Culture Diary w/c 11-03-13
Monday – Stornoway 8pm @ the Kazimier £13 If drawing unfair and lazy comparisons to Mumford and Sons – yes there are pianos and organs involved – Oxford quartet Stornoway evoke none of the repellent...
Culture Diary w/c 04-03-13
Monday – Two Sunsets: Venetian Skies/Sandunes Phil Bridges and Sean Butler are the Wirral-based duo behind Two Sunsets, celebrating their debut release today. Describing their sound as “almost overly exposed and out of focus” (you’ll...
Culture Diary w/c 25-02-13
Monday – Liverpool Lift-Off Film Festival various venues The Lift-Off Film Festival was founded in London two years ago by independent filmmakers Ben Pohlman and James Alexander, as a means of promoting “raw...
Culture Diary w/c 18-02-13
Monday – Reservoir Dogs 8.30pm @ FACT A retrospective of Quentin Tarantino’s career to date begins tonight at FACT with the movie that started it all. When Reservoir Dogs showed at Sundance in...
Culture Diary w/c 11-02-13
Monday – Indie Film Night with Kevin Smith’s Clerks 6.15pm @ FACT When Kevin Smith made Clerks almost two decades ago, reputedly for a relative shoestring $27,575, it quickly became held up as...
Culture Diary w/c 04-02-13
Monday – The Punk Syndrome plus Q&A 6.30pm @ FACT Documentary The Punk Syndrome focuses on Finnish band Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät, whose memebrs – Pertti, Kari, Toni and Sami – happen to have learning...
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...
Culture Diary w/c 21-01-13
Monday – Fear And Desire 9pm @ FACT Fear And Desire, about soldiers trapped behind enemy lines, has never been an easy film to get hold of. Primarily because Stanley Kubrick’s debut feature...
Culture Diary w/c 14-01-13
Tuesday – Jiro Dreams of Sushi 8.30pm @ FACT Jiro Ono is the 85 year old master chef at a 10-seater sushi restaurant, secreted away in an underground station in Tokyo. The clue...