Liverpool Music Week 2006
Saturday 4th to Monday 13th November 2006various venues, Liverpool City Centre, Merseyside, England MAP
Many free events. Ticketed events from £3 up to £22.50
The way we do it, says Mike Deane, Managing Director of Liverpool Music Week, is that we book the headliners that we really like, rather than who we think will bring people through the door. We dont fill up our festival with hype bands. We very carefully programme our event, with who we think are damn good acts, and our crowd can expect nothing but high quality music. There may be some you have never heard of, but if you do your homework youll see many are specialists in their particular field... If you dont do your homework, just turn up and you certainly wont be disappointed.
The majority of the festival is dominated by the local music scene, with many home-grown headliners, plus other cherry-picked national and international artists. The vast majority of events are free.
Its so good to have great Liverpool bands that are doing well to come back and play a homecoming as part of the festival, such as Hot Club De Paris and 747s, enthuses Mike, the atmosphere at those shows will be amazing. There is a huge diverse scene in Liverpool and with the solid basis of excellent acts from Tramp Attack to 28 Costumes, we have been able to look at bigger bands to take the festival up a level. The most fulfilling for me this year has been booking legends, Shack, to do a unique intimate unplugged show to open 2006. Its the full band just on the acouies [acoustic guitars].
There's an eclectic mix of established headliners including: Shack, Liam Frost & the Slowdown Family, Son of Dave, The Longcut, Bromheads Jacket and The Aliens (ex-Beta Band), as well as Radio One DJ Gilles Peterson presenting the 43 piece Heritage Orchestra at Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall, and Seu Jorge & AfroReggae too.
Liverpool Music Week seems to be moving in the right direction to establishing itself as a national event, and may turn out to be one of the major success stories in the Capital of Culture year.
For the full details of each show at each venue, and for ticket information, see here.