A musical interlude

Sound City 2016: Bramley Moore Dock, Liverpool, 28-29 May

This is the fourth year in a row I have been to Sound City.  In that time it’s changed from a city-centre, multi-venue festival to an all-our ‘event’ type affair.  Having had another weekend of good music, I thought that this week I would put together a visual record of the festival.  It must be said that as well as regularly sounding great this was a festival which looked excellent – some really fantastic lights and visuals going on around the site, not all of which I captured unfortunately (blame that on having too much fun).

Katumba samba drummers. I am definitely going to have a go at this.

Floating Points [smiley face], Saturday.

Urban Arts Project. What they looked like…

…and what I drew. You may now understand why I am not an artist.

Brazilica dancers, Saturday

Young Fathers, Saturday. These guys are so ridiculously good live.

Koala Voice, Saturday. Slovenian fun.

Leftfield, Saturday

Miserable Faith, Sunday. The only band whose fans had a flag and they’d come all the way from China, I respect the effort.

Not everything at the festival was quite right. Great idea to have a stage on a boat – not quite so great to have 2 other stages within 100 yards.

DTSQ, Sunday.

Patients, Sunday. We nay have got a bit overexcited for this one.

The Coral, Sunday. Fantastic headliners despite technical difficulties. I stuck around to see the end and was very glad I did

You may have gathered that alongside seeing some of the big name acts on the bill – The Coral and Young Fathers being amongst my highlights – I spent a good proportion of Sunday watching the Korean showcase.  This is what I love about Sound City: you may not have heard of many of the bands on the bill, but walk around and something will grab your attention.  The Korean showcase has been an even every year I’ve been to the festival and the bands are always good fun, and that’s what a music festival should be about.