The Dirty Skirts will next week be heading to Dubai to perform at the Middle East's most esteemed music industry conference and festival, Dubai Sound City.

The 2009 South African Music Award finalists for Best Rock album have been invited to perform alongside industry luminaries such as The Human League, De La Soul, Gabriella Cilmi, Echo & The Bunnymen, Super Furry Animals, The Wombats and The Doves. Also performing at the festival are fellow South Africans The Parlotones.

Dubai Sound City is a three day music industry conference and festival focused on allowing delegates to do business, network, learn and discover new and established artists from across the Middle East and around the world. It is predicted that within the next three years, it will become the Music Business Convention and Festival within Dubai and the Middle East.

Aimed at those entrepreneurs that embrace innovation and change within music, Dubai Sound City offers opportunities for organisations from all over the world to showcase their products, services and artists to the professionals who will shape the future of music and entertainment and the fans who ravenously consume it.

This four piece from Cape Town released their debut EP independently in 2005, which stormed various South African charts with singles 'Feeling the Pressure' and 'Set me Alight' both reaching number one on regional stations. Established in late 2004, the band has now performed on every main stage of South Africa's festival circuit, toured to the UK, USA and United Arab Emirates, and consists of Jeremy De Tolly on lead vocals, guitar and synth; David Moffatt on guitar; Maurice Paliaga on Bass and Mark De Menezes on drums.

Their debut full length album, 'On a Stellar Bender', was released in May 2007 and 2008 saw the release of 'Daddy Don't Disco'. Following the successful launch of the new album in South Africa the band toured to the UK and Dubai. The Dirty Skirts were a featured band on the 2009 Coca-Cola Zero Festival line-up.


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