With each term jam-packed with high calibre events, leaving Leeds for the summer period often leaves students missing the city’s innate flair for nightlife. This summer however, Cirque Du Soul are returning to the festival […]
PPG Leeds 1st Birthday w/ Objekt @ Wire 31/05
Sheffield night Pretty Pretty Good (PPG) celebrated a year of taking their parties to a better Yorkshire city on 31st May, booking Objekt for their Leeds 1st birthday to play an all-night-long set at Wire. […]
Mala & SubDub: Celebrating 19 Years of Underground Sound System Culture
As clubbing tour-de-force SubDub celebrates its 19th year, we reflect with legendary Dubstep producer, DJ and founder of Deep Medi Records, Mala, about the event’s grassroots origins, present nightlife and uncertain future. This seminal Leeds based night […]
One Night With. Move D @ Wire 26/05
The ‘One Night With.’ concept is built around a pretty simple list of things. A big name underground headliner, an extended set, a crowd there for the right reasons, and the intimate confines of one […]
Butter Side Up w/ Call Super at Wire 19/05
Leeds clubbing institution Butter Side Up’s booking policy rarely disappoints. While in recent years the party’s musical direction has shifted more toward the more minimal end of the house and techno spectrum, they never fail […]
Voter registration incentives: Leeds events
In the 2015 general election, 34% of the electorate did not register to vote. In the recent referendum on Britain’s place in the EU, 64% of 18-24s did not vote at all. To prevent this […]
Back to Basics at Church 30/04
As soon as I set a foot through Church’s doors on Sunday I was filled with the spirit, not so much a holy one, but one of extremely eager bank hol revellers. Queues were long, […]
ALTER w/ Boris at Wire 22/04
It’s been two years since I previewed ALTER’s debut party back in February 2015, and since then the techno collective’s near-monthly events have played host to some of the finest names in electronic music. Bookings […]
Smokestack: Leeds’ hidden gem
Perched on Lower Briggate, a mere stone’s throw away from the trendy surroundings of Call Lane, lies Smokestack; a distinctly more rough around the edges affair. This is however, a diamond in the rough. Instantly […]
System. w/ Joseph Capriati at Mint 13/04
The arrival of chocolate eggs, newly born lambs and elongated Spring evenings signals one time in the student calendar: numerous weeks off lectures and seminars for the Easter Holidays, plus a return to the posh […]
Dancehall: A History
In late 1970s Jamaica, popular music shifted away from its reggae roots towards a more modern, risqué and different display of culture. This new trend was called Dancehall and it was the first emergence of […]
Preview: Sonic Sahara bring Sassy J to Studio 24
To see in bank holiday weekend next Friday night, Sonic Sahara are throwing their next intimate party at Studio 24. This will be the promoters’ third time at the Mabgate venue. Last year their Leeds debut (they […]