Liverpool Acoustic Newsletter – May 2009
It’s nearly Star Wars Day, so we’d like to be the first to say May The Fourth Be With You.
And the fourth, sorry… force is certainly strong in the Liverpool acoustic music scene this month.
There are more CD and EP releases to look forward to. And not only have we got visits from Karima Francis and Billy Bragg, we’ve also got the Crosby Music Festival. In addition, May sees the ever-expanding International Pop Overthrow taking place over the late spring bank holiday weekend. This year the IPO has a new venue – The Grapes – dedicated to acoustic solos and duos.
Liverpool Acoustic Live this month is on Friday 15th May, and features Jeff Jepson, Neil Campbell, Tricia McTeague, and Letters in Red. More details coming soon on the News and Reviews blog.
SPOTLIGHT
Liverpool Acoustic Spotlight #13 was out last week, and featured some of the bands and artists who have recently launched their new albums.
Hot on it’s heels, Spotlight #14 will feature the four artists booked for the next Liverpool Acoustic Live gig on Friday 15th May. All of the shows can be found at liverpoolacoustic.co.uk/spotlight
The Liverpool Acoustic Spotlight can also be found at Re:place Radio replaceradio.com, courtesy of our friends at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, and on Art In Liverpool FM, thanks to our friends at Defnet Media defnetmedia.com
And a piece of good news – the Liverpool Acoustic Spotlight has been accepted into AMP, the Association of Music Podcasting, an international group of podcasters whose aim is to promote new and unsigned artists by producing high quality music podcasts. AMP can be found at musicpodcasting.org
DIARY
May’s diary is pretting darned full, with lots going on over the late Spring Bank Holiday weekend at the end of the month. Rather than listing a handfull of them here, we’ll be posting news items on the News and Reviews page telling you about the one’s that stand out as being a little bit special or different. You can subsribe to this blog via email, or by using the RSS feed in readers such as Yahoo! and Google. You can also look up events for yourself by visiting the Liverpool Acoustic Diary
If you’re an organiser of acoustic events, or a musician performing at one, then let us have the details as soon as possible so we can add it to the diary. If we’re given enough information and enough advance notice we can even so a news item about it for special one-off events.
Rather than swamping Graham’s twitter account and facebook profile with regular Liverpool Acoustic updates we’ve decided to branch out with our own twitter account. Updates from the News and Reviews page will be posted to it automatically, but we’ll also have the flexibility to post urgent items and breaking news without flooding the inboxes of those who get their news from us via email.
AND FINALLY…
A huge thank you to those who have contributed to the website recently. Sue from Bread Magazine is writing an album review for us, and Tony Kehoe has been checking out a new acoustic night in Aigburgh. Both of these items will be published on the News and Reviews blog this month, along with a review of an album by a friend of the city who’ll be perfoming here later this month.
If you have anything you’d like to contribute to the Liverpool Acoustic website then please let us know by using the Contact Us form or by emailing contact[at]liverpoolacoustic.co.uk It would be really nice to get some more reviews of gigs, open mics, and showcase events.
Graham (on behalf of the Liverpool Acoustic team)