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Sounds From The Other City Is Six This Year

• 12th Apr 2010

Sounds From the Other City is six this year. To celebrate this seminal birthday, the new music festival once again unites the cream of the local scene with the planet's finest musicians and club nights for a sonic extravaganza.

Damon and Naomi, Chrome Hoof and Fujiya & Miyagi are just three of more than 40 acts to discover alongside art installations, live readings, one-off happenings and lashings of fine booze and food. And the fun goes on very late too, thanks to club sounds from the likes of Contort Yourself, Naïve Melody and Bollox in venues such as The Kings Arms, The Old Pint Pot and The Black Lion.

Hotly tipped acts this year include Radio 2's favourite flavour and Elbow collaborator, Jesca Hoop, NME's next big things, Egyptian Hip Hop, Mancunian folk dominatrix, Liz Green, sublime chill out sounds from Brighton's Fujiya and Miyagi, cult-alt-noise-artist/hero Alexander Tucker, and a host of local talents, including May 68, Hotpants Romance and more.

As well as the 'Cheap Affair' original/vintage market, food, live screen printed wares, real ale, spoken word from Dead Man's Shoes star Neil Bell and novelist Chris Killen, other highlights include access to virgin music venues such as the Salvation Army on James Street, complete with retro sprung dance floor and the atmospheric innards of St Philips Church.