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Liverpool Sound City brand set to go global

LIVERPOOL Sound City is taking the city’s music brand around the world – by launching the Middle East’s first major music conference and festival.Read

Music world salutes Liverpool Sound City

THE second coming of Liverpool Sound City signed off in style over the weekend, as four days and nights of music, film, debate and beyond culminated in parties right across the city.Read

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Liverpool Sound City 2009: Maps & Fly with Vampires: Static Gallery/Studio

JAMES Chapman's Maps make gorgeous, swirling synth melodies which recall early My Bloody Valentine and the best of the early 90s shoegazers.Read

Liverpool Sound City 2009: Little Boots & White Lies: O2 Academy

HYPE is a dangerous beast and Victoria Hesketh may soon be swallowed whole.Read

Liverpool Sound City 2009: Wave Machines: O2 Academy, Liverpool

JAWS had to be surgically scraped off the floor of Liverpool's Academy last night as hometown heroes Wave Machines crowned an incredible 48 hours with a blistering set of perverse pop.Read

Liverpool Sound City 2009: Clinic & Seal Cub Clubbing Club: Monochrome

A SOUND Sound City tip - take time off work, or you'll do what I did and miss most of Seal Cub Clubbing Club.Read

Liverpool Sound City 2009: Patrick Wolf & Ipso Facto: Stanley Theatre/Korova

THERE'S something quite special about Patrick Wolf. Read

Liverpool Sound City 2009: Orphan Boy & Jake Flowers: Korova/Chameleon

MINI charms from Manchester light up the dreary streets of the rain-swept Pool.Read

Liverpool Sound City: Sssh don't tell anyone...

A US invasion, Cavern Club-style love-in, legends abound and a late-night party for lunatics, Liverpool Sound City celebrated day two like no other. Bet you couldn't keep up.Read

Liverpool Sound City 2009: The Troubadours/Heartbreak/The Trestles: Alma de Cuba/Heebiejeebies/Studio Harman St

TIGHT as a drum musically, it's just a shame that a group of such young, talented musicians can't see past the generic confines of their local heritage.Read

Liverpool Sound City 2009: Red Light Company/Metronomy: O2 Academy/Alma de Cuba

LIZA Williams scurries round The Pool in search of beats and drones - she's finds em both.Read

Liverpool Sound City 2009: Wave Machines: Static Gallery

READY to take over the world, Liverpool's finest are riding on a sea of emotion. Andy Kelly gets swept away.Read

Liverpool Sound City 2009: Puzzle, Parraffin Oil Shop, Misery Guts: Revolution & Zanizibar

PUZZLE don't do rock & roll. In fact they don't do much, save for Mounsey falling off the back of the stage thanks to an awkward drum stool set up on the Revolution's make-shift stage.Read

Liverpool Sound City 2009: SSS, Johnny Foreigner, Sparkwood & 21, Black Eyes and Neckties, The Sand Band

THE Sound City opening night marathon continues. Matt Eland is determined to go the distance.Read

Liverpool Sound City 2009: Mongrel: Alma da Cuba, Liverpool

"I KNOW this is a church, but it's not a funeral," bellowed rapper Lowkey - no dissent from this dancing crowd as the hip-hop/indie supergroup pumped out their rebel sounds at Alma da Cuba.Read

Liverpool Sound City 2009: Phantom Band: Korova, Liverpool

YOU name it, Phantom Band will beat it. Getintothis' Alistair Houghton digs the Scots kraut-fusion. Muchly.Read

Liverpool Sound City 2009: Casio Kids, Picture Book, Tokyo Pinsalocks: Magnet

NORWEIGAN electro poppers Casio Kids delivered a polite but energetic performance. Read

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Liverpool Sound City 2009: Remain On, Tantrums: Mello Mello, Liverpool

JAPAN'S Remain On don't speak much English. But everything else the four piece do they do with a smile on their face.Read

Liverpool Sound City 2009: Cage The Elephant, White Denim, Gay Blades: O2 Academy, Liverpool

Ten points for effort go to The Gay Blades - coming on first to a fledgling crowd of almost pre-pubescent Cage The Elephant devotees is no enviable task but a task that they duly took to with some vigor.Read

Liverpool Sound City 2009: Jimmy Rae and the Firewalkers: Chameleon

Jimmy Rae and the Firewalkers play country music by numbers, evoking memories of wedding bands where someone gets up onstage thinking they're Elvis. Or somethingRead

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