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Scouse Ma is coming off social for the night to host a massive Mother’s Day party

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Scouse Ma is coming off social for the night to host a massive Mother’s Day party

Scouse Ma is taking a break from social media for the night to throw whatā€™s shaping up to be Liverpoolā€™s biggest, Scousest Motherā€™s Day party.

Sheā€™s taking over Invisible Wind Factory on Sunday March 27 alongside Ultrabeat and a line-up of DJs, games, prizes and lots of surprises.

Itā€™s the first time Scouse Ma, aka Elle, has ever done an in-person event before but she says sheā€™s keen to meet some of the thousands of followers whoā€™ve helped make her accounts such a success.

ā€œObviously Iā€™m known as an anonymous account, not usually showing my face, but for this Iā€™m actually going to have a little go at hosting which is absolutely nerve-racking,ā€ she admits.

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ā€œFor a lot of people there this will be the first time theyā€™ll have seen me so Iā€™m terrified but at the same time Iā€™m really looking forward to meeting people. Iā€™ve got quite a lot of long-time followers who are really curious about who I am, so itā€™ll be lovely to just be able to have a proper chat to everyone.ā€

Elleā€™s been working on Scouse Maā€™s Big Night Out since last summer, although itā€™s an idea sheā€™s had for a couple of years.

ā€œI already wanted to do something different and I thought it would be nice to do it in Liverpool with local businesses involved,ā€ she explains. ā€œI had the idea of doing an event or something outside of Instagram a year or two ago but I didnā€™t know how to go about it, then Luke Crellin, whoā€™s been in music production and events for years, contacted me.

ā€œIā€™d never met Luke before but he DMed me and the message was a bit cheeky so I responded, and he basically had in his head what Iā€™d had in mine but heā€™s got the experience to do it.ā€

Since then Elle, Luke and Chris from Ultrabeat have all been coming up with ideas for the night after deciding on Invisible Wind Factory as the perfect venue for what they wanted to do.

Early release tickets sold out straight away and the second release is already half gone which she says sheā€™s genuinely surprised ā€“ and relieved ā€“ about.

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ā€œAt first I was panicking a bit, like when youā€™re a kid and you have a party thinking, what if no-one comes? But Iā€™ve just been absolutely made up with the response. Weā€™ve got people coming from all over the country, from Ireland, Scotland, London the Lake District, itā€™s not just Scousers, and itā€™s all age brackets from 18 to over 60s.ā€

Having an extra platform for Scouse Ma couldnā€™t have come at a better time because sheā€™s just had her main Instagram account disabled along with its Ā£1.7million followers.

ā€œThatā€™s really just reminded me how fragile social media is,ā€ she says. ā€œIā€™m on my back-up account at the moment, which has 642,000 followers, but the whole thing has been bizarre.

ā€œSince last year Instagram has been really strict, and theyā€™ve brought a new algorithm in which recognises certain words but it doesnā€™t get sarcasm or satire.

ā€œI had one meme removed for co-ordinating violence because it had the name ā€˜Ted Bundyā€™ in it and another one got removed for instigating violence because it was a joke about stealing traffic cones. The final straw was I posted a video of a little boy calling Boris Johnson a d***head, Iā€™ve posted it loads of times before but on that day they must have thought, right, weā€™ve had enough of her, sheā€™s going!

ā€œI did speak to someone at Meta who told me it was because I didnā€™t have my account under the category of satire/parody but I changed all my categories and it still got removed.

ā€œIt wonā€™t let me appeal, Iā€™ve got another week or so and then I think after that itā€™s permanently gone.ā€

While she waits in the hope of a reprieve, sheā€™s busy coming up with a running order for the Big Night Out.

ā€œWeā€™re just going through that now but a lot of it is going to be surprises.Ā 

ā€œThe main artists confirmed are Ultrabeat, DJs Vicki Scott, Kaci Lea Lynch and Davy T Soul Train, but thereā€™s loads of other stuff weā€™ve booked which people will find out about when theyā€™re there, we want everyone to be wondering whatā€™s going to happen next.Ā 

ā€œI donā€™t want anyone to be bored, I just want everyone to have a boss time with things popping up during the night.ā€

As for a script, Elle says sheā€™s happy to mostly wing it.Ā 

ā€œLuke is insisting we need to get something written down and have a couple of rehearsals before we do it, but Iā€™m pretty good at thinking on my feet, Tweets are just like thinking on your feet half the time, so Iā€™m hoping to rely on that.

ā€œAnd itā€™s on the Sunday, starting at 8pm and finishing at 2am, so Iā€™m hoping by the time people get there theyā€™ll all be half-cut and they wonā€™t pay much attention to me, thatā€™ll be fantastic!ā€

To tickets for this Scouse Ma eventĀ here.

Article by Dawn Collinson

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