Arts Bar Podcast

Local and Live is BACK, in collaboration with Liverpool Arts Bar and hosted by Meg Shaw, to bring you a NEW platform, NEW artists, and NEW music - weekly! This week's episode is the final one for 2022, so what better way to finish an incredible year with a 2022 recap, along with a few presents on the way?  Like what you're hearing? Keep up to date on all things Local & Live X Liverpool Arts Bar on...

Local and Live is BACK, in collaboration with Liverpool Arts Bar and hosted by Meg Shaw, to bring you a NEW platform, NEW artists, and NEW music - weekly! Naila joins us this episode, as we talk about her latest single 'Your Knife', her favourite local venues, and tests out our new game: 'Shuffle Play'... Like what you're hearing? Keep up to date on all things Local & Live X Liverpool Arts Bar on...

Local and Live is BACK, in collaboration with Liverpool Arts Bar and hosted by Meg Shaw, to bring you a NEW platform, NEW artists, and NEW music - weekly! Simon Howard joins us this week, with tales of his USA adventures, singing in the shower to Dua Lipa, and his latest single 'Trojan Horse'... Like what you're hearing? Keep up to date on all things Local & Live X Liverpool Arts Bar on @local_and...

Local and Live is BACK, in collaboration with Liverpool Arts Bar and hosted by Meg Shaw, to bring you a NEW platform, NEW artists, and NEW music - weekly! MT Jones is here with us this week, chatting about his debut single 'I Won't Ever Say Goodbye', as well as his solo artist plans for the future. Like what you're hearing? Keep up to date on all things Local & Live X Liverpool Arts Bar on @local_...

Local and Live is BACK, in collaboration with Liverpool Arts Bar and hosted by Meg Shaw, to bring you a NEW platform, NEW artists, and NEW music - weekly! John Witherspoon joins us this week to talk about getting into the songwriting mindset, as well as the beast that is social media, and all things local gigs. Like what you're hearing? Keep up to date on all things Local & Live X Liverpool Arts B...

Local and Live is BACK, in collaboration with Liverpool Arts Bar and hosted by Meg Shaw, to bring you a NEW platform, NEW artists, and NEW music - weekly! ME and Deboe are a combination of two incredible forces, merged together to create a sound like no other. Follow us as we talk about their love for live gigs, unlikely individual styles that match together, and how they turn 90s dance tracks int...

Local and Live is BACK, in collaboration with Liverpool Arts Bar and hosted by Meg Shaw, to bring you a NEW platform, NEW artists, and NEW music - weekly! FLYNT are a Cumbria/Liverpool based pop-infused band, with their new single 'Digging' coming right around the corner. Listen in as they chat about their music, gigs, future plans... as well as their brilliant live session they treated us to. Lik...

Local and Live is BACK, in collaboration with Liverpool Arts Bar and hosted by Meg Shaw, to bring you a NEW platform, NEW artists, and NEW music - weekly! Drawing inspiration from rainy days, jukebox oddities, Western 21st Century despair and Souse-Pop tradition, Bright Town are with us for episode 12 of Local and Live X Liverpool Arts Bar. Not only did they treat us with a live version of their l...

Local and Live is BACK, in collaboration with Liverpool Arts Bar and hosted by Meg Shaw, to bring you a NEW platform, NEW artists, and NEW music - weekly! Bringing you sounds straight from Gambia, Nazeem is this week's artist feature. Spreading gratitude, hope and appreciation throughout his music, Nazeem aims to spread his music far and wide, after making himself well-known to the Liverpool scene...

Local and Live is BACK, in collaboration with Liverpool Arts Bar and hosted by Meg Shaw, to bring you a NEW platform, NEW artists, and NEW music - weekly! Perfect for these rainy autumn days, Rossa Murray & the blowin' winds serenaded us this week with their tunes, and caught us up with all their new releases, upcoming gigs and everything else in-between. Like what you're hearing? Keep up to date...

Local and Live is BACK, in collaboration with Liverpool Arts Bar and hosted by Meg Shaw, to bring you a NEW platform, NEW artists, and NEW music - weekly! This week we had a band which you need to get your ears wrapped around, if you haven't already. More in Luv are a high-energy band who we've had the pleasure of seeing a few times live (supporting Tilly Louise and Bandit to name a few), so neede...

Local and Live is BACK, in collaboration with Liverpool Arts Bar and hosted by Meg Shaw, to bring you a NEW platform, NEW artists, and NEW music - weekly! Hushtones are our guests this week - who have been a huge part of the North West music scene for years now. After the release of their album 'Greetings from the Other Side' last year, and follow up singles 'Whiskey and Winter' and 'Stranger', we...

Local and Live is BACK, in collaboration with Liverpool Arts Bar and hosted by Meg Shaw, to bring you a NEW platform, NEW artists, and NEW music - weekly! Simon Dale kicks off the episode with the live session of his gorgeous new track 'Rewind'. This magically intimate tune is yet to be released, but after only hearing it once, it was already stuck in my head. With its rippling guitar and beautifu...

Local and Live is BACK, in collaboration with Liverpool Arts Bar and hosted by Meg Shaw, to bring you a NEW platform, NEW artists, and NEW music - weekly! Episode 6 has our co-host Amber Prothero chatting all things gigs, music videos and collaborations. Amber Prothero is an independent Pop/Soul artist who has seen significant success in nurturing her career for over 10 years. Drawing inspiration...

Local and Live is BACK, in collaboration with Liverpool Arts Bar and hosted by Meg Shaw, to bring you a NEW platform, NEW artists, and NEW music - weekly! Episode 5 is here already: with co-host Micayl (featuring their friend James!) chatting about how they build their songs, the LIMF Academy and travelling the world with a caterpillar! Micayl's music sits comfortably within itself, a proud and di...

Local and Live is BACK, in collaboration with Liverpool Arts Bar and hosted by Meg Shaw, to bring you a NEW platform, NEW artists, and NEW music - weekly! It's time for episode 4: with co-hosts Motel Sundown chatting about their debut album, their live session tracks and their plans to gig in amphitheatres in Italy dressed as gladiators!  Sometimes things just come together in the most organic and...

Local and Live is BACK, in collaboration with Liverpool Arts Bar and hosted by Meg Shaw, to bring you a NEW platform, NEW artists, and NEW music - weekly! Join us in our third episode alongside co-host Tilly Louise in the first section, as well as the new releases and all things local music scene talk in the last half an hour. "Fiery and sweet", the "glorious Tilly Louise" has noisy, hook centric...

Local and Live is BACK, in collaboration with Liverpool Arts Bar and hosted by Meg Shaw, to bring you a NEW platform, NEW artists, and NEW music - weekly! Join us in our second episode alongside co-host KOF in the first half an hour, as well as the new releases and all things local music scene talk in the last half an hour. KOF has been in the local scene for years, and after recently making a ret...

Local and Live is BACK, in collaboration with Liverpool Arts Bar and hosted by Meg Shaw, to bring you a NEW platform, NEW artists, and NEW music - weekly! Join us in our first episode where we have the incredible Martha Goddard co-hosting in the first hour, as well as the new releases and all things local music scene talk in the last half an hour. Martha Goddard has recently released her latest si...

Hello there! We stopped the coffee mornings while lockdown 3 was in full swing but we've had requests from listeners who've said they missed the old ones so as per usual your wish is our command. We've gone back to when lockdowns were still fresh! Episode 6 barely made it on air. We were plagued by zoom failures and technical difficulties. It was all so friend of the show Mikee Dickinson could com...

Hello there! We stopped the coffee mornings while lockdown 3 was in full swing but we've had requests from listeners who've said they missed the old ones so as per usual your wish is our command. We've gone back to when lockdowns were still fresh! Episode 5 involved us talking about our first jobs: making lots of cups of tea, receptioning, stacking shelves in argos, preventing cars being stolen an...

Hello there! While we don't have time at the moment to carry on the live coffee morning events – we've had requests from listeners who've said they missed the old ones so as per usual your wish is our command. We've gone back to when lockdowns were still fresh! Episode 4 involved us going live on Facebook at 11am on Sunday nearly a year ago and talking all things facebook statuses, tripadvisor rev...

BLACK PINK Well, We recently looked at our statistics for who listens to the podcast and were very surprised to learn that Belgium is in our top 5 most countries that download the podcast. So we thought we'd learn about where our listeners are from and teach the other countries. Listen to the boys hearing all about: Brewdog, Mike Myers, Flemish, Falconry, Audery Hepburn & Manneken Pis!!! If you li...

Welcome back to The Arts Bar Live miniseries,   This ones very special. It's actually our first sponsored episode. Blackstar Amps have been very kind and partnered with us for our Arts Bar Live & Library Sessions as well as a new event we're currently planning - a Blackstar Special! We had originally planned for this to be our videographers James Amos however, as is the case with online interviews...

BLACK PINK! Well,  We recently looked at our statistics for who listens to the podcast and were very surprised to learn that the Republic of Korea is in our top 5 most downloaded countries. So we thought we'd learn about where our listeners are from.  Listen to the boys hearing all about: Love Land, murderous rotary fans and of course BLACKPINK (& BTS) If you like the podcast don't forget to subsc...