Virtual Festivals at 'In The City'

United Kingdom | | 27 September 2005

In The City is Europe's largest city-based music festival and gives up and coming bands the chance to shine in front of lots of industry big-wigs who come together to network, attend seminars, and get hammered.

Held annually in Manchester over four days, the city becomes abuzz both day and night while a number of music-biz conferences and live showcases featuring acts affiliated to countries, labels, websites etc take place at various venues.

Virtual Festivals has been invited along and will be working with our friends at Artist Rising, The Band Agency and Stylish Riots to stage several events from Saturday to Monday at M2 and Po Na Na.
 
The gigs will feature our 'Discovered!' competition winners Intervurt and Whitestar, emerging greats Subdivine and 5 O'Clock Heroes, and the already massive Mystery Jets and Oceansize, plus many more.

Delegates attending the conference get in free, but fear not as it's only a measly £5 for the M2 nights or £3 for the Po Na Na gigs. Details are as follows:


Break In The City: In association with Stylish Riots, Virtual Festivals, and Filter-Mini. (M2, Peter Street, Manchester) 

Sunday 2 October
3.15 Action Plan
4.00 The Chalets
4.45 Young Offenders
5.30 The Long Blondes
6.30 Apartment
7.15 Puressence
8.15 5 O'clock Heroes
9.00 The Noisettes
9.45 Moco
10.30 Mystery Jets
12.00 Loose Cannons

Monday 3 October
6.45 Piney Gir
7.30 The Exports
8.15 The Pedestrians
9.00 Louie
9.45 Maupa
10.30 Oceansize


Break In The City: In association with The Band Agency, Virtual Festivals, and Playlouder. (Po Na Na, Charles Street, Manchester)

Saturday 1 October (Urban Night)
8.00 Vix'n'Trix 
8.40 Pedigree Chumps
9.20 Ten Second Life
10.00 Velarsound
11.00 Opus 15

Sunday 2 October
8.00 The Seven Sisters
8.40 Snatch
9.20 Whitestar
10.00 Intervurt
10.40 Shinobi

Monday 3 October
8.00 Blind Ride
8.40 Striplight
9.20 Tycoon Follies
10.00 Subdivine
10.40 Air Cav

Virtual Festivals is also chairing an industry seminar discussing the 'festivalisation of music', and more specifically who really runs the show at the major UK festivals. Panelists include Mean Fiddler's Melvin Benn and Big Chill's Katrina Larkin.

Other highlights of In The City include a Fierce Panda label night featuring Art Brut and Apartment, a Japanese showcase with some 'sonic samurai', Drowned In Sound's fifth birthday all-dayer featuring Redjetson and Komakino, and an acoustic club with the charity War Child.

Other unmissable acts performing at some of the other evening bashes include DJ Yoda, This Et Al, The Deadbeats, Vincent Vincent and the Villains, Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, and The Fall.

For all the events going on during In The City starting this Friday (30 September - 4 October) click here.