I’VE got good memories of club nights at Revolution, starting in the late 90s going out in my school trousers and shoes and trying to impress girls with sophisticated chat-up lines such as: “Fancy a flavoured vodka, girl?” I’d like to think...
IS it really that time of year already? It only feels like last week when our Neil was presenting Baltic Fleet with the very fetching GIT Award 2013. This year’s 12 shortlisted acts has been announced this week, all based in or connected to the Merseyside music...
JEROME Champagne will be anchoring the football segment of the seventh Liverpool Sound City conference this May joining a bill that already includes football luminaries such as former Chief Executive of The Premier League and former CEO of Liverpool Football Club Rick...
by DAVID SEGAR AS well as being a quite dreadful song from Rihanna (who isn’t an Irish airline apparently, I Googled it), Please Don’t Stop the Music is the title of a romantic novel from the pen of Jane Lovering. According to the reviews on Amazon (well...
THIS 2013/14 variation of Liverpool FC seems to have attained the power of humour most surreal. In the days following the wins against Arsenal and Swansea, whenever the manner of those victories flashed across my mind – even upon beautifully random occasions...
TO be honest, I still haven’t got over Stoke away. Stoke was the season. It was 0-0s and defeats only prior to the current insanity. Stoke is Jon Walters, long throw-ins, getting smacked all over the park, always cold and that nervous walk back to the car across...
NEIL Atkinson was joined in the studio by Rob Gutmann, Sean Rogers and James Sutton as they revel in the afterglow of the brilliant 3-0 win at St Mary’s, and yet another step towards the League title. Get issue 7 of TAW’s monthly digital mag free...
BROCKLE (Neil’s girlfriend – Ed): “Your articles are horrible.” People seem to like them. Came as a surprise to me, actually. “Sentences without subjects. Subject. Verb. Object. That’s how the English language works.” It’s malleable. And it’s fascinating to make...
SCOUSERS love tracksuits, with every period in the city’s recent history defined by a variation on this most misunderstood of garments. Here, TONY TEASDALE picks some of his favourites from down the years… The two-stripe PE job (1974-80) In the old days, before the...
FOOTIE players at the top level carrying a bit of timber are as rare a sight these days as semi-flared cords on The Kop. Many would argue both developments are no bad thing. But as a wearer of said cords back in the day (so?) – and a devout fan of the often gloriously...