Sounds from the Other City festival | SFTOC
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Salford's festival of new music & art • 4 May 2025
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Du Blonde

Fat Out x Heavenly Recordings @ Maxwell Hall

Astrid Sonne

Now Wave @ Peel Hall

Gwenno

Fat Out x Heavenly Recordings @ Maxwell Hall

Big Joanie

Fat Out x Heavenly Recordings @ Maxwell Hall

The Orielles

Islington Mill @ Islington Mill Events Space

Tristwch Y Fenywod

Fat Out x Heavenly Recordings @ Maxwell Hall

Grove x Toya Delazy x TaliaBle

Fat Out x Heavenly Recordings @ Maxwell Hall

Marla Kether

Band on the Wall @ St Philip's Church
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New acts added!

Critically acclaimed Welsh-Cornish musician Gwenno will be performing a solo piano set in Peel Hall; plus Whitehorse, Marsy, and University of Salford Acoustic Laboratories’ artist-in-residence Hayley Suviste. We’re also welcoming Salford-based artist Freya Wysocki to lead this year’s festival art direction.

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SFTOC 2025

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Two volunteers standing on The Green smiling at the camera.

Volunteer with us!

Seeking enthusiastic humans who want festival experience as part of a brilliant events team!
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Letters R & R (for Reform Radio) in SFTOC font

Reform Radio
Letter F in SFTOC font

FLUFF
Jumbled CR letters in SFTOC bold and bright font

CROP Radio
Letters R & M (for Rare Mags) in SFTOC font

Rare Mags
Jumbled CB letters in SFTOC bold and bright font

Club Brenda

Papa Sage

Islington Mill
Jumbled BOTW letters in SFTOC bold and bright font

Band on the Wall
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"a joyful celebration of Greater Manchester’s leftfield culture"

The Guardian 2024
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Gracie T DJing with people dancing

Islington Mill Events Space

Working Class Movement Library
Audience enjoying the sunshine next to the Moist Collective performance tent on Chapel St at Sounds from the Other City 2018

Across the site
Gruff Reece performing in Maxwell Hall to a large audience.

Maxwell Hall

St Philip’s Church
Audience enjoying a sunny SFTOC last year on The Green

The Green
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The Old Pint Pot Downstairs

Islington Mill Courtyard
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