Salford's festival of new music & art • 4 May 2025

This is SFTOC

Created for music lovers by music lovers.

For two decades Sounds From The Other City has been championing new music, local promoters and the off-kilter beauty of Salford, the oft-overlooked ‘other city’ to Manchester.

The unique model of SFTOC means that the festival curation is ever-evolving; each year we invite a selection of the region’s best promoters and selectors, give them a stage and ask them to book the artists that most excite them.

The festival has hosted early-day performances from artists as diverse as Black Country, New Road, The Ting Tings, Alabaster de Plume, Alt-J, The Ting Tings, BiPolar Sunshine, Hannah Peel, GoGo Penguin right through to 2017’s Mercury Music Prize winner Sampha, BBC Sound of 2018 nominee IAMDDB and 2019 Mercury Music Prize nominees, Black Midi.