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Musician, Joe Bonamassa

MUSIC INTERVIEW: Blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa on why he’s looking forward to seeing historic Liverpool Mar 08 2012

JOE Bonamassa is the all American guitar hero and the new king of blues, but he’s also a huge anglophile who likes nothing more than a cup of Earl Grey tea.Read

Allesandro Taverna, pianist

CLASSICAL REVIEW: Christian Lindberg’s enthusiasm adds a spark to a mixed performance with RLPO Mar 08 2012

IT REALLY was service with a smile from Christian Lindberg, Swedish trombone virtuoso turned conductor, performing with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.Read

MUSIC COLUMN: Every day seems to bring a new Adele statistic Mar 08 2012

21 has now sold more copies than Michael Jackson’s Bad. Adele’s second album is the eighth biggest seller in UK history. Adele has spent more weeks at number one in the UK than both Queen and Oasis did for their entire careers. And so they go on. . .Read

PREVIEW: Artist and Tudor re-enactor Sigrid Holmwood at the Walker Art Gallery Mar 08 2012

ARTIST and Tudor re-enactor Sigrid Holmwood will be explaining the process of making her own pigments using traditional methods and materials at the Walker Art Gallery this weekend.Read

THEATRE REVIEW: Optimism at The Unity Mar 08 2012

OPTIMISM explores deep messages about self-worth and desire through mad cap sketches which border on the unfathomable. Two stories form the spine of this Uncanny Theatre production. The first is one woman’s desire to become a lamb to win a stranger’s heart.Read

THEATRE PREVIEW: The Port Sunlight Players present Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days at the Gladstone Theatre Mar 08 2012

THE Port Sunlight Players will present a musical version of Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days at the Gladstone Theatre next week.Read

PREVIEW: Jamaican reggae star Yellowman first signing for Africa Oyé Mar 08 2012

JAMAICAN reggae star Yellowman is one of the first acts to be signed up for this year’s Africa Oyé festival.Read

MUSIC PREVIEW: Sense of Sound’s Voices Festival at The Black-E and The Bluecoat Mar 08 2012

A THREE-day celebration of a capella singing will take place in Liverpool later this month.Read

EXHIBITION REVIEW: Topophobia at The Bluecoat Mar 08 2012

IT’S impossible to adequately express the disconcerting feeling that the experience of being in some places generates. One minute it’s there and the next it’s not, when a human voice jolts you out of your trance or you move physically away.Read

PREVIEW: Self-portraits of 50 local on display at the Port of Liverpool Building Mar 08 2012

SELF-portraits of 50 local Women will go on display at the Port of Liverpool Building today.Read

What’s on in Liverpool: Thursday March 8 to Wednesday March 14, 2012 Mar 08 2012

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Film reviews: The Raven, John Carter, Bel Ami Mar 08 2012

THE bloodthirsty writings of Edgar Allan Poe give birth to a deranged serial killer in James McTeigue’s hack-and-slash thriller set on the streets of 19th century Baltimore.Read

Cream nightclub,DJ, Paul Oakenfold

MUSIC INTERVIEW: Paul Oakenfold - I know people want to hear all the old classics Mar 02 2012

Ahead of his return to Cream this weekend, Emma Johnson catches up with legendary DJ Paul OakenfoldRead

Upstairs Downstairs

TV Review: Upstairs Downstairs Mar 02 2012

That's what I take away from Upstairs Downstairs (BBC 1, 9pm Sundays), anyway. Two weeks in and this updated version of a BBC classic appears to be turning into a 1930s version of Heartbeat, only set in London. And without so much as a sniff of a soap castaway in a lead role.Read

Laura Davis: Why do we need to have a sense of an ending? Mar 01 2012

WIRRAL author Caroline Smailes has come under fire for her latest novel and it’s not even out yet.Read

Jamie Bowman: Nostalgia just aint what it used to be Mar 01 2012

THIS WEEK, as the character from The Fast Show might say, I have mostly been listening to Brit Pop.Read

INTERVIEW: Horrible Histories illustrator Martin Brown ahead of Vile Victorians and Terrible Tudors visiting the Liverpool Empire Theatre Mar 01 2012

The worldwide success of the Horrible Histories books is humbling to witness, illustrator Martin Brown tells Laura DavisRead

Go-between (noaidi), Inari (2002) by Marja Helander

INTERVIEW: Liverpool-based artist Emily Speed on her new work for The Bluecoat’s Topophobia exhibition Mar 01 2012

The Bluecoat’s new exhibition asks why certain places can make us feel afraid, reveals Laura DavisRead

Anya (Andrea Tweedale) pleads for her life in the opera Anya 17

INTERVIEW: Sex-trafficking opera Anya17 will receive its world premiere in Liverpool Mar 01 2012

The slavery of young women and girls may be an unusual subject for an opera but the creators of Anya17 have a political point to make Glyn Mon Hughes discoversRead

EXHIBITION REVIEW: Charline Von Heyl – now or Else at Tate Liverpool Mar 01 2012

IF YOU wandered into German artist Charline von Heyl’s first major UK solo show without reading her name on the door you might mistake it for a group exhibition.Read

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