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Jack Ryan comes to Liverpool
As the last post illustrated, on-the-spot action shots aren't really the forte of this blog. However! That didn't stop me accidentally wandering right onto the set of the new Jack Ryan film last night for a nose. Water Street, Castle Street and th...
Period drama films on Falkner Square
A film crew was out and about in and around Falkner Square last night, hence why all of the streetlights around the park were out for a few hours after dark. Here's some pics of what was going on -- you can just about see from my woeful photograph...
Sister Act tickets up for grabs in Nun Day stunt
"Sister Act The Musical is set to take Liverpool by storm from Tuesday May 22, and to celebrate we have 20 nuns visiting the city..." the promotional email ran. Well, that'll do MADEUP! It turns out tomorrow (Saturday) is Liverpool's first -- pres...
Avenue Q puppets stop by the Liverpool Empire
The cast -- and puppets -- of hit musical Avenue Q dropped by the Empire this afternoon. The national tour is currently playing at the Lowry in Manchester, so puppeteers including Gabrielle Broomes (far right, with yellow Bad Idea Bear), who has p...
Curtain up for Legally Blonde
Opening night is an exciting and nerve-wracking time, and tonight is a triple the fun for the self-styled "Scouse Mafia" taking to the Empire stage for their first home town performance of Legally Blonde. Our own Les Dennis, Claire Sweeney and Ray...
White Christmas launch at the Empire
Ordinarily the beginning of October would be a perfectly acceptable time for the Empire to start decking the halls, wheeling out Aled 'Walking in the Air' Jones and getting excited about the launch of its Christmas show, but nobody was really expe...
The Day the Earth Tipped
Here are some pictures and video from The Day the Earth Tipped, a live piece of aerial theatre that took place in the grounds of Liverpool's Anglican cathedral last night. Performed by the city's own Wired aerial theatre, it was an ambitious and e...
Macula Spectacular part II
Take a look at this High Definition video of the whole of the second part of the Macula Spectacular this weekend. While the projection on the Liver Building showed a figurative history of the city, the projection that followed on the new Museum of...
Macula Spectacular at the Pier Head
If you haven't seen the Macula Spectacular at the Pier Head, then there's one more chance to catch it tonight, and it is a seriously unmissable event. There's been attempts at projected light shows off the city's buildings before that have never q...
Museum of Liverpool now open
And so, without further ado ??? for of that there has been plenty over the years ??? the long awaited Museum of Liverpool finally opened to the public today. Liver birds were on hand to meet, greet and gab with the crowd, Phil Redmond was mumbling a t...
Goodnight to the Everyman
Here are some beautiful pictures taken from the Everyman finale. How to describe it for those who couldn't be there? Hm. It all began with a brass band and a big yellow digger making their way up Hope Street towards the theatre in a New Orleans fu...
One last look inside the Everyman
This afternoon the Everyman was open to the public for the final time. The backstage area was opened up to nose around, the lobby was being painted by a cartoonist, 'undertakers' were wandering the building, and in the auditorium, a simple but eff...
A night with the WWE
Shuffling along the Albert Dock to the arena with my old friend Dan, surrounded by a sea of excited little boys in colourful masks and their generally disinterested parents, I wondered why on earth it was I was still doing this. For fun. Not even ...
Peaches Geldof makes it impossible to get served
Here's TVs Peaches Geldof, hogging the bar with her entourage and making it almost impossible to be served at the Hope Street Hotel tonight. A very excited producer type told us she's filming a new show for ITV2 called OMG that airs in March. Well...
Miranda star Sally Phillips filming in Georgian Quarter
Walking home today I spied another camera crew on the corner of my street. A relatively small operation, they appeared to be filming a sequence through an upstairs window of a house on Falkner Square. A quick nosey and gab with someone on set reve...
Hasselin' the Hoff
The Britain's Got Talent bandwagon was out and stopping traffic again today for its second lot of Liverpool auditions at the Empire. Only the terminally uncurious wouldn't have been tempted to stroll down and catch a glimpse of David Hasselhoff, b...