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Liverpool SoundCity plans announced
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 9 January 2009
Details of the second outing for Liverpool’s SoundCity have been announced, with this year’s four day cross-city music fest set to take place from 20-24 May (ie just after Brighton’s The Great Escape, making for a busy couple of weeks for music types in May).
400 bands are set to play at over 30 venues across the Pool over the four days. Once again there will also be an industry element to the proceedings, with the team of LA music industry conference MUSExpo (who launched a European version of their own event in London last year, of course) getting involved with that this time.
One of the events being especially bigged up is ‘The Trial’, which will bring together punters and industry types, with the former putting the latter “on trial” to see if they really do understand the needs of the next generation of music makers. Or something like that.
It sounds like fun, mainly because it will be staged in the city’s old law courts in the St Georges Hall, which have become something of a tourist attraction of late, but which should be a suitably serious looking surrounding for holding record industry types to account.
On that event, SoundCity Director Dave Pichilingi told CMU: “The Trial’ is a rare opportunity for young people to engage with the big decision-makers in the business and decide if they truly understand the needs of the next generation of music-makers. While we are not foolish enough to try to predict the future of music in this country, with SoundCity we would like to have a hand in shaping it”.
Early bird tickets for the whole festival are on sale already for £35. Go check www.liverpoolsoundcity.co.uk. Press info from Idea Generation.
