Festival goers are getting set for a new-look Sound City, as the three-day event takes place at the waterfront’s Bramley Moore Dock for the first time.
Organisers have spent months transforming the docklands site for the 22-24 May festival, which is relocating from its previous range of city centre venues.
The Flaming Lips, Belle and Sebastian and The Vaccines are leading the line-up for 2015, as Sound City hosts a new outdoor stage, meanwhile the programme of performances will stretch across the site’s disused buildings and the Kaselot tall ship is set to provide an impressive centrepiece, hosting parties and intimate shows.
The performance offering is being accompanied by a two-day conference in the Rum Warehouse at Stanley Dock’s Titanic Hotel, which got underway on 21-22 May with speakers including Wayne Coyne and Edwin Collins, and also the launch of the Alan Wills Innovation Awards in honour of Deltasonic Records founder Alan Wills, who passed away last year.
