LIVERPOOL The Official Tourist Board Guide to the Liverpool City Region WINTER 2014 - SPRING 2015 SPONSORED BY Explore Relax Eat Shop it’s liverpool Cover photograph courtesy of ©www.paulmcmullin.com | 2 | LIVERPOOL GUIDE LIVERPOOL GUIDE | 3 | City of the Beatles, culture Home of giant events, Event highlights this season If you’re here over and sport, World Heritage top-class shopping, include Transmitting Andy Christmas and New WELCOME TO Liverpool site and official World legendary nightlife and the Warhol at Tate Liverpool, Year, visit Christmasby Capital of Pop Music. friendliest people you’ll Ice Festival at Liverpool Liverpool.com to find the ever hope to meet. ONE and the British best in festive shopping, The most successful Invasion exhibition at The eating, theatre and footballing city in England, Liverpool is a world-class Beatles Story. nightlife. the finest collection of city break destination, museums and galleries voted third in Rough Head to the fully mobile- Have a great time in outside London, and a Guides’ top worldwide enabled visitliverpool.com Liverpool – and don’t fascinating maritime history. cities to visit in 2014. for full details of events, forget to share any reviews Whatever you’re into, attractions, accommodation and recommendations via The best hotels, there’s something here for and eating out in Liverpool Twitter or Facebook. restaurants and bars from you. There’s so much going city region, and the latest unique independents to on, the only problem might downloadable Liverpool international brands. be deciding just what to Guide. VisitLiverpool do first. @VisitLiverpool Photograph courtesy of Craig Easton/Albert Dock Liverpool Dock Easton/Albert Craig of courtesy Photograph VisitLiverpool.com Produced by Marketing Liverpool, a Liverpool Vision Initiative Tourist information 0151 233 2008 | 4 | LIVERPOOL GUIDE LIVERPOOL GUIDE | 5 | Walker Art Gallery Central Library Atrium CULTUre & Mathew Kelly and Pauline Daniels in Twelfth Night at the Everyman HeriTAGE Visit the waterfront to admire all about the companies, people the Three Graces – the Cunard and ships connected to this Tate Liverpool Museum of Liverpool Building, Port of Liverpool Building port city. ArT loverS, TheATre and of course the Liver Building, St George’s Quarter, close to Lime FANS AND MUSEUM GoerS, with its two Liver Birds, the Art Gallery, a beautiful building with Street station, is home to World Liverpool IS The plACE symbols of the city, perching 300 Museum, where you can discover Tate Liverpool is the home of the a history as interesting as the feet above the streets below. For YOU. FiND OUT More collection of fine and decorative treasures from around the world, National Collection of Modern Take a RIBA tour to learn more meet live creatures and explore arts within it. Anglican Cathedral ABOUT Liverpool’S 800-YEAR Art in the north and is one of the about Liverpool’s architecture. outer space. hiSTorY AND EXplore The most visited galleries outside of Heritage The city also has a variety of fully London, staging international qualified Blue and Green Badge PerFormance BEST IN perForMANCE, FINE Like the Great Wall of China Smaller theatres such as the exhibitions of Chagall, Mondrian, guides who offer services from Drama in Liverpool has a and the Taj Mahal, Liverpool is a Lantern Theatre and Unity ART AND FilM FROM AROUND Klimt, Picasso and Monet to individual walking tours to large fantastically strong reputation, UNESCO World Heritage Site. Theatre are no less innovative mention a few. coach tours. There is a huge and the region has plenty of top The worlD. Take a walk around Albert Dock and showcase local, national and The stunning Walker Art selection of special interest tours theatre performance spaces. and a trip on the famous Mersey international talent in a more Gallery on William Brown Street too such as photography, ghost intimate setting. Ferry to absorb some of the city’s The legendary Everyman and houses an incredible collection tours, comedy tours and of course, history and get great views of the Playhouse theatres are responsible The acclaimed FACT (Foundation of paintings, sculpture and the Fab Four. famous waterfront. for launching the career of several for Art and Creative Technology) decorative arts spanning over six celebrated actors including Bill centre specialises in multimedia Liverpool’s buildings tell the story MUseUms hundred years, including works Nighy, Julie Walters and the late, exhibitions, film and digital art. of the city. Liverpool has some Liverpool has one of the most by Hockney, Degas, Turner and great Pete Postlethwaite. Both of the best examples of neo- impressive collections of museums The hundred-year-old Floral Rembrandt. offer an eclectic programme of classical architecture in the world, in the country. The newest is the Pavilion in New Brighton, Wirral, The Bluecoat is a cutting- home-grown and touring theatre, most notably the magnificent St Museum of Liverpool, opened and Southport Theatre and edge arts centre housed in a and frequently stage world George’s Hall. Visit Central Library in 2011 in a landmark waterfront Convention Centre both have 300-year-old building, offering premieres. to see how the original Picton building, and the UK’s first varied programmes of theatre, a programme of art, literature, Library has been skilfully meshed museum dedicated to the history The Empire is the largest theatre family shows, comedy and music. music and dance. It’s also home with a modern design, and stroll of a city. Visitors can explore how in Liverpool and stages the big Many bars, clubs and theatres to a wide range of artists and down Hope Street to see both of Liverpool’s port, its people and its musicals and spectacular shows, host regular comedy nights such creative businesses. Liverpool’s famous cathedrals, creative, industrial and sporting often straight from the West End. as Comedy Central Comedy Club And don’t miss the impressive the soaring neo-gothic Anglican history have shaped the city. The Royal Court offers a range of at Blue Bar & Grill, Laughterhouse Open Eye Gallery, one of the Cathedral (the largest in the Many museums and galleries are long-running plays and one-off at The Slaughter House and The UK’s first dedicated photographic UK) and the modernist Catholic located around the Albert Dock, nights, and the Epstein Theatre Liverpool Comedy Cellar. galleries. Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ such as the Merseyside Maritime is Grade II listed with a striking The Echo Arena hosts all the big Across the Mersey at Port the King with its glorious stained Museum and International Slavery interior and hosts entertainment names, such as Jack Whitehall, Sunlight is the Lady Lever Art glass windows. Museum, where you can find out of all kinds. Russell Howard and Miranda Hart. VisitLiverpool.com #VisitLiverpool | 6 | LIVERPOOL GUIDE LIVERPOOL GUIDE | 7 | experience A PLACE you’ll love San Francisco has its cable cars, New York has its yellow cabs and Liverpool has its Mersey Ferries. With unrivalled views of the ever evolving UNESCO Cavern Club world heritage waterfront, fascinating history and MUSIC all the sea air you could wish for, this is a trip for everyone to enjoy! BirThplACE OF The BeATleS merseyferries.co.uk AND hoME TO More NUMBER 0151 330 1444 ONE hiTS THAN ANY OTher CITY, Liverpool’S MUSIC SCENE HAS A proUD hiSTorY, DYNAMIC preSENT AND BriGHT FUTUre. Brand new exhibition comes to The Beatles Story, Liverpool. Co-curated by The GRAMMY Museum, with never seen before memorabilia and photographs of bands such as The Rolling Stones, the exhibition explores the impact that British Invasion artists had on the American popular 1960s music scene. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra An absolute must-see is the Liverpool’s music scene is no Beatles Story at Albert Dock, a less lively today. Liverpool brilliant tour through The Beatles’ International Music Festival, lives, with fascinating memorabilia International Beatleweek, and insights from friends and Sound City and Africa Oye are family. And check out Beatles just a few of the festivals taking Story Pier Head for the brand new place throughout the year, British Invasion exhibition. covering every kind of music and showcasing Liverpool’s best © Bob Bonis Bob © The Cavern Club on Mathew Street is the most famous club venues from Sefton Park to the in the world; stop off here for a ‘Bombed Out Church’. beer and live music. Fab Four Beyonce, Justin Bieber, The Who, fans should also take a Magical Sir Elton John and Arctic Monkeys Mystery Tour through Strawberry are just a selection of the artists Field, Penny Lane and other iconic to have played at Liverpool Echo Beatles locations, or visit Mendips Arena, on the city’s waterfront. book online at beatlesstory.com and 20 Forthlin Road, the The list of previous performances childhood homes of John Lennon reads like a veritable A-Z of music and Sir Paul McCartney. superstardom, as performers VisitLiverpool.com VisitLiverpool | 8 | LIVERPOOL GUIDE LIVERPOOL GUIDE | 9 | appreciate the fervent reception from Liverpool audiences. The Kaiser Chiefs and Paloma Faith feature this season. Classical fans should visit the beautiful and newly refurbished art deco Philharmonic Hall and take in a performance by the world-renowned Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, led by charismatic chief conductor Vasily Petrenko. The Hall also stages contemporary and classical music by a host of famous names. Find out if Liverpool Welsh Choral is performing when you’re in The British Invasion exhibition, The Beatles Story town. The unique programme is well worth catching, with everything from the Beatles to opera. Visit LEAF, Blade Factory, The Kazimier, The Shipping Forecast or East Village Arts Club to see some of the best alternative artists from around the world play in unique venues. These five are just a handful of venues leading the city’s resurgence as a live music destination in recent years, and on any given night you can see performances from acid jazz to black metal and everything in between.