Greater Manchester’s SOUNDS FROM THE OTHER CITY

Sitting at the heart of Greater Manchester’s vibrant DIY community, Sounds From The Other City champions the eclectic range of sounds that represent the city, known for being a diverse melting pot of creativity. On Sunday April 30th, Sounds From The Other City will unite a bill of over 100 artists and 27 promoters across 13 spaces for this day-to-night session. Tickets are available from just £32 + booking fee, click here to secure your space.

SFTOC is a showcase of the North’s colourful, creative fabric and a tribute to the talent that is born from the city, including live acts, DJs, bands, MCs, artists and all wonderful types of creatives. The 2023 day-to-night agenda will take over pubs, clubs, churches, studios, warehouses, and ‘in-between’ spaces such as Islington Mill, The White Hotel, Fivefourstudios, The Old Pint Pot, Bexley Square and more, the spaces are matched with promoters from Now Wave to Reform Radio, Partisan Collective, Hey! Manchester, Heavenly Recordings and more.

As part of the first names to drop, there’s on-the-rise collective and club community The Beatriarchy, who provide safe spaces for LGBTQIA+, black, Asian and marginalised groups. For SFTOC, they invite friend Chandé to co-curate, with Gracie T and many others performing. Infamous Manchester MC Skittles brings his spoken word experiment Sayin? to Bexley Square with a cast of friends and fam TBA, plus soul, RnB, and garage is covered by Jenna G, Katbrownsugar, Monoko and more at Porta. Dark, beat-driven pop from CURRENTMOODGIRL, and Bennettiscoming promise to be dramatic performances not to miss in warehouse spaces on the 30th April.

The Old Pint Pot hosts HEY! Manchester upstairs with Brown Brogues playing, whilst Tales from other worlds x FLUFF invite Phia Sky and Rose Gold to the stage downstairs – playing alt-pop electronica fusions. Whilst revered Heavenly Recordings team up with Strange Days at St Philip’s Church with two incredible live acts – Honeyglaze and Halo Maud. 

 Newly opened Partisan Club space at Islington Mill houses Fat Out and Bollox with Blue Ruth, Mix-stress, Arch Femmesis, and the Collective themselves host Mirage Bar with a talk hosted by Sexquisite looking at Artists and Activism, followed by Partisan Karaoke – warm up those vocal chords! There’s plenty more to be announced in the coming few weeks, including stages and takeovers from Now Wave, Band On The Wall, Me Gusta and more to come. Keep an eye on socials for further information.

After-parties after-hours sessions will take place in The White Hotel, Islington Mill, The Old Pint Pot and Fivefourstudios – with each night-time session offering something different from Deptford Northern Soul Club, Kiss Me Again to 96back. These afters are the perfect way to extend the Sounds From The Other City programme further, and allow for guests to have a flavour of what goes down after dark in the legendary city. 

“SFTOC is about championing the independent and progressive music scene in Greater Manchester and welcoming some of the most exciting new names in music to our home in Salford. And whilst some of those names will undoubtably go on to great success, we’re not interested in a beauty contest with winners and losers; we’re about uniting as much creative energy as we can in one place, on one day, and setting it off in one giant party on Bank Holiday Sunday.” – Mark Carlin, Festival Director

Run with real heart and soul for 19 years, SFTOC shines a light on emerging DIY talent, plus mainstays of the scene. Sounds From The Other City is designed to represent the diverse and rich independent movement in Greater Manchester, where sounds, venues, fans, promoters, artists and the community share, and support each other in their art.