30th October to 6th November 2008
Liverpool Music Week 08
Liverpool Music Week in partnership with MTV and edc by Esprit is the UK’s biggest indoor winter music festival, staging events across 20plus venues throughout Liverpool city centre, with a combination of ticketed shows and a massive agenda of free events featuring every musical genre imaginable. Attracting the UK’s biggest musical artistes to the city and offering fresh and emerging new talent a platform to perform, this year LMW has partnered with MTV, to coincide with the MTV Europe Music Awards, which will be staged in Liverpool as part of the city’s European Capital of Culture celebrations.
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MTV LIVERPOOL MUSIC WEEK ATTRACTS A RECORD BREAKING 55,000 PEOPLE
This year’s MTV Liverpool Music Week in association with edc by Esprit has attracted a record-breaking 55,000 people.
The UK’s biggest indoor winter music festival has gone from strength to strength over the last 5 years, with this year’s streamlined 8 day festival featuring more acts and attracting more people to the festival than ever before. Big name acts that have taken centre stage of this years event include Vampire Weekend, Dizzee Rascal, Goldfrapp, The Fall, Mystery Jets, Black Kids, Martha Wainwright, Kissy Sell Out.
Over the last week, Liverpool has been a hive of activity with people from all corners of the globe descending on the musical capital of the world for this year’s MTV Europe Music Awards and the Liverpool Music Week festival has been at the heart it, attracting big name artiste and music industry professionals to the city to spot the stars of tomorrow from the array of new emerging talent that is the backbone to the festival. Crowds flocked to 26 of the cities venues to see acts such as Noah & The Whale, Sway, Eugene McGuinness, Loefah, James Yuill, Damien Dempsey, Cocknbullkid, Florence & The Machine, Sonny J and Red Dwarf’s Craig Charles. The Liverpool Music Week Festival culminated in the city playing host to this year’s MTV Europe Music Awards at the Echo Arena which featured performances from the likes of Beyonce, Kanye West and Duffy.
There were many highlights throughout the 8 day MTV Liverpool Music Week festival which included Dizzee Rascal performing his biggest ever headline show outside London to a jam packed audience at Carling Academy. Noah & The Whale took time out from their busy 1,500 capacity tour schedule to perform a free show to capacity crowds in Bumpers back room, finishing on their hit ‘5 Years Time’. Eugene McGuinness debuted his full live band to perform one of the many shows from this years free event agenda. E4’s Dead Set Star Riz MC blew away over 500 fans at Alma De Cuba. Hundreds who made it through the queues witnessed John Power and The Maybes? play one of the most lively Music Week gigs ever in Alma De Cuba. 3 previously derelict buildings came to life with subway sounds at the first Slater Street Project much to the delight of the hundreds who came to watch, and Sway performs at the MTV pre awards dinner at Alma De Cuba with Soweto Kinch and 16 piece nu-jazz brass ensemble Riot Jazz!
Liverpool Music Week Founder/Director comments:
“This was the biggest and best festival to date and proves that Liverpool Music Week is still the city’s favourite new music and the UK’s most loved winter festival. The public response to our incredibly eclectic programme was immense and we want to thank all the gig-goers, the artists, the venues, and the organisers who took part in this year’s showpiece. In particular we’d like to thank our main partners MTV, EDC and the Liverpool Culture Company, without whom we could not have fulfilled our huge ambitions for this year’s festival. Roll on 2009!”
“We were truly excited to be involved in MTV Liverpool Music Week”, explained Thomas Grote, President Esprit Brand. “This sponsorship marks the increasing link between fashion and music in the lifestyle of young consumers. Today, young people are hugely influenced by music and want to express this in the way they dress. Additionally, the UK is a highly important key market for edc and MTV Liverpool Music Week gave us the great opportunity to introduce edc to a wider audience locally. “
Plans are already in place for next years Liverpool Music Week festival which is set to return in November.
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