Lost weekend (Nov 2-4)

Shipping News
THE moving  story of the rise and fall of the shipbuilding industry - and its impact on the lives of so many - is not lost on people around here.

That is why a 60 minute film, Songs from the Shipyards, is touring places with historic shipbuilding links  and tomorrow night (Sat) there is a special screening in Liverpool at the Epstein Theatre. For the mesmerising and quite wonderful folk band Unthanks are in town and they will  accompany the film by combining the folk songbook of the shipyard industry with new compositions.

Commissioned by and first performed at Tyneside Cinema, Songs from the Shipyards is a beautiful and moving illustration of Britain’s industrial journey in microcosm. The film performance is a unique event that brings archive film of the UK’s shipyards and rivers to vibrant new life, re-visualised by internationally acclaimed filmmaker Richard Fenwick.

*Songs from the Shipyards, Saturday 3rd November, 6pm. The Epstein Theatre, Hanover Street, Liverpool, L1 3DZ. Tix: £12.50 from the box office on  0844 888 4411

Sense Of Sound (Pic by Matt Ford)

Choired for sound
After setting the stage alight during BBC’s Last Choir Standing, Liverpool's Sense of Sound Singers and Welsh Choir Ysgol Glanaethwy are reuniting for a special concert this weekend at Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral.

Before Last Choir Standing both choirs had an impeccable pedigree for international award winning performance.

Sense of Sound Singers, led by Jennifer John, are one of the UK’s most successful, dynamic and contemporary choirs having collaborated with artists such as Brian Eno, Imogen Heap, Damon Albarn and Paco Pena.

Equally, Ysgol Glanaethwy are regular Eisteddfod winners and have attended and won honours at festivals all over the shop.