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The Wolverhampton Music City festival will see more than 50 acts performing at seven venues across the city from this Friday to Sunday (October 31 to November 2), with free entry to each venue. It has been organised by Plugged Inn Promotions with support from Wolverhampton Council through UKSPF funding and aims to provide a diverse selection of musical performances to celebrate Wolverhampton's music scene and musical heritage. Organiser Ben Bagley said it had sprung out of wanting to liven up the musical offering in the city. He said: "I'd found that open mic nights were dying a death post-lockdown and I just went into a pub and asked if I could bring in a few friends and play some music, and then the idea sort of snowballed from there. "It started getting bigger and bigger and then we got the funding from the council towards it, which helped us to set up seven venues. It's a very exciting time. "Everyone we've spoken to seems to view the music scene in a negative light, as they always say that it used to be good and this venue and that venue used to be great, so this is our way of saying that there's plenty going on." Mr Bagley said it had been a busy time, but that it had been worth the effort to make people realise how much music there was in the city. He said: "The end goal really is to get the city recognised as a city of music and that's obviously ambitious, considering where we are now and also people's perspective of the city, but it's all about increasing music tourism in the area and putting it back on the map. "We're looking five years down the line, working with the local MPs and mayor, and getting into a better position to get that recognition, but this is the first step of the journey. "We're trying to fly the flag for local acts and the Music City elements connect bands together who might not necessarily perform together, and is a purely local event." Wolverhampton Music City line-up: The Clarendon Hotel Pub Freaks from the Fields 7pm Johnny Kowalski and the Sexy Weirdos Solo 8pm skint asf 9pm Notion Of Fortune 10pm Sick Boys Club Kipsies Wine Bar 9pm Wyldlights + Halloween DJ Set The Clarendon Hotel Pub 3pm Temper Tantrum 4pm Me & Thee 5pm skint asf 6pm The Alopecia Trio 7pm The Vanilla Pods 8pm Balaban and the Bald Illeagles 9pm Bucket Brigade Wolverhampton Art Gallery Songwriters Showcase 12pm Sandy Stanton 12.45pm Brains For Breakfast 1.30pm Melissa Severn 2.15pm Woodsetton Wanderers 3.45pm The Busketeers Hogshead Wolverhampton 12pm Woodsetton Wanderers 1pm Daz O'Baddie as Grisly & Co 2pm DANNY MANIC 3pm Permanently Confused 4pm Danny Malone 5pm Nyli Lewis 7pm Bansal Electrics 8pm Mena Hardy DJ from 9pm Kipsies Wine Bar BARS & BARS 5pm Jack Austin 5.40pm Danny Zealous 6.20pm Juddah James 7pm Lyrikal Jenius 7.40pm Jr Da Lion 8.20pm Issac Paris 9pm MissInk 9.40pm XOMEGA DJ Cypher Set Lockworks Cinemas 7pm Kupid Val-essoné 6pm 2 ROOMS 2DJS Stay Loose Records & Fission Sound 1pm The Other Half 1.30pm Tim Philpot 2.15pm Stewart Jones 3pm Upright and Conscious 3.45pm Laura:Martin 4.30pm skint asf 5.30pm Christopher Crompton—Words and Music The Clarendon Hotel Pub 'Mostly' Covers Club 2pm The Dysfunctional Idiots 3pm Rosco & The Wolfpack 4pm G R I M L O R D 5pm Unsupervised Wolverhampton Arts Centre 7pm Bucket Brigade 7.45pm Jim Hudson 8pm Sam Lambeth 9.30pm The Last Pioneers
