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GRUFF RHYS, HALO MAUD, A GUY CALLED GERALD, C DUNCAN, MUVA OF EARTH, NIGHTBUS, VIJI, FREE LOVE + MANY MORE CONFIRMED THE FESTIVAL’S 18TH EDITION TAKES PLACE ACROSS MULTIPLE VENUES IN SALFORD, ON BANK HOLIDAY SUNDAY 5TH MAY
Sounds From The Other City, Salford’s much-loved annual multi-venue festival, is set to take place in its usual Spring Bank Holiday weekend berth on Sunday 5th May. Today, they reveal a typically diverse and ambitious line-up, including details of a SFTOC mega-afterparty, alongside news of this year’s art directors.
Highlights include Welsh icon Gruff Rhys at the University of Salford’s historic Maxwell Hall, where he will become the latest in a long list of musical legends to have performed in the space. Across the lawn, alt-jazz rising star Muva of Earth and underground hiphop gem Kinkai will grace the auditorium stage of Peel Hall, whilst just next door at the Salford Museum & Art Gallery, Mercury Prize nominee C Duncan and Australian Music Prize nominee Belle Chen are set to play a fittingly masters-adjacent location.
One of the festival’s favourite returning venues, the beautiful St Philip’s Church, will play host to melancholic electro post-punk trio Nightbus, indie-sleaze scenester Viji, and multi-instrumentalist Halo Maud, fresh from her guest vocal for The Chemical Brothers and with a brand new album dropping in March.
As ever, the festival offers up a wealth of new and rising talent with hotly tipped artists including unabashed gallic synthpop duo Free Love; abrasive electronic seafarers and Sleaford Mod tour support Jellyskin; free-spirited funk multi-instrumentalist ISHA; lofi showgaze solo act TTSSFU; the hi-NRG gay disco and introspective bedroom pop of Pink Pound; sound artist and Oram award winner Kelly Jayne Jones; and the spiritual afrobeat of Ezra Collective member Ife Ogunjobi. Not to mention a smattering of stalwarts of the underground, including soundsystem legend and John Peel favourite Mikey D.O.N.
The day will wrap up with a joyous afterparty at Maxwell Hall, featuring live sets from the legend that is A Guy Called Gerald, celebrated DnB vocalist and DJ Jenna G and Bermudian producer and multi-percussionist Obeka, alongside dancers from Club Clam and Ghetto Fabulous and DJ sets from Lil Minx and Fastlove b2b Aiden Francis.
Leaving their mark on the look and feel of the day across the site, SFTOC 2024 festival Art Directors are The Fvck Pigs. The pink-clad Pigerati dance troupe are recognised for previous collaborations with the likes of Peaches and have quickly become a dancefloor favourite, performing at Homobloc, Boomtown and many more.
As well as spreading their muck with interactive elements popping up all over Soundstown, the Pigs will be presenting the first ever edition of Pork Idol: a pageant-style competition which will invite Salford’s next top pig to compete for the crown before they can join the Pigs in storming the stage at the official SFTOC24 afterparty.
About Sounds From The Other City
Created for music lovers by music lovers, Sounds From The Other City has been a firm underground favourite since 2005; delivering a unique annual event that champions local promoters and programmers and celebrates the off-kilter beauty of Salford, the oft-overlooked ‘other city’ to Manchester.
Throughout the years, the festival has hosted early-day performances from artists as diverse as Black Midi, Marina, Alabaster de Plume, Alt-J, The Ting Tings, BiPolar Sunshine, Hannah Peel, GoGo Penguin right through to 2017’s Mercury Music Prize winner Sampha, BBC Sound of 2018 nominee IAMDDB and 2021 Mercury Music Prize nominees, Black Country, New Road.
What sets Sounds apart from almost every other festival in the land is a freewheeling approach to its programming that creates an authentically co-created event. Each year the festival invites a selection of the grassroots independent scene of the region – live promoters, record labels, club nights, magazines, venues – hands them a venue and a budget and lets them rip, with total free rein on what they programme; if you like it, book it!
Together that collective energy comes together in one almighty blast of energy that takes over the Chapel Street and Crescent areas of Salford, right on the doorstep of Central Manchester. Comprising largely of non-venue spaces, each year the audience can look forward to visiting new and underexplored parts of the city.
Sounds From The Other City 2024 takes place on Bank Holiday Sunday 5th May. Tickets are on sale now at soundsfromtheothercity.com.
Sounds From The Other City is made possible by funding from Salford City Council, the University of Salford, Arts Council England and GMCA Culture Fund. It is supported by Salford’s Culture & Place Partnership, a cross- city collective delivering Salford’s strategy for culture and creativity.
Sounds From The Other City 2024 line-up
(VENUE, selector, artists A-Z)
MAXWELL HALL
Now Wave
Daisy Rickman
Gruff Rhys
TTSSFU
+ more tba
THE GREEN
Good Afternoon x Green Island Festival
Atike B2B Una Lee
Good Afternoon
Pink Phono
Kay B2B Tomi from Brockley
SALFORD MUSEUM & ART GALLERY
Hey! Manchester
C Duncan
Marker Starling
Laura J Martin
Belle Chen
Eliza Niemi
PEEL HALL
Band on the Wall x Reform Radio
Hosted by Renee Stormz & Lashimba
ISHA
Ife Ogunjobi
muva of Earth
KinKai (Live PA)
Lavender Rodriguez
SHEwillprovide
Urbi B2B JUNO
THE WORKING CLASS MOVEMENT LIBRARY
The Untold Orchestra
Dija Bhlue
Esther Koch
Renee Stormz
Mali Hayes
O’Sapien
Ruth Owens
SAF-S2E
THE OLD FIRE STATION
$eamu$ & Friends
Fellowship (LIVE)
Ggeebow
Hannah O’Gorman
Industry Plant
Maracuya (Not Bad For A Girl)
Mikey Don
Sus-R & Club Penguin
Teepee H & Magee
THE OLD PINT POT (UPSTAIRS)
Alphaville x Fat Out x The Beauty Witch
Cameron Graham
Dancer
Good News
Grave Goods
Gurnal Gadafi
Shake Chain
THE OLD PINT POT (DOWNSTAIRS)
Alphaville x Fat Out x The Beauty Witch
Claire Welles
Co-Pilot
Jellyskin
Nature Boi
Thraa
ST PHILIPS CHURCH
Strange Days x Heavenly Recordings
BEATRICE
Halo Maud
Lilo
Nightbus
Viji
PARTISAN CLUB, ISLINGTON MILL
FAIR PLAY x Grey Lantern
Another Country $$$$
Free Love
Nukuluk
Pink Pound
Waterbaby
Zolatec
MIRAGE BAR, ISLINGTON MILL
DIYD x Dreams of Decay
Chermansog
Kelly Jayne Jones
Powders
She The Throne
The Seer
BEXLEY SQUARE
SEEN
Amaka (2 sets)
Abnormal Sleepz (DJ set)
Chandé b2b Samrai
Meme Gold
Ms Dee
PORTA
Mas O Menos x Traketeo
Atalaya
Atike
LaFrance
Levi Love
Lilith
Luna Lazer
Mas O Menos
Stallone
Yeguachita
THE NEW OXFORD
SHEwillprovide
Amaka
Asandia
Ayy Den
KD22LR
Kemi
Sez
Urbi
Zubz
AFTERPARTIES
MAXWELL HALL
SFTOC
A Guy Called Gerald (Live)
Jenna G (Live)
Obeka: Drums of Utopia (Live)
DJs: Lil Minx // Fastlove b2b Aiden Francis
Dancers: Club Clam // Ghetto Fabulous //
PARTISAN CLUB, ISLINGTON MILL
The Beatriarchy
Colecta
Gracie T
MYNA
Shannon From Admin
MIRAGE BAR, ISLINGTON MILL
Cavalcade
Ronnie Stone
Missy Jay
Amiel Nitrate
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