#SFTOCSkinny: The Shortlist!

This year, to celebrate the unique, creative spirit of Salford's Sounds from the Other City festival, The Skinny teamed up with SFTOC to launch a search for photos that 'Capture the Spirit of Sounds'. 

We asked you to share your snaps from the day on Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #SFTOCSkinny to be in with a chance of winning an amazing bundle of prizes kindly donated by the festival's promoters – with four runners up also receiving a goody bag.

You responded more enthusiastically than we could've hoped for, and we had an incredible 300+ entries!

It's been tough work whittling them down to a shortlist of 30 – but we did it. From there, the SFTOC team selected their favourites – images they felt truly captured the spirit of Sounds. You can find the winning photo and runners-up here, but the entries overall were too good to only publish those five.

Find all 30 shortlisted photos below – we're particularly fond of the wizard playing the drums, a blissed-out Ex-Easter Island Head audience, and everything that's covered in tinsel. Which is most things. 

Enjoy, and thank you for entering!

This sums up SFTOC yesterday. This is also how I feel today... #SFTOCSkinny

A photo posted by Mike Stephens (@bit_byte_bit) on May 4, 2015 at 3:08am PDT

#SFTOC #SFTOCSkinny #IslingtonMill #Salford #FlissHorrocks

A photo posted by Nicole Kenny (@nicolelk) on May 3, 2015 at 8:02am PDT

#microcosmicdelirium takes to the streets #SFTOC #SFTOCskinny

A photo posted by James Akers (@jamesakers_) on May 3, 2015 at 9:09am PDT

Dictatorship sounds #sftocskinny

A photo posted by rpower18 (@rpower18) on May 3, 2015 at 10:06am PDT

Happy! #sftoc #sftocskinny

A photo posted by Steve Worsley (@steveworsley) on May 3, 2015 at 11:03am PDT

#SFTOCSkinny

A photo posted by Matthew Alexander Kaufman (@stretfordgoose) on May 3, 2015 at 10:48am PDT

Good times #SFTOCSkinny

A photo posted by heapbiggrizzly (@heapbiggrizzly) on May 3, 2015 at 10:19am PDT

#SFTOCSkinny

A photo posted by thegregling (@thegregling) on May 3, 2015 at 1:27pm PDT

#SftocSkinny #sftoc #Salford #KingsArms

A photo posted by @matthumike on May 3, 2015 at 4:53pm PDT

Toot toot!!! #sftocskinny

A photo posted by Susie Chang (@susiechang) on May 4, 2015 at 2:35am PDT

@annadonigan demonstrating her healing powers.

A photo posted by Steven Kent (@stevenkent1) on May 3, 2015 at 9:19am PDT

Paddy Steer the musical wizard...

A photo posted by Caroline Teasdale (@cameraline) on May 5, 2015 at 4:17am PDT

Don of the day at #sftoc #sftocskinny - what an adventure. #salford #Cityofthegods

A photo posted by Mr.Roskell (@wezlam) on May 4, 2015 at 12:42pm PDT

#christeene again #sftoc #manchester #salford

A photo posted by Carys Whitehouse (@caryswhitehou5e) on May 4, 2015 at 9:48am PDT

#microcosmicdelirium #SFTOCSkinny #sftoc

A photo posted by @howardhowardhoward on May 4, 2015 at 9:32am PDT

#sftocskinny #julie @mccourtjulie @sftoc #sftoc2015

A photo posted by LtotheMP (@ltothemp) on May 4, 2015 at 5:18am PDT

#SFTOCskinny

A photo posted by Billy Joe (@billy_boland) on May 4, 2015 at 4:48am PDT

#sftocskinny #SFTOC best band of the fest...#zunzunegui

A photo posted by @lisacritter on May 3, 2015 at 1:20pm PDT

Doctrines play Bad Uncles 'Inception' stage #sftoc #sftocskinny #salford #livemusic #gig #Gdngig

A photo posted by @taowild on May 3, 2015 at 11:43am PDT

#SoundsFromTheOtherCity #ErMaGherd it's a #Pardaaaay #SFTOCSkinny

A photo posted by Orinoco (@_orinoco_) on May 3, 2015 at 10:07am PDT

Wonky scenes from Sounds, last night. #sftoc #messy #greatnight #salford #vscocam

A photo posted by Thomas (@tom_legs) on May 4, 2015 at 7:18am PDT

Some great gold trousers at #sftoc

A photo posted by Claire (@claireedy82) on May 4, 2015 at 2:08am PDT

Look once, look twice. #SFTOCSkinny pic.twitter.com/di8TEga78f

— Andy Loynes (@Andyloynes) May 3, 2015

Be a good festival if anyone else gets to the level of Cowtown. Excellent performance in the Angel. #sftocskinny pic.twitter.com/axPFRgexxy

— Bob Boyle (@nastybob) May 3, 2015

Fabulous Customer service at Christeene's Greasy Spoon #SFTOCSkinny pic.twitter.com/BSUZG4hAqe

— Tom Neumann (@NeuIdeas) May 3, 2015

Vimto Gardens dancing reflected through the window ....why didn't we get tickets @RobMorrish #SFTOC #SFTOCSkinny pic.twitter.com/schYhbQu9i

— Emma Shaw (@emmajaneshaw) May 3, 2015

#SFTOCSkinny pic.twitter.com/EJXQ1JorYX

— Mr Cardigan (@Mr_Cardigan) May 3, 2015

@sftoc rocks #SFTOCskinny pic.twitter.com/MugBHBbomh

— Amber De La Haye (@Amber_Delahaye) May 3, 2015

#SFTOCSkinny @sftoc @badunclemusic pic.twitter.com/b3s3rj21Cn

— Peet Earnshaw (@VisionsOfJack) May 4, 2015

@islingtonmill... #SFTOCSkinny pic.twitter.com/GyMpjz39t8

— JayC (@SalfordianManc) May 3, 2015

But who won?! View the winning photo and runners-up here.

You can also check out all the 300+ photos submitted on Twitter and Instagram by searching the hashtag #SFTOCSkinny.

Until next year...