Liverpool Sound City 2010

Don't miss your LAST CHANCE to submit to Liverpool Sound City. The festival presents over 450 bands from over 20 different countries, in over 30 city centre venues to an audience of over 30,000. It has become one of the most important city centre festivals and international music business conferences in the North of England for music lovers and industry people alike./n/nEvery May, Liverpool Sound City presents over 450 bands from over 20 different countries, in 30 city centre venues to an audience of over 30,000. In the short space of 2 years we have become the most important city centre festival and international music business conference in the North of England for music lovers and industry people alike.

Taking place 19-22 May, 2010, Liverpool Sound City will bring together more than 25,000 creative business sector professionals, artists and music and film fans to enjoy today's best new art and chart its future course. All of Liverpool Sound City's events and parties will be held within a 1-mile square radius in the cultural quarter of Liverpool city centre. Over 30 different venues will be utilized from warehouse spaces to cellars and everything in between.

Liverpool Sound City has delivered a stellar line up of new talent with artists including: Animal Collective, Black Lips, Cage the Elephant, Casiokids, Crystal Castles, Deerhunter, Enter Shikari, Florence and the Machine, Glasvegas, Hadouken!, Hercules and Love Affair, Iglu and Hartly, Infadels, Juliette and the New Romantiques, King Creosote, Ladyhawke, Laura Marling, Little Boots, Metronomy, Mongrel, Mystery Jets, Pendulum, Post War Years, Pulled Apart By Horses, Reverend and the Makers, Silver Jews, Santogold, We Have Band, White Denim, White Lies, Wild Beasts, You Me At Six. In November, we launched Dubai Sound City and flew over 100 artists into the UAE for the first 3 day festival ever to take place in the region. Highlights included The Doves, Happy Mondays, Ian Brown, The Whip, The Courteeners, Gabrielle Cilmi, Super Furry Animals, Sound of Guns and Wave Machines.

"SoundCity Unsigned" gives us the opportunity to showcase the best unsigned acts from key territories including UK, USA, Iceland, Europe and Japan. Over 300 unsigned bands will grace Liverpool’s venues over the 4 days making the city a hive of activity for all emerging talent around the world and a must for any aspiring band.

To get involved in the most exciting festival and conference ever staged in the UK visit
www.liverpoolsoundcity.co.uk.