28/01/2013
Elena, Discover Tuesday @ FACT

Culture Diary w/c 28-01-13

Monday – Pause 01 11pm @ The Shipping Forecast £3 on the door before 11.30, £4 after The first in a brand new monthly UK Garage and old-skool house night for Liverpool, Pause sets...

28/01/2013
Sex Hands

Chew Disco Returns

Amy Roberts on Chew Disco, literally one of Liverpool’s most vital club nights… It could be argued that every night out you might ever happen upon is riddled with the dissemination or activity...

28/01/2013
What Richard Did

What Richard Did

DW Mault on What Richard Did, and its director, a man of rare subtlety and daring… Sometimes nature (and by nature I mean cinema) abhors a vacuum, how else do we explain the...

25/01/2013
Laurel Halo's Quarantine

Imagination and discovery

Julian Shepherd on wrestling with the perfect playlist to inspire creativity, and ending up ‘all about the party’… For me, music is the thing that keeps my life glistening with diamond-studded edging. It...

25/01/2013
Patrick Wolf

Hungry like the Wolf

Patrick Wolf plays the Epstein Theatre next month, touring an album marking 10 years of pristine, sing-it-from-the rooftop sounds… It’s a decade since singer-songwriter Patrick Wolf’s first album was released. That record, the...

25/01/2013
the Mars Volta

Week at a Glance 25-01-13

J.J. Abrams to direct Star Wars Episode VII The director of the recent Star Trek reboot J.J. Abrams, who appeared to have rejected the idea of having a crack at the George Lucas...

24/01/2013
Gummo

What is Gummo?

DW Mault contemplates Gummo, which screens at Metal tomorrow, and its maverick director Harmony Korine… I want to convince you to experience the unknown, that nothing will ever be the same. The hardest...

23/01/2013
Edward Chambré-Hardman @ openeye

Edward Chambré-Hardman – Landscapes

Keith W Roberts considers E. Chambré-Hardman’s landscapes, the creative passion-projects to his famed commercial portraiture…  Edward Chambré-Hardman (originally from Ireland) is arguably Liverpool’s equivalent of London’s Emil Otto Hoppé, whose economic sustenance, like...

22/01/2013
Image courtesy Behringer

Harangue the DJ

How to achieve a vibrant, successful club night in the face of requests for the ‘same old, same old’? Mikey Stevenson spoke anonymously to a number of city DJs to find out… Soon...