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JAMIE BOWMAN: Kraftwerk’s London shows had me dreaming of the perfect band Feb 14 2013

MY FIRST-EVER trip to Glasgow this weekend gave me the chance to indulge in some Scottish-centric spotifying soundtracks.Read

CLASSICAL REVIEW: The RLPO in Petrenko’s Shostakovich, Philharmonic Hall Feb 14 2013

WITH musical budgets under pressure, joint commissions are becoming commonplace. And so Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Cello Concerto saw the light of day, this time receiving its UK premiere in Liverpool.Read

CLASSICAL COLUMN: Valentine’s Classics at the Philharmonic Hall Feb 14 2013

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PREVIEW: Roll up, roll up for Moscow circus in Southport Feb 14 2013

THE Moscow State Circus arrives in Southport this month with a new production.Read

Creating a dynamic live event is order of the day for Sir John Mandeville Feb 14 2013

SIR John Mandeville may be Liverpool born and bred but they are influenced by rock heavyweights ranging from Free to Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin to Deep Purple and Crosby Stills and Nash.Read

INTERVIEW: Photographer Dan Kenyon on the new Everyman Theatre’s portrait wall Feb 07 2013

More than 100 local people will become part of the new Everyman Theatre’s portrait wall. Laura Davis meets the photographer behind their picturesRead

Balthazar - We’d love to play with Ringo and the RLPO Feb 07 2013

Jade Wright meets hot new Belgian band BalthazarRead

THEATRE INTERVIEW: Sir Cameron Mackintosh on The Phantom of the Opera at the Liverpool Empire Feb 07 2013

A successful musical starts with a great story, Phantom of the Opera producer Sir Cameron Mackintosh tells Laura DavisRead

JAMIE BOWMAN: Waiting around 20 years for a new album is nothinhg to us indie fans Feb 07 2013

WHAT it says about my character I’m not sure, but many of my favourite hobbies and pastimes seem to involve an inordinate amount of patience.Read

POP REVIEW: The Heritage Blues Orchestra, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall Feb 07 2013

AS SOMEONE born in the Thames Delta and brought up by a blues loving daddy, I’ve always regretted the fact I’ll never get to see so many of those great names of black American music.Read

REVIEW: Roger McGough’s As Far as I Know, Liverpool Playhouse Feb 07 2013

THE personable poet in the red trainers turned 75 last year and his thoughts have turned to age. “Not for me a young man’s death” he recites, contradicting the early poem Let Me Die a Youngman’s Death written in Liverpool’s Picton Library shortly after the death of his father.Read

CLASSICAL REVIEW: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber by Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonic Hall Feb 07 2013

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DANCE REVIEW: Russian State Ballet presents La Fille Mal Gardee, Liverpool Empire Feb 07 2013

YOU have to admire the stamina of the Russian State Ballet of Siberia. Halfway through a British tour, they came to Liverpool to perform three different ballets over three days.Read

POP REVIEW: Donny and Marie Osmond, Echo Arena Feb 07 2013

IT’S a showbusiness marriage made in heaven: high octane American entertain- ers (one a winsome former 1970s’ teen idol) meet thousands of near-hysterical post-menopausal Merseyside women.Read

Laura Davis: Does musical theatre make me suffer from Stockholm syndrome? Feb 07 2013

WHEN it comes to musical theatre, my usual feminist good sense flies out the window with the smoke from my smouldering bras.Read

TV COLUMN: David Higgerson on this week's television Feb 07 2013

Every now and again, we don’t mind suspending our sense of reality. When the plane fell out of the sky in Emmerdale for example – thus beginning its shift from plodding rural soap to glamour-and-murder-in-wellies-daily-diet which continues today – or, more recently, when the tram fell into Coronation Street, the high drama is rare enough to be exciting.Read

JAMIE BOWMAN: The Beyonce miming controversy is nothing new in pop music Feb 01 2013

ALTHOUGH as political scandals go it’s not quite up there with Watergate or even John Gummer feeding his kids burgers, the furore over whether generously proportioned R’n’B hitmaker Beyonce mimed her way through the Star Spangled Banner has given Barack Obama the first presidential crisis of his second term.Read

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