aaamusic | On 23, Mar 2011

Liverpool Sound City Announce Fourth Wave Of Acts

www.liverpoolsoundcity.co.uk

• Liverpool Sound City – the UK’s coolest boutique city centre festival – returns Thurs 19^th – Sat 21^st May 2011
• Another swathe of bands just announced includes The View, Clinic, Set Your Goals, Smoke Fairies and Dinosaur Pile Up. Radiohead’s Philip Selway headlines the Bella Union showcase
• 1-Xtra’s DJ Target takes over Bumper for his Showcase session with some of hip-hop and R&B’s brightest new names
• Sonic songstresses include Yasmin, Liverpool’s own Delta Maid and Brazilian beats from Marina Gasolina all also star
• Beat the price increase for Festival Wristbands and Full Delegate Passes! The current full festival wristband price of £40 finishes on April 1^st and will continue to increase until May. £40 gets over 300 bands during three amazing days and nights of music across the city’s finest venues
• Single day wristbands available from April 1^st at Thursday £22.50 / Friday £22.50 /Saturday £25

Liverpool Sound City has just announced yet another wave of acts all starring at this May’s festival extravaganza in one of the most iconic and musical cities on the planet. The countdown is now truly on with less than two months until over 30 venues in the city are taken over by 300 bands from around the world, including some of the brightest stars, the hottest new talents and the next generation of melody makers all uniting for a music, arts and cultural showcase unlike any other. The scene is set for the 4^th Liverpool Sound City which again will shape the UK’s music manifesto; three days and nights of enrichment, excitement and discovery await across the entire city.  As well as the current amazing wristband offers for festival and delegates wristbands – which again go up in price from April 1^st and April 10^th respectively – from April 1st there’s the chance to buy single day wristbands too.

Scottish rockers The View headline, bringing their anthem-led cuts to Liverpool. Longstanding friends of the city and of the festival, they headline the O2 on Thursday 19^th May. Post-punk revivalists Clinic represent Liverpool using their vintage keyboards/organs to incredible effect along with their beloved Philips Philicorda and peculiar off-scale chord progressions. The surgical mask wearing Domino recordings legends now deep in the game for over a decade and have just released their 6th studio album ‘Bubblegum’ and debut on Friday May 20^th. There’s a mouth-watering treat from Radiohead drummer Philip Selway too, who headlines the Bella Union showcase on Saturday 21^st.

DJ Target takes over Bumper on Sat 21^st May with his Showcase; with a number 1 track under his belt with Green Light and the MOBO-Awards nominated Rolls Deep, the 1-Xtra 100% Homegrown presenter is one of the toasts of the scene. He was part of the ground-breaking garage act, Pay As You Go, and has worked with many huge stars including Dizzee Rascal, Jamelia, Wiley and Boy Better Know, and continues to showcase new music each and every week to the nation. Yasmin headlines this show; the hip-hop and R&B starlet offers a beguiling new angle for Target’s hip-hop, R&B and urban excursions which will captivate LSC. The Bumper show also features many of the scene’s brightest new stars, including Cherri V, The Cipher, Lioness and MZ Bratt.

Liverpool’s own singing sensation, Delta Maid, also stars; the hypnotic country and blues singer’s debut album, Outside Looking, captures the essence of her American roots vocals, and Liverpool’s hottest new talent is set to stun LSC.

Back with the bands and they just keep coming; American punkers Set Your Goals headline the 02 Academy 2 on Fri 20^th May as their sound captures a new dynamic front at LSC, whilst Smoke Fairies’ spooked-out spectral harmonies will enchant on Thurs 19^th May. Dinosaur Pile Up’s Growing Pains brilliance was in its simplicity, bursting with chugging guitars and exuberant pop-tinged choruses which will feature in the Masque on Thurs May 19^th; they’re joined by Broken Records, whom NME likened to Scotland’s own Arcade Fire.  Ninja Tune’s experimental hip-hop star Dels will show why he’s feted for a big future.

New York lo-fi 60’s revivalists Cults (USA) also star alongside Indie-rock outfit Cloud Control (Australia). Disco-indie-rock-popper The Jezebels (Australia) also feature at LSC; Aussie soloist Dan Parsons whilst Grimes’ (Canada) ethereal and electronic pop reaches the places others fail to touch.

Expect art-rock experimentalism from Braids (Canada), Brighton’s new-wave four-piece Flashguns, Mazes’ indie folk rock and psychedelic, Leeds based FILMS, The Wombats-supporting The Good Natured and precocious hot talent Spark all star too at Liverpool Sound City.

LSC – The Acts So Far

Alessi’s Ark, Amanda Blank, Beat Connection, Black Lips, Broken Records, Cast, Chad Valley, Chain & The Gang, Clinic, Cloud Control, Colourmusic, Cults, Dan Parsons, Delta Maid, Dels, Dustland, Dutch Uncles, Ed Sheeran, Fixers, Flash Guns, FILMS, Forest Swords, Frank Turner, Funeral for a Friend, Funeral Party, Fucked Up, Grimes, Handsome Furs, Idiot Glee, Jamie XX, Kid British, Kurt Vile & The Violators, Lanterns On The Lake, Lower Than Atlantis, Mazes, Miles Kane, Mona, Mugstar, Niki & The Dove, Philip Selway, Publicist, Rachel Sermanni, SBTRKT, Set Your Goals, Sound of Guns, Spank Rock, Smoke Fairies, Spark, Steve Mason, Target, Teeth!!!, The Chapman Family, The Good Natured, The Jezebels, The Lines, The Oxygen Thieves, The Phoenix Foundation, The Red Suns, The Rural Alberta Advantage, The Sand Band, The Suzukis, The View, The Whip, Three Trapped Tigers, Those Dancing Days, Trophy Wife, Veronica Falls, Wave Machines, Willy Mason, Wolf Gang, Worriedaboutsatan, Wretch 32, Yasmin, Young Knives, Yuck, Zeus and many more to be confirmed…