Due to huge popular demand, after his first tour-de-force, smash hit, sell out tours with My Life Story, Suggs is treading the boards again.
If the first show was about how on Earth he got there, Suggs: What a King Cnut is about the surprises that awaited him when he did.
Vertigo on the roof of Buckingham Palace, nearly blowing the closing ceremony of the Olympics, the embarrassing stuff that happened at Glastonbury. Things have gone a smidge surreal since the Madness frontman was a twelve year old in shorts on the tough streets of North London.
Constantly expecting that inevitable tap on the shoulder to hear ‘what are you doing here, Sunshine?’ How has he got this far? In this business you can be washed up at any minute. How has he managed to get away with it for so long? Fame is a tightrope and Suggs has fallen off many times.
With help from Deano his trusty pianist, he tells his story in words and music with the help of some Madness classics and a couple more what he wrote all on himself.
Writing on the Wall are delighted to host Rob Newman’s Philosophy Show, as part of their 2022 festival.
Rob Newman’s Philosophy Show sees the multi award-winning comedian weave together Nietzsche’s sunglasses, Showaddywaddy, Julius Caesar’s low traffic neighbourhoods, electric spiders and singing Neanderthals into a hilarious tour-de-force that offers hope for a changing world.
This new live show is a companion to Rob’s BBC Radio 4 show, Half Full Philosophy Hour. His previous series, The Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia of Evolution and Total Eclipse of Descartes won the BBC Audio Drama Awards for ‘Best Comedy’.
Rob has been writing and performing comedy for radio, television and stage since the late eighties, and has also written four novels and two non-fiction books.
Liverpool singing sensation Beryl Marsden is set to celebrate an amazing 60 years in showbusiness with a very special one-off concert at the Epstein Theatre this summer.
The Merseybeat star will appear at the Hanover Street venue Saturday, 27 August, 7.30pm, she will be joined on stage by a live band and special guests.
Tickets for the show, hosted by Liverpool legend Billy Butler and which takes place during International Beatleweek, are now on sale here.
It was in 1962 that the then 15-year-old Beryl Marsden made her Cavern Club debut, appearing at the world-famous Mathew Street club with Liverpool band The Undertakers. She also sang with Lee Curtis & The All Stars and was a hugely popular performer on the Merseybeat scene – becoming one of the truly successful female singers of the time.
Blast! is back – Upstairs at Jimmy’s.
Blast! (5) features a host of familiar Spoken Word Scene faces, including The Queen of Heartbreak, Saint Vespaluus, Cath Holland, Sally Porter, Helen Jeffery and a host of others.
There will be music from Izzy (making her Liverpool debut) and Wirral favourites Bagsy. Doors open at seven for a 7.30pm start.
It’s a great night of music, spoken word and comedy – and if they can match the standard of Blast! (4), they’ll be more than happy!
Free entry.
An evening of popular songs from South and Central America and the Caribbean.
LUMA Quintet takes you on a journey of the continent’s vibrant and diverse musical heritage including Cumbia, Son, Joropo, Chacarera, Merengue, and much more. Featuring songs from some legends of Latin American music including Ruben Blades, Mercedes Sosa, Victor Jara and Juan Luis Guerra.
The quintet is led by Chilean brothers Francisco & Oscar Carrasco and features Erik Blanchard, P Max Alder and Jonathan Raisin. They will be joined by musical friends and members of LUMA Creations’ dance group.
The concert is held at Liverpool Philharmonic’s Music Room, Friday 3rd June 2022. Tickets are available now at liverpoolphil.com.
Imagine you could take a Magical Mystery Tour back in time to revisit the sound of The Beatles.
Well St Helens Theatre Royal can recommend the perfect night for you. Visualize a young Lennon and you have Gaz Keenan. Add a highly professional backing band & from the start you know this is a live music experience you won’t forget.
The “Lennon Retrospective” two hour show brought to you by “John Lennon Tribute UK”, promises to take you on a journey through John Lennon’s popular back catalogue, serving up classic solos and Lennon penned early Beatles classics.
Rising star of the new music scene Carmel Smickersgill will be playing at the Kazimier Stockroom on Seel Street, Friday 20th May.
Carmel is no stranger to Liverpool audiences who will have heard her compositions played as part of programmes at the Liverpool Philharmonic but at the Stockroom she will be performing new material created in her more intimate and pop-orientated format as showcased in her recent EP “We Get What We Get Sand We Don’t Get Upset” on PRAH Records.
There will be fun and games along the way, future sounds and beats. And support will be from local rising star Rachel Nicholas, a.k.a. Housekeep with dulcimer, violin and viola.
The gig will also be broadcast live on BBC Radio Merseyside’s “Popular Music Show” and you can get tickets from Skiddle at
https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Liverpool/Kazimier-Stockroom/PMS-LIVE–BBC-Radio-Merseyside-presents-CARMEL-SMICKERSGILL/36076204/
After the success of her first ever solo tour in 2021, Thea Gilmore is back with an eagerly anticipated new set of live dates in October and November.
A formidable performer on stage, Thea is among the finest singer songwriters of her generation, a frank and fearless pursuer of home truths who has constantly adapted to remain relevant in the fickle, forever changing music industry. And done so on her own terms.
A painful creative and personal rebirth delivered a brace of brilliant albums last year. Although poles apart musically Afterlight, the 18th album of her career, and The Emancipation of Eva Gray, written by Thea’s alter ago and imagined 100 years ago, share the same foundation in their sentiment and subject matter – the end of a toxic relationship – as she explores the female experience through her own story.
Black Umfolosi performances are inspired by the traditional song and dance of their native southern Africa, with a beauty and enthusiasm that is unrivalled.
Their performances are energy driven, infectious, and completely engaging, mixing a great gentleness of spirit and song with an exuberance in dance.
Their harmonies mixed with intricate rhythms, clicking and clapping are highlighted during their brilliantly choreographed shows with a full range of movements from subtle to vibrant stomping and leaping!
This Is The Kit is the musical project of Kate Stables. One of time and change and careful listening.
It has carried Stables from Winchester to Bristol to Paris (where she’s lived for the last 15 years), and across tours and festivals around the world not to mention a prestigious Ivor Novello nomination.
In early spring of 2020, just before everything got weird, Kate and her band of trusty companions, (Rozi Plain, Jamie Whitby-Coles, Jesse D Vernon, and Neil Smith), knuckled down to record what would become This is The Kit’s fifth album Off Off On. Off Off On, was released in October 2020 to huge acclaim.
Uncut calling the album their “most multi-layered yet subtle work so far” and The Independent named them “One of the most original and musically gifted artists of today”.
Acutely sensitive to the pulses and currents of life, Off Off On shows Kate Stables to be a songwriter overflowing with ideas, ably crafting music of great beauty, of wonder and illumination, and seems one more step on This is The Kit’s to becoming one of the country’s most revered musical endeavours.
