Thursday 28th ‘The First and Last’ at Leaf 8pm Pete Wylie of the Mighty Wah!/Hollie McNish/Eugene Kelly (the Vaselines)/Eleanor Rees/Triassic Tusk Label DJ set. Plus surprise guests. www.thisisleaf.co.uk Friday 29th Varying shades of epic post rock Maguires 7pm Fly on Byrd, fly on/Gilmore Trail/Pocket Apocalypse/Kusanagi/Chupa Cabra https://www.facebook.com/events/547714282044328/ Vieux Farka Toure @ Music Room 8pm Celebrated Malian singer and guitarist Vieux Farka Touré is a genuine global star, ‘the Hendrix of the Sahara,’ whose music embraces the ancient desert blues of West Africa and the sounds of modern rock. http://www.liverpoolphil.com/ Saturday 30th 1pm – free – capstone Jyotsna Srikanth – violin Ravishankar Sharma – mridangam (barrel shaped drum) Pujenthan Sivagurunathan – khanjira (hand drum) Carnatic (South Indian) music is characterised by lyrical and poetic compositions, thrilling passages of improvisation and complex rhythms, and the violin is a central instrument in the art. Jyotsna is known for her creativity, compositions and cross-cultural projects, and to start the Milapfest 2016 season, presents an afternoon concert in the company of two outstanding percussionists. www.thecapstonetheatre.com Fairport Convention/Roger Davies @ The Atkinson 7.30pm British folk rockers still doing it 50 years on. http://www.theatkinson.co.uk/ Also on Saturday at the Merseyside Dance Initiative, Hope Street 8pm – The Merseyside Improvisers Orchestra. A newly formed orchestra that welcomes anyone that is interested in collective improvisation, regardless of musical experience. Gedbarry.es @gmail.com for info and to book a seat. From Phil Hargreaves Looking Ahead 13th February ‘A gig for refugees in Crisis’ @ Buyers Club 7pm The Grand Architects/Lizzie Nunnery/Dan the Manatee/Vidar Norheim/Anwar Ali & Dave Owen In aid of Migrant Artist Mutual Aid and UAREUK PROCEEDS GO TO Migrant Artists Mutual Aid_ a network of people who come together to produce community cultural events that aim to promote cohesion and intercultural understanding while raising money for migrants in crisis. Mutual Aid is not charity, it is a safety net that is based on shared values of justice and equality, it is a safety net that is recession proof, that affirms that even in the toughest times we can stand together to help ourselves. migrantartistsmutualaid.wordpress.com UAREUK_ a humanitarian movement dedicated to helping refugees coming ashore in Greece and onwards into Europe. We are now called ‘United to Assist Refugees UK’, we started off as the Wrexham, Chester and Merseyside Refugee Donations Coordination Group. We have sent donations to Lesvos, Samos, Tilos & Chios islands, we have sent half a tonne of aid through Hungary and to Macedonia. We have visited and helped at camps in Macedonia and Slovenia. wcmrefugees.wordpress.com https://www.facebook.com/events/715415988601207/
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Tuesday 5th Esa Shields(avant-pop)/Queen Maud(ambient industrial)/The Insekts (DJ) FutureLiverpool.com Launch @ Sound Food and Drink 8pm Launch event for a website that aims to raise awareness and encourage people-led action on planning applications happing in the city. https://www.facebook.com/events/1750439791853885/ Friday 15th Flatpack @ Everyman Bistro 8pm “Flatpack is a quietly theatrical piece, assembled and disassembled over the course of the performance itself.” Features live electronics, sound recordings, saxophone, percussion, reel to reel tape machines. It is the result of an intensive residency at the Islington Mill with four artists: Michael Cutting, Joe Snape, Danielle Dahl, and Kaj Duncan David. www.flat-pack.uk Thursday 21st Laura Cannell and In Atoms @ Everyman Bistro 8pm Organised by Deep Hedonia, Laura Cannell will present minimal experiment folk based on early music, but more fragmented and embraces sounds of “wild animal calls and long forgotten liturgical fragments.” In Atoms is a local tapeloop composer. https://www.facebook.com/events/1102723003071226/ Friday 22nd Eduardo Niebla @ The Music Room 8pm http://www.liverpoolphil.com/ Wednesday 27th Cancer Bats @ O2 Academy 7pm Too cold? Have a mosh. Canadian Hardcore. https://www.academymusicgroup.com/o2academyliverpool/ 2016 March 1st Joanna Newsom @ Phil 7.30pm April 15th The Heads/Dead Sea Apes @ The Ruby Lounge, Northern Quarter 7.30pm http://www.therubylounge.com/ May 15th Kronos Quartet @ RNCM 7.30pm Programme includes works by Terry Riley, Martin Green of Lau, Laurie Anderson, and Komitas and Baba O’Riley (the Who). And 3 premieres. http://www.rncm.ac.uk/ May 21st Max Richter @ RNCM 7.30pm Performing SLEEP and The Blue Notebooks. http://www.rncm.ac.uk/ |
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