In The City 2008

In The City 2008 will take place from Saturday 4th until Tuesday 7th October, at The Midland hotel in Manchester and at venues across the city and features new music from around the world.

Individual gig tickets available:
Saturday 4th October - official In The City opening party hosted by The Warehouse Project and Eat Your Own Ears with performances and DJ sets from: Reverend And The Makers, Tricky, Late Of The Pier, The Whip, Simian Mobile Disco [DJ], and Four Tet [DJ]. Tickets are priced at £21, to buy tickets, Click here.

Saturday 4th October - Errors, Super Fresh Power Squad & This Years Model - Night & Day. Tickets £6. Click here to buy.

Sunday 5th October - John Power (Cast & The La's), The Sticks, Downtown Rag, Little Volcanoes, Mista Rizzo, Buck Brothers, Rise and Fall of Rockets, Solarson, The Vortex, Gideon Conn, and Trio Valore - Moho Live, from 4pm. Tickets £6. Click here to buy.

Tuesday 7th October - The Fratellis, The Chapman Family - Manchester Academy. Tickets £12.50. Click here to buy.

There will also be a special BBC gig at Deaf Institute on Tuesday 7th October, featuring: Twisted wheel, Tubelord, Little Comets, and It's A Buffalo. The gig will be free entry, with priority given to ITC wristband wearers.

A limited run of ITC wristbands were available for £26 which allow free entry to all the Official ITC showcases, they have no sold out.

Fringe Festival tickets are also available, priced at £19.50 for a five day pass and £10 for a day pass. To buy tickets, click here.

The showcases which take place alongside the In The City Unsigned programme will present both new and established artists across the city. The names announced so far for holding showcases include: NME, The Warehouse Project, Heavenly Recordings, Channel M, Drowned in Sound, Popjustice, Fierce Panda, Clash magazine, Twisted Nerve, Fear & Records, Rock Sound magazine, thrashhits.com, and Piccadilly Records.

The line-up of acts playing the 'unsigned' part of the event includes 6 Day Riot, Alban Dereyer, Alphabet Backwards, Arthur Delaney, Baddies, Barn Owl, Bo Pepper, Broadcast Radio, Charlene Soraia, EJ, El Condorez, Fenech Soler, Flashguns, Friends Electric, Graveyard Johnnys, Hemme Fatale, Hold Fire, Hotel de Ville, I Am Austin, Isosceles, Karoshi Bros, Kids On Bridges, Last Gang, Les Gars, Lord Auch, Maths Class, Meadow, Micachu And The Shapes, Nomad Jones, Oscar Charlie, Rod Thomas, Run Toto Run, Silverclub, Soft Toy Emergency, Substatic, Telegram From The Queen, The Brute Chorus, The Fire And I, The Grants, The Jessie Rose Trip, The Mood, The Paris Riots, The Travelling Band, To The Bones, Tubelord, Twin Atlantic, Winners, and Zeigeist.

The 'international' part of the event includes Atleticodefina, Boom Boom Satellites, Dikta, Iori's Eyes, Jeremy, Katy Steele (Little Birdy), Kira Kira, Levelload, Luca Gemma, Macromantics, Modern Skirts, Olo Creative Farm, Papeete, Patrizia Laquidara, Skatar, The Dirty Secrets, The Smoke Keepers vs. Arbeiter, and Tribes Of The City.

There will also be showcase performances from Acacia, Airship, Art Thief, Beth Jeans Houghton, Boom In The Diamond Industry, Dawn Kinnard, Dead Bells (aka The Invention), Dead Kids, Deadly Brotherhood of the Gun, Death Cigarettes, Die Die Deneuve, Ejectorseat, El Condorez, Ellie Lawson, Estrella, Finger Monster, Gideon Conn, Grace Solero, Harrys Gym, How's My Pop, Inner City Dwellers, Joe Dangerous, Joyce, Kiss My Brass, Latonic, Lucius, Lyla Foy, My Toys Like Me, Neighbourhood, New Capital, New Homes, New Vinyls, Oneyesblue, Opaque, People of Santiago, Poison Zoomak, Post War Years, Red Star Rebels, Rendle Will, Restlesslist, Rita Ora, Rosalita, Royal Treatment Plant, Sarah Govier, Silverfall, Sly Digs, St Deluxe, Superstar Syndrome, The Chapman Family, The Dunes, The Eye Jab, The Hideaways, The Human Value, The Jubilees, The Low Lights, The Margarets, The Moods, The New 1920, The Nouvelles, The Pocket Gods, The Prayers, The Raid, The Runners, The Sylvias, The Thurston Revival, The Tunics, The Yarns, The Young Punx, This Aint Vegas, ThisCity, Toby Deans, Trash Fashion, and Uncle Monty.

Keynote speakers include Ted Cohen, Carl Barat and Jon McClure join a list of high-profile speakers keynotes set to appear at ITC 2008 including: guest host and former Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham, Sire Records founders Seymour Stein and Richard Gotterher, Warners legend Lyor Cohen and Big Life founder Jazz Summers, the UK Culture Secretary Andy Burnham MP, iconic music photographer Kevin Cummins, legendary filmmaker Dick Carruthers, the incomparable Jarvis Cocker, Web 2.0 prophet Eric Garland and grime icons Wiley and Bless Beats

The price for tickets is £495. Delegate passes will be available to be collected from 2pm, 05/10/08 from ITC HQ at The Midland Hotel, Manchester.

More information will be here when available.

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