Ian McCulloch added to Liverpool Sound City

Hot off the heels of the announcement of hip hop godfather Gil Scott Heron Liverpool Sound City are proud to announce a special solo show by Liverpool music legend, Ian McCulloch on the final night of the festival on Saturday 22nd May.

Performing in the opulent surroundings of the Concert Room in the city's St George's Hall, the concert will be billed as 'An Evening with Mac', with Ian performing songs from both his solo career and the Echo and the Bunnymen era, as well as an odd anecdote or two thrown in, as 'Mac the Mouth' takes questions from the audience. This one-off closing night show sees McCulloch return to the scene of 1984's legendary 'A Crystal Day' concert when Echo and the Bunnymen played a rapturous hometown gig in front of their adoring Liverpool audience in one of the City's most stunning landmark buildings.

The tickets for this unique event will be £20 each and free to wristband holders (capacity permitting). Numbers are extremely limited. You should go to the Liverpool Sound City website to find further details.

Singer Ian McCulloch said "It's great to be playing St. Georges Hall again as part of Liverpool Sound City. The last time I played there was 'Crystal Day' with The Bunnymen."

As part of the Liverpool Sound City 4-day festival there will also be a series of special events and movie screenings, as well as the list of top live acts, the first to be announced to take place on Thursday 20th May is Julian Temple's portrayal of Dr Feelgood in the movie Oil City Confidential. Director Julian Temple and Wilko Johnson from Dr Feelgood will be present and participating in a Q & A session immediately following the screening. The venue for the screening will be announced shortly.

Julien Temple's Oil City Confidential is the last film in his trilogy on British music of the 1970s. It is a prequel to his landmark films about punk figureheads the Sex Pistols in The Filth & The Fury and Joe Strummer in The Future Is Unwritten. Rather than being standard 'rockumentaries', Julien uses the music as a prism through which he examines the social and cultural conditions of the times. The films share his characteristic cinematic language - an irreverent and anarchic style of montage of archive and fictive footage, which he pioneered in The Great Rock & Roll Swindle. The Sex Pistols' and Joe Strummer's roles are well known, but Dr Feelgood, who are the subject of Oil City Confidential, played a vital role in creating those conditions for that cultural explosion and is a story that is as yet untold.

But the night doesn't end there; it's straight over to the O2 Academy to see the Wilko Johnson Band play live immediately following the screening and Q & A. Tickets are £12.50 with support acts to be announced.

Also added to the impressive Sound City line-up are Holy Fuck playing Kazimier on 19th May, Blood Red Shoes/ Titus Andronicus play Zanzibar on 21st May and Max Tundra play Static Gallery on 19th May.

Liverpool Sound City impressive line-up is really shaping up with Gil Scott-Heron, Paloma Faith, Delphic, The Maccabees, The Fall, Speech Debelle, Wild Beasts, Field Music, Los Campesinos, The Blackout, Wave Machines, The Sunshine Underground, Hot Club de Paris, Ian McNabb and Chilly Gonzalez to name but a few confirmed as play the festival.

Dates: 19th – 22nd May 2010
Location: 35 various stages, Liverpool, UK.
Ticket Price: Standard Festival Wristband: £45

Standard Full Delegate Pass: £150
Walk up Festival Wristband: £60
Walk up Full Delegate pass: £200

Get Your Wristbands A whole list of exclusives are available to Wristband holders including Wristband Only Gigs, Goody Bags, Text Alerts, Aftershow Party Invites and Meet and Greet Competitions.

Individual gig tickets are also available via www.liverpoolsoundcity.co.uk