CONFESSIONS OF A MISERABLE TW*T

WE’VE won a cup. I’m happy. Genuinely, I am. It’s good for fans. It’s good for the club. It’s good for Dirk Kuyt and it’s good for Kenny Dalglish. Like I say, happy. But some things about Sunday’s final are still gnawing away...

GET YER BANNERS OUT

With London calling for our first final in too long, TAW thought it was an ideal chance to showcase some of the banners that have been made up ready for our first trip to Wembley as well as some from our recent history from around the globe as well as a few old...

SEMINAL FILMS: TAXI DRIVER

by Karl Coppack ‘Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, cars, sidewalks, stores. Everywhere. There’s no escape. I’m God’s lonely man’ – Travis Bickle 1976 saw the longest drought in decades, a ladybird invasion and the peak of the...

STATEMENT FROM THE HILLSBOROUGH JUSTICE CAMPAIGN

This is a message from the Hillsborough Justice Campaign. Following consultation with Cardiff fans, the Metropolitan Police and Wembley, we are pleased to issue the following advice in regards to our ‘Don’t Buy The Sun’ posters. There will be 25,000...

Gig Of The Week: Punk & Ska Benefit Gig at Basement 20

IF all your mates are off to London this weekend and you’re stuck in Liverpool, you’re probably starting to feel sorry for yourself round about now. Worst yet you might even be a Blue. So let me try and cheer you up by letting you know there is loads of brilliant...

A Scouse actor walks into an audition…

“LET me tell you a little bit about the role”. Said the German director in the presence of myself and the Italian/American producers.  “He is an English aristocrat, goes by the name of Lord Frederick Langham. He lives in a stately home with 27 bedrooms, fourteen and a...

What Liverpool means to me…

THE 12 or 13, window seat, strange pattern, stranger feel, wet floor, thinking about Tumbles toy shop. Bubble bus stops, reading graffiti swear words, and City Pets, straight in, glowing fish tanks, strange smells, afraid of the Piranha, asking for a tortoise, mum...

ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN: AFTER THINGS THAT NEVER MATTER

BY NEIL SCOTT “It’s not for glory.  It’s not for honour. Just something someone said.”    [Turquoise Days – Echo and the Bunnymen] AS manifestos go, it’s near perfect. It speaks of mystery, of unease, of ambition thwarted. It hints at a nagging sense of dislocation,...

Shorty Awards: Vote for The Redmen TV

INDEPENDENT and uncensored, it’s fair to say the The Redmen TV isn’t quite the same as the official Liverpool FC TV channel but its popularity is growing as more and more Reds get on its irreverent and honest style of programming. Paul Machin and Chris Pajak are the...