Ken Livingstone, the former Mayor of London, has announced plans for a week long SXSW-style music festival in the UK’s capital.
Livingstone, who is standing for the Labour candidacy in the next mayoral election, has outlined part of his Ken4London campaign: Protecting London’s Live Music.
“What we don’t have is a music industry-based expo in the style of Austin, Texas’s highly successful South By Southwest festival,” he said. “My plan is to bring a little bit of Texas to the capital with a London Music Festival.”
“This project will inject energy into an industry we should all cherish and for one week of the year unite the whole of the city into a celebration of music,” he said.
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