2019 sees Sounds From the Other City (SFTOC) celebrate its 15th year in unique style with its first Quindecennial: a festival that happens once only every 15 years.
2018 saw the biggest and best SFTOC to date – this year will see all that action packed into one site, as 1500 people make Salford’s Regent Trading Estate their home.
For the Quindecennial, the festival has asked 15 of its favourite promoters to pick their best two acts, which will be brought to you across 5 stages – in amongst it can be found perennial greats such as Now Wave, Hey! Manchester, and Grey Lantern, as well as some old favourites in Dots & Wolf (a collaboration of Dots & Loops and Lamb & Wolf), some new blood in Partisan, and a big link up with Bluedot who will be making their Sounds debut.
The full 2019 festival line-up rolls out the red carpet for the “most talked about new band in the country (diymag) and ‘your favorite band’s new favorite band (pitchfork),” Black Midi, the return to SFTOC for Heavenly Recordings’ very own indie-pop royals The Orielles, Belgian punks Cocaine Piss (“frenetic, adrenalized fun… sharp, frazzled, funny” - NARC magazine), Bristol noise-rockers Spectres, the blissed out grooves of Manchester’s Ménage à Trois, Edinburgh DIY folk-rock troubadour Withered Hand, laid-back rap maestro Barney Artist, and the Sounds debut of Factory Floor co-founder Gabe Gurnsey (“unfailingly relentless” - The Guardian) - and much, much more besides.
Once again SFTOC welcomes the BBC Philharmonic back for a special commission, this time to collaborate with recent favourites Young Identity. Combining the power of the spoken word performance with the magisterial energy of an orchestral ensemble, this one-off meeting of minds is certain to go down in Sounds lore.
Sunday 5 May will be filled with the special touches you won’t find anywhere else, with art direction from ALL five art directors from the past five years, and as day turns to night, we’ll be running our usual array of legendary after-parties at both the Pint Pot and across all 4 floors at YES with a one-off collab between So Flute x High Hoops, everyone’s favourite basement dance party, Kiss Me Again, newcomers Me Gusta, the return of the Thirsty Girls and mega vibes from Regal Disco.
Tickets are super limited for this extra special edition of the festival - and once they’re gone, they’re gone. Get yours now for £25 exclusively through Skiddle.
Visit www.soundsfromtheothercity.com for tickets and updates.
