Sound City announces new international hub for 2023 conference

Sound City has announced a new international hub for the conference in 2023, plus loads more speakers and panels have been added to the line up.

Liverpool Sound City, the UK’s leading independent music conference and AIM UKs ‘Conference in The North’, today announces its final lineup of speakers and panels for the 2023 conference taking place this month. This includes a brand new international hub set to host speakers from across the world, discussing global music industry hot topics.

Joining the already announced in-conversation speakers for the Conference are Jamie Webster, Lady Leshurr, Bob Vylan, Denis O’Regan, and many more.

Sound City is the lead UK festival and conference for Keychange, meaning commitment to achieving a gender balance across all levels of their lineup and within its own team.

For over 15 years Sound City has welcomed leading industry figures, emerging artists and aspiring music business professionals from across the UK, Europe and beyond to the North of England for a full-day programme of educational panels, in-conversations and networking parties.

Now, they are championing its region once again through the 2023 conference – which will include a focus on showcasing the innovative Northern creative scene to an international audience.

As always, the conference will be covering a wide range of issues that are at the heart of the current industry discussion. Some of the topics to be featured at this year’s conference include protecting artists’ mental health, making steps to make music festivals more sustainable, converting online followers into real life fans, using your creative voice to enact positive change and much more.

There will also be a selection of drinks parties, and networking sessions available to VIPs hosted by CAPLL, AIM UK, Keychange, M pour Montreal and Vevo and Virgin Music UK.