This is it, folks. Tonight, 25 March, 2010, 7.30pm, Pan-Am Bar, Albert Dock.

Yes, the moment we’ve all been waiting for is upon us. Liverpool Twestival kicks off tonight.

For those of you not into the whole ‘go with the flow’ thing, here’s a brief agenda of how things should happen:

• 7.30pm People start arriving
• 7.30-8pm Welcome
• 8-8.30pm Man Get Out
• Raffle draw by Gemma from Juice FM
• Jazz & Networking

If you’re coming straight from work, Pan-Am will be serving bar food downstairs until 10pm and a la carte menu in their restaurant until 11pm, so those of you who want to eat can (this is not included in the price!)

The fantastically generous band Man Get Out will be playing following an introduction, during which time you can purchase raffle tickets as the draw will follow.  There’ll be jazz musicians to come in and play background music following the draw so that you can chat to your heart’s content without the intrusion of a band, and also so that there’s a time for networking, plus our band will get the attention they deserve!!

There will be stickers available to write your twitter names on but bear in mind that they are address label stickers, if you would prefer to do your own identification sticker/lanyard then feel free!

WiFi allowing, we will be using the twitterfall stream with the hashtag #livtwest, please use it!

Finally, I hope you have a fantastic evening. Please remember that 100% of ticket sales, 100% of donations, go directly to projects, and the people organising this event, the band, the musicians, even the venue - have all done this free of charge for this amazing cause, Concern Worldwide.

A massive thank you to Rob Hardaker (@DeeAy) for providing us the mixer for the band!

In case you need reminding, here’s the raffle prizes again. Buy your tickets to attend and enter the raffle here.

Let’s not forget, amidst all this pant-wetting excitment, to say a massive thank you to the person who made all this possible. Ladies and gentlemen, please raise your glasses to this year’s Twestival organiser, @PaulineCoxy. A game old bird and taller than she looks.

As the lovely Kate Bush said, something good is going to happen.

And that ‘thing’ is Liverpool Twestival, taking place at the Pan-Am Bar & Restaurant in the Albert Dock on Thursday 25 March 2010 at 7.30pm (SCREAM).

Why should you bother? Here’s why:

• You’ll get to meet all those people you follow on Twitter face to face. You know what they’ve had for their tea, so why not put a face to a login name?
• You’ll be able to ‘work the room’, if that’s your bag? Who knows what sweet music we could make together?
• There’s be entertainment - local minstrels Man Get Out will get all up in your junk with a rip-roaring live set.
• Have you seen the raffle prizes? OMFG. Check out the list then spin with greed and avarice. Then buy a ticket.
• It’s all for a really good cause. We take our book learning for granted. For lots of children that’s not the case. All money raised goes to Concern, improving access to education for those not as lucky as us.
• It’s only a fiver. Spash the blueys here.

So, to keep the pop songstress theme going, as Gwen Stefani said, What Ya Waiting for?

A great big Twestival THANK YOU to the Pan-Am Bar & Restaurant who have kindly agreed to play host to this year’s Liverpool Twestival.

They have stepped in after our previous venue fell through, so we can’t thank them enough!

So update your sat-navs, internal guidance systems or homing pigeons for:

Panam Bar & Restaurant
17 Edward Pavilion
Albert Dock
Liverpool
L3 4AF

Get directions here

Liverpool Twestival takes place on March 25. Buy your tickets and raffle tickets here. It’s for a good cause!

Playing live at this year’s Liverpool Twestival (that’s 25 March, date pedants!) are top Liverpool pop combo Man Get Out. They’ve recently won the city’s ‘Glastonbaby Battle of The Bands’ competition and have quite the following.

Their groovy sounds are sure to be bothering the hit parade any day now, so come along and do the Mashed Potato with them before anyone else.

And to get you in the mood, here’s a taster of the lads in full flight….

Man Get Out

Yeah, I know we should be able to embed that video to make it look all spunky and modern, but the blog’s not having it. So bear with us and pretend it’s all 2004 or something and follow the link. You’ll be glad you did!

Because we love you, here’s a handy, easy to consult list of all the raffle prizes donated so far.

We’re sure you’ll agree they are all fantastic and well worth the puny price of £1 per ticket which you would be churlish and short-sighted not to pay.

You can buy your tickets here, and even donate more that the asking price because it’s all for a very good cause (making sure disadvantaged children get the education they need and deserve).

In no particular order of greatness, you could win:

• 3 x A2 size photographic quality prints from digital or photo scan, courtesy of XL Proprint Follow them on Twitter too
• A whopping £250 spend with Very online department store http://www.very.co.uk They are on Twitter too!
• The wonderful local artist and illustrator Sophie Green has donated a beautiful Giclee print of her painting ‘Buddy’ (57 x 57cm).
• 1 x  Blackberry accessories bundle from 4MyBerry “The first stop shop for authentic Blackberry Accessories”
• A lesson vouchers worth up to the value of £130 from Presto Music School. You can also register for a free trial lesson on the instrument of your choice on their website.
• A pair of tickets for Jerry Dammers Spatial AKA Orchestra on 1st April  courtesy of the Philharmonic Liverpool.
• A pair of tickets for Scholl, countertenor and The Shield of Harmony  Ensemble on Wednesday 21 April, again courtesy of the
  Philharmonic.
• A 12 month pass for 2 for all Liverpool Acoustic Live events courtesy of Liverpool Acoustic.
• Great prizes from local brewery Cains: 2 x pairs Cains Brewery Tours tickets, plus!! 4 x 1 case beer (only 1 per household)
• Wowtastic Photography have pledged a 12″ x 16″ (A3) print of choice from her site for one lucky winner!
• Two tickets to ‘The House That Dripped Horror…And Other Stories’ from the beyond  fabulous Lodestar Theatre Company  
• Online fashion store ASOS (the UK’s largest fashion & beauty store) has donated a £50 voucher
•  The Everyman Theatre on Hope Street have kindly lent their support by donating two tickets to our prize collection.
• Cromwells Restaurant, Irby have donated £100 of gift vouchers towards our prize draw.
• 1 of 4 x free pizza vouchers for Dominos in Huyton or St Helens, courtesy of @dominoshuyton. Mmm. Pizza.

Despite this list being grody to the max, Liverpool Twestival still wants MORE. If your business want to donate a prize, please DM @LpoolTwestival

Take a look at this! We’ve had yet another purr-fect prize donated to our Liverpool Twestival raffle.

The wonderful local artist and illustrator Sophie Green has donated a beautiful Giclee print of her painting ‘Buddy’ (57 x 57cm).

Tickets only cost £1, so put your busy day on paws for a moment and pad on over here to buy your tickets. If you’re feline generous you can pay or donate more for the tickets. It’s to help kittens children get the chance of a decent education, after all.

If you haven’t bought yout attendance tickets for the event, then what kind of fur-ball are you? They’re only a fiver. Follow the same link to get them.

Liverpool Twestival takes place on 25 March at Mood on Fleet Street. It really will be the cat’s whiskers.

Follow Sophie on Twitter

Yes indeedy, we have more great raffle prizes to announce for this year’s Liverpool Twestival (25 March, Mood on Fleet Street, when and where pedants!)

Tickets are only a quid, so with so many great prizes being donated, I’d buy a few if I were you.

The latest shining jewels to be donated are:

1 x  Blackberry accessories bundle from 4MyBerry “The first stop shop for authentic Blackberry Accessories”

A lesson vouchers worth up to the value of £130 from Presto Music School. You can also register for a free trial lesson on the instrument of your choice on their website. Presto Music are delighted to be supporting the Liverpool Twestival 2010. As the UK’s leading authority in modern music tuition, we believe quality education is the fundamental key to life changing improvements for all. Look out for “Presto Development” on facebook.

So what are you waiting for?

Buy your raffle tickets (and attendence tickets, don’t forget them) here

Plus, we still want MORE!!!! If you want to donate a prize, please DM @lpooltwestival

Roll up! Roll up!

Tickets for the Liverpool Twestival (25 March, Mood, Fleet Street) are now on sale.

Tickets are priced at the more than reasonable £5 each.

However, as ALL the proceeds go to helping others less fortunate than ourselves, there is the option to pay double. So all you lovely people with a spare fiver in your purse / wallet / pocket / shoe, cough up and feel the warm glow of helping your fellow man.

Click here to buy tickets, or follow the link at the top of the page.

You can also buy raffle tickets at £1 a pop. We’ve got some great prizes lined up already, including food, nights out and more will be announced as we get them. So don’t miss out, get spending.

Food. Let’s be honest, we all love it, and providing tasty nibbles is often an event dealbreaker.

So with this in mind, we’ve managed to get some top skoff lined up for the Liverpool Twestival (25 March, Moods, Fleets Street, fact-fans).

Those wonderful people at Cromwell’s have agreed to lay on canapes for 100 people at the event. That means if we stop selling tickets at 50, we can all have double! Only kidding, we want as many of you gorgeous people as possible to come along.

There’s going to be a party on my tongue and everyone’s invited!

Hooray! We have a confirmed venue for the Liverpool Twestival 2010!

This year we will be hanging out at Mood on Fleet Street, Liverpool City Centre.

Mood is one of Liverpool’s premier destination night spots. Situated in the heart of Liverpool’s Rope Walks quarter, it’s a great place to meet and we’re lucky and grateful to be welcomed there.

As well as the bar area for general getting down we hope to have a quieter ‘chill out’ space where can admire our Twitter feed and have a good old chin wag. Something for everyone then!

Visit their website to get the low-down on the venue.

Find them with Google Maps