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Artist Fiona Banner. Picture Mischa Haller

INTERVIEW: YBA Fiona Banner on judging the John Moores Painting Prize May 17 2012

She’s used to shocking the art world with her ‘stripteases in words’ but now it’s Fiona Banner’s turn to make the judgements. The Wirral-born artist talks exclusively to Laura Davis.Read

Rebecca Taylor and Charles Watson of Slow Club

FESTIVAL PREVIEW: Liverpool Sound City – interview with Slow Club May 17 2012

Liverpool’s Sound City festival, which launches today, is much more than just a series of concerts, reports Laura Davis.Read

Zombies will invade Liverpool in 2.8 hours Later

PREVIEW: Zombie chase game 2.8 Hours Later comes to Liverpool May 17 2012

LIVERPOOL is being transformed into a post-apocalyptic nightmare in an event being run in partnership with Sound City.Read

Singer, Dionne Warwick

MUSIC INTERVIEW: Dionne Warwick explains how she fell in love with Merseybeat Liverpool May 17 2012

WITH 50 years in the business, more than 60 chart hits and more than 100m record sales, Dionne Warwick is second only to Aretha Franklin as the most charted female vocalist in music history.Read

Girls dancing at the Timepiece club. Image courtesy of the Black-e

INTERVIEW: Poet Levi Tafari remembers The Timepiece night club as FACT hosts an Electric Slide one-off event May 17 2012

Liverpool’s legendary black music club The Timepiece is the inspiration for a one-off dance event, Laura Davis reports.Read

Elvis Costello performing at The Liverpool Empire. Picture David Munn

MUSIC REVIEW: Elvis Costello’s Revolver Tour at the Liverpool Empire May 17 2012

THERE’S a touch of Derren Brown about Elvis Costello’s Revolver Tour, which gets members of the audience to decide which of his four decades of numbers he will perform by rotating a “spectacular spinning songbook”.Read

PREVIEW: Screenadelica at the Liverpool Academy of Arts May 17 2012

DIGITAL downloads may be killing off the humble CD – but music fans still want a physical reminder of all their favourite bands.Read

LAURA DAVIS: Why Merseyrail should step on the comedy train May 17 2012

WILL Merseyrail be inspired by a new collaboration between a British railway network and a certain diminutive comedian?Read

PREVIEW: Martin Creed to give talk and musical performance at Tate Liverpool May 17 2012

TURNER Prize winner Martin Creed is giving a talk on his artistic practice at Tate Liverpool on May 25.Read

REVIEW: Dancing in the Streets, Liverpool Empire May 17 2012

IT’S WIDELY acknowledged that Motown Records played a crucial role both in the racial integration of popular music and the wider civil rights movement that swept across the US in the mid-sixties.Read

PREVIEW: Disney Live! presents Mickey’s Magic Show at the Echo Arena May 17 2012

FAVOURITE Disney characters will join a professional illusionist live on the Echo Arena stage in Disney Live! presents Mickey’s Magic Show this summer.Read

PREVIEW: Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks at The Brindley May 17 2012

FOR millions of British TV viewers, and over 12 years from 1976 to 1988, Saturday at 4pm meant one thing – wrestling.Read

PREVIEW: Jim Cartwright’s Two at St Helens Theatre Royal May 17 2012

JIM CARTWRIGHT’S Two, a comic and touching slice of English life set in a Northern pub in the 1980s, comes to St Helens Theatre Royal tomorrow.Read

THEATRE REVIEW: Mary Shelley at the Liverpool Playhouse May 17 2012

IT’S every father’s worst nightmare – seeing their beloved daughter following a path they don’t approve of and realising it was all their own doing.Read

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne

TV Review: George Osborne vs Keane leaves the chancellor feeling awkward May 10 2012

AS AWKWARD moments go, I thought the TV world would struggle to beat the sight of George Osborne tapping his foot as Keane played out the end of the Andrew Marr Show (BBC 1, Sundays, 9am).Read

Jamie Bowman: Beastie Boy Adam Yauch's death made all the sadder by his passion for life May 10 2012

THE recent death of Adam Yauch, aka MCA of the Beastie Boys, came as a horrible shock to those music fans who like me will always remember the Beasties as a riotous, bratty treat who could lay claim to being the ultimate teenage party band.Read

Singer, Billy Ocean

MUSIC INTERVIEW: Billy Ocean fulfilled two ambitions in Liverpool May 10 2012

Soul legend Billy Ocean tells Jade Wright how he fulfilled two ambitions in LiverpoolRead

The Cartland Institute for Romace Research by Ultimate Holding Company for Tatton Park Biennial 2012

INTERVIEW: Tatton Park Biennial 2012 co-curator Jordan Kaplan May 10 2012

The human desire to fly is the theme of this year’s Tatton Park Biennial, its curator tells Laura DavisRead

Sister Act the Musical, Sister Act's Cynthia Erivo

INTERVIEW: Sister Act’s Cynthia Erivo on Whoopi Goldberg’s famous role at the Liverpool Empire Theatre May 10 2012

Rising star Cynthia Erivo tells Laura Davis how she’s making the Sister Act star role her ownRead

Band, The Fixers

INTERVIEW: Jack Goldstein from Fixers who are playing the Shipping Forecast May 10 2012

Jack Goldstein, the outspoken frontman of unconventional rock band Fixers tells Jade Wright why he refuses to capitalise on his successRead

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