UNITING national and international artists with Greater Manchester’s finest independent promoters, collectives and club nights, Sounds From The Other City is one of the most talked-about festivals of the moment. Taking in intriguing and often underused venues up and down Salford’s historic Chapel Street corridor, SFTOC has seen career-defining performances from an eclectic array of artists - spanning Alt-J to Lapalux, the Ting Tings to Jane Weaver, Horsebeach and Sampha - over an explosive twelve years.
This year, acts playing across sixteen stages include former Race Horses frontman Meilyr Jones and one of the most hotly tipped bands of 2016, Pumarosa. Don’t miss the critically acclaimed cosmic pop of Gwenno, Leeds-based techno fans Chrononautz, avant garde folk dynamo Laura Cannell, Bristol’s heavyweight psychic voyagers Anthroprophh, The Magnetic North or Bella Union new signings, exmagician.
Also new for this year are stages co-curated with Café Oto (at Islington Mill with Fat Out),The Quietus (at The Kings Arms with Grey Lantern) and Sways Records/The White Hotel, switching their Lower Salford homes for the banks of the River Irwell for an epic twelve-hour party marathon entitled Salford & Gomorrah, taking place upstairs at The Old Pint Pot.
Part festival, street party, exhibition, rave and immersive architectural tour, Sounds From The Other City sets up shop in fascinating places like Paul Heaton’s Kings Arms pub, Islington Mill’s pitch-perfect live room, the historic public meeting ground of Bexley Square, disused railway arches plus a SFTOC first at Salford Cathedral. What’s more, every SFTOC festival looks and feels totally different, which is just one reason why this free-thinking celebration of music and art has sold out almost every year since it started.
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