Following the success of a sold out 2018, Sound City is set to return to Liverpool next May, with an impressive line up in tow. The festival is a celebration of up and coming talent, taking place in our vibrant arts capital, the Baltic Market for its 12th year on the run.
The festival now proudly reveals the first wave of artist joining them across Saturday 4th – Sunday 5th May across the city’s iconic Baltic Triangle. Embracing the wild spirit of discovery, the electrically-charged festival is again set to showcase 100’s of the very best emerging bands, artists and performers from across the world and closer to home, as well as genre-defining headliners. Tickets go on sale 10am on Friday 26th October.
Championed as Britain’s new hope in hip hop, Loyle Carner is a true voice of his generation. A lyrical genius, street poet and wordsmith who captures the mood of his contemporaries, he electrifies audiences as much as he inspires them. Seeing him perform at Sound City on Sunday 5th May is going to be incredibly special.
The festival weekend kickstarts with the Sound City+ conference, taking place on Friday 4th May in Liverpool’s beautiful, historic Cunard building. It will be a day jam packed full of creativity in the form of inspiring key note speeches, interviews and round table debates as well as workshops and business meetings.
Rebecca Ayres, Sound City’s Managing Director, explains: “We are all incredibly proud to announce the first artists joining us in May 2019 for the 12th Sound City. With Loyle Carner and Mabel we have two of the leading artists of their generation, and support from a wide range of emerging talent including our own Louis Berry. Earlier this year, we had a truly magical return back to our roots in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle with our sold out 11th edition. It was an incredible weekend for all who attended from right around the world. And for 2019 we will very much continue to champion new music and the next wave of stars in the making which is Sound City’s founding ethos, as well as further embracing diversity and equality in everything we do as a festival, from right here the office and our team to the lineup itself, and everything inbetween. We are also all incredibly happy to have been nominated for Best Metropolitan Festival and Best Small Festival at the UK Festival Awards 2018, which are great accolades for everyone involved.”
Grab your tickets for this celebration of talent, creativity and art from the Sound City website – they’re on sale now so be quick!
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Sound City Friday 3rd – Sunday 5th May 2019 Taking place across Baltic Triangle, Liverpool www.soundcity.uk.com Twitter: @soundcity / Insta: @liverpoolsoundcity