What's happening: 2008
Clinic
Wednesday, 02 April 2008 | 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Clinic cook up a cryptic mix of psychedelic surf punk, skewed pop, pounding rhythms, vintage organ and intense, acidic vocals that has won the band widespread critical acclaim and a Grammy nomination ...
Liverpooljazz at the Bluecoat
Thursday, 03 April 2008 | 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Proven jazz promoters, LIVERPOOLJAZZ, present a monthly concert showcasing the city’s finest players and the region’s most exciting composers. ...
Yoko Ono (Happenstance Opening Event)
Friday, 04 April 2008 | 6:00pm - 10:00pm
Returning 41 years after her first ever paid perfomance was given at the Bluecoat, Yoko Ono gives a special one hour live performance. ...
Happenstance - Franko B, Kira O'Reilly, Rajni Shah and more
From Saturday, 05 April 2008 to Sunday, 06 April 2008 | 12:00pm - 10:00pm
Two days of the most beautiful, bizarre, brilliant and beguiling in new live work from some of the leading performance artists working today. ...
Rob Chapman and Willy Vlautin - Music Men
Monday, 07 April 2008 | 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Two authors with a music background read from their new novels. ...
Trio Tarana
Wednesday, 09 April 2008 | 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Led by master percussionist and composer Ravish Momin, this New York jazz trio’s unique sound is fused from rhythms drawn from every corner of the globe. ...
Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq - Lecture by Patrick Cockburn
Saturday, 12 April 2008 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm
The Independent’s Middle Eastern correspondent visits on the 5th anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein. ...
Poetry in the City presents Twentieth Century Blues by Robert Sheppard
Monday, 14 April 2008 | 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Poetry in the City Festival: Poetry in the City presents the launch of and reading from Twentieth Century Blues by Robert Sheppard...
Heart Beats Rhyme and Roll Poetry Night with Poetry in the City present Salt poets
Tuesday, 15 April 2008 | 7:30pm - 10:30pm
Poetry in the City Festival: Heart Beats Rhyme and Roll Poetry Night in collaboration with Poetry in the City presents an evening of Salt Poets...
DAT politics with support from U.R. Penetrators - Kitsch Kicks!
Wednesday, 16 April 2008 | 8:00pm - 11:00pm
One of the most ecstatic electro party bands on the planet and purveyors of the liveliest music ever assembled by digital means. ...
C'est Casson! Entrepreneur in conversation
Thursday, 17 April 2008 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Shining a spotlight on cultural entrepreneurialism, this in-conversation event asks Duckie founder, Simon Casson about his inspirations and the challenges he's faced establishing what he describes as "Event Culture"....
Fiction reading by Maria McCann and Michael Symmons Roberts - Powerful Prose
Thursday, 17 April 2008 | 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Liverpool born Maria McCann’s first novel, As Meat Loves Salt, was an Economist 'Book of the Year' and featured in September 2007 as one of the Observer's 'Fifty Most Underrated Novels.' Set in the 17th century, the novel e...
EDge
Friday, 18 April 2008 | 8:00pm - 9:30pm
11 exceptional dancers from EDge, the postgraduate performance company of London Contemporary Dance School, perform a selection of new work from an international line-up of dance makers, including new work by celebrated choreographers Filip van Huff...
Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction Readers’ Day
Saturday, 19 April 2008 | 1:30pm - 5:30pm
Meet some of the UK’s most interesting female cultural and literary figures, take part in exciting book discussions and attend inspiring workshops. ...
Charles Hayward: Recorded - A Film By Peter Bromley
Saturday, 19 April 2008 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Visionary percussionist behind pioneering bands This Heat and Camberwell Now, Charles Hayward has been at the forefront of British experimental music for more than thirty years with an ever growing list of solo projects and special collaborative per...
