In a summer schedule that has included slots at the historic Isle of Wight festival and playing to thousands on Liverpool's Pier Head, the biggest date in Red Rum Club’s calendar may end up taking place in Bootle.
To be exact, the band will be taking to a stage beside the Leeds Liverpool canal, one freshly constructed in the shadow of The Strand shopping centre - purchased by Sefton Council for more than £30m in 2016. Unusual as the backdrop may initially seem, the people of Bootle aren’t perplexed.
The six-piece, whose members hail from Crosby and the town itself, are set to play to a sold out audience tomorrow, Saturday July 8. It will serve as a defining moment in a career that has come full circle and give lift-off to long held ambitions to redevelop the iconic, albeit weathered shopping centre.
