Last Chance To See: 7 Exhibitions Closing This Month

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Last Chance To See: 7 Exhibitions Closing This Month

The New Year spells the end for a number of long-running - and not-so-long-running - exhibitions in Liverpool. This is your last chance to see the following art in Liverpool…

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The End Is Nigh…2012 in Review

So, that was 2012. A year of sporting prowess, presidential re-elections and, er, Nick Grimshaw (memory was never our strong suit). But before Jools Holland starts fingering away in the middle of the night, what about stuff around here? It was a busy old year for SevenStreets (y’know, the usual, failed legal threats, brilliant theatre, [...]

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The Writing’s On The Wall

We really can’t get enough of this fab new book from Caroline and Phil Bunford: Liverpool Ghost Signs (History Press), an illustrated trawl through our city’s gable ends, avenues and alleyways, searing out the ghostly remains of painted-on adverts. The palimpsest of a mercantile city. Oh and talking of tiles (sort of), who knew Liverpool [...]

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Love Your Galleries This Christmas

You know what SevenStreets loves to do between Christmas and New Year (if that walk to Moel Famau is rained off?) - go visit an art gallery. There’s something about their hushed, contemplative surroundings that acts like a sorbet on frazzled palettes. Just a mooch around the pre-Raphaelites of the Lady Lever, the history of [...]

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Calm and Collected: Natalie McCool

We love Natalie McCool - and her new single, Dust and Coal seals the deal for us (you can get it here). A great end to a great year - a year that’s seen McCool’s smart, hook-laden tunes receive airplay on 6Music, Radio 2 and beyond, and assured performances on the festival circuit. We caught [...]

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Who does the Liver Bird belong to?

Should LFC own the rights to our Liver Bird? Yes, say those charged with ruling on logos (the OHIM - Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market, if you please). No, say campaigners against the decision, who believe that the bird belongs to all of us. In 2008 Liverpool Football Club applied to the intellectual [...]

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Liverpool to get huge bike hire scheme in 2013?

Today (13th December) it’s been announced Liverpool City Council are pushing forward with proposals for a cycle hire scheme within the city. From summer 2013, Liverpool would have 300 bikes available in the city centre, rising to 1,000 over the following 18 months across the entire city and outlying suburbs. Bikes would be hired via [...]

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Student Halls: Liverpool University Responds

The arguments for and against large, privately run student halls in the city’s residential areas is a nuanced and knotty one, as we said in our recent feature. Following on from the issues your raised in your comments, we spoke to Liverpool University to get their take on the issue. Why did Liverpool University take [...]

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Deja View: Seven Liverpool-alike Buildings

The world in one city? You better believe it. For our legion of tourists, a walk around the city must be a most disconcerting experience. Home, with its familiar curves and crevices, must seem curiously closer with every corner they turn. Like all great port cities, we’re a bit of a chameleon, taking inspiration here, [...]

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The Weekly Seven: 10th December 2012

William Kentridge as Printmaker at the Bluecoat EXHIBITION We love William Kentridge’s grainily gorgeous animations at Tate Liverpool’s new show. But his prints, in this new Bluecoat retrospective, are searingly impressive. Kentridge, South Africa’s most acclaimed multi-media artist, takes print to an entirely otherworldly dimension. Don’t miss this one. Until Feb 13. More information Delayed [...]

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Seven Christmas Club Nights

It’s that time of year again, when you can legitimately eat your own body weight in mince pies for breakfast and no one bats an eyelid. When you rediscover the beauty of warm alcohol – hot Rekorderlig cider from Bier is our new Swedish jam – and when you go shopping for presents but come [...]

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Halls of Resistance: Student City

Wave goodbye to Hope Street. The character of the ‘greatest street in the UK’ (according to the 2012 Urbanism Awards) could be irrevocably altered if the Maghull Group’s Falconer Chester Hall-designed new ‘Student Castle’ gets the go ahead at the council’s Planning Committee hearing next month (pic above). At least, that’s the fear of local [...]

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Arcade Fire: Save India Buildings

It’s one of Liverpool’s most beautiful buildings - the equivalent of anything you’d find in New York or Chicago - and it recently doubled for some impressive Soviet HQ in the next Jack Ryan caper - but, recently, India Buildings has been looking very sorry for itself. It’s not helped that owners - Irish property [...]

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Lights Out For Darker Skies: Is Liverpool Too Illuminated?

My God. It’s full of stars. Well, it is if you get yourself out of the glare of downtown. And, last week, wasn’t the moon looking amazing? It’s on the wane now, but there’s still the perplexing matter of that bright star in the east, beckoning us to follow it. Save your Ugg leather. You’d [...]

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Ghost Streets 8: Manchester Street

Sometimes, all the spin in the world won’t change a street’s reputation. So it was that, when Urban Splash eyed the triangle of warehouses and shops along Manchester Street and Preston Street as a site for swanky new flats, they were adamant about one thing. The name had to go. Ironic, really, that the Manchester-based [...]

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