Jon Byrne and The Penny Black Remedy Sat 22 October Eric's Liverpool

Jon Byrne is a singer/songwriter and social commentator from the shipbuilding town of Barrow-in-Furness,

Jon Byrne’s rise to prominence has, surprisingly, been a long and arduous one. However, the struggle to be recognised as one of the nation’s most gifted of songwriters shouldn’t have happened any other way if ‘suffering for your art’ can be considered as the romantic model in all this. Jon’s struggle has made him the person he is today, it has shaped him and more importantly it has made him incredibly astute in fine tuning the detail within the poetry of his lyrics. He is a great social commentator and his observational accuracy in these ever changing times is as sharp as Sweeney Todd’s cut throat razor.

Jon has performed with ex Eric's performer and punk legend Mick Jones from The Clash. 'Definitely one of my career highlights so far,  I've worked both on stage and in the studio with Mick Jones.'

Pulling no punches on delivery, although he has had a few punches thrown in his direction for dressing and thinking differently to the majority. Throughout these ordeals and traumas he still operates within the realms of his own beliefs and carries on regardless, gathering information, mentally noting down his social observations, his passionate opinions, his romantic ideals and setting them to music. His music and wordsmithery was once described in ‘Clash’ magazine as ‘taking the Arctic Monkey’s patter to a higher level of sophistication’ and former NME journalist Gavin Martin wrote; ‘Byrne tackles tough reality with splenetic attack, black humour and colourful dramatic songs... This is rock from the rough end of the streets, delivered with guts and passion’.

In 2008 Jon was given Glastonbury Leftfields best ‘new artist’ award for my solo performance.'

His debut solo album ‘It’s Boring Being in Control’ was released in  2009 and  was critically acclaimed by the British music press.

As winner of Glastonbury's Left Field "New Artist" award, Byrne's crafted a collection of tracks which cover drug use, future generations, religion and the shortcomings of the welfare state. The wordsmith's lyrics are his passion and take the Arctic Monkeys' patter to a higher level of sophistication. - Clash 7/10

Byrne tackles tough reality with splenetic attack, black humour and colourful dramatic songs. They even allow him to unleash gruesome homicidal feelings (Voices) with compelling cast of characters and musical references that range from The Clash to the seasoned whine of Gallagher Junior (Sunshine) - This is rock from the rough end of the streets, delivered with guts and passion. - Gavin Martin - Classic Rock 7/10

Jon’s live performances have to be seen to be believed; with exuberant foot stomping, anarchic personality syndrome and broken strings. He then cleverly whisks you off into a seemingly tranquil state that leads you into a false sense of security by giving you soft tones, fragile heart strings and emotional roller coasters, before slapping you in the face once again with the honest realism of social degeneration and urban cataclysm. Jon Byrne is a 'finger on the trigger' zeitgeist troubadour.


Since being formed in 2006 by singer/songwriter Keith M Thomson, The Penny Black Remedy have been proudly defiant in the face of categorisation – focusing instead on utilising their shared love and passion for all forms of music from around the globe to create a wholly distinctive and unmistakable sound all of their own. The resulting symbiance of darkly comic, unpretentiously intelligent and catchy songs, and their exhilarating live shows, have been wowing audiences and promoters alike across both the UK and Europe, building a loyal following of dedicated fans as a result.


Introducing the band: The Penny Black Remedy consist of Keith M Thomson from Scotland on vocals, guitars and song-writing duties; classically trained Croatian vocalist/percussionist Marijana Hajdarhodzic; and the powerhouse rhythm section of Dutch drummer Wilco van Eijk and bassist Steve Nelson from England.

They take delight in breaking down the metaphorical barrier between the band and the audience, whether it’s by simply encouraging a beguiling sing-along or by starting an impromptu conga line and/or dance routine. They have made it nothing short of their raison d’etre to make each show an inclusive, interactive, energetic and convivial experience to remember. They have performed at many legendary venues across the UK and Europe including: The 100 Club and The Forum in London, The Melkweg in Amsterdam, Holland and The Garage in Bergen, Norway; and at festivals such as Glastonbury, The Larmer Tree Festival, The Big Session, The Secret Garden Party, The Edinburgh Festival and The Eden Festival in the UK, and The Valkhof Affaire Festival and Conincx Pop in Holland.

As singer Keith puts it, ‘We’re just trying to take people back to the days when you could have a good old fashioned sing-song and a knees up around either a camp fire or an old piano. The fact that most of my songs are about death, lost love, brothels or just trying to live in a constant state of crippling paranoid fear and cope with the daily grind of everyday life is irrelevant. If anything, encouraging people to sing loudly and out of tune about the absurdity of general existence seems to instil a sense of comfort and unity. I think.’

Lyrically rich in dark, yet playful humour, their debut album ‘No One’s Fault But Your Own’, was independently released in 2009 on the band’s own label, Soundinistas.


Saturday 22 October

Eric's, Mathew St, Liverpool 

Double header with tickets priced at £7.50

www.ticketweb.co.uk

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Dave Sharp (THE ALARM) Eric's Liverpool - Sat 15 Oct

Dave Sharp began playing with the band Seventeen in the 1970s and made his recording debut on their Don't Let Go / Bank Holiday Weekend single. After Seventeen disbanded in 1980, the band reformed as The Alarm, eventually recording hit records such as 68 Guns and The Spirit of '76.

In 1991, Sharp recorded his first solo album, Hard Travellin' with record producer, Bob Johnston. After tours in the UK and North America, he moved to the United States, touring and recording with artists, such as Johnny Cash, Larry Crane, Dave Grissolm (The John Cougar Mellencamp band), Willie Nelson, George Porter (The Neville Brothers), Chris Solberg (Santana), and Stiff Little Fingers.

In 1996, he recorded the album Downtown America. Sharp moved to New Orleans and made regular appearances at the Kerry Irish pub on Decatur Street.
In 2002, Sharp returned to the United Kingdom and formed The Soul Company band with bass player, Keith Ashcroft (Chris Farlowe), 10cc drummer Paul Burgess, Dr. Feelgood guitarist Mo Witham and guitar player Jim Holmes.
Towards the end of 2007 Sharp, having spent most of his recent time playing solo acoustic, was ready to form a new band again. He was put in touch with Henry McCullough and, after a few days together in Ireland, the nucleus of The Hard Travelers was formed. The concept of the band's music was the intention to bring the songs of Woody Guthrie to a new public. To complete the lineup, Sharp and McCullough brought in Zoot Money on keyboards; Gary Fletcher on bass; and Colin Allen on drums.

2008 Sharp launched his own version of The Alarm, AOR - Spirit of The Alarm, to showcase the band's American setlists from the late 1980s. Together with North West musicians Wayne Parry, Dave Black, Tom Szakaly and Si Smith, AOR played their debut show and went on to support The Damned  in support of the Sophie Lancaster Foundation.
Over the years Sharp has worked alongside most of the artists he has long respected and admired.

Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash have appeared on his recordings. He has performed alongside Kris Kristofferson, Bill Munroe and Porter Wagoner. A regular performer on Decatur Street, New Orleans, whether solo or with a band,guitar in hand Sharp delivers the Spirit of Rock & Roll.
Dave Sharp's solo albums have received critical acclaim both in the United States and here in the UK where he performs continuously on both sides of the Atlantic.

http://www.davesharp.org/

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Free download - Wild Combination!

The Essex based trio Wild Combination, are a brand new band who have already received early radio support from Huw Stephens on Radio 1 and a mention in Q Magazine’s Q50!

Taking inspiration from bands such as Talking Heads, the band has created their debut single 'We Are The Creatures', which will be released on 31^st October – just in time for Halloween! This track echoes the sounds of Postal Service, Phoenix and Foals with its jumpy electronic accompaniment and pop sensibility. Watch the official video here: http://youtu.be/azCfYnZaIho

To support the release of this single, the band have decided to treat their fans to a free download of the single remixed by Pan Left. It's a got a two-step early morning dance floor vibe to it and fans can download the track via the band’s Soundcloud here:  http://soundcloud.com/wildcombination/we-are-the-creatures-pan-left 

What the critics have been saying:

“The debut single from this Essex four piece resembles a cosmic take on Foals’ tort art rock, psychedelic swirls framing a mammoth chorus hook” – Q Magazine (September 2011)

Catch Wild Combination live at the following date:

Thursday 3^rd November – ‘Wagon’ @ The Old Queens Head as part of Chris Hawkins’ (BBC 6 Music) night – Wild Combination on stage at 8:45pm in support of Ahab.

Follow Wild Combination updates on the following sites:

Website: www.wildcombinationuk.com
Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/WildCombinationMusic
Twitter: http://twitter.com/WCombination  / @WCombination

Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/wildcombination

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Wu Lyf single release and UK tour October 2011

 

WU LYF

WE BROS 

NEW SINGLE RELEASED 7^TH NOVEMBER 2011 ON LYF RECORDINGS

WU LYF will release a new single ‘We Bros’ on 7^th November. The single is a reworked, updated version of the track that appears on the band’s debut album ‘Go Tell Fire To The Mountain’.  Built around the anthemic chorus chants of  “We bros you lost man  / We bros so long / Put away your guns man / And sing this song”, ‘We Bros’ is the track that WU LYF have been closing their live shows with in front of thousands of people over the summer 

‘We Bros’ will be available on heavyweight 12” vinyl and digital download and will come backed with remixes from S. Maharba and Young Montana. The vinyl version will feature three tracks on side A and etched artwork on side B.

WU LYF also recently announced an eight date UK headline tour, including a London show at Shepherds Bush Empire on the 26^th October. And, following recent sold out shows in New York and LA, the band will return to the USA in November for a twelve date headline tour.

The UK October 2011 tour dates are: 

17^th The Other Rooms, NEWCASTLE

18^th Institute, Temple Rooms, BIRMINGHAM

19^th Brudenell Social Club, LEEDS

21^st Rescue Rooms , NOTTINGHAM 

22^nd Kazimier, LIVERPOOL

25^th Thekla,  BRISTOL

26^th Shepherds Bush Empire, LONDON

27^th Coalition, BRIGHTON

Meanwhile, WU LYF’s debut album continues to gain momentum. Recorded in a disused Manchester church and produced by the band themselves, ‘Go Tell Fire To The Mountain’ was released globally on the band’s own 100% independent L Y F Recordings to widespread acclaim: 

“Dark, beautiful and ridiculously euphoric” – The Guardian

“The third millennium begins with WU LYF” – Les Inrockuptibles

“WU LYF have made an album of exhilarating expanse and passion that sounds like indie rock and yet feels way bigger” PItchfork 8.4 (Best New Music)

“Manchester’s next great band” – Q ****

“The most urgent and impassioned young band to emerge in the last few years” – The Fly

 

http://www.wulyf.org/

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Julian Cope - Liverpool Stanley Theatre October 27th

 

 

THE MUSIC CONSORTIUM PRESENTS

JULIAN COPE

Thursday 27^th October 2011

Liverpool, Stanley Theatre, University Of Liverpool

160, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, L3 5TR

Tel. 0151 794 6868 www.lgos.org

£17.50 advance doors 7.30

 

 

Julian Cope is a singer, poet, occultist and photographer who has enjoyed a 30-year career in the rock business, and is described by his Bloomsbury book publishers as a ‘visionary rock musician and musicologist, hip archaeologist and one-time front man of the Teardrop Explodes’. During that time, Cope has released over 20 solo albums, countless collaborative projects, and six acclaimed books, including his autobiography HEAD-ON and the much-lauded KRAUTROCKSAMPLER.

 

Cope began his career in 1977, as bass player in the short-lived Liverpool punk group The Crucial Three, alongside future Echo & The Bunnymen singer Ian McCulloch, before forming the Teardrop Explodes in late ’78. This band’s four-year reign as a Top Ten chart act collapsed at the end of 1982, when Cope’s infamous love of munching LSD onstage proved too much for both his management and record companies.

 

An attempt to re-launch his career ended in disaster in March 1984, when Cope ignored the presence of several important media figures in his Hammersmith Palais audience, and proceeded to lacerate his stomach in a drug-induced frenzy. A brief wilderness period ensued, during which time he and his young American wife Dorian moved back to Tamworth, the Staffordshire town of his childhood. Now remaining indoors for long periods and collecting 1950s Dinky Toys, it was during this time that Cope’s legendary FRIED album was released, featuring his signature death-and-resurrection lament ‘Reynard the Fox’ and clad in a record cover that showed Cope naked save for a giant turtle shell.

 

In the late ‘80s, however, Cope made his welcome return to the charts with the single ‘World Shut Your Mouth’, and attendant album SAINT JULIAN, which was followed in the ‘90s by such acclaimed albums as PEGGY SUICIDE, JEHOVAHKILL and AUTOGEDDON. However, Cope now moved away from the rock’n’roll business and turned his attentions instead to making a detailed first-hand study of the occult, mythology and Britain’s prehistory.

 

Throughout the mid-90s, Cope scoured the British Isles for lost stone temples of the first monument builders, incorporating three tours of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland in the process. After eight years of research, these results were published in his best-selling tome THE MODERN ANTIQUARIAN, a full colour 484-page hardback that shocked the publishing world by selling over 50,000 copies.

 

Five years later, Cope followed up this extraordinary achievement with an even larger sequel entitled THE MEGALITHIC EUROPEAN that covered mainland Europe plus many of its islands. Cope has performed live with Sunn0))), also appearing as lead vocalist on their acclaimed album WHITE ONE, and has recorded three albums with his proto-metal power trio Brain Donor. He has also lectured three times at the British Museum. In October 2007, Cope’s JAPROCKSAMPLER was released to critical acclaim, thereafter he hosted Manchester University’s William Blake exhibition BLAKE’S SHADOW, at the Whitworth Gallery in January 2008. In May of the same year, his new album BLACK SHEEP was released to tremendous acclaim, and has since formed a band of the same name. Cope is currently working on two books, the first entitled LIVES OF THE PROPHETS: A NEW PERPECTIVE, and his first novel, a road trip set in Sardinia entitled 131.

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William Tyler and Hiss Golden Messenger @ Leaf Liverpool

This irresistible double bill of William Tyler and Hiss Golden Messenger comes to Leaf on Bold Street on Thursday 6 October.

After his very successful tour of the UK in the company of Michael Chapman early this year, William Tyler returns to the UK for another brief run of mesmerising shows, this time as a double bill with Hiss Golden Messenger, described by David Bowie as "mystical country, an eerie yellowing photograph".

William Tyler is best known as a long-time member of Lambchop and also Silver Jews, though since he released his excellent album Behold The Spirit on Tompkins Square late last year, and won over so many people on the aforementioned tour, the Nashville native's solo reputation is rapidly catching up. American Songwriter magazine was in rapture, speaking of how "Behold The Spirit casts a mighty spell", and reviews fromUncut, Pitchfork, Dusted and many others have been equally ardent in their admiration.

Hiss Golden Messenger is the work of Michael C Taylor of North Carolina, whose bewitching mix of woozy roots and bare-spirited country folk has rarely been far from our turntable for the past year. As well as the full-band recordings he's issued in recent years, this year has seen the release of the Bad Debt cd on blackmaps that is just Taylor, voice and guitar in close-up and it floors us with every listen. And not just us - he's had whole raft of gushing reviews, even DJ magazine giving it 9/10 for its “Beautiful, beguiling songs. Effortless simplicity”.

Support comes from local band Cavalier Song and Liverpool based Simon Knighton. With his husky, dusky voice Simon slips you his intoxicating and impelling songs. Fingers slide across his guitar as he stamps out his powerful beat on the wooden box beneath his feet. His jaunty jigs and bounding lilts smack of smokey reels and bygone backwater countries, while his dark and haunting lyrics hint at mysteries buried beneath.

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Emmy the Great @ Stanley Theatre Liverpool October 2011

EMMY THE GREAT

Friday 7^th October 2011

Liverpool, Stanley Theatre, University Of Liverpool

160, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, L3 5TR

Tel. 0151 794 6868 www.lgos.org

£12.50 advance doors 7.30pm

Two years after her critically acclaimed debut First Love, Emmy The Great released her second album Virtue earlier this year. Written and recorded under very different circumstances to her first, Virtue began as a series of stories Emmy embarked on after her engagement to an atheist, but took on a very different shape when he left her for the church.
Using symbols borrowed from fairy tales and mythology, Emmy added the icons that have replaced them in our modern consciousness – industrial buildings, mushroom clouds, West London’s Trellick Tower. This was Emmy’s personal collection of myths that she fitted to her music – a genre she refers to as digital medieval. She’d noticed that women only make it through the woods in big myths if they keep their virtue and she felt lost in the woods twice while writing the album, first when she got engaged, the second time when the stitches came apart.
When her fiancé left, Emmy had to pick up the pieces. She hid in the country, lost herself in books about saints, archetypes, and folk tales, trying to make the world work. But she didn’t want the album to be about her. It had to save her from what had happened, but be about everything.
Virtue was made in London and Sussex. This time round, Euan Hinshelwood, her long-term musical collaborator, and Emmy took the reins, rather than develop the songs with their full band in the studio. Euan came up with the guitar palette, strange, ambient, twisted and atmospheric, while Emmy wrote backing vocals for different characters she voiced herself. The ghosts of the Cocteau Twins and Suzanne Vega feature, as well as the stories of Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter, and the writing of cultural theorists like Marina Warner. Emmy wanted a cast for this album, to lift up the world she was trying to conjure, and kept albums in mind that have similar ambitions – Neutral Milk Hotel’s In The Aeroplane Over The Sea; Janelle Monae’s The Archandroid. While making it, she listened to girly pop like The Bangles, tempered with religious choirs, folk from the South Pacific, while Euan became obsessed with post-punk and Bulgarian choirs. They even spent a night Googling Enya.
Producer Gareth Jones (These New Puritans, Depeche Mode and Grizzly Bear) indulged their romanticism, but understood their wish to make the music sound precise, rather than precious. Emmy also knew she had to let go – to confront things without fear, to throw her head high, say what she thought, things she couldn’t say to herself without music. It’s this record, she says, that’s made her feel like a person and that she hopes will speak to others who’ve endured and survived.

www.emmythegreat.com

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Emmy-The-Great/49401939332

http://twitter.com/#!/emmy_the_great

http://www.myspace.com/emmythegreat

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Puressence live @ Stanley Theatre Liverpool

PURESSENCE

Plus special guests

Saturday 8^th October 2011

Liverpool Guild of Students, Stanley Theatre,

160, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, L3 5TR

Tel. 0151 794 6868 www.lgos.org

£9.50 advance doors 7.30pm

2011 saw Puressence release their new single, ‘When Your Eyes Close’, an edited version of the track found on their brand new album ‘Solid State Revival.’
A soaring, emotion-soaked beauty, ‘When Your Eyes Close’ features the guest vocals of luminous American folk-rock legend Judy Collins alongside those of the band’s frontman James Mudriczki. Collins’ pure vocal dovetails beautifully with that Mudriczki, the owner of an extraordinary and distinctive vibrato bolted to raw power and a fantastic range.
Collins, a convert to the Manchester-based band since she heard their 2007 album ‘Don’t Forget To Remember’, says Puressence, “swept me off my feet when I first heard them. They’re a very moving experience, very, very special indeed, and they have such amazing songs. And where did James learn to sing like that? His voice is an instrument of such clarity and purity and flexibility, it just does you in.”
Puressence have always been about the emotion since they formed in the early nineties after schoolmates Mudriczki and Tony Szuminski (drums) first met Kevin Matthews (bass) and founding guitarist Neil MacDonald on the bus to The Stone Roses’ legendary Spike Island show in 1989. Puressence married the presence and attitude of the Roses to a haunting and molten guitar rock that last hit the heights during the era of Joy Division and Echo & The Bunnymen. After two singles on Manchester’s 2 Damn Loud label in 1992 and one for Rough Trade’s singles club, Island Records won the race to sign them. 1996’s self-titled debut album and 1998’s Only Foreverfollowed, with ‘This Feeling’ breaking the UK Top 40 single chart that year. “All I Want” was another Top 40 hit, as was ‘Walking Dead’ from 2002’s beats-laced Planet Helpless album.
All these tracks were included on their 2009 compilation ‘Sharpen Up The Knives’, which drew on the band’s Island Records years between 1996 and 2002. Plus there was Mudriczki’s spine-shivering solo version of ‘Che’, originally recorded for 2008’s Judy Collins tribute album Born To The Breed, also featuring the likes of Leonard Cohen, Joan Baez, Chrissie Hynde and Dolly Parton, though Collins thinks ‘Che’, “was the most interesting thing on the whole album. So different and wonderfully fresh.”
On stage, James’ thousand yard stare is legendary among fans (though he always breaks into a broad smile between songs): “it is a really draining experience for me, to get out what I need to for the tunes,” he says. “I can’t just casually let the words drip from my mouth; I have to really feel it. The intensity comes from believing it, and letting it out. It’s like when you hear Scott Walker and Ian Curtis – no way were they faking what they were singing about.”
That intensity can be traced to growing up in North Manchester, “one of most deprived parts of the country. I can only draw on my life experiences, to those people close to me, and channel that in the music. I'm singing about love, deceit, being let down, good times, bad times. Stuff people in Victorian times wrote about, that people will be writing about in five hundred years. But it proves that good can come from the bad.”
Not forgetting the band’s first independently released album in ‘Don’t Forget To Remember’ (with new guitarist Lowell Killen in place), ‘Sharpen Up The Knives’ represented the band’s real big new beginning, as it included two new tracks ‘Raise Me To The Ground’ and ‘Our Number’s Oracle’. Both signalled a return to Puressence, knives sharpened, back to their brilliant and most emotionally charged best. Judy Collins likes the album so much, she sings on a second track too, the album’s smouldering seven-minute opener “Swathes Of Sea Made Stone”.
Especially loved in their Manchester homeland and also Southern Europe (they play to tens of thousands in Greece), Puressence are, as July Collins says, very, very special. Starting with “When Your Eyes Close’, let Puressence sweep you off your feet too.

www.puressence.co.uk

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Kites release their first official single Brother on October 24th

Kites is a band composed of two classically-trained musicians (Jack & Jasper), a scholar of electronics (Richard), and a foppish pop-poet with a penchant for silk (Matthew), who are releasing their single ‘Brother’ in October this year.

In a recent interview, the Kites’ front man Matthew, who brings an air of Wildean decadence to the band, described their sound as: “Melodramatic provocation for discontented dreamers”.

Kites began writing tightly constructed tracks in 2010 that successfully blended synthetic textures with more organic instrumentation, creating a sound that was bold, affecting and ultimately irresistible. Their intensely physical and energetic stage shows have won them fans internationally and garnered comparisons to New Order, Patrick Wolf and Talking Heads from the mainstream music press.

Lead singer Matthew believes the band has many influences, but perhaps one of the most prominent influences stems right from his childhood:

“My household was populated with black and white photographs of Jim Morrison in the crucifix pose.  Even as a toddler, I was seduced by his baritone timbre and assertive swagger.  I’m not sure why my parents thought it suitable to expose me to a renowned alcoholic with a well-publicised Oedipus complex, but I certainly found him influential.”

As well as having their own unique and captivating sound of electronic beddings with smatterings of guitar, Kites also have a strong sense of style. Even though Matthew is but a mere impoverished musician, he still manages to swagger around with panache in handouts, vintage outlets and sales racks. After all, as Matthew suggests: “Life is a stage and we are flowers to be looked at”. With his style icons including Sebastian Horsley, Sebastian Tellier and Anthony Andrews’ character Sebastian Flyte…  Essentially, anyone called Sebastian or anyone who looks good with a cane and a teddy bear… Matthew has all the makings of a true fashion and music pioneer and a 21^st century Dandy.

The single ‘Brother’ is Kites’ first official single release. The track is a melancholy story of two brothers, whose fates are interwoven throughout the song in a tapestry of fear and hope. One brother is at the end of his journey; the other is only just embarking. Kites will also release the energetic ‘Art Taste Better Blind’ as the B side to this single and will be touring relentlessly throughout the rest of the year. Full gig listings below.

Wednesday 12 October Bloomsbury Lanes, London (Headline show)

Thursday 27 October Electricity Showrooms, London (Strangers Club)

What the critics have to say:

"Factory-indebted decadent disco." The Evening Standard

"Intensely physical and energetic live performances coupled with tightly constructed tracks have won the band an adoring fan base, a wave of industry attention... hailed as the hottest unsigned band in the UK.” Music Week

"I'm tipping Kites - think The Fall and New Order but a lot younger. I caught them the other night and they rocked. They're on tour at the moment so catch them if you can!"  The Sunday Mirror

"...ambition fuelled pop full of drama and excitement.... and dazzling beauty" Breaking Waves

"Kites are fast evolving into a band comprising all your favourite new wave/electro sounds in one... Wolfesque vocals... restrained synths and samples and the actual craft of songwriting and let’s not forget this, they look great."

Gill Mills (Best of Myspace)

 

Follow Kites updates on the following sites:

www.wearekites.com

www.soundcloud.com/kites

www.myspace.com/kitesonline

www.facebook.com/wearekites

www.twitter.com/kitesonline

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Kevin Critchley Outfit plays the Masque Liverpool

Live With Choir And Extended String Section

Kevin Critchley Outfit

plus

Bird

Shy And The Fight

Deafen The Creatures

There is going to be a very exciting show at The Masque Theatre in Liverpool on Friday 21^st October.

Kevin Critchley Outfit will be performing with Sense Of Sound Singers and an extended string section in an ambitious live show on an unprecedented scale for an unsigned band.  The night will see KCO unveil their new band name and launch a limited edition EP containing live recordings and material from a forthcoming studio album. 

With a performance at Chester Rocks described as the “...highlight of the day...” (Liverpool Live) as the band “...stole the show...” (Radio City), KCOhave continued to up the ante with a support slot for Sharon Corr on the Liverpool leg of her UK tour.  Their line up - cello and violins alongside drums, piano, bass, guitar and vocals-  results in a truly original sound that blends film soundtrack, world music and energetic acoustic rock.  

Singing alongside KCO will be members of Sense of Sound Singers.  The choir have been previously involved in performances with Brian Eno, Damon Albarn and Massive Attack in support of Greenpeace, Seal and John Bon Jovi at The Royal Variety Show and grand finalists for BBC “Choir of the Year” competition.  

Amongst the special guests on stage with KCO are violinists Christoph Demetriou (Shrek 2/Counting Crows, Seal, Jessicas Ghost) and Greta Svabo Bech (Picture Book), as well as backing vocals from Norwegian singers Kaya and Grethe Børsum.

The night will also showcase three other diverse acts that KCO have chosen especially for this event.   Deafen The Creatures are an acoustic/electronic 4 piece whose singer Elle won MOJO’s “New Voice Award 2011”.  Shy & The Fight, from Chester and Wrexham, recently had airplay on BBC Radio 1and featured on the Jack Wills summer advertising campaign this year and whose more soulful nu-folk has made the band firm favourites with BBC Radio Wales.  Finally, Bird will be performing their unique brand of atmospheric folk, which fuses influences as broad as PJ Harvey, Portishead, Bat for Lashes and Kate Bush.

KCO have also had the pleasure of supporting artists as diverse as Seth Lakeman, Mark Morriss (Bluetones), Ian McNabb, Amsterdam and Mica Paris.   

www.KCOmusic.com

Tickets can be purchased from www.glasswerk.co.uk / www.ticketwerk.co.uk

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Liverpool Irish Festival - 14th-30th October 2011 - Full listing

This year’s ninth Liverpool-Irish Festival, is shaping up to be the most exciting yet, with a programme of music, film, drama, heritage, literature and lectures to suit everybody.

Highlights include a weekend of free activities down on the Albert Dock in the heart of historic Liverpool, the second Irish Sea Sessions at the Philharmonic Hall, a week of early evening Irish film at FACT, Beckett at The Unity and the redoubtable Damien Dempsey and his band with their mates Amsterdam at the O2 Academy.

There’s also a Sunday afternoon - evening of music at the Sefton Park Palmhouse courtesy of Comhaltas Ceoloitri Eireann and folk supergroup KAN. Talking James Larkin at the Institute of Irish Studies at Liverpool University, a  ‘Raiding Party’ of non-Irish bands, this year featuring Braebach (Scotland) and Calan (Wales) and a celebration of the ‘Discovering the Liverpool Irish ‘ project.

Festival Manager, Jake Roney says “ This is the ninth Liverpool Irish Festival and we feel that we are taking a big step forward this year with new partners such as The Albert Dock and innovative programming like The Speech Project and Liverpool firsts like the internationally renowned Gare St Lazarre Players with two Beckett plays at The Unity.  We are spreading our wings with The Irish Sea Sessions following their Liverpool Philharmonic premier with shows in Belfast and Derry/Londonderry. Whilst with the Discovering the Liverpool Irish Celebration Day once more we will celebrate our city and its the significance in its development of Irish traditions, music, literature, theatre and art. We must thank our partners old and new and especially Liverpool City Council for supporting the Festival and helping us make it happen.”

Of course all the regular events that have proved so popular over the years – the Heritage Walks, Pub Music Sessions, Ceili’s etc, will all be there again – bigger and better than ever.

Festival highlights include:

Liverpool Irish Festival at The Albert Dock Saturday 15th October until Sunday 16th October, 11:00am -  Free Entry

Liverpool Irish Festival teams up with Liverpool’s historic Albert Dock to present a weekend of entertainment and discovery. Musicians and dancers from the city’s Irish community will present a rolling programme of traditional and contemporary arts, strolling players will fill the dock with sound whilst actors draw out the history of the half a million Irish immigrants that passed through Liverpool in the 19th century, some to stay some to go on to other countries across the seas. It’s all absolutely free, so come on down to The Dock and take a look, and whilst you are here why not try the special Irish menu available in many of the great cafes and restaurants.



Damien Dempsey Band +Amsterdam at the O2 Academy Saturday 15 October, Doors 7.00pm, Tickets £16.00 Advance  0844 477 2000 /www.02academyliverpool.co.uk

Following on from last year’s sold out 'gig of the year' for the Liverpool Irish Festival, Damien Dempsey and Amsterdam will be re-creating that unbelievable atmosphere once again at Liverpool’s 02 Academy on Saturday 15th October 2011. Both acts are known for having a fervent live following, so except a night of soul, passion and audience participation. This is one show not to be missed!

'Last year was a beautiful night by the Mersey, the Scousers sang all night and this year will be even better!' Says Damien Dempsey.
'Amsterdam and Damien Dempsey is a dream come true for us, it’s gonna be the gig of the year...again! Says  Amsterdam front man Ian Prowse.

Merseyside legends Amsterdam are currently a tour de force seven piece musical carnival whose ability to wow a crowd is second to none. Damien Dempsey is currently the toast of all Irish music. Spoken of as the natural heir to the crown previously warn by Luke Kelly, Christy Moore and Shane MacGowan, Sineád O'Connor insists Damo is the best yet.  

Damien O’Kane at Sefton Park Palm House Sunday 16th October, Doors 7.30pm, Tickets £12.50 - www.liverpoolphil.com

Damien O’Kane is earning a growing reputation for being a creative and exciting musician and singer. His banjo playing in particular has led him to being regarded as one of the finest Irish players on the scene today and he is winning accolades as a singer, focusing on songs from his native Northern Ireland.

He is probably best known for his work with Shona Kipling and Flook but has recently been a full-time member of Kate Rusby’s band. Damien’s musical career has earned him credit as a creative and exciting player and singer and as an excellent teacher of folk and traditional music. His banjo playing has been widely praised and his work with Shona Kipling, accordion player extraordinaire, earned them both a Folk Award nomination in 2007 and their gigs expanded all over the world from Spain to Canada.

The John McSherry Trio at The Rodewald Suite, Philharmonic Hall Tuesday 18th October, Doors 9.45pm, Tickets £11 - www.liverpoolphil.com

Described by Irish Music Magazine as ‘a true master’ McSherry is hailed as one of the finest exponents of the art of uilleann piping in the world. He has taken piping and whistle playing to new heights with his unique style. Winner of two All Ireland Championships and the prestigious Oireachtas Piping Competition, he has been a member of several outstanding bands – Tamalin, Lunasa and Coolfin. He is a composer, producer, arranger and established studio session musician of world class renown, recording and performing with everybody from Clannad and Donal Lunny to Nancy Griffiths and The Corrs.



Two plays by Beckett – ‘First Love’ and ‘the End’ at the Unity Theatre

First Love  - Tuesday  18th October, Doors 8pm,  Tickets £12/10

The End  - Wednesday 19th October, Doors 8pm, Tickets £12/10

Tickets £20/16 (conc.) for both performances when bought together (limited availability)

Box Office tel. 0844 873 2888

Liverpool Irish Festival and Unity Theatre present Gare St Lazare Players in Samuel Beckett’s First Love and The End. Directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett. Performed by Conor Lovett.

Gare St Lazare Players Ireland are internationally recognised as among the foremost interpreters of Samuel Beckett’s works. Performer Conor Lovett is considered to be the greatest Beckett performer of our times. As with any actor who has an affinity for a particular writer, the result is wonderfully entertaining and entirely accessible work.

In First Love a man recounts an episode early in his adult life where, having been expelled from the family home, he meets a young woman on a bench. His attempts to rid himself of his infatuation with her lead him to move in with her. A perfect blend of tragedy and comedy, First Love is almost the perfect short story.

The End is a short story by Samuel Beckett begun in english and finished in french. In it a man recounts an episode late in his life when, having been expelled from an institution of care, he finds his own way in the world. He meets a variety of characters and situations before finally lying down to let life ebb away. It is one of Beckett’s most complete, most compelling and most beautiful works and is a Gare St Lazare favourite.

“It is, as ever, a towering achievement of acting and directing.” – Sunday Independent

A Radical Legacy: The Larkins of Liverpool Rendall Building, University of Liverpool Wednesday 19th October, Doors 6pm - Free Entry

A Festival Panel on James Larkin, Liverpool Irish Radical, organised by the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool. This event will also launch the Institute’s ‘Decade of Commemorations’ series.

Speakers;

Dr Enda Leaney, Dublin City Public Libraries
Dr Lauren Arrington, The Institute of Irish Studies
Dr John Gray, formerly Linen Hall Library, Belfast, author of ‘City in Revolt: James Larkin and the Belfast Dock Strike of 1907’



The Speech Project at The Capstone building, Cornerstone Campus, Hope University Thursday 20 October, Doors 730pm,Tickets £15 - www.liverpoolphil.com

Liverpool Irish Festival and The Capstone Theatre present this World Premiere performance of an innovative new composition, The Speech Project.

Four years in the making, The Speech Project is ground-breaking collection of new musical works by Gerry Diver inspired by and incorporating recordings of the spoken word of seminal Irish folk musicians including Christy Moore, Paddy Moloney of The Chieftans, Joe Cooley, Danny Meehan and more.

Gerry Diver, a musician, composer and producer, born into an Irish family in Manchester and relocated to Ireland in his teens. Former member of Irish world music group Sin é and Shane McGowan’s The Popes, as well as guest musician with among others Van Morrison and uber rock producer Youth, Gerry has more recently begun to focus more of production and composing, working out of his studio in South London.

In 2007 he produced the Mojo Folk Album of the Year and BBC Folk Award nominated album Wild And Undaunted by Lisa Knapp, but had already begun work on The Speech Project, travelling to Ireland to make face-to-face recordings with Paddy Moloney and Christy Moore and to trawl the archives and back catalogues for spoken word recordings of older musicians, including Kerry accordionist Joe Cooley (1924-1973).

Taking this all back to his Tooting studio he extracted key phrases from the recordings, and taking the rhythm, pitch and phrasing as inspiration, he began to compose a series of works that are uniquely Irish, ground-breaking in concept and stunningly beautiful. Between production work for artists including Alasdair Roberts, Sam Lee and ex-Beautiful South’s Paul Heaton, Gerry completed the collection of works which he has called The Speech Project.

The show will feature musicians including Gerry Diver, with special guest Lisa Knapp, plus specially commissioned accompanying videos for selected works, all interacting live with the spoken word recordings of the Irish musicians used in the Speech Project recordings.

The Irish Sea Sessions at the Philharmonic Hall 21 October, 730pm, Tickets £17.50, £18.50, £21, £26 - www.liverpoolphil.com

 With the atmosphere and attitude of a session, but in a concert hall, The Irish Sea Sessions return to build on the success of last year’s event – one reviewer gave it 15 out of 10!

 Part super-group, part colossal session and part festival, all in a single gig, the Irish Sea Sessions was voted Best Folk/Roots Event of the Year by Liverpool Daily Post readers in 2010.

This year’s line up includes top contemporary music stars and some of the finest traditional musicians from three cities, Liverpool, Belfast and Derry/Londonderry. Artists already confirmed include Damien Dempsey, Alan Burke, Graham Dunne, Niamh Parsons, Gino Lupari, musical director Bernard O’Neill, Ian Prowse, Terry Clarke-Coyne, Dave Munnelly, piper John McSherry, fiddler Méabh O’Hare, singer Jennifer John and banjo-player Stevie Dunne. Join musicians from traditional and contemporary backgrounds and from both sides of the Irish Sea as they explore the shared music and special bond between Liverpool and Ireland.

Discovering the Liverpool Irish – Celebration Day

Saturday 22nd  October, 10am, The Bluecoat - Free Entry

Admission is free but to guarantee your place please register  at www.liverpoolirishheritage.co.uk (registration coming soon).

Discovering the Liverpool Irish is a year-long set of projects supported by The Heritage Lottery with further assistance from The Irish Government’s Emigrant Support Programme. With the participation of hundreds of members of the Liverpool Irish community the projects discover hidden histories, make Liverpool’s heritage real, teach traditional skills and follow families down the ages and across the seas. The Celebration Day is a chance for all the people involved in Discovering the Liverpool Irish to show to their families and friends and the Liverpool public just what they have discovered and the skills they have learnt. Our projects are:

Heritage Walks – Developing new guided walks and new guides!

The Irish and other immigrant groups – Liverpool is ‘the world in one city’, how did they get on? Could they live together?

Preserving and developing traditional skills – Taking Ceili into local schools, setting up a Liverpool Set Dancing Society, training new Storytellers.

Follow your Fancy – groups and individuals follow their own special interests supported by the Discovering the Liverpool Irish team. So far projects include: providing resource packs on Irish heritage for local schools, family histories, Irish elders remember their pasts, archiving the story of Irish music in Liverpool and the place of the Irish language in Liverpool lives – and we are still open to suggestions!

Our Celebration Day will be informative but above all it will be fun : come down and find out how local people have looked into their shared history and culture and how You can do the same – there will be talks, films, drama, storytelling, discussion, music and dance all waiting for You to join in!

The Raiding Party -  Breabach and Calan at St Georges Hall Music Room Sunday 23rd October, 7.30pm, Tickets  £17.50  www.liverpoolphil.com

Two notable bands, Braebach from Scotland and Calan from Wales are out to prove that great music is not the sole preserve of the Irish music scene!

The Raiding Party sees some of the world’s best Celtic artists make a foray into the Liverpool Irish Festival. Bringing you the best musical experiences from around the globe, this insurgency links the Festival of the rich Celtic communities that exist across the whole of Western Europe, and way beyond.

For the first ever Raiding Party we start relatively close to home: this is a unique opportunity to catch the standard bearers of Scottish and Welsh music in one compelling concert. Breabach have accomplished much in their short career including two highly acclaimed albums and nominations as best band in both the Scottish Traditional Music Awards and Radio 2 Folk Awards. Calan have taken Welsh traditional music and performed the musical equivalent of CPR! They have represented the hopes of a nation with life-affirming performances at Festival Interceltique Lorient and WOMEX.



Irish film at FACT - Monday 24th – Friday 28th October

Cork Film Festival Presents … Monday 24th – Tuesday 25th October,  630pm, Tickets £6 - Box Office  0871 902 5737

Cork Film Festival is proud to present, two programmes representing some of the best, most creative short films made in Ireland.

Irish filmmakers have, in recent years, found success on the world stage; with several nominations in the short film category at the Academy Awards. This success, particularly welcome in otherwise difficult times, has seen an upsurge in filmmaking activity. Each year Cork Film Festival presents 50 new Irish short films in competition, from almost 250 submitted entries.

The films screened at Liverpool Irish Festival are chosen to represent the wide variety of films being made in Ireland today, including documentaries, fiction, experimental, narrative and animation. While some of the films have tasted international success ; we also include some surprises, some oddities, and films that those of you curious about Ireland may find of particular interest.

On both evenings, filmmakers will be present to introduce their films.

Irish Film – The Informer/ The Judas Kiss – Betrayal in Ireland Wednesday 26th October, 630pm, Tickets £6 - Box Office  0871 902 5737

The Judas Kiss – Betrayal in Ireland

A short film series presented and introduced by Dr Gerry Smyth, Reader in Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University.

The Informer (John Ford, 1935; US. 12a. 91 mins)

John Ford’s The Informer (1935) is based on the controversial novel published by Liam O’Flaherty in 1925. Set in the aftermath of the political upheavals in Ireland in the early twentieth century, it tells the story of a disaffected member of the IRA who betrays one of his former comrades for a bounty of £20. The film won four Academy Awards, including the first Ford’s four gongs for Best Director.

Irish Film – Ulysses/ The Judas Kiss – Betrayal in Ireland Thursday 27th October, 6pm, Tickets £6 - Box Office  0871 902 5737

The Judas Kiss – Betrayal in Ireland

A short film series presented and introduced by Dr Gerry Smyth, Reader in Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University.

Ulysses (Joseph Strick, UK /USA 1967. 15 cert. 132 mins)

Independent American film-maker Joseph Strick attempted what many people consider to be the impossible with this adaptation of James Joyce’s infamous novel Ulysses, first published in 1922.

Set in Dublin over the course of a single day (June 16th 1904), Ulysses tells the interlocking stories of three principal characters: the young teacher and would-be writer Stephen Dedalus, the middle-aged advertising canvasser Leopold Bloom, and the latter’s wife Molly. Betrayal – personal and political – stalks them throughout the day; and yet Joyce’s vision of modern life remains essentially comic and optimistic.

Irish Film – Pavee Lackeen/ The Judas Kiss – Betrayal in Ireland Friday 28th October, 630pm, Tickets £6 - Box Office  0871 902 5737

The Judas Kiss – Betrayal in Ireland

A short film series presented and introduced by Dr Gerry Smyth, Reader in Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University

Pavee Lackeen – The Traveller Girl (Perry Ogden, Ire 2005; 15 cert. 88 mins)

Pavee Lackeen tells the story of ten-year-old Winnie, a traveller girl living with her family in a caravan near the Dublin docks. The film is shot in a deliberately documentary style, using video footage, real locations and non-actors. Beaten and betrayed, Winnie becomes a defiant symbol of those denied access to the Irish economic miracle.

KAN at Sefton Park Palm House Sunday 30th October, Doors 8pm, Tickets £10 - www.liverpoolphil.com

The Festival ends with Brian Finnegan and Aiden O’Rourke’s superb band.  Brian Finnegan (flutes and whistles) and Aidan O’Rourke (violin), front men with two of the most revered bands ever to have thrilled the folk scene, BBC Award winning Flook and Lau, join forces with Ian Stephenson on guitar and Jim Goodwin on drums to create an enthralling and beautiful new sound. Brian and Aidan are an irresistible partnership, both men with a style that is fiercely unique; Brian’s grounded in the Irish tradition, Aidan’s in both the Irish and Scottish, both highly accomplished improvisers and celebrated composers with a brace of solo CDs each, and neither afraid to take risks and explore new sonic frontiers – so be prepared for an evening of musical fireworks in the glorious setting of The Palm House.

 “Terrifically tight… intensely lyrical… heavyweight rhythmic attack” – The Scotsman

 Liverpool Irish Festival Events October 14th – 30th October

 DATE TIME EVENT VENUE GENRE

Fri 14 6.30pm Barbaric Genius FACT   Film

Fri 14 9pm Traditional Music Sessions Peter Kavanagh’s Music

Sat 15 11am Comings and Goings Albert Dock Event

Sat 15 2pm Irish Heritage Walking Tours Scotland Road Heritage

Sat 15 7pm Damien Dempsey + Amsterdam O2 Academy 2 Music

Sun 16 11am Comings and Goings Albert Dock Event

Sun 16 2pm Irish Heritage Walking Tours Scotland Road Heritage

Sun 16 7.30pm Damien O’Kane Sefton Park Palm House Music

Mon 17 9pm Traditional Music Sessions The Edinburgh Music

Tues 18 8pm Beckett: First Love Unity Theatre Theatre

Tues 18 10pm John McSherry Trio Rodewald Suite Music

Wed 19 6pm A Radical Legacy: The Rendall Building Talk

Wed 19 8pm Beckett: The End Unity Theatre Theatre

Thurs 20 7.30pm The Speech Project Capstone Theatre Music

Fri 21 7.30 pm The Irish Sea Sessions 2011 Philharmonic Hall Music

Sat 22 10am Discovering the Liverpool Irish The Bluecoat Heritage

Sat 22 2pm Irish Heritage Walking Tour North City Centre Heritage

Sat 22 7.30pm The Fifth Province St Michael’s Irish Centre Literature

Sun 23 2pm Irish Heritage Walking Tour South City Centre Heritage

Sun 23 3pm Traditional Irish Dinner St Michael’s Irish Centre Event

Sun 23 7.30pm The Raiding Party St George’s Hall Music

Mon 24 6.30pm Cork Film Festival FACT Film

Mon 24 9pm Traditional Music Sessions The Edinburgh Music

Tues 25 6.30pm Cork Film Festival FACT Film

Wed 26 6.30pm The Informer FACT Film

Wed 26 8pm Mellowtone LEAF, Bold St Music

Wed 26 8.30pm St Michaels Supper Ceili St Michaels Irish Centre Dance

Thurs 27 6pm Ulysses FACT Film

Thurs 27 7.30pm The Woody Guthrie Folk Club Ship & Mitre Music

Thurs 27 8pm Festival Club Upstairs at Flanagans Apple Event

Fri 28 6.30pm Pavee Lackeen FACT Film

Fri 28 8pm Liverpool Acoustic Live! The View Two Gallery Music

Fri 28 9pm Traditional Music Sessions St Michael’s Irish Centre Music

Sat 29 10am Sean Osaolain, The Bell, University of Liverpool

a study of Irish identity Continuing Education Talk

Sat 29 2 pm Irish Heritage Walking Tours Scotland Road Heritage

Sat 29 8pm The Brother The Fly in the Loaf Theatre

Sat 29 10pm Traditional Music Sessions Peter Kavanagh’s Music

Sun 30 2pm Irish Heritage Coach Tour St Michael’s Irish Centre Theatre

Sun 30 2.30pm Young Peoples Concert Sefton Park Palm House Music

Sun 30 4pm Family Ceili Sefton Park Palm House Dance

Sun 30 8pm KAN Sefton Park Palm House Music

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Sound of Guns announce UK tour

Liverpool's own,Sound Of Guns, are pleased to announce a UK tour in Oct 2011. The band finished recording their second album with producer Dave Eringa over the summer and will be playing some of those new tracks on the tour.

Pre-sale tickets were made available exclusively to mailing list subscribers last week, tickets are now on general sale. Click here to visit the live page for dates and venues

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House of Suarez presents the Death By Glitter Vogue Ball

ALL THAT GLITTERS iS NOT GOLD... IT’S VOGUE

HOUSE OF SUAREZ RETURNS WITH THE DEATH BY GLITTER VOGUE BALL

Following the massive success of the Justice Vogue Ball in 2010, Renowned Dance Company House of Suarez return with the ‘Death By Glitter Vogue Ball’, which will stomp into the Black-E, Great George St, Liverpool on Saturday 1 October. 

For one night only club culture meets high art in a dazzling battle for supremacy on the Runway. If you thought Harry Potter and Lord Voldermort had the ultimate fight to the death, you were wrong. This is the fiercest fight that you’ll see in 2011 and it’ll be the most magical one of them all.

Hosted by the one and only Rikki Beadle Blair (Actor, Director, musician and Gay Rights Ambassador), the Death by Glitter Vogue Ball promises a feast to the eyes and the senses, glitter is the one thing on this menu, so get ready to splurge.

Filled with seriously sexy human specimens, bizarre creatures, lady-boys and everything else in-between when the Vogue Ball rocks up to put the bass back in your walk in what promises to be Liverpool’s most glittering event of 2011.

A dance form popular in the 1970s and 80s, Vogueing began in the New York gay scene as a non-aggressive battle between two feuding individuals or group (houses) who chose to use dance instead of violence to settle differences. Vogueing often imitated the perfect lines and flexibility of model poses seen in fashion magazine such as Vogue, from which the dance got its name. No touching was allowed during vogue challenges, even though dancers would often become intertwined in each other’s extended arms, legs and hand moves. The Voguer with the best dance moves was declared the winner of the battle. There were different styles of the vogue, including pantomimes or moves imitating the challenger.

The Death By Glitter Vogue Ball will showcase this stunning form of dance, which is now synonymous with Madonna’s massive 1990s hit ‘Vogue’. Several Vogueing Houses from across the country will compete to win cash prizes and dance supremacy in front of a distinguished panel of Judges.  This year’s categories include Bizare, Solos, Boy/Femme Realness, Club Freak, Erotica and Choreography in addition to the battle for Best House. This title is given to the House that shows full involvement and embraces most of the categories, if not all of them.

The evening will begin with a dazzling performance from Artistic Director of House of Suarez, Darren Suarez who will create his sparkle-tastic new dance piece Death by Glitter with the other members of the House of Suarez. Following this, the competition will get underway.

Those in attendance are asked to grab their glitterfied Basques, masks and panty hose to come dressed and ready to sparkle. This is the one event of the year were boys and girls can dress as outrageously and be flamboyant as they dare! Take inspiration from the glitter and ensure that your attire will dazzle the crowd, make sure you aren't outshone on the Runway.

Darren Suarez, Artistic Director of House of Suarez said ‘We want to see people from all walks of life and every scene taking part at the Vogue Ball. We want to see you dressed to impress in your glitziest outfit and ready to party. We want to create an environment that the local LGB&T Community is proud of and feel that they can express themselves at in a similar way that they can at a Pride event. It’s going to be an incredible evening and there are dozens of Divas already rehearsing to make sure that they put on a stunning show. You’re going to need sunglasses to cope with all of the sparkle. It’s definitely going to be a night to remember’

For a short video introduction to Darren Suarez, Vogueing and the Vogue Ball, check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vBWQGY2cU4

The Death by Glitter Vogue Ball will be bigger, better, camper and more glittering than anything which has gone before. Prepare to tear up the runway in the most glitter-tastic event of 2011.

Don’t just stand there let’s get to it strike a pose there’s nothing to it...

VOGUE

PERFORMANCE DETAILS

The “Runway” Death by Glitter Vogue Ball

The Black –E, Great George St (nr China Town), Liverpool

Saturday 1^st October 2010,

Doors Open at 7.30pm,

Tickets: £15*

How to Book:  Go online to www.houseofsuarez.co.uk or book in person at:  

(In person bookings are subject to a fee)

THIS IS STRICTLY AN OVER 18s EVENT ONLY

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