Live Events Returning in 2022!

Live stage

After a VERY long time of our wonderful stage falling silent, we’re coming back with a bang and are staging a major event with our friends at NWOCR. Stand by, because you wont want to miss it! NWOCR AND LIVEWIRE proudly present ‘Rockin’ by the River III’ Livewire, Saltash. Saturday, 19th March, 2022 All proceeds […]

COVID-19 SUPPORT

COVID-19

  This is really, really important. We believe it is crucial for young people that we provide some form of normality through the COVID-19 outbreak. As you’ll know, we’ve had to take the devastating decision to close our evening delivery. From Friday 20th March we will be providing the following: VIRTUAL MUSIC LESSONS/JAMS – Music […]

The State of Play

Love Saltash Magazine , May 2109

Article by our very own Nigel Follett, appearing in ‘Love Saltash’ magazine, May 2019. Much is said about the decline of medium-sized music venues in and around Plymouth and it’s probably fair to say that it’s not a pretty picture, with seemingly every news report lamenting the impending demise of accessible and affordable gigs for […]

Allen & Heath – A Brilliant Donation

Livewire Youth Music have received an incredible surprise late Christmas gift from leading pro-audio live sound manufacturers Allen & Heath, with the donation of one of their flagship dLive c3500 live sound mixing desks to be used for gigs and teaching young people live sound in its amazing 250 capacity venue in Saltash, Cornwall. Over […]

Christmas Came Early…

Enter Shikari

Christmas came early… …for a lucky few of our young people this weekend. They met the band ‘Enter Shikari’, when they played a gig at Plymouth University on Saturday 8th December – a massive thank you to the band and their management. It wouldn’t be true to say that Livewire can introduce our young members […]

Anxiety Is a Dirty Ugly Liar!

Anxiety is a dirty, ugly, liar!

Article by Andy Rance. First published in Love Saltash – December 2018. Anxiety is that quiet voice that tells you ‘you can’t’ when you can – it tells you you’re ugly, that no one really likes you, that you’re worthless, that you’re unlikeable! Like most liars, once they’ve been found out they usually disappear, so if your […]

Livewire Launches New Mental Health Service For Young People

Saltash, Cornwall. June 9, 2018 Livewire Youth Project’s new mental health service for young people – ‘Heart n’ Soul’, is now up and running. With generous grant funding of £80,000 from Global’s ‘Make Some Noise’, the Saltash Waterside based charity is providing an on-site Mental Health Worker for two years, with the intention of making […]

Discover why Rockstars Love Saltash ‘Livewire’

A state-of-the-art recording studio for the young people of Devon and Cornwall, championed by rock royalty including Pete Townshend of ‘The Who’ and the late Lemmy Kilmister of ‘Motorhead’, will open its doors to the public on Saturday 3 March. Based at Saltash Waterside, Livewire Youth Music incorporates traditional youth work, a youth club and […]

Recording ‘My Generation’ in Cornwall

Thanks to the amazing kindness of legendary ‘Who’ guitarist, Pete Townshend, Saltash based Livewire Youth Music will be offering local young musicians the chance to use our recording studio, free, and to learn hands-on how to use recording studio equipment. We are delighted to announce that Cornwall Music Education Hub will be financially supporting the […]