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As if we hadn’t already got loads of exciting stuff lined up for you at this year’s hub festival!

We can now announce that Nintendo Wii are coming along this weekend, so you and your mates can try out some of their hottest new games.

And, to top it all off, we’ve also secured a big screen for the first time ever. So you can watch the festival highlights - including the breakdancing competitions.

A record number of bands applied to perform at this year’s hub festival, the UK’s largest free urban youth festival.

A total of 145 bands from across the country responded to a search to find the nation’s best unsigned acts to perform live at Otterspool Promenade.

And after an intensive judging process involving industry professionals, we can announce the 13 acts that will perform in front of more than 20,000 people at Otterspool Park over Saturday and Sunday, May 17 and 18.

Spanning a range of musical styles – including funk, pop, indie, and rock – the bands are:

• Signified (Aigburth)
• Connecting Flight (Litherland)
• Hades Chariot (Walton)
• Metro Manila Aide (Mossley Hill)
• Gorbachov (city centre)
• Institution
• Vacancy in 305 (Garston)
• Tied Up (city centre)
• Crash Ambers Party (Crosby)
• Sensorites (Walton)
• Elevaters (Huyton)
• Foeism (Wavertree)
• Killaflaw (Mossley Hill)

South Liverpool act Metro Manila Aide will be taking part in hub for the fifth time this year. Band member Paul McBride said: “It’s important to have a festival for the people of Liverpool with the backing of the city. hub always combines music, dance and art in equal portions and when the sun comes out it’s great to rock out on the massive stage.”

Successful artists will be joining confirmed headliner Shlomo, one of the world’s finest human beatboxers, who will perform a special one hour set using only his voice on Sunday. Young Kof, Sona Family & Outthebox, Lazy Habits and BabyGravy complete the line-up.

Susan Whitehead, event organiser from the Liverpool Culture Company, said: “The number, quality and variety of applications was phenomenal – be it indie, funk, rock, soul, hip-hop and metal. Our judges were blown away. It just shows how far hub’s reputation as one of the best urban youth festivals in the country is travelling.