Nominated for best UK metropolitan festival for the 5th year running, Liverpool Sound City is an unrivalled 3-day festival of incredible live music and arts, capturing the city of Liverpool and reinfo...
Nominated for best UK metropolitan festival for the 5th year running, Liverpool Sound City is an unrivalled 3-day festival of incredible live music and arts, capturing the city of Liverpool and reinforcing it as the cultural core of the UK. With a groundbreaking 2-day music and digital industry conference running in tandem, showcasing some of the most influential people from the creative industries, Sound City is one of a kind. Since it's inception in 2008, Liverpool Sound City has grown into one of the most important and well-respected cultural events in the UK. Known as the ‘first music festival of the year', Sound City sets the standard for all music festivals to follow by bringing you the very best breakthrough acts and major names before anyone else. Previous years have seen the likes of Bastille, The 1975, Royal Blood and Clean Bandit perform at the festival and an array of massive industry names speak at the conference, such as John Cale of The Velvet Underground, Seymour Stein (Warner Bros and Sire Records) and representatives from leading organisations such as Live Nation, Universal Music Publishing and Island Records... Confirmed Speakers for Sound City 2015 Conference include: Keynote Speakers Edwyn Collins discussing his scucessful career and talking about his new film 'The Possibilities are Endless' Wayne Coyne discussing the relationship of the Artist and Band Manager with Scott Booker In Conversations Justin Hayward-Young & Freddie Cowan (The Vaccines) Everything Everything Jane Weaver (Piccadilly Records Number 1 Album 2014) Danny Fields (Manager of the Ramones) Julian Cope (The Teardrop Explodes) Viv Albertine (The Slits) Mark E Smith (Singer of The Fall) James Barton (Founder of Cream) Performing at the Sound City Music Festival: The Vaccines • The Flaming Lips • Belle & Sebastian Roni Size Reprazent • The Thurston Moore Band • Gaz Coombes
 The Cribs • Swans • Peace • Everything Everything
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