We have joined the hipster masses and will be keeping you updated on this years festival preparations and on the day activity via all social medias and now Instagram.

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Facebook: Sounds From the other City

A few important things to remember:

All tickets and collections need to be exchanged for wristbands at Islington Mill, please do not go to individual venues without as you will not gain access.

The wristband exchange will open from 2.30pm and close at 9pm – Please make sure you have collected by then.

All venues subject to capacity, if you cant get in remember there is tons of other great stuff to see and do.

Panoply stage has changed to Islington Mill Gallery Space and Engine House.

Programmes will be given out to the first 1030 people through the doors with set times and a very useful map, plus an INCREDIBLE free exclusive CD courtesy of Baptist & Bootleggers.

See you tomorrow Afternoon

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Its Friday! In 2 days time it will be Sunday and SFTOC will be upon us. To help you on your way here are the all important running times.

We sincerely hope this allows you to see as much of the stuff that you want to throughout the day. You might also want to make use of this extremely useful little CLASHFINDER to navigate your route. Or the third way, and the one we think best, is totally disregard this all of these and see which way the wind takes you. Voyage well.

PLEASE NOTE: In time honoured SFTOC fashion there has been a last minute venue change. The Panoply Sound Stave will now be in the Islington Mill Gallery (Room 1) & Islington Mill Engine House (Room 2) and not at Albert Mill as stated in the listings and programme.

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FAT OUT TILL YOU PASS OUT AT THE CRESCENT

In the Venue

9.45 – 100% Beefcock & the TitsBurster

8.45 – Dead Sea Apes

7.30 – Monster Island

6.30 – Bad Hammer

5.30 –  Super Luxury

4.15 –Heroin Diet

3.45 – Fat Out entree djs and continuing between the acts and afterwards

In the Bar

Throughout the day , Phil Torriero hosts a Q&A session on his book about punk culture in the 80’s “Barred for Life” and  Alex Burtram-Powell re-joins Fat Out as illustrator extra-ordianaire with his Tim Burton meets Terry Gillingham poster art which will adorn the Crescent walls.

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MIND ON FIRE AND THIS CITY IS OURS AT THE OLD PINT POT

Upstairs

1:00 –  Lapalux

12:00  - Ghost Mutt

11:00  - Shigeto

10:00  - Debian Blak

9:00 – Anthony GDLI

8:00 – From the Kites oF San Quentin

7:00 – Acre

6:00 – Grinell

Downstairs

1:00 – Patterns

11:30 – Danny Drive Thru

10:30 – Alphabets Heaven

9:30 – King Capisce

8:30 – Day For Airstrikes

7:30 – GoGo Penguin

6:30 – Borland

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PANOPLY AT ISLINGTON MILL

Room 1 (Gallery)

8.15 – 9.15 -Disco Cave 2.0

7.45 – 8 .15: Opposition Pumping Iron and Savwo

7.00 – 7.30 – Jessop and Williamson

6.15 – 6.45– Black Shuck – The Deepest Hole

5.30 – 6.00 – HipshakessekahspiH – Palindromic Performance

4.45 – 5.15 – Helen & Lois – Power Portraits

4.15 – 4.30 – And now for something different

3.45 – 4.15 – Sophie Lisa Beresford – Makina rain dance

3.00 – 3.30 – Irma Vep and Friends – For Bin Lady

Room 2 (Engine House)

7.00 – 9.00 – Liam Wright-Higgins - Solipsistic Dialectic 03

4.30 – 6.30 – Room + Guests

3.00 – 4.00- A G Magee – Voice of the Garland Queen

Outdoors

3 – 3:15 – And now for some thing different

7.00 – 7.30 – Sophie Lisa Beresford

5.45 – 6 - And now for some thing different

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NOW WAVE AND OFF WITH THEIR HEADS AT ISLINGTON MILL

Club Space

12am – Maria Minerva

11pm – Pandr Eyez

10pm – Keep shelly in Athens

9pm – Black Belles

8pm – Pins

7pm – Fear of Men

6pm – Sunless 97

5pm – Au Palais

4pm – The ABC Club

3pm – Verity Susman (Electrelane)

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PARADOX AT THE ANGEL CENTRE

10.00 -Daniel Land and The Modern Painters (live)

9.15 – Easter (live)

8.30 – Frazer King (live)

7.45- Greetings (live)

7.10- Rapid Pig (reading plus live)

6.30- Butcher the Bar (live)

5.50- Suttree (Live)

5.30- Socrates Adams Florou (reading)

5.00- Seaman (live)

4.35- Stephen Waddicor (reading)

4.05- The Sensations (live)

3.40- Chris Mccabe and Tom Jenks (reading)

3.30- Tom Jenks (reading)

3.20- Chris Mccabe (reading)

3.10- Nikolai Duffy (reading)

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HEY! MANCHESTER AT ST PHILLIPS CHURCH

9.30pm Loney Dear

8.30pm Paul Thomas Saunders

7.30pm Laura J Martin

6.30pm Stranded Horse

5.30pm Stuart McCallum

4.30pm Withered Hand

3.30pm Dancing Years

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BAD LANGUAGE AT THE NEW OXFORD

8.30pm Les Malheureux

7.30pm Alabaster de Plume

7pm Miles Hadfield

6.15pm Fat Roland

5.35pm Tom Mason

4.40pm David Hartley

4pm Nija Dalal

3pm Preventing Kharms

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COMFORTABLE ON A TIGHTROPE AT THE KINGS ARMS

Upstairs

10.15 – Please

9.15 –  The Rebel

8.15 – Brown Brogues

7.15 –  Molly Nillsson

6.15 – Meddicine

5.15-  Cole Moldy

4.15 – Sacred Paws

Downstairs

7.45 –  Yule FM

6.45-  Apostille

5.45 –  Inigo Ugarteburu

4.45 –  Tom Settle

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UNDERACHIEVERS AT THE SALFORD ARMS

9.45 The Lovely Eggs

8.45 Ghost Outfit

7.45 The History of Apple Pie

6.45 This Many Boyfriends

5.45 younghusband

4.45 Victories at Sea

3.45 G R E A T W A V E S

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BAD UNCLE & HEAR HERE present Soundtracks from the Other City @ THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH

9.30 -Teeth of the Sea performing ‘Reaper’ a soundtracking set based around the film ‘Doomsday’

8.30 – Islet performing a specially made soundtrack set with visuals from Ewan Jones Morris.

7.30 – Wode soundtracking ‘A Page of Madness’

6.30 – Peepholes soundtracking TBC

5.30 – Well Wisher soundtracking ‘Jurassic Park’

4.30 – Nasdaq soundtracking ‘La Jetee’

3.30 – Vei soundtracking ‘Limbo’.

To accompany the days soundtracks Bad Uncle and Hear Here have asked some of their favourite local artists to create a poster to accompany the bands, or the film they are soundtracking. These will be exhibited on the day in the United Reform Church and will feature new works from Savwo, Alison Erika Forde, Steve Hockett, David Bailey and many more.”

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FAKTION AT SACRED TRINITY CHURCH

10pm – Vindicatrix

8.30 – Ekoplekz

7.30 –  Baron Mordant

6.30 – Zeke Clough

5.00 – Michael Holland & Faktion djs

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TRASH-O_RAMA AT THE ROVERS RETURN

10.15 – Cover Girl

9.15 – Daq Sabbath

8.00 – Klaus Kinski

7.15 – Laser Dream Eyes

6.30 – Waterworld

5.45 – No Womb

5.00 – Base Ventura

4.15 – Sex Hands

3.30 – Special Guests – Hotpants Romance

Trash-O-Rama djs between the bands

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DROWNED IN SOUND AND GREY LANTERN AT THE BLACK LION

Upstairs

11pm Walls

10pm Dam Mantle

9pm Regal Safari

8pm Eaux

7pm Stalking Horse

6pm Embers

5pm Shinies

4pm New Hips

With Ghosting Season dj’s between the acts

Downstairs

“Sounds From The Other City present an all day extravaganza of local special guest DJs”

10pm: Kickin’ Pigeon (Wet Play)

8.30pm: John Loveless (Work Them)

7pm: Reykavik Tourist Guide

6pm: Shapes

5pm:April Showers

4pm: FRNKN¢ & M¥RRH

2.30pm-: Pop Deviant

With 3 days to go, its time to get some optimum vibes racing. This mix courtesy of Trash o Rama should do just that. Collaborating with Denver’s (USA) most unique queer club night, Damn Gurl, they have pulled together a rather special Trans-Atlantic queer clubbing mix for you to blast out over the next few days.

Voguing, moombahton, house, cunty beats, Jersey bounce, femme fierceness and more drives the mix, Damn Gurl Residents DJs WERQ (WERQ/) and Narky Stares (narkystares) are amazingly talented DJs who are always booked up in Denver and beyond. Trash-O-Rama is operated by the DJ/Promoter combo of Polly Esther & Johnny Trash! and is described as “Manchester’s dirty basement disco for Fags, Feminists & their fucked up friends”

For SFTOC ToR take to the Rovers Return with a line up which includes Cover Girl, Hotpants Romance, Daq Sabbath, No Womb & Base Ventura.

For 7 fffabulous years the inking maestro that is David Bailey, in conjunction with his long time illustration partner Lucy Jones, have been conceiving and producing the artwork for Sounds from the Other City. With a canny knack for combining comic with crazy, we’ve been blessed with some stunning artwork and concepts from exploding suns, to pointing fingers to this years very in keeping Vintage Olympians.

For todays countdown David has gifted his latest creation, Vincent Wan Gok,  for an online exclusive. which pretty much sums up a very gifted mind and in his own words may be his ‘single greatest work yet. Check out all his stuff here:

http://www.davidbaileyillustration.com/

So we woke up this morning amazed and elated that the Sun has come out. So we went in search for the reasons why, and as we were walking down Edge St we stumbled across these unlikely lads doing a Sun Dance all in the name of Sounds from the Other City. Having followed our tweets from yesterday the Common Boys, Roy Schneider & Richard Dreyfuss took to the street and here we have it – REAL APRIL.

P.S We apologise if the video is sideways, it was a moment that needed captured no matter what the form!

Sex Hands if some of you don’t already know are the F.R.I.E.N.D.S inspired super-band, formed by members of Waiters, Klaus Kinski & Irma Vep. Alex, Dylan, Edwin & Joe produce tunes like no other and videos featuring dogs and that is pretty much all you need to know. We caught up with them so they could show us just how psyched they were to play at this years festival

Its a busy time for the band as on Friday Sex Hands took pride of place in City Life (see below). Today sees the band take to the ‘stage’ at A Common Affair at 6.15 prompt as they celebrate their first 7″ release split with Daily Life. The release is limited to 250 hand screen printed copies – design by Alex Humphreys and Lucy Jones and will be available to buy. If you miss it there you can get it direct from Icecapades here: Don’t hang about on this one!

A Disco Cave, A Palindromic Performance,  A Makina Rain Dance….. These are just a few of the highlights that you’ll be able to feast your senses upon at the Panoply: Sound Stave at SFTOC 2012. Combining dance, sound, video, costume and sculpture to create stunning spectacles this will be the Volkov Commanders fourth staging of Panoply, and their most ambitious yet.

For those of you not yet familiar with their work or simply very confused by who this group is or where they’re going, the Commanders have created  a little video to shed some further light. And here it is:

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Yesterday we shared a little of the love that is going around for PINS, today its all about brand new local label Baptists & Bootlegger a not profit record label & publishers of art & literature with two main aims behind it; the first is that everything released will be free, the second that each release will be physical & interestingly packaged.

With this in mind they’ve carefully pieced together a cd that highlights some of the best offerings from SFTOC 2012. The cd will be distributed FREE with the official SFTOC programme on the day and to give you a little sneak peak we have a BRAND NEW remix of math rock outfit New Hips by electronic duo Borland. Also look out for tracks from Acre, Vei, Sex Hands and a host of others.