Liverpool Music Week add Cast, Darwin Deez, and Miles Kane

Cast, Darwin Deez, Sleigh Bells, and Los Campesinos! are amongst the acts announbced for this year's Liverpool Music Week free show line-ups.

One of the highlights of this year's free show agenda will see John Power return with Cast to play in the performance space at BBC Radio Merseyside.

After their sell-out debut Liverpool show in May, Darwin Deez return to open the festival's activities at MOJO on Back Berry Street to kick off the festival free shows on Friday 29th October.

This year audiences will also be able to get the chance to see acts for free such as Sleigh Bells, Los Campesinos!, Chapel Club, Field Music, Egyptian Hip Hop, O. Children, James Yuill, Silver Columns, and Diamond Rings all taking place at MOJO between friday 29th October and Monday 15th November.

Also at MOJO Miles Kane will make his Liverpool solo debut, since his international success with The Last Shadow Puppets on Thursday 11th November.

LMW Director Mike Deane said "We are delighted at the agenda we have pulled together for 2010. Important headline artists will fly in (out of festival season) from all over the world to play alongside the city's most important Scousers of today. To have Cast and Miles Kane playing the type of shows that are intrinsic to how the festival works, is a perfect example of how we mix it with the music's hottest new artists such as Darwin Deez, Egyptian Hip Hop & Sleigh Bells. I'm very much looking forward to the free MOJO shows at this year's festival."

Details of how to get free tickets have not yet been released. Liverpool Music Week is billed as the UK's largest indoor winter music festival and will be staging over 880 events and play host to over 400 live bands and runs from the Friday 29th October through November.

!!!, and Warpaint have also been announced as the final ticketed shows with the former appearing at The Stanley Theatre with their first Liverpool show in over 7 years on Sunday 31st October. Warpaint perform at the festival's launch event at the The Kazimier on Saturday 23rd October.

The paid ticket events include Leftfield, Chase & Status, Efterklang, Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip, Beardyman, Hadouken, K'naan, and more. For the line-up details as available please click here.

The festival format is a combination of ticketed shows and free shows, with artists including the UK's biggest live acts as well as new emerging talent.

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