24 Kitchen Street is an independent, mixed-use warehouse venue in the Baltic Triangle, Liverpool's creative quarter. Founded by a group of friends seeking to create a space for the city's creative community, the stripped-back room - all bare brick and exposed wooden rafters - has a capacity of around 400 and is open only for scheduled, ticketed events. The venue is best known for hosting some of the best leftfield club nights in the city, with an ever-growing catalogue of house, techno, garage,.....

The building at 81 Renshaw Street in Liverpool holds a notable place in the city's music history: in the early 1960s the office above what was then an off-licence became the home of Mersey Beat, the regional music paper founded by Bill Harry that chronicled the emerging Liverpool scene and carried early stories, photographs and writings connected to the Beatles. The paper grew to a circulation of tens of thousands and became known locally as the teenagers bible. Today the address operates as 81.....

Opened in October 1977 as the first purpose-built centre of its kind in Britain, the African Caribbean Centre in Toxteth served for decades as a focal point for Liverpool's Black community. Plans were first put forward in 1972, and after a two-year campaign approval came in 1974 with an Urban Aid grant funding the building work. Known locally as the Merseyside Caribbean Centre, it stood on land off Upper Parliament Street and operated for some forty years as a community space, hosting family ev.....

A private members sports and social club beside Sefton Park, Aigburth People's Hall has served south Liverpool since 1901. Originally built as a members club, the building on Aigburth Vale has grown into a community hub used for weddings, parties, live events, fitness classes and sports, while keeping its character as a long-established local institution. The venue offers several distinct spaces for hire. The upstairs Ellis Room is a bright, adaptable room overlooking the gardens, suited to rec.....

A 150-capacity live-music venue in Liverpool's Baltic Triangle, Archive sits within the Cains Brewery Village on Stanhope Street, in one of the city's busiest districts for nightlife and culture. Built as an intimate space designed to put audiences close to the stage, it pairs a dedicated sound system with atmospheric lighting. The venue is owned and run by experienced tour managers and working musicians, a background that shapes its focus on the practicalities of live performance. Its stage ho.....

Every chair, lamp and dresser inside this Roscoe Street coffee house is for sale. Artefact combines a vintage furniture showroom with a cafe, so the retro armchairs and antique sideboards that furnish the room double as stock, and visitors are as likely to be browsing for an interior piece as ordering a flat white. It sits in the Ropewalks area of Liverpool's Georgian Quarter, just behind the bombed-out church of St Luke's. The building is a sympathetically converted warehouse, its character dr.....

Founded in 2019 by four friends from the arts, the Arts Bar on Hope Street is a creative hub in Liverpool's Georgian Quarter, set up to give local artists a platform to showcase their work. Its founders, a musician, an actor, a ballroom dancer and a theatre technician, built it as a space combining a bar with performance and studio facilities. On the ground floor, the bar serves coffee, cocktails, beers, wines and spirits in a welcoming room hung with local artwork that is also for sale. Beyond.....

Established in 1928 as a social club, the Arts Club on Seel Street is one of Liverpool's longest-standing live music venues, in a building whose history reaches back to the 19th-century Liverpool Royal Institute. Over recent decades it has traded under several names, including the Barfly, The Masque and East Village Arts Club. The venue is laid out as a theatre-style main room of around 550 capacity plus a separate loft space holding about 350, both fitted with modern sound and lighting. Across.....

Black Cat opened its third Liverpool site in October 2025, taking over the former Crazy Pedro's premises at 25 Parr Street in the city centre. The independent group began in 2017 with a bar on Smithdown Road and added a second on Rose Lane, building a following for craft and cask beer and cocktails. The Parr Street venue keeps the suntrap roof terrace of its predecessor, with plans for a bar and DJ up there in summer, and serves coffee by day from around 2pm before shifting to drinks, with a pi.....

The first Boxpark to open outside London, Boxpark Liverpool is an indoor street-food market, bar and events space in the Canning Hall at Cains Brewery Village, in the Baltic Triangle. It follows the chain's established formula of independent food traders, multiple bars and a busy events calendar, across around 21,000 square feet plus a large outdoor terrace. A rotating line-up of around eight kitchens covers everything from smash burgers and pizza to Korean and Middle Eastern food, with vegetar.....