Independent Salford festival Sounds From The Other City is to return for 2022.
Both the 2020 and 2021 festivals were both cancelled due to the pandemic, but it’ll return this year to fill up Salford’s well known and less well known venues.
Confirmed so far are LayfullStop and Land Yacht Regatta, the band spawned by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage.
Also on the bill will be Chandé and Gracie T, Holy Other, Grove, Mali Hayes, OneDa, Psyhederek, and Jenna G.
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Many more acts will be confirmed in the coming months, with a raft of musical curators on board too.
Among them are Manchester institution Band On The Wall, iconic record label Heavenly Recordings, Now Wave and Reform Radio.
The gigs will go all day on May 1, the Sunday of the May bank holiday, and will take in a host of Salford bars, pubs, restaurants, churches and everything in between.
Venues will include Bexley Square, Seven Bro7hers Beerhouse, fivefourstudios, Hot Bed Press, Old Pint Pot, Partisan, Porta, Regent Trading Estate, Saint Philip's Church and The New Oxford.
Manchester International Festival will also be hosting its own stage, on Chapel Street, called The Factory, after its new facility which will open next year.
Riv Burns, Creative Director for Sounds from the Other City, said: “Coming back from two years without a festival was always going to be daunting.
“The support of our extended community from crowdfunders in 2020, through to purchasing tickets in the back end of 2021 with just a date announced, through to sheer enthusiasm from promoters and artists has been overwhelming and humbling.
“This first wave of artists is so unbelievably exciting and quintessentially SFTOC, I'm really proud and can’t wait to bring this and more to Chapel St and the surrounding area on Sunday 1st May. It really is shaping up to be a vintage year, full of magic, collaboration and new faces. One you don’t want to miss.”
Previous events have taken in performances from the likes of Mercury Prize winner Sampha, Black Midi, Alt-J and Hannah Peel.
Tickets are on sale from £34.45, which gives you a pass for all venues.
