Decaying Tail of a Sound is a live event by artist, Ashley Holmes as an outcome of his Jerwood Arts / FACT Fellowship.
Centred on musical, theoretical and geographical explorations, Ashley will premiere a live version of a new sound composition developed from field recordings, conversations and materials gathered during his time spent in Liverpool.
The event title makes reference to a section of ‘Echo’, a chapter by Julian Henriques and Hillegonda Rietveld from The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies – a volume presenting a comparative and historically informed understanding of the workings of sound in culture.
Ashley’s interests focus on the sonic processes, iterations and influences of Dub, the sub-genre of reggae music, to examine Black music as a methodology to understand and re-define links between past and present within broader social contexts.
Under the moniker She Drew The Gun, songwriter Louisa Roach began playing solo gigs around Liverpool. She quickly caught the attention of The Coral’s James Skelly and began working with him at Skeleton Key Records, recruiting band members along the way.
At first glance, Roach’s fuzzy psych-pop may suggest that the Wirral-born songwriter is another ‘Cosmic Scouser’, but then you’re drawn into the spirit of rebellion, with songs that rally against injustice and celebrate outsiderdom.
Roach’s LPs have received critical acclaim, with one included in BBC Radio 6 Music’s top 10 albums of 2018. In 2019, the band completed a sold-out UK tour and played a string of UK festivals including main stage performances at Glastonbury and Blue Dot among others.
Having played virtual gigs throughout the pandemic, She Drew The Gun now return with a run of intimate unplugged shows, stripping it back and playing around with songs and poems from across three albums and more.
Join Liverpool Philharmonic for this exclusive opportunity to experience the thrill of a live recording session with Chief Conductor Domingo Hindoyan and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Treat yourself, or the music lover in your life.
Domingo and the Orchestra will be completing an album of Italian operatic favourites – some of the most seductive, tuneful and passionate music ever written. This is music close to Domingo’s heart.
During the day you will hear:
Mascagni Intermezzi from Cavalleria Rusticana and L’amico Fritz
Puccini Intermezzo from Act III of Manon Lescaut
Puccini “La Tragenda” Prelude from Act II of Le Villi
Ponchielli “Dance of the Hours” from La Gioconda
The album will be released as a CD later in the year, but don’t be surprised to hear tracks on Classic FM before that!
This unique experience will start at 10.30am and will include lunch with their artistic team, as well as an opportunity to meet Chief Conductor Domingo Hindoyan, their recording producer Andrew Cornall and recording manager Christopher Tann in the editing suite. The event will end at around 3.30pm.
For this rare behind-the-scenes experience, we are asking for a £500 donation, which will support their life-changing music education project, In Harmony Liverpool.
There are only eight tickets available for this On the Record event, which will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Book now to avoid disappointment.
If you’d like to find out more, please contact the Fundraising Team at fundraising@liverpoolphil.com or call 0151 210 2921.
Ukulele Jamming every Thursday each week in Ma Egertons pub (behind the Empire) arrive for singing to start around 8pm… entrance is FREE although they do ask for a small donation for their chosen “Charity of the Month”
The aim is to have ukulele fun, playing popular songs badly and singing loudly, with a pint, or two, close to hand… and the occasional pizza from the kitchen.
Packed with fun, good beer, the occasional visit from cast members of the latest Empire show, lots of audience participation – what’s not to like?
No one can outrun the past.
Take a pinch of a romantic song cycle, stir in some studio theatre and a touch of jazz, then filter the whole thing through a hessian sack of deep, dark Central European folklore… and you might be somewhere in the region of ‘Bag of Bones’, Alice Zawadzki’s bewitching new project for Manchester Collective.
Leading a cross-breed ensemble comprising keys, accordion and strings, Zawadzki has created a deeply personal piece of music theatre that grapples with the cultural history and inherited stories that run back through her life to her Polish roots.
There are no sweet jazz songs in this landscape, but somehow, lightness always finds a way through the dark. Brand new music sits alongside a set curated by Alice and the Collective – a set which will transport listeners to strange and new lands.
The ink is not yet dry on this one. This is new music at its most thrilling, dangerous and cathartic.
Following the completion of the Metropolitan Cathedral’s Grand Organ Restoration, the Cathedral Music Department is delighted to be able to invite you to sing at their celebratory ‘Come and Sing’ Vivaldi Gloria on Saturday 25th March 2023 at 7pm.
They are thrilled that the Cathedral has joined forces with Liverpool Hope University to host the Universities Group Festival as part of our ‘Come and Sing’ cohort.
This will mean 5 university choirs will join the local community to sing what will be a spectacular concert. To join their ‘Come and Sing’ choir, a small fee of £5 will be payable when you buy a ticket online (students free on production of a valid student ID card).
The concert will be sung in the main space of the Cathedral, and there will be a rehearsal in the Cathedral on the day. All music will be provided, and the dress code for singers is all black.
How to sign up
If you would like to join their ‘Come and Sing’ choir, please purchase a ticket by following this link: www.ticketsource.co.uk/metcathedral.
If you have trouble using the link above, please email j.watson@metcathedral.org.uk (Choral Director, Metropolitan Cathedral) to register your attendance.
They do hope you will be able to join them at the Cathedral in the choir for this special concert. Singing in the Metropolitan Cathedral is a thrill, and they know you will have a fantastic time singing with them.
LOOPS is a brand-new Hip-Hop Theatre show from 20 Stories High, co-produced with Liverpool Everyman + Playhouse, bursting with heavy beats, beautiful lyricism, and raw energy.
Following a day in the life of Djibi – a young Black man living in a largely white area of Liverpool – LOOPS grapples with Stop and Search, institutional police racism and how it affects Djibi’s relationships with his family, friends, and wider community.
As well as exploring challenging themes, LOOPS is also a show full of activism, uplifting music, and practical strategies on how to deal with ongoing police encounters.
Accompanied by a pulsating live original score by rapper and producer Man Like Mally (BBC’s Rap Trip) and starring actor/rapper Winston Branche (Peaky Blinders, The Streets Where We Live), LOOPS is a vital piece of theatre for modern times.
Written by Keith Saha, the play was developed with the cast – as well as a group of local Black and Global Majority activists and artists.
Age Guidance 14+
Bringing together six of the UK’s top musicians across Jazz and Indian music genres, the Milap Indo-Jazz Club will come together to present a completely new sound and vibe, as they kick-off the Liverpool International Jazz Festival’s tenth anniversary.
Audiences can expect richness, complexity, improvised grooves and amazing artistry, as they witness the premiere of the ensemble.
Specially curated for LIJF – and the result of ten years of creative collaboration between Milap and The National Youth Jazz Collective – the group will feature Milap’s artist in residence Kousic Sen (tabla), Issie Barratt (baritone sax), Rowland Sutherland (flute), Jonathan Mayer (sitar), Olivia Moore (violin) and winner of the Best Jazz Act at the 2012 MOBO Awards, Zoe Rahman (piano).
Bringing together six of the UK’s top musicians across Jazz and Indian music genres, the Milap Indo-Jazz Club will come together to present a completely new sound and vibe, as they kick-off the Liverpool International Jazz Festival’s tenth anniversary.
Audiences can expect richness, complexity, improvised grooves and amazing artistry, as they witness the premiere of the ensemble.
Specially curated for LIJF – and the result of ten years of creative collaboration between Milap and The National Youth Jazz Collective – the group will feature Milap’s artist in residence Kousic Sen (tabla), Issie Barratt (baritone sax), Rowland Sutherland (flute), Jonathan Mayer (sitar), Olivia Moore (violin) and winner of the Best Jazz Act at the 2012 MOBO Awards, Zoe Rahman (piano).
What makes you, you? Is there a part deep inside of you that no one understands?
Have you found your tribe or are you a unique human being? Or is it more complicated than that? In the last few decades a combination of individualism, the internet and the culture war has, for many of us, brought our feelings about our own and other people’s identity to the fore.
Grayson Perry, white, male, heterosexual, able bodied, English, southerner, baby boomer and member of the establishment, takes a mischievous look at the nature of identity in his new show that will make you laugh, shudder, and reassess who you really are.
