The producers of Liverpool Sound City, the latest city centre music festival and industry conference to become an annual fixture following its launch as part of the Capital Of Culture proceedings last year, have announced some of the acts that will play the event this year.
As I'm pretty sure we've previously reported, LSC will take over venues across Liverpool from 20-23 May, providing a Northern alternative to Brighton's The Great Escape, which takes place a week earlier in that other sea side city.
And we can now tell you that heading up the proceedings at LSC 2009 will be White Lies, Animal Collective and CMU favourite Little Boots, with Cage The Elephant, Deerhunter, Mumford And Sons, Hot Melts and sort of indie supergroup Mongrel also on the bill.
Confirming the line up, Liverpool SoundCity Festival Director Dave Pichilingi told CMU: "SoundCity is all about what is fresh, innovative and exciting - just like Liverpool itself. It's going to be tough for some festivals in 2009, but in White Lies and Little Boots we've got two of this year's hottest acts coming to SoundCity".