All aboard for Seasick Steve in Liverpool!

Sep 17 2009 by Mathieu Warwood, Runcorn and Widnes Weekly News

LEGENDARY American bluesman Seasick Steve has been signed up to play during Liverpool Music Week.

The festival, the UK’s largest indoor winter music event, is in its’ seventh year – and it keeps on growing.

This year it offers over 300 live acts, across 20 Liverpool city centre venues.

Seasick Steve is the latest name to be added to the impressive list of performers. The Californian bluesman, famed for his distinctive style of guitar-playing and story-telling, will perform at the Liverpool Olympia Theatre on Saturday November 7.

Seasick was nominated in 2009 for International Solo Male Artist in the Brit Awards.

Tickets for his show are already on sale at £12 and can be purchased on 0844 847 1727 or via www.ticketmaster.co.uk.

Joining Seasick in the Liverpool Music Week proceedings is Tartan chart-topper Calvin Harris. The self-proclaimed reinventor of disco, he’s been a regular at many festivals this summer,.

The Scotsman, who infuses 80s disco with new wave electro, has captured the attention of danceheads across the globe with such tracks as Girls, Acceptable in the 80s and I’m Not Alone, all charting in the top 10.

He plays at Liverpool’s 02 Academy on Tuesday November 10. Tickets are £14 and can be purchased at www.ticketline.co.uk or by box office on 0844 888 4401.

Other performers already confirmed at Liverpool’s vibrant Music Week include some of Britain’s hottest acts, with the likes of Kasabian, The Specials, Reverend and the Makers, The Enemy and The Gallows.

The week also features emerging talents like The Bays, who will perform a free show at the Masque Theatre on Friday, November 13.

Indie rockers Twisted Wheel will also be performing at a free show at The Masque on November 6.

They’ve quickly earned themselves a reputation as one of the hardest working touring bands in the business, having previously completed a number of headline tours across the UK supporting acts such as Oasis, Paul Weller and Ian Brown.