In the first of our new series in which Merseyside's leading musicians talk about their favourite song sprinkled with salt from the Mersey, we have Stuart Irwin from the Great Northwestern Hoboes on Strawberry Fields Forever...
Turns out Mr McCulloch will be making a guest appearance tomorrow night...
This week we have reviews of the latest offerings from Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, Beggars and Kids in Glass Houses
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This week in 1994 and 1995 The Boo Radleys and Pink Floyd reigned supreme...
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The rise and rise of 23- year-old Aimee Ann Duffy – or just plain Duffy now – has been well documented over the last six months. She’s gone from the North Wales coastal town of Nefyn to the top of the charts...
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Billy Bragg in Liverpool is always something special. But to hear the Bard of Barking play what he calls “the city that most understands solidarity” on the night of Labour’s worst electoral performance in decades was verging on a spiritual experience.
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He’s collaborated with Kylie, Shane MacGowan, PJ Harvey, Johnny Cash and Marianne Faithful.
Now Nick Cave and his band The Bad Seeds have a new album out – the fantastic Dig Lazarus Dig.
Sometimes a night out is more than a night out, it’s the experience that changes your life.
THERE is an invisible line drawn down our office. On one side are those who try to keep up with the vagaries of youth culture, on the other lies those who have given up years ago.
Never was the line more evident than yesterday, when the subject of Emo came up.
Sarah Burvill, one of the organisers of the South Liverpool Music Festival, talks about one of the summer's great up-and-coming festivals...
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