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Liverpool Sound City

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Liverpool Sound City

When: May 27-30

Where: Hard Days Night Hotel, Cavern Club and other locations across Liverpool

What: Talking about music and Liverpool without mentioning The Beatles is like drinking warm cider from a plastic bottle (i.e. wrong). Which is why, by day special guest speakers, including Midge Ure, debate the future of the music business in the Hard Days Night Hotel and Cavern Club (think motivational speaker not uni lecture) and by night new bands, DJs and artists perform in every space in the city's centre from car parks to warehouses to boats to heritage sites. All in the essence of the Fab Four.

Tickets: £60 for all evening shows and events. £140 for all evening shows, events and conference.

Website: www.liverpoolsoundcity.co.uk

2008 Line-up includes:

The Thirst

Crystal Castles

The Metros

Felix Da Housecat

Eugene McGuinness

View the full 2008 Liverpool Sound Line-up here

The NME.COM Signing Tent

View all of the photos from the NME Signing Tent at V Festival 2008.

Bands meeting and greeting fans this year included Ian Brown, The Kooks, The Hold Steady, The Charlatans and more.

Were you there? See all the pictures right here!

Liverpool Sound City Message Boards

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