also at Futureyard with support from Mondo Trasho and Torture and the Desert Spiders
https://futureyard.org/listings/
 A couple of things at the Manchester Cathedral worth hopping on a train for:
 Friday 8th April - Dead Can Dance are out on tour, this was originally scheduled for Spring 2021.
https://www.manchestercathedral.org/news-events/events/crosstown-concerts-presents-dead-can-dance-friday-8-april-2022/
 Wednesday 27th April - Low - out on tour following the release of Hey What (we played a track in October)
https://www.seetickets.com/event/low/manchester-cathedral/1979821
Manchester Collective’s upcoming show at Future Yard at 8pm on Saturday 11 December
the first classical music ensemble to perform at the venue they will perform new work by boundary-pushing collaborators including Abel Selaocoe, Hannah Peel, Lyra Pramuk, Vessel and Edmund Finnis. Further details at manchestercollective.co.uk.
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Programme Hyperlinks - 12/11/21
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​>> Next weekend you can catch the Dub Pistols at District, supported by Kioko and Positive Vibrations DJs – Saturday 20th at Jordan Street

>> Gigs coming up at The Kazimier Stockroom include:
> Electric Litany • Sunday 14th November
• E.L. bring their dark and atmospheric post rock to Liverpool for the first time this November
> Yuko Araki + Daisy Dickinson / Dialect • Friday 26th November
• AV collaboration between Japanese sound artist Yuko Araki + London based visual artist Daisy Dickinson 

>> Joni Mitchell fans (and many of us are) will want to get to the premiere of BLUE: It’s a re-imagining of Joni Mitchell’s seminal album at Liverpool's Capstone Theatre, and is being performed by a quartet led by Neil Campbell and Perri Alleyne-Hughes.
“Blue” is one of Joni’s classic albums and this show adds in elements of storytelling and dance
The performance will be staged tomorrow night only at 19:30. Tickets can be booked via The Capstone Theatre website.

>> At the Florrie, The Florence Institute, throughout November you can experience Jimmy Cauty’s world famous MdZ Estate Tour. Jimmy, founder member with Bill Drummond of the notorious KLF and no stranger to the Florrie, has created a dystopian model village experience featuring four abandoned concrete tower blocks at 1:24 scale (approx 2 metres high) housed in a 40ft shipping container. ESTATE contains (quote) “amusing scenes of mass social, economic and environmental devastation”.

It's all there for you Monday to Friday 3-6pm. Culture Shock Guaranteed

Find out more about estate at: https://l-13.org/projects/jimmy-cauty/estate/

>> There are two more days left to catch “22” a creative online response to COP26, exploring how the Middle East and North Africa have been unduly affected by the climate crisis. It’s a time-capsule of rapid response digital art-works with new pieces being added up to Sundays and sharing stories of different communities – it’s real treasure-house of interesting new work and can be found at https://www.arabartsfestival.com/22project/

>> Another for devotees of digital art – the new exhibition at FACT called Future Ages Will Wonder. They say it’s an “alternative museum” of artworks that use science and technology. It combines textiles, sculpture, and photography with virtual reality, computer algorithms and synthetic DNA to reimagine stories about our past, present and future, alternative histories, the political and ethical issues found in archaeology, botany, genetics and the use of technology in our daily lives.

> The show will premier three new commissions and marks the launch of Radical Ancestry, FACT’s year long exploration into ”the sense of belonging”, questioning how technology can help us to explore new ways of thinking and experimenting with who we are.

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Programme Hyperlinks - 29/10/21

writing on the wall black history month Events
https://writingonthewall.org.uk/wowfest/events/
15th Oct - 6th Nov - Blue Saint in residence with WOW Young writers @ Tate
Liverpool
24th October - Uprisings 1981: A Commemoration @ Museum of Liverpool 12-5pm
An afternoon of discussion, performance and photography commemorating the
Toxteth Riots How much progress have we made since then? Kim Johnson MP,
Leila Hassan, Leroy Cooper, Ngunan Adamu and more. I was there – were you?

Autumn at Bluecoat
The Bluecoat has a new set of exhibitions focussing on Black identity. Bryan Biggs
mentioned them on this programme last month and for our next programme we will
be sending Radio Merseyside’s Ngunan Adamu to seek out her favourites from the
galleries. Meanwhile go to the Bluecoat web-site for more information.
https://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/
https://bluecoat-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/deborah-roberts-to-show-at-the-
bluecoat-liverpool-october-2021
https://bluecoat-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/press-release-rosa-johan-uddohs-
practice-makes-perfect-to-show-at-the-bluecoat-from-october-2021
https://bluecoat-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/press-release-sumuyya-khader-to-
present-solo-show-always-black-never-blue-at-the-bluecoat-liverpool-october-2021

BIDSTON OBSERVATORY ARTISTIC RESEARCH CENTRE
Sound, Dug Through
The programme runs from Saturday 30th October, to Saturday 6th November
This year they will be working with the medium of field recordings There’ll be
workshops, and throughout the week, there will be opportunities to experiment, and
respond to the spirit of place: “expect sound bounced off architecture, cut with layers
of folklore and shaped by momentary mood. “
You can stay in the Observatory, and there is also the option of going to the day
event on Saturday 6th, which features -
Ashley Holmes - Dialect (aka Andrew Hunt) - Kelly Jane Jones - Quieting
http://www.bidstonobservatory.org/?sounddugthrough
[NB: We’ve stayed at the Observatory and recommend the experience]

At The Brindley
www.thebrindley.org.uk
 HEIDI TALBOT & BOO HEWERDINE
Tuesday 19th October 2021 7.30pm
Heidi has been nominated for folk singer of the year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards
 
November 11th King Rocker Screening @ Everyman 8.30pm
Experimental anti-rockumentary about Robert Lloyd of the Prefects and The
Nightingales with live Q&A with Stewart Lee and Michael Cumming.
Note that’s the Everyman Cinema on Victoria Street not the Everyman Theatre.
They’ve also got the new Dune film on – I’m quite tempted….
https://www.everymancinema.com/liverpool/film-info/king-rocker-live-qa#scroll

ARTIST CALL OUT: Light Night 2022
The theme will be Energy, and Open Culture are looking to commission 2-4 works by
UK based artists across any artform. The deadline for paid artist commissions is
November 18th
https://lightnightliverpool.co.uk/

Routes and Roots - festival of the African Diaspora 16th-31st October
Community and Professional groups will be hosting various family friendly
workshops and events throught the month, and keep you eyes peeled on Halloween
for carnival happenings in Liverpool 1.
https://www.katumba.co.uk/routes-and-roots/

Liverpool University - Entwining Science and Music: Concert 3
Music inspired by scientific processes and by the nature of organisms. In this case,
the interaction of bacteria and the consequences of antibiotics in ‘Fight of the
Antimicrobials’ by composer Brittany Collie and Dr Raechell D’Sa.
The second piece, ‘A picture of Transparency’, by composer Rachel Gibson and
Professor Rachel Williams derives from advanced materials and processes that treat
vision loss.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/events/event/?eventid=99536

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Programme Hyperlinks - 15/10/21

Events in Black History Month https://writingonthewall.org.uk/wowfest/events/
What's on at The Bluecoat - and its new exhibitions 
https://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/
 https://bluecoat-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/deborah-roberts-to-show-at-the-bluecoat-liverpool-october-2021
 https://bluecoat-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/press-release-rosa-johan-uddohs-practice-makes-perfect-to-show-at-the-bluecoat-from-october-2021
 https://bluecoat-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/press-release-sumuyya-khader-to-present-solo-show-always-black-never-blue-at-the-bluecoat-liverpool-october-2021
Bidston Observatory - Sound Project
http://www.bidstonobservatory.org/
​Paddy Steer and germanager at The Stockroom
https://fb.me/e/k1eTq7KbL
Folk Gigs at The Brindley
www.thebrindley.org.uk
NOT FORGETIING
Routes and Roots - festival of the African Diaspora 16th-31st October
 Community and Professional groups will be hosting various family friendly workshops and events throught the month, and keep you eyes peeled on Halloween for carnival happenings in Liverpool 1.
 https://www.katumba.co.uk/routes-and-roots/
 Liverpool University - Entwining Science and Music: Concert 3
 Music inspired by scientific processes and by the nature of organisms. In this case, the interaction of bacteria and the consequences of antibiotics in ‘Fight of the Antimicrobials’ by composer Brittany Collie and Dr Raechell D’Sa.
 The second piece, ‘A picture of Transparency’, by composer Rachel Gibson and Professor Rachel Williams derives from advanced materials and processes that treat vision loss.
 https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/events/event/?eventid=99536
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Programme Hyperlinks 01/10/21

​Find out more about Homotopia 
Genderland - festival focussed on gender-related stuff in Liverpool
 "Father of Ethio Jazz" ​Mulatu Astatke is at 24 Kitchen Street as part of Black History Month
​Go see (or hear) Zee Devine and Isocore DJ at Futureyard in Birkenhead

Billy Bragg is coming to The Phil!
Scottish folk singer Karine Polwart will be coming to the Phil's Music Room too.
You can find Grand Central's winter programme online now. We recommend 'Jettison' by local visual artist Sam Wiehl

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Programme Hyperlinks 17/9/21

St Helen's Sinfonietta for some Astor Piazzolla
Go to QUARRY for Eyesore & The Jinx and pals
Find our more about Blackfest 
The Manchester Collective's Voice of The Whale comes to Futureyard in Birkenhead
Tokky Horror will also be at Futureyard 

See what's on at The Liverpool Philharmonic Hall (we'll give you a clue - loads of amazing acts - Blick Bassy, Lindsay Buckingham, Nick Cave and Billy Bragg!!!!!)

All Write Now - Spoken Word Special 10.9.21

Highlights from the many feature spoken word artists and piano interludes from Anni Hogan. Featuring:

Day Mattar - Roy - Matt Cook - Ciaran Hodgers - Tom George - Eleanor Rees - Felix Mufti - Brendan Curtis - Curtis Watt - Mary Olive - Lyndsay Price

Make sure to check out Liverpool Writes Live at Liverpool Central Library on Saturday 18th September

​Upload your work to BBC Upload here

Programme HyperLinks 3.9.21
Sonic Boom + Lo Five + Jacques Malchance (Synthworks) - Friday 4 September - Future Yard: ​futureyard.org/listings/sonic-boom/
Blick Bassy - Sunday 19 September 8pm - Liverpool Philharmonic Music Room: liverpoolphil.com/whats-on/contemporary-music/blick-bassy/4097
 + Quick side-mentions - at same venue -
 • Ex-Easter Island Head in the Music Room, Friday 17 September 8pm
 • Songs from Palestine with Saled Silbak & co in the Music Room, Sunday 26 September 7pm
 • Nick Cave & Warren Ellis in the Philharmonic Hall, Monday 27 September 8pm
 • Martha Wainwright in the Philharmonic Hall, Friday 1 October 8pm
Qlowski + Rongorongo + Dream English Kid - Friday 17 September - Quarry, Love Lane, L3: ​​facebook.com/events/326090535665512
 + ‘Disco Not Disco’ coming up on 24 September: ​facebook.com/events/978569106324806/
Film: Almost Liverpool 8 - Wednesday 8 September, 6pm - FACT: fact.co.uk/film/almost-liverpool-8-q-a​
La Feria - Festival of Latin American Arts & Culture - 23-26 September - multiple venues:  ​lumacreations.org/events/la-feria-2021/

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