Sounds From The Other City is excited to announce the first wave of acts for its 2020 festival, which takes place in Salford on Saturday 2nd May. In what is set to be an all-timer of a line-up, Welsh music legend and former Super Furry Animal Gruff Rhys will be making his Sounds debut; festival […]
-REGENTS TRADING ESTATE, SALFORD- This is Sounds from the Other City’s birthday and to celebrate they’re throwing a quindecennial party. To save you a trip to your pocket e-dictionary, that means they’re fifteen years old, a hell of an achievement for an annual one-day music festival. For this one-off occasion, they’re throwing their usual format […]
Samarbeta Music Residency have announced that Graham Massey & Umut Çağlar will the latest artists to take up residency at Islington Mill event space between Tuesday 22nd August – Friday 1st September 2017. During their 10 day residency in the Islington Mill event space, Graham Massey & Umut Çağlar will work together for only the second […]
On Friday 10th February 2017, Spring King will be headlining the first ‘What’s New’ event by the Northern tastemakers, Too Many Blogs. Taking place in Islington Mill, Salford, the site is a legendary Greater Manchester venue that is currently fundraising in order to keep its doors open. You can learn more about why Islington Mill […]
Sounds from the Other City (SFTOC) returns on Sunday 30th April 2017 showcasing the best in new music within Salford’s incredible array of venues, alongside world class street food, art and craft beer. The cultural celebration brings over 2,000 people to the Chapel Street area each year, hosting the most innovative, exciting bands in the […]
After the hugely successful first Sines & Squares in 2014, the festival is returning to again celebrate the resurgence of analogue and modular synthesisers. UK and international performers, composers, lecturers and designers will all come together from 18th-20th November in locations across Manchester for one of the world’s biggest synthesiser festival/symposiums. Live music will include […]
Fat Out Fest is back! Returning after almost three years, our April 2017 experimental music and art festival will be our most ambitious and our most challenging edition to date. Fat Out Fest 2014 was unique for us as organisers, it was our first experience in inviting four distinct collectives to curate their own stage; […]
Awarded just shy of 1 million pounds by Arts Council England, the Islington Mill is a few steps closer to securing the £2.5 million needed to completely refurbish the space. The Salford venue is considered to be an important place by many Mancunians, Dave Haslam describing it as “one of the spiritual homes of the […]
– ISLINGTON MILL, SALFORD – The atmosphere is sparse and restrained in the copper snake-pit of The Islington Mill – bound by bare brick and lamp-light. In a moment, I went from feeling evening sun on my back to being buried 4-feet below the surface, and now, unable to make out nothing more than the shape […]
– ISLINGTON MILL, SALFORD – During summer 2015, Canadian indie band Ought released their album Sun Coming Down, the follow up to their 2014 critically acclaimed album More Than Any Other Day, and at the end of last year they announced plans for a UK/Europe tour for April 2016. Hidden amongst Salford’s houses you’ll find Islington […]
GIG GUIDE
Between September 2011 and March 2020 we provided a handpicked gig guide every month without fail. It's painful for us that there are currently no gigs to recommend. We hope gigs will return soon to bring you new recommendations, but if you want to reminisce you can still see nine years worth of old gig guides.
