Diagrams and Yeti Lane: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
A quick glance at Diagrams’ blog, and you notice the number of pictures involving open spaces. It’s a testament (intentionally or not, I don’t know) to what one imagines to be inspiration for…
Dog Is Dead, Fiction, Bearfoot Beware: Cockpit, Leeds
It’s quite a surprise to turn up relatively early at the Cockpit on a Sunday evening, expecting to be home for 10pm, to find four bands on the bill (one of which having…
The Computers and Pulled Apart By Horses: Leadmill, Sheffield
Exeter’s The Computers are not what you expect. In their pristine white wardrobe and slicked quiffs, they do not give the impression that they are about to give by-now veterans of raw live…
Mad Colours and Slow Club: The Brudenell, Leeds
The Brudenell is buzzing with love for South Yorkshire. Supporting Sheffield’s Slow Club are Rotherham’s Mad Colours (almost-freshly reincarnated from The Heebie Jeebies), and bassist Del Hoyle is energetic enough for all his…
Constellations: Leeds University
So it’s November, the nights are drawing in. The days of lying face down in a boggy campsite to the sound of your favourite band playing in a tent 3 fields away are…
New Music Stage: Tramlines, Sunday
Sheffield’s finest hardcore daughter and sons Rolo Tomassi, once again plucked the cream of screamo to play Sunday’s Tramlines New Music Stage. From Three Trapped Tigers’ animated, menacing experimentalism, Errors’ energetic electro-rock through…
The Importance of BeatHerding: Beatherder Festival
So ya missed out on Glastonbury? Grateful to have avoided all the mainstream headliners and the “long-dead hippy commune crap”? Or gutted to have missed all the cool, creative and original arts and…
Wild Beasts: Sheffield City Hall Ballroom
Wild Beasts, continuing to defy pigeonholers’ attempts to label them artrock, tonight descended on Sheffield’s City Hall Ballroom for the grand finale of their current tour to promote their third album Smother. The…
Middleman Album Launch: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Middleman’s debut album launch has been a long time coming – 8 months if you count the time it’s taken from finishing recording to tonight’s launch, and in total a culmination of 5…
Cooking up a Brew
Brew Records, the experimental Leeds label with a reputation for promoting gloriously disgusting noise, celebrates their Third Birthday this weekend (10th December). Chatting to Simon Glacken and Tom Bellhouse who run the label,…
I LIKE TRAINS
Things seem to be coming together for iLiKETRAiNS. Well, technically they’re I LIKE TRAINS, and have been since 2009’s Sea of Regrets self-released single, yet the old logo sticks like an old and…
Leeds Festival 2010
Leeds Festival. Home to post-exam result teenagers, a fair proportion of (nu–) metalheads, and, these days, thanks to a cracking down on people who think firebombs are funny and Festival Republic finally hiring…
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