free festival acts announced for Liverpool Music Week

Frankie And The Heartstrings, Summer Camp, and Baxter Dury are among the acts announced for the free programme at this year's Liverpool Music Week.

From the free-festival opening party featuring The Duke Spirit on Friday 28th October, the MOJO hosted free shows include gigs by Young Knives, Tribes, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Foreign Beggars, Lanterns on the Lake, DELS, Big Deal, Baxter Dury, Twin Sister, Gardens and Villa, Marcus Foster, Cashier no 9, Three Trapped Tigers, Summer Camp, Stealing Sheep, and Dog Is Dead with proceedings being wrapped up by festival favourites Frankie And The Heartstrings.

The full agenda for the free shows will be announced in the next 2 weeks. LMW Director Mike Deane said, "We are thrilled at the agenda we have pulled together for 2011. A sold out opening show with one of the hottest bands on the planet and a hugely ambitious closing show at one of the city's most intriguing venues. But once again, the free festival we’ve announced is a blinder – our best to date – showcasing the best new bands out there alongside the freshest talent our great city has to offer. We can’t wait for this year's festival to kick off."

100 guaranteed-entry free tickets are available for each show online at 2 tickets per person.

To order free tickets, click here, and type the name of the act.

Liverpool Music Week is billed as the UK's largest indoor winter music festival and will be staging over 880 events and play host to over 400 live bands and runs from Friday 28th October through to Sunday 13th November.

This year's festival line-up includes Ghostpoet, The Phantom Band, The Whip, Outfit, Beth Jeans Houghton, Cerebral Ballzy, D/R/U/G/S, Drums Of Death, Dustin Wong & the Infinite Love Orchestra, Dutch Uncles, Echo Lake, Ellen and the Escapades, Ex-Easter Island Head, Fear of Men, Gross Magic, Hot Club de Paris, Hyde & Beast, Lets Buy Happiness, Man Without Country, Mugstar, NewVillager, Stealing Sheep, Trevor Moss and Hannah-Lou, Vasco de Gama, Vessels, Visions of Trees, Hyde & Beast, DJ Derek, Wrong Tom, Warm Brains, Eagulls, Lucky Beaches, The Loud, and more. For the line-up details as available please click here.

Liverpool Music Week features music from every genre imaginable including indie, rock, electronic, funk, soul, latin, nu wave, jazz, and world music and this year is no different.

Ticket prices vary depending upon event. To buy tickets for the closing party, click here.

The festival format is a combination of ticketed shows and free shows, with artists including the UK's biggest live acts as well as new emerging talent.

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