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

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 is [...]

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

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 do [...]

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

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 the [...]

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 [...]