Articles...
Mar 17 2008
LIGHTNING-WITTED comic Dara O’Briain said he toyed with calling his new unlabelled tour You Had To Be There, and he couldn’t have been more right....
Mar 1 2008
AN OXFORD professor brought out Christian protesters and an audience of 1,600 to hear his latest attack on religious faith....
Feb 12 2008
KODO, which can simply mean "children of the drum" in Japanese, is a 14-strong troupe of percussionists who like to tour the globe promoting peace and harmony through the medium of making a massive, dramatic noise....
Feb 11 2008
IT’S been a frantic fortnight for seeing divas here on Merseyside. First Barbara Dickson with her slick mix of the traditional and contemporary....
Feb 11 2008
IT WAS a marriage made in heaven – the emotive songs Burt Bacharach and Hal David channelled through Dionne Warwick, whose versatile voice could swing from delicate to powerful with seemingly consummate ease....
Jan 23 2008
SOME 200 singers will take to the Philharmonic Hall stage in Liverpool next month to celebrate pop music of the 1960s and 1970s....
Jan 21 2008
THANK goodness Liverpool audiences seem to have regained their old sense of curiosity....
Jan 18 2008
LEW Baxter talks to one of the legendary exponents of the uilleann pipes – and discovers he’d rather be playing guitar...
Jan 15 2008
FRESH from its success in Liverpool: The Musical, at the Liverpool Echo Arena event where many considered the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic to be the stars of the show, the Phil yesterday announced a new appointment that seems likely to build on the success of its growing popular appeal....
Jan 10 2008
NOBODY can now claim they don’t know Liverpool’s party is well under way....