Live music in Liverpool this week: 7-13 Sep

We dive into the listings to bring you the essential guide to gigs in Liverpool this week – plus the latest news on festivals, tour announcements and more. Think we've missed something? Hit up will@theskinny.co.uk with the details... 

Wed 7 Sep

All the way from Houston, TX come 'H-Town thrashgrass' merchants Days N Daze, with acoustic guitars in hand and a plethora of issues to detail in melodic form – politics of both the social and personal varieties. Fans of Ghost Mice, ONSIND and Leftover Crack will be in their element, while the bill's fleshed out with Manchester antifolk from Crywank, Bolton storytellers Labrats, local folk-punk five-piece Paper Wings, and self-described "poorly-written oogle music" from Lapin the Rabbit.
Maguire's Pizza Bar, 7pm, £5 adv/£7 OTD

Thu 8 Sep

Wednesday's offering of acoustic punk not your bag? You might prefer tonight's visit from Slovakian noisemakers Retfish – technically and lamentably known in full as 'Retarded Fish' :( – whose vision of skatepunk is fast, hard and an awful lot of fun. Warrington's pacy punks Dependencies, local post-punks Three From Above and newly-polished punks Last Reserves lend their support for a solid evening of three-chord fun. (Disclaimer: more than three chords likely to be used.)
Maguire's Pizza Bar, 8pm, £3

Heading back for a very welcome return to Liverpool is Eleanor Friedberger, Fiery Furnaces frontwoman and delightfully unique solo artist in her own right. This year's solo album New View offered as many intriguing subtleties as it did comforting familiarities, and her last trip to the Northwest garnered a five-star review from this very publication. Basically we're saying this will be dead good and you should go.
Arts Club, 7pm, £11.50

Fri 9 Sep

Birmingham's SMART Casual promise to play "kick-ass pop-punk with an edge", and they visit Liverpool's spiritual home of all things punk for a Friday throwdown, co-starring Descendents-influenced local types Meet The Robots (who self-released their debut LP Heartaches and Tea Breaks last year), grunge-flecked alt rockers PLASTIC and Warwickshire pogo enthusiasts Highlite. Fresh from the recent release of their debut single Today Was Tomorrow, perky mosh-poppers Crosslight kick things off too.
Maguire's Pizza Bar, 7pm, £PWYW

Sat 10 Sep

Firghteningly youthful rockers The Basement Effect bring their very loud and increasingly hotly-tipped racket to the Arts Club stage, having formed in 2014 and quickly begun to build a name for themselves on local stages. With chops to match their tunes, they'd best get used to seeing words like 'precocious', while reviewers gaze at their grey hairs in the mirror and start to question their own life choices.
Arts Club, 7pm, £8.75

Also in town this week...

In all likelihood, you'll struggle to get into either of these sold-out shows... still, devoted fans (and perhaps even spendthrift types looking for a night out) might well wish to keep an eye out for spare tickets to The Enemy's farewell tour as it stops off at the O2 Academy (9 Sep), and the problematically-named yet wildly-popular Slaves at the Arts Club (13 Sep). Erm... good luck?

Now Booking

Everyone's favourite Canadian punks are back: Fucked Up have been on a whirlwind of adventures and tangents in their 15-year history, evolving from straight-up hardcore to exploring psychedelic tinges and batshit concept albums in the process. Now they're celebrating a decade since the release of excellent debut album Hidden World, and they stop off at the Invisible Wind Factory on 25 October to continue their tradition of barnstorming Liverpool shows. DON'T. MISS. THIS. Buy tickets here.

After an astonishingly successful few years where Bill Ryder-Jones has gone from being 'that ex-Coral guy' to very much his own man, his final shows of 2016 take in a triumphant appearance at New Brighton's Floral Pavillion on 26 November. Set to be his last wave of shows in support of West Kirby County Primary, before settling down to write its follow-up, this might well be your last chance to catch BR-J in some time. Best book now, eh?