IT'S billed as Europe's largest free music event, it takes place in Sefton Park and it is FREE.
Yes, the Liverpool International Music Festival’s main event - the LIMF Summer Jam - is upon us this weekend, starring Sigma, The Wombats, Ms Dynamite, the unmissable Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band, John Power, Craig Charles, and tons more.
Among it, expect performances by members of The Lightning Seeds, The Zutons, The La's Shack and Cast.
And kicking it all off tonight, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra ploughing through Liverpool's biggest hits in Music City: Reimagined.
The fully orchestral set will feature music from John Lennon to Frankie Goes to Hollywood to Cilla Black and everything in between - “a rare and unmissable night in the North West's summer calendar” it says here.
This year LIMF has moved back a month, eschewing the traditional August Bank Holiday.
In theory this means a wider availability of performers, better weather and even more people about than the 160,000 who went last year.
Whatever, the fact is everyone is in a rather good mood because the school summer holidays have just begun.
Look, even Mayor Joe Anderson is grinning as he checks out the Main Stage along with LIMF curator Yaw Owusu ahead the opening.
The amount of stuff scatter-gunned around the city renders cohesive sentences impossible. But here are the LIMF Summer Jam listings for the weekend and ancilliary events and happenings.
Unless otherwise stated, it's all FREE and runs from noon to 8pm.
Go navigate.
LIMF: Who, where and when...
Friday 22nd July
SEFTON PARK
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra: Music City: Reimagined, 6.30pm-9.30pm.
Sefton Park Palm House
House Nation in association with Circus. Yousef, Dennis Ferrer (Objektivity, NYC), Reboot, HECTOR – VATOS LOCOS, Lewis Boardman. 17:00 - 00:00. Tickets £26.40 incl booking fee.
SigmaSaturday 23rd July
12 noon-8pm
SEFTON PARK
Central Stage
Sigma (Headliner) + DJ Target + Wretch 32 + WSTRN + Ms Dynamite + Maverick Sabre + Seani B + Christopher Ellis + Carroll Thompson + Sweetie Irie + Kiki Bun + Shakka + ESPA + Samm Henshaw + Rhys Lewis + CJ Beatz
Its Liverpool Stage
John Power Band + Greg Wilson + XAMVOLO + Amique + Mic Lowry + Esco Williams + Mersey Wylie + Edgar Summertyme + Levi Tafri + Stealing Sheep + China Crisis + Trudy & The Romance + Cavalry + Jalen N'Gonda + Marc Kenny + Dave Monks.
LIMF X Laces Out Stage
DJ Rasp + No Fakin DJs + Sertone + Suedebrown + Madnice Marauders + Beaten Tracks
Academy Stage
LUMEN + Eleanor Nelly + Aztex + Scarlet + The Basement Effect + Paige Leslie + Shrinking Minds + LUNA + Astles + Katie Mac
Bandstand
Rimka + Blowback Horns + Pier James + Kindest Of Thieves + Anwar Ali & Dave Owen + Rob Vincent + Ben Hughes + Henry Pulp + Alex Gavaghan + Beaten Tracks
ELSEWHERE
Arts Club, Seel Street. 7pm-midnight
76-16: From Eric's To Evol (A celebration of Liverpool's counter-culture) Buzzcocks + Clinic + Poltergeist + Feral Love + Veyu Lying B*****ds + Pete Bentham & The Dinner Ladies. Tickets: £26.40 (incl booking fee).
Michael HeadSun 24th July
12 noon-8pm
SEFTON PARK
Central Stage
The Wombats + Lianne La Havas + Kwabs + Frances + Craig Charles + Ady Suleman + Seramic + Anne-Maire + Ali Ingle + Adele Roberts
Its Liverpool Stage
Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band + Johnny Echols + Dave McCabe & The Ramifications + Clean Cut Kid +Natalie McCool + The Vryll Society + Michael Seary (from LIMF Academy 2015) + Rongo Rongo + Dave Monks
LIMF X Laces Out Stage
DJ 2Kind + Spykatcha + DJ Monique B + DJ One 2wo + DJ Pooky + D Fresh + Dice DJs
Bandstand
Suedebrown + Hicari + I See Rivers + Halem + Sub Blue + Clare Sophia + Daryl David + Spares + aAlez Hulme + Native Kings
*Watch out for... Liverpool Loves, 3pm-3.30pm: Line up: Johnny Echols + members of The Stairs, Shack, The La’s, Lightning Seeds, The Zutons and a host of special guests.
ELSEWHERE
O2 Academy, Hotham Street, 7.30pm-11.30pm
76-16: From Eric's To Evol: Lightning Seeds + Pete Wylie & The Mighty Wah! + The Clang Group (featuring Clive Langer from Deaf School) + Sugarmen. Tickets £26.40 (incl booking fee).
The Lighning Seeds
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