MUSIC: Scottish middle-of-the-road merchants Travis, play Liverpool tonight, on the back of the release of their new album, Ode To J Smith, today. Carling Academy, Hotham Street, doors 7pm, tickets £18.50 adv. 0905 020 3999.

BIENNIAL: Fact presents the work of several artists under the theme of Made Up, including an awe-inspiring automated creature created by U-Ram Choe, and Ulf Langheinrich's fully immersive, sensory environment in gallery 1. Stranger than Fiction brings together work from Terrence Handscomb, Stella Brennan, and Michael Bell-Smith in gallery 2, and the media lounge is transformed into a Creature Creation Station, where you can create and take away your very own creature. Fact, Wood Street, free, open daily. 0151 7074450.

THEATRE: The Rat Pack – Live in Vegas ups sticks from Nevada to plonk itself down in Merseyside tonight.Southport Theatre, 7.30pm, tickets £14.50 - £19.50. 0870 4000684.

THEATRE: Part four of a trilogy (geddit?), Brendan O’Carroll returns in For the Love of Mrs Brown, which sees his comic creation Agnes Brown get herself back in the saddle with a spot of online dating. Liverpool Empire, tonight, 7.30pm, until October 4. Tickets £13.50 - £22.50. 0844 847 2525