ISSUE 96 EDITORIAL
Editor-in-Chief Christopher Torpey frames our bido100! plans as a way to look at what kind of future we want to create for ourselves.
EYESORE & THE JINX
Satire and psychobilly in West Derby: how to turn Britain’s crumbling façade into high art via a darkly comedic filter.
ERIC TUCKER
The "secret Lowry" who documented everyday life in Warrington over hundreds of paintings
LADYTRON
The end for Poxy Music – a new start for Ladytron. The far-flung collective of synth wizards return with their sixth album, and they mean business.
LEE SCOTT
Rapper Bang On catches up with the prolific Blah Records man, who is known far and wide in the hip hop world.
ARTS CENTRAL
In the latest in her ongoing Arts Central series, Julia Johnson looks at the role that public realm spectacles play in our relationship with our city by chatting to the team from Open Culture.
RAY MIA’S ADVENTURES IN SOUND
What’s going on at Jacaranda Records? The former Universal Music executive behind the label talks to us about his Liverpool roots and his plans to create a micro-industry in the city.
NO HUGO BOSS
Scouse fashion specialist Amy Czarnecki investigates the the social and class dynamics in banning particular branded wear in clubs
MEMBERS’ MIXTAPE
We ask one of our Community Members to compile a selection of music from their recent listening playlists
THE INDICA GALLERY
Indie surrealism is the order of the day with this five-piece of psych obsessives
KYAMI
Hailing from upstate New York, this neo-soul vocalist and producer has put down roots in Liverpool since being recognised by LIMF Academy as one of 2018’s Most Ready Artists.
THE PEACH FUZZ
The five-piece Skeleton Key noisemakers invite you to get down with their hazy cosmic jive
INTERNATIONAL TEACHERS OF POP
Sheffield’s latest musical response to the UK’s woes is a trio of Northern Rail-baiting synth obsessives pumping out acidic nerd disco.
ISSUE 96 FINAL SAY
Chair of the newly formed Liverpool City Region Music Board, Michael Eakin, talks us through some of the challenges it faces