ITC LIVE HIGHLIGHTS

ITC UNSIGNED ALBUM 2009

The 2009 ITC iTunes album is now available via the following link. Featuring 32 of the ITC Unsigned artists, the album is available for just £7.99. Details of other digital distributors, and of how ITC delegates can get their free copies, will be released soon.

ITC LIVE 2009

We are delighted to announce that the final touches have now been made to the ITC Live line-up and Manchester will once again play host to three nights of the best new music in the world.

NME Radar will have a special set from Music Go Music (currently mid-tour with Franz Ferdinand), Wolf Gang and local intriguers Egyptian Hip Hop. Manchester's coolest clubnight Now Wave will feature one of the hottest bands in the world in The Drums, BBC Introducing have chosen to focus on championing the best of the Northwest (as well as a couple from further afield) at Moho Live, including one of last year's standouts The Jessie Rose Trip back with a new backing band and breezy prog poppers Your Twenties. Moho will also play host to a special Love Music Hate Racism night, featuring a special acoustic headliner.

SJM Concerts have programmed things for us over at the ever-welcoming Ruby Lounge - and, much like the rest of the year, we expect to find ourselves spending plenty of time in their company, watching the likes of Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, Bicycle Thieves and Apples.

The newly resurgent High Voltage will be announcing their return to the Manchester conciousness by hosting Hot Club De Paris, Kong and Dutch Uncles at the glorious Deaf Institute - who will also play host to Drowned in Sound's 9th birthday party with Frightened Rabbit, Esben and the Witch and ex-Unicorns and Arcade Fire project Clues. Their festival rounds off with the ever-impressive Friends Vs Records showcasing Citadels, Rogues and Dirty Goods as well as bringing along Hope Of The States' new band The Northwestern.

Perhaps the country's most celebrated one-man label and top alternative rock stable Big Scary Monsters will be joining forces with The Art Of... agency to celebrate another great year with the likes of Copy Haho, Shapes, Talons and The Moi Non Plus. American management company, promoters and all-round high taste-makers Future Sounds will host their first ever UK 'Blast' with Tigers That Talked, NewIslands and Minnaars, wonderful Welsh festival Swn give us Cate Le Bon, Envy and Unicorn Kid and Fierce Panda return once again with the now-traditional ITC gig 'Ning The City' with Goldheart Assembly, Taxi Taxi! and The Neat.

For the younger crowd we have introduced 14+ gigs to ITC for the first time ever with the help of Front Magazine, Artrocker and local all-age masters Same Teens - with Hatcham Social, Saving Aimee, My Tiger My Timing, Wild Palms, Wu Lyf, The Brute Chorus, Twin Atlantic, Attack! Attack!, The New 1920, Futures and a whole host of others converting the new generation.

And all this without mention of the reason we're still here, the 18 year legacy of finding the next stadium-filler, the band to fall in love with or the chart-topping one hit wonders, the strand that gave an early helping hand to Coldplay, Oasis, Muse, Radiohead, Elbow, Noah and The Whale, Friendly Fires, Gallows, Maximo Park and, ahem, The Darkness. The best 34 brand new bands we could find, squeezed into a handful of venues, mere stumbling distance from ITC HQ The Midland - In The City Unsigned.

To buy your In The City Live wristband for just £20 plus booking fee visit www.inthecity.co.uk/wristbands.

TWITTER

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REGISTER FOR ITC

To register as a delegate for In The City for £350 plus VAT click here.

We’re doing day passes as well this year, which you can also find here, but don’t forget you’ll need a wristband for the live gigs if you go down this route. Conveniently, you can find those here - though if you’re getting a full delegate pass don’t worry about that.

Keynotes confirmed so far include: Mike Smith, Mark Ronson, John Harris, Anthony Volodkin, Sean Adams, Simon Raymonde, Pat Nevin, Gered Mankowitz as well as speakers from Seatwave, Soundcloud, Songkick and many, many more.