Liverpool Daily Post - Tag - music

JAMIE BOWMAN: The indie disco is dead, long live the indie disco

Liverpool Daily Post — Wed, 02 May 2012 23:00:00 GMT

FOR those of us of a certain age, the news that Liverpool’s best indie disco, Liquidation, had spun its last copy of The Stone Roses’ She Bangs The Drum provoked a Proustian rush up and down the country.

JAMIE BOWMAN: Let’s ignore the musical rivalry between Liverpool and Manchester

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 02:00:00 GMT

WHISPER it but there are a probably quite a few envious glances being sent down the M62 in the direction of our Mancunian cousins at the moment.

JAMIE BOWMAN: Thank god for mysterious music stars like The La’s Lee Mavers

Liverpool Daily Post — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:00:00 GMT

PEOPLE often ask me how I ended up living in Liverpool. The boring answer would be that I didn’t get the right grades to get into Manchester University but the more romantic side of me always says it was “because of the music”.

PREVIEW: Rainy Days and Mondays – The Carpenter Story at Southport Theatre

Liverpool Daily Post — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:00:00 GMT

WHEN Claire Furley was growing up in Southend, she’d often borrow her parents’ Carpenters cassette tapes and sing alone in her bedroom.

INTERVIEW: The Libertines’ Gary Powell on the band’s documentary, screening at the O2 Academy Liverpool

Liverpool Daily Post — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:00:00 GMT

The Libertines’s new documentary will undo misconceptions about the band, drummer Gary Powell tells Laura Davis

Jamie Bowman: April is a big month for independent record shops

Liverpool Daily Post — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:00:00 GMT

IT SEEMS a bit indulgent to quote Nick Hornby’s novel High Fidelity for a second week in a row but has any other author summed up the exquisite detail of independent record shops better than he?

Jamie Bowman: The term “world music” groups everything into “us” and “them”

Liverpool Daily Post — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:00:00 GMT

IN NICK HORNBY’s peerless novel about male musical fandom, High Fidelity, everyman hero Rob’s nemesis is Ian – a man whose dungarees and terrible cooking smells summed up his love for “African, Latin, Bulgarian, whatever world music fad was trendy that week.”

SAM WALKER: Why Twitter is helping boy bands get big in America

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT

SO A few days ago I was asked to do something which I thought, just for a minute may actually impress my children: appear on BBC One’s children’s current affairs show Newsround. (As it was, the four-year-old just wanted to watch Octonauts and the little one just cried; but, hey-ho!).

Jamie Bowman: Nostalgia just aint what it used to be

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:00:00 GMT

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

MUSIC REVIEW: The X Factor Live at the Echo Arena

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT

THE image of the four girls from Little Mix hung suspended on 40ft wires was manna from heaven for those who would like to paint Simon Cowell as some kind of evil puppet master.