Describing themselves as a “hurricane of emotional beauty”, Leeds up-and-comers The Golden Age of TV feel like a fitting opening act for the positive rainstorm that is howling outside the Brudenell Social Club. New release
Although it has plenty to boast about all year round, the Leeds music scene really comes into it’s own in the summertime. Whether it’s heady evenings at the Leeds Festival, triumphant home returns in Millennium
It’s a truth universally known in the world of support acts that opening a gig with new material is a massive no-no. The Maccabees must have confidence in spades: despite a thin and widely indifferent
You know you’ve made it when a Parliamentary MP boasts to be a fan of your band. Everyone remembers David Cameron thinking that he looked good on the dancefloor when he namechecked Arctic Monkeys back in 2006,
Chocked full of various drums parts, broken instruments and threadbare carpet, I am perched precariously on the edge of a Marshall Amp, in the centre of what might be kindly referred to as a large cupboard.
You know you’ve made it when a Parliamentary MP boasts to be a fan of your band. Everyone remembers David Cameron thinking that he looked good on the dancefloor when he namechecked Arctic Monkeys back
Wild Beasts’ Hayden Thorpe once compared being the biggest band from Kendal to being like ‘the biggest fish to be caught in a teapot.’ Tonight, they are a gargantuan shark in a polythene bag, grown faster and leaner