Tuesday 21st August
Parrjazz presents The Deportees – Studio 2, Parr Street – 8:30pm A relatively new grouping of five experienced players makes its debut in the Ropewalks area of town. Led by expert guitar player Alex McDowall, the often-times side-man is joined here by keen improvisers such as Nick Branton on saxophone, Max O’Hara on keys, Pablo Sonnaillon on upright bass, Soroush Fard on drumset, and instantly-recognisable local trumpeter Martin Smith. Expect the combo to offer lively interpretations of their own compositions that cover the European and American jazz traditions, with flamenco, latin and avant garde influences under the belt for good measure. Jake Shears – Arts Club – 7pm The Scissor Sisters frontman is touring a solo record flanked by the studio musicianship of members of My Morning Jacket. Sonic Yootha DJs in support, should be a perky party. Wednesday 22nd August ‘Circle of Choro’ film screening – The Brink – 6pm Brazilian music documentary Circle of Choro’s primary concern is unravelling the mysteries of this communal music genre. The 52min film will be followed by live music with the first Liverpool Choro group with Martin Smith on Trumpet , Georgina on Cello, Parabhen Lad on acoustic bass, Amy Bowles on 7 strings Guitar and Milena Sá on pandeiro percussion. Special guest Veronica Baird-Smith on violin. Pussy Riot: Riot Days – Arts Club – 7pm The rightfully legendary Moscow feminist-activist art-punks Pussy Riot will be touring an alternative format musical play based on a book Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina. Bilge Pump, Lake of Snakes, Nasdaq – Soup Kitchen (Manchester) – 7:30pm Likely the UK underground’s longest kept secret, transpennine leaders of the DIY circuit of yore Bilge Pump seem to be the only band to regroup and knuckle down harder every time the moment comes to do so. King Crimson, Jesus Lizard, the Fall, Blue Cheer, Funkadelic and a slew of discordantly-recalled ‘classic rock’ played through custom-built amplifiers with time kept by one of the greatest behind-the-scenes touring drummers. A treat if just for their super speedy wit and patter, let alone a back catalogue of atonal, overdriven guitar pop. Suitably, Milton Keynes expatriots Lake of Snakes (made up of Action Beat’s Harry Taylor on guitar and the McLean twins on lead and sax duties respectively) open up; their ‘lounge metal’ should provide an apt ramp up. Thursday 23rd Seatbelts, The Aleph, Annexe the Moon – 81 Renshaw Street – 7:30pm Must-see opportunity to catch ‘pop re-constructivists’ and prodigious polymath multi-musical duo The Aleph live “in their living room”. Be hopeful for re-enactments of the most recent EP and a promised guest singing sun-spot from one of Stealing Sheep. Seatbelts – the new project of aforementioned Heavenly Records hitmakers Hooton Tennis Club – and the psych punk adventurism of Annexe the Moon also worth sticking around for at this Bido Lito social event marking issue 92 (!) of the Merseyside publication. Friday 24th FestEvil (‘til Monday 27th) – Evil Eye (Smithdown Road) – 6pm onwards each day All weekend long, the former butchers shop turned Burrito Bar and beer shack plays host to the likes of Rat Bit Kit, Matt Barton (of Tramp Attack), Snakes Everywhere and The Unstoppable Sweeties Show. Fantastic-sounding free fun with a food bank drive running throughout. Jacaranda 60th Birthday: False Advertising & more – Phase One (40 Seel Street) The three piece headline as part of a big bash to mark a noteworthy turning point for the city centre institution. Dave Haslam heads up a Q&A at the venue proper round the corner from their new Ropewalks venture – Phase One – providing records for sale and a spirited live music setting. Includes a drinks reception at the original Jac, too. Ongoing activities all weekend. Saturday 25th A Day in the Sun – Birkenhead Priory & St. Mary’s Tower – 11am The mind behind Emotion Wave goes large on the site of this ancient monastery with “all bases covered” electronically: ambient, kosmische, 80s-horror-soundtrack, and acid techno. Line-up includes Lo Five, Reedale Rise, Isocre, Melodien, M T Hall, TVAM, and Breakwave, set to take punters through to 11pm. Family-friendly and an unlikely use of this 12th century building. Bootle Music Festival – Lock & Quay – Saturday & Sunday Featuring Space, Hue & Cry, and The Real People at this community pub round the corner from Bootle Oriel Road train station. Looking ahead: Saturday 8th September Vibracathedral Orchestra – Drop The DumBulls – 8pm Legendary Yorkshire underground crew bring their horizon-wide collage of crackling drone, valve-blown noise and elemental free rock to Liverpool after nearly 25 years in the business of transportative collective improvisation through amplified strings, percussion, reeds and electronics. “This is music as shamanic aid, made as much for the players themselves as for the listeners. But as I’m writing from the listening perspective I have to inform y’all that this is music to Get You There. It has always just ‘been there’, it’s just you ain’t quite tuned into its peculiar frequency until now. ” – Julian Cope + Composer/performer Jonathan Hering of Ex-Easter Island Head, The Aleph and more uses his bass to counter-tenor vocal range to present renaissance and contemporary compositions for up to 8 vocal lines, taking Early Music out of the Historically Informed Performance idiom to sing every part in his own voice. Brian Wilson visits Westminster Abbey 500 years ago Saturday 15th September Pete Bentham & The Dinner Ladies 10th Birthday – IWF Substation – 8pm Compilation ‘best of’ launch time as the punk rock party starters invite a revolving cast of band members old and new to join them on-stage for a hoo-har downstairs in the Invisible Wind Factory. Interrobang (a new band fronted by Chumbawumba singer Dunstan) and long-time-serving Midlands railpunks Eastfield are amongst the esteemed guest acts. Bag a bargain and support these stalwarts of the scene.
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Wednesday 15th Beta Blockers/High-Vis/Desire @ Maguire Pizza Bar 8pm PUNK From Leeds/London/Brighton – can recommend Beta Blockers https://www.facebook.com/events/1327157350755103/ Friday 17th T-Shirt Weather/Snakes Everywhere/Stadt Skulls @ Craft Taproom, Smithdown 7pm Indie pop punk from Durham, and Liverpool https://www.facebook.com/events/441405946335875/ Friday 17th From The Bogs Of Aughiska/Coltsblood/Crimson Throne/Spirit Animals @ Maguires 7pm Ambient Doom from Ireland + local metal and sludge stulwarts https://www.facebook.com/events/194156238065462/ Friday 17th BITCH Palace Presents – Evil Pink Machine/Gen & The Degenerates/Piss Kitti @ Sound 8pm Bitch Palace is a Liverpool based art and music collective, we plan on hosting one event each month that strives to showcase femme musicians and others who don't fit in a box, its going to be so wild/wholesome. Tickets are £2 on the door, 8pm til late at Sound Basement, Duke St. BRING UR MATES for a night of ROCK, ROLL & INCLUSIVITY. Everyone is welcome. 28th August - Alexander Tucker (Grumbling Fur) / Agathe Max @ 81 Renshaw St. 8pm Veteran and versatile musician/sound sculpter Alexander Tucker comes to Liverpool. His new album “Don’t look away” is out this month on Thrill Jockey. Agathe Max is an accomplished sound artist and violinist https://www.facebook.com/events/1212422742227050/ October 25th Jenny Hval: Paradise Rot @ Bluecoat 6.30pm Norwegian musician and writer Jenny Hval has honed an intellectual and uncompromising view on politics and sexuality in her prose and in her music. Paradise Rot - a lyrical debut novel from an artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imagery. Paradise Rot - Jo is in a strange new country for university, and having a more peculiar time than most. A house with no walls, a roommate with no boundaries, and a home that seems ever more alive. Jo’s sensitivity, and all her senses, become increasingly heightened and fraught, as the lines betweenbodies and plants, and dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh. In conversation, Jenny Hval explores the world of her debut novel – a heady and hyper-sensual portrayal of sexual awakening and queer desire. https://www.facebook.com/events/1642798722514686/?notif_t=plan_user_invited¬if_id=1534111882053312 Thursday 9th August:
T Shirt Weather (pop-punk from Durham, just released new album Dinner and A Show on the Everything Sucks label from London, Stadt Skulls, Snakes Everywhere (local singer songwriter Katy McGrath teams up with members of Dog Flambe and Sheepy). Craft Taproom, Smithdown Road. Free Rock n Roll – Sonic Rednecks, Hummer, Krank Williams. Sound. Album playback by Michael Lacey. Following on from his 2017 solo album Peritas Liverpool based Artist and musican presents new songs in an album playback at Output Gallery. 6-8pm Output Gallery, Seel Street. Friday 10th: Get into This Deep Cuts Housewarming Party – a.P.a.T.t., Purple Heart Parade, Tracky, Shards, Feral Wheel, The Gear, Hail Hail Records DJs. Jacaranda Records Phase One, Seel St Bishop Nehru (new album Elevators Act 1 & 2 out with MF Doom on Mass Appeal Records). 24 Kitchen Street. Saturday 11th: The ultimate tribute to Meatloaf and Neil Diamond by Andy Stine. The Naval Club. Coming up: 25 August - A Day in the Sun - a full day of live experimental/electronic music and DJs, taking place in the grounds of an ancient monastery - happening from 11am until 11pm on Saturday 25 August, the bank holiday weekend. adayinthesun.tumblr.com 20 Sept – Immix Ensemble, Kelly Lee Owens & Thomas Gill. Invisible Wind Factory. 3rd November - Stardust Liverpool , Dimitri From Paris, PurpleDiscoMachine, Melon Bomb, The Reflex , DJ Nick the Record. Garlands, Liveprool Thursday 26th July
Spine presents: Silva Battista, Atatat, Lonesaw, Mal – Factory Kitchen (@ IWF) – 7pm Industrial and post-punk promoters Spine have found a home for themselves on the top floor of the Invisible Wind Factory. Entering through a shutter at the end of Carlton Street will lead you up several flights of stairs to Silvia Battista: a visual and performance artist, writer and sound maker. Lately, her work with accordion, drumming, vocalization and storytelling has taken a new direction which pushes the boundaries between a performance art piece and a music gig. Her improvised work with accordion, drumming and voice establishes a conductive relationship between human voice, music instruments and narratives, involving audiences into visceral sometimes political journeys. Her work is inspired by Shamanism, Buddhism and animistic ecologies, and by the experimentations of artists such as Kimmo Pohjonen, Pauline Oliveros, Patti Smith and Laurie Anderson. http://www.silviabattista.com/ Mal, Lonesaw and Atatat provide varying degrees of locally-sourced occasionally organic ambient, drone, percussive noise and harsh soundscapes. https://www.facebook.com/events/490167724736554/ Friday 27th July Les Oddities / Rat Bit Kit / The Asmodeus Surf Bored - 81 Renshaw Street – 7:30pm Those darned POIBs bring us another night of mischeif! The night itself being at THE BEACH!...in....a venue. YES! We have the fabulous Manouche Jazz/Bombastic guitar nuttiness amalgamation of the great Les Oddities! The shrieking, howling, Punk transcended, danger sounds of Rat Bit Kit. And the powerhouse, wall of sound, Crunching bulldozer guitar/drums duo: The Asmodeus Surf Bored! Bring your shorts, snorkels, flip-flops and a picnic, It's going to be a noisy, nonsensical Night At The Beach! https://www.facebook.com/events/1020885751399791/ Cartier 4 Everyone with Anz, Kleft, Mutualism, Michael Brailey – Drop the DumBulls – 9pm Second birthday event for this electronic music outlet, featuring “the vanguard of the hard, old and new”, including award-winning RNCM young composer, Michael Brailey. Donations entry. https://www.facebook.com/events/369836806832437/ Saturday 28th July Liverpool Pride Weekend Pride month gets rounded off with this last weekend in July set to take the city centre by storm. The real posh spice Sophie Ellis Bexter, and drag advocate/heroine Courtney Act will headline; local faves like Queen Zee and Jennifer John are performing, Sonic Yootha are throwing a bash in their usual haunt. The Kazimier Garden will host north-of-England DJ collective boygirl, as well as local artists MT Hall & Alec Tronik, plus Mancunian rising star of cutting-edge electronic music production, LOFT. All in all, plenty of events following the march at 11am for one to sink one’s teeth into, with many after-parties beginning as early as 1pm: https://liverpoolpride.co.uk/liverpool-pride-weekend/ Emotion Wave 13 with White Mask, Dublock, Baron Farg, Oscilik – 81 Renshaw – 8pm After a bit of a break Emotion Wave is back, with lucky episode #13 happening at long last. This time around they're very excited to be welcoming the following: White Mask [Kris Blacow] is part of a prolific family of Blackpool-based producers, alongside VHS head and Phono Ghosts/Meatbingo. For his Emotion Wave debut Kris will be performing work from a forthcoming (we hope) conceptual release which explores Russian intelligence/dreams. Sound designer and ambient techno producer Dublock's latest album Sirius Tau, another superb work of sparse precision minimal techno, was released earlier this year on Southport's Romeda Records. Liverpool-based newcomer Baron Farg is a bit of a mystery and a difficult one to categorise - which is why we like him. Ambient idm space dub?? Who knows, he's boss though - have a listen here: We're also made up to have EW mainstay Andrew Bates/Oscillik back on the decks (laptop). His last set was pure class, check it: https://www.facebook.com/events/1955944571143980/ Sunday 29th July Fishprint presents: the McDowall / Barry Duo – 81 Renshaw – 2pm Day-time / matinee free jazz and improvised music with Alex McDowall on guitar, and Ged barry on saxophones, hosted by Nick Branton so guaranteed to be tasteful in its pairings. Looking ahead: Thursday 9th August Album Playback with Michael Lacey – Output gallery – 6pm Following on from his 2017 solo album Peritas, Liverpool artist and musician Michael Lacey presents new songs in an album playback at OUTPUT gallery. Lacey’s intricate, developed soundscapes contain delicate, drifting arpeggios and densely layered counter-melodies, inspired by from ambient pioneers and fairground waltzes. His radio show Illegal Railway, online and at IWFM, illustrates his diverse musical influences. You can visit Lacey's website here http://www.michael-lacey.co.uk OUTPUT is a new gallery in the The Kazimier Gardens’ former workshop space at 32 Seel Street. OUTPUT gallery will exclusively show creatives from or living in Merseyside.
Biennial: Festival of Contemporary Art 14 July – 28 October Four Liverpool Musicians (Film) @ The Playhouse Theatre 14.7.18 – 7.10.18 Bette Bright (Deaf School) Budgie (Siouxsie and the Banshees) Ken Owen (Carcass) Louisa Roach (She Drew The Gun) ASMR Spa at Blackburn House – Taus Makhacheva has created a sculptural installation where visitors are invited to book a facial treatment lasting 30mins or so. The work reflects on our contemporary condition, dominated by screens and membranes, anxiety and loss of anxiety. Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response is a pleasurable sensation in the head that occurs when stimulated by a variety of soft sounds created by another, eg, the turning of a page, a scribbling pencil, a soft and reassuring voice, physical intimacy without contact. Merseyrail Sound Station Development Programme (August - September) Designed by Merseyrail and Bido Lito! To support the next generation of musicians. Artist Masterclass, Studio Workshop, Industry Day, Sound Station Live http://www.merseyrailsoundstation.com/ Thursday July 12th Doyle (Misfits)/OFF The Cross/KING Creature @ Arts Club – Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein hits Liverpool this week Antisocial Jazz Club – Studio d’Essai – Friday – Sunday 3 day DJ event inspired by Pierre Schaeffer, exploring the Art of Sampling. There just might be some experimental DJs (maybe not…) Saturday 14th Brazilica @ The Pier Head 12-8pm, music, DJs and drumming – Aleh Ferreira, Penya Local Hip Hop artist Dinassin is performing at the Reeds 7.30pm Sunday 15th Fishprint Duo @ 81 Renshaw Street 1.30pm – 3.30pm Pablo Sonnaillon (Double Bass) & Nick Branton (Reeds) playing a mixture of improv, original music, and ‘the odd standard’ MONDAY 25TH JUNE
FLIGHT OF THE CONCORDS Appropriately enough for the comedy two-piece, this show has been rescheduled from April 1. One half of Kiwi duo Flight of the Conchords Bret McKenzie sustained what he called “a very rock ‘n’ roll injury”in the weeks preceding the original date, when he fell down a flight of stairs, breaking two bones in his hand. WEDNESDAY 27TH JUNE WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM Wolves in the Throne Room re-imagine black metal as an ode to rain storms, wood smoke and the wild energies of the Pacific Northwest. Their first studio album, Diadem of 12 Stars came out in 2006 and since that time, Wolves in the Throne Room have become one of the most potent and highly regarded bands in extreme music. Plus support from WODE and Dawn Ray’d IWF. 19:30 THURSDAY 28TH JUNE REAL TERMS Real Terms release new single 'Padlocks' on June 29th through Superstar Destroyer Records. To celebrate, we're throwing a right old shindig with some wonderful friends from across the North. + Bearfoot Beware, Playacting, Neverbody 81 renshaw st 19:00 Go-Kart Mozart (Felt/Denim) + Swedish Magazines The White Hotel, Salford, Manchester. FRIDAY 29TH JUNE Rakhi + Katya Intimate Sonatas feat Katya Apekisheva RAKHI / KATYA is a huge sound world from just two instruments. RAKHI / KATYA is international artists in the north. RAKHI / KATYA is chamber music at the highest level. IWF 7pm SATURDAY 30TH JUNE Disco Socrates: Constellations, Saturday June 30 The Art of Football exhibition in the Baltic Triangle continues apace! Companion of the World Cup, a day of music takes place in Constellations this weekend. Disco Socrates (celebrating the life of the impressively ‘froed anti-footballer and activist) features live sets from Nigerian Wayne Snow, France’s Oko Ebombo, Rozzma from Egypt and Iranian Lakiesha Goedluck. There will also by DJ sets from the likes of Andy Votel’s Subtrópical Psychout, Anti Social Jazz Club, Melodic Distraction and Radio Exotica. All of this accompanies film screenings and much more, including screenings of the first two Round of 16 World Cup matches. LOOKING FORWARD 7TH July- LAAF is delighted that Emel Mathlouthi will be part of this year's 20th anniversary celebrations! Our enhanced musical programme will enjoy a spectacular opening weekend with a performance from internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter and the “voice of the Tunisian revolution”, Emel Mathlouthi on Saturday 7 July at the Invisible Wind Factory. We'll be hosting Emel as she enters a new phase of her extraordinary life, with a powerful, heartfelt performance of tracks from her sophomore album Ensen (Human), as well as her 2007 recording and viral anthem of the Arab Spring, Kelmti Horra (My Word is Free). IWF Monday 18th
David Byrne, Laura Mvula – o2 Apollo (Manchester) – 7pm David Byrne has just announced an extensive world tour in support of his forthcoming solo record, American Utopia. He will perform songs from the new album, as well as classics from his solo career and his days with Talking Heads. A twelve-piece band will also join Byrne on stage for a choreographed concert that he has called “the most ambitious show I’ve done since the shows that were filmed for Stop Making Sense.” Tuesday 19th Mai Mai Mai, Branton Mawdsley & Metcalfe, Gunnther – 81 Renshaw Street – 8pm Another industry-night concert delight brought to us by polymath local guitarist Luke Mawdsley. Consisting this time of Italian synth noise from genreless musician Toni Cutrone (Mai Mai Mai), plus Luke’s new quasi-improv trio with Nick Branton and Michael P Metcalfe of Dead Hedge. https://www.facebook.com/events/327570241100834/ Wednesday 20th Film double bill: Grey Gardens & That Summer – FACT – 6:30pm FACT and Liverpool Pride present a double bill of classic film Grey Gardens, and newly released That Summer. This summer Liverpool Pride are exploring how LGBTQ+ people fit in with and expand the traditional ideas of what a family might be, in homage to the work of the Michael Causer Foundation, who work to make secure living and learning environments for young LGBTQ+ people. Grey Gardens has become a phenomenon in the queer world for its warts and all portrayal of Big and Little Edie, the mother and daughter cousins of Jaqueline Kennedy/Onassis, who are living in self-induced squalor in the house of the same name. Their epic disregard for the norms of life has become a byword for seeing the world with heroic difference. With the release of That Summer, our ongoing fascination with Big Edie and Little Edie is piqued once more. The film uncovers footage lost for decades shot by Andy Warhol, Peter Beard and the socialite sister of Jackie Onassis, Lee Radziwill, who formed a vibrant and profoundly influential creative community with the likes of Truman Capote and Mick Jagger in Montauk in the 1970s. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/double-bill-grey-gardens-that-summer-tickets-46758812868 Thursday 21st Exhibition Opening: Hassnat Sikander – Output Gallery (32 Seel Street) – 6pm Liverpool-based Hassnat Sikander will be the second artist in the OUTPUT gallery exhibition programme. Her practice uses sound and performance to explore the trauma of forced marriage and domestic abuse. Sikander will return to the gallery on June 28th to give a performance within the space of the exhibition. OUTPUT is a new gallery in the The Kazimier Gardens’ former workshop space at 32 Seel Street. OUTPUT gallery will exclusively show creatives from or living in Merseyside. www.thekazimier.co.uk/output Wild Fruit Art Collective – EBGBs – 7:30pm Bido Lito! team up with Eggy Records for the July edition of the Bido Lito! Social at EBGBs. Headliners Wild Fruit Art Collective have made a name for themselves in recent years with raucous gigs and an inventive sound which sets them apart from other acts on the Liverpool scene. Fellow Eggy artist Beija Flo provides support and new comer Hannah And The Wick Effect open proceedings. https://www.seetickets.com/tour/bido-lito-social-w-eggy-recs Friday 22nd New Music for Old Machines: Joasihno + Reality Goggles – The Well – 8pm Two acts building fully contained electro-acoustic sonic worlds in which to present idiosyncratic, shape-shifting psychedelic music, performed in the intimate confines of the Well space, Roscoe St. JOASIHNO (GER) The duo of Cico Beck and Nico Sierig bring a battery of motorised, electric and acoustic instruments to create a musical landscape of robot-controlled mallet percussion, kinetic sound sculptures and colourful exotica. The pastoral pulses of early Cluster, the vibrant energy of Moondog and Harry Partch, and the 4th World collages of Visible Cloaks are all to be found in their unique alignment of experimental sonics and heady experimental pop REALITY GOGGLES (UK) RG presents post-religious devotional music. A refiguring of wilful designs and perhaps-happy accidents, circuit-bent pedals and looped trumpets invoking a shimmering amalgamation of Terry Riley, GAS and Robert Wyatt https://www.facebook.com/events/218307118898184/ Eat Me: The Punk Edition – Sound Food & Drink – 8pm This June EAT ME will be paying homage to our favourite (ongoing) era of scabs, (delicious) body odour, tall spiky hair and screaming… to the powers that be! Think burning effigies of Our Dear Leaders, sweaty kisses, cigarette burns and giving less of a shit – but, with more Drag Queens and Queers! Sounds down right medicinal to us! We’ll be asking you what PUNK means today and collectively transporting ourselves to a better world of stanky pits, thrashing, rage, protest and unbridled self-expression! Hosted by the original trash potato AUNTIE CLIMAX and her bouncy friends: BABS DARLING, MIDGITTE BARDOT, THE HUNGRY B(R)ITCHES, MARILYN MISANDRY, KEVIN LAGRANDE, EDDI PILCHER & much much MORE https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3482444 Saturday 23rd The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah – RNCM (Manchester) – 7:30pm He befriended Nelson Mandela, fought in the 1980s race riots and recorded radical and relevant reggae music with Bob Marley’s former band. Benjamin Zephaniah was unable to read and write at school but became one of Britain’s most remarkable poets. And now he’s back with his first tour in eight years, to coincide with his remarkable autobiography, The Life and Rhymes Of Benjamin Zephaniah. In a compelling and inspiring show, Zephaniah will explain how he fought injustice and discrimination to lead a remarkable life, while sharing a selection of favourite stories and poems. Signed copies of The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah will be available after the show. https://www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/benjamin-zephaniah/ Upitup Records Rave – Rat Alley (Kazimier Garden) – 11pm The netlabel-turned crucially vital Liverpool function recently celebrated their 15th birthday – and so continue the festivities with a ‘Rat Alley Rave’. Taking place in the former smoking area of the Kazimier club, this outdoor space behind the Kazimier Garden is a truly anarchic nightspot that has somehow eeked out an existence in the face of overwhelming redevelopment all around it. Merseyside representatives Jacques Malchance, Isocore, and EA Moon will all take turns before piling in for a back-to-back DJ moment. Novelty factor: they have a phone line set up, in true old school raving style, to ring up during the week in order to get cheap entry – try it yourself – 07707096449… https://www.facebook.com/events/186449978716864/ Sunday 24th The Ex + Crumbs – Soup Kitchen (Manchester) – 7:30pm The adventurous, innovative Dutch band The Ex exists 38 years this year and is still going strong. New projects, new adventures, new songs and new sounds are the norm. The Ex has defied categorization ever since they started playing in 1979. Born out of the punk explosion, when anything and everything was possible, the band have still managed to retain both curiosity and passion for their music. Using guitars, bass, drums and voice as their starting point, The Ex have continued to musically explore undiscovered areas right up to the present day. https://www.facebook.com/events/549657035405126/ Looking ahead: Thursday 28th Real Terms, Bearfoot Beware, Playacting, Neverbody – 81 Renshaw Street – 7pm Real Terms release new single 'Padlocks' on June 29th through Superstar Destroyer Records. To celebrate, we're throwing a right old shindig with some wonderful friends from across the North. REAL TERMS used to be in Liverpool math rock faves Vasco Da Gama and now have a sound that they like to think of as more melodic, groovy and spacious. Helpfully described by Playacting as "the smoothest math-groove power-trio in the world." We'll take it. https://www.facebook.com/events/205182803627852/ Saturday 7th July Emel Mathlouthi – Invisible Wind Factory – 7pm Voice of the Tunisian revolution and a sensation during 2007’s Arab Spring (for her song “Kelmti Horra” – ‘My Word Is Free’, which went viral during the tumult) Emel Mathlouthi performs as part of Liverpool Arab Arts Festival’s 20th anniversary celebration. Monday 11th
Palm – The Castle Hotel, Manchester – 7:30pm Art rock and prog meet as this affected NY quartet play ‘rock music backwards’. Rhythmic, alien guitar parts leave room for the drummer and bassist to meander. Strange, upside-down music influenced by sounds form the world over, for fans of Abe Vigoda and other guitar-pedal mis-users. https://www.facebook.com/events/494568740936927/ Thursday 14th Skeltr – Kazimier Garden – 7pm Tipped by Jazzwise magazine as ‘ones to watch’ in 2018, Skeltr is a sax/drums duo that comes from a spiritual jazz persuasion, utilising sampling and electronic elements to create a dense musical bed upon which they live-perform drum patterns and soaring saxophone lines. Stylistically the pair takes in emotional balladry, punk funk and effect-pedal manipulations in real time. Recently toured with Californian jazz-funk polymaths Knower, another duo whose member Louis Cole described Skeltr as ‘hot as hell’. https://www.facebook.com/events/1049917381851423/ Anda Union – Philharmonic Music Room – 8pm ‘AnDa’ means blood sibling in Mongolian; the musicians in this ‘union’ are all blood brothers and sisters of some kind. Exploring the folk musics of their varying nomadic ethnicities (the 9 members come from different Mongolian tribes united by Genghis Khan), Anda Union presents a first for Inner Mongolian traditional music in a project that utilises traditional string instruments, harps, bagpipes and percussion particular to the vast, far Eastern area. http://www.liverpoolphil.com/whats-on/anda-union https://andaunion.com/ Saturday 16th Africa Oyé – Sefton Park – 12:30pm until 9:30pm The best free cultural event in the city and the UK’s greatest celebration of the African diaspora & its music marks its 26th year with sure-to-be stand-out performances from Orchestra Poly-Rythmo (Sunday) and Mim Suleiman (Saturday). https://www.africaoye.com/ The Psychedelic Furs – o2 Academy – 7pm The last band to play Eric’s and a post-punk staple for many today, The Psychedelic Furs return to Liverpool to headline this central venue’s main room, with support from Richard Strange. https://www.facebook.com/events/148841525914345 Pardon Us, Don Blake, Rat Bit Kit, Katy McGrath – Maguire’s Pizza Bar – 7:30pm Four live music acts ranging from pop-punk to squeeze-box-punk, including an acoustic set from the Snakes Everywhere frontwoman. https://www.facebook.com/events/1307488876048852/ Sunday 17th Klezmer-ish – Princes Road Synagogue – 7pm This RLPO offshoot project performs four-piece iterations of pieces from the Klezmer, Gypsy Jazz, Irish Folk and Tango traditions. Clarinet, piano accordion, double bass, guitar and violin come together for pro interpretations and arrangements of rousing sounds from the world’s travelling communities. https://www.facebook.com/events/580998575419746/ Tuesday 19th Mai Mai Mai, Branton Mawdsley & Metcalfe, Gunnther – 81 Renshaw – 8pm The city’s best guitar player arranges another mid-week concert delight for us to enjoy, serving up Italian synth noise from genreless musician Toni Cutrone, alongside an appearance of Luke’s new quasi-improv trio with Nick Branton and Michael P Metcalfe of Dead Hedge. https://www.facebook.com/events/327570241100834/ Looking ahead: Friday 29th Manchester Collective: Rakhi / Katya – Invisible Wind Factory – 7:30pm “Intimate sonatas” is the tag-line as the augmented string quartet leads arguably their most ambitious project to date onto the ground floor of IWF – literally wheeling a Steinway into the industrial venue’s Main Hall for an unforgettable night of violin and piano. https://manchestercollective.co.uk/rakhikatya/ Tuesday 5th June. Ty Segall - Gorilla, Manchester. Wednesday 6th: Laura Viers – Manchester Deaf Institute. Friday 8th June: Positive Vibration – Festival of Reggae Lee Scratch Perry & Subatomic Sound System Roni Size Dub Pistols Saturday 9th: Positive Vibration – Festival of Reggae Macka B & the Roots Reggae Band Sister Nancy & legal Shot Sound System Misty in Roots. http://posvibefest.com/ The Biggest Thing Since Powdered Milk, Takotsubo men, Enamel Animal, Purple merlin. The Zanzibar Sunday 10th: Fairport Convention (final date of tour band’s 51st year New Brighton Floral pavilion Chas & Dave. Liverpool Empire Theatre. Tuesday 12th June: Belly. Manchester Ritz. (third album Dove) Saturday 16th/Sunday 17th: Africa Oye, Sefton Park – Inner Circle (Jamaica), Grammy Nominated Rocky Dawuni (Ghana), orchestra Poly-Rythmo https://www.africaoye.com/ Saturday 16th: Jeff Beck - Liverpool Philharmonic Hall Saturday 14th July – Choir festival, St Bride’s Church. https://www.facebook.com/events/637695086429139/ www.torridstarproductions.wordpress.com Wednesday 30th
LAN presents Women in Music @ SAE 7pm A discussion event exploring the issues Women face within music and how to overcome an old-fashioned stigma attached to female-identifying people in a male-dominated industry. Facebook Event Thursday 31st The Room In The Wood/Campbell L Sangster 81 Renshaw 7.30 Facebook Event Sirocco @ IWF Manchester Collective with guest director Abel Selaocoe Joining Manchester Collective for this unique collaboration is Abel's band, Chesaba, a trio specialising in the performance of music from the African continent. The programme covers everything from Giovanni Sollima's inspired Lamentatio (in an outrageous virtuoso arrangement by Selaocoe - watch it here), darkness and light by Ravel and Haydn, a set of original African work performed for the first time, and two gorgeous Danish folk songs to round off the night. Facebook Event Friday 1st June Junes Launch - Dialect x JC Leisure / Lucaufer / Lupini (DJ) @ The Reeds 9pm Junes is a new label that released Dialects album ‘Loose Blooms’, which is now being released on vinyl. Dialect x JC leasure – live collab using tape collages and electronics. Lucaufer – LDN blends organic ambient recordings with a fluid post-club approach Lupini – 4th world/post ambient selections Facebook Event June Chemtrail Party Mix: Garridge/ Newcastle Upon Tyne Speed Donk – Drop The Dumbulls DONK,BASSLINE,HARDBASS,GABBER,4X4 BASSLINE,HAPPY HARDCORE,SPEEDCORE,IRISH FOLK MUSIC,KAIZO KARAOKE,EXTRATONE AND PARANOID CHIP-EDGE MADCORE Facebook Event SPRAY/Factory Acts/Double Echo/Irny @ Zanzibar 7.30pm Facebook Event 3rd June Liverpool Audio Network – Production Masterclass @ Constellations 1pm-5pm Two production pros – Corey James (electronic music producer) and Al Groves (Recording engineer) Facebook Event Looking Ahead 14th June Anda Union - The Music Room 8pm http://www.liverpoolphil.com/ |
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