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Explore Liverpool History At St. George’s Hall This October.

Local Liverpool and Merseyside history will be explored through a fascinating and educational weekend of events when St Georges Hall presents The Big History Weekend on Saturday 4^th and Sunday 5th October.

Throughout the weekend visitors will get the opportunity to explore Liverpool and Merseyside’s history through a variety of stalls, exhibitions and talks from guest speakers – with representatives from a whole host of local history, heritage and family history groups from across Merseyside in attendance.

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Simple Minds To Release New Album And Perform In Liverpool As Part Of U.K. Tour.

Fresh from their renaissance and rightful reappraisal, Simple Minds will be releasing BIG MUSIC, their first album of new material in five years on November 3^rd and will also be embarking on a major multiple date U.K. tour in 2015. The tour, which starts at Grimsby’s Auditorium on Friday 27^th March and finishes in Ipswich on May 4^th, will come to Liverpool’s Empire Theatre on Thursday 2^nd April.

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The Script Annouce U.K. Tour For 2015.

The Script have announced the news that their fans have been eagerly awaiting. In February 2015, the Irish three-piece will kick off an U.K. arena tour, starting in Glasgow on the 20^thand which will come to Liverpool on Thursday 5th March. Tickets go on sale on Friday 26^th September at 9.30am from gigsandtours.com or ticketmaster.co.uk. Tickets are priced at £27.50 and £35, plus booking fees, and fans will be limited to 6 per booking. The Script will also be joined by very special guest Labrinth.

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One Of Britain’s Most Iconic And Enduring Bands Returns To Liverpool in 2015.

Baz Warne of The Stranglers in 2013, Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Following 2014’s spectacular, sell out Ruby Anniversary Tour and accompanying celebratory box set album release, Giants & Gems, the Stranglers march ever onward with the announcement of their 2015 U.K. tour which will come to Liverpool on Monday March 9th.

As 2014 draws to a close, punk-era iconoclasts, The Stranglers can look back at what must be one of their most successful years ever. Earlier this year the band celebrated their 40^th anniversary with the spectacular Ruby Tour. Fans, old and new, flocked to venues throughout the land to hear a thrilling programme of music, spanning five decades, performed by one of the finest live groups in the country.

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The Giant Of All Panto’s Returns To Liverpool As Jack And The Beanstalk Comes To The Epstein Theatre This Festive Period.

Suzanne Collins as Mrs Fleshcreep in Jack and the Beanstalk at the Epstein Theatre, Liverpool this Festive period. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

The festive season made an early appearance in Liverpool today as an all-star cast officially launched the biggest panto in town, Jack and the Beanstalk at the Epstein Theatre.

LHK Productions return to the Epstein Theatre this Christmas with one of the world’s favourite fairy tales from Thursday 11th December 2014 to Sunday 4th January 2015 for an incredible 49 shows. As always the show promises to deliver the incredible fun of traditional pantomime with a fresh twist that made the acclaimed Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Aladdin such huge, runaway successes.

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Liverpool’s John O’ Connell Brings His Simply Dylan Show To The Epstein Theatre As Part Of U.K. Tour.

Liverpool based artist John O’Connell will be taking Simply Dylan – his personal exploration and celebration of the rich and diverse work of Bob Dylan along with band across the U.K. for the very first time and performing at the Epstein Theatre in Liverpool on November 6th.

Simply Dylan is as straightforward as the title suggests; no frills, no gimmicks, no pretense. However this is no ordinary interpretation of Bob Dylan, this is a remarkable and exceptional project which promises to delight Dylan fans young and old and to ignite a new wave of passion for one of the world’s most prodigious songwriters.

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Paloma Faith To Return To Liverpool in 2015 As Part Of Arena Tour.

Paloma Faith at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall in 2013. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

The incredible Paloma Faith has announced a U.K. arena tour for March 2015. Her current U.K. tour dates (starting in November) are completely sold out. The March tour, which begins in Brighton on March 12^th, will come to Liverpool’s Echo Arena on March 24^th before finishing at London’s o2 Arena on March 25^th.Paloma’s current album A Perfect Contradiction has been one of the huge success stories of the year, recently being certified platinum. A new edition of the album will be released on November 3rd, which features five new tracks, including the fantastic new single Ready For The Good Life, available from November 2nd.

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A Dream Of Wilfred Owen, Great War Poet, For One Night Only At St. George’s Hall.

A play about the extraordinary life of Great War poet Wilfred Owen will be performed next month at St. George’s Hall, Liverpool. A Dream Of Wilfred Owen by David Charters will be staged in the Concert Room of the iconic landmark building on Friday, 17 October, starting at 7.30pm.

Known as the soldiers’ poet, the story will be told from the perspective of Wilfred’s ghost who will take the audience on a journey back to the time of World War One. The story follows real and imagined events in Owen’s life, from growing up in Birkenhead where his father, Tom, was master of the busy Woodside railway station, to his own war experiences in the trenches.

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Joe McGann And Shobna Gulati Star In April In Paris At The New Brighton Pavilion.

Paris truly is a magnificent city, arguably the most sophisticated in the whole of Western Europe but is it a place in which relationship problems can be solved or fixed? Only the unique talent of John Godber knows as he directs his comical, truthful masterpiece April In Paris which is on at the New Brighton Pavilions from Wednesday 24^th to Saturday 27^th September.

Al and Bet’s relationship is on the rocks. He has recently lost his job, she works in a shoe shop and can only dream of a better life but things are about to change…

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The Moody Blues To Return To Liverpool in 2015.

The Moody Blues in 2013 at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Live Nation is delighted to announce the ‘Timeless Flight 2015’ Tour from The Moody Blues, one of the most enduring, creative and consistent groups in the world. Tickets go on sale on at 10am on Friday 19^th September 2014 from www.livenation.co.uk or www.ticketmaster.co.uk; Their remarkable music has enthralled generations of fans since the 1960’s and their recorded legacy contains some of the most important and ground breaking work in the history of popular music, having generated over 55 million sales throughout the world. The Moody Blues – Justin Hayward, John Lodge and Graeme Edge – carry on their magical musical legacy from generation to generation, year after year and now they are returning to the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on Sunday June 21^st 2015.

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