Interest area: Music

Marconi Union are returning to The Capstone Theatre in Liverpool to perform tracks from their recent new album Signals as well as selections from their highly acclaimed discography. 

Despite having released twelve albums in the last eighteen years the Manchester musicians continue to experiment and push boundaries.

Following their 2019-released album Dead Air, the band set to writing Signals with a whole new swathe of influences: “We talked about what it’d be like to have drummers like Jaki Leibezeit or Tony Allen playing on our music. How would that affect how we wrote?”.

Alongside other influences from Krautrock to Electronica, Signals enters exciting new territory, and fans will no doubt welcome the group’s return to stage following a hiatus of three years.

Marconi Union will play The Capstone Theatre on Sunday 9th April 2022. Tickets are available now via the Capstone website.

As part of a programme of supporting events for Cherry Jezebel, Everyman Theatre are excited to present Nature Boy, a new emerging acoustic jazz duo to the northwest music scene.

Headlined by queer artist Tom Lloyd, a gifted vocalist known for his lyrical, dynamic story telling through original songs and destructing and reinterpreting tunes from the world of Jazz, soul and funk. This intimate duo is completed by the folk singer/songwriter Francis Johnson.

Together Nature Boy arrangements have a beautiful delicate queer sensibility. Inspired by the vintage eclectic songbook of many LGBTQ+ songwriters and artists, Nature Boy wishes to elevate their audience with the beauty and power in inviting and uniting our audiences, to celebrate our differences and similarities in a way only music can.

The event is held in the theatre’s Street Cafe.

After their explosion onto the national folk roots scene over the past few years, duo Ninebarrow will be performing at the Christ The King Parish Centre in Childwall as part of their first extensive national tour in two years.

In a few short years, the Dorset-based duo have carved themselves a distinctive niche on the folk roots scene for their outstanding harmonies, delicate instrumentation and engaging songs.

In 2017, they were nominated at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in the ’Horizon’ category for ‘Best Emerging Artist’. One of the highest accolades in their genre, it was made even more exceptional because it was only a few months prior to this that Jon Whitley and Jay LaBouchardiere relinquished their jobs as a teacher and GP in favour of a full-time music career – an act of faith that has clearly paid dividends.

Since then, the duo have continued their upwards trajectory, graduating to more senior award categories, most recently picking up ‘Best Duo’ in the 2019 Folking.com awards.

Named after Nine Barrow Down in Dorset’s Purbeck hills, the duo have released four critically acclaimed albums with their most recent, ‘A Pocket Full of Acorns’, which they released to a raft of four and five star reviews in the folk and mainstream media in March 2021. Within just a few days of release, the album had already reached No. 1 on Amazon’s Folk Best Sellers Chart.

Originating from the Mogadishu disco scene, Dur-Dur Band disbanded in the early 90s, as the country plunged into a civil war.

They were unable to continue playing in their city and scattered abroad, now, Dur-Dur are a time capsule, transporting audiences to the 1980s and the legendary Hotel Juba with their unique brand of Somalian disco-funk.

Though their music never travelled far beyond Somalia in their original run, Dur-Dur’s party-stirring spirit has found a new audience on the back of recent reissues from Analog Africa and Awesome Tapes from Africa, championed heavily by world music maestro Gilles Peterson.

The latest incarnation of this celebrated outfit have breathed new life into the legend of Dur-Dur Band and remain as captivating and unmissable as ever before.

In association with Liverpool Arab Arts Festival and Africa Oye

Dorothy Bird is a singer-songwriter based between Liverpool and Berlin.

With ringing endorsements from BBC Introducing, Tom Robinson’s Fresh On The Net and BBC6music Mixtape, Mersey Radio and a plethora of tastemaking magazines both in England and her native Germany, Dorothy Bird’s music has been described as “It is certainly also both epic and cinematic. Gorgeous too.” – Neil March, Trust The Doc.

On the night Dorothy, performing on piano & synths, will be joined on stage by Jon Lawton on guitar and Ryan Mallows on drums.

Support comes from the excellent Congolese and British rapper/songwriter Blue Saint.

The event is held Downstairs at the Everyman featuring talent from across the North West and supported by Mellowtone’s resident DJ Jonnie O’Hare.

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To celebrate 40 years of reggae classic, ‘Bam Bam’, Positive Vibration are bringing Queen of the Dancehall, Sister Nancy to Liverpool.

The event is held at District, Saturday 28 May, 8pm.

Joined by the mighty Legal Shot on the decks, this promises to be an unforgettable night.

The incomparable Dub Pistols will be returning to Liverpool on Saturday 26 March 2022 for their rescheduled show.

One of the most exciting and high energy live bands on the circuit, Dub Pistols blend reggae, ska, dub, punk, breaks and drum ‘n’ bass.

Support on the night comes from Birmingham’s finest, KIOKO, as well as Dub Defender DJs.