Sound City
The Baltic Triangle venue Constellations will cease trading next year, Getintothis’ Peter Guy on another massive blow for Liverpool’s independent arts and music scene.
Liverpool art and music venue hub Constellations is to close.
The Baltic Triangle venue is to close next year to make way for ‘residential development’, according to sources close to the venue.
The news comes as a devastating blow to not just the Baltic Triangle area but Liverpool as a whole as Constellations is such a staple in the Merseyside arts, music and culture programme.
Opened in 2014 by a group of Liverpool creatives, directors Rebecca Wild, Nicholas Baskerville and their team have grown an independent project into something which hasn’t just rejuvenated an area on the fringe of Liverpool – but has made it one of the most bristlingly exciting places in the UK.
Having won an RIBA Award, the venue was also named #1 coolest place in Britain boasting an urban garden, an indoor cafe featuring quality ales, food and a range of exhibitions by regional artists and designers.
Baltic Triangle set for major expansion in next ten years – read the full report
Constellations also offers a host of imaginative and varied events and very often a programme offered unlike anywhere in the city hosting the likes of Positive Vibrations festival, Liverpool Soul Festival, On The Corner, Liverpool Disco Festival, Baltic Weekender and more recently being a cornerstone at this year’s Liverpool Sound City.
Looking ahead, Becky and her ever progressve team have recently taken over the ambitious Hinterlands project – a vast architectural structure which will provide more commercial business and conferences helping to prop up their more creative endeavours elsewhere. It will be a success.
Constellations is four – the music and arts hub that made the Baltic Triangle
But the news tonight of Constellations’ subsequent closure is a massive blow for Liverpool – and in a city truly struggling for vital, creative independent spaces, it’s news we’re all too familiar with.
UPDATE:
Constellations have released a statement in the wake of the news that their venue will be closing.
“News that Constellations will be moving next year is very much out there and we’re happy to share our plans for the future with you. Our new venue Hinterlands in the Baltic Triangle will become home to our weddings, conferences and festivals.
Legacie Developments have been incredibly supportive of our move and in return we are supportive of their plans which will add further vibrancy to the Baltic neighbourhood.
We will continue the work we have started in the city and hope to replicate our model in new neighbourhoods across the city region in the future.”
Here’s a selection of images from Constellations’ four years in Liverpool.
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- Ohmns play The GIT Award 2017
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- She Drew The Gun’s Louisa Roach collects The GIT Award 2017 (photo credit: Keith Ainsworth)
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- Special guest and GIT Award 2016 winner Bill Ryder-Jones plays new exclusive tracks
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- Constellations Liverpool
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- Jo Mary at Ten Years of Getintothis
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- I SEE RIVERS at Ten Years of Getintothis
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- Pixey at Ten Years of Getintothis
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- Revellers at Ten Years of Getintothis
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- Puppy love at Ten Years of Getintothis
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- Constellations
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- Treehouse of Horror
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- Kang and Kodos
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- Grrrl Power Liverpool at Constellations
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- Constellations
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- Gang Starr Foundation
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- Camp Cooks providing the food at Constellations -Record Store Day 2015
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- Hot fun in the summertime – Costellations during Record Store Day 2015
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- Constelations outdoor event space
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- Lemar
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- Positive Vibration
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- Positive Vibration
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- Positive Vibration
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- Reggae Q&A with Don Letts at Positive Vibrations 2016
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- The Hempolics
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- “To alcohol; the cause and solution of all life’s problems.”
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- This is actually how Frank Sidebottom would look if he was in The Simpsons
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- This is the real Blinky, the three eyed fish
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- Maybe this is where Blinky really got his other eyes from
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