The Wombats, Elbow, The Kooks and more for Sounds of the City 2019

27 November 2018, 20:34 | Updated: 27 November 2018, 20:36

The Wombats
The Wombats. Picture: Press

The Kooks, The National and Hacienda Classical will also play the festival, which takes place at Manchester's Castlefield Bowl.

Sound of the City has announced its return for 2019.

The Wombats and Elbow are among the acts who will headline the festival, which takes place at Manchester's Castlefield Bowl.

Also confirmed for the event - which will see huge acts take over the Bowl in July - are The Kooks, The National, Kylie Minogue and Hacienda Classical.

Tickets go on sale on Friday 30 November from 9.30am.

The Scouse trio will kick things off proceedings, playing the outdoor venue on Saturday 6 July, followed by the One Day Like This outfit on Tuesday 9 July.

Hacienda Classical will finish off proceedings with one of their epic sets on Saturday 13 July.

See the line-up for Sounds of the City 2019 here:

Saturday 6 July - The Wombats with The Night Cafe & Fuzzy Sun, plus more to be announced

Tuesday 9 July - Elbow plus special guests

Wednesday 10 July - The National plus special guests

Thursday 11 July - Kylie plus special guests

Friday 12 July - The Kooks plus The Sherlocks & Sea Girls

Saturday 13 July - Hacienda Classical, plus Inner City and DJs Peter Hook, Mark XTC & Herbie Saccini

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