August 28th & 29th



Fringe

Welcome

Mathew Street FringeForget what you thought you knew about the Mathew Street Festival. The Fringe has Liverpool’s hottest bands playing in the city’s hippest venues. We give you the bands that people are whispering about, breaking boundaries and playing the kind of music that NME has to employ a think tank to come up with a genre title for.

We at the Fringe love our big brother Mathew Street Music Festival but he doesn’t have our style and taste in music. From Saturday 28th to late on Monday 30th August the Fringe district will be buzzing with the sounds of Liverpool today. From all day gigs at the Zanzibar and Heebie Jeebies on Seel Street, acoustic sessions at the world famous Parr Street Studio 2 to music & film with Urban Strawberry Lunch in St Luke’s bombed out church.

Seel Street will be throbbing with music and overrun by camera crews taking part in the Fringe 48-hour film challenge.

The Fringe is about Liverpool right now, we’ll see you right in front of the stage in any of the venues.

Programme

The 2010 Festival programme is online now.

Fringe Radio Cast

During the Fringe festival Ariel Trust will be running the Fringe online radio station hosting interviews with bands and acoustic sessions from Friday onwards. Click on the links below to make sure you know what’s happening, when, where and who, all weekend:

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Want to take Part?

Unlike other music festivals the Fringe isn’t programmed by one person trying to get all their mates on stage, musicians are selected by the venues that support and promote Liverpool’s new music all year round. These are the people that live and breathe the Liverpool scene, if you’re a musician and you want to perform you should contact the venues directly:

For Fringe weekend all these venues get together to present the best of Liverpool’s current music. There are too many bands, artists, genres and styles to squeeze onto the outdoor stages so the Seel Street core and surrounding areas give you the chance to sample the new, the daring and the downright strange.

48 Hour Film Challenge

From 11am on Sunday 29th to 11am on Tuesday 31st August we’re inviting film makers to compete for £250 and the chance for their video to be shown at FACT on Saturday 4th September. To take part come to the café in FACT at 11am on Sunday 29th August where you will be given 5 elements that must be included in your film – I can guarantee you that one of them will be the Mathew Street Fringe. You then have 48 hours to script, shoot, edit and return to FACT at 11am on Tuesday 31st August with your finished DVD. Judges from FACT, North West Vision & Media, Canvas and Mathew Street Fringe will spend four days coming to their decision, all the films will be shown in the Box at FACT from 12pm on Saturday 4th September and the winner will receive a cheque for £250. If you have any questions please email 48hour@creativeuniverse.co.uk
Judges:

  • Joseph Spademan – Canvas & Jojopops
  • Will Massa – New Talent Development and Film Executive, Northwest Vision and Media
  • Gordon Ross – director, Creative Universe Ltd.

More info

Canvas has been running since February 2007 in the 3rd Thursday of every month as part of Thursdays at 3345 Parr St. It started with the intention of providing a platform for local musicians, artists, photographers, film-makers and DJs to share their work to an appreciative audience. And has been a great success at doing so. More information at www.canvasnight.co.uk, FACT: www.fact.co.uk
North West Vision & Media: www.visionandmedia.co.uk