LIMF started with a bang last night (Wednesday) with Ella Eyre, Jess Glynne and Becky Hill performing to a packed and ecstatic Camp & Furnace. This weekend the festival continues with loads of great music events at frighteningly good prices. Firstly at East...
THE VIPER KINGS, KOF, CITY WALLS THE FIRST Liverpool International Music Festival in 2013 was a resounding success, leaving the The Mathew Street Festival it had replaced a distant memory. This year it looks better again, with artists such as Ian Broudie and The...
SOON the World Cup will be over and the start of the season is still over a month away. So how are we supposed to get our fix of sport in the mean time? Well for those of us based in Liverpool, Lancashire Cricket Club come down the East Lancs to play in Aigburth for a...
BRAZIL is a country where religion looms large. Literally in Rio, a giant Jesus statue looks down on you telling you that, whatever sins you are planning, you should pack it in. I have no idea if it works, I’ve just got here. I’ll let you know. Our Costa...
DID YOU PUT IT ON? I told you to bet on Costa Rica to get out their group at 10-1. Admittedly they haven’t done it yet. But it’s looking good. Although, before I get too cocky, here are the things I was wrong about: 1. They were much more attacking than I...
BEEN good these so far haven’t they? I’m feeling a reasonable amount of pressure. Firstly,it should probably be pointed out that the ‘random draw’ element of this series of articles was flouted a couple of times when people felt they had a good...
WHAT are we meant to do with ourselves now? Enjoy the sun? Talk to our partners? Get bang into Rugby League?? Well if you are in Liverpool, one thing you can do is enjoy what is already looking like a fantastic summer of music and events in the city, starting this...
I’VE got good memories of club nights at Revolution, starting in the late 90s going out in my school trousers and shoes and trying to impress girls with sophisticated chat-up lines such as: “Fancy a flavoured vodka, girl?” I’d like to think...
IS it really that time of year already? It only feels like last week when our Neil was presenting Baltic Fleet with the very fetching GIT Award 2013. This year’s 12 shortlisted acts has been announced this week, all based in or connected to the Merseyside music...
ON THE transfer deadline day we decided to do four hours of live radio. We talked to notable fans and journalists up and down the country asking what their clubs should be doing, and what they were actually doing. We talked about what it all meant in relation to the...
