Playlist: Hey! Ho! Let’s Go! Remembering The Ramones
With the sad passing of drummer and last surviving bandmate, Tommy Ramone, over the weekend, Joseph Viney reminds us why The Ramones stood out in a New York punk scene teeming with talent… The...
Culture Diary w/c 14-07-2014
What’s hot this week? It’s a special all-Liverpool listings! Enjoy! Monday – Ghostface Killah 7.30pm @ the Kazimier, Liverpool — £15 “At a moment when hip-hop’s lyrical and musical elements were diverging, Daytona 500...
Biennial 2014: What Peter Wächtler Has To Say About Liverpool
Should an arts festival directly reference the city it calls home? Can art become relevant to a context in which it is displayed? Richard Whitby examines one artwork in this year’s Liverpool Biennial that has a lot to say,...
The Big Interview: Anton Newcombe
With one foot on stage ahead of a show in Dublin and with a Liverpool show this coming Saturday, The Brian Jonestown Massacre’s frontman Anton Newcombe talks to Joseph Viney about his affinity for...
Liverpool Biennial director: “I want to make it part of people’s everyday lives”
This year’s Liverpool Biennial is the first that director Sally Tallant can really call her own, having arrived in Liverpool only a few months before the 2012 festival. Now with a new, earlier...
Professor Jon Butterworth On Smashing Physics
Sci-fi continues to inspire the arts, and you can’t switch TV channels without seeing Dr Who or Brian Cox. So is science finally cool? Joseph Viney asks a CERN scientist… This Friday marks the...
Playlist: Miles Davis’ Lift to the Scaffold (1958)
Ahead of a screening and discussion at Cornerhouse tomorrow, Kieran Duffy marvels at the “blisteringly energetic bebop” created for Louis Malle’s New Wave thriller… The legendary musician Miles Davis was a figure at...
Culture Diary w/c 30-06-2014
What’s hot this week? Our pick of the listings from around Liverpool and the rest of the UK… Monday – Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland @ various galleries across Scotland “An...
Liverpool’s Art Scene Now
Ahead of this week’s Biennial 2014 opening, ArtReview’s Oliver Basciano assesses Liverpool’s contemporary art offer, and wonders at the striking absence of new artist-run initiatives… Contemporary art – at least if we follow a...