The Scene
Kicking off the UK’s festival season for over a decade, Liverpool Sound City embraces the spirit of the underground showcasing the next generation of talent. With 250+ artists playing across the historic Baltic Triangle of Liverpool, expect to see wild shows along with world-class headliners. Sound City mixes up everything including grime, electronica, indie, psych, rock, pop and much more.
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2012 Artist Lineup
- AcomeandromedA
- Ahab
- Alex Hulme
- Algiers
- Alkaline Trio
- All We Are
- Alt J
- Anna-Anna
- Anthony Hope
- Ashley Fayth
- Arcane Roots
- Avenging Force
- Barbieshop
- Bang On
- Battleships
- Be Forest.
- Bear In Heaven
- Ben Caplan
- Ben Salter
- Bensh
- The Bendal Interlude
- The Big House
- The Big Sleep
- Bird
- Bleached
- Bleeding Heart Narrative
- Blunt Truth
- Bonfire Nights
- Bow and Arrow
- The Bowers
- Broken Lungs
- The Brownies
- Bwani Junction
- By The Sea
- Cadance Weapon
- Capac
- Caroline Ailin
- Catfish and The Bottlemen
- Cazadores
- Charli XCX
- Cheap Thrills
- Chelcee Grimes
- Chew Lips
- Citi Petts
- The City Walls
- Clock Opera
- Clutter
- Coffee And Cakes For Funerals
- Cold Shoulder
- COMA
- Common Tongues
- The Computers
- Concrete Knives
- Crash of Rhinos
- Dan Croll
- Dave Hause
- The Daydream Club
- Daytona Lights
- Dead Cities
- Dead Class The
- Dead Wolf Club
- Dear Prudence
- Death at Sea
- Death In Vegas
- Death Letters
- Dexter Dextrous & The Finger Smiths
- Die Mason Die
- Dinosaur Bones
- The Dirty Rivers
- Django Django
- Dogshow
- Don Broco
- D/R/U/G/S
- Dutch Uncles
- Echoes
- EJ
- Eleanor Friedberger
- Electric Guest
- Elmo and the Styx
- Emma Louise
- Esco Williams
- Eugene McGuinness
- Ex Easter Island Head
- Fabrizio Cammarata & The Second Grace
- Faceless Nation
- Fallen Leaf
- Farryl Purkiss
- fiN
- Fine Young Firecrackers
- Fitz.
- Fixers
- Flat Back Four
- Flip Grater
- Folks
- Forest Swords
- Fossil Collective
- Fridge Magnets
- Funeral Suits
- Get Back Colquitt
- Gemma Dunlovely
- Ghost Outfit
- GhostPoet
- Golden Fable
- Goodnight Lenin
- The Grande
- The Heartbreaks
- Hey Carrianne
- Hey Sholay
- Hideaways
- HighFields
- History Of Apple Pie
- Hot Panda
- Hugh Keice
- The Humming Birds
- I am Dive
- I Dream In Colour
- iktsuarpok
- Ilona
- The Imagineers
- Inland Sea
- Into The Black
- Invaders
- Ironside
- Jackson Firebird
- Jake Bugg
- James Vincent McMorrow
- Jamie Lawson
- Jay Stansfield
- Jazzhands
- JeanClaudeGoddamn
- Jessie Rose
- Jethro Fox
- The Jezabels
- Jinja Safari
- Johnny Sands
- Jonquil
- Jordan Cook
- Kamp
- Kamilla Lovett
- Kazimier Krunk Band
- Kestrels
- Kids In Glass Houses
- Kids On Bridges
- The Kill Van Kulls
- Killaflaw
- Kites
- Kooky
- Kristyna Myles
- The Lake Poets
- Last Dinosaurs
- Library Voices
- Like Spinning
- Likely Lads
- Lilliput
- Long Finger Bandits
- Low Roar
- Lower Than Atlantis
- Luke Fenlon
- Lulu James
- The Lunar Fields
- Mammal Club
- Man Get Out
- Manukah
- The Marginals
- Mary Epworth
- Michael Kiwanuka
- Mickey 9s
- Midnight Youth
- Miila and the Geeks
- Millions
- Miss Stylie
- Mind Mountain
- Monkey Pilot
- Mont Blanc
- Mugstar
- Mystery Jets
- Nathalie and the Loners
- The Night
- Niki & The Dove
- Ninetails
- Nokies!
- Oliver Tank
- Owls*
- Oxygen Thieves
- Patterns
- Paula and Karol
- Peggy Hsu
- People In A Box
- People of K
- Pete Bentham and the Dinner Ladies
- Pikachunes
- PINS
- Plum
- Post War Years
- Princess Chelsea
- Professor Green
- Projectionists
- The Pulmonic
- Ratty Little Fingers
- The Red Suns
- Reptile Youth
- Revere
- Roosevelt
- The Royals
- Rubylux
- Said The Whale
- Salem Rages
- SCAMS
- Secret Rivals
- Seward
- She’s So Rad
- Shields
- Sietta
- Silent Sleep
- Silverclub
- Siôn Russell Jones
- Sissy & The Blisters
- Slamboree
- Slow Club
- Slow Down Molasses
- Solko
- Some Community
- Space
- Spring Offensive
- The Stanley Blacks
- Stealing Sheep
- Step Panther
- Stephen Langstaff
- Still Corners
- Still Flyin’
- The Strangers
- Strike
- The Sums
- Sun Drums
- Sunless 97
- Sweet Billy Pilgrim
- T.I.N
- Tall Ships
- Theme Park
- The Tea Street Band
- The Temper Trap
- The Thespians
- The 1930s
- This Is Two
- Thomas J Speight
- Thunderbird Gerard
- Tibi & Her Cello
- Tim Hecker
- Tina, in the Green Dress
- Tiro Lark
- Tom Cox
- Towns
- TOY
- Vasco Da Gama
- The Vermin Suicides
- Vukovi
- Waa Wei
- We Are Animal
- We Were Beautiful
- The Wedding Present
- Wet Nuns
- White Arrows
- White Denim
- Willis Earl Beal
- Willy Mason
- Wonderlust
- YAST
- Young British Artists
- Yukon Blonde