Reggae and general music fans should be delighted to learn that the legendary Horace Andy is performing in Liverpool at District on Friday 1st September 2017. Perhaps best known in the UK for his collaborations with Massive Attack, he has an impressive back catalogue with hits such as “Skylarking”, “Just Say Who”, “Don’t Try To […]
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2017 has already been an incredible year for live music in Liverpool. After last week’s phenomenal shows from Gary Numan and Brian Wilson it felt like the high-water mark, like nothing could possibly come close to the excitement generated by those shows again this year, but then, not even a week later, comes the fantastic […]
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The world famous Brazilica festival has returned to Liverpool for it’s 10th year, bringing Samba rhythms and spectacular colourful outfits to the streets and venues of Liverpool. It runs for 3 days and encompasses many aspects of Brazilian culture encompassing music, dance and even movies. On Friday night I went along to the Carnival Queen […]
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I recently read an article claiming the top thing people hate about Facebook is that everyone seems to be having more fun than they are! Commercial media naturally tell their target audience what they want to hear so they claimed that people aren’t really having that much fun, otherwise they wouldn’t be posting about it […]
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Post-Glasto blues is a very real thing. Of course people who didn’t get tickets or don’t see the appeal will say “diddums, at least you got to go” or “at least you’ll get a proper bed and bath” and of course logically they are right, but like many things at Glastonbury it’s very hard to […]
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On Saturday morning we thought the Bootleg Beatles on the Pyramid stage might be fun. However, they started around 10.30am and on the Friday having been up and out to catch the first act of the festival we were half asleep by the time Radiohead came around. There is so much going on at Glastonbury […]
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Friday is the big day when all the main stages become active! For the choice of opening act, my missus wanted to see hacienda classical on the pyramid whilst I quite fancied the pretenders and I’ve never seen them. She keeps telling me she’s always right, and on this occasion she was indeed! I kind […]
Read MoreThursday is often my favourite day at Glastonbury. Wednesday is all about getting here, setting up and recovering. Friday to Sunday the main stages are active, so it’s nice to have a whole day to wander around without the distraction of bands you want to see. The day got off to a cracking start as […]
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One of the problems of having a festival on a dairy farm in the middle of nowhere is that roads designed for the odd horse has to cope with 175,000 people arriving from all over the country and indeed world. Whilst the festival itself has a massive phone mast thanks to EE’s sponsorship, on the […]
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We’ve all taken a look at this year’s Glastonbury clashfinder, slumped to the ground with our fist in the air shouting “WHY EAVIS, WHY?” when we saw the unholy clash between Radiohead and Flaming Lips, but spare a thought for those of us who have to worry about clashes with a band we must see […]
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