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Music from The Big House - 12/8/2010
Following the success of her solo career Candie Payne has re-grouped and become the lead singer of a band. Nerve talked to her on the new direction her career has taken and her stunning new group The Big House. Read more

Frances Conway-Seymour Profile - 15/7/2010
Earlier this year, lifelong and well-known artist Frances Conway-Seymour was told she had only weeks to live. This has prompted her to mount a retrospective exhibition of part of the vast body of work she has produced over some decades, from 1954 to the present, which can be seen at the Lark Lane Atelier. Read more

Act It Out - 1/7/2010
"Act It Out" is a drama festival on the theme of health produced by Dingle Community Theatre to show the Health Benefits of Drama and to give people the opportunities to take part in performance activities. It takes place from 12th - 21st July. Read more

Tall Tales - 18/6/2010
Dominic Murphy interviews Keith Saha of 20 Stories High. 20 Stories High develop their productions at the old and unique Edge Hill station. Their numerous award-winning productions have toured the nation. Read more

Africa Oye 2010 Preview - 12/6/2010
The Review Field in Sefton Park will play host one of the biggest free music festivals in the UK on the weekend of the 19th and 20th of June. Held in the shadow of the magnificent Palm House, Africa Oye is a celebration of world music and culture, which attracted over 20,000 people last year. A huge success, but this year’s event promises to be even bigger. Expect to hear Afrobeat, dub, roots, reggae, salsa, dancehall, and many other genres. In anticipation of the weekend Nerve spoke to festival director Paul Duhaney. Read more

Civilians Under Attack by Israel - 31/5/2010
Under darkness of night, Israeli commandoes dropped from a helicopter onto the Turkish passenger ship, Mavi Marmara, and began to shoot the moment their feet hit the deck. They fired directly into the crowd of civilians asleep. Latest reports put the death toll at 19 with dozens injured. Read more

Plans Unveiled For New Everyman - 29/5/2010
"We want to leave a legacy the people of the city can be proud of", commented Artistic Director of the Everyman Theatre Gemma Bodinetz, at the unveiling of the designs of the new building. Read more

The Liverpool Art Prize 2010 - 27/5/2010
The Liverpool Art Prize celebrates city's leading artists with an exhibition launching on 3rd June 2010 and running for 5 weeks with a fascinating and diverse selection of works by 5 short-listed artists, Gina Czarnecki, David Jacques, James Quin, Paul Rooney and Emily Speed. Read more

A Brief History of Probe Records - 20/5/2010
Since Independent Record Shop Day was held recently to highlight the importance of independent retailers in the UK, it seems a perfect time to look at the history of Probe, Liverpool’s most famous alternative music shop. Now approaching its fourtieth year and in its third location, Probe continues to thrive, despite the music industry being a vastly different beast compared to the one in the early 1970s. Read more

Interview with Nick Harper - 20/3/2010
As the son of highly acclaimed and politically savvy British folk singer Roy, it is not surprising that Nick Harper champions a very unique musical approach. Amy Scott-Samuel met up with Nick before his set at the Masque Theatre, to ask him about some of the high points that span his twenty five year career. Read more

Christians thrown to the lions - 11/3/2010
Liverpool Council have demolished Christians, the biggest fruit and vegetable stall in the city, which had been on Bold Street for twenty years. So much for healthy eating.
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Every Penny Counts! - 11/12/2009
Penny the Penguin is a user-friendly, festive art installation, integrating creative art and human interaction with visual and online technology, and is part of Go Penguins, a Merseyside-wide cultural art initiative. Read more

Regeneration and Cairns Street - 25/11/2009
Regeneration zone signs are placed up around most parts of the city with Anfield, Breckfield, Granby, Bootle, Norris Green and countless more areas continuing to suffer the scorn of the word ‘regeneration’ which has left most of them looking half derelict and war-torn. Read more

Interview with Serotonal - 25/11/2009
Fronted by Darren White, ex-vocalist with Liverpool doom metal pioneers Anathema, Serotonal are one of the few bands playing heavy music on Merseyside. Matt Ford spoke to four of them on the eve of the release of their debut full-length album, 'Monumental: Songs Of Misery And Hope'. Read more

Altcross Foot Path - Keep it Open! - 20/11/2009
The Altcross Foot Path in Croxteth is due to be closed, or gated, with the reason given that it is a focus for crime. Two huge and permanently locked metal gates will physically divide old Croxteth from new Croxteth, friends and family from easily visiting one another. Read more

Good Time George - 27/5/2009
The remarkable life of Liverpool born George Melly – jazz musician, writer, art, film and music critic, lecturer on surrealism, raconteur and party animal – is being celebrated in a self-titled exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery. A series of paintings and drawings of Melly is on display, by one of Britain’s most acclaimed artists, Maggi Hambling. Read more

Review of 'Action! Race War to Door Wars' - 13/5/2009
I had thought that anyone with any sense would take Joey Owens’ so-called autobiography (Action! Race War to Door Wars) with a very large pinch of salt. However, some people who should know better have proved that this is not always the case. So, here’s a review of sorts. Read more

Pax Republican Convention - 26/3/2009
An interesting art and social issues event is due to take place at the Black-E Arts Centre in Liverpool.
The Pax Republic Convention is the first phase of the launch of a new transnational community building project which aims to unite Liverpool based artists, academics, faith based groups, students, filmmakers, poets, musicians, theatre, dance and business people with communities in Cape Town, Istanbul, Guadalajara and London. Read more

John Moores Students Protest Against Cuts - 26/3/2009
John Moores Vice Chancellor Michael Brown fled a group of 150 angry students and their supporters in his BMW (complete with JMU 1 numberplate) yesterday afternoon. In doing so, he postponed a showdown over his plans to cut thirty-four courses from September. Read more

Merseyside Jobs Cull Begins - 21/3/2009
Merseyside Job Centre queues grew by the largest amount in eighteen years last month, bringing back memories of traumatic times before the 'regeneration' gold rush and the credit boom.
The number of Jobseekers' Allowance claimants in the region - which officially includes Liverpool, Wirral, Sefton, Knowsley, Halton and St Helens - increased by 7,532 in February, taking the total to 52,524. This represents a month on month rise of 7.14%, the most severe since 1991. Read more

Liverpool Acoustic - 1/2/2009
Graham Holland writes about the Liverpool Acoustic website which is designed as a central resource for anyone interested in acoustic music in and around the Liverpool area. Whether they're a musician looking for an open mic event where they can play for the first time, or just a lover of acoustic music looking for somewhere to go for a good night out, they'll find all the information they need on the site. Read more

Liverpool 2009: Capital Of Crisis? - 7/1/2009
As Liverpool hands the Capital of Culture baton over to Vilnius and Linz, the city’s economy is in for an extremely tough year. Top council leaders claim Liverpool is in particularly good shape to ride out the global economic collapse, but statistics and analysis show they could not be further from the truth. Read more

Music in Liverpool -14/08/2008
MADeA writes "Outside of and after the Beatles, our greatest triumph of musical individuality and freedom, Liverpool music's story has been one of conformity and constraint. Today to be a successful "Liverpool" band or artist embraced by the local media and propelled to national and international levels, one must don a stylistic “scouserock” straightjacket."
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The Streets You Have No Right To Walk Down - 5/7/2008
On Thursday, 3rd July 2008, Adam Ford spoke at a session of the 'Capital, Culture, Power: Criminalisation and Resistance' conference organised by the University of Liverpool, John Moores University, and Nerve magazine.The topic of his speech was the controversial Liverpool One development. Read more

Radical Route through Liverpool - 19/5/2008
The TUC and Unite have put together a “Walking Tour of Liverpool, City of Protest”. A two-hour walk around town takes you around 15 sites of demonstrations, strikes, protests and commemorations. You start outside St George’s Hall, where the police attacked demonstrators on Liverpool’s Bloody Sunday in August 1911. Read more

Kirkby Nan's Planning War! Which plan do you prefer? - 23/4/2008
Option One: Kirkby grandmother and retired laundry worker Dot Reid plus loads of her neighbours get chucked out of their homes, which are then demolished to make way for yet another Tesco, some more shops, and a new stadium for Everton FC.
Option Two: Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy gets slung out of his luxury home in Hertfordshire, which is then demolished to make way for a community garden with water features and a kiosk for pensioners. Read more

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