How do you fancy seeing your band alongside The Zutons, The Wombats, Echo and The Bunnymen and OMD in a new exhibition at World Museum Liverpool?
National Museums Liverpool is inviting bands from Merseyside to join its new Myspace page for the upcoming The Beat Goes On exhibition at World Museum Liverpool.
The Merseyside bands that join the exhibition’s Myspace friends will be in with a chance to become part of the exhibition, alongside bands such as The Zutons, The Wombats, Echo and The Bunnymen and OMD.
This massive exhibition is inspired by Liverpool’s love for and contribution to music for the past 60 years, celebrating the city’s venues, bands and creativity.
On the Myspace page each month, National Museums Liverpool will choose ten tracks from bands on their friends list. These tracks will be featured on the Myspace page as a monthly top ten chart, where the public will be able to vote for their favourite online.
Top ten bands will have their band and track name displayed on a wall in the exhibition to show the top ten for each month. The number one track at the end of each month will be added to a ‘digital jukebox’ in the exhibition and will become part of The Beat Goes On, giving bands great exposure for their music and the chance to reach a larger audience.
Voting will begin at the start of June when the first top ten chart will be displayed on the exhibition’s Myspace page.
If you’re not in band, but you love Liverpool music, you can still join The Beat Goes On as a Myspace friend to get the latest updates from regular news bulletins.
Highlights of the exhibition will include:
A mini-recording studio, attached to a karaoke-style room where visitors can sing along to classic Liverpool tunes and temporarily become the fifth Beatle or fourth Atomic Kitten!
The first ever public display of the Woolton church stage where John Lennon and Paul McCartney first met in 1957.
The chance for visitors to mix their own version of the OMD track Electricity and a version of Apple Mac’s computer programme Garage Band for visitors to experience producing their own track.
The vibrant All You Need is Love bedcover from John and Yoko’s Bed-in-for-Peace demonstration in Montreal in 1969.
An immersive space looking at the buoyant dance scene in Liverpool from Quadrant Park, a legendary Liverpool night club in the early 1990s, through to the super-club Cream.
A Vivienne Westwood suit designed for the cult band Deaf School.
The exhibition takes place at World Museum, William Brown Street, Liverpool from 12 July 2008 until 1 November 2009
Admission is free
Open 10am-5pm every day Information 0151 478 4393
Website www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk
Myspace: www.myspace.com/thebeatgoesonliverpool