Event type: Music

Darkside: The Pink Floyd Show

Darkside, The Pink Floyd Show, performing the music of Britain’s greatest progressive rock band, make a welcome return to The Epstein Theatre with two evenings of classic Pink Floyd.

After 17 years of touring, playing at theatres across the UK, seven musicians will deliver two shows with empathy and passion playing tracks from Pink Floyd’s massive back-catalogue, from the early magical days of founder Syd Barrett through to later iconic albums, renowned for their complex structures.

Friday | 21.04.23 will include the entire Dark Side of the Moon album

Saturday | 22.04.23 will include the whole of the Wish You Were Here album

The emphasis will be on replicating the experience of Pink Floyd live on stage in the 70’s which many believe was Floyd at their very best. The superb Cariss Auburn takes on the role of Clare Torry, who performed Great Gig in the Sky on the original 1973 Pink Floyd album Dark Side of the Moon, recreating this unique enigmatic vocal with its extra-terrestrial soundscape which has been leaving audiences enthralled. As would be expected, the show incorporates a spectacular and dramatic laser light show and evocative images and animated sequences projected on a circular screen, which were key features of Pink Floyd’s live performances.

FOR FLOYD FANS, BY FLOYD FANS. www.darksidefloydshow.com

Heart Opening Sound Healing with Cacao...

Step into deep love and open heartedness with this special Sound Healing event. With drum, Gong,Cacao,Voice,Singing bowls + meditation

Join me for my first Sound Healing session at the beautiful Scale.

Feeling disconnected from your heart space? Wanting to embrace loving energy more fully? Wanting to welcome more love into your life? Wanting to feel more self love? This Sound Healing session could be just what you need! I have designed this special Sound Healing event to open up your heart space, to help you let go of all that needs to be released and clear the way for a more loving life!

The session will begin with the sharing of some beautiful, heart opening, bliss inducing ceremonial cacao paired with mindfulness, and then flow into a deep and meditative Drum Journey which will help you really drop into your body and your heart space. When used together the therapeutic sound and the ceremonial cacao work as one to ✨?maximise the therapeutic effect and enhance your experience?✨

There will then be the opportunity get clear on anything that may have come up for us and work it out with some journalling or drawing. You will be invited to contribute any words, images, symbols that feel important for you to a large group canvas and keep those things in the forefront of your mind as we go into the second sound healing of the evening…

A Sound Bath with Himalayan + `Crystal Singing Bowls, Voice, Venus Gong + Therapeutic Percussion.

This will be composed to help you connect even deeper to your heart space. I’ll be using a beautiful, heart chakra opening Gong tuned to the frequency of Venus. It’s gentle tones evoke positive emotions such as joy, love, harmony, beauty and compassion and it allows us to spiritually surrender with grace, to explore our creativity and imagination and find things which bring us comfort and balance. At a time when many are pre-occupied with thoughts of the love we’re told to be celebrating, Venusian energy reminds us of the abundance of love we already have within us. The sounds of the Venus gong are blissful, and sooth away concerns and worries, bringing balance, strength, renewal and hope.

After the Sound bath we will then have the opportunity to tear up the group canvas and step into an even greater sense of renewal and authentic heart opened love.

I wanted to create this session as an antidote to the typical ‘Valentines’ sense of materialism, and really bring it back to what’s important- cultivating that sacred, special, pure spirit of love within ourselves.

What to know/bring:

? Your mother, your lover, your sister, brother, your best friend and your boss! Anyone whose wanting to feel the love within

? Wear loose comfortable clothing

? We’ll be lay down so bring a yoga mat, blanket, cushion and anything else you might want to make yourself comfortable.

? A bottle of water as the experience can make you a little thirsty

And to enhance your experience you may want to:

? Avoid eating a heavy meal in the hour before

? Apply a few drops of your chosen aromatherapy oil to your pulse points

? Bring a journal to note down any thoughts that come to the surface at the end of your experience

If money is a barrier to you for any reason then please contact me as making sound healing accessible is super important to me

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More on Sound Therapy….

Sound Therapy is a powerful and potent tool for relaxation, reflection and reconnection and is a wonderful way to step towards more ease and flow in your life. Through helping you to drop into a sound induced Altered State of Consciousness, healing sonic vibrations can help you process unresolved resistances, gain clarity and move through pain towards a more whole harmony…

m i n d, b o d y & s o u l

Sound Therapy is an ancient tradition that has history in cultures throughout the world. Sonic healing helps us to experience altered states of consciousness by shifting our brainwave state to lower frequencies that can impact the body, helping to promote deep relaxation; induce total relaxation, release emotional trauma, manage pain, sleep better and relieve stress and anxiety.

Experiencing therapeutic sound allows us to deeply listen to ourselves and receive the true healing that we need on a mind body and spirit level.

Richard Dawson

Embrace the wonders (and horrors) of augmented reality and prepare to travel 500 years into the future as modern-day folk troubadour Richard Dawson performs his new album The Ruby Cord.

The new album is a return to Dawson’s own world with tracks that plunge us into an unreal, fantastical and at times sinister future where social mores have mutated, ethical and physical boundaries have evaporated… a place where you no longer need to engage with anyone but yourself and your own imagination. It’s a leap into a future that is well within reach, in some cases already here.

While 2020 dealt in social realism with explorations of testy football matches, the fallacy of work-life balance and therapeutic forms of repetitive exercise, The Ruby Cord shakes off the limitations of so-called real life and delves headlong into a (sort of) sci-fi world where human society has collapsed and morphed into something distinctly less solid.

“So many of us are moving into these fantasy worlds,” says Dawson. “Whether it’s actual constructed virtual realities, computer worlds, or retreating into even more fantastical realms…. conspiracy theories, nationalism, amateur football punditry. People construct their own world because this one is so flawed.”

Written during 2019, throughout 2020 and finished in 2021 – the lyrics to most of the record were conceived throughout the various Covid-19 lockdowns, as the side effects of isolation and state-imposed inwardness affected millions around the world. In that setting, tensions in the UK rose, people showed both altruism and selfishness, and the world got a whole lot more difficult to comprehend. Dawson wanted to move away from the “on-the-nose” directness of 2020 and bring down a layer of “fog” over proceedings, masking meanings that are there for those who care to delve just a bit deeper.

This concert will last approximately 2 hours (including interval).

Romancing the Harp: Keziah Thomas

Enjoy a Valentine’s night to remember under the stars, featuring the top ten most romantic classical melodies ever written!

Following her beautiful performance at the Bombed Out Church in 2022, acclaimed harpist Keziah Thomas returns with more of her own stunning arrangements of music by Bernstein, Debussy, Mozart, Elgar and Vaughan-Williams.

Eliza Carthy and The Restitution

2022 marks the 30th career anniversary of outstanding English folk musician Eliza Carthy MBE.

Eliza turned pro (or quit college, depending on if you ask her or her dear departed mam) in 1992, and since then has toured all over the world; danced with Hugh Masekela in Ghana; crossed the Prairies, the Alps, and the waters of Lake Titicaca, all for the sake of playing the fiddle and spreading the word of English traditional music.

To mark this significant milestone, she will be releasing a new album Queen Of The Whirl with her band The Restitution – featuring re-recordings of some of her ‘greatest hits’ and audience-favourites from past 30 years, including songs from her three Mercury Award nominated albums.

Queen Of The Whirl is her celebration of thirty years of silliness and profundity, with a crack team of musicians made up of her colleagues and counterparts. Thirty years of music reimagined, from Billy Bragg to Peggy Seeger, from The Ratcatchers to Imagined Village, from bloody boots in Trafalgar Square to the moors of North Yorkshire, and everywhere in between. It’s been quite a ride!

This concert will last approximately 2 hours.

Dave O’Grady

Dave O’Grady is the founding member of Americana Roots band Seafoam Green – a glorious mix of rock and roll, soul, blues and gospel.

O’Grady has recorded with members of The Black Crowes, Tedeschi Trucks and The Rolling Stones, as well as sharing the stage with iconic pop stars such as Ringo Starr, Seal and Bon Jovi.

Seafoam Green are signed to Liverpool label Mellowtone Records, which has presented songwriters and bands from the worlds of folk, blues, roots and so much more, in a variety of Liverpool’s most iconic and intimate venues.

Part of the Lunchtime Concert Series.

Candlelight: Hans Zimmer’s Best ...

Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Liverpool. Discover the music of Hans Zimmer at St George’s Hall under the gentle glow of candlelight.

Programme

  • Now We Are Free – Gladiator
  • Jack Sparrow
  • Wonder Woman
  • Interstellar
  • Maestro – The Holiday
  • Chevaliers de Sangreal – The Da Vinci Code
  • Tennesse – Pearl Harbour
  • Red Warrior – The Last Samurai
  • Discombobulate – Sherlock Holmes
  • Angels and Demons
  • Time – Inception
  • Honor – The Pacific
  • Man of Steel
  • The Crown

Performers

  • String quartet – String Infusion

Rogue Country Christmas Round Up

We’re really pleased to be hosting Rogue Country‘s end of year festive bash, which is raising money for a great cause. In aid of Wirral Ark, Wirral’s only independent homelessness charity, join three diverse country artists for an evening of great songwriting. Featuring live sets from Mike West, Megan Lee and Brandon Ridley.

On The Waterfront presents Camelphat

Following the overwhelming success of the first edition of ‘On the Waterfront’, plans have just been announced for its return in 2023, kicking off the summer season for another series of stunning shows and live performances, with the first phase headliners featuring some of Liverpool’s homegrown heroes.

Following on from their iconic sell out performance at last year’s inaugural event will see the return of the mighty Camelphat headlining on Saturday 1st July.  Since their first foray into the underground side of dance music almost a decade ago, the Grammy nominated Liverpool duo have had a meteoric rise that has seen them achieve global success while remaining true to their underground sound.   Their headline sell-out show at ‘On The Waterfront’ last year was their biggest and fastest selling show to date in the city.

“We are absolutely buzzing to be invited back to headline at the Liverpool Waterfront once again. This is such a unique opportunity to finally return home & produce a show worthy of the location.  The memories created from last year’s event will be with us forever, its truly an experience like no other. Hopefully with the line-up we’re putting together this year can be even more spectacular!”  Camelphat

On the Waterfront presents Jamie Webst...

Following the overwhelming success of the first edition of ‘On the Waterfront’, plans have just been announced for its return in 2023, kicking off the summer season for another series of stunning shows and live performances, with the first phase headliners featuring some of Liverpool’s homegrown heroes.

On Thursday 29 and Friday 30 June, the phenomenon that is Jamie Webster will be performing. the local singer-songwriter has gone from a modern-day local folk hero to an established solo artist in his own right.  Fresh off the back of a UK & Ireland headline tour and packed Glastonbury performance, 2022 also saw the release of his critically acclaimed second album ‘Moments. He will be joined on stage by fellow bandmates Lighting Seeds bassist Tim Cunningham and Mick Head’s Red Elastic Band guitarist Danny Murphy. This will be his first major headline outdoor show to date, set right at the heart of the city in front of the iconic Three Graces, this is guaranteed to be an unmissable show for his legion of dedicated fans, as well as a true and deserved homecoming for one of the city’s biggest stars.

Following his sell out Liverpool Arena show at the weekend, Jamie said “Announcing an outdoor headline show in Liverpool is a dream come true. Right on the River Mersey, under the Liver birds, I can’t put into words what it will mean to me seeing thousands of you on the Pier Head next Summer.  It’s my biggest show to date, all standing, it’s gonna be a night to remember. Playing shows like this is all down to my fans and I can’t thank you all enough. What a show this is going to be. My City, My People, My Heart.”