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‘The Next Ones’, The Herron Brothers To Release New Album And Come To Liverpool’s 81 Renshaw Street This July.

The Herron Brothers release their new E.P., The Next Ones, on June the 1st, following on from last year’s debut album The Last Ones Left.

Paul and Steven are to embark upon an intimate acoustic U.K. tour to promote their latest work, performing a, “two voices, two acoustic guitars” show featuring the new songs and some old(er) favourites.

The tour, which will start in Chesham on June 1st, and which will take in venues in towns and cities such as Leeds, Derby, Sheffield and Berwick, will come to Liverpool’s 81 Renshaw Street on July 18th.

Magpie Theatre Bring A New Imagining Of Shakespeare’s The Tempest To The Casa This May.

This exciting version situates The Tempest in our modern world and sets the island at the heart of a bitter political power struggle between two strong, foreign powers: Prospero and Antonio. Locked in civil war over the fate of Milan, the two have been fighting for years, with Prospero eventually defeated and exiled by his brother. When Antonio and his company are ambushed in a navy battle and washed up on the island, they are suddenly in the clutches of Prospero, who is reaching an endgame which he hopes will finally put an end to the war and restore him to his lost position of power.

Liverpool’s Loathe Announced As Support To Hollywood Undead As Los Angeles Rap Rock Band Come To Liverpool University This Month.

Liverpool based experimental metal five piece, Loathe, are pleased to announce that they will be playing as guests to Hollywood Undead on their upcoming U.K. tour. Kicking off at London’s hallowed Brixton Academy on the 23rd April, the run will take in nine dates across the country, including an evening at the Guild of Students at the University of Liverpool.

Physical Fest Returns To Liverpool This June For Six-Day Extravaganza Of Performance And Workshops.

A celebration of the rich variety of local, national and international contemporary physical work, brought to audiences by Liverpool’s own Tmesis Theatre, Physical Fest will take over the Unity Theatre from 10th-15th June, as well as venturing out further afield to The Capstone Theatre at Liverpool Hope University and the Royal Albert Dock.

Following a break last year, Physical Fest returns as an officially bi-annual event from 2019, featuring a range of performers from across the globe.

Liverpool Acts Announced For Africa Oyé 2019 Introduces’ Programme.

Africa Oye has announced the Liverpool talent that will be showcased as part of the ‘Oye Introduces’ programme at this year’s Sefton Park festival.

Launched in 2015, ‘Oye Introduces’ sees North West artists open both days of the festival, giving some of the area’s brightest young stars the chance to share the stage with the ever-eclectic international Oye line-up.

Celebrate With The Undertones And The Neville Staple Band At Manchester’s 02 Ritz This May As they Rejoice In 40th Anniversary Observance.

The Undertones. Photograph used with kind permission by MP Promotions.

Formed in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1975, The Undertones became renowned for combining lyrical invention and musical flair with intelligent simplicity. Their anthemic Teenage Kicks, much loved by John Peel, is one of the most influential songs of the post-punk era.

On May 13th 1979 Seymour Stein’s Sire records released the band’s self-titled debut album The Undertones.

Easter Is Cancelled, As The Darkness Return With Brand New Album And An Evening At The Liverpool Academy.

Following the announcement of the forthcoming album prophecy Easter Is Cancelled due October 4th via Cooking Vinyl, The Darkness have announced they will be spreading their message across the land on a full U.K. and Ireland headline tour this winter and will play 18 dates starting in November 2019, including a special evening at the o2 Academy, Liverpool on December 18th.

Legendary Singer-Songwriter Graham Nash Comes To Southport This July As Part Of New U.K. Tour.

Legendary singer-songwriter Graham Nash hits the road in July for a new batch of U.K. tour dates as he continues to support the release of Over the Years, a 2-disc collection of Nash’s best-known songs from the past 50 years plus more than a dozen unreleased demos and mixes. 

The U.K. tour begins on July 16th at Southport Theatre with stops in Halifax, Oxford, Cardiff, Folkestone, Bath and London’s Alexandra Palace Theatre. In addition, Nash will be featured at both the Wickham Festival on August 1 and the Cambridge Folk Festival, August 2nd. For ticket information, go to https://www.grahamnash.com.

Digital Technology And Live Performance Combine For A Bold Retelling Of Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness.

Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness will be brought into the 21st Century through a cutting-edge, digital theatre production at the Playhouse, from 1st-4th May.

Brought to Liverpool by Imitating The Dog, the critically acclaimed, innovative theatre company put their own take on a tale of discovery, fear, lies and greed.

Written amid the optimism at the end of the 19th century, Conrad’s Heart of Darkness explores the journey of narrator Charles Marlow travelling up the Congo River, into the Congo Free State in the heart of Africa.

Critically Acclaimed Liverpool Theatre Company, What We Did Next, Return With The North West Premiere Of The Musical Be More Chill.

What if popularity came in a pill?

Liverpool theatre company What We Did Next will be performing the North West premiere of the critically acclaimed musical ​Be More Chill from the 8th-11th May at The Hope Street Theatre in Liverpool.

The thrilling story of a teenage boy’s quest to become popular and talk to the girl of his dreams with the help of a pill-sized supercomputer.

Be More Chill is ‘the little musical that could’. It started in a small theatre in New Jersey in 2015 and, thanks to an incredible fan following, opened on Broadway in 2019.