Low Four Soundcheck: Is Manchester a world-class music city?

Low Four Soundcheck examines the health of Greater Manchester’s music scenes, infrastructure and economy.
The pilot conference was recorded in 2022 and asked four differing panels of invited industry professionals, experts and musicians to debate four pertinent questions.
Sarie Mairs Slee (Northern Place and Culture Partnership) chairs the discussion on whether we might be able to consider Manchester as a world-class music city? Joining Sarie is Debra King, Chief Executive of Brighter Sound and the Lead for the Manchester Music City project. KSR is an emerging neo-soul artist Promoters, Chris Horkan (Hey! Manchester) brings to Manchester touring folk, roots and alternative artists from all around the world, whilst Riv Burns is Festival Director for Salford’s Sound from the Other City. KSR is an emerging neo-soul artist. Dj, journalist and author Dave Haslam completes the line-up along with Oliver Wilson, who this year will be launching Beyond the Music, a new four-day music conference in October.
This pilot project is produced in partnership with the University of Salford and supported by the UKRI. Low Four is a live-streaming music TV platform, recording studio, music venue and Cloudwater bar, located on Deansgate Mews at the Great Northern Warehouse.