Review: Robin Hood.
(Fri 14/05)
Before the legend started robbing the rich and giving to the poor.
Review: Dinosaur Jr @ O2 Academy, Liverpool
(Fri 14/05)
Dinosaur Jr are a monster of a band. The last time something this seminal visited Liverpool was in 2008 and was called La Machine! Despite having two legs less than the robotic spider, Dinosaur Jr are able to exude the s
Liverpool Comedy Festival review: Richard Herring's Hitler Moustache
(Thu 13/05)
What I've always admired in Richard Herring's comedy is his sheer delight in goading the audience as much as he seems to enjoy making them laugh.
Liverpool Comedy Festival Review: How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse
(Tue 11/05)
Ever watched a zombie movie and tutted condescendingly as some idiot gets killed within the first 15 minutes? This is the show for you.
Review: The Pipettes @ Liverpool Academy 2
(Tue 11/05)
The chorus... a notoriously difficult part of a band’s success, done wrong and it sounds like a droning lullaby, a completely obnoxious, pointless set of words, done right and it sounds like The Pipettes.
Review: Liverpool Comedy Festival - Sam Avery The Art of the Scouse Insult
(Mon 10/05)
Avery used his unique hour long show to explore why scousers seek to communicate through the art of berating one another. And it is an art, arguably fairly poetic in its humour.
Rat Pack - packing them in at the Liverpool Empire
(Thu 06/05)
In a superbly slick show The Rat Pack Live is the king of tribute shows, and judging by this performace is destined to keep its crown for a long time yet.
Review: KISS rock Liverpool's Echo arena
(Wed 05/05)
Kiss are a band who do not disappoint. They seemed to relish the fact that they would have to work hard for the noise from the smaller than capacity crowd. The live show, as you would expect (this is KISS afterall), is s
Review: Liverpool Laughterhouse at Lenny's Bar and Smoke Grill
(Sun 02/05)
Compere for the night was character comedian Keith Carter, as his brilliant incarnation amiable Toxteth scally ‘Nige’. Carter impressed me at the Edinburgh comedy festival a couple of years back with a mixed bunch of
Review: World Premiere of Canary at Liverpool Playhouse
(Wed 28/04)
We are invited to judge for ourselves how Tom, young and confused in the 1960s, came to see his life spiral through the decades under a cloud of secrecy and shame, imposed by both society and his own crushing fear of fac
Review: 'A Fistful of Collars' at Royal Court
(Thu 22/04)
A fictional dry cleaners on Wavertree High Street under threat of closure is the scene for coppers, chloroform and chaos in Fred Lawless' latest comedy 'A Fistful of Collars'.
Review: Homer's Odyssey, Liverpool Unity Theatre
(Thu 22/04)
Brilliant enthralling performance of Homer's Odyssey by Ad Infinitum and George Mann, Unity Theatre, Liverpool.
Review: Chapel Club at Korova, Liverpool
(Wed 21/04)
Chapel Club are a band that seek to slice the satire that bands have become; they are much more concerned with making something personal and worthwhile than transient and popular.
Review: Blood Brothers - back where it belongs at the Liverpool Empire
(Wed 14/04)
As Blood Brothers celebrates twenty-five years of success as a musical phenomenon, it is back where it belongs, in its home, its heart, the City of Liverpool.
Review: Beating Berlusconi at Unity Theatre
(Sun 11/04)
Five years is a long time in anyone's life but for most Liverpool fans, five years feels like only yesterday.
