Sounds From The Other City 2024

Affectionately known as the 'Christmas Day' of Greater Manchester's independent music scene, Sounds From The Other City brings colour, fun and the best new music and art to the pubs, bars, squares, studio’s, warehouses and ‘everywhere in between’ spaces of Chapel Street, Salford.

Sounds from the Other City, a multi venue single day event, has been a firm underground favourite since 2005, delivering a unique annual event that champions local promoters and celebrates the off-kilter beauty of Salford, the oft-overlooked ’other city’ to Manchester.

SOTOC takes place on Sunday 5 May 2024 from 2PM

Line-up

Highlights include Welsh icon Gruff Rhys at the University of Salford’s historic Maxwell Hall. 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.

As ever, the festival offers up a wealth of new and rising talent such as Free Love, Jellyskin, ISHA, TTSSFU, Pink Pound, Kelly Jayne Jones, Ife Ogunjobi and Mikey D.O.N.

The day will wrap up with a joyous afterparty at Maxwell Hall, featuring live sets from A Guy Called Gerald, Jenna G, Obeka, alongside dancers from Club Clam and Ghetto Fabulous and DJ sets from  Lil Minx and  Fastlove b2b Aiden Francis.

 

Full 2024 line-up (Venue-Artists)

MAXWELL HALL:  Daisy Rickman,  Gruff Rhys, TTSSFU  plus more tba

THE GREEN: Atike B2B Una Lee, Good Afternoon, Pink Phono, Kay B2B Tomi from Brockley

SALFORD MUSEUM & ART GALLERY: C Duncan, Marker Starling, Laura J Martin, Belle Chen, Eliza Niemi

PEEL HALL: ISHA, Ife Ogunjobi, muva of Earth, KinKai (Live PA), Lavender Rodriguez, SHEwillprovide, Urbi B2B JUNO

THE WORKING CLASS MOVEMENT LIBRARY: Dija Bhlue, Esther Koch, Renee Stormz, Mali Hayes, O’Sapien, Ruth Owens, SAF-S2E

THE OLD FIRE STATION: 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): Cameron Graham, Dancer, Good News, Grave Goods, Gurnal Gadafi , Shake Chain

THE OLD PINT POT (DOWNSTAIRS): Claire Welle, Co-Pilo, Jellyski, Nature Boi, Thraa

ST PHILIPS CHURCH: Strange Days x Heavenly Recordings , BEATRICE, Halo Maud, Lilo, Nightbus, Viji

PARTISAN CLUB, ISLINGTON MILL: Another Country $$$$, Free Love, Nukuluk, Pink Pound, Waterbaby, Zolatec

MIRAGE BAR, ISLINGTON MILL: Chermansog, Kelly Jayne Jones, Powders, She The Throne, The Seer

BEXLEY SQUARE : Amaka (2 sets), Abnormal Sleepz (DJ set), Chandé b2b Samrai, Meme Gold, Ms Dee

PORTA: Atalaya, Atike, LaFrance, Levi Love, Lilith, Luna Lazer, Mas O Menos, Stallone, Yeguachita

THE NEW OXFORD: Amaka , Asandia, Ayy Den, KD22LR, Kemi, Sez, Urbi, Zubz

 

AFTERPARTIES

MAXWELL HALL 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: Colecta, Gracie T, MYNA, Shannon From Admin

MIRAGE BAR, ISLINGTON MILL: Ronnie Stone, Missy Jay, Amiel Nitrate

 

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This event does not have camping but there are a number of hotels, hostels and guest houses in the area.

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