DOG STAR
POET JOHN Hegley is well known to a generation who grew up on a comedy club diet of Eddie Izzard, Lee Evans and Jo Brand. 

Years down the line he remains widely known as one of the country's most innovative comic poets with several best-selling volumes of poetry to his name. Radio 4 broadcaster and broadsheet columnist, Hegley mainly writes thought provoking verse about dogs, spectacles and potatoes. 

He composes it in a fun, engaging way. No heart-rending stuff about laboratory beagles having eye tests - or worse: potatoes having their eyes gouged out.

Yet Hegley takes animal welfare seriously and when it comes to the work of Freshfield Animal Rescue, he is right there.

Or, to be precise, at Crosby Comrades Club this Saturday where there is a rare chance to see the award-winning comedy veteran presenting his one man show in a bid to raise funds for the tireless Sefton charity. 

Expect this sort of thing:

IN THE BEGINNING

In the beginning was the dog
The real name of Jehovah is Rover
Adam's rib is buried in the garden

*John Hegley, Saturday September 5, 6.30pm for 7.00pm start. Crosby Comrades Club,   96 Liverpool Road, L23 5TG. Tickets £10 from Jane on 0151 931 1604 or jane@freshfieldsrescue.org.uk. Tickets also available at Write Blend book and coffee shop at 124 South Road, Waterloo L22 0ND.
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COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS
Described as the most original and exciting band on the British scene at the moment by a leading jazz mag,  Get The Blessing harness rock and jazz with uncompromising power.

Bristol's "cellophane masked lunatics" comprise Portishead's rhythm section, Jim Barr and Clive Deamer, Pete Judge on trumpet and Jack McMurchie on saxophone,

*Get The Blessing, Friday September 4, at the Kazimier, Wolstenholme Square. Tickets £10.

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CATCH DEBUSSY
At one time English/Italian Jacques Malchance lived on Mr Scruff's boat anchored in Liverpool. He organises "epic" parties and makes techno music but sometimes in the day he likes nothing more than to bang out classical tunes on the old joanna.

After last year's charismatic performances of Satie’s Gymnopédies & Gnossiennes, and the monumental “Pictures at an Exhibiton“ by Mussorgsky, Jacques returns to The Kazimier Garden this Saturday for a mesmerising piano recital, featuring a collection of works by various composers.

Claude Debussy: Arabesques I & II, Rêverie. Erik Satie: Ogives , Pieces Froids anyone? Aram Kachaturian: Toccata, extracts from “Album for Children”?

All proving once again, that when it comes to unselfconscious, unbranded culture, no one does it better than the folks at the Kaz.

*Jaques Malchance piano recital, Saturday September 5, 2pm, Kazimier Garden, 32 Seel Street, Liverpool 1. Free.

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DRINK ME, DRINK ME
If classical cocktails are more you than classical music, up the road from the Kaz Garden, on the terrace of Red Door, you will find an Alice In Wonderland-themed gin party in full swing this Saturday afternoon. 

The juniper berry will be celebrated as the Berry Street venue teams up with SIX different gin brands including Hendricks, Bombay Sapphire and Liverpool Organic.  "We’ve made a special one off menu for the day, which is great! All the cocktails are tea party themed/Alice in Wonderland," says a spokeswoman.

"There will be live music,  a mini tea party, a great magician and a day of fun," she added.

If you get involved in this madness and if, by 7pm, you are conversing with life size rabbits bearing pocket watches, tell Red Door, not us.

 

*The Mad Ginformation Terrace Party, Saturday September 5, 2pm. Red Door, Berry Street, L1. Tickets: £25 including food and two cocktails.