Upcoming Shows at Eric’s, Mathew Street, Liverpool

Upcoming Shows at Eric’s Liverpool

Shows at Eric’s, Mathew Street, Liverpool

Tickets available from www.ericslive.com , www.ticketmaster.co.uk or Eric’s box office a 0151-236 9994 

After 20 years and 15 million record sales, founder member of  The Housemartins and The Beautiful South, Dave Hemingway brings  The (still beautiful) South to Eric’s on Friday 2 December. Performing hits such as Song For Whoever, Perfect Ten, Rotterdam, Don't Marry Her, You Keep It All In and Old Red Eyes Is Back. (£20)

Saturday 3 December plays host to Liverpool five piece Bird. Combining haunting and poetic lyrics with melodic and eerie, sweeping guitar riffs, Bird put themselves under the genre of ‘atmospheric folk’ and atmospheric is definitely the word. Bird’s universe is magical and will leave you with hairs standing up on the back of your neck. (£6)

Northern Soul Night, Big City Soul launches on Friday 9 December and features guest DJ Brian Rae who has clocked up over 45 years behind his turn table. The night will become a monthly event in 2012 (£5)

To bring down the curtain on one of his busiest years to date, Liverpool songwriting legend and former Icicle Works frontman Ian McNabb returns to the site of his former school for two special concerts at the Capstone Theatre, Liverpool on Friday 9 and Saturday 10 December 2011 priced £15.   A special aftershow billed as 'Ian McNabb and Friends Christmas Show' will take place on Saturday 10 December at Eric’s on Mathew Street. Entry is free to ticket holders from the Friday and Saturday theatre shows or £5 on door for non ticket holders. From 10 pm till 2 am.

Liverpool legends The Real People are joined by The Violent Playground and Familiar Looking Strangers  on Friday 16 December. "The Realies" as they are known to their fans, formed in 1987 and over the following four years were as pivotal as The La's and The Stone Roses in reinventing rock & roll, after the synth-led new wave music which had dominated the 80s.

There can be no doubt that the Oasis sound borrowed heavily from The Real People and given the circumstances it's obvious why one band, fresh from the other end of the M62, untainted by having been dropped and containing one Liam Gallagher would steal more than the Griffiths' thunder. (£10)

Liverpool cult band of the 1990’s, Cat Scratch Fever, haven’t played a hometown show for almost 15 years. So once again Dr Hank B Death… a frock coated , Colt Navy totin’ guitar player, ripping Country and Eastern apart, with his faithful pals Tox Jameson and Two-Gun Tennessee Slim will play a special one off show on Thursday 15 December. (£5)

Tuesday 27 December sees the turn of Liverpool band 10 Reasons to Live, fronted by singer Ste McNally who shot to fame as lead singer of the platinum selling group BBMak selling over 3 million records worldwide. The band have also toured the  UK with Bryan Adams. (£5)

Looking ahead to the new year, Tuesday 21 February, Beth Jeans Houghton comes to Liverpool in support of her forthcoming new album, Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose, due for release next February on Mute. It introduces one of the most self-assured new artists of the year, a pop polymath whose blend of psychedelia, glam rock and chain gang folk is quite unlike anything else you’re likely to hear in 2012. Like her utterly unique stage outfits, it’s made from disparate individual elements that wouldn’t work on paper, but sing out like a holy choir in the execution. (£9)

Two-tone comes to Eric’s in the form of The Selecter featuring Pauline Black & Gaps Hendrickson on Saturday 31 March . The Selecter led the ska revival movement, along with 2-tone labelmates, The Specials and Madness.

Whilst comedian Richard Herring brings his "What is Love, Anyway?" show to the club on Sunday  March 25. (£15)

More shows to be announced..

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The (still beautiful) South @ Eric's Liverpool Friday 2 December

The (still beautiful) South at Eric's Liverpool Friday 2 December

The South @ Eric's, Mathew Street, Liverpool on Friday 2 December with support from 54321's and Dave O'Grady

Tickets available from www.ericslive.com www.ticketmaster.co.uk or Eric's Box Office 0151 236 9994 £20

After 20 years, ten studio albums, five greatest hits compilations, thirty-four chart singles, 15 million record sales worldwide and performing in front of millions of fans, when time was called on The Beautiful South in 2008, not everyone was ready to leave the party. Dave Hemingway and Ali Wheeler, lead singers with the band - along with departed songwriter Paul Heaton – were having too much fun to get out the pipe and slippers, and so The South was formed. Joining the duo were fellow mainstays from the original band: keyboard wizard Damon Butcher and the potent horn section of Gaz Birtles and Tony Robinson that brought so much to the live shows. Armed with a sensational back catalogue of hits such as ‘Song For Whoever’, ‘Perfect Ten’, ‘Rotterdam’, ‘Don't Marry Her’, ‘You Keep It All In’, ‘Old Red Eyes Is Back’ and many others, there is a long way to go on this particular road.

This band has history and pedigree. Dave Hemingway’s musical career stretches back into the Eighties. He became a founder member of The Beautiful South after the demise of The Housemartins, who had enjoyed a sustained purple patch and many hits before calling it a day in 1988. Whilst bassist Norman Cook went on to become superstar DJ Fat Boy Slim, Paul Heaton and Dave Hemingway proceeded to form the new band in December 1988. Right from the off, The Beautiful South seemed to defy the normal logic associated with pop bands, not least for the fact that they stayed together for 20 years.

Over the life of the band, they produced many self-penned hits and had several number one albums – they scored their only number one single with the Dave Hemingway / Briana Corrigan duet ‘A Little Time’. A globally successful band, members of The South have performed these songs in front of hordes of fans from Hull to Houston. They love the material and know what will keep the fans happy.

Now with The South marking the next step in these musicians’ careers, the band are starting to add in exciting new songs to their repertoire. Competition for space in a set-list packed with so many hits is fierce, but the quality of some of the new material is such that the songs have slotted right in – and the fans’ reaction has been amazing.

The South certainly have history. But the future looks bright...

http://www.thesouth.co.uk/

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