7/9/2013 Thousands are in attendance for Leonard Cohen’s debut performance at Leeds’ First Direct Arena. As the band assume their position on stage, Cohen, now 78, runs on and adopts a posture reminiscent of a […]
New club Control announces line ups
With a capacity of 3000+, newcomer to the Leeds club scene Control appears to be a project created with the super clubs of Ibiza in mind, and this seems to be reflected in the famous […]
Music | Catching up with The Cribs at Derbyshire's Y Not festival
Ahead of a performance now deemed one of their best ever, LS newspaper spoke to The Cribs about music’s digital age, new ventures and why it’s not always so great being in one of Britain’s […]
The Warehouse Announce their Autumn and Winter line ups
The Leeds club which re-opened its doors back in 2010 has announced details of its line ups for the coming months. Spanning a broad range of the dance music spectrum, the club continue with a bookings […]
Review: Latitude 2013 – Saturday
Along with the Rolling Stones headlining Glastonbury, Kraftwerk’s 3D show at Latitude has been one of the most anticipated festival slots of 2013. The German band did a huge amount in the mid to late […]
Preview: Beacons Festival
The northern festival scene has long been dominated by the rowdy, colossally large and less than intimate Leeds Festival. However, in recent years there has been a rise in smaller independent festivals such as Beacons. […]
Maximo Park – The National Health
Why did they go away for so long?! Frontman Paul Smith may have proclaimed that not releasing his solo album <em>Margins</em> would have lead him to craziness, but bringing that string of indie dancefloor fillers […]
Summer Camp – Always EP
I wish I could be in Summer Camp. Lack of musical ability and pessimism preventing me from being near ‘lovely’ enough aside, the reality is that I’d never (ever) be able to pull off that […]
Interview: Tim Booth (James)
Tim Booth – would-be actor, spiritualist, husband, father, though you probably know him (if at all) as that crazy dancing hippy who fronts the band James. You’ve heard of them, right? No..? They sing ‘Sit […]
Review: Live At Leeds 2013
This annual city-wide music festival gets more prestigious as time goes by. While attention is inevitably paid to the bigger and more established acts there’s always a chance that, if you play your cards right, […]