This Thursday, Leeds party goers can expect one of the most exciting events of the year as disco-powerhouse Todd Terje returns to our city for the first time since 2011 for Flux presents: Todd Terje & […]
Review – Bigger Than Barry with Karma Kid
For five years Tuesday nights have brought well-loved night, Bigger Than Barry to Mint Club, aiming to give ‘weekend-esque line-ups‘ mid-week. On 22nd October, BTB took the plunge and made their move to a new […]
Review – Andrew Weatherall at Back to Basics
Almost immediately after his set at Basics back in February, people got the wheels in motion to get honorary Yorkshireman Andrew Weatherall back on the bill. For the best part of 7 months the tantalising prospect […]
Music | Preview – Mos Def is coming to Stylus
Hip-hop legend Yasiib Bey AKA Mos Def will be bringing his ‘outspoken racial politics, musical fundamentalism and deep and abiding love of hip-hop’s rulebook-trashing freedom’ to the Union tomorrow night in an intimate gig in […]
Music | Live in Leeds – Johnny Marr, PINS & Alunageorge
Johnny Marr – LMUSU (3/5) At NME’s ‘God Like Genius’ of 2013, Johnny Marr, played to a tiny 1,100 capacity crowd at Leeds Met Union last week. The expected more mature audience crowded in, adorned in […]
Music | Live in Leeds – Nina Nesbitt & Simian Mobile Disco
Nina Nesbitt – The Cockpit 20/10/2013 An atmospheric darkness ascends on The Cockpit as the hordes of eagerly awaiting teenagers anticipate their newest musical icon and it is not long before the countless pairs of […]
Review – Teknicolor presents: Skream, Ejeca & Route 94
Photo: Thomas Bone Teknicolor have maintained a reputation for throwing one of Leeds’ most acclaimed pre-weekend events since 2013, and this night certainly didn’t disappoint. Hosted at The Mint Club, which has an impressive lighting system similar […]
Music | San Cisco – Interview
Stepping out of the leaden coldness of Cross Belgrave Street into the warm neon hue of the new Belgrave Music Hall; one knows it is a place to feel at home with its mishmash of […]
Music | Live in Leeds – Bowling For Soup, Scroobius Pip & Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit
Bowling For Soup – O2 Academy Leeds 14/10/13 You know it’s going to be an epic gig when a band has their own themed intro music (‘Here comes bowling for soup’, not imaginative lyrically but damn […]
Music | Interview – MØ
If you haven’t heard of MØ (aka Karen Marie Ørsted) yet, then you can thank us for bringing her to your attention. The Danish singer songwriter has been making waves in the blogosphere with her […]
Music | Album Review – Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire – Reflektor (3/5) Arcade Fire is back with their fourth LP, “Reflektor”. Unlike the gradual progression of their style heard across their last three albums, their latest offering is a significant departure from […]
Music | Review – Paul McCartney, Fall Out Boy & Eliza Doolittle
Paul McCartney – New (2/5) You would assume that anyone would know who they are by the age of 71, but that’s definitely not the impression formed by Paul McCartney’s most recent album New. It’s a bizarre […]