A clutch of exciting new names have been added to the bill for this year’s Sound City.
The UK’s biggest city based music festival will take place over four days at its new home of Clarence Dock in May.
Lo-fi indie-rockers The Cribs will make their Sound City return after appearing in 2015 and will treat fans to a special one-off performance of their third hit album ‘Men’s Needs, Woman’s Needs, Whatever’ to mark its 10th anniversary.
The Wakefield three-piece will be joined by The Amazons, Vant and 2015’s Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition winner Declan McKenna.
The festival launches on Thursday (25 May) with The Human League topping the bill – support comes from Art of Noise and A Certain Ration.
On Friday (26 May) John Cale will take to the stage for his only European performance of The Velvet Underground & Nico album.
Star turn on Saturday (27 May) is Metronomy ably supported by The Kills, Slaves, Peaches, The Hunna, Carl Barat & The Jackals and many more.
Also taking place on Saturday will be a special keynote ‘In Conversation’ piece with John Cale.
Indie rockers The Kooks will look to provide the perfect finale for the extended weekend on Sunday (28 May).
Dave Pichilingi , Sound City CEO says: “Our 10 year spectacular is shaping up to be something very special indeed. And we’ve not finished yet – we still have more artists, more music and lots more still to come. Stay tuned for what is going to be our biggest year yet.”
