Liverpool Sound City

Liverpool Sound City
The Flaming Lips' frontman Wayne Coyne performing at Sound City 2015.
Genre	Indie, Alternative, Electronic, Rock
Location(s)	Liverpool, England
Years active	2008 - present
Website
Official Website

Liverpool Sound City is an annual music festival and industry conference in Liverpool, England. Founded in 2008, Sound City was located in Liverpool City Centre venues such as The Kazimier, The Zanzibar and the Liverpool Cathedral, until 2015 when it was relocated to Bramley-Moore Dock in Liverpool's historic docklands.

In 2015, the festival took place on Friday 22 May - Sunday 24 May, with headliners The Vaccines, The Flaming Lips and Belle and Sebastian and an array of artists including, Everything Everything, Peace (band) and The Cribs. Previous artists include Florence and the Machine, The Maccabees, The xx, The Kooks and Ed Sheeran.

The Sound City conference is a two-day digital industry conference featuring keynotes, in conversations and workshop sessions from key digital industry figures. In 2015, the conference took place on Thursday 21 May - Friday 22 May in the Titanic Hotel at Stanley Dock. Speakers included Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips, legendary Ramones manager Danny Fields and Mark E. Smith of The Fall.

Screenadelica is a large successful gig poster exhibition that in the past year has toured and exhibited across England, Europe and the world. It's essentially a 'pop up' gallery celebrating the art of the screen printed gig poster. The works include leading UK and international artists from the gig-poster 'scene'. These artists have full band and management support to design for The Pixies, DJ Shadow, Björk, The Cure, PJ Harvey, Brian Wilson, Kellis, Gogal Bordello and many more. The art works can be bought at an average price of £30 a piece. Screenadelica host a wide variety of styles promoting the bands that the artists love, inspired by the music they hear.