The Choir with No Name Liverpool, a choir involving homeless and marginalised people, are thrilled to be hosting their annual Big Gig! at the Everyman for the first time.
Fresh from performances at The Bombed Out Church, LCR Pride, The Liverpool Philharmonic Hall with the Spooky Men’s Chorale, and previously at the Everyman with Headlong Theatre!
Expect an uplifting night of singalong rock and pop classics at this unique, feel-good event for all the family. Come and sing your socks off, to help raise money to support the choir. They will be joined by special guests, to be announced.
The legendary Hailu Mergia is set to play Birkenhead’s most exciting music venue this September.
Future Yard will bring the Ethiopian keyboardist, master accordionist and veteran bandleader to the Wirral on Tuesday 6th September as part of their FUJAZZI series; a regular set of shows exploring the outer edges of jazz.
Hailu Mergia rose to prominence in Ethiopia in the 1970s, leading the Walias Band in their exploration of hard funk, traditional music and jazz in Ethiopia’s capital.
As a young woman growing up in the North West of England, Melanie Chisholm dreamed of a life performing on stage.
Little did she anticipate becoming part of one of the defining forces of British pop of any era: as one of the five member of the Spice Girls.
Defined in the public imagination as Sporty Spice, Melanie now tells her story: of the peaks and also the struggles that lie behind her public persona. Join them to hear her in conversation at the Everyman to celebrate the release of Who I Am.
The Scaffold are back for a very welcome and long overdue return to the Everyman!
John Gorman, Roger McGough and Mike “McGear” McCartney are reuniting for an exclusive and very special live show celebrating an incredible 60 years of The Scaffold.
The Scaffs first came together as part of the Merseyside Arts Festival in October 1962. So this is the perfect opportunity to celebrate their anniversary with them. And what’s more they made their debut right here on Hope Street, at a venue that would soon after be renamed as the Everyman.
They went on to present their distinctive mix of comedy and poetry to packed theatres both around the UK and across the world, they became staples on peak-time TV and they produced a string of unforgettable hit records including Thank U Very Much, Lily the Pink and Liverpool Lou.
Now they’re back in person, live on stage* to share a host of amazing and hilarious stories, sketches, poems, photographs and songs all celebrating the story of The Scaffold.
So do not miss this unique opportunity to join these three absolute Liverpool legends as they uncork a fresh bottle of medicinal compound and present a show full of laughs, memories and hopefully the odd sing-a-long.
It’s going to be a truly historic experience!
Liverpool’s Mellowtone Records present an intimate night of music downstairs at the Everyman featuring Dan Wilson & The Counterfactuals, Granfalloon + Beaten Tracks DJs…
Currently working on his fourth album; a double, potentially triple album… Granfalloon continues the work of his third album, Positive Songs, to focus more on traditional songwriting, and not quite traditional storytelling, to chisel out small, beautiful moments.
It showcases this non-traditional storytelling with subject matter like… the meta-narrative approach to the dangers to you and the relationships around you that writing can have, expressing love through mathematical formulae, and 8 year old girls catching bees in Tupperware boxes, all with a heavy dose of Richard Lomax’s absurdism.
Dan Wilson is a singer/songwriter and musician with The Cubical/Los Separatistas and a solo artist with Dan Wilson & The Counterfactuals. He is known for his unique lyrical and vocal style and is also a writer of poetry and short stories. This is music that creaked of old wooden bars and dark corners. Music aged in barrels and smelling of a days work well done. Blues soaked Folk and Rock with Jazz undertones to whet the appetite.
Oyé takes a trip across the water to Future Yard in Birkenhead where the trailblazing venue hosts the legendary Zamrock outfit WITCH: We Intend To Cause Havoc, brought to the stage in collaboration with HSP PRSNTS on 16th August.
Led by the charismatic Jagari Chanda, and supported by Dutch musicians Jacco Gardner and Nic Mauskovic, W.I.T.C.H is a force of nature; a fireball of psychedelic rock underpinned by African rhythms that took Zambia by storm in the 1970s.
In the early 2010s, record-crate diggers “re-discovered” W.I.T.C.H but could find almost no information about the group, and so set out to find the band. What followed is documented in We Intend to Cause Havoc (2019), a documentary about finding the only two living members: Chanda, the lead vocalist during the Zamrock period; and Patrick Mwondela, the keyboardist during the disco period.
This documentary, as well as reissues of the band’s catalog, sparked interest from fans all over the world—and W.I.T.C.H. are now back on tour.
A free festival will take place in Liverpool later this month to celebrate the visit of Nelson Mandela’s family to the city as a new memorial to the revolutionary leader in Princes Park nears completion.
The event is part of a week-long celebration being organised by Toxteth-based charity Mandela8 which commissioned the official memorial.
The afternoon festival – taking place on Saturday 23rd July from 12:30pm until 5:30pm – has been curated by Africa Oyé who recently celebrated their 30th anniversary with their own milestone festival just last month.
The musical offering promises ‘live performances from the best of South Africa and Liverpool talent’ with headline slots from international stars, BCUC and Nkulee Dube. Merseyside will be well represented by Ni Maxine, Sense of Sound Choir, AMBA, Staged Kaos and Stuart B.
The festival will also feature a range of traders selling food, drinks, arts and crafts, as well as free family workshops from the likes of Movema, LFC’s Open Goals Project, Katumba, LUSH, North West Cancer Research and Scouse Flowerhouse and much more.
The Mandela Freedom Festival will take place on Saturday 23rd July 2022 from 12:30pm until 5:30pm. Entrance is free and you do not need a ticket.
For more information on the festival and other events during Mandela Week, visit mandela8.org.uk.
It would be no understatement to describe Welsh multi-instrumentalist John Cale as a musical icon. With his career now entering its sixth decade, he has earned an international reputation as a musical pioneer.
After devoting his formative musical years to classical and avant-garde music, Cale formed The Velvet Underground with Lou Reed in 1965 and made two albums before parting ways in 1968 and beginning an epic solo career during which he has so far released 16 studio albums.
His list of credits as a producer and collaborator could easily be mistaken for a who’s who guide to cultural icons, with Cale having contributed to releases by Brian Eno, Patti Smith, The Stooges, Squeeze, Happy Mondays, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Super Furry Animals, and Manic Street Preachers.
Seafoam Green will play a headline show at Phase One in Liverpool on Thursday 7th July.
“Seafoam Green are Irish songwriting duo Dave O’Grady and Muireann McDermott Long. The pair specialise in what we now call Americana. If you want blues, gospel, and folk, they’ve got it, but what they’ve actually perfected across two albums and countless live shows is the sound of a glorious rock n’ soul revival.
Seafoam Green even find room for a dash of Dublinese, just to remind people where they’re coming from. Heavy hitters like Rich Robinson, Derek Trucks, and Tyler Greenwell have all chipped in, and it’s not hard to hear why, for this is thrilling, vital, and – that word again – soulful music.” – Pat Carty, HotPress Magazine
“Near faultless” – Mojo Magazine
Young singers from Newland House School in London are touring the Liverpool and Chester area, with a special concert at Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral.
Classical, pop and jazz for children’s choir.
Directed by Simon Arnott.
Free entry.
