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AT 3pm today, Ringo Starr will be holding a press conference ahead of his European Tour which includes a date at the Liverpool Empire on June 18. You can watch it live as well as asking your own questions here. So now's your chance to find out his true feelings about Liverpool for yourself.

The 28-date tour begins on Saturday and includes concerts in Ukraine, Russia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Latvia, Poland, Britain, France, Czech Republic, Italy, Holland, Germany and Austria. It is Ringo's first UK tour since 1998.

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SOME interesting arts links, some local, some not:

The art handling manager from Tate Liverpool's Magritte show talks about installing the exhibition on the Tate blog

What's the point of international art festivals? asks The Art Newspaper. It features Liverpool Biennial director Lewis Biggs

Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer et al's 8in8 project - they challenged themselves to write eight songs in eight hours and the result is quite something:

It's also inspired people to create their own music videos, including this one:

Because the Origami - 8in8 from Ben Jacobson on Vimeo.

To mark the death of musician Gil Scott Heron, who passed away last week at the age of 62, the Liverpool Phil released this video of his performance there last year

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Right, that's all from me for today. I'm heading over to Metal this afternoon to judge the Liverpool Art Prize - a very tough job. Will blog on that another day.