There are plenty of ways for a venue to celebrate its first birthday. Some bring in a headline act. Some put on a special event. Some stick a few balloons up, hope for the best and call it a celebration….
Tag: rock
Liverpool’s Academy 2 may be one of the city’s smaller live music venues, but the building itself has no shortage of history. Long before amplifiers and stage lights arrived, the nineteenth century warehouse had served a variety of purposes, including…
I’ve been lucky enough to photograph some incredible musicians over the years, but the ones that stay with me aren’t always the household names. Sometimes you walk into a venue and stumble across something genuinely magical. An artist who should…
For years, a certain types of “expert” have insisted that Merseyside doesn’t have a real rock and metal scene. You’ve must have heard the lines: “Liverpool’s a pop city,” “Rock or Metal never took root there,” “It’s all indie bands…
The Albert Hall in Manchester carries over a century of atmosphere in its bones. Originally built in 1910 as a Wesleyan Methodist Central Hall, the venue still wears its history proudly. From the horseshoe balcony to the stained glass windows…
Tonight was a local one for me. A ten minute walk along Oldham Street after getting off the Metrolink at Market Street to Gullivers, which has been part of Manchester’s musical DNA since 1865, when it first opened on as…