He’s the wild man of rock who became a national treasure. Happy Mondays and Black Grape frontman Shaun Ryder is hitting the road for a new, spoken word tour.
The star of more-TV-shows-than-anyone-has-a-right-to-feature-on – including Celebrity Gogglebox, and I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, among many others – redefined the sex’n’drugs’n’rock’n’roll lifestyle during the halcyon age of Madchester.
He’s touring in support of his new book: Happy Mondays – and Fridays and Saturdays and Sundays. Fans can look forward to a carnival of excess, wild tales, and improbable truths, as they enjoy the talents of a unique rock’n’roll star dubbed Britpop’s answer to WB Yeats. Strap yourselves in and say Hallelujah for Shaun.
What music got you through the pandemic? Join Metal for a conversation with Dr Joy White about culture during COVID at our Future Station talk at 6pm on Tuesday 2 April.
Joy will draw on her latest book ‘Like Lockdown Never Happened’ to consider the ways in which contemporary Black musical forms helped us to pass the time during the early days of lockdown, operating as a site of connection, identity and social commentary.
Dr Joy White is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Sciences at the University of Bedfordshire and the author of ‘Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City’. Her previous work includes ‘Urban Music and Entrepreneurship: Beats, Rhymes and Young People’s Enterprise’, one of the first books to foreground the socio-economic significance of grime music. Recent publications include ‘Growing up under the influence: A sonic genealogy of Grime’, and (with Jonathan Ilan) ‘Ethnographer Soundclash: A UK rap and grime story’. Joy has also written for The Quietus, The Conversation, Trench, Google Arts + Culture, Red Pepper and Prospect.
This talk is in partnership with experimental fiction publisher and shop Dead Ink Books and radical writing publisher Repeater Books.
After the talk, there will be a short Q+A with Joy, and a complimentary vegan meal served. As places are limited, we are asking for a deposit of £5 which will be refunded when you attend. Walk-ups are welcome, subject to availability.
How to get to Metal
By train: You can get off at Edge Hill on Northern trains. It’s 4 minutes from Liverpool Lime Street.
By bus: You can take the number 27 bus from the city centre and get off at Edge Hill Station. Our entrance is just a 3-minute walk along Tunnel Road.
By bike: You can store your bike inside our building.
Our access
The event is located on the ground floor of the building on platform 1. There is step-free access from the top of Tunnel Road, down the station approach, and via the Accumulator Tower. Step-free access is available for ground floor spaces, including a kitchen and a gender-neutral, disabled toilet. If you have any questions about access, please get in touch.
Join author and comedian Marc Burrows on a journey through the life and work of Sir Terry Pratchett, based on his Locus Award-winning biography and officially endorsed by the author’s estate.
Explore Pratchett’s life, influences, impact, wit and wisdom, from his days as a school librarian to his time as a trainee journalist to his untimely death from Alzheimer’s in 2015.
Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Discworld and discover the joy, anger, and delicious cock‘n’ bull stories of one of the greatest storytellers of all time. Warning: includes bad puns and unnecessary footnotes.
Approx running time: 2 hrs 20 mins
It’s magic, to make something out of nothing. Science can reveal how the brain does this amazing trick! In this talk, Dr Pinar Oztop shows you what we know about the neuroscience of creativity.
It is the process that sees something arrive in the brain and be transformed into a work of art, a wonder of the world or even into a thought about whether we need more milk. You will learn about the brain processes that create new ideas and power our imagination, including our fantasies. Exploring these neuronal processes will help us understand creativity and who we really are as humans.
For the hundred billion neurons in each ball of brain that make us human, creativity is something inherent and essential. The brain creates stuff out of the neverlands of our subconscious for a purpose, to help us survive and thrive in the dance of life.
Come on in. Let’s explore some marvellous things.
You will leave knowing…
– What creativity is
– How creativity works in the brain
– Which parts of the brain are involved in creativity
– The different types of creativity
– What we can do to encourage our creativity, based on neuroscience
Doors open at 7pm, talk starts at 7.30pm – come down early to grab a good seat!
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NYC-based producer, author and band manager Daniel Efram joins Future Yard to present two of his projects which, between them, celebrate the varied world of Elephant 6 – the fabled 90s US record label and collective which was home to the work of Neutral Milk Hotel, The Olivia Tremor Control and Apples In Stereo (who Efram also manages).
The event will feature a screening of Efram’s new documentary film The Elephant 6 Recording Co., and a talk about his publication The Steve Keene Art Book, which documents the work and world of the prolific painter of record for Pavement (see their album Wowee Zowee) and indie rock art collaborator with Silver Jews, The Apples In Stereo and more.
The show also features a live performance from The KLOF Collective. This is an all-seated show.
Join us for an exciting event where big ideas take centre stage! Get ready to be inspired, challenged, and motivated by thought-provoking speakers who will share their innovative ideas.
The ‘Big Ideas’ forum is part of a wider programme of research and engagement activities that foster collaboration and knowledge exchange across LJMU and our communities.
The March event is brought to you by LJMU and the Faculty of Arts, Professional & Social Studies (APSS).
- Discover exciting research we are undertaking for our communities.
- Meet and chat with staff and student researchers.
- Network with guests including culture, arts and community groups, businesses, local government and education
Bees, bees, bees! Did you know there are more than 270 bee species in Britain ranging from the well known honey bee, to bumblebees and solitary bees?
Andrea Ku, local artist and beekeeper will explain about the different types of bees and then you can decide which bee(s) need saving!
Participants will never look at bees in the same way again, and will have an understanding of how we can all play a part in protecting those that need us most.
Andrea will be bringing in an observational beehive to show a colony from one of her Liverpool beehives to show participants how to identify each caste of bee. This is a great opportunity to watch bees carrying out some of their duties with an expert to explain what is happening in their extraordinary world.
This session will help you to appreciate why we all must be highly respectful of bees, but not fearful. And don’t worry – the observational hive is fully enclosed and self-sustaining with no risk of bees escaping!
Ever thought about becoming a beekeeper? Andrea will also talk about beekeeping and careers in beekeeping and will be available to answer your questions at the end of the session.
This event is aimed primarily at young people aged 16-24 but all visitors are welcome to attend.
Free of charge, and places are limited to first come on the day!
Everybody loves a bad guy. This talk will focus on two famous movie antiheroes Rick Blaine from Casablanca and Han Solo from Star Wars. Although the antihero is a person who lacks qualities we admire in the hero, both of these characters have achieved iconic cinematic status.
Join lecturer Stephen Kearns from the University of Liverpool to investigate the philosophy behind both portrayals and the ethical dimension of the movies in which they appear. You might notice is the striking similarities between the characters and maybe more surprisingly, the movies themselves!
Book your free ticket. All welcome.
The Future Station talk by Metal Liverpool is back at Edge Hill station, 6pm on Tuesday 27 February, featuring writer Matt Colquhoun who will discuss how self-love can be reread as self-transformation.
In this talk, Matt will draw from their latest book Narcissus in Bloom: An Alternative History of the Selfie (Repeater Books, 2023) and the work of Arthur Russell to discuss their reflections on whether narcissism is positive and necessary and its relationship to queerness.
Matt Colquhoun is a writer and photographer from Hull, UK. Alongside their most recent work, Narcissus in Bloom: An Alternative History of the Selfie (2023), they are the author of Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher (2020) and the editor of Mark Fisher’s Postcapitalist Desire lectures (2021). Check out their blog: xenogothic.com.
This talk is in partnership with experimental fiction publisher and shop Dead Ink Books and radical writing publisher Repeater Books.
There will be a short Q+A with Matt after the talk. Free (vegan) food will be served after the talk where there will be a chance to discuss ideas further. As places are limited, we are asking for a deposit of £5 which will be refunded when you attend. Walk-ups are welcome, subject to availability.
He’s a legend and an icon, a revolutionary and an immortal. John Lydon – aka Johnny Rotten – changed the face of music and sparked a cultural revolution. The frontman and lyricist of the Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd (PiL) caused a political earthquake and transformed music for good.
In his spoken word show, I Could Be Wrong, I Could Be Right, Lydon is touring the UK. He will talk about how he sees life, along with his unique and extraordinary career, and take audience questions during a pyrotechnic, one-off tour. Lydon will be sharing his thoughts with audiences. He Could Be Wrong. He Could Be Right.
