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It’s reconned that 60% of the population of Liverpool is of Irish descent, and the rest just wish they were (or at least that’s what it seems like in Durty Nelly’s on St Patrick’s Night). OK, so we made the last bit up, but who cares? Because it’s time toContinue Reading

Situated in Hotham Street, behind the Liverpool Empire, the Carling Academy Liverpool is one of the city’s best venues. The former Lomax and L2 was re-born in 2003 as the 1,200 capacity Carling Academy Liverpool and it’s nattily-named little sister of a venue the 500 capacity Carling Academy 2. NotContinue Reading

Where were you last Friday? If you weren’t at The Pilgrim you missed a great night! The Liverpool Irish Festival pre-kicked off in fantastic style (it doesn’t launch officially until next week…) with the first of three heats for the Battle of the Bands – and this year the competition’sContinue Reading

The guys at from the Family Folk-up have been busy again. Not content with putting on their normal Friday gigs at St Brides, they’ve gone and organised a one day music and arts festival at The Bluecoat and in association with Rooftop Audio! Saturday 27th September @ The Bluecoat ArtsContinue Reading

Hi there Acoustic Heads, So, did you go down to the Hope Street Festival last Sunday and enjoy the fabulous music? Did you catch any of the Working Class Music Festival gigs last weekend? Are you all acousticed out? No? We didn’t think so! So here is another new eventContinue Reading