A Ropewalks pub in a former shipping warehouse, trading since 2010, with a basement live room, a weekly comedy residency and promoter-run rock and club nights.
The Shipping Forecast occupies a former shipping warehouse at 15 Slater Street, in the heart of Liverpool's Ropewalks. It opened in 2010 on the site of Flares and Wonderbar and has traded since as a pub that combines food, drink and live music under one large roof: an American pub-style menu, a rotating beer and ale range, live sport on screen and a room that shifts from a relaxed afternoon bar to a late-night one. It is open to 1am on Fridays and Saturdays.
Downstairs is a basement live room, and the building's programming history is substantial — local acts such as Clean Cut Kid alongside international DJs including Disclosure, Mark Ronson and Hot Chip. The current bill is weekly rather than occasional: Shipwrecked Comedy runs every Tuesday and is booked more than a year ahead, and the promoter Johnsysshots runs regular nights here including a named Rock Night.
The operator publishes no capacity and no room-hire offer of its own, so no hire route is recorded here; the capacity figure held on this record comes from the venue's ticketing listing.
Pub and basement live room
The ground-floor bar and the basement live room below it, used together for gigs, club nights and the weekly comedy residency.
150 is the figure on the venue's Skiddle listing, which classifies it as a Live Venue. The operator publishes no capacity of its own, and the figure is not broken down between the bar and the basement.
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