The Telescopes Belgrave Music Hall 4/5 The Telescopes’ leader Stephen Lawrie and his bassist are hunched over on their knees in an agonising tension between pleasure and pain. Lawrie howls wildly and ear-splittingly into his […]
Music | Chrvches live
Chrvches Leeds Met 3/5 Since being deemed auspicious enough to reside in the top five of the BBC’s list of the most promising music talents of 2013, and with one stonking studio album under their […]
Music | Scanner live
Scanner Belgrave Music Hall 4/5 Test patterns are used when a television is receiving a signal but nothing is being broadcast, showing that any problems do not lie in the box itself. Scanner, who is […]
Music | Bombay Bicycle Club live
Bombay Bicycle Club O2 Academy 4/5 Stepping out into an impressive light show, Bombay Bicycle Club were more than comfortable in greeting a full house at Leeds’ 02 Academy. On the back of releasing their […]
Music | Eagulls live
Eagulls Brudenell Social Club 3/5 If you’re aware of Leeds’ current biggest thing, Eagulls, then it won’t surprise you that at tonight’s show there were five inflatable penises and four inflatable sex dolls. It’s not […]
Music | We Are Scientists live
We Are Scientists Stylus 4/5 Hailing from New York, indie rock band We are Scientists, currently on their world tour, played Stylus in Leeds as their third stop. They played a packed out show with […]
Music | Luke Sital-Singh live
Luke Sital-Singh Holy Trinity Church 4/5 Luke Sital-Singh – a singer-songwriter who has recently been long listed for BBC’s Sound of 2014 poll – is playing as part of the ‘New Faces’ tour. The night […]
Music | Temples live
Temples The Cockpit 4/5 Where do you think of when someone mentions psychedelia? Spiritual (if drug-fuelled) journeys to India? 1960s LA in the summer? Certainly not the small midlands town of Kettering. Yet from this […]
Music | Paper Aeroplanes live
Paper Aeroplanes Belgrave Music Hall 4/5 For soft, indie-acoustic numbers, there is a dangerously fine line between a truly captivating performance and a truly dreary one. Fortunately, last week’s performance at Belgrave by Paper Aeroplanes […]
Music | Of Montreal Live
Of Montreal Gorilla,Manchester 5/5 Kevin Barnes is so much more than a frontman, he’s the mastermind behind of Montreal’s 12 albums, the centre around which every aspect of the band orbits. He has the seductive […]
Music | Warpaint Live
Warpaint O2 Academy Wednesday February 19 Sanctimonious music snobs like me will rage that good music has the power to evoke incandescent sensations. Warpaint’s sound, indebted to the astral majesty of shoegazers Slowdive, krautrock rhythm […]
Music | Interview – Noya Rao
Leeds three-piece Noya Rao blew the audience away with a stunning performance supporting Shigeto at the Belgrave Music Hall last month. LSi caught up with keyboardist and producer Tom Henry after the show to find […]