Live Review: Stiff Little Fingers – O2 Academy Leeds, 23.03.23
Punk is alive and well in Leeds as Stiff Little Fingers bring their Everyone Is Someone tour to town. The Northern Irish legends have been a mainstay in the punk scene for over four decades and they proved that their music still packs a punch. They know exactly what the crowd expects and they deliver …
Live Review: Rianne Downey – Oporto, Leeds. 19.03.23
Scottish singer-songwriter Rianne Downey enchanted a sold out Oporto in Leeds last night with her intricately crafted songbook and sweet but confident performance. Downey’s music draws on a wide variety of influences – at once conjuring up the sounds of Amy Winehouse, Fleetwood Mac, as well as the likes of Flyte and Taylor Swift. It …
Live Review: Cassyette – Stylus, Leeds. 15.03.23
It’s only been a few months since I last saw Cassyette rocking the smallest room in the Leadmill in Sheffield, and since then, the Essex-born rock pioneer has been on a meteoric trajectory. November 2022 saw the release of the acclaimed mixtape Sad Girl with anthemic singles like Mayhem and September Rain showing exactly what …
Meet: Inspiral Carpets’ Graham Lambert, on the eve of their tour and album
It’s 4pm, and I meet Graham Lambert, via Zoom, at his mum’s house in Oldham, the same place she lived (and Graham grew up) in the 1980s. He’s comfortably positioned at what looks like the kitchen table, “where we wrote a lot of the songs in the early days and started the band”. Lambert, despite …
Live Review: Courtney Marie Andrews – Leeds, 01.03.23
The trip to the Brudenell to see Courtney Marie Andrews was a last minute and unexpected one for me. But it was a brilliantly welcome one. Touring her new Loose Future record, and kicking the whole trip off in Leeds, this was a consummate performance, one of an artist that thoroughly warrants her Grammy nomination …
Live Review: Soup! – The Key Club, Leeds. 21.02.23
Supporting Hotel Lux on Tuesday night at Leeds’ Key Club, rising Manchester band Soup! brought their particular brand of post punk to a small but appreciative audience. The room was a little sparsely populated, and the openers – local post-punk 5 piece outfit Mince – hadn’t managed to ignite the venue despite a sterling effort …
Live Review: Kid Kapichi, Brudenell Social Club Leeds, 07.02.23
It was a cool northern air that blew a lot of people into the Brudenell, but even they can’t have expected the heat that the 3 headline-level bands generated over the course of the ensuing 3 hours. Monakis lit the fire with their brand of grunge-punk, rattling through their catalogue with an intensity and energy …
Live Review: The Subways – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds. 16.01.23
Welwyn Garden City’s indie-rock trio The Subways kicked off their UK tour at Leeds’ Brudenell Social Club with a high energy show in support of their fifth studio album Uncertain Joys. Critically well-received, it’s their first album in 8 years, and you can sense the desire to get back on the road and in front …
Live Review: Holly Humberstone – Leeds O2 Academy, 23.11.22
There’s a real buzz in the O2 Academy in Leeds. Last time Holly Humberstone headlined a tour in Leeds, she played solo to around 400 fans at the Brudenell Social Club. Since that night, things have really taken off for the 22 year-old singer-songwriter, with US headline tours and support slots for Olivia Rodrigo and …
News: Aoife Nessa Frances kicks off UK tour in support of new album Protector
Irish artist Aoife Nessa Frances kicked off her UK tour on Tuesday at Brudenell Social Club in Leeds. It’s in support of her second album Protector which dropped on 28 October, along with the latest single Chariot, the fourth from this sophomore offering. The floating sonics of Chariot is about the powerful testament to the strength …