Live music in Liverpool this week: 9-15 Nov

Trumpocalypse has arrived and Music Week is over: RIP joy, we hardly knew ye. BUT WAIT, Liverpool's live music scene still has plenty to offer this week...

Preview by Will Fitzpatrick | 09 Nov 2016

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... 

9 Nov

Local indie quartet Motherhood check into the Arts Club with the triumphant, Two Door Cinema Club-esque sounds of recent single You Can Be Lonely If You Want still making waves across the furthest reaches of dem internets. Apparently that's how bands make it these days. Can't see it catching on.
Arts Club, 7pm, £5

Inspired by the likes of Herbie Hancock or the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and equally informed by grim and hip-hop, London duo Yussef Kamaal's approach to jazz-funk is dizzyingly eclectic and mind-bendingly virtuosic. Catch 'em exploring new territory on this visit to 24 Kitchen St, or regret it forever.
24 Kitchen St, 7.30pm, £10

Wracked as fuck and wrecking your ear drums, Girl Sweat play a particularly fuzzed-out version of drum machine-laden garage rock that draws as much from psych and pure noise as from the raggedy ends of the Nuggets comp. DUDS, Uncle Jane and Hart Foundation '97 are also on hand for explosively loud fun.
Maguire's Pizza Bar, 7.30pm, £4 OTD / £3 donation for students/unwaged

10 Nov

Old school punk in a very literal sense, by which we mean 'steampunk'. Whether this seems like a bit of good, timely fun that's not harming anyone or the sort of wacky funsterism that makes you want to shove bamboo shoots under your own fingernails in irritation, The Men That Will Be Not Be Blamed For Nothing are here now so we'll probably have to make the best of it.
Arts Club, 7pm, £10

11 Nov

Grime pioneer Shystie pops over for a rare and (if new track Dem Way Deh is anything to go by) 100% GUARANTEED UNMISSABLE appearance. Expect furiously-paced wordsmithery and no little swagger, plus a heaving bill, packed with some of the Northwest's rising stars: 2KMiss Deep and many, many more.
24 Kitchen St, 5pm, £10

Anyone up for some gender-smashing, innovative electro cabaret? You should be. Peaches finally makes her belated Liverpool debut, some 16 years after her debut album The Teaches of Peaches, and it's sure to be an unforgettable night. Last year's Rub LP ranks among her finest work, and her recent shows have racked up rave reviews. We're not sure you have much choice but to head along, really.
Invisible Wind Factory, 8pm, £15

Nope, not Dean Wareham of Galaxie 500's lot: LUNA is Liverpool's increasingly hotly-tipped electropop sensation, and if swoonsome new track Free-Falling doesn't persuade you to head along tonight then we dunno what will. Oh wait, there's also the ethereal majesty of Mary Miller, TIËRNY's self-described "baroquetronica" and precocious young songwriter Astles; maybe they'll help you make your mind up.
Buyers Club, 7pm, £5

12 Nov

Jack Garrett! He's unfathomably popular! We're not sure why. Maybe you do though, in which case you'll probably have a nice time here.
Guild of Students, 7pm, £18.50

15 Nov

Once a guitarist in Kurt Vile's uncomfortably-named band The Violators, now a purveyor of deliciously addictive folk-rock with lashings of nifty fretwork, Steve Gunn's profile has risen considerably in an extremely short space of time. Find out why he's become so universally adored at the Phil's sister venue.
Philharmonic Music Room, 8pm, £15

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Woeful of barnet yet marvellously gifted in the melody stakes, The Lemon Twigs (3 Dec, District, £7.70) offer a delightful take on off-kilter balladry in the Bowie (circa Hunky Dory) mould, with shades of Big Star's Chris Bell in the mix to boot. With support from Rough Trade's latest defo-gonna-bes Goat Girl, this is guaranteed to be a real winter warmer. Get tickets here.

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