Grass Roots Manoeuvres

Threshold Festival returns to Liverpool 10^th-12^th February 2012. After the hailed success of it’s maiden voyage in February 2011 at CUC and with over 20 promoters already on board from Liverpool such as Liverpool Live, Antipop, Mellowtone, Rebel Soul Collective, Newpath, Headspace & further afield including Salford based innovators Un-convention, Manchester contemporary art & creative writing champions ‘Blank Media Collective’ & alt-folk wunderkinds ‘Imploding Inevitable Festival’ (with ‘Stealing Sheep’ already herded into their line-up). ‘Under The Influence’ will once again bring across the Threshold of the emerging “Shoreditch of Liverpool” The Baltic Triangle.

Heres what they said about the last one:

Apart from the fact that it’s a mighty fine and incredibly audacious and ambitious event that’s worthy of our support and which we’d be plugging anyway, there’s also a heap load of acoustic music taking place. We’d expect nothing less from the Under the Influence.

-       Liverpool Acoustic

Kudos all round to the excellent team behind last weekend’s riotous Threshold Festival. The city categorically set out its manifesto for our creative, inventive and collaborative future. And being at the CUC this weekend felt like you were in the eye of the storm.

In years to come, those who attended can look back, misty eyed, and say, yeah, I was there at the very first one. It was that kind of event; the buzz was tangible.

                                                                        - Seven streets

Bringing together some of the North West’s hardest working and innovative artists and promoters,

   - Object of dreams

Notable & memorable 2011 features included, ‘Field of Dreams’ the ambitious & beautiful installation by artist Robyn Woolston, ‘Living With Macbeth’ written directed & performed by Storm Theatre, ‘Reflections of Projections’ by award winning company 2Toned Theatre, the ‘Twinned’ exhibition by Headspace, music by Delta Maid, Punning Clan, MinionTv, The Elementals, Kof, Lovecraft, Fonetics, Dave O’Grady, Loose Moose String Band to name but a handful of amazing talent. Film screenings by Serious Feather & Vincent Moon & dance performances by MDI. 

“We were under no illusions about Threshold Festival 2011, it was new territory & it was a monumental (with the emphasis on the latter two syllables of that word) undertaking. We did it & people loved it from punters to artists to volunteers to CUC staff & now we’re back in the Baltic Triangle to do it all again in 2012. Get ready for some amazing antics.” Chris Carney, Festival Director.

Even though there is talk of juicy headliners this year, the focus will again be stoically grass roots. Last years event prided itself on being the platform for those without one, and this is as important as ever.

The Early Bird tickets for Threshold 2012 are on sale now & at £15 are a super bargain. They’re only available until Christmas Day when the price will start to creep up as the opening night approaches.

All tickets are available from Skiddle.com “Threshold Festival” so click on and buy yours now or to offer your services as a volunteer just email info@thresholdfestival.com

 Festival Co-Ordinator:

Rachel Dyer, Rachel@Thresholdfestival.com