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Apply to Play: Liverpool Sound City

01 December 2017

Over the past 10 years Liverpool Sound City has become one of the most cultural and important events on the music calendar and takes place on the 4th, 5th and 6th May 2018. The festival has earned an outstanding reputation for its inventive use of a wide variety of spaces and in 2018 will take over the Baltic Triangle a thriving and cutting-edge creative quarter in the heart of the Independent Liverpool scene. Artists will get the chance to showcase their music to thousands of music lovers and an international audience of music industry delegates.
Past Apply to Play applicants have included: Catfish and the Bottlemen, Grimes, Ed Sheeran, Dan Croll, Eliza and the Bear, Christine & The Queens and loads more!

The artist application process is completely free and is open until midnight on Friday 19th January 2018 – you can click through here.

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