Welcome
Forget 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 29th to late on Monday 31st August the Fringe district will be buzzing with the sounds of Liverpool today. From all day gigs at the Zanzibar and Masque on Seel Street, from 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 transformed by live pavement art from Urban Canvas 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
Want to take Part?
Unlike other music festivals the Fringe isn’t programmed by one person trying to get all their mates on stage, it’s programmed by all the music venues that support Liverpool’s new music scene 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:
- Bad Format Social Club www.badformatsocialclub.co.uk
- Bar Hannah www.barhannah.co.uk
- The Bluecoat www.thebluecoat.org.uk
- The Bumper www.bumperliverpool.co.uk
- The Grapes www.thegrapesliverpool.co.uk
- Heebie Jeebies 80-82 Seel Street Liverpool
- The Masque 90 Seel Street Liverpool
- The Magnet www.magnetliverpool.co.uk
- The New Picket www.myspace.com/picketliverpool
- Studio 2 Parr Street www.parrstreet.co.uk
- The Zanzibar www.thezanzibarclub.com
For Fringe weekend all these venues get together to present the best of Liverpool’s current music scene. 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
Urban Canvas
From Sunday morning until Monday evening pavement artists from Liverpool company Urban Canvas will be transforming Fringe venues on Seel Street into works of art. The artists will be working from around 2pm – 7pm each day to decorate The Masque, Heebie Jeebies, The Peacock, The Zanzibar and other Fringe venues.
