Interest area: Music

Grateful Fred’s have been pioneering Americana and Roots music in Formby, Southport and Liverpool since 2010 and during that time have presented some of the best US, Canadian and World artists.

On the first Wednesday of every month, join the Fredhead’s at The Atkinson for a wonderful night of live acoustic music.

Noel Burke was offered one of the most difficult gigs in rock when he was offered the job of fronting Liverpool legends, Echo & The Bunnymen, following the departure of enigmatic frontman, Ian McCulloch, in 1989.

The former St Vitus Dance frontman from Belfast joined up with remaining EATB members Will Sergeant and Les Pattinson and released the album Reverberation the following year in 1990.

Burke toured the UK and USA with Echo & The Bunnymen and released 2 further singles before the band dissolved in 1992.

Reverberation has gone on to become a cult classic and has gained more favourable reviews as the years have passed since its release.

Noel Burke will perform Reverberation in full for the first time with a band and it’s fitting that this debut performance will be in Liverpool at the Philharmonic Music Room.

Burke will play an opening set with his band St Vitus Dance as support for the show.

Gruff Rhys and Bill Ryder-Jones come together for a very special show at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

Former frontman of Super Furry Animals and part of the band Neon Neon, Gruff Rhys is a songwriter, producer and award-winning storyteller from Bethesda in Wales who has consistently sought a variety of outlets for the spectrum of muses behind his creative flights.

With their blissful melodies, his solo records have explored untapped areas lyrically too. His first, Yr Atal Genhedlaeth, revelled in Welsh puns; American Interior celebrated 18th century explorer John Evans; Babelsberg offered a baroque take on the modern world; while Pang! created a multi-lingual mash-up, driven by folkish bleeps crafted in collaboration with South African artist-producer Muzi.

However, while all those records certainly explored fresh territory, the Top Ten charting Seeking New Gods climbed lyrically and musically onto totally new terrain and became Gruff Rhys’ most critically and commercially successful solo album yet. His latest album Sadness Sets Me Free has received rave reviews and acclaimed to be amongst his finest work.

Bill Ryder-Jones appears in support of his critically acclaimed album, Iechyd Da.

Following his sold-out European tour, and a moment to rest, Bill heads back out on the road with his band. Iechyd Da is Ryder-Jones’ most ambitious record to date. At times joyous and grand, at others intimate and heartbreaking, the past few years spent producing other artists has provided that gentle nudge to expand into new territory, from kids’ choirs and tender strings to dramatically re-contextualised disco samples.

A magical celebration of one of cinema’s most inventive duos. Tim Burton’s films conjure up captivating worlds, and the incredible musical imagination of Danny Elfman brings those stories to life.

Outrageously tuneful, deliciously dark or just plain fantastical, there’s no film composer quite like him. Tonight, the Orchestra celebrate music and storytelling, performing works from Beetlejuice, Batman, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Alice in Wonderland, Edward Scissorhands and more, all enhanced by visuals of original sketches, drawings and storyboards on the big screen.

Suzi Quatro is back to celebrate the 60th year of her reign as the Queen of Rock ‘N Roll!

Born in Michigan she was in many successful bands, but got her real career break when super-producer Mickie Most saw her perform live. She flew to England in 1971 and went on to quickly create the monster hit ‘Can The Can’ with songwriters Chinn and Chapman. Two and a half million copies of this song were snapped by an entranced public, catapulting her to the top, where she has stayed. A star was well and truly born.

Having now sold over 55 million records – she featured in the UK charts for 101 weeks between 1973 and 1980 – Suzi has never lost the knack for great rock and roll.

The energy and sheer power of performance at a Suzi Quatro show remain undimmed. As she famously says herself, “I will retire when I go on stage, shake my a**, and there is silence”. One thing that this celebratory tour will definitely not deliver is silence: it’s going to be loud!

The War on Drugs will return to the UK this July for two Liverpool dates.

The band will bring their show, hailed by The Guardian as ‘wistful, immersive rock turned up to 11’ , to the city to headline a sold out Mountford Hall on Tuesday July 9th with a brand new date added on Monday July 8th due to phenomenal demand. 

Two further sold-out nights at the Royal Albert Hall in London mark the band’s first ever concerts at the iconic and historic venue on the 11th and 12th of July. 

The War on Drugs have steadily emerged as one of this century’s great rock and roll synthesists, removing the gaps between the underground and the mainstream, between the obtuse and the anthemic, making records that wrestle a fractured past into a unified and engrossing present.