Monday 18th
Roy Harper – Liverpool Philharmonic Hall – 7:30pm
The archetypal musician’s favourite folky is celebrating 50 years in the biz at this anniversary concert, sure to include cuts from his beloved 1968 record ‘Folkjokeopus’.
 
Tuesday 19th
Misha Gray’s Prehistoric Jazz Quintet – Jacaranda Records (Phase One) – 7pm
Composer/pianist Gray leads this ancient music-inspired five-piece through original compositions that rely heavily on astute improvisation, accompanied by well-established North West musos including the must-see rhythm section combo of Johnny Hunter on drumset and Hugo Harrison on upright bass.
 
Thursday 21st
Bleib Modern, Double Echo, Full House, Lonesaw – Sound Food & Drink – 7pm
Gothic catharsis and pulsating industrial throbs abound as four post-punk/coldwave acts vie for the moodiest musical moments manageable, taking place in the basement of this Duke Street premises.
 
Godwosh – Constellations – 6pm (first set 8pm)
More improvised music as part of the Baltic venue’s regular easy-going night of live stuff, Godwosh tread a path that weaves between electronic rock, groove-oriented minimalism and the more danceable side of jazz fusion.
 
Manila Luzon – Heaven – 9pm
A well-seasoned wink-wink drag queen if ever there was one, Manila is known for her appearances on the increasingly popular RuPaul’s Drag Race and its spin-off All Stars, expect humour-laced lip syncs and cross-eyed cabaret in this live public performance.
 
Ghetto, Horseb*stard, Fidget - Drop the DumBulls - 8pm
Fast, faster, fasterest frenetic hardcore guitar music at the North Docks hot spot.
 
Friday 22nd
Eat Me: The Brexit Edition – District – 8pm
Drag, dinner, and disco from the mischievous lot providing Liverpool with its most alternative cabaret; this one’s a Leave Eve special in the accommodating confines of this Baltic area space.
 
Sarah Hennies’ Contralto – Royal Norther College of Music (Manchester) – 8pm
As part of the RNCM’s ‘Decontamination’ series, a fascinating 60min video, percussion and strings piece incorporates recordings of trans women’s voices, and acts as a bridge between experimental music and documentary in an exploration of the certain area between gender and sound.

Angel Field Festival - Hope Uni Creative Campus - until 30th March
Coming to the Everton neighbourhood in place of the Cornerstone, Hope University's Steve Davismoon is curating a combined arts international festival with the Capstone Theatre's central Angel Field garden as its nexus and hub. Marking a series of anniversaries - 100 years since the Bauhaus movement, 50 years since the Moon landing, 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall & Romania's Ceaucescu regime - with an eclectic array of screenings, performances, set pieces and other media. Begins with 'Cartographies' (a 4-channel sound installation running for 4 days) in the Cornerstone Foyer, and closes with an Immix Ensemble concert in the Senate Room, titled 'Dream Makers'. Collaborative, cross-discipline and full of curios - highlights might include a Russian balalaika recital, adventurous 20th century works for solo violin and string quartet, and Fran Cottrell's housing interventions.
http://www.thecapstonetheatre.com/angelfieldfestival/
 
Saturday 23rd
Acid Arab – 24 Kitchen Street – 7pm
Another rarefied Middle East-meets-West counter cultural sound clash extraordinaire as the machinations of acid techno become peppered with oriental scales, embellishments and musical turns of this continental live electronic project.

That Thing: Itoa, Juke Joint, Samurai Breaks, Sirr Timo + residents - Meraki - 10pm
Tony Loco has worked tirelessly to bring the fringes of electronic music's global currents to our city, and this packed bill makes no exception. Prepare for 8 hours of 160BPM footwork, juke, ghetto house from the high-tempo and high energy Chicago dance music tradtions - there's even a workshop in how to move your feet at these speeds, double time. Like the US's own take on drum'n'bass, think lo-fi and with overheating drum machines. Impurity and Junglotrane join Tony Loco on warm-ups.

Look ahead: Wednesday 17th April - Tirzah - 24 Kitchen Street
+ Saturday 27th April - Nkisi - Best Before (end of Newhall Street behind Constellations)

Monday 25 February
Tracey Thorn in conversation (central Library, 1-2pm)
Monday 25 February 2019, 1 to 2 pm: Tracey Thorn in ConversationTickets available here www.ticketquarter.co.uk/Online/tracey-thorn-in-conversation
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The Letter Room presents No Miracles Here – the story or Ray who performs with his band, the Raylettes. Northen soul, wall to wall dancing.
Edge Hill Arts Centre (Monday, 7:30, Tuesday 2:30 & 7:30). Free tickes for PMS listeners, call the box office after 2pm on Monday and quote PMS.

Tuesday 26th:
Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar.
Liverpool Philharmonic Hall Music Room.

Wednesday 27th:
Liverpool Arab Arts Festival presents Palestinian Hip Hop crew DAM at Constellations.

Thursday 28th:
Dan Wilson & The Counterfactuals. The Victims Album launch.
Studio 2.
Emotion Wave – Reedale Rise, Isocore, Lo Five, DJ Andrew Bates.
Constellations.

Friday 1st:
Juan Martin
Liverpool Philharmonic Hall Music Room.

Saturday 2nd:
Outpost punk party – Spoilers, Down & Outs, Natterers, Crocodile God.
Outpost, Renshaw Street.
DiN Double Bill – D’Voxx, Ian Boddy, Nigel  Mullaney & Ian Boddy present an evening of modular synth music. “
Capstone Theatre.

March 9th:
The Living Brain, The Shadow Kabinet,  Suzie & The OHM, Big Flower.
Sound. 

Monday 11th
Beatrice Dillon & Keith Harrison present Ecstatic Material – Caustic Coastal (Salford) 7:30pm
A live, experimental, collaborative performance from “two original figures from their respective fields”, musician/producer Beatrice Dillon and visual artist Keith Harrison. Sound meets sculpture in real time, as part of the 4th Outlands Network UK tour.
https://www.skiddle.com/e/13404177/
 
Tuesday 12th
Freeport – University of Salford, MediaCityUK (Salford Quays) – ongoing until Saturday
From Abandon Normal Devices festival, this commission was initially intended for Manchester Airport, picture the slightly more approachable/accessible Uni campus as ‘Terminal MCR’ with artworks, talks and screenings from international artists such as N-Prolenta and !Mediengruppe. Subjects range from cryptocurrency to (digital) citizenship. Expect fascinating-as-ever programming from AND. Free all week.
andfestival.org.uk/events/freeport-terminal-mcr
andfestival.org.uk/events/freeport-critical
www.thennn.eu
 
Wednesday 13th February
Rob Heron & Tea Pad Orchestra – Philharmonic Music Room – 8pm
Reputable ‘North Eastern Swing’ combo highlight jazz’s early 20th century American highlights.
https://www.liverpoolphil.com/whats-on/rob-heron--the-tea-pad-orchestra
 
Thursday 14th
Spine presents Arma Agharta, Territorial Gobbing, President Business – Factory Kitchen – 8pm
Ultimate alternative Valentines from the Lonesaw extended industrial music family, featuring Lithuanian high-speed noise, quasi-improvised big-band biz, and a drone act from Leeds. Upstairs at IWF, 25 Carlton Street.
https://www.skiddle.com/e/13458298/
 
Free R&R with Mincemeat, Vee VV, and Malfeasance – Sound Basement – 8pm
Alternatively, join the free rock and roll punk party on Duke Street, showcasing some truly outsider computer music from the opener.
 
Friday 15th
Deep Cuts:  Eli Smart, COW, Silver Linings, Heavy North, Dan Disgrace – Jacaranda Phase One – 7pm
A spread of five eclectic live acts from across the pop-musical spectrum as we’ve come to expect from the Get Into This tastemakers. Pure song-writing talent (Eli Smart) rubs shoulders with out-rock jam band antics (COW; Dan Disgrace), dive bar blues (Heavy North), and sizzling dissonance (Silver Linings). Note: at Jacaranda’s second premises – 40 Seel Street.
https://www.skiddle.com/e/13459151/
 
Seatbelts, Strawberry Guy, Sara Wolff, Roy – 81 Renshaw Street – 7:30pm
Well worth catching bizzarro bedroom psych-pop kid Strawberry Guy playing before the headliner, the re-jigged Hooton Tennis Club project.
https://www.skiddle.com/e/13432964/
 
Leon Vynehall – Meraki – 10pm
A pick from a while back, this electronic music producer’s own records have an imperceptible, gradually-building brilliance that is frequently reflected in his undulating DJ sets, all the more so given LV will play from start to finish (4am!), as part of his DJ-Kicks tour.
https://www.skiddle.com/e/13409263/
 
Nekk-Fest 2.0 – Drop the DumBulls Gallery – 8:30pm
Ultra alt. alternative V-day with fast, fun and funny music from the likes of local d-beat/crust-punk sender-uppers DAD. Expect the usual hyper-self-parodying brilliance from DtDB.
 
Looking ahead:
Wednesday 27 February - DAM – Constellations – 7:30pm
Palestinian hip-hop group who rose to prominence in the ‘90s as the first Middle Eastern act of their ilk to ‘break through’ to a wider, global audience, fusing Arabic rhythmic and melodic material with rapped Arabic verse. Opening act DJ Sotusura has been pro-active in the Middle Eastern hip-hop scene for some 15 years. 16+ permitted with guardian.
https://www.skiddle.com/e/13425022/
 
Saturday 23rd Feb – Omar Souleyman (re-scheduled) – 7pm
​Postponed previously from 9th of the month, Syria's original 'acid Arab' with wedding singer flair for the club. 24 Kitchen Street, 10pm finish, Jacques Malchance and Giovanna (SisBis) on world-aware DJ supports.

Thursday 7th
Mikey Kenney @ Leaf 7pm
Album Launch – The Reverie Road. 
https://www.facebook.com/events/510998819423003/

XamVolo/Mersey Wylie/Sub Blue/ Blue Vibe @ Arts Club 7pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/304029213568681/

Friday 8th
Anwar Ali (Bajuni Islands) & Dave Owen – Mchanga Mweupe EP Launch 8pm @ Naked Lunch
https://www.facebook.com/events/372991339930084/

Mama Snake @ Meraki 10pm – Experimental Electronica event platforming artists who are womxn, queer or people of colour. Mama snake will be bringing trance, techno, breaks and other sounds to Meraki.
Lupini & Ben Sleia also 
https://www.facebook.com/events/2240763966204702/

Saturday 9th
Emotion Wave: The Aleph/Kuyokuyo/Germanager/La French 8pm Drop The Dumbulls
https://www.facebook.com/events/1497132413751964/

58 Comeback Special @ Zanzibar 7.30pm
Other acts: Lolly Hayes and the Naked Flames, Krank Williams, Samya O’Grady
https://www.facebook.com/events/355721148546933/


Alien Sound: Ambient Music and the Limits of the Human – 10.30am-4.30pm Tate Liverpool
Talks, interviews and discussions on new possibilities for thinking and practising a different relationship to noise and music.
Guest Artists include Marie Thompson, Paul Reket, Dhanveer Singh Brar, Larne Abse Gogarty, Steve Davismoon, Rachael Rosen, Jon Davies, Annalaura Alifuoco and Silvia Battista.
https://www.facebook.com/events/381309895953888/

Sunday 10th
Queen Zee Album Launch 3pm Phase 1
https://www.facebook.com/events/348556335968784/

Monday
Witch Fever – Jacaranda Records Phase One – 7pm
Getintothis presents ‘Independent Women at independent Venue Week 2019’ with this opening party. Headlining are Manchester’s all-female punk spirits Witch Fever. Mersey Wylie, Niki Kand, Sara Wolff will all perform, along with spoken word by Cath Holland, Janaya Pickett, and a pop-up screen-printed poster art stall from That Girl Who Prints.
https://www.skiddle.com/e/13441327/
http://www.getintothis.co.uk/2019/01/independent-venue-week-2019-tim-burgess-witch-fever-cancer-bats-and-more-top-picks-for-the-north-west/
 
Tuesday
Crazy P – 24 Kitchen Street – 10pm
A school night DJ set from the beloved, playful, celebrated soulful UK dance band, Crazy P.
skiddle.com/e/13412737
 
Wednesday
Bassekou Kouyate – Philharmonic Music Room – 8pm
A true master musician of the ngoni – the ancient, traditional lute instrument of West Africa – Bassekou Kouyate presents here his band currently containing three ngoni players and two percussionists, plus singer Amy Sacko.
https://www.liverpoolphil.com/whats-on/bassekou-kouyate
 
Thursday
LIMF Academy Live – Philharmonic Hall – 7pm
The Ignition Orchestra will be backing up local hand-picked Liverpool International Music Festival artists including LUNA, Kyami, Raheem Alameen and alumni Sub Blue. Original songs and covers pepper the evening’s programme, arranged by composer Katie Chatburn. A local female music talent incubator and rare moment to see the fusion of pop songwriting with a contemporary orchestra.
https://www.liverpoolphil.com/whats-on/limf-academy-live-with-the-ignition-orchestra
 
Ross From Friends – 24 Kitchen Street – 7pm
Adding on a second live date the day before a sold-out appearance at this Baltic venue means hype for the lo-fi electronica producer’s release on Brain Feeder records must be real. Eschewing the self-deprecating descriptor of ‘cheap house’, RFR will exposit his new more dramatic, technicolour sound palette in a live setting, perhaps flanked – as recent video footage suggests – by a backing band.
 
False Advertising et al
 
 
Eyesore & The Jinx single launch party – Outpost – 7:30pm
Jo Mary and Hannah’s Little Sister play before local post-punk trio Eyesore & The Jinx at the first Bido Lito social event of the year of their 100th issue.
https://www.skiddle.com/e/13413335/
 
Friday
Mugstar, Mincemeat, The Cubical – Craft Taproom – 7pm
An IVW outing for lauded local innerspace psychonauts Mugstar, now in a fresh five-person incarnation. Joining them in this Smithdown Road dispensary will be two more explorers of the cosmic sonic spectrum.
 
Jah Wobble & The Invaders of the Heart – Philharmonic Music Room – 8pm
Nominated in 1990 for the Mercury Music Prize for their debut record, Jah Wobble’s east-meets-west ensemble truly cemented him as a serious player on the global music stage. They regroup in the intimate extension of the Liverpool Phil for a night of Chinese Dub and other world fusions.
https://www.liverpoolphil.com/whats-on/jah-wobble-and-the-invaders-of-the-heart
 
Saturday
Omar Souleyman – 24 Kitchen Street – 7pm
An early doors club showing for the Syrian wedding singer, an artist well known for his infectious melding of Middle Eastern music and acidic subgenres of dancefloor-inclined electronica. Opening DJ slots from Jacques Malchance of Upitup Records, and Giovanna from the SisBis party collective.
https://www.skiddle.com/e/13355351/
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Friday
Spare Snare, Mono Sideboards, Lazy Mary – 81 Renshaw St.
The Dundee lo-fi band are back after roughly 25 years away from making music, with a record named ‘Sounds’, suitably subtitled ‘recorded by Steve Albini’.
 
Refreshed with Royzy Rothschild and others – Kolbox (Hus’ basement) – 6pm
Big Condo Records presents Refreshed, a showcase of hip-hop artists from Liverpool and the surrounding area. Hosted by Royzy Rothschild, other acts include Tiffany Riddell, Kay Frances, Seas of Neptune, Michael Dumbell, Demi Harkness, Danger Dolly, Sarah Henry, Junior Dayvis, and myriad more up-and-coming talent.
 
Dense & Pika – 24 Kitchen St. – 10pm
This UK techno duo marked their 2018 with an album released on Kneaded Pains (who host the night), Dense & Pika have previous EPs on the Drumcode label and conform to that roster’s particular brand of sparing yet punishing sound system music. Dysart is on support duties at what will be the first party at 24KS of the year.
 
Bowie Birthday events:

• Big Baltic Bowie Night – The Baltic Social – Friday 11th Jan
• The Late Wake Club: David Bowie – Camp & Furnace – Saturday 12th
• David Bowie’s Birthday Party – 24 Kitchen St. – Saturday 12th

 
Thursday 17th January
David Bramwell’s The Cult of Water – Gibberish Brewpub – 7pm
A hydromantic tale spun through original music, film, art, and archive footage alongside solo spoken word narration, all inspired by the River Don. A pay-what-you-want affair taking place at the Caryl Street brewery tap.
 
 
Friday 18th January
Loka, After the Flood, Gorp – Sound – 7pm
An evening of experimental and progressive music from three Liverpool-based live acts. Instrumental group Loka headlining, a band that have made a welcome return to the local circuit after a few years respite.
 
Deep Cuts Second Birthday – Jacaranda Phase One – 7pm
Hannah and the Wick Effect, Blurred Sun Band, Shards, Yammerer, Lonesaw, Yank Scally and Bobby West all round out this truly eclectic combination of the GIT blog’s ‘best of 2018’ versus ‘ones to watch 2019’. In the still-fresh Jacaranda Records venue at 40 Seel Street.
 
Karen Gwyer, Object Blue, Danielle – the White Hotel – 11:59am
A Berlin-style start time for an inspired night featuring five female electronic music artists taking us through the cutting edge of live-set round-the-corner techno and its club-music children.
 
Mun Sing, Hesska b2b Clemency, Iceboy Violet, BFTT – Aatma – 11pm
Another inspired night of harder electronic music with half of Bristol’s brilliant guitar-pedal-bashing dancefloor-destroyers Giant Swan, Mun Sing, performing live, with some really intriguing artists on the warm-up run-up immediately before.
 
Sunday 20th January
Redwood, A Burial at Sea, Good Problems, Honeyspider – Sound – 7:30pm
Post-rock, shoegaze, grunge and other shimmering alternative roc k moves all boxed together here in the Duke Street basement venue. A cosy record-release celebration for the headliners, with some skilled Merseyside opening acts beforehand.
 
Wednesday 23rd
Clube do Choro – The Caledonia pub
Friends of the show rattle through their speedy renditions of centuries-old Brazilian jazz-folk – Choro music – in septet format. Led by percussionist Milena Sa of Amile Trio.
 
Thursday 24th January
Mahler 5 – Liverpool Philharmonic Hall – 7:30pm
Majestic and triumphant, nuanced and roof-raising, while Mahler’s 5th Symphony isn’t typical PMS radio fair, it’s a great opportunity to catch the gateway early modernist composer in his most rousing, accessible and crowd-pleasing best. A series of love letters made into sound. With ‘Classic Intro’ at 6:15pm in the Philharmonic’s Music Room.
 
Friday 25th
Soft Issues, Lonesaw, Prison Behaviour –  Drop the DumBulls
Mark Greenwood’s spoken word rhythm box post-punk project (P.B) gives way to sheer power electronics, harsh noise hardcore and a free industrial cult in the North Docks gallery spec.

-- G.M.

Monday 17th:
Catalyst Christmas Live – Beyond Average, C-Two, Billie Ray & Charlie, Blue Saint, Dorcas Seb, Girl Talk, Jordi Highdale.
Camp and Furnace (Free from 7pm)
Catalyst performing Arts Project is based in Toxteth and was set up to provide the opportunity for young people in the area to explore their own creativity through drama, writing, dance and other arts activities. www.catalystperformingarts.co.uk

Friday 21st:
Mothmas – Thu-Thuy Emma Linney Nguyen - Beautiful melodies enrobed in delicious beats. Chloe Mullett - giving out some nodes of the musical persuasion,  ViceMöth- Annual möth wizards playing it legit, Dr Vibes - Vibergenic material from the vibemaster, In Atoms - Drone central, a firm believer in the powers that be, Big Ron from the Swan - Böss treatz from the beast from the east.
Wind Factory Kitchen.

New Year’s Eve:
Fiesta Bombarda:
Mothership Main Stage, Funk, Disco, Afrobeat, Brass:
Kazimier Karoake Ensemble, Afirca Oye DJs, Buddha (multidimensional AV performance), Rubber Dub, Nutribe, Melodic Distraction, XJukebox.
Planet Dub:
Positive Vibration Presents Channel One Sound System.
Stealing Sheep
Invisible Wind Factory

Tuesday 22nd January:
J Mascis (following third album ‘Elastic Days’)
Arts Club.

Wednesday 30th January:
Bassekou Kouyate. Ngoni player (traditional Lute found throughout West Africa). Has Collaborated with Ali Farka Toure, Toumani Diabate, Taj mahal, Damon Albarn.
Philharmonic Music Room.

Friday 1st February:
Jah Wobble & The Invaders of The Heart.
Philharmonic Music Room.

Saturday 16th March:
Kristen Hersh – after releasing her latest album ‘Possible Dust Clouds’ is out on tour.
Philharmonic Music Room. 

Tuesday 11th December
Paul Dunbar & the Black Winter Band – Liverpool Philharmonic Music Room – 7pm
Liverpool Acoustic presents a show that promises to be anything but. Hot off the back of launching their record, this soul-inflected blues-rock outfit flesh out Paul’s songwriting in this ideal location for a showcase; for fans of Tom Waits et al.
https://www.liverpoolphil.com/whats-on/paul-dunbar-and-the-black-winter-band-2018
 
Wednesday 12th December
Paul McCartney – Echo Arena – 6:30pm
Just in time for the 50th Anniversary of the White Album, Macca’s back home with the viola bass for an admittedly long-ago sold-out show touring solo effort Egypt Station.
 
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End – Liverpool Philharmonic Music Room – 8pm
Vivian Stanshall’s solo masterpiece is brought to life on its 40th anniversary by Liverpudlian actor and musician Michael Livesley. The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band frontman’s 1978 record made up of Peel Sessions has attracted famous fans such as Stephen Fry – a has this popular re-enactment show, with original Bonzo member Rodney ‘Rhino’ Slater on saxophone, and Michael as the ‘heroically drunk’ Sir Henry. Grotesque fun in a slew of conventionally Christmassy shows at the beloved Hope St multiplex.
https://www.liverpoolphil.com/whats-on/sir-henry-at-rawlinson-end-40th-anniversary
 
Honourable mention: Bido Lito & Liquidation Xmas Music Quiz – Constellations – 7pm
Raising funds for Whitechapel Centre and MIND, this is a testing, challenging, muzo nerd who’s-who affair. A great yarn from the combined forces, they’ll bring teams Abba-to-Zappa trivia and Punk Rock Bingo for two good causes.
https://www.seetickets.com/tour/the-real-quiz
 
Thursday 13th December
Bill Ryder Jones – Grand Central hall – 7pm
Blossoming, orchestrally-inclined songsmith who was once in the Coral (seems a long time ago now) performs in this sort of new setting – as a venue spec, at least – to no doubt entertain with newer material. Opening acts include baroque pop group Gintis from North Wales, and Liela Moss (once of The Duke Spirit), with a new record on Bella Union.
https://www.seetickets.com/event/bill-ryder-jones/the-dome-grand-central-hall/1256863
 
Queen Zee – 24 Kitchen Street – 7pm
Early start, early-ish dart for arguably the Liverpool music success story of the year, the Sass-tones will be joined by P*ss Kitti, Zand, and Munkey Junkey, plus “Queen Zee’s Ultra 3000 Soundsystem”. Dress inappropriately (sold out)!
https://www.seetickets.com/event/queen-zee/24-kitchen-street/1261391
 
Friday 14th December
New Rituals – Invisible Wind Factory – 9pm
A club night in three parts featuring Stealing Sheep’s conceptual ‘Wow Machine’ multi-disciplinary electronic show, and with Dogshow working alongside the Kazimier to produce an interactive live techno performance piece… plus DJ Giovanna of SisBis to round things off – and more to be announced this week, apparently.
http://thekazimier.co.uk/new-rituals
 
Wizards of Twiddly at 30 – The Zanzibar – 7:30pm
Another anniversary and another opportunity to be entertained in the foremost rock renue in our Ropewalks postcode by a Merseyside staple and cult favourite, this functions very nicely as a bolt-on for the Sir Henry show.
https://www.thezanzibarclub.com/event/8499215/guilty-dog-productions-presents-wizards-of-twiddly/
 
Saturday 15th December
Jo Mary Yemen Fundraiser – Craft Taproom – 5pm
A day of raising money for aid and relief to the victims of the ‘forgotten conflict’ ongoing in Yemen, Jo Mary headline this Smithdown Road event with Mold, Hannah and the Wick Effect, Cow, Bill Nickson, and Silver Linings all partaking in a pub gig to show solidarity and support.
https://www.facebook.com/events/339902820121985/
 
The Mysterines – The Zanzibar – 7:30pm
Psych-infused power trio delivery from these as their return home for a headline gig after a summer opening for the likes of Goat Girl. Monks and Shards support. For fans of PJ Harvey and co.
https://www.seetickets.com/event/the-mysterines/the-zanzibar-club/1266169
 
Looking ahead
Godwosh – Constellations – Thursday 20th December
Self-remixing arm of the IWF/Kazimier in-house techno band Dogshow, Godwosh sees the Crombie brothers collaborate with at least one other improv-ready player to delve into dynamic jazz & electronica.

 
Leon Vynehall (all night long) – Meraki – Friday 15th February
The masterful ambient producer comes to this 300 capacity venue for an extended DJ set.

Monday 3rd December
John Tilbury plays For Bunita Marcus by Morton Feldman – The Capstone – 7:30pm
Lauded free improviser and interpreter of contemporary classical compositions, John Tilbury is perhaps best known for performing alongside Cornelius Cardew in the Scratch Orchestra and as a member of the brilliant improve group AMM. Here, he approaches one of Feldman’s most recorded pieces, a ‘monumental solo work’ for piano written well into the composer’s career. A durational piece with harmonies left hanging between sparse clusters of piano notes.
http://www.thecapstonetheatre.com/whatson/for-bunita-marcus-morton-feldman.html
 
Tuesday 4th December
The Merseyside Improvisers Orchestra – The Capstone – 7:30pm
For his second night in Liverpool, pianist John Tilbury joins the local big band of improv and featuring a composition written by Tilbury himself, using a Samuel Beckett text as its basis. For part two of the evening, John will improvise with and direct the MIO.
http://www.thecapstonetheatre.com/whatson/lessness-john-tilbury.html
 
Peter Murphy: 40 Years Of Bauhaus – The Ritz (Manchester) – 7pm
Vocalist for one of the defining gothic post-punk bands, Peter Murphy returns to Bauhaus material on the ‘ruby anniversary’ of the group alongside original bass player David J.
 
Thursday 6th December
PMS Radio DJ Night – Kazimier Garden – 5pm
Right after work and but a hop, skip and jump from BBC Merseyside HQ, the PMS team will be taking turns to play their favourites from
 
Rongorongo, Claire Welles, Lonesaw + more – Jacaranda Records Phase One – 7:30pm
A chrimbo cracker of a Deep Cuts, this seasonal special edition also includes Mark Greenwood’s new solo project Prison Behaviour alongside long term friend of the show Claire Welles and supergroup Rongorongo, plus the pre-eminent locally-sourced industrial noise of Lonesaw.
 
Clube do Choro – Aerie (24 Hardman Street) – 9pm
Upstairs venue Aerie is seeking to fill its loft with jazz and surrounding sounds. Merseyside-based Brazil-born percussionist Milena Sa (also of Trio Amelie) leads this group designed to give new life to the Choro genre of improvisational Brazilian folksong, a style with myriad Latin/African/Euro jazz influences and overtones.
 
Helena Hauff, Asok, Breakwave – 24 Kitchen Street – 10:30pm
One for the after-party crowd, Hauff is a go-to electro-tinged techno DJ that’s becoming something of a staple at this Chinatown nightclub – so an almost guaranteed great continuation after whatever else.
 
 Gaika, Loft, Bryn – 24 Kitchen Street – unfortunately postponed
 
Friday 7th December
The Orielles – Invisible Wind Factory – 7:30pm
Another dreamy guitar pop act with roots in Liverpool to sign to Heavenly Records (after Stealing Sheep, and Hooton Tennis Club), The Orielles are very much on the up and now perform their bendy, chorus-heavy tracks as a four-piece with the addition of mercurial fellow traveller Strawberry Guy on keys.  Support bands number three in total, with Spilt, Brad Stank, and Three From Above on opening obligations.
 
Saturday 8th December
Ponderosa Glee Boys – District (61 Jordan Street) – 8pm
Another true Eric’s 77 style opportunity to catch the once geographically-dislocated, now Liverpool-re-oriented post-punk band Ponderosa Glee Boys, returning to show off new material in this show to launch their latest record, ‘Awake’.
https://www.fatsoma.com/district-liverpool/unir41ul/ponderosa-glee-boys
 
Acid Cannibals – Outpost (formerly Maguires, 77 Renshaw Street) – 7:30pm
Noisey, fast, faintly psychedelic Glaswegian duo Acid Cannibals come to do the right thing in the back room of still new-feeling independent venue Outpost. Also playing: Abominate and Loose Nuts. Honourable mention to Outpost for carrying the baton after the closure of pizza place Maguires, with the same staff going on to turn the place into a bit more of a bar, with a boosted-up function space.
 
Looking ahead: Wednesday 12th December
‘Sir Henry at Rawlinson End’ 40th Anniversary – Liverpool Philharmonic Music Room – 8pm
Michael Livesely re-revives Vivian Stanshall’s bizarro and fully out-there Peel Session-based LP from 1978 in this nationally renound adaption for the stage.
https://www.liverpoolphil.com/whats-on/sir-henry-at-rawlinson-end-40th-anniversary
 
Thursday 13th December
Queen Zee – 24 Kitchen Street – 7pm (sold out)
Playing their debut album in full – one time only!
 
Saturday 15th December
WHXRS, Basic Switches, Burnerfriends, Doghead – Drop the DumBulls – 8pm
Spine combine forces with Wetroom to present their 6th and final event of 2018 – an evening of experimental, industrial, electronic and ‘other’ music of grassroots origin. Well worth following these around the North Docks for a look at a micro-community blossoming quite quickly into a brilliantly noisy yet friendly and accessible offshoot of a scene unto itself. WHXRS will perform an extended ‘religious death march’; Basic Switches is Cowtown’s synth operator writ solo; Burnerfriends is a spin-off of local repeato-rockers The Mekano Set; Doghead is a power electronics / ambient project of one member of Mal/Lonesaw/Syring House.  A multifarious and fascinating bunch.