Swans, The Cribs and Peace added to Liverpool Sound City
Reactivated post-punk experimentalists Swans have been announced among the latest additions to the Liverpool Sound City bill.
Fellow new announcements The Cribs, Peace and Everything Everything also rank alongside the bigger names to play this year's festival, at its new home in the city's Stanley Dock site. Other acts aded to the bill include Fat White Family, Iceage, Bill Ryder-Jones, Honeyblood and Blossoms, plus The Sundowners, The Tea Street Band, Barberos and Bad Meds numbering among the local acts.
Formed by Michael Gira in 1982, the crushingly-loud Swans evolved from the same New York no wave scene that birthed Sonic Youth (whose own Thurston Moore also features in the festival line-up). Known for their dense textures and repetitive structures, the band released 10 studio albums before splitting after a 15-year career. They marked their 2010 comeback with a series of blistering live shows and the critically-acclaimed album My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky, with another two post-reunion albums released since.
The lineup thus far is as follows:
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*ckedUp • 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 & The 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
For full line-up and ticket information, head to the Liverpool Sound City website.