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...
Goonies never say die!
Rachael Jones ventures into the night for her second bite of the Reel Unknown experience… We’re going to start this review with a bold statement: we are, to quote Daphne Moon, ‘a little...
Oxjam Takeover – Previewed
This Saturday sees the Oxjam Liverpool Takeover rock up at Camp and Furnace, with more than 20 artists in tow… Wander down to the Baltic Triangle’s Camp and Furnace this Saturday and you’ll...
Playlist #23: The Beautiful Ones
It was the scene that helped define and produce a generation of musicians, so why is Britpop such a dirty word? When Ultrasound imploded in 1999, so too did Britpop’s last great hope....
Indie Anonymous
Liverpool has a lot of things to shout about, but our alternative club scene isn’t one of them… For our money, right now, Liverpool is culturally and creatively a very exciting place to...
Culture Diary w/c 15-10-12
Monday – The Cubical: On The Weekend Taken from the album Arise Conglomerate (out 19th Nov), On The Weekend is the lead single and raucous hymn to the behaviour we allow ourselves once...