City Showcase, London's Festival of New Music

For 5 days last June, over a million people flocked to central London to witness 400 artists across all music genres perform at 35 different venues. From midday to midnight Londoners mingled, browsed, shopped and listened to great live music at London’s City Showcase. From the 2nd – 6th June this year its back for a sixth consecutive year and promises to be one to remember!

Renowned for showcasing the best in new music, City Showcase has previously played host to Amy Winehouse, Newton Faulkner, Keane, Razorlight, Scouting For Girls, Ray LaMontagne, Hot Chip, Sway and Lady Sovereign who all began their long and winding road to fame and fortune on the City Showcase stage...

City Showcase has an extremely exciting bill this year including a fantastic opportunity to see Bomb the Base. To celebrate 20 years of Acid House, one of the leading innovators from the 80’s and 90’s Acid House movement, Bomb The Bass (who also had one of the first sample based chart hits), will be making history on 4th June at London’s Astoria, when they perform their first live show in the UK for 20 years. With Eddy Temple-Morris (Xfm/The Remix) and DJ/A&R of the City Showcase electronic nights, Ben Osborne (Noise of Art), behind the decks, it promises to be a night to remember.

Other festival highlights include: “infectious and memorable” (The Guardian) Twin Atlantic; East Londoners We Are The Ocean (who describe themselves as a heavier version of Slipknot!); Nashville’s finest The Young Republic; Irish ‘rockabilly’ singer/songwriter Wallis Bird; The Law, who last year toured the UK with fellow Scottish indie kids, The View; fresh from supporting The Wombats in Germany, South African chart toppers The Parlotones (whose last two albums went gold in their home country) have recently added their name to the growing line up; headlining the Asian night is acclaimed artist Raghav who stormed to success in 2005 at the Asian Music Awards winning Best Artist, Best Single, Best Newcomer and Best Chart Act - to date has notched up 4 top ten UK hits; our R.R.O.S.E. Night - Real Rock of Sweden expo night featuring Mustasch who won a Swedish Grammis Award 2008 in the category Best Hard Rock for the album Latest Version of the Truth; ex-G4 star Jonathan Ansell who will be headlining our classical night and introducing new young classical performers; DJ Ironik headlining a fantastic new bill of urban acts with DJ Ras Kwame; and Ragamuffin Children travelling from New Zealand to celebrate a night of New Zealand music.