Voting is now open for the first ever Liverpool Music Awards. The judges scrutinised all of the nominations, shortlisting three in each category, and these were announced at the launch party at Erics on 10th October. The fantastic news, as far as we’re concerned, is that Liverpool Acoustic Live hasContinue Reading
FRIDAY 26th OCTOBER 2012 LIVERPOOL ACOUSTIC LIVE This month Liverpool Acoustic Live takes place on Friday 26th October 2012 at the View Two Gallery on Mathew Street, and features fantastic folk guitarist Phil Hare, with support from Three Minute Hero (Liverpool Acoustic’s Stuart Todd), and Devon-based Lipa graduate Freya Jonas. Phil Hare Three Minute HeroContinue Reading
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
ALBUM REVIEW Artist: James J Turner Album: How Could We Be Wrong? Website: jjturner.com I’d never come across James J Turner’s work but I was enticed initially by the impressive cast of backing musicians that he had assembled for this album. After all, Vicky “Mono LPs” Mutch and Paul Walsham (still theContinue 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
Live review: Guitar Masters UK Tour 2012 – Andy McKee, Preston Reed, & Jon Gomm @ The Epstein Theatre, Liverpool Wednesday 26th September 2012 As a long time fan of finger-style guitar it was with great anticipation that I queued up to listen to not just one but three ofContinue 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
FRIDAY 5th October 2012 LIVERPOOL ACOUSTIC PRESENTS Hot on the heels of our last event comes a special Liverpool Acoustic Presents taking place one week later on Friday 5th October 2012 at our regular home, the View Two Gallery on Mathew Street. Headlining on the night is Californian Americana star Rick Shea, with support fromContinue Reading
