This year Liverpool Music Week has raised its game and pulled together a line up of world class artistes and groundbreaking fresh talent to create a 10 day jam packed itinerary of live music, giving this years festival a new diverse feel. The UK’s largest indoor winter festival event was founded by Liverpool promoter Mike Deane in 2003, and has now reached national status and is a highlight in the live music calendar. With a desire to push the event and its reputation to even greater heights, Mike and his team have since formed a JV company with one of the UK’s most prolific music industry figures Cream CEO James Barton. This year Liverpool Music Week kicks off on 30th November and ends on 9th December and will stage over 200 bands across 15 venues throughout Merseyside, with a combination of ticketed and free shows. The unique underlining ethos behind Liverpool Music Week is to attract some of the UK’s biggest artistes to Liverpool and also give fresh and emerging new talent a platform to perform. Since it began Liverpool Music Week has grown from a single venue venture to a burgeoning new music event that has attracted over 65,000 people, and involved the cities breaking artists such as The Wombats, Hot Club de Paris & Eugene McGuinness alongside household names such as The Kooks, Ian McCulloch, The La’s, The Aliens & Seu Jorge to name but a few. As well as staging a huge agenda of live music events, Liverpool Music Week will also be running a series of panels and seminars featuring some of the UK’s music industry movers & shakers who will come together to discuss issues and opportunities within the sector and to offer advice and support to a range of related music businesses, artists and individuals with a desire to enter the music industry. Also look out for the Record Collector’s Fair on closing weekend, which was a huge success in 2006; a series of Music Cinema screenings; as well as a programme that includes the best of Liverpool’s Under-18 talent. Music is the heartbeat of Liverpool and this event allows people of all ages to come together and celebrate what makes Liverpool great. Music is coming home. Info: www.liverpoolmusicweek.co.uk. Mike Deane (LMW MD) comments: “We've added new dimensions to the festival this year to accommodate bringing more high profile artists to the city, joining forces with Cream has burst open doors that we have been knocking on politely for years. For Liverpool's artists and venues, it now means we will be attracting tens of thousands more gig seekers into the city, which will allow us to programme more slots for the city’s musicians. It’s going to be a very exciting year for Liverpool Music Week" Cream CEO James Barton comments: “Liverpool Music Week is a great concept and is a totally new approach to music festivals. I am sure that with our experience and contacts along with the hard work that has already gone into the festival, Liverpool Music Week will be hugely successful. It’s something that we’re very excited to be involved in and feel that together we can make this a national event for Liverpool to be proud of”