Issue 95 / Dec18/Jan19
Dec 2018/Jan 2019 double issue of Bido Lito! magazine. Featuring: CHELCEE GRIMES, REMY JUDE ENSEMBLE, AN ODE TO L8, BRAD STANK, KIARA MOHAMED, MOLLY BURCH, THE CORAL, PORTICO QUARTET, JACK WHITE and much more.
Dec 2018/Jan 2019 double issue of Bido Lito! magazine. Featuring: CHELCEE GRIMES, REMY JUDE ENSEMBLE, AN ODE TO L8, BRAD STANK, KIARA MOHAMED, MOLLY BURCH, THE CORAL, PORTICO QUARTET, JACK WHITE and much more.
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NEWS<br />
Sound City’s Loyle Following<br />
British hip hop saviour LOYLE CARNER is among<br />
the names announced for the 12th edition of Sound<br />
City taking place across venues in the Baltic Triangle<br />
in May. As well as the Mercury-nominated rapper,<br />
noughties RnB star MABEL will be topping the festival<br />
bill on the Saturday night. The second edition of the<br />
festival since its return to its city centre venue roots<br />
follows the success of last year’s sold-out event and<br />
will host a wide range of artists from a variety of<br />
genres. This is demonstrated by names announced<br />
this month which include LOUIS BERRY, BENIN CITY<br />
and SOPHIE & THE GIANTS. The perfect opportunity<br />
to discover your new favourite band.<br />
Loyle Carner<br />
Grey Skies Clearing<br />
The bold and strident voice of ASTLES continues to improve,<br />
as evidenced by the songwriter’s new song, Grey Skies. “It’s<br />
about the ups and downs you face in life and making sense<br />
of them all,” Astles says of the song, which is full of Beach<br />
Boys-meets-Lennon melodicism. “Sometimes it feels like<br />
the rain won’t ever stop but it does. I’ve learnt to try and<br />
make the best of myself during these low points.” The song<br />
is the first one to be taken from the 20-year-old artist’s new<br />
EP, titled The Things I Know To Be True, due out in early<br />
2019. It was recorded and mixed by Matt Freeman at Fresh<br />
Goods Studios. You can listen to the single now premiering<br />
on bidolito.co.uk – and read Astles’ thoughts on Liverpool’s<br />
UNESCO City Of Music status in the feature he wrote for this<br />
issue (page 22).<br />
Astles<br />
Dooley Day<br />
Dooley Day<br />
Honouring the life and work of homegrown artists is a vital part<br />
of our cultural heritage, as pointed out in Niloo’s brilliant ode to<br />
L8 on page 14. The Florrie is doing its best to make sure that<br />
the prodigious talents of ARTHUR DOOLEY aren’t forgotten, by<br />
marking 17th January 2019 as Dooley Day – what would have<br />
been his 90th birthday. Arthur was the artist behind the iconic<br />
Black Christ statue on the exterior of the Princes Park Methodist<br />
Church, and the day will be marked by the opening of a special<br />
exhibition that pays homage to Arthur’s work as both an artist and<br />
an activist.<br />
Seeking Characters<br />
In the new year we are launching CHARACTERS, a monthly celebration of<br />
extraordinary people. Is there someone in your life who you think everyone<br />
should know about? It could be somebody who is worth celebrating,<br />
whether it be for their kindness, their humour, their unpredictability, their<br />
strength, an incredible tale they were part of, or any of the other ways<br />
people are great. Merseyside is brimming with authentic and genuine<br />
characters who all of us could learn from, and we think you shouldn’t<br />
have to be a musician or an artist to be profiled in our magazine. Who<br />
deserves to have an article written about them? Help us to find characters<br />
who matter to you. Send nominations along with your reasons to niloo@<br />
bidolito.co.uk with ‘Character Nomination’ in the subject line.<br />
Inbound From un_bound<br />
UN_BOUND is a new platform for art criticism which is<br />
seeking new voices for its launch initiative. The platform<br />
is looking for responses to art from people based in<br />
Liverpool that encourages thinking outside of the traditional<br />
boundaries of art criticism. A call-out for submissions<br />
for alternative, text-based responses to art is now open,<br />
and runs until 16th December. If you’d like to submit<br />
something that fits within this brief, email the organisers on<br />
un_bound@outlook.com. Submissions should be kept to a<br />
maximum of 300 words, and be in an A5, freeform layout.<br />
Tired of the conversation? Twist it your own way.<br />
Bido Lito! Arts + Culture Podcast<br />
Sharing stories from the city is the tagline to a brand new and massively<br />
exciting podcast from us at Bido HQ. Hosted by writer and critic Laura<br />
Brown and Bido Lito! Editor-in-Chief Christopher Torpey, the podcast<br />
focuses on some of the more interesting stories that lurk just below the<br />
surface of our vibrant art, music and culture scene. The monthly show<br />
will use mini-features to unpick some narratives that maybe haven’t been<br />
widely heard, and offer some alternative viewpoints from invited guests.<br />
The first show features a conversation between Jayne Casey and Bryan<br />
Biggs about The Bluecoat’s extensive archive, taking in Ronald Reagan<br />
and the end of the Cold War along the way. Download from wherever<br />
you get your podcasts, or from bidolito.co.uk/podcast.<br />
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