Experienced Experiences
- 9th May 2025
- @ 01:29
Over the weekend of the 26th & 27th of April 2025, the first round of the Sustain Fuels 750 Motor Club Formula Vee Championship took place. I was in attendance for this weekend, the first weekend of the 2025 season, but for me personally,...
- 28th March 2025
- @ 00:37
Opening night for "Destinations" from the 3rd year (level 6) Dancers from the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts school LIPA. Through seeing previous performances of these students at LIPA we have followed their progress from 2nd year onwards. Personally I've not been able to...
- 27th March 2025
- @ 23:51
I was wrong about the frequency of these events last time I wrote about this, I said these run every Month. They don't it seems, it's every three Months, and so it was time for another one. This one, number #53 took placed on...
- 28th February 2025
- @ 13:36
According to my x40 archives this is the first time I have actually been to see a Sir Wayne McGregor production.. Out of all of them that I could have chosen, it seems I chose the wrong one. Now after a start like that,...
- 26th February 2025
- @ 12:34
On Tuesday 25th February 2025 I attended a performance of Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake at the Liverpool Empire. This was the opening night of the performance of Swan Lake at the Empire and the show runs till the 1st March 2025, so you've still...
- 12th December 2024
- @ 03:19
Just a few days after being on a 10 hour flight back from my first holiday in possibly 20+ years, I was thrown back in to the eventing ring and dragged along to see a show I've been trying to see for a long...
- 30th November 2024
- @ 04:26
Yes, that's right, you read the title right.. Las Vegas.. It's a long story, but basically I've just returned from a holiday, my first in 20+ years that took me outside of the UK (woohoo) and on a flight that lasted between 9-10 hours...
- 8th June 2024
- @ 23:22
On the evening of the 8th June 2024 I attended a Dance Show event at Lipa's Paul McCartney Auditorium to see a show titled Amargosa, Directed by Emma Annetts and Kristine Berget. This was the name given to the Second Year Dance Students Summer...
- 8th June 2024
- @ 20:55
On the Afternoon of the 8th June 2024 I attended a matinee performance of a show called 'Mind Mangler'. This show was a preview show of a new piece of work by the creative and frankly hilarious minds at Mischief. These are the people...
- 6th March 2024
- @ 23:46
On Wednesday 6th March 2024 I took myself to Leaf on Bold Street in town to see a collection of short 5-minute talks on absolutely anything that people wanted to talk about. These are like TED talks were a presenter gets up and talks...
- 4th March 2024
- @ 23:55
On Monday 4th March 2024 I finally, after trying previously on three different occasions, got to see Everything Everything performing Live. The gig was an Album playthrough to promote their new album 'Mountainhead'. When I booked the tickets to go see this event the...
- 11th December 2023
- @ 01:40
Well for one last time in 2023 as Christmas approaches and the year starts to draw itself to an end, we don the review cap once more. This evening I attended the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall to see an evening of Live entertainment from the...
- 3rd December 2023
- @ 15:16
We arrived at the venue for tonight's performance with some time to spare so we sat in a very non-descript cafe that didn't seem to have any connection to the venue, yet was inside it. We killed some time there before heading upstairs to...
- 17th November 2023
- @ 00:45
I'll be honest... I've been in no rush to write this review as it pains me to do so, also - spoiler - two negative reviews in a row.. isn't a good president to be setting, but I said I would be honest above...
- 9th November 2023
- @ 01:29
They can't all be winners, all positive all the time. This show.. disappointed me. Adam Kay wrote the hugely successful 'This is Going to Hurt' back in 2017, which has been claimed a "literary sensation", selling well over 3 million copies and later becoming...
- 19th October 2023
- @ 21:31
On the 19th October 2023 I attended the Liverpool Playhouse Theatre, which is a venue which I have not been in since perhaps my childhood years. Sister venue to Hope Street's Everyman Theatre, which has recently had a refit throughout, the Playhouse.. has.. not....
- 18th October 2023
- @ 23:01
After previously seeing the fantastic work of Mischief in their 'The Play That Goes Wrong', I had an idea of what to expect from Peter Pan Goes Wrong. But yet somehow it still enabled me to be surprised and highly entertained by the on...
- 30th September 2023
- @ 23:45
At this point I've seen a good number of cover bands. I like going to see them because you tend to get either a very good or a very poor experience from them, and usually if it's a poor one, there's something there to...
- 27th September 2023
- @ 02:26
It's taken me a while to get to write about this experience. I wanted to be clear-minded and honest about the experience as a whole, as I have been so far in my previous reviews and I felt that for a while my judgement...
- 20th August 2023
- @ 12:39
On Friday 18th August 2023 I made my way via train to Stoke-On-Trent Station where I was picked up by Pott3r and Joe. From there I was transported to Trentham Gardens which was to be the venue for seeing Chase n Status, the DJ...
- 17th August 2023
- @ 11:01
Oppenheimer is going to be a future cinema cult classic. The film IS long and in places is slow to progress. The first thirty minutes or so for example, but this is used excellently by Christopher Nolan (Director) to set the scene. Thankfully this...
- 5th August 2023
- @ 16:25
You remember what I said last time about Dance Theatre.. about not liking it and it not being 'Dance' to me.. Yeh.. I take it all back, I was wrong. Matthew Bourne's Romeo & Juliet at Sadlers Wells turned me around completely. This is...
- 28th July 2023
- @ 10:08
I have had tickets booked for this event since before April 2023 and I have been very much looking forward to going to see it. It was at The Lowry. Which frankly is a bit of a pain to get to (and back) from...
- 7th July 2023
- @ 13:19
On Friday 30th June 2023 a small outing was had for this year's Birthday. After the extravagance of the 40th last year, this year was always going to be a smaller affair. However I was more than pleased to be going back to the...
- 10th June 2023
- @ 22:08
Friday 9th June 2023 saw my return to the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts or LIPA to see another of their student's Dance Shows. This time out it was the second year students performing something called 'Calamity'. Going in to this I knew nothing...
- 6th May 2023
- @ 13:32
With elements of nature pouring to the floor, and a large steel structure, Maliphant paints his own interpretation with movement, light, and shadow to create a visually rich journey, with the exceptional dancers of Russell Maliphant Dance Company (RMDC). I was looking forward to this...
- 19th April 2023
- @ 04:00
I have known about Postmodern Jukebox for many a year now after seeing many many of their covers on YouTube. Covers you say? They don't make original music? Well you see that's the thing.. I mean that IS their.. thing. Modern Music, played as...
- 22nd March 2023
- @ 05:37
On the 21st March 2023 I took myself off to London for another Dance Performance. This one was a little different in my execution.. I was not staying the night this time, due to the timing and location of the event I was able...
- 21st March 2023
- @ 02:43
On Monday 20th March 2023 I found myself yet again in Manchester at The Lowry to see another Dance performance... This one I had much higher hopes for than the last, and right up front... This one did not disappoint. So let's backtrack the...
- 15th March 2023
- @ 04:39
What the hell did I just see? Is not how I thought I would be starting this review of tonight's activities. But let's rewind to the beginning... Illegal Dance is a unique multi-sensory dance theatre experience in which every audience member must decide where they...
- 10th March 2023
- @ 00:54
Thursday 9th March was the date of my latest event, this one once more at Sadlers Wells in London. The home of Dance, a fitting venue to see one of the most famous international stars perform. The show was 'Turn it Out' featuring Tiler...
- 7th March 2023
- @ 10:52
On Saturday 4th March 2023 a long-awaited trip out to Manchester, well to Salford Quays was taken. I was coming up from being in London for a show at Sadlers Wells on the Friday night and I was meeting family in Manchester to take...
- 4th March 2023
- @ 10:49
"Superb" Superb would be an accurate description of last nights performance of Coppelia by Scottish Ballet. But I think my reads here have become accustomed to a little more detail than that. I honestly had no idea how to go about starting to write...
- 25th February 2023
- @ 16:31
On Friday 24th February 2023 I had the pleasure of attending a show at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (known as LIPA). This was to watch a Dance Performance titled "Rebooted". This was a BA (Hons) Dance 3rd (final) year presentation show danced...
- 5th February 2023
- @ 01:59
It has been a while (a whole 10 days ago) since I attended the performance of Touch at Liverpool's Unity Theatre. I am not sure why this write up has taken me so long to write. It should not be taken as an indication...
- 25th January 2023
- @ 21:02
I always promised that this blog would be honest and open about my experiences throughout the events and experience I get to undertake on here. So here we go. This one started out in the Hotel room in Greenwich. I was really unsure about...
- 21st January 2023
- @ 16:47
"How did we get here?" - Is the title of this stunning piece of work from Jules Cunningham. Jules together with Melanie C (Spice Girls) and award-winning Dancer Harry Alexandra performed this evening at Sadlers Wells, the home of Dance in London. An intimate...
- 10th December 2022
- @ 10:45
On Friday 9th December 2022 a surprising development presented itself over the streets and buildings of Liverpool. Surprising because usually this particular visitor either misses us entirely or appears as rain by the time it makes it over to us. I am talking of...
- 5th December 2022
- @ 03:06
Well then did this event disappoint! This Night Market was the second time that Unity had hosted one of these events, the first coming I believe before the Pandemic hit. There were perhaps 13-15 stalls upstairs in Unity 2 while the Performance space Unity...
- 21st November 2022
- @ 13:45
Gigs are hard things to attend on your own, and after what seemed like an eternity of back and forth in my own head on if I was going to go or not, I found myself on the DLR, then the Tube, then walking...
- 21st November 2022
- @ 12:41
This one was somewhat different for me. It had with it some different feelings. First of all this was the first event I have attended inside Lillian Baylis Studios, which is part of Sadlers Wells, but next door. It is a performance space, or...
- 5th November 2022
- @ 02:53
Friday 4th November 2022 was the date of the performance of Hold Tight by the Vincent Dance Theatre company at Liverpool's Unity Theatre on Hope Place. Where to start with this one, I am still I guess processing.. Let's take a look at the...
- 4th November 2022
- @ 05:20
On Thursday 3rd of November 2022 I attended the Liverpool Everyman Theatre to see a performance called Touchy + Anthology. This was a double bill from a talented group of performance artists called 20 Stories High. 20 Stories High make theatre that is… gritty,...
- 4th November 2022
- @ 04:52
On the 31st of October 2022, Halloween, I was joined by some of my family at a showing of a film that has been described as an 'influential masterpiece of cinema', the one and only Nosferatu. Essentially a plagiarised, unauthorised, German version of Bram...
- 22nd October 2022
- @ 13:32
Back to Liverpool's Camp n Furnace venue in the Baltic Quarter last night (Friday 21st October 2022) to see a group called The Classic Double Band. They were billed as performing the complete albums of Ok Computer from Radiohead and Dark Side of the...
- 11th October 2022
- @ 03:31
Saṃsārais a Pali/Sanskrit word that means "world". It is also the concept of rebirth and "cyclicality of all life, matter, existence", a fundamental belief of most Indian religions. Popularly, it is the cycle of death and rebirth.Saṃsāra is sometimes referred to with terms or phrases such as transmigration, karmic cycle, reincarnation or Punarjanman,...
- 21st September 2022
- @ 21:02
Tonight I took myself off again to the Lowry at Salford Quays. I think I might have spent more time getting to the venue than I did watching the dance. It was only about 55 minutes in length When I got to lime street...
- 18th September 2022
- @ 02:01
A.. haha very late addition to the schedule, completely unexpected twelve hours previously and I am not sure where I didn't think of checking before I left. But I remembered I had a voucher for Sadlers Wells, thanks to a cancelled event, thanks (again)...
- 18th September 2022
- @ 01:06
In the afternoon of the 17th September 2022, left my hotel around 1pm after a well-needed lazy morning. DLR to Tower Gateway, a short walk over to Tower Hill Tube Station and then the District line to Temple Station. Temple Station.. wow.. It's like...
- 17th September 2022
- @ 02:25
Oh where to start with this one. Ok, so I am a fairly recent fan of Dr. Jordan Peterson. I found his 12 rules for life book and bought it after seeing a lecture on YouTube. I started to read it and did find...
- 3rd September 2022
- @ 23:40
Tonight, on the 3rd September 2022 I attended Sadlers Wells in London to see the National Youth Dance Company perform Quartier Paradis. Going in to this one, I really had no idea what it was I was going to see. The tickets were well...
- 7th August 2022
- @ 00:43
Attending the Gold Cup at Oulton Park has been a life-long wish for me. In the past it's just never been a viable option to attend, but this year, things conspired and got together at the right time in the right place, and together...
- 21st July 2022
- @ 02:08
On the 16th July 2022 I went along to the Unity Theatre in Liverpool to see a Dance Performance titled Curfew. It was one of two performances put on at Unity as part of the Liverpool Arab Arts Festival, more about that below, but...
- 6th July 2022
- @ 12:49
I've been waiting / trying to do this particular cruise for a number of years now.. CoVID-19 very much getting in the way. But I was lucky enough to be offered the chance to be taken as a guest for a present for my...
- 30th June 2022
- @ 00:31
Another night out in June... Another gig, another Radiohead tribute group. The Bends.. This was a random find while browsing Skiddle for the Bowie tickets... Following seeing another Radiohead related performance a few months ago at the Camp n Furnace with JK I remembered...
- 26th June 2022
- @ 23:21
Back to Liverpool and the Camp n Furnace venue for tonight's gig watching The Untold Orchestra play David Bowie's greatest hits. Having previously seen The Untold Orchestra playing Radiohead's greatest hits back in April, we saw an advertisement for this gig and knew then...
- 12th June 2022
- @ 21:12
Continuing with the Touring Car theme of late, this time out I attended the Oulton Park round for the second year running. This time out however I would be meeting up with 'Da Boyz' and Special Guests... One of the boys had traveled over...
- 29th May 2022
- @ 22:33
This was the second Touring Car event that I have ever attended, with my friend again who took me to see them up at Oulton Park in 2021. I was invited again to spend some time with a friend and his lovely family before...
- 25th May 2022
- @ 02:30
I went into this experience knowing a little more of what to expect, or at least I thought I did... I arrived at the venue with about fifteen minutes to spare, which left just enough time to get some cold water to enjoy the...
- 12th May 2022
- @ 03:25
I started thinking about wording this review almost immediately after getting on the train after the performance. I even made some notes which I will refer to later. But first let us return to the beginning. I have been low-key looking forward to this...
- 8th May 2022
- @ 02:32
Today's event was an early afternoon showing of LMA's end-of-year Dance Performances from their 1st, 2nd and 3rd years students. First thing first, these are not professional dancers, but students learning how to perfect the artform of movement and dance. - That said however,...
- 6th May 2022
- @ 03:50
Thursday 5th May is a day that is in the UK most associated with elections of some sort, and today the surrounding areas of Liverpool went to the polls to cast their ballot, however Liverpool itself... did not. What does that have to do...
- 30th April 2022
- @ 03:18
Liverpool's Camp n Furnace was the venue for tonight's gig. Seeing The Untold Orchestra playing a selection of Radiohead covers with a guest singer was what was on offer for the evening. I had company tonight in the form of another Radiohead fan, so...
- 18th April 2022
- @ 05:00
Back to London this Easter weekend to see Groove Armada play with their live band for the last time not only in Brixton but (apparently) ever. The show was billed as a late-night special bank-holiday show. So with a 9pm start time for the...
- 24th March 2022
- @ 02:34
Did you know that one-worded poems' are a thing? Well they are, and if I was a poet, and I wrote a one-worded poem, I would entitled mine "Wow", as a one-worded review of this evening's performance of The Curious Incident of the Dog...
- 21st March 2022
- @ 02:49
Sunday night out in town.. What am I like? Tonight was the Movie Themes by Candlelight at the St. Georges Hall in Liverpool. This was a performance by the London Concertante. They seem to fairly regularly play this venue alternating between these Movie &...
- 13th March 2022
- @ 03:19
On Monday 7th March 2022 I made a journey south to London, a return to my spiritual home. The journey down itself was fine. The train was packed and I had a forward facing Aisle seat, this was good till Crewe when the person...
- 10th March 2022
- @ 22:37
On Wednesday 9th March 2022, I went along to Sadlers Wells in Angel / Islington to see a Lucinda Childs & Philip Glass collaboration expressed in the form of Modern Dance. The performance was part of the Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels...
- 8th March 2022
- @ 22:41
On Tuesday 8th March 2022 I went to see the UNCHARTED film at the Odeon Luxe in Leister Square, alone. I only just made it. I was running late as I had basically gotten on the wrong bus, which lead to the wrong train,...
- 2nd March 2022
- @ 12:04
On the 24th February 2022, I had my first true 'experience' of the year planned. It was to see a Modern Dance performance danced by Subhash Viman Gorania called "Little Murmur", but more about that later. The first thing I have to say is...