| Sensational alt-rock London four-piece, Keo, return to Liverpool’s festival of new music discovery, Sound City to headline the event’s main stage just a year after playing a basement show for 200 new fans. On an unassailable arc since the release of their hyped summertime EP, Siren, the band has received welcome comparisons to Wunderhorse and Fontaines DC and now look ahead to playing the ornate, 3,500-capacity Great Central Hall on Sat 2 May 2026. Arriving with an emotive, distorted bang to play last year’s Sound City weekend in skin-to-skin intimacy at Liverpool’s legendary EBGB’s underground venue, a stage curated by festival content collaborators, The Rock Revival, the rapid acknowledgement of the well-travelled band as contenders to a stadium-sized UK rock crown came just weeks later. Typified by the 1 million Spotify streaming single, I Lied, Amber, the gritty depths of frontman, Finn Keogh’s vocal delivery over waves of fuzzed guitars took centre stage as their debut EP whipped up a hail of deserved hype. The release of Weekend and Day Tickets for Sound City, following the speedy sell out of the early bird allocation almost a year in advance, means that Keo’s expanded fanbase can secure their place at the special Saturday night show by booking now at www.soundcity.uk.com Sound City’s Managing Director, Becky Ayres, says: “We’re absolutely thrilled to announce Keo as our Saturday night headliners for Sound City 2026. After their unforgettable performance at Sound City 2025, where they completely packed out EBGBs, with fans even spilling out into the street trying to catch a glimpse, it was clear they were destined for the main stage. |
| “Keo represent everything Sound City stands for: artists with vision, authenticity, and the power to connect with audiences in a way that feels both fresh and timeless. Their headline set is going to be one of those electric moments that people will be talking about for years to come. Sound City has always been about championing future headliners before the rest of the world catches up, and Keo are exactly that.” Over 150 artists performed at Sound City in May this year and the festival has been quick to secure appearances for next year’s weekend, running over Sat 2 – Sun 3 May 2026, by some of the biggest names to have been showcased across the multi-venue, inner-city event in recent years. Just last month it was confirmed that contemporary soul sensation, and former Liverpool resident, Jalen Ngonda would return to the festival having emerged onto intimate stages in 2017 and 2018. A former student at the Paul McCartney-founded Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, Ngonda takes the headline slot on the closing Sunday night of the festival. |