Playlist #24: Happy Hallowe’en
Hallowe’en – far too commercialised these days, eh? Console yourself with a playlist very much in the spirit of things… It’s that time again, when even more sirens can be heard outside of...
Rust And Bone – Reviewed
DW Mault finds beauty and truth in the existentialism of Rust And Bone… It seems a perfect time to be discussing the death of Anglo-Saxon narrative cinema, the morning after the announcement of...
FAR @ The Playhouse – Reviewed
C James Fagan was taken on a journey of discovery by FAR… I’ll open with an admission. Until very recently I was unaware that this event was happening. It’s only through a stroke...
Culture Diary w/c 29-10-12
Tuesday – The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner 7.30pm @ Liverpool Playhouse £12/£21 Based on the short story of the same name by author Alan Sillitoe (Saturday and Night Sunday Morning), The...
Painting – A Dialogue
Linda Pittwood considers the talks, discussions and tours at the Walker Art Gallery on contemporary painting, as part of this weekend’s John Moores Painting Prize summit … Artist Patrick Heron wrote in 1963: “Painting still has a...
Field Trip #16: Cologne
Artist, and Artistic Director at the Bluecoat, Bryan Biggs reports back from Cologne… There’s a joke going round in Germany at the moment about its Chancellor: ‘What does Angela Merkel do with her...
Liverpool and Cologne: Non-Identical Twins
Bryan Biggs, artist and Artistic Director at the Bluecoat, reflects on Liverpool’s ongoing cultural links with Cologne following a recent visit to the Rhine city… Under the title Eight Days A Week, the...
Response @ Fallout Factory – Reviewed
Adam Scovell finds reasons to be optimistic about the Independents Biennial at Fallout Factory… There’s a wealth of independent shows and projects around this year’s Liverpool Biennial. With the official festival itself being...
Culture Diary w/c 22-10-2012
Monday – Dig! 6.30pm @ FACT Winner of the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, Dig! is the real life story of friendship and professional rivalry between Portland bands The...