Events for weekend 24th-26th April 2009

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There’s something special about this coming weekend. No, it’s nothing to do with the alignment of the planets, or the cycle of the moon (at least we don’t think it is…!). No, it’s the fact that there are so many fantastic acoustic events happening within three days of each other.

FRIDAY 24TH APRIL

Friday 24th April – Roy Bailey and Alun Parry
@ Southport Arts Centre
Just another reminder that this gig has been cancelled.

Friday 24th April – Liverpool Acousic Live
@ The View Two Gallery, Mathew Street
8.00pm doors, 8.30pm music. £4 (£3 in advance)
Features Hannah Platt, Karen Cleary,
Tony Kehoe, and the 10p Mixes.
Details from liverpoolacoustic.co.uk


Friday 24th April – Chris Wood
@ Rodewald Suite, Liverpool Philharmonic
8.30pm – £10
The ‘renaissance man of English folk’ performs in the Phil’s After Eight series.
Details from liverpoolphil.com

SATURDAY 25TH APRIL


Saturday 25th April – Edge City
@ Fact (Gallery One)
2.00pm – 6.00pm – free
Music and Poetry from the anti-scene, with…
Tom George, Dirtblonde, Esa, and The 10p Mixes

Saturday 25th April – The Family Folk-up presents
@ St Brides Church
Doors 7pm -11pm. First Act on stage 8pm
Tickets £5 from Probe Records
Arthur Shelton Jones, S.J. Downes & Friends,
The Random Family, Dave Owen

Saturday 25th April – Thomas-Joseph & Murphy present
@ Parr Street Studio 2
Linda McCartney Centre charity night
Further details from Mherons@aol.com
with T-J & Murphy, Jeff Jepson,
John O’Connell, & Jessica Staveley-Taylor
For full details of this event, scroll to the bottom of this post.

Saturday 26th April – Bumper Gig
@ Bumper Bar
Pay on the door, or get your tickets from the bands.
featuring Jessicas Ghost album launch myspace.com/jessicasghost
and The Kevin Critchley Outfit album myspace.com/kevincritchley

SUNDAY 27TH APRIL


Sunday 26th April – Neil Campbell’s Sunday Afternoon
@ The Slaughterhouse
14:00 – 18:00 – £5 on the door
Xandar and the Peace Pirates (Acoustic), Mark Byrne, Charli Taft
Mark Delaney, Karen Cleary, Neil Campbell
details from www.neilcampbellcollective.com


Sunday 26th April – Illumination @ The Zanzibar
5.30pm to midnight – £3
Live music from the Ronan Boyle Band, The Bottletop Millionaires,
Avant Gardner, Peach Shel, Duncan Ewart, Lee Broderick.
Bands and discussion with Tony Gosling

Sunday 26th April – Acoustic night @ Tabac
8pm till late – free (with drinks and food promotions)
Hosted by Kyle Ray with Peter Aldridge and Jody Copper
Followed by open mic

Charity gig at Studio 2, Parr Street Studio

4 of Liverpool’s Top Acoustic Artist’s will be performing a gig for charity on Saturday 25th April 2009.

The wonderful acoustic duo, T-J & Murphy will be headlining an all star line up to raise funds for the Liverpool based charity the Linda McCartney Centre.

T-J & Murphy’s Manager, Billy, who organised the gig, said, “We all know someone who has been affected by breast cancer, my family certainly has; and the band agreed that there would be no better feeling than to present a big cheque to the tremendous staff at the centre. That is how this gig came about.”

Also performing on the night is Jeff Jepson, John O’Connell and Jessica Staveley-Taylor – a mixture of Liverpool’s greatest talents coming together to create a must see gig.

The Linda McCartney Centre is a state-of-the-art treatment and research centre. Each year the centre treats over 40,000 people for a range of medical conditions but is most renowned for its work into breast cancer.

Billy continued, “I am so grateful for the tremendous support the gig as received from all of the artists and the staff at Studio 2; without their support we would not have been able to put on a such a great night. I must also thank the legendary Steve Macfarlane who will be in Liverpool to host the evening.”

The gig will start around 7.30pm. Tickets cost just £7.00 and can be purchased beforehand by calling 0151-706-3153 – or on the door.