Sounds from the Other City festival reveals lineup

Multi-venue festival Sounds from the Other City today announced its full lineup, with Ex-Easter Island Head, Irma Vep, Gwenno and more all playing venues in Salford on 1 May. 

The annual celebration of new music, art and performance brings together many of Greater Manchester's best DIY and independent promoters to programme 16 stages along Chapel Street and the surrounding area. 

Acts revealed today include Laura Cannell, Negra Branca and Tacocat, playing on stages programmed by the likes of Fat Out, Grey Lantern and many more. 

Some major new collaborators have been announced for this year's bill, with arts and culture magazine The Quietus partnering promoters Grey Lantern on The King's Arms stage, and NTS Radio broadcasting live from the festival. 

Another big addition to this year's festival is a Sounds from the Other City TV channel, SFTOC TV, which will be beaming the day's adventures around the world.

Meanwhile, the art direction of this year's event is led by artist himHallows, who, as well as creating otherworldly characters and mystical environments for the festival's 'New Occult' theme, is hosting a masquerade ball, the Sea Captain's Ball, at midnight. 

Scroll down for the full lineup – and don't forget, The Skinny will be running a photo competition at the festival once again, with the chance to win a goody bag full of prizes donated by the promoters and friends of the festival for sharing your images of the day on Instagram or Twitter. Find out more about that here. 

Tickets are £20 from Skiddle or Piccadilly Records.

(Full lineup below)

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Sounds from the Other City 2016, Chapel Street, Salford, 1 May 2016, 3pm-4am

The full lineup:

Now Wave @ Unit 5 - Regent Trading Estate

Pumarosa
The Big Moon
The Rhythm Method
Beaty Heart
Oscar
Seize The Chair

Video Jam @ Unit 5 - Regent Trading Estate

My Panda Shall Fly
SGNL
Cul dé Sac
Irma Vep

Fat Out & Cafe Oto @ ‘The Burrow’, Islington Mill

Laura Cannell
Louise Landes Levi 
Áine O’Dwyer 
Part Wild Horses Mane on Both Sides 
Severed Shadow Large Ensemble

Sacred Tapes @ The Engine House, Islington Mill

John Powell-Jones
Carriers
Aliyah Hussain
+ more tbc

Hey! Manchester @ St Philip’s Church

Gwenno
Meilyr Jones
The Magnetic North
exmagician
Tacocat
She drew the gun 
She Makes War

The Beauty Witch @ The Angel Centre 

Blown Out
Werk
English Heretic
Clenstch 
Girl Sweat 
Ancient Sunlight 
visuals by Sam Wiehl 

Grey Lantern & The Quietus @ The King's Arms

Main room:
Chrononautz 
Sculpture
Negra Branca
Ill
The Yossarians
John Doran + guests
Big Sexy Land DJS (John Tatlock and John Doran play Acid Electro, Post Punk & Pop) 

Second room:

The Interference: 

Tru Luv @ The Salford Arms

Free Wize Men (Afro Sam, Kay Bey and Blind MIC)
TruLuvCru: Flohio & Cassive
Jazz Purple (Bi-polar Sunshine)
B Franklin
Layfullstop
HMD

Afterparty DJ sets from

G.S. ONE
Witch*unt

Visuals by Espher

Heavenly Records & Friends @ First Chop Brewing Arm

Sugarmen
Britain
Gwenno (DJ) 
Heavenly Jukebox

+ more tbc

Sham Bodie @ Bexley Square

Andrew James
Dan Lees
Phil Ellis
Rachel Fairburn
Jack Evans
Jayne Edwards
Sophie Willan
Marny Godden
Charlotte Cannon
Mathew Gray & The Awful Truth
Chris Tavener

Good Afternoon present The Disco Womb @  The New Oxford

A dance-a-thon in five parts: 
-The Inauguration of the Global Spirits
-Spiritual Shakedown 
-Psyche Sunset 
-The Transcendental (Inner) Space Disco 
-THE SEANCE

feat djs Matthew Rothery, James Sizen Bell, Disc Jockey Babette & The Good Afternoon Soundsystem

Manchester MIDI School @ Midi School Car Park

2 Billion Beats (Live)
Cal Graham & John Shields (LIVE) 
LOA (live)
Mica Sinclair (LIVE)
Sally Murray (LIVE)
Kennedy Taylor (DJ) 
Shoto (DJ)

+ more tba

Salford Zine Library @ The Deli Lama 

A sizeable collection of the zine library, in a cosy reading room, with readings & talkings from: 

Poor Lass
Zachary Roddis: Not Even Poetry
Holly Casio
Stephen James
Natalie Bradbury
Steve Carlton

The White Hotel presents 'Salford & Gomorrah’ upstairs @ The Old Pint Pot

Line-up specially selected by SWAYS/SLOWDANCERS/WOM
Chicaloyoh
Terrine
Vendel
Nova
Denim & Leather
Serchio Bathing Party
OKLO
Space Afrika
Szare
Cerberus Future Technologies
Blacklung
TOOMS
Rattle
Transylvanian Sex Pest
Cassiel
Raw Brainyak
Kickin' Pigeon
David Bowie
Parade
BEAT LES (IN THE LAND OF FUCK)

T’OPP Collective downstairs @The Old Pint Pot

BeWilderbeast (AV Show) 
Church Party 
BÊTE 
Move 
Her’s
HONEYiKNOW 
Roasts

Chew Disco and Trash-O-Rama @ The Crescent

Joey Fourr 
Happy Meals
Queer’d Science
MOTHER
The Birth Marks

Bad Uncle and IMPA TV present SFTOC TV @ tba

8 hours of non-stop LIVE TELLY inc music and entertainment from:

Barberos
Graham Dunning
Cowtown
The Not That Late Show with John Doran 
Kurt Dirt’s Happy Hour 
Bonnacons of Doom
Tirikilatiops
Martha
Hot Shorts
Bummer Squad
Legion of Swine

+ a whole host of other televisual delights, streaming LIVE to the world! LIVE! 

After parties

Meat Free in The Burrow present Monoak (live), Perseus Traxx (DJ) and Meat Free DJs

Faktion, Annex & Gesamtkunstwerk in the Islington Mill Gallery Space present Blood Sport (live), Teresa Winter (live) , ψυχοπομπός, BLOSC & Hess

The Old Pint Pot Upstairs and Downstairs: Carry on till sunrise transports you from Salford to Gomorrah with The White Hotel

Night Fantasy at First Chop Brewing Arm present Paul Thomson (Franz Ferdinand) B2B w/Night Fantasy

Plus!

himHallows presents  'The New Occult ™’: Artist himHallows captains a deep sea trawl to bring the New Occult™ to Chapel St. For one day and one night, the mystical and mythological will reign, as otherworldly characters rise from the dark depths to take over Salford’s age old venues, culminating in the Captain’s midnight masquerade ball.

Portable Street Beer House & Cloudwater at Unit 5 - Regent Trading Estate
The two heavyweights of the craft beer scene combine to bring top beer and top vibes, a first to SFTOC.  

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