Sound City will be returning to Liverpool once again in May this year to showcase the best up and coming and acclaimed talent in music from across the globe. Officially the first music festival on the UK's cultural calendar, Sound City provides countless opportunities to witness the world's best new talent in settings like no other. Recently announced to appear at this year's festival are the following bands:

The Walkmen
Reverend and the Makers
Egyptian Hip Hop
Murkage

While in Liverpool for Sound City, Larry Heath sat down with Bonfire Nights, the trio (made up of Steve, Nicole and Ruth) who have made the move from Brisbane to London, and in doing so have had a bit of a change in their sound, too. Well we'll let you be the judges of that when you hear the new stuff! In the meantime, here's what they got up to when they had a chat over a cold pint...

Having the opportunity to catch them several times live at Liverpool Sound City, Larry managed to grab the members of Liverpool outfit The Hummingbirds (not to be confused with the 80s Sydney band of the same name) to talk about their shows, performing for the Queen, The Beatles, their music and much more...

Backstage at the Aussie BBQ at Liverpool Sound City last month, Larry Heath caught up with Caiti and James of Darwin duo Sietta to talk about their tour, their music, bad Chinese food, Nelson George, dance moves and much much more...

While at Liverpool Sound City, Larry Heath caught up with James Petralli of Austin, Texas rock outfit White Denim, to talk about their UK successes, future plans, Tame Impala and much more...

Larry Heath had a few moments to sit down with Mildura rock duo Jackson Firebird while they were both in Liverpool for the Aussie BBQ at Liverpool Sound City last month. Getting set to release their new album Cock Rockin' TOMORROW and heading off on their album tour TONIGHT, here's what went down...

The final day of music for me on this trip quite appropriately kicked off with the annual Aussie BBQ at Heebie Jeebies. With the stage in an outdoor beer garden (right next to the BBQ), the weather had us nervous but thankfully the overcast sky stayed just that; the rain keeping at bay. This kept the venue packed and made for one hell of an Aussie BBQ to end their run of shows in the UK for 2012 (they’re off to Singapore next).