THERE is a game of football on this weekend. You may have heard. But the city of Liverpool beats on and there is plenty going on to distract nerves on Friday or help you celebrate Saturday (and into Sunday) if you find yourself about this wonderful city. Our gig of...
THIS Saturday in the lovely surroundings of Constellations in the Baltic Triangle, Greg Wilson and Kermit Leveridge bring us their touring collaboration Super Weird Happenings. It’s hard to know where to start describing it to be honest. The easy part is that...
The week leading up to Christmas is always great in Liverpool for gigs, with bands having one last hurrah before they start a new year plotting world domination. Its also a time when everyone goes out, with pubs full of once a year drinkers and divvies in antlers. So...
CHRIS MOYLES has never heard of the Raveonettes. Or should I say had never heard of them. A number of years ago he was interviewing a nondescript indie band, lets say The Kaizer Chiefs, who had just been in New York. He asked them if they had seen anyone famous, as...
EP LAUNCH: SATURDAY 31ST MARCH – THE SHIPPING FORECAST IT TAKES a lot to get me inside the walls of The Shipping Forecast, but this show is well worth relaxing an already loose moral code for. It is being used as a double EP launch (which is a gig with a bigger than...
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...
BEING in an un-signed band can be incredibly frustrating at times, with promoters often more interested in how many tickets you can sell for them rather than what type of band you are or whether you are any good or not. Meanwhile there are plenty of venues that seem...
THE LADS from Space kindly came in to join us on Episode 20 of the podcast last week and John Gibbons caught up later with Franny Griffiths from the band to talk a bit more about music, the 90s and the now sold out re-union gig. The Anfield Wrap: So, the O2 Academy on...
THIS week’s gig of the week is actually a tour, or, as Pete Wylie is calling it, “the only tour that matters”. The ‘Justice Tonight’ tour comes off the back of a very successful one-off gig at the Olympia which jointly benefitted the Hillsborough Justice Campaign and...
MISTY’S BIG ADVENTURE’S nationwide tour rolls into The Masque Theatre on Thursday 24th November with support from three bands based or formed in Liverpool. Misty’s Big Adventure are an eight piece delight from Birmingham who seem to have been around for ages (1996 to...
Liverpool FC 2013-2014: My Favourite Season – Part One
The Anfield Wrap contributors relive their favourite seasons throughout Liverpool FC history, telling the tales of the 2013-2014 campaign. John Gibbons hosts Neil Atkinson, Steve Graves and Martin Fitzgerald…
