Live music in Liverpool this week: 27 Jul - 3 Aug

From good-hearted grooves with George Clinton to a shedload of local acts at The Jacaranda and Maguire's, there's a promising batch of gigs in Liverpool to look forward to this week.

Feature by Jess Hardiman | 27 Jul 2016

We dive into the listings to bring you this 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... 

Fri 29 Jul

George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic are in town to cure whatever it is you’ve been sad about recently (Brexit, watching the news, general millennial doom), arriving with their signature combo of killer grooves, flamboyant attire and huge grins in tow. Let the Godfather of P-Funk and his troupe set you right. O2 Academy, 7pm, £27.50

Chorley psych quartet Cactus Knife head our way this week as part of their Split EP tour, trailing a distinctly shoegazey/surf-rock sound that’s not only perfect for this time of year, but also strong testament to the good stuff the local scene’s churning out these days. Maguire’s, 8pm, £3

Wigan Brit-pop outfit Marcadia hit up The Jacaranda this Friday, not long after the recent release of their debut music video, which we’ve helpfully placed above for your convenience. They’ll be joined by Leaf Blade, Colour Pit, De’Nova and Captain Buzzkill and The Oxymorons, in what will be a whole lot of bang for the buck that you won’t have to pay. Jacaranda, 7pm, free

Meanwhile, local blues slingers Sankofa are taking to Buyers Club to launch their new single, All the While, with support from two sets of fellow Liverpudlians – psych/garage outfit Strange Collective and shoegazers Fuss. Buyers Club, 7.30pm, £5

Sat 30 Jul

Antipop Records host a night of fine live music at Liverpool's favourite DIY venue, which welcomes turbo-charged noisemakers from across the UK. Catch Wigan duo Riggots, punk rock outfit Fair Dos, Ellesmere Port’s Saltwater Injection and Aberdeen metal punk group Rats of Reality (who’ll make their Liverpool debut), along with the further-flung Aussie skate punk four-piece, The DeclineMaguire’s, 6pm, £6

Billing themselves as a “jaw droppin’, sleaze drippin’, hard rockin’ phenomenon”, Chase the Ace take the guitar-wailing, hard rock sounds that the 80s bore and brings them bang up to date. They’re bringing their Hell Yeah! tour our way, with Shoes 4 Brakes holding up the support slot. Jacaranda, 8pm, free

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[Hookworms, photo: Stuart Moulding]

This week promoters and indie label Club the Mammoth announced that the January blues might not hit quite so hard in 2017, as they throw their inaugural All Dayer at Arts Club. They’ll be taking over the venue’s two rooms on 21 Jan with seminal rockers The Fall, Hookworms, Kagoule, Tigercub, Goat Girl, Strange Collective and Ohmns, with more allegedly in the pipeline. Tres exciting. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 9am.

Also at the O2, this October Heaven 17 will be celebrating the 35th anniversary of their seminal album, Penthouse and Pavement, performing a brand new electronic rendition of the album in full, before morphing into the British Electric Foundation for the second half of the evening for brand new arrangements of familiar and not-so-familiar songs. Tickets available here.

[Crystal Fighters]

The all-screaming Basque folktronica six-piece Crystal Fighters are back on the touring circuit with a mammoth world tour, with tickets now available for its stop-off at Liverpool’s O2 Academy on 18 Nov. Aaaalso at the O2 Academy, Oxford’s Baroque indie-folk quartet Glass Animals will be touring their sophomore album, How to be a Human Being, bringing it our way on 28 October. If you liked their debut LP Zaba, might as well get your ticket here for your next fix.

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