What's doing your head in?
Deal with it
CALM Helpline Open
From 2nd March 2008
0800 58 58 58
Sat to Tues: 5pm – Midnight
every week of the year
HIT A WALL, NEED TO TALK?
The CALM helpline will relaunch on 2nd March. Calls are free (from landlines), confidential and anonymous. Professions will be available to talk through problems, listen, and offer information and advice. Translation facilities are available on request and the minicom number is 0800 027 29 82.
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Win tickets to Chibuku's 10th birthday party!
Simon Howes
Chibuku Shake Shake - the legendary Liverpool club night, celebrates it's 10th anniversary this month and we've got a pair of tickets for you to win!
You are not alone
Ben Stroud
Ok, it's time to man up here. I'm one of those guys who, in the past (and maybe even now) - has a tendency to bottle negative things up. After all, what does the world care about it? Does the world really want you to vent your feelings? It seems as though sometimes it doesn't.
Liverpool TOPMAN CTRL gig
Passion Pit take CTRL and select their favourite live acts for a gig @ Korova, Liverpool, November 19th. Line up includes: Little Comets, Airship & Bicycle Thieves. Topman will donate £1 from the sale of every ticket to C.A.L.M !
New music facility in Liverpool
Simon Howes
We got a call from a bloke in Liverpool who's set up a cool new music facility that could be ideal for you...
Creamfields CALM-o-CAM 2009
Lindsey Bezzina
There is no modest way of saying this. CALM tore it up at Creamfields 2009. The world’s biggest DJs came together.....
CALM LIVE @ CREAMFIELDS
To watch the interviews with Friendly Fires, MC MadRush...CLICK HERE.
And to get LIVE blog feeds...CLICK HERE
CALM and Liverpool Sound City
Annemarie Kropf
CALM and Liverpool Sound City (LSC) officially team up at what's tipped to be one of the hottest music festivals of the year. LSC's Live Events Director, Marc Jones, tells Annemarie Kropf how 20,000 expected attendees and 350 bands simply cannot be wrong.
3rd Annual Lazy Gramophone Festival
Lindsey Bezzina
The art collective, Lazy Gramophone, celebrated their third annual festival showcasing some of the best of the UK's music, spoken word, theatre and comedy talents.
For the Love of... Liverpool
For the love of...’ is the brain child of Marc Sunderland lead singer of Liverpool’s brightest rising stars, Peter and the Wolf. A concept rooted in a love of local music and a desire to bring together the best of Liverpool’s musical talent in support of a charity as worthy as C.A.L.M. – Campaign Against Living Miserably. And it’s growing. Really quickly.
Interview with The Dead Class
Spoonboy
It's 2nd June 2008 at Django's Riff (Wood St, Liverpool) and the band 'onstage' are crackling with energy.
The singer/guitarist is lost in his own frenzy, his bleached white face waggling insanely at the mic like a blurred skull, impossibly fast chord-clusters passing through his hands. The bassist, sporting a preposterous amount of shaggy hair, headbangs with precious little concern for brain cells...
Worth The Wait?
Chris Woolfrey
Fourteen years in the making, and from one of the most celebrated hard rock bands in the world, Chinese Democracy has achieved mythical status in the music industry, not least because of the famous and dramatic disintegration of the original band and the strained attempts of front man Axl Rose to develop a new formula that has lived and died around him over almost fifteen years.
Interview with Funeral for a Friend
Emily S
Funeral for a Friend need no introduction. Since they formed in 2001, they have toured with massive names such as Linkin Park and Iron Maiden and attracted masses of media attention for their numerous awards, and three top twenty singles. Yet it is Funeral for a Friend’s hometown, Bridgend, which has attracted the media’s attention.
Independence Day
Jane Powell
Independents Day 08, the first of many annual celebrations of independent music, took place on July 4th. Across the globe from New Zealand to the United Kingdom people came together to make it happen from the labels and artists to the press, TV and radio stations, music blogs and of course the music fans.
Beatmonkey's Interview
We spend a minute with Chris Russell from breakbeat duo The Beatmonkeys and find out more about what they are up to and why they back the CALM campaign...
Interview with DJ Yousef
Simon Howes
World famous house DJ and producer Yousef spoke to CALM’s Merseyside co-ordinator and gave us this exclusive interview about what is going on for him right now and what he thinks of CALM...