April is here at last, bringing with it glorious sunshine, daffodils galore, and (hopefully) no snow. There’s lots to look forward to as we move into the second quarter of the year, with plenty of exciting gigs, events, and music taking place. The GIT Awards are back for a second timeContinue Reading
March is here, and brings with it the return of Threshold! Hooray! It also sees Liverpool Acoustic Live’s first ever Youth Special, with all of the talented performers aged 15, 16 or 17. Exciting, eh? And if that wasn’t enough, our Diary News section is simply bursting at the seams!Continue Reading
It’s Fab Feb with lots of great events in the diary to get excited about. At the top of the list is Liverpool Acoustic Live’s 4th birthday show on Friday 22nd where we’ve managed to snag The Mono LPs. We’re also gearing up for Threshold in March, and will beContinue Reading
“Happy New Year, Happy New Year, may we all have a vision now and then of a world where every neighbour is a friend.” We thank the great philosophers Abba for those meaningful words as we head into 2013. This year we have no Olympic games or major international football tournament to distractContinue Reading
November was a real highlight for Liverpool Acoustic. Firstly we had the amazing Celebrating Subversion at Sefton Park Palm House which saw the venue’s largest ever attendance. Secondly, Liverpool Acoustic Live was named Live Music Event Of The Year 2012 at the Liverpool Music Awards. Thirdly, this year’s Songwriting ChallengeContinue Reading
You couldn’t have failed to notice that we’ve got a mighty big event coming up on Saturday 10th November when Celebrating Subversion: The Anti-Capitalist Roadshow comes to Sefton Park Palm House. We keep pinching ourselves in disbelief that we managed to secure this as the only North West show thisContinue 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
In the same way that August sees the start of the grouse hunting season, so September sees the start of the music releasing season, with a large number of singles, EPs and albums being released this month. Some of them have been added to the diary dates below, and highlightedContinue Reading
We’re going to try to get through the whole of this newsletter without mentioning the ‘O’ word once (that doesn’t count, by the way). And why would we want to when there’s so much fantastic acoustic music going on this month? In addition to the rearranged Croxteth Park Music Festival withContinue Reading
July 2012 can only mean one thing – The Big O. No, not the return of Roy Orbison (he’s too busy working in Elvis’ chippy) but the Olympic Games down in that London. For those of you who aren’t interested there’s plenty of fantastic acoustic music to take your mindContinue Reading
