This Friday, Butter Side Up are set to grace us with Berlin’s best at Leeds’ most important basement, The Wire. So be prepared to lose your sheiße and skank on down to the likes of […]
Review – Up4 at Musicquarium
On January 29th in a small, relatively unknown venue on the outskirts of Kirkstall, one of Leeds newest and undoubtedly most promising club nights, Up4, returned to Musicquarium for its second sold out event. With […]
Feature – A Toast to Butterz
The explosive re-emergence of the genre once hailed to be the UK’s answer to hip hop has been astronomical and well documented. Most put this down to the work of a select few huge personalities, […]
Feature – Wire 10 Year Anniversary Weekend
The importance of the underground cannot be stressed enough. All art forms and social movements are a product of the context they find themselves in. But as well as mirroring the era, they serve to […]
Preview – Fuzzy Logic’s 16th Birthday Bash
Hailing itself as the longest running Alternative mid-week club night in the city, Fuzzy Logic is an integral part of Leeds’ nightlife. This may seem a bizarre accolade, but Leeds is riddled with lots of […]
Review – SubDub Weekender
Most community centres around me host cake sales and raffles which are thoroughly enjoyable, but hidden away in Leeds is the West Indian Centre and alongside what I’m sure is a couple of great cake sales, […]
Review – Deep Fever Winter Wonderland w/ Henry Wu
Jazz, far from being the the inaccessible music of intellectuals or a relic to be found in your dad’s record collection, is absolutely central to electronic music. It is the point of origin in its […]
Review – Move D
The main room at Canal Mills is the mothership of nocturnal reckless abandon in Leeds. You’ve probably had a few heady moments in there of late, watching producing goliaths such as Detroit cool cat Moodymann […]
Weekly Chart – Flora’s Festive Picks
Aphex Twin – XMas_Evet1 N A very different take on a Christmas tune, the admirable Aphex Twin released this track on his flawless album Syro last year. Layer upon layer of sounds and rhythms compile […]
Feature – Gottwood Festival 2016
In a small crest of North Wales’ coastal extremities lies a festival, whose annual popularity frequently belies its size. A place where people from all corners and demographics of the UK – students, promoters, DJs, label […]
Feature – Matthias Tanzmann
In anticipation of the 15 Years of Moon Harbour event, celebrating the life of the label, at Warehouse (unfortunately now cancelled), The Gryphon had a brief chat with label boss and world-class selector, Matthias Tanzmann, to […]
Review – Daniel Avery + Volte Face
Daniel Avery’s second appearance in Leeds this year was a sell-out, owing to his ever-dynamic sound (as proven by recent releases ‘Sensation’ and ‘Clear’), the additional presence of Volte Face (50% of ‘Rote’) and the mystery […]