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Richard Hawley Announces October Tour, Including A Night At The Liverpool Guild Of Students.

Following the acclaim of his forthcoming new album, Further, Richard Hawley has announced a 12-date October tour, which includes an evening at the Liverpool Guild of Students on the 8^th of that month.

New album Further (out 31^st May) marks a departure for Hawley who has, to date, named all his albums after Sheffield icons or landmarks. Challenging himself to keep things relatively up-tempo and keep the songs to about three minutes long, Further is quite possibly his most forthright album to date, clocking in at under 40 minutes.

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Mildred Hubble Spells Trouble For Liverpool, As The Worst Witch Swoops Into The Playhouse.

An all-female cast will fly into Liverpool for five nights this spring, as a family production of The Worst Witch visits the Playhouse from 28th May to 1st June.

The Worst Witch follows Mildred Hubble: an ordinary girl who finds herself in an extraordinary place – a school for witches. Accident-prone Mildred and her fellow pupils leave a trail of mayhem behind them, as they find themselves at the centre of a battle that’s being fought for their future.

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Hip Hop Marvels, Too Many T’s, Get Ready To Storm Liverpool At Sound City.

Fresh off touring Australia and Asia this year, for final run of their debut album, U.K. hip-hop sensation Too Many T’s have jumped straight back into it and will be at this year’s Sound City in Liverpool.

Party hip-hop duo Too Many T’s draw lyrical inspiration from the golden era of hip-hop and pair it with a more modern approach to production. Ross Standaloft and Leon Rhymes started working together in 2012 with their joint love of hip-hop, specifically pre-gangster era, and their individual talents gave them an instant rapport, a connection which music lovers will be able to witness for themselves as the pair will be performing at Love Lane Brewery on Saturday 4^th May after they have also been interviewed by Trash T.V.

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‘Unstageable Play’ Turned On Its Head As Chekhov’s First Play Brings Four Nights Of Madness To The Playhouse Theatre.

An unstageable play, an unstable set, and a fraught director’s commentary delivered to the audience through headphones, will make for a surprisingly theatrical treat, as Chekhov’s First Play visits the Playhouse from 8th-11th May.

Chekhov’s First Play is a production that takes a wrecking ball to the great playwright and performance itself, as award-winning Dead Centre throws out the rule book of traditional theatre making.

The production is based on a piece of work written by the great playwright when he was 18-years-old. It has no title, a huge number of characters, and lasts for over six hours. Long considered unstageable, the play has never been performed.

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B.B.C. Radio 6 DJ Stuart Maconie Comes To The Epstein Theatre As Part Of Wow Festival.

B.B.C. Radio 6 D.J. Stuart Maconie comes to The Epstein Theatre on Saturday 18th May with Jarrow: Road to the Deep South.

The show forms part of the programme for WoWFest, the 20^th annual month-long literature festival from Liverpool’s longest running writing and literary organisation, Writing on the Wall.

In this must-see show, Stuart discusses his best-selling book where he retraced the steps of the Jarrow March of 1936, an organised protest against unemployment and poverty from Tyneside to London.

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Miracle On 34th Street: The Musical Announced As 2019 Playhouse Christmas Production.

Gemma Bodinetz to direct musical based on the classic Christmas film.

To mark exactly eight months until Christmas Day, the Playhouse have announced magical musical Miracle on 34^th Street as their 2019 festive production.

Directed by Everyman & Playhouse artistic director Gemma Bodinetz, Meredith Willson’s adaptation for the stage is based on the 1947 film written by George Seaton that was re-made for screen in 1994.

Featuring timeless festive songs like It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas, Miracle on 34th Street: The Musical is a twinkling seasonal treat for the whole family.

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From The Jam Celebrate 40 Years Of All Mod Cons With A Night At Warrington’s Parr Hall.

From The Jam will be gracing the Parr Hall stage this month to celebrate 40 years since their All Mod Cons album.

Over the past 11 years From The Jam have toured relentlessly, having played almost 1,000 headline shows in the U.K. since their inception in 2007. With a number of memorable appearances in Warrington already under their belts, the band are returning on Friday 26th April to mark four decades since the release of their third album by playing the LP in its entirety.

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Court And Spark-The Joni Mitchell Songbook Comes To The Capstone Theatre.

On Friday 26th April, Liverpool Hope University’s Capstone Theatre is hosting Court and Spark – The Joni Mitchell Songbook, an evening of songs composed by Canadian songwriter Joni Mitchell.

Singer, songwriter, painter, poet, activist and voice of a generation, Joni Mitchell is an essential part of the soundtrack to the twentieth-century. She grew up with folk music in the 60s, she railed against injustice in the 70s – she turned her autobiography into song in the 80s and reinvented herself in the 90s.

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Red Hot Chilli Pipers Bring Their Fresh Air World Tour To New Brighton This May.

Photograph used with kind permission by M.P. Promotions.

There has never been anything quite like The Red Hot Chilli Pipers, from their formation in 2002 and a cameo appearance at T in the Park in 2004 with the Darkness to opening the main stage in their own right in 2014. The past fifteen years has seen the Red Hot Chilli Pipers become the most famous bagpipe band on the planet…ever! Bagpipes with attitude, drums with a Scottish accent and a show that carries its own health warning.

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