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- 24/5/2013
Old Swan, Kirkby, Huyton, Breck Road and Prescot post offices will
close or be franchised under plans affecting 76 across the country.
Strike action will take place all day on Tuesday May 28 by 4,000
staff working in 373 Crown (main) post offices.
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20/5/2013
For two weeks the artist collective If Only… took over the
space in Gallery 3 of the Bluecoat to host a series of events under
the banner of OCCUPY. Partway through the second week a meeting
was held to discuss developments in The Ropewalk’s area of
town which is currently under bidding by private developers. This
has meant that the businesses and venues in that block may be forced
to close down. This includes MelloMello, Drop The Dumbbells and
The Kasimer, all key venues for Liverpool’s burgeoning grassroots
culture. |
- 20/5/2013
The purpose of this article is to help give an assessment of the
employment system on a personal level. The job centre’s aims
are to stop people claiming means tested benefits so therefore they
advertise work for minimum of sixteen hours, but is this cost effective
on the taxpayer in practicality? Do people with Asperger’s
syndrome get justice? Or are they even treated equally? Remember
equal does not mean identical, I will discuss more on that later.
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 - Friday 10th May 2013
‘How Corrupt is Britain?’ is a one day conference at
the University of Liverpool which will bring together campaigners,
academics, journalists and activists to explore how we can expose
and confront the corruption of the police, politics and the private
sector in Britain.
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- 3/4/2013
Mandy Vere writes a tribute to Molly Sayle who died on March 11th
aged 97.
She was my friend, and, for such a small woman,
her death leaves a huge Molly-shaped hole which I can only try to
fill by following the mantra another mutual friend reminded me of
this week, Molly's mantra, expressed with a commanding passion,
"You NEVER give up!". |
- 3/4/2013
On Wednesday, February 6th 2013, Cairde na hEireann launched their
report into the continuing prevalence of attacks against the Irish
community in Liverpool by Far-right and loyalist groups. The meeting
was attended by a broad swathe of community groups, trade union
officials, Irish press and other concerned organisations across
the NW and beyond. |
- April
12, 13, 15, 19, 20
...the greatest story never told...Scottish writer Peter Burton’s
controversial take on Jesus the revolutionary, the man, the lover
and the creation of the fantasy of ‘Christianity’ after
his death by Paul. Spanning over a century of Jewish revolt against
the Roman Empire, the stakes are high and brutality and massacre
are common place. At the Casa, Hope Street. |
- 13/3/2013
Column by Sandra Gibson which celebrates the persistence of wildlife
in urban conditions.
I made a big pan of scouse so spud proud you
could stand a spoon up in it. ‘That’s the last meal
of winter,’ I announced. My confidence was misplaced: in spite
of the growing light, the activities of the birds and the massed
green spears of barely opening daffodils - all proclaiming springtime
- it has been colder than at any time in the winter. |
- 11/3/2013
Mainstays of the city’s gig circuit, female fronted art rock
quartet SeaWitches have recently released impressive debut EP Spacegun,
a collection of brittle art rock that offers a new spin on the music
that came out of the alternative sector in the late 70s/early 80s.
Nerve met up with them in MelloMello to discuss the record. |
- 5/3/2013
Sandra Gibson reviews the exhibition by Carl Fletcher, The Gappalioness
Monkey Project, which is at the Fallout Factory until 12th March.
Artist Carl Fletcher is part of the growing
protest movement against consumerism. Recycling and subverting capitalism’s
products, slogans and cultural preoccupations, he favours collage
which has an immediacy compatible with being current and believes
art “feeds your soul”. |
- 25/2/2013
Starting this Wednesday 27th February and running over the next
month or so Burjesta Theatre will be running workshops looking at
various ways of ‘storytelling’. Aside from creating
enjoyable and challenging workshops in themselves, we hope to create
a cohesive, core theatre group ready to go on and produce and perform
work created from the workshops. |
- 14/2/2013
Local artists Kevin Hunt, Tabitha Moses, Juliann O’Malley
and Laurence Payot have been revealed as the shortlist for the 2013
Liverpool Art Prize as it returns for its 6th successive year. All
four will exhibit their work in Liverpool from Friday 26th April
– Sat 8th June and the winner will be revealed at an awards
ceremony on Wednesday 29th May. |
- 13/2/2013
Actors, performers and designers needed for a large scale theatre
performance. The play will link with the 70th anniversary and final
national commemoration of the Battle of the Atlantic. Using the
stories of the people of Liverpool, who risked their lives, that
have been passed down through generations. Using drama as a tool,
the project will provide recreational weekly workshops culminating
in a performance for the participants to invite their audience.
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- 12/2/2013
The other weekend, the labyrinthine Williamson Tunnels in Edge Hill
were transformed into an art exhibition crossed with a concert.
It was centred on the theme of advertising and it’s ever intrusive
presence in our daily lives. jjSchaer went along and interviewed
two of the Lemon Collective, the organisers behind the event. |
- 10/2/2013
Column by Sandra Gibson which celebrates the persistence of wildlife
in urban conditions.
It’s likely that Geoffrey Chaucer was
the first writer to link Valentine with romance. His poem Parlement
of Fowles introduces the notion of St Valentine’s Day
as a time for the pair bonding of birds and hence of love birds
from our own species. |
- 27/1/2013
Report from the protest outside the Convention Centre where council
and faith leaders, from all over the country, were in Liverpool
to discuss how they can pressure the government to introduce ‘fairer’
cuts. On the same day there was an occupation of the ‘People’s’
Town Hall. |
- Sat Feb 9th
Burjesta Theatre are auditioning for their next production ‘The
Jesus Conspiracy’ an original and modern play by Scottish
playwright Peter Burton. The play imagines Jesus as a historical,
rather than religious, figure, a revolutionary fighting against
the Jewish and Roman authorities and portrays his life and death.
Auditions will be held at The Casa, Hope Street, Liverpool, L1 9BQ
on Saturday 9th February. |
- 22/1/2013
Column by Sandra Gibson which celebrates the persistence of wildlife
in urban conditions.
Our deciduous trees lose their leaves in winter.
There’s a sound economic reason: they need to conserve energy
and minimise any damage caused by bad-ass weather. Cold dry winds
strip moisture from leaves, which have a large surface area, and
diminishing sunlight means decreased efficiency. |
- 17/1/2013
The old Mitchells Bakery is to reopen as a community run business
and training facility. Homebaked Community Land Trust has raised
the money they need through crowdsourcing for an oven.Jess Doyle
one of the campaigners involved in the bakery said: “We have
reached our target with 14 days still left of the campaign, but
every penny donated can still help. |
- 15/1/2013
‘Scouse Mercury Prize’ the GIT Awards are returning
for a second year after a hugely successful debut outing in 2012.
Nerve met up with awards founder and writer/editor of the Getintothis
blog Peter Guy to discuss the 2013 prize. |
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This is a 12 week course running at Toxteth TV, 10am-1pm on Tuesdays,
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- 8/1/2013
DIY musician Claire Welles, who has released well over a dozen self-recorded
and self-released albums recently issued Nincompoop, the best distillation
of her wayward pop songs to date. Nerve met up with her for an interview.
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- 8/1/2013
Mr. A writes about his experiences on the Work Programme:
The dole told me that as I had been on Job
Seekers Allowance (JSA) for over 12 months I had to go onto the
new Work Programme that was getting everyone a job (sic) who went
on it. Now this sounded great to me, because I was looking as hard
as I could to find work as a welder pipe fitter. I thought this
is good - they have contacts, that's great- I should be working
by Christmas (2012). |
- 8/1/2013
Mr. A writes about his experiences at the food bank:
I walked a mile or so to the food bank. They
gave me a big food parcel and I was really thankful. The only problem
lay in all the food (except for a pack of bickies, cereal and long
life milk) needed to be cooked ie. heated, boiled or at least microwaved.
What I am going to do with all this food that needs cooking?
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- Jan 25th, 26th,
28th, 30th & Feb 1st
‘Sometime in the near future’ and Liverpool is
a city in crisis…As the Mayor closes down hospitals, schools
and libraries...A plague of rats overruns the city….
Come from ‘afar’ the Pied Piper soon realises...That
all is not as it seems at the Town Hall.
Burjesta Theatre presents….‘The Pied Piper of Liverpool’
at The Casa, Hope Street. |
- 22/12/2012
Column by Sandra Gibson which celebrates the persistence of wildlife
in urban conditions.
In December many people bring a tree into their
living space: usually a conifer with or without roots, or a facsimile,
either bearing some resemblance to the real thing, or making only
a slender reference to the original. |
- Fri
21st - Sat 22nd Dec
The Alligator Club will take over the Liverpool Playhouse Studio
this year with a late night alternative Christmas show on Friday
21 & Saturday 22 December. Join a travelling band of misfits
and wasters as they escape a bleak mid-winter night by breaking
into the Playhouse Studio to entertain you with twisted tales of
Christmas time. |
- 13/12/12012
Feeling excited as child that I’m going on holiday, and escaping
the everyday stress of life. I waited at the gate feeling happy
before it opens. When finally the gate opened, and the people with
the business seats were let on first. I then hear mine and someone
else’s name being called to go to another gate. I was puzzled
by this, I was unsure if I was waiting at the right gate in the
first place, as this had happened to me once before, many years
ago while aboard, and I was waiting at the wrong gate. |
- 5/12/2012
I didn’t know when I arranged to meet Deborah Morgan at the
Adelphi that her Nan, on whom she based one of the main characters
in her book Disappearing Home, had been
employed there on “silver service” though I did know
that Debbie herself had worked as a chambermaid. It was an appropriate
venue for another reason: her debut novel addresses the issue of
the precariousness of the safe refuge - the “Disappearing
Home” of the title - and a hotel is a place of transient occupancy.
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- Wed 5th Dec
Join FACT in supporting Sahir House, Liverpool’s Multicultural
HIV Support Charity by coming along to their first World Aids Day
Film Night.
Featuring the films 'Ebb & Flow' and 'Life, Above All'.
Wednesday 5th Dec at 6.30pm at FACT, Wood Street. |
- Fri 30th Nov - Sun 2nd Dec
100 Seel Street is a gripping and poetic journey through a beautifully
dilapidated townhouse in the heart of Liverpool. This eerie, interactive,
promenade experience takes visitors on an exploration of the stunning
wreckage of 100 Seel Street and the stories trapped within its walls.
Interweaving poetry, music and recorded soundscapes, this unique
tour throws open the soon to be refurbished building for three nights
only on Fri 30th Nov, Sat 1st and Sun 2nd Dec. |
- Sat 1st Dec
The FACT Centre in Liverpool are screening Last Shop Standing on
Saturday, 1 December, 2012, starting at 4pm. It features cameos
from Johnny Marr, Billy Bragg and Paul Weller but this isn't a film
about them, it's a film about Diane Cain from Liverpool, owner of
The Musical Box, octogenarian Laurie from Dales Records in Tenby,
and owners of London's Sister Ray and Cardiff's Spillers. |
- Mon
26th Nov
Silly Boy Productions presents a unique one man show by Hal Lever...
well, we say one man but watch out for Hal2!! He'll pop up during
the show. Hal Lever shouldn’t be alive today. After a devastating
car accident in 1970 he was in a coma for twenty days. When he regained
consciousness he was unable to talk, walk or use his hands and he
had completely lost his memory.
On Monday, 26 November at 7.30pm at LEAF, Bold Street, Liverpool.
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- Sat
24th Nov
On Saturday 24th November, as part of the Nerve Centres Libraries
Tour, we will be at , L4 3QF, to raise awareness of what the
loss of this vital public service would mean for communities.
Between 11am and 4pm there will be live music, art, poetry, workshops,
discussions and facepainting. |
- 16/11/2012
Column by Sandra Gibson which celebrates the persistence of wildlife
in urban conditions.
Eating songbirds is forbidden in Britain, I’m
glad to say, but this doesn’t include pigeons. Regarded as
the avian equivalent of vermin, pigeons do not, generally speaking,
enjoy hospitality in our urban environment. |
- 5/11/2012
In 1957 the German pharmaceutical Grünenthal GmbH manufactured
and distributed the drug Thalidomide as a safe treatment for morning
sickness in pregnant women. By 1961 the drug had been withdrawn
from the market for causing the deaths of thousands of babies and
leading to over ten thousand children being born with mal-formed
limbs as a result. What follows is an interview with Kevin Donnellon,
thalidomider, political campaigner and father. |
- 24/10/2012
From 22nd October 2012 the law was changed regarding claiming for
Jobseeker's Allowance. If people on JSA fail to meet the conditions
related to receiving JSA, the way their benefit is affected will
change. |
- 17/10/2012
We are truly blessed in Liverpool. Fabulous architecture, two cathedrals,
two half-decent football teams, the best band in history. Basically,
we are the first great city of the 21st century. So, when it comes
to basking in our wonderfulness, it begs a question, which has confounded
the best minds for centuries. Where can I get a decent cuppa? |
Weary of witches & werewolves...? fed up with fiends? tired
of tales from Transylvania? then why not come along... to a Halloween
show with a difference and see revealed... The Real Monsters!!
With a serving of horror...a sprinkle of magic...and a warning from
the... honey bees!!
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Liverpool Acoustic and Sefton Park Palm House are proud to present
a very special evening celebrating subversion through music and
magic on Saturday 10th November 2012 at Sefton Park Palm House.
Celebrating Subversion is a collective of singers and songwriters
comprising Frankie Armstrong, Roy Bailey, Robb Johnson, Reem Kalani,
Sandra Kerr, Grace Petrie, Leon Rosselson, Janet Russell, Peggy
Seeger, Jim Woodland, plus one socialist magician, Ian Saville.
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Toxteth Art Gallery (TAG) presents 'Love or Nothing, an art exhibition
featuring 19 artists from the UK and abroad. What it means to love
and to lose love, the space and silent space, emptiness versus fulfilment.
It takes place at the Florence Institute ('The Florrie'), 377 Mill
Street, Toxteth, Liverpool from 10th October.
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- 28/9/2012
Column by Sandra Gibson which celebrates the persistence of wildlife
in urban conditions.
Inspired by the proliferation of planting everywhere
I looked, and by Monet’s use of the plant at his garden at
Giverny, I vowed to grow nasturtiums in every available cranny.
So I did and they were glorious. I use the past tense because although
they survived the plague of blackfly this year, they rapidly became
shredded by caterpillars to the extent that only stalks remained.
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- 26/9/2012
Liverpool Stadium staged many of the city’s best gigs during
the 1970s, running the gamut from avant garde, prog, hard rock and
the beginnings of punk. Despite this, its pivotal role in Liverpool’s
music past is overlooked. Richard Lewis celebrates the venue’s
place in the city’s musical history. |
- 21/10/2012
Tracey Dunn interviews Eddie Amoo from The Real Thing, the legendary
Liverpool black soul band that have been around for over 30 years.
In that time they have toured the world and been at number 1 in
the charts with the song 'You To Me Are Everything' and had many
other chart singles. |
Featuring Minnie Stacey & Casey
(Relaxed Radicals with Original Songs), 20lb
Sound (Indy rock, with bits of all kinds going on), Graculus
(Improvised and experimental music), Keelin
& Vinny (Jazz & Blues), DJ
Dazza and MC Dan Lynch.
Liverpool Social Centre (Below News from Nowhere, 96 Bold St)
Sat 22nd September, 8 til later. £5/3 (for the benefit of
Nerve)
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- 11/9/2012
Nearly one hundred artists from Merseyside and around the world,
as well as creative groups and city venues will be taking part in
the 2012 Independents Biennial this September. A vibrant mix of
dozens of gallery exhibitions, open studios and site-specific works
across all media of the visual arts will be taking place as part
of an exciting fringe programme running in parallel with the Liverpool
Biennial. |
- 5/9/2012
Column by Sandra Gibson which celebrates the persistence of wildlife
in urban conditions.
Every man in Crewe who did not work in Rolls
Royce making cars worked at Crewe Works, making steam trains. This
was the Fifties: the twilight of steam; the birth of rock ‘n’
roll - which interested me rather more. Because my father made trains
we were entitled to subsidised rail travel and every summer we went
to Blackpool in a corridored carriage divided into rooms each with
its own door. |
- 24/8/2012
The Nerve Centre libraries tour kicked off at Toxteth library on
Saturday, August 18th. This event brought together many people,
many cultures and many voices with different talents. We grooved,
listened and discussed on all floors. Packed like a holiday suitcase
with as many possible under one roof. Great stuff! |
- 21/8/2012
Over 100 people gathered in the Eldonian Hall on 18th August 2012
to commemorate the lives and deaths of Michael Prendergast and John
Sutcliffe. Both men were shot by soldiers on Vauxhall Road on 15th
August 1911, during the Transport Strike. |
- 13/8/2012
HOME (This, for my wife, another victim to cancer)
Twilight on a summer day,
a flock of white birds
on their way . . . going, home. |
- 1/8/2012
The James Larkin tribute and commemoration march held in Liverpool
on Saturday 21st July 2012 proved to be a trial of nerves and patience
for all involved. Organised as a trade union solidarity and anti-fascist
march, it was hampered from the start by people led to believe it
was an IRA march. |
- 9/7/2012
Column by Sandra Gibson which celebrates the persistence of wildlife
in urban conditions.
The marzipan smell of newly mown grass sweetens
our summer days. In our collective mind, grass is the colour of
our island home, the green focus of our threatened villages; the
flower-jewelled backdrop to our nostalgia about Maypole dancing
and the stuff on which we pitch our hopes, year after year, in the
vain chance that summer rain, footfall and tent pegs will not transform
it into churned up brown stuff. |
- 27/7/2012
Two hundred coal miners who made what is known as the “Black
March”, walked into Madrid on the night of the 10th July of
2012. They were well organised but tired, their feet were destroyed
and their tendons sore, they felt exhausted but proud. They had
come from all the Spanish coalfields and burst into the Spanish
capital singing “Santa Bárbara
Bendita”, the Spanish miner’s anthem. |
- 21/7/2012
Liverpool Pride has announced its exciting 2012 Fringe Festival.
The month long mix of sporting, arts, cultural and spiritual events
and will take place from Fri 27th July – Sun 26th August.
The Fringe Festival offers a perfect way to connect, engage with
and take part in LGBT happenings across the city, occurring in addition
to main festival day on Saturday 4th August and the LGBT Film Festival,
which was announced last month. |
- 11/7/2012
Message from The Liverpool Pride Team:
Liverpool Pride Festival is on August 4th 2012
and set to be the best festival yet! As we draw closer to the event
we now turn to you, a rainbow army of volunteers to help us produce
this beast! To do that, we have set up volunteer open days and evenings
for you to attend and register to become a part of our team.
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- 11/7/2012
The deadline is approaching for artists who wish to register to
be part of the Independents Liverpool Biennial 2012. The Independents
is one of the largest and most exciting contemporary visual arts
festivals in the UK, with an exhibitions programme that runs in
parallel with the Liverpool Biennial. |
- 9/7/2012
Column by Sandra Gibson which celebrates the persistence of wildlife
in urban conditions.
Enclosed on all sides, the tranquil garden
at the Bluecoat gives refuge from the urgent, raucous consumerism
grabbing your sleeves outside. Restfully green, this courtyard space
contains a lovely fig tree, borders, plants in containers, two island
beds with large rowan trees and nesting boxes, seating on various
levels and architecture whose balanced design is easy on the eyes.
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- 19/6/2012
PIPS held their national conference at the Adelphi Hotel over a
June weekend in Liverpool. On the Saturday morning I attended an
essay presentation by Jonny Webb entitled ‘Why
we Should Treat People as Commodities’. He
began by saying ‘I’m an apologist, I suppose, for treating
people as commodities, because I’m an economist.’ The
discourse that followed was frighteningly real, as it encapsulated
the corporate context, the system within which we’re all trying,
and dying, to survive. |
- 14/6/2012
Column by Sandra Gibson which celebrates the persistence of wildlife
in urban conditions.
The Jubilee celebrations in our capital city
will be remembered as a watery pageant: mist, mizzle and rain accentuated
by a big, big river and, taking that as the cue, the sodden clouds
have dumped water bombs ever since. |
- 31/5/2012
'Big Society - The Musical' is a feature length production being
produced exclusively on Merseyside by First Take who are looking
for ordinary people, performers, dancers, singers, musicians, extras
and production assistants, young or old, to come and get involved
in a shoot where over 150 people will perform on a closed street
on Merseyside. |
- 31/5/2012
Anna Di Scala Returns to Parr Street for Pop Up Show at the Attic.
The 22nd of June sees Liverpool based Fine Artist and Oil Painter
Anna Di Scala return to Parr Street for her latest solo exhibition.
Presented in association with Seba Rashii Culture the show will
see Di Scala premiere new work for a one night only Pop Up show
with more to be announced. |
- 30/5/2012
A piece of History comes to Liverpool's Unity Theatre on Sat 23rd
June. An all Liverpool cast of the drama group 'Insurrection' perform
'A Thousand Murdered Girls' the play based on the last testaments
of resistance fighters in the 1940s and the hidden diaries of woman
who where imprisoned in camps on the Greek island of Trikeri between
1949 and 1953. |
- 21/5/2012
Column by Sandra Gibson which celebrates the persistence of wildlife
in urban conditions.
At one edge of the control of the natural environment
is the pruner’s art. I’m not talking here about the
pragmatic cutting back of plant material in order to keep it in
its place, or to encourage new growth and influence the size of
flower and fruit. I’m concentrating on the use of plants as
the material for living sculpture. |
- 21/5/2012
An Explosive Musical Farce! Liverpool Supermarket chain Besco-Walart
is under attack from One-Girl-Crime-Wave Chrissy Moore – well
that’s nothing new...but now the Security Services discover
a sinister terrorist plot to blow up a Royal visitor to our city...
With original music by Mark Halligan from Liverpool rock ‘n’
rollers ‘Furious’ and dancing to put your head into
a whirl… |
- 14/5/2012
Phil Newton gives his take on the report giving the go-ahead for
Fracking. Arising like an earth druid sacrament
from the relatively rusticated seclusion in the North Staffordshire
countryside comes the earth fracturing news that fracking is now
ok despite contrary goings on. |
- 14/5/2012
Shakespearean Sonnet by Minnie Stacey
We’re definite, refined, and
filthy rich
from servants digging ditches in their health, |
- 11/5/2012
Liverpool promoters/think-tank/recording/rehearsal studio curators
Milk:Presents talk to about their upcoming event at Binary Cell Studios and
their future plans. Founded by four friends in 2011, initially describing
themselves as a ‘label/events -recording/design’ company,
Milk’s remit has steadily increased to take on even more creative
ventures. |
Free Gigs in Liverpool
this weekend!
- The 3rd annual event from the Rathole Radio
crew. A great night of live music featuring: The Corinthians, P'Chenga,
20lb Sounds & Thom Morecroft.
Friday, 11th May from 8pm at Leaf, 65-67 Bold Street, L1.
- A free outdoor extravaganza of exciting music
which knows no boundaries, featuring BULBS, LOKA, Carlo Bowry and
GORP.
Sunday 13th May from 1pm - 5pm at Chavasse Park, Liverpool ONE. |
- 2/5/2012
Column by Sandra Gibson which celebrates the persistence of wildlife
in urban conditions.
I bought a pot of basil as I often do and I
carried it especially carefully round town this uneasy day of threat
and squall. I kept smelling the spicy citrus scent, and imagined
it growing in pots outside Greek houses in limitless sunshine.
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WOW has a nautical theme for this year's festival. As they describe
on their website 'Representing the Crew, Captain Benjamin Zephaniah;
Owen Jones, author of the best selling Chavs, will be looking at
the Demonisation of the Working Class; sci-fi writer, Mike Carey,
will be manning the look-out and searching for flash-fiction stars;
Ahdaf Soueif sails in from Egypt, bringing news of the Arab Spring;
Pauline Black wil be seeking the soundtrack for the ship's radio;
and all manner of piracy and illicit cargos will make for a voyage
of discovery like no other.
For details about all the events taking place until 31 May, go to
or telephone 0151 703 0020.
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- 1/5/2012
Last week saw the little girl giant marionette’s visit to
Liverpool, her walk through the city and reunion with her long lost
uncle, also a giant marionette. It was a venture as culturally vacuous
as it was profitable. The absence of any cultural substance I believe
was intentional by the way, to defy exclusory elements – the
cultural version of extreme positive discrimination. |
- 27/4/2012
Windmill Wholefoods is a Workers Co-operative, a genuinely democratic
and sustainable organisation run without a hierarchy by Paul, Martin,
Emma, Adam and Rik. It began as Liverpool’s Green Co-operative
in 1991 and is a humble set-up that shares knowledge and experience
with other Co-operatives. |
Join Liverpool Against the Cuts on a direct-action ‘Workfare
Walk of Shame’ through Liverpool City Centre, stopping off
at companies that use unpaid workers from Workfare schemes.
The Liverpool Against the Cuts ‘Workfare Walk of Shame will
take place on Workers’ Memorial Day’, Sat 28th April.
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- 20/4/2012
Column by Sandra Gibson which celebrates the persistence of wildlife
in urban conditions.
No traffic sound; no-one shouting into a mobile;
no clattering saucepans; no-one calling their cat; no-one playing
Whitney Houston. Dusk: the pewter clouds from the north darkening
the evening into this moment of silence. |
- 17/4/2012
With excellent new EP ‘My Singularities’ just released,
Lucky Beaches mainman Luke Muscatelli talks to Richard Lewis about
the new record, film-making and Alistair Crowley. The notion of
bands decamping to rural climes to ‘get our heads together
in the country man’, an activity hugely popular in the late
sixties-early seventies has been bested by Lucky Beaches mainman
Luke Muscatelli. |
Seminar and film screening of 'Rebellion in Tottenham 2011' with
speaker Roger Ball, co-founder of the Bristol Radical History Group.
The August 'riots' were portrayed by the media and politicians as
the actions of 'greedy feral youth' or 'gangs' within a 'criminal
underclass'. This event will provide an analysis of the 'riots'
of August, considering what (actually) happened, who was involved
and how they did it.
Wednesday 2nd May 2012 from, 6:30 pm - 8:30pm, at 126 Mount Pleasant
(opposite Catholic Cathedral). For further information please contact
p.h.adams@liv.ac.uk or
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- 4/4/2012
Column by Sandra Gibson which celebrates the persistence of wildlife
in urban conditions.
A crimson tulip growing through the stark white
of newly fallen snow: an arresting image from the TV reports of
blizzards in Derbyshire. Weather experts say that we are more likely
to have snow at Easter than at Christmas, though no one wrote a
song dreaming of it. |
- 26/3/2012
New column by Sandra Gibson which celebrates the persistence of
wildlife in urban conditions.
Also known as Rose Bay Willow Herb, the prolific
wild flower called Fireweed cheers the hearts of those whose cityscape
has become a bomb site or whose buildings have been cleared by machine.
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With the fantastic female harmony group Sisters Unlimited at St
Bride's Church, Percy Street/Catherine Street, Liverpool 8 on Saturday
14th April 2012.
Afternoon workshops from 2pm – 3.30pm and a concert in the
evening with Sisters Unlimited, four female vocalists who have had
tremendous performance and recording careers.
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This is the third annual selection of newly-developed writing, directing,
technical and acting talent; the Write Now One Act Play Festival.
This year featues TEN productions covering such diverse subjects
as identity, creation, cyber searches, football and Alice in Wonderland.
Fri 30th March to Sat 7th April at The Actors’ Studio, 36
Seel St.
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- 26/3/2012
The inaugural Getintothis Award has been described as ‘Liverpool’s
answer to the Mercury Prize’. With the shortlist about to
be announced, Nerve met up with music journalist Peter Guy, originator
of the Getintothis blog to discuss what inspired the prize. |
"Spellbinding, funny and almost unbearably
moving... it is both a work of art and an incisive piece of cultural
history, a poem and a polemic, a performance and a balm and a benediction"
- Variety.
Sun 18th March, 4pm (Mother's Day Special!) at The Lantern Theatre,
57 Blundell St, L1.
Sat 24th March, 7pm at Ullet Rd Unitarian Church, 57 Ullet Rd, L17.
Tickets £7/£5 concessions, from
or from
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Liverpool Socialist Singers present David Rovics Singing
the Revolution and Liverpool Socialist Singers and The Peacemakers.
16th March 2012 at 7.30pm at St Brides Church, Catharine St., L8
7LT
Tickets £7 (£5 concs) from News From Nowhere, Bold St.
& on the door.
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100th Meridian Theatre present The Circus on Lime Street, written
by Peter Harrison. Cameo cinema murders revealing
a tragic miscarriage of justice.
26th - 28th April at 6pm and 8pm at St. George's Hall Court Room.
£10/£7 conc.
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- 9/3/2012
A presence on the Liverpool music scene for the past quarter of
a century, Andy Delamere, drummer with The Wizards of Twiddly, Dead
Belgian and Emily and The Faves talks to Nerve. Dead Belgian are
playing The Kazimier on March 9th 2012. |
- 24/2/2012
Liverpool Uncut have called a day of action for Saturday 3rd March
2012 to boycott Workfare as anger grows at this mandatory work programme.
Here Minnie Stacey gives us a Sonnet about unemployed people working
for free. While a long term unemployed worker tells their story,
and Carol Laidlaw says what she is doing about workfare. |
Nerve is planning to make changes to our website. We want to hear
what you value the most on the present website and what you would
like to see as part of these changes. We will also be running workshops
to train people in how they can upload articles, images and video.
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- 20/2/2012
Liverpool-Norwegian band Eye Emma Jedi, having made some serious
waves over in Norway, turn their attention to Blighty with a long-awaited
UK debut at a free show at The Kazimier next month. Nerve chatted
to guitarist Joe Wills. |
- 20/2/2012
When a friend of mine told me about a cafe called The Brink that
had recently opened to help recovering alcoholics in Liverpool's
city centre, I had a clear image in my mind. A street corner cafe
cloaked in drab blue peeling paint with grimy windows shrouded in
vinyl lace, furnished with an array of wobbly old tables inhabited
by a selection of disheartened unfortunates. |
Peace activist Maya Evans travelled to Afghanistan over Christmas
with Voices for Creative Nonviolence (www.vcnv.org). Maya may be
the first British peace activist to visit Afghanistan since the
2001 invasion. She met with human rights activists, refugees, and
people affected by NATO night raids and drone strikes. Come and
hear her first hand account of the situation in Afghanistan - Free
entry, all welcome!
The talk is on Friday 24 February 2012 at 7pm in Next To Nowhere
Social Centre, 96 Bold Street, Liverpool (entrance next door to
bookshop). |
- 13/2/20012
Poem by Minnie Stacey, January 2012. The context of The
Revolution of Revulsion is the extract from a Vivienne Westwood
interview. The poem is about occupation in general, with undercurrents
of the plight of Palestinians in 'occupied territory', and 'gazes'
and 'plaza' with their subtext of Gaza. |
- 7/2/2012
Plans to develop the Royal under Private Finance Initiative (PFI)
were condemned by protestors on Friday 27th January. The demonstration
was originally called by the Labour Party, but they backed out when
it became apparent many people would be there demonstrating against
the Labour Party’s lack of any real policy to stop the new
Health and Social Care Bill. |
- 30/1/2012
"I was at Occupy Liverpool's camp just after New Year when
I met Colin Robinson the publisher of this book. He moved from West
Kirby 25 years ago to live in New York City and told me how he and
others had the original idea for this book before the camp was set
up. On the first day Occupy Wall Street had started he picked up
a piece of brown cardboard in Zuccotti Park and wrote on it 'Occupying
Wall Street'. The result is the cover of this book." |
- 25/1/2012
Gathering Jack tells the tale of a fictional serial killer, known
as Gathering Jack, who is stalking the streets of Liverpool in 2012.
Whilst it is not specifically based on any one historical killer,
it tips its hat to the ‘gentlemanly Victorian’ killer,
bringing the myth up to date. |
- 25/1/2012
Young Everyman Playhouse (YEP) launched this week as the Everyman
and Playhouse threw open its doors to young people for an initiative
that will nurture the writers and actors, the technicians, the audiences
and the cultural leaders of the future. |
- 19/1/2012
The Play "The Old Dark House" is adapted from the 1932
American horror film directed by James Whale and starring Boris
Karloff (both of Frankenstein fame) and follows a newly wed couple
who are forced to seek shelter in "The Old Dark House"
while honeymooning in the middle of the Welsh Countryside. |
- 13/1/2012
A glorious morning greeted hundreds of people as they turned out
to support the sacked 13 Liverpool Mutual Homes workers at the site
just recently vacated by Occupy Liverpool opposite the Liverpool
Mutual Homes Building. Men with thirty years experience have been
thrown on the scrap heap as LMH outsourced their work to various
contractors for a cheaper work force. |
- 11/1/2012
The security guards used excessive force to remove UK Uncut protesters
on Church Street and they also continued to attack protesters outside
on public property. What excuse could they possibly have for these
actions? Some of the more disgusting acts of violence that day were
a security guard putting a cigarette out on somebody's face and
punching a pregnant woman. |
- 11/1/2012
Saturday 7th January was a big action organised by UK Uncut Liverpool
and supported by Occupy Liverpool and Solfed. The target was decided
to be HSBC bank. This bank was not directly bailed out by the government
which I actually believe to be a strength of actions against this
bank and Barclay's. The public are already very aware about the
bailouts and are quite rightly very angry about it but this has
also served to cover up the other atrocities carried out by the
bankers. |
- 5/1/2012
Synth-glam-punk-rock practitioners par excellence talk to Nerve
about the economics of making records, sourcing inexpensive musical
equipment and the Glam Rock Premiership. Two-thirds of Mashemon,
Rocky and Ronny (they claim these are their real names but we’re
unconvinced) sit in The Albert Pub, Lark Lane discussing the latest
activity in their self-created Glam Rock Premiership. |
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Royal
Mail is Not for Sale!
If
Only… – OCCUPY - MelloMello and The Ropewalks
Tribute
to Molly
Anti-Irish
Racism
Burjesta
Theatre presents…The Jesus Conspiracy
Fireweed
- Restraint and Resurrection
SeaWitches
Take Aim with Spacegun: SeaWitches Interview
The
Gappalioness Monkey Project
Burjesta
Theatre Weekly Workshops - Storytelling
Shortlist
Announced for Liverpool Art Prize 2013
The
Lemon Collective’s ‘Underground Playground’
Fireweed
- February Flowers for Valentine’s Day
Occupation of the ‘People’s’ Town Hall
Fireweed
- The Liberation of Sky
Anfield
Bakery saved
The
GIT Awards 2013: Peter Guy Interview
Planet
Claire: Claire Welles Interview
My
Day At The Food Bank
The
Pied Piper of Liverpool
Fireweed
- Time for a Tree
The
Alligator Club presents Twisted Christmas
A
Conversation with Writer Deborah Morgan
World
AIDS Day Film Night
100
Seel Street
Last
Shop Standing at FACT
I'm
Not Drunk, Honest - by Hal Lever
Nerve
Centre at Spellow Library, County Road
Fireweed
- Pigeon Street
A
Handful of Thalidomides
New
Jobseeker's Allowance Sanctions
Brew
Do You Think You Are?
The
Real Monsters!!
Celebrating
Subversion - The Anti-Capitalist Roadshow is coming to town!
Love
or Nothing Art Exhibition
Fireweed
- Banned from Page Three
A
Short History of Liverpool Stadium
Interview
with Eddie Amoo of The Real Thing
Nerve
invites you to a night of acoustic music
Independents
Liverpool Biennial 2012
Fireweed
- On the Beaten Track
Vauxhall
Road Plaque
Poems
by Tom McFerran
Working
Class Unity Against Racism and Fascism March
Fireweed
- Holding the Edge at the Waterfront
The
“Black March” Flows Into Madrid
Liverpool
Pride Fringe Festival Announced!
Volunteer
with Pride
Call
for artists to register for the Independents Liverpool Biennial
2012
Fireweed
- Growing Creativity at the Bluecoat
Philosophy
In Pubs Conference
Fireweed
- Midsummer Water
Big
Society - The Musical
Pop
Up Show
A
Thousand Murdered Girls
Fireweed
- Crucifix Trees
Burjesta
Theatre presents… ‘cant sleep clowns will eat me’
Fragments
- or the beginning of the endgame
Milk:
Presents #2012: The Milk Manifesto
Fireweed
- Portable Gardens
Writing
On The Wall Festival 2012 'Below Decks'
The
Spectacle of a Spectacle
It’s
A Sensation: Liverpool’s Windmill Wholefoods
Fireweed
- Pay and Display, Blackbird Dusk & Pigeon Afternoon
Lucky
Beaches’ Singularities Explained: Lucky Beaches Interview
Fireweed
- Before the Blizzard
Fireweed
- St John’s Gardens & Springing to Life 
Liverpool
Big Song and Dance
Write
Now One Act Play Festival 2012
The
Getintothis Award: Peter Guy Interview
The
Vagina Monologues
David
Rovics
The
Circus on Lime Street
Dead
Belgian and other musical ventures
Interview
with Eye Emma Jedi
Back
from a Drink at the Brink...
NO
to NHS privatisation
Occupying
Wall Street - The inside story of an action that changed America
Burjesta
Theatre presents Gathering Jack
Everyman
and Playhouse throws open its doors to young people
The
Old Dark House
Rally
for workers sacked by Liverpool Mutual Homes
Occupy,
Uncut and Anonymous Liverpool under recent attacks by security guards
and arrests by police
UK
Uncut HSBC action 7th Jan 2012
Mashemon
Interview: Making Lists with Mashemon
