18/03/2013
Philip Pullman's I Was A Rat!

Culture Diary w/c 18-03-13

Monday – Wild Nothing 7.30pm @ the Kazimier £8 Shoegaze, dream-pop, call it what you will; whatever ‘it’ is, Wild Nothing have it in abundance. First single, 2009′s Summer Holiday (taken from 2010′s...

11/03/2013
Particle Velocity, Tues/Weds at the Playhouse

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...

04/03/2013
Pam Grier in Jackie Brown

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...

25/02/2013
Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby

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...

18/02/2013
Reservoir Dogs with Keitel and Buscemi

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...

11/02/2013
Casablanca @ the bombed out church

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...

04/02/2013
Glam! The Performance of Style @ Tate Liverpool

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...

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...

21/01/2013
©National Trust Images/Edward Chambré Hardman Collection

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...