When: 3pm until late on Sunday 30 April 2023
Where: Upstairs at The Old Pint Pot, Adelphi Street, Salford M3 6EN

Hey! Manchester is delighted to be curating a stage at this year’s Sounds From The Other City – our 13th year in a row! SFTOC is a one-day music festival that celebrates the diversity of Greater Manchester’s ‘other city’.

The 12-hour event places many of the city’s favourite promoters –  including Now Wave, Grey Lantern, Fat Out, Strange Days and The Beauty Witch – into several of our favourite venues and drinking establishments along Chapel Street.

Hey! Manchester is excited to be moving to a new venue (for us) in 2023: upstairs at The Old Pint Pot! The pub is one of the main musical hubs of SFTOC and boasts a huge terrace overlooking the River Irwell.

We’re delighted to reveal our full line-up for SFTOC 2023, featuring The Faux Faux, Mr Ben & The Bens, Juice Pops, Adult DVD, Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection and Brown Brogues!

As The Faux Faux, Faith Vern – formerly of PINS – released the menacing, smoky, swaggering Cold Hearted Woman, in February 2023, complete with a music video depicting what she calls a love letter to the North of England. This first offering comes just ahead of a solo slot at SFTOC this April.

Take a dash of Lancaster Polymath echo Belle & Sebastian… a good measure of Teleman and Gorkys Zygotic Mynci… then squeeze a slice of Bill Ryder-Jones-esque songwriting – Mr Ben & the Bens sound like they were baptised in the holy water of indie classics, and you’re going to love it.

Born as the solo project of singer/multi-instrumentalist Mike, Juice Pops is now a four-piece – completed by Hannah on guitar and vocals, Greg on bass, and Louis on drums. Together, they spent 2022 touring their psych-influenced eponymous debut EP before settling down to a summer of recording. First single ‘Whirlwind’ is due in Spring – just in time to familiarise yourself before SFTOC.

Formed in 2021, Adult DVD have wasted no time post-lockdown. They’ve supported Warmduscher and PVA – as well as headlining their own UK tour – gaining admirers at BBC and Amazing Radio in the US along the way. Latest release ‘Sadman Mancave’ is inspired by exactly what it says in the tin – but who knows what men of a certain age will make of this heavier, techno-acid direction.

Romford to Nashville is hardly the most well-trodden of paths, but for Spencer Cullum, it was a way of getting to the essential heart of pedal steel – what was then and remains to this day his musical raison d’être. Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection 2 sees the Nashville-based musician step further from the pedal steel and towards centre stage – a more complex, weirder, deeper rendering of earlier efforts in kaleidoscopic folk, jazz, and pop.

‘These tracks are period-perfect love-letters to British psych-folk, with the Mellotrons, tape wobbles and kitsch artwork to match’ – Mojo

Wigan’s favourite boyband, Brown Brogues, first emerged with a manic squall around 2009 – now let’s fast-forward past a break of roughly seven years, two days, bookended with a triumphant stage live at YES, and here we are – almost at the eve of what they say will be one last outing at their favourite festival. That’s Sounds From The Other City, of course – file this one under ‘not to be missed.’

‘Like Muddy Waters brought up in the industrial wastelands of provincial Lancashire’ – PRS Foundation

To check out who else is playing Sounds From The Other City 2023, visit the Soundsfromtheothercity.com.

Tickets, giving access to all stages, are available from Soundsfromtheothercity.com.

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