Sound City Liverpool Announces The Cribs in Second Wave of Acts

Sound City Liverpool Announces The Cribs in Second Wave of Acts

UK’s biggest city festival reveals line-up additions including Peace, Everything Everything, Fat White Family and Swans

With the announcement of its second wave of artists Sound City has revealed its biggest bill to date with the promise of much more still to come.

The country’s largest city-based festival is proud to add The Cribs, Peace, Swans, Everything Everything, Fat White Family, George the Poet and many more world class acts to the bill for this year’s festival.

Commented Sound City CEO Dave Pichilingi: “It’s a really big year for Sound City - with the move to our incredible new industrial home at Bramley Moore Dock we promised to create a bill that smashed expectations. We believe we have more than delivered on this promise.

“We have brought in some of the biggest names in the business this year from The Flaming Lips, Belle and Sebastian to The Vaccines and some of the acts we’re announcing today including The Cribs and Peace. We’ve also selected the very best of the scene’s emerging talent. You would literally pay three times the price of our tickets to see half the bill we have put together and we haven’t finished yet – we’ve still got a surprise or two up our sleeve. Our new model and approach will redefine the approach to metropolitan festivals and make us the brand to be imitated.”

Other acts announced in the second wave include Spector, Iceage, Stormzy, Bill Ryder-Jones, The Bohicas, Honeyblood, Aquilo, The Sundowners and Liverpool’s own Tea Street Band.

Following rave reviews for their new single Distant Past and eager media anticipation for their third studio album Get to Heaven released this June, Everything Everything are looking forward to supporting The Vaccines on the Friday night.

Jeremy Pritchard, Everything Everything bassist said: “Liverpool has such a sense and conspicuous love of live music so we always feel at home there, we always have a good time and a great party.

“In the early days of Everything Everything we always seemed to end up roaring drunk, sleeping on someone's floor on Smithdown Road... It will be particularly cool to play at the new location on the docks, that kind of post- industrial landscape is always inspiring.”

Breathing life into a semi-derelict dockside is no mean feat so Sound City is working alongside STAX Creations, a team of visionaries responsible for designing some of the most incredible and recognisable festival landscapes in the UK, to help transform the Bramley-Moore Docks into an amazing post apocalyptic environment right on the banks of the iconic River Mersey.

Sound City is this year proud to be working alongside Liverpool John Moores University as the official Cultural Educational Partner. They are partnering on a number of initiatives including students from the LJMU Spatial Design Programme working with STAX Creations to deliver a unique festival site. This is a hugely innovative strategic partnership and forms part of Sound City’s commitment to offering students real life working experience within the festival and conference offer.

The bill so far includes:

The Vaccines • The Flaming Lips • Belle and Sebastian

Roni Size Reprazent • The Thurston Moore Band • Gaz Coombes The Cribs • Peace • Swans

Fat White Family • Everything Everything • George the Poet F*cked Up • Evian Christ • Unknown Mortal Orchestra

The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger • Dum Dum Girls • Cymbals Eat Guitars Spector • Iceage • Stormzy

Stealing Sheep • Dutch Uncles • Slaves • All We Are

Bill Ryder-Jones • The Bohicas • Neon Waltz

Honeyblood • Real Lies • Blossoms • Aquilo

Jane Weaver • Dave McCabe andThe Ramifications • The Tea Street Band

Loyle Carner • Serpent Power • The Sundowners

Moon King • Clarence Clarity • Formation • The Griswolds • Astronomyy Bad Breeding • Single Mothers • Bad Meds

YAK • KOF • Gulf • R Seiliog • Moats

Barberos • The Vryll Society • Strange Collective

Sekuoia • Okkyung Lee • M.O.

Thabo & The Real Deal • Prose

Sound City will be announcing still more live acts and the additional conference keynote speakers in the coming weeks.

Sound City music festival runs between 22-24 May. Sound City conference runs takes place on 21 & 22 May. Wristbands are available to buy now at:

http://www.liverpoolsoundcity.co.uk/

Bill Ryder-Jones + Saint Saviour at The Kazimier Liverpool

Bill Ryder-Jones + Saint Saviour at The Kazimier Liverpool

A superlative double-bill brings together two musical kindred spirits on the same stage as Bill Ryder-Jones and Saint Saviour, along with a string quartet from the much fabled Manchester Camerata orchestra visit The Kazimier in just over a weeks time.

Ryder-Jones is making a swift return to the stage following the success of 2013s critically acclaimed A Bad Wind Blows In My Heart, with his new as yet untitled album set for release on Domino Records later this year.

It's been a highly productive year for Bill which saw him touring the UK and Europe as guest guitarist with Arctic Monkeys alongside producing acts such as By The Sea, The Wytches and The Lost Brothers.

Co-headliner Saint Saviour is the alter ego of Becky Jones, best known for her tenure as lead singer for evergreen dance act Groove Armada on their Grammy nominated album Black Light.

Marrying a voice frequently compared to the ethereal vocals of Cocteau Twins’ Liz Fraser and Kate Bush to warm electronic textures, debut LP Union was released to positive press in 2012, with The Quietus stating ‘We might just have a superstar on our hands here’

The eagerly anticipated follow up 'In the Seams', produced in Parr St. Studios by Bill himself and featuring the Manchester Camerata Orchestra has been critically acclaimed from all quarters with The Quietus awarding is 9/10 and saying 'Something that hangs so beautiful and heavy, that it'll crush you like a planet falling'.

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GIT Award winner announced this Friday plus new 'One To Watch' prize winner named

Merseyside’s top music prize The GIT Award 2014 is just days away with nominees set to perform at a spectacular specially redesigned Kazimier in the heart of Liverpool city centre on Friday 11 April 2014.

The nominees - All We Are, Evian Christ, Circa Waves, Dan Croll, Ex-Easter Island-Head, Forest Swords, Mad Brains, Ninetails, Outfit, Bill Ryder-Jones, Tea Street Band and VEYU – will feature in live performances plus specially created visuals at the Kazimier alongside one-off performances and DJ sets from a raft of creatives.

As the ceremony approaches, organisers can now reveal the winner of a brand new One To Watch prize  - awarded to one under-18 artist - selected by the GIT Award judging panel.

In just six months, 17-years-old female electronic artist and producer Låpsley has received international recognition with her self-produced track Station.

Receiving almost 500,000 plays on her SoundCloud alone for her two tracks Station and Valentine, Låpsley has  received airplay on Radio 1 and 6Music while being featured in NME and being the toast of the international blog scene.

Låpsley, who has played just one gig on Merseyside, will feature at the GIT Award at the Kazimier and her prize will include studio time at Liverpool's legendary Parr Street Studios plus mentoring from sponsors Merseyside Arts Foundation as well as support from Liverpool International Music Festival.

The industry showcase on Friday April 11 is strictly invite only and will include performances from eight of the shortlisted artists plus an aftershow and specially produced set piece produced by the Kazimier team.

The GIT Award host is the High Priest of Party, known only as Howard Be Thy Name. Infamous for his high octane live performance, spectacular human light shows, kaleidoscopic projections and artistic high jinks. He's collaborated with everyone from Mick Rock to Echo and The Bunnymen and his holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama - expect something unforgettable - and explosive array into the fantastical!

This year, the Kazimier will transform their unique venue into a decadent studio of lavish 70s pomp and glitz complete with sequins, navel grazing necklines, ultrasuede leisure suits and all manner of shimmer and sparkle with guests encouraged to dress the part.

Fifty members of the public have also been given the chance to attend the ceremony through a ticket draw on the Kazimier website - http://www.thekazimier.co.uk/ .

Now in its third consecutive year, The GIT (Getintothis) Award, champions the best of Merseyside music providing a snapshot of the year in music, recognising significant artistic achievement across a range of musical styles. 

This year’s shortlist was selected by national industry figureheads consisting of The Quietus editor John Doran, Music Week editor Tim Ingham, former Creation Records’ boss Alan McGee, BBC Radio 6 Music’s Camilla Pia, author and journalist Simon Price, Popjustice editor Peter Robinson, Guardian journalist Jude Rogers, XFM deputy programme manager Mike Walsh and NME radar editor Matt Wilkinson.

The judging panel was completed by respected Merseyside music players including Liverpool Music Week director Mike Deane, Sound City and Club EVOL promoter Steve Miller, Liverpool International Music Festival curator Yaw Owusu, Bido Lito! editor Craig Pennington – and GIT Award founder and Liverpool Echo journalist, Peter Guy.

Dubbed ‘the Scouse Mercury Prize,’ backed by Yoko Ono and the cornerstones of Merseyside’s flourishing cultural community, the winner of the GIT Award 2014 is revealed on Friday April 11 at The Kazimier in Wolstenholme Square - picking up a cheque for £1,000.

Live visuals, the One To Watch Award and mementoes for each nominee will be created by Liverpool architectural design agency ArchiPhonic who have overseen projects in the Baltic Triangle. Meanwhile Liverpool’s Royal Standard Art Gallery director, Mike Aitken will create two specially designed awards for the winners of the GIT Award 2014 and The Inspiration Award.

But who will win this year’s coveted prize? Find out in seven days’ time!

www.getintothis.co.uk

Liverpool Git Awards 2014 shortlist announced

Liverpool’s premier music prize, The GIT Award can today reveal the 12 shortlisted artists for the 2014 edition.

The GIT Award 2014 shortlist is:

All We Are, Circa Waves, Dan Croll, Evian Christ, Ex-Easter Island Head, Forest Swords, Mad Brains, Ninetails, Outfit, Bill Ryder-Jones, Tea Street Band and VEYU.

Now in its third consecutive year, The GIT (Getintothis) Award, champions the best of Merseyside music providing a snapshot of the year in music, recognising significant artistic achievement across a range of musical styles.

This year’s shortlist was selected by national industry figureheads consisting of The Quietus editor John Doran, Music Week editor Tim Ingham, former Creation Records’ boss Alan McGee, BBC Radio 6 Music’s Camilla Pia, author and journalist Simon Price, Popjustice editor Peter Robinson, Guardian journalist Jude Rogers, XFM deputy programme manager Mike Walsh and NME radar editor Matt Wilkinson.

The judging panel was completed by respected Merseyside music players including Liverpool Music Week director Mike Deane, Sound City and Club EVOL promoter Steve Miller, Liverpool International Music Festival curator Yaw Owusu, Bido Lito! editor Craig Pennington – and GIT Award founder and Liverpool Echo journalist, Peter Guy.

Dubbed ‘the Scouse Mercury Prize,’ backed by Yoko Ono and the cornerstones of Merseyside’s flourishing cultural community, the winner of the GIT Award 2014 is revealed on Friday April 11 at The Kazimier in Wolstenholme Square - picking up a cheque for £1,000.

Mike Walsh, XFM Head Of Music, said: "The GIT Award shortlist proves yet again that Liverpool continues to be one of the most consistently creative and musically rich cities in the world. The strength and diversity of artists on this list reminds us why Liverpool is still the benchmark for other cities to envy."

Since its re-launch in November 2013 up until the closing date at the end of January 2014, the GIT Award received more than 500 entries with the judges carefully whittling them down to just 12.

The industry showcase on Friday April 11 is strictly invite only and will include performances from the shortlisted artists plus an aftershow and specially produced set piece spectacles by the Kazimier team.

This year, the Kazimier team will transform their unique setting into a decadent night of lavish 70s pomp and glitz complete with sequins, navel grazing necklines, ultrasuede leisure suits and all manner of shimmer and sparkle as guests are invited into a gold lame world of an era trying desperately to cling onto its fading grandeur. Fifty lucky souls will also have the chance to log on to the Kazimier website and obtain a pass to this once-in-a-lifetime occasion.

On the night, the overall GIT Award winner will receive a cash prize of £1,000 and a special inspiration Award, recognising services to Liverpool’s music industry (won by The Hillsborough Justice Collective in 2013 and the team behind The Kazimier in 2012), will also be presented.

NME's Matt Wilkinson, said: "The GIT Award 2014 shortlist is seriously impressive. What I like most about it is the sheer variety of the nominated acts. None of them fit together on paper as they're all so different musically, yet each act is pushing the boundaries in their own special way. Liverpool is thriving in its own diversity - and I can't remember the scene being this eclectic for decades."

New for the GIT Award 2014 edition, an under-18 artist will receive the One To Watch Prize receiving studio time at Liverpool's legendary Parr Street Studios, mentoring from sponsors Merseyside Arts Foundation and a slot at the Liverpool International Music Festival.

Live visuals, the One To Watch Award and mementoes for each nominee will be created by Liverpool architectural design agency ArchiPhonic who have overseen projects in the Baltic Triangle.

Meanwhile Liverpool’s Royal Standard Art Gallery director, Mike Aitken will create two specially designed awards for the winners of the GIT Award 2014 and The Inspiration Award.

GIT Award founder and chair of judges, Peter Guy, said: “The 2014 GIT Award reaffirms my belief that there’s no region in the UK that can match the artistic ambition, technical craft and musical innovation that’s currently unfolding across Merseyside. Each of the artists on this year’s shortlist have garnered international press and radio while entertaining sell out audiences in Tokyo, South Africa, Sydney, New York and almost the entirety of Europe – and yet, most exciting of all, the majority are in their infancy. April 11 at a transformed Kazimier is set to be an exhilarating evening.”

Liverpool music lovers know their city is home to some of the finest creative talent in the world.

However, eyes and ears elsewhere may need convincing. The inaugural 2012 GIT Award readdressed all that and its 2014 edition is set to spread the message even further.

Limited tickets & event link, Monday March 3: http://www.thekazimier.co.uk/listing/00000000280/

For all other details: www.getintothis.co.uk

Red Bull Studios at Liverpool Sound City - Exclusive track released by Death Masks today

On Saturday 4th May Red Bull Studios marked the close of Liverpool Sound City for 2013 with a party that celebrated the strength of local talent, billing breakthrough acts shoulder to shoulder with some of the most topical outfits of the present day.

Highlights from the epic line-up were local band Death Masks, who performed an electric set bursting with synth guitar ballads, which included a premiere of ‘From a Distance’, a track recorded exclusively at Parr Street Studios ahead of the festival, under producer and former lead guitarist of The Coral, Bill Ryder-Jones.

Death Masks said “We'd like to thank Red Bull Studios for this amazing opportunity, It was really exciting to work with Bill at a studio as iconic as Parr Street, and we're really pleased with the results. The closing party at Sound City was excellent, it was great to share a stage with such established talent and the atmosphere was fantastic!”

Great Plain Sundance opened the stage with their high energy banjo infused new age indie melodies. Performing an epic homecoming gig Liverpool's own LIPA graduate Mikhael Paskalev, fresh from supporting Alt J on their European tour rocked the Sound City crowd especially with crowd pleaser ‘I Spy’. With a packed out crowd and hundreds still queuing to get in Egyptian Hip Hop took to the stage with their psychedelic beats who paved the way for headliners Delphic, who gave an epic, hit filled performance highlighting why they are the most talked about electronic bands from past few years. Closing the live preceding and nearing 1.30am Daisy Tallulah Syron-Russell aka Syron who recently featured on Channel 4’s Launched at Red Bull Studios, mesmerised everyone in ear shot with her sultry vocal range. Festival touring collective of djs and mc’s Tribe of Xanadu kept the Sound City crowd and walls of the Arts Academy reverberating until the early hours of Sunday morning.

Death Mask’s new track ’From A Distance’ is released on Tuesday 7th May 2013, available for free download at www.redbullstudios.com.

GIT awards 2012 - The review

GIT awards 2012 in Liverpool

Last night saw the first GIT awards. The Get Into This Award, named after a music blog run by writer Peter Guy, was set up to celebrate the new and emerging talent in Liverpool and has been dubbed the "Scouse Mercury" after the Mercury Music Prize.

As proponents of new talent, MusicMafia were proud to attend this event, and what an event it was.Bringing together the best of the new talent and the cream of publicists,music bloggers, promoters and general music folk  under one roof for what turned out to be a great celebration of Liverpool's emerging artists.

The setting for this was the Leaf Cafe. The room made up of glitter balls, screens and comfy sofas for those weary feet. The whole ambiance was perfect for the awards.

With  the night being hosted by journalist and Stone Roses biographer, John Robb, each act played live to the enthusiastic crowd.Each receiving a memento of their occasion and finally leading up to the winner which was given to The Loved Ones, who also received a day's free recording time at the Sandhills Studio and will be added to the bill at next year's Liverpool Sound City and Liverpool Music Week.

Former The Coral guitarist Bill Ryder-Jones, who was nominated for the award, gave an exclusive preview of his latest film score also.

The event as a whole was well choreographed and went more or less without a hitch. It was good to see so many great people coming together and supporting what has been one of the best events we have been to in a long time.

It's about time recognised and celebrated the wealth of talent Liverpool has to offer and I feel Peter has done this with remarkable aplomb. He has managed to bridge the gap between struggling artists and established music luminaries to bring them closer together in what is their main goal...to make an impact on the music scene here in Liverpool and further afield.

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