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Liverpool Music Week

Not to be outdone by Manchester’s In The City, Liverpool begins its musical retaliation tomorrow with the fourth Liverpool Music Week.

The generous ‘week’ runs from November 4 until November 13 and features 220 acts playing at 16 venues. Last year 18,000 people attended and this week they’re expecting 26,000.

If I lived in Liverpool or could afford the train fare, I’d give serious consideration to seeing festival openers Shack tomorrow night. Tramp Attack (who are splitting up) would also feature highly on my to-see list.

LMW is spilling over into Manchester too, with The Maybes? playing Akoustik Anarkhy tomorrow night and Peter & The Wolf and Eugene McGuinness doing an EP launch at Big Hands on Tuesday.

Tony Parrish returns?

From a comment left yesterday on the I am Tony Parrish post:

It ain’t over yet.

By Tony Parrish on 09.11.06 6:09 pm

Also commenting on that post is “information gatherer” Tori Blare, who runs two blogs on Liverpool Council and the ‘Liverpool Evil Cabal investigation’:

liverpoolcityacollectionofinformation.blogspot.com

toriblareliverpool.blogspot.com

There may also be some connection to Blondie’s Liverpool corruption blog, letmeoffthecorporatebus.blogspot.com.

I am Tony Parrish

Down the East Lancs Road in Liverpool, a blog called Liverpool Evil Cabal has been courting controversy for a couple of months now.

Updated by someone using the guise Tony Parrish – “occupation: whistle-blower, interests: victory” – the website contained speculation about the running of the council. Here’s Tony’s own introduction:

The ‘evil cabal’ comes from the description given by former council Leader, Mike Storey to the wicked triumvirate that ran the council.

Manchester’s In The City festival

In The City – the highlight of Manchester’s musical calendar – is back later this year: from Saturday October 28 until Tuesday October 31 to be precise.

It usually falls on a conventional weekend (Fri/Sat/Sun), but this year there’s a Labour Party Conference in town.

I’ve been involved with every ITC since coming to Manchester – from watching 30 bands in three days in 2003, to reporting on the conference itself last year. This year I hope to be promoting ITC events myself – more to follow on that.