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Stepping out of the shadows and into the limelight

HE’S spent 28 years touring with the greatest rock legends in the world. Read

Earthlight a family affair for composer

IT’LL be a family celebration for John Harle when he visits Chester this month. A celebration since he’s artist in residence at Chester Summer Music Festival, where he’ll be hard at work performing, giving masterclasses, lecturing and hearing performances of his own music – “an intense engagement,” he says. Read

Children’s exhibition extended for Tall Ships event

THE winning entries of the Rathbones Summer Exhibition are to stay on display in the Port of Liverpool Building until Saturday, to allow visitors to the Tall Ships to pop in and see some of the magnificent works. Read

Ningyo (Japanese Dolls)

Liverpool to launch Japan Day

BRITAIN'S Japanese ambassador His Excellency Shin Ebihara is travelling to Liverpool to launch Japan Day when a mass celebration of his country’s culture is staged at the city’s Mountford Hall on Saturday. Read

Whitesnake playing at Liverpool Summer Pops

MUSIC REVIEW: Whitesnake, Def Leppard and Thunder, Summer Pops, Liverpool

DEF Leppard and Whitesnake stepped out of a musical timewarp to rock 'n’ roll back the years. Read

Chester Mystery Plays

Mystery plays ready to take to the Cathedral stage

OLD traditions meet 21st- century attitudes in the five-yearly Chester Mystery Plays this weekend, your last chance to catch this spectacular pageant. Read

Bill Wyman and his Rhythm Kings, Summer Pops, Liverpool

MUSIC REVIEW: Bill Wyman and his Rhythm Kings, Summer Pops, Liverpool

DR HOOK frontman Dennis Locorriere was a surprise addition to former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings gig at the Arena last night. Read

No Fooling, Alice does disappear down the hole in the first-ever performance in the Williamson Tunnels

ALICE really will be disappearing down a hole in Liverpool this month, with the staging of the first ever theatrical performance in Williamson Tunnels. Read

Key Liverpool Arts events

THEATRE: The history of the “Welsh Streets” will be highlighted over the next few days as part of Dingle Community Theatre’s summer Capital of Culture event. Read

Tap Into Water

The Farm top an all-Scouse Pops bill

AN “ALL-SCOUSE” bill takes over the Summer Pops this week as The Farm take to the stage. Read

Diana Ross, Summer Pops, Liverpool

MUSIC REVIEW: Diana Ross, Summer Pops, Liverpool

SEEING Diana Ross grinning her mile-wide smile, luminous in a froth of tangerine tulle with the opening chords of Where Did Our Love Go thrumming away, was a spine-tingling moment. Read

Edinburgh, here we come, say theatre group youngsters

A LIVERPOOL youth training and production company is raising cash to take its latest production to the Edinburgh Festival next month. Read

Key Liverpool Arts Events

ART: New Ends, Old Beginnings looks at the varied and complex cultures across the cities of the Arab region. Read

Taking a trip back to a time of peace and free love

Taking a trip back to a time of peace and free love

VICKY Anderson travels back to the Sixties with a new production at the Royal Court Theatre Read

David Coverdale, Whitesnake frontman

David Coverdale: You have to move with the times

THE Whitesnake frontman returns to the city to perform at the Pops with fellow rockers Def Leppard and Thunder. Emma Johnson reports. Read

Musicians give their Blessing to a punky, aggressive sound

THE Blessing have been around for the best part of a decade, but it’s only in the last few years they’ve found the sound to really define them, and the four members have dedicated themselves to the band full- time. Read

Frank Cottrell Boyce, award winning screenwriter and novelist

Telling tales of our great city

THIS is a city of stories – of a man with fire in his eyes leaping over warehouses, of waifs barefoot on cobbled streets, of the twin boys separated at birth who died on the same day. Read

Crowded House, Summer Pops, Liverpool

MUSIC REVIEW: Crowded House, Summer Pops, Liverpool

THE Kiwis certainly brought the weather with them last night. Read

Blues Brothers outside the Liverpool Empire

It’s name game for real Blues Brothers

IF YOU thought you knew who Jake and Elwood Blues were, think again. The pair, as immortalised in the 1980 classic The Blues Brothers are alive and well – and Liverpool born and bred. Read

Fort basement to host Sunday blues sessions

MERSEYSIDE blues duo Blue C are hosting a series of second-Sunday-in-the-month sessions at the "unusual but superb" venue of Fort Perch Rock, at New Brighton. Read

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