COUCHSURFING

NEW CRAZE FOR INTERNATIONAL SOFA CRASHING

A new craze sweeping the globe is “CouchSurfing”.
The name says it all really; you travel around different countries, staying on peoples’ sofas along the way, but the official mission statement of this non-profit organisation is: “to internationally network people and places, create educational exchanges, raise collective consciousness, spread tolerance, […]

MY FUNNY VALENTINE

SOUND CITY LAUNCH PARTY
Venue: Barfly Acts: The Rascals, The Delta Fiasco, Christian, The Vagabonds, Ezra Bang and Hot Machine, The Klaxons…Cause: Sound City Launch Party…. Sound whatty what thingy?!?! Sound City: the 4 day international music festival, and the soon-to-be word on everyone’s lips. And, if the Barfly’s tantalising Valentines Launch party with its electro […]

I LOVE MY MUM

MOTHER’S DAY GIFT IDEAS FOR THE INSPIRATIONALLY CHALLENGED
Mother’s Day only comes around once a year, and what better way to say ‘thank you’ than to treat your mum like the Queen she is for the day?
If you’re looking for ways to indulge her, you can’t go wrong with traditional gifts such as chocolates or flowers, […]

AND THE WINNER IS…

IN KEEPING WITH THE SEASON, THE LX FASHION AWARDS
From buying the latest trends on a shoe string budget to selecting an outfit that can withstand numerous pints and mixers with coke spilt over it, fashion in uni can be tricky. With the award season in full swing we pick out some of the leaders in […]

LIVERPOOL FASHION WEEK

GET YOUR WAG ON WITH MERSEYSIDE’S FASHION ELITE

Great news for all you fashion divas and glamour pusses out there. Liverpool Fashion Week is going to be huge! Held in the most prestigious venues, displaying the designs of Liverpool’s elite and with over 3000 people expected to attend, Liverpool is taking the city’s fashion scene to […]

GARAGE

TRAGI-COMEDY SET IN RURAL IRISH PETROL STATION

The discreet scent of a dying west-Ireland community pervades Lenny Abrahamson’s Garage. Gentle misfit Josie, played by Pat Shortt, lives out his life in the garage of the title watching the world passing by him, snatching brief cordialities with locals who share a benign lack of interest in Josie’s […]

THERE WILL BE BLOOD

DAY-LEWIS IMPRESSES AS TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY PROSPECTOR
Jack Watson

If there is one film this year that is worth viewing for the lead performance alone, ‘There Will Be Blood’ is it. Daniel Day-Lewis is fantastic as Daniel Plainview, a role which will surely be career defining. Harking back to the likes of Orson Welles’ ‘Citizen Kane’ the story […]

SUPERSIZE VS SUPERSKINNY

LATEST ATTACK ON OUR WAISTLINES TOO MUCH TO STOMACH?
Almost every week in the press there’s a story about a new diet, ‘superfood’ or exercise regime, leaving us all rather confused when it comes to our daily intake. Enter Channel 4’s answer in the form of Supersize vs Superskinny (C4 Tuesday 8pm), where each week a […]

FOCUS ON: STEPHEN LANGSTAFF

Chris Baynes
On March 8th this year, Stephen Langstaff will make a little piece of history. By headlining the 1,200 capacity Carling Academy 1 – a stage usually reserved for established acts and playing host the same month to The Fall and Supergrass – the Liverpool-born singer-songwriter will become the first unsigned solo artist to ever […]

SINGLE REVIEW: THE RASCALS

Full of energy, Suspicious Wit drags you in through its contorted guitars and pounding drums and dumps you out rather suddenly and somewhat unsatisfied, on the other side. The comparisons with the likes of label mates The Coral and sound-a-likes Artic Monkeys are inevitable, but the obvious differences between The Rascals and their contemporaries […]

FOCUS ON: PAUL WILKES

Chris Selman
Paul Wilkes is a Liverpool-based singer/songwriter who plays a mellow breed of country-tinged acoustic music. “I’ve been on a journey of highs and lows,” he says, citing “Paul McCartney saying I will go far after watching me perform” as one such high. A low point, he suggests, has been recording; “I wanted […]

SK-INTERFACES

MISPLACED EARS, THERMO WALLS AND HOMEGROWN VIRGINITIES
Paul Eccles and Lizzy O’Connor
Modern art can often be quite a stuffy and inaccessible affair, but perhaps not when it includes a wall that changes colour when you put your hands/face/derrière on it. The new sk-interfaces exhibition claims to be ‘exploding borders in art, technology and society’. […]

PILGRIMS AND OTHER STORIES

BOOK REVIEW: ELIZABETH GILBERT

‘Pilgrims and Other Stories’ is the first published collection of short stories by the highly talented American author Elizabeth Gilbert. Gilbert, who has been described by a critic as having “all the hallmarks of a great writer,” wrote Pilgrims and Other Stories after being inspired by travelling extensively across America after her […]

FAREWELL TO SUPERLAMBANANA

MANCHESTER TO GAIN CUSTODY OF LIVERPOOL’S LITTLE LAMB

What’s big, yellow, about a decade old and makes no sense? Laa-Laa from the Teletubbies? Well yes but I actually meant the Superlambanana which has been the subject of debate recently after it emerged that it could be lassoed and dragged off to Manchester before the year is […]

EXCLUSIVE: AFRICA EXPREZ COMES TO LIVERPOOL

It has been in the pipeline for months and organised in secrecy, with rumours of who is going to turn up emerging every day. However, LX News can today announce that on the 6th of March, Africa Express is coming to the Liverpool Olympia.
Although no official announcement has been made, we have managed to obtain […]

MICHAEL BUBLÉ CONFIRMS ECHO ARENA DATE

Following the exciting news of his Brit and Grammy Award nominations, LX News can reveal today that Michael Bublé has confirmed Liverpool will be on his UK arena tour this July. Appearing at the Echo Arena Liverpool on 20th July, he is expected to draw crowds of thousands, all eager to see the man himself.
‘Call […]

BE KIND REWIND

LX NEWS CATCHES UP WITH JACK BLACK AS HE PROMOTES NEW FILM
On Tuesday 18th December I was lucky enough to be invited to watch a preview of Academy Award-winner Michel Gondry’s latest film, Be Kind Rewind, and then attend a press junket with its star, Jack Black (King Kong, School of Rock), at the Soho […]

RESPECTacles: Liverpool remembers victims of the Holocaust

For many of us they’re simply a necessity, in a lot of instances an annoyance or just a fashion accessory. But thousands of pairs of glasses have been used to astounding effect in an artistic display presented in Liverpool Town Hall. The RESPECTacles exhibition has been regarded by many as the centrepiece of cultural events […]

FRANKLY, A TRUE INSPIRATION

‘ANNE FRANK + YOU’
We all know Anne Frank from the history books but a special exhibition at Liverpool Cathedral is giving the opportunity to gain a unique insight into her short but inspiring life. Anne Frank + You is part of Liverpool’s commemoration of National Holocaust Memorial Day 2008 and nowhere else is the event […]

R.I.P.

WE REVIEW NEW AUTHOR’S MACABRE OFFERING
When I first picked up R.I.P., the first novel by Wavertree author Alicia Rose, I didn’t know what to expect. Billed as, ‘a dark thriller,’ I was hooked after the first couple of pages. The storyline is intriguing and swift moving. Literally a real page turner, its short chapters […]