Liverpool is set to host the BBC Radio 6 Music Festival for the first time. This year’s festival - the station's flagship live music event - will take place from March 29-31 at locations across the city. Tickets go on sale this Thursday, February 28 at 10am. Acts who have been signed up to take part in the three-day event include John Hopkins, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Hot Chip, IDLES, Stealing Sheep, Little Simz and Bill Ryder-Jones. The Coral, Julian Cope, Craig Charles and Mer

Liverpool celebrates Global Scouse Day this week with events taking place in a wide range of venues including Sefton Park Palm House. The historic grade II* listed glass landmark will host an evening of free entertainment for revellers of all ages on Thursday, February 28. Live music, local delicacies, arts stalls and entertainment will be on offer from 4-11.30pm. Liverpool artists Marc Kenny, Jade Thunder and Redhouse will take to the Palm House stage where the setlist will

An exhibition first staged at the Houses of Parliament is being shown at Liverpool’s Open Eye Gallery as part of the city’s year of events championing and celebrating the achievements of women. 209 Women was commissioned to mark 100 years of some women achieving the vote and features new photographs of the nation's female MPs – shot exclusively by women photographers. It runs at the Mann Island gallery until April 14. The free exhibition’s subjects include all Merseyside’s wo

Shakespeare appears in one of his own plays in a new adaptation being staged by LIPA students this week. The Bard will be part of the production of Romeo and Juliet which focusses on the young Juliet Capulet’s dark side. The show, which runs at the Paul McCartney Auditorium at LIPA from February 21-23, is being presented by final year dance students in a version of the classic love story inspired by Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 film which starred Leonardo Di Caprio and Claire Danes. I

Sister Sledge with Kathy Sledge will headline a special show on the main stage at this year’s LIMF. They will front a Disco Classical on Sunday, July 21 which will also feature the 35-piece Manchester Camerata who will play a host of reimagined and reinvented disco hits. LIMF 2019 takes place in Sefton Park over the weekend of July 20-21. Last year the event attracted 50,000 festivalgoers to South Liverpool. Disco Classical will close the festival with the help of guest singe

Comedian, actor, writer and presenter Jack Whitehall is going back on the road this autumn with his biggest tour yet – and he’s making a date for Liverpool. The 30-year-old star of Bad Education, Fresh Meat and Decline and Fall will bring his Jack Whitehall: Stood Up show to the M&S Bank Arena on December 13-14. Tickets cost £24.05-£56 and go on sale on Friday, February 22. Whitehall said today: “I couldn’t be more thrilled to be going back out on the road. There’s no feeling

It may have been titled ‘John Lill at 75’ but the latest in the RLPO’s season of concerts turned out to be a joyful Saturday evening musical celebration that spanned the generations. And not simply because veteran virtuoso Lill plays with same the vigour and dexterity he did at 25. But also because the Philharmonic Hall was full of real, fresh-faced youthfulness – both on stage where the Phil’s youth and children’s choirs joined forces for the premiere of Gary Carpenter’s Gho

Wirral will launch its Borough of Culture year with a return for the stunning and atmospheric Animated Square. Award-winning company Illuminos will stage the event in Hamilton Square on Saturday, March 23 when the grade II* listed Birkenhead Town Hall will become a canvas for a spectacular light and sound projection. The projection, which drew thousands to see it when it was first staged during the Three Festivals Tall Ships Regatta last May, reflects Birkenhead’s people, pla

Jason Manford is set to star in a new production of the Tony Award-winning Curtains which comes to the Liverpool Empire next week. The Salford comedian and actor will play detective Frank Cioffi in the Kander and Ebb musical murder mystery. The show – with a book by Rupert Holmes – is set in Boston’s Colonial Theatre in 1959 and tells the story of Jessica Cranshaw, faded film star and leading lady in the new Broadway-bound musical Robbin’ Hood, who has been murdered on stage

Audience members will be invited to take to the stage and sing their hearts out at the Everyman next week. Us Against Whatever, running at the Hope Street theatre from March 20-23, will include plenty of what’s being billed as ‘riotous karaoke’. And Hull-based theatre company Middle Child, which is staging the production in association with the Everyman and Playhouse and Hull Truck, wants to encourage audience participation. Artistic director Paul Smith explains: “Us Against