Liverpool Acoustic has supported Threshold Festival since day one, so we’re hardly going to let this coming event go by without a nice big mention. While other festivals have advance ‘early bird’ tickets with big savings, named after the Baltic Triangle’s New Bird Street, Threshold 2013 will be launching itsContinue Reading
The Liverpool Irish Festival starts on Thursday 11th October, marking ten years of celebrating the musical, historical, cultural and sporting links between Liverpool and the Emerald Isle. This year’s festival has been condensed into ten days, and runs from 11th to 21st October 2012. Musical highlights include (click the linksContinue Reading
Celebrating Subversion: The Anti-Capitalist Roadshow is coming to town next month, and since it’s something rather special we thought you’d like a little more advance notice than normal. Liverpool Acoustic and Sefton Park Palm House, in association with News From Nowhere and Radical Liverpool, are proud to present a very special evening celebrating subversion through music and magic, on Saturday 10thContinue Reading
We’ve reached 21 News Blasts already, and before we get a chance to mention the ‘key of the door’, we’ve going to crack on with all those snippets of music news we’ve been keeping safe for an occasion such as… well… this! BREAKING THE RULES – Would you like toContinue Reading
Gosh, September was interesting, wasn’t it? The scrapping of Liverpool City Council’s busking policy, and the start of the fight to keep MelloMello open certainly put the music scene in the media spotlight. Let’s hope both situations can be resolved for the benefit of the creative community. And so toContinue Reading
The Liverpool Acoustic Songwriting Challenge 2012 deadline is fast approaching. Songwriters have until 5pm on Sunday 7th October to submit their original songs based on a work of art at the View Two Gallery. There was a great deal of interest at the launch event earlier in September with lotsContinue Reading
We’ve been amazed by the support shown since we published our article Save MelloMello – 10 ways to help last Sunday. In fact, so many of you have been kicking up a fuss, signing the petition (currently 6,740), sharing on twitter (we’re looking at YOU, Dr Brian May!), and pesteringContinue Reading
“More than just a bit stupendous.” That’s how fRoots Magazine’s Simon Jones described the headline guests at Liverpool Acoustic Live this coming Friday 28th September 2012, and who are we to argue? Merry Hell play folk rock with punk sensibilities. Born from the ashes of local favourite band The Tansads,Continue Reading
Here at Liverpool Acoustic we’d barely begun celebrating Liverpool City Council’s decision to scrap its ridiculous and (allegedly) illegal anti-busking policy (see what we did there?) when the news came through that MelloMello, the not-for-profit Community Interest Company on the corner of Slater and Parr Street, is facing imminent closure. TheContinue Reading
Followers of Liverpool Acoustic will know we’re big fans of Blackpool-born, Leeds-based, superhuman guitarist (and all-round nice guy) Jon Gomm, having hosted him twice at the View Two Gallery (see the last review here). So imagine our delight when we found out he is touring the UK this autumn on what canContinue Reading
