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Joining the Happy Mondays, Human League, Echo and the Bunnymen, Super Furry Animals and The Wombats at the inaugural Dubai Sound City will be a host of fresh and up-and-coming acts that are starting to make their mark. Joining the line up are the ever effervescent disco-rockers We Have Band and a trio of mercurial Merseysiders Wave Machines, Sound of Guns and Bicycle Thieves. Also heading to the UAE will be South African New Wavers Dirty Skirts and Parlotones, The Courteeners who are gearing up to release the follow up to their top ten album St. Jude, electro king Kissy Sell Out, Scandinavian bands Alphabeat and Outlandish, the monstrous Automatic, ARIA award winner Gabriella Cilmi future funk from Dan Black and the unyielding grooves of Post War Years.
A litany of legends and the loved including Moseley’s finest Ocean Colour Scene, The Farm who will once again be creating their infectious Hullabaloo, angular excellence from Futureheads MOBO award winner Nitin Sawhney, Irish rockers Aslan, and the majestic Doves whose latest opus Kingdom of Rust has seen their popularity reaching stratospheric heights are all also due to join the throng.
As swell as the amazing musical line up there will also be a series of conference panels discussing the emerging music scene in Dubai including Communication Breakdown? Pinpointing the social media networks that are really the key to connecting with audiences. All Around the World offering advice on the trials tribulations of touring outside your own backyard. Publishing as We Know it? How do the Middle East publishers compare to music publishers from around the world? And All You Need Is Cash - Money Can Buy You Love! Highlighting the weird and wonderful ways to raise finance.
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