Shifting the post-festival blues after Dimensions is no mean feat. You’re forced to come to terms with the small piece of your soul you left behind in Croatia, and it’s pretty likely you’ll find yourself […]
Girlpool @ Brudenell Social Club 10/09
It was a low-key, lo-fi, New York-y gig at the Brudenell last Thursday, with no drummer to be seen, but electric guitars a-plenty. The support came from Quarterbacks, who, embarking on a solo tour, has […]
Outbreak of ‘Super-Gonorrhoea’ in Leeds
A highly drug-resistant strain of gonorrhoea has broken out in Leeds, with ten confirmed cases so far. A further four cases have been reported in Macclesfield, Scunthorpe and Oldham, with all 14 patients being heterosexual. […]
Cradle to Grave: A simpler Britain
I’m fairly certain if I ever made it on to Mastermind, I’d have a pretty strange specialist subject; British political and social history between 1970 and 1990. You see, I’m absolutely obsessed with that period […]
Preview: Battle of the Burger
Following their successful clash in Newcastle, Battle of the Burger descends on Canal Mills this Friday to test the best that Leeds, and ultimately Yorkshire, has to offer. Gone are the days that a burger […]
Preview : Basel Symphony Orchestra at Leeds Town Hall
The world-renowned Basel Symphony Orchestra opens the Leeds International Orchestral Season 2015/16 at Leeds Town Hall on Saturday 26 September. Under the baton of American conductor Dennis Russell Davies the orchestra will tackle Stravinsky’s notoriously divisive ‘Rite of Spring’, a composition so […]
Underdogs confound expectations
It was the final that no-one expected. As the semi-final line-up was confirmed, it was expected to be relative formality. Simona Halep and Serena Williams would both win their clashes against Flavia Pennetta and Roberta […]
England grind out win
The one-day international series between England and Australia will go down to the wire, after the hosts reached their target of 300 with four balls to spare at Headingley. The Aussies were heavily wounded by […]
Jethro Tull, The Rock Opera Preview
Jethro Tull, the seventeenth-century British agriculturalist often credited with the invention of the horse-drawn seed drill, was such an inspiration to a 1970s British progressive rock band that they named themselves after him. Ian Anderson, […]
Review: Food and drink at Leeds’ own The Garden Party
There’s something very refreshing about a festival involving no wellies, no mud and not one badly assembled tent in sight. Even more so when it provides the atmosphere and party essence that usually causes us […]
A Freshers Fashion Guide
It’s a nerve wracking time, you’re about to start University. Moving away from home, meeting new people, studying in massive lecture halls and at times having long days. Let us relieve some of that stress […]
Preview : Subdub presents Sound System 60 Tour
To celebrate sixty years of Sound System culture in the UK, the world renowned Channel One Sound System leave their home of Village Underground in London to tour the UK and come to Subdub at […]