May 2009 Archives

Guest columnist Lisa Southern kicks off her football boots and picks her highlights of Sound City 09.

Guest columnist Hugh O'Connell interviews White Lies and Wave Machines...

Guest columnist Alan O'Hare gives his take on Amsterdam's first Liverpool gig of the year...

Bringing together the city's two biggest passions - football and music - the John Peel World Cup has become something of an institution. Here Lisa Southern, part time football legend, full time Summer Pops Press Officer, lets us take a peek in her team diary...

Greetings from St Lucia. Yes the weather is lovely, but 4000 miles away, something hugely exciting is happening...
Sound City is in full swing. Here's guest columnist Hugh O'Connell with his take on the second day of the festival...

As the more eagle-eyed of you may have noticed, I'm off on my travels this week. Greetings from the St Lucian rain forest...
But we didn't want you to miss out on a second of the Sound City Festival, so here's guest columnist Hugh O'Connell's take on the opening party last night..

YOU'D have been hard pushed to pick Stephen Patrick Morrissey out of a line up of the crowd at the Empire last night.
Packed into the theatre were a thousand identikit versions of Mancunian icon, quiffs a-quivering with delight.

LIVERPOOL Sound City has a great line-up of acts planned, and we've got tickets to give away for each of my favourite nights.

IT has been barely a year since her solo project tentatively began, and already Victoria Hesketh is pop's most talked about new star.
So hotly tipped it hurts, her alter-ego Little Boots topped every new year 'ones to watch' list without even a properly released single to her name. She's a rare instance of justified industry hysteria.
"It's hard to live up to all that," giggles the 25-year-old, who plays Sound City this month.

HE EPITOMISED the sound of sixties unrest.
Raw, unpolished and uncompromising, Bob Dylan ploughed his own furrow, singing about the world's ills because he had no other choice.
While his contemporaries perfected their harmonies and fought for record deals, he invented his own genre. A genre with only space for one, as it turned out...