White Lies, Little Boots, Animal Collective for Liverpool Sound City

White Lies, Little Boots, Animal Collective, Mongrel and Deerhunter are among the acts confirmed to play at the forthcoming for Liverpool Sound City festival in May.

Cage The Elephant, Mumford and Sons and Hot Melts are also set to play at the event, which takes place across various venues in the northern UK city on May 20-23.

Further acts are set to be announced soon, with organisers saying that the total amount of acts set to play at the bash will exceed 400.

To check the availability of Liverpool Sound City tickets and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/GIGS now, or call 0871 230 1094.

White Lies are currently on the Shockwaves NME Awards Tour and will play on the same bill as The Cure, Franz Ferdinand and Crystal Castles at the NME Big Gig at the London O2 Arena on February 26.

To check the availability of Shockwaves NME Awards Big Gig 2009 tickets and get all the latest news, go to NME.COM/biggig.

White Lies tickets:

See White Lies play at an O2 Venue. Remember if you're on O2 you can get Priority Tickets to The O2 and O2 Academy venues up to 48 hours before they go on general release. Register at o2priority.co.uk. Terms apply.