Crowned Best metropolitan festival at the UK Festival Awards, Liverpool Sound City is an unrivalled 2-day festival of incredible live music and arts, capturing the city of Liverpool and reinforcing it as the cultural core of the UK.
Since it’s inception in 2008, Liverpool Sound City has grown into one of the most important and well-respected cultural events in the UK. Known as the ‘first music festival of the year’, Sound City sets the standard for all music festivals to follow by bringing you the very best breakthrough acts and major names before anyone else.
Previous years have seen the likes of The Flaming Lips, Belle & Sebastian Bastille & Royal Blood perform at the festival.
The festival has a strong history in providing a platform for future stars, with the likes of The xx, Ed Sheeran, Alt J and even Calvin Harris making appearances early on in their careers.
On top of the great music, the festival also features a huge range of conferences, panels, debates and workshops to explore behind-the-scenes aspects of the music we love.