After huge demand, Williamson Art Gallery are delighted that the Sunday Serenades are returning for 2023!
Comprising of member of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, their programme will cover the string quartet repertoire through the centuries. Whether you’re a seasoned Serenader or a fresh new listener who’s never heard the warm sound of a live string quartet, there’ll be something for the inquisitive ear.
Music by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Ravel and Duke Ellington, as well as some tantalising surprises, will all be on offer. All persuasively presented by the ensemble’s cellist, Gethyn Jones.
Information: The Sunday Serenades performances start at 2pm.
The Williamson Cafe will be open from 12pm for food and drinks, so you can come and enjoy some lunch and refreshments before the performance.
The Serenades are only possible with your support. Your donations on the day will go towards ensuring their viability, and allow them to plan an even bigger programme in 2024!
CONTENT is incredibly proud to announce its first live show, bringing New Zealand psychedelic rock band Unknown Mortal Orchestra to Liverpool on Tuesday 20th June 2023. With their brand-new album V dropping in March, the band are famed for their eclectic style harnessing elements of indie, psychedelic and garage rock.
The brand new album V is led by Hawaiian-New Zealand musician Ruban Nielson. It evokes blue skies, beachside cocktail bars, hotel pools and the darkness that lurks below perfect, pristine surfaces.
The desert resort city’s palm tree-lined streets reminded Ruban of a childhood spent playing by hotel swimming pools with his siblings while their entertainer parents performed in showbands across the Pacific and East Asia, and he became aware of the glamorized hedonism he’d internalized since childhood and the darker side of his parents’ lifestyle when they were working as entertainers.
For accessibility requests please email info@contentliverpool.co.uk
This is a 14+ event (14-17 must be accompanied by adult)
OperaUpClose bring the maritime opera to Liverpool’s Invisible Wind Factory this summer.
The award-winning OperaUpClose in partnership with recent RPS Award winning Manchester Camerata, reinvigorate Wagner’s classic with an English libretto by poet and novelist Glyn Maxwell and an 8-piece chamber orchestration by Laura Bowler.
The Flying Dutchman is a haunting political tale exploring the displacement of people and the psychology and realities of living on an island with hardening borders, bringing an urgent and contemporary relevance to the fable of the ships captain cursed to roam the sea forever. The summer tour finishes at Invisible Wind Factory, Liverpool, on Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd July.
The production steers from traditional ‘end-on’ performance, breaking the fourth wall and immersing the audience directly in the world of the story. It dismantles the traditional barriers between pit, stage and orchestra with all performers, instrumentalists and singers, having equal agency as storytellers. It includes pre-recorded voices from a national network of community choirs, a virtuosic chamber orchestra and a principal cast of internationally-renowned opera singers.
Future Yard are thrilled to be working with DHP to bring the artful punk of High Vis to their stage in October.
High Vis play aggressive, gripping, artful punk that’s as hard as any hardcore record yet sonically opens beyond the parameters of any genre or scene.
Breaking from the same London underground that spawned Chubby And The Gang, Higher Power and The Chisel, the band have quickly grown a devoted following for their intense live shows, immediate lyrics that tackle themes from class politics to the challenges of everyday life, and an unparalleled 2019 debut album, No Sense No Feeling. They followed that up in September 20222 with the superlative Blending.
The joint choirs of Liverpool Cathedral & Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral join together in a festive programme of ‘Music for a King’ in this coronation year.
Coronation classics by Handel (Zadok the priest), Parry (I was glad) and Walton (Crown Imperial) are presented alongside Charles-Marie Widor’s Messe à deux chœurs et deux orgues.
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear the combined choirs of Liverpool’s two cathedrals in concert together.
Held: Saturday 8 July, 19.30. www.ticketsource.co.uk/metcathedral
Enjoy a glamorous evening with the Halcyon Syncopators big band and Wavertree Gospel Choir raising money and awareness of sickle cell anemia.
With thanks to Andy Houghton, Senior Nurse Specialist, and to Oh Me Oh My.
To book a ticket for the event, see here
Having previously been one-half of indie synth-pop act Chairlift and released her own works under the names Ramona Lisa and CEP, Caroline Polachek has become a world-renowned electro-pop act, flying the flag for the new age of off-kilter hyper-pop!
Now working under her own name, Caroline released the album Pang in 2019, to huge critical acclaim, which brought with it sets at Coachella, Glastonbury and many, many more! Her new album, Desire I Want To Turn Into You was released on Valentines Day 2023.
This is an 14+ event. 14-17 must be accompanied by an adult.
Glasgow’s Current Affairs make the short trip south to Birkenhead, as they join Future Yard in support of their brand new album ‘Off The Tongue’.
Written from within the world of crumbling services, broken bonds and wounded spirits, Off the Tongue rolls off an ecstatic rage, filled with hope for you, them and everyone else. Ultimately, ‘Off the Tongue’ is a rallying cry away from hopelessness, forgiving your fears and laying them to waste.
Their album holds a place for you to be angry and to be focussed – and a reminder that, in lieu of having anything else, we’ve always got each other, and an uncertain future is open game for us too.
On Thursday 3rd August Future Yard hosts Yardageddon an evening of guitar driven fun featuring three separate bands, with two sets each, all across one single night.
Firm Future Yard favourites and local stars Superstore, Polygamy and smallman bigcar all perform for your auditory pleasure.
Kunst Site presents an ambient night filled with mellow tunes and poetry by local singer-songwriters Sophie Bernice, Poppy Shrimpton and several spoken word artists.
If the weather is good all of the performances will be held in the newly renovated garden area of Quarry! Otherwise, it will be held inside with seating available indoors and outdoors.
