4 months ago 22nd Jul 11:39
Liverpool Music Week and MTV have today announced a partnership for the 6th Annual winter music festival.
The partnership follows the announcement of this year’s MTV Europe Music Awards which is set to be staged at the Echo Arena in Liverpool on Thursday 6th November and will be one of the highlights of Liverpool’s year as European Capital Of Culture.
Liverpool Music Week, the UK’s largest indoor winter music festival will be staging over 50 events, across 16 venues and will play host to over 250 live bands.
Attracting a record breaking 60,000 people in 2007, this year the festival returns with a jam packed itinerary of live music, to take over the city for 8 days creating one of the biggest musical events of the year.
MTV Liverpool Music Week will run from Thursday 30th October leading up to the EMA’s, and a number of shows from the festival will be filmed for broadcast across MTV channels, to be announced shortly. The event will be supported by the Liverpool Culture Company, for the fourth year in a row.
“MTV is very proud to be supporting Liverpool Music Week, it will provide a fantastic line-up of artists leading up to the MTV Europe Music Awards,” said Richard Godfrey, Executive Producer. “This partnership underlines MTV’s commitment to live music for both new and established artists and will make this year’s EMAs a memorable event for the city of Liverpool and for MTV.”
Coinciding with the announcement of MTV Liverpool Music Week, the first acts announced to perform include the Mercury nominated Goldfrapp, performing at Liverpool University on Friday 31st October, this internationally renowned band have achieved three No.1 US Dance singles and their album ‘Supernature’ was nominated for ‘Best Electronic/Dance Album’ at the 49th Grammy Awards.
New York’s rock indie super group Vampire Weekend will be opening this year’s festival at Liverpool Carling Academy on Thursday 30th October. The band who became one of the biggest draws and highlights of this years T In The Park and Glastonbury have also had one of the biggest selling debut albums of the year, and they visit Liverpool for a highly anticipated debut performance.
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