The Launch Event for the Liverpool Acoustic Songwriting Challenge 2012 is taking place on the afternoon of Saturday 8th September 2012, in association with the View Two Gallery From 1pm to 4pm on Saturday 8th September the View Two Gallery on Mathew Street will be open for songwriters to have a look round and be inspired by the art on display. To enterContinue Reading

Liverpool Fringe Festival 2012

The Mathew Street Music Festival is back this weekend, with its predictable downpour of unoriginal cover bands (Antarctic Monkeys, Amy Housewine, Coldplace, ad nauseum), plus a light shower of original Merseybeat groups (Gerry and the Pacemakers, Mike Pender’s Searchers, etc), with only an occasional sunny spell of current Liverpool bands to brightenContinue Reading

SINGLE REVIEW Artists: Lizzie Nunnery and Vidar Norheim Single: Poverty Knocks (featuring the Liverpool Socialist Singers) Website: lizzienunnery.co.uk Poverty Knocks (not to be confused with the old mill-workers’ song Poverty Knock) is the first single from Lizzie Nunnery’s eagerly awaited second album Black Hound Howling, due for release on 17th September.Continue Reading

Liverpool Acoustic NEWS BLAST

In our previous NEWS BLAST we were somewhat dismissive of Andy Murray’s chances of winning the Men’s Singles final at Wimbledon, so we’re chuffed to bits to be publishing NEWS BLAST #20 on the day he beat his Wimbledon conqueror Roger Federer to claim Olympic Gold for Scotland (‘Great Britain,Continue Reading