Leeds
Live Review: Live At Leeds 2025. Temple Newsam, Leeds. 24.05.25
Live At Leeds In The Park. Bigger and better than ever, fast becoming an essential one-dayer
WET LEG. O2 Academy Leeds. 28.05.2025.
Wet Leg are back. Back with new singles, a new album in July and a short headline tour in venues that aren’t the size of aircraft hangers supporting megastars. With Henry Holmes, Josh Mobaraki and Ellis Durand now fully signed up band members together with Rhian Teasdale and co-founder Hester Chambers Wet Leg deliver a …
Live Review: Slam Dunk Festival 25/05/25, plus gallery
Grab your Rennies, the paracetamol and don’t forget the plasters—it’s that time of year again! Slam Dunk North 2025 has taken over Temple Newsam, bringing a full day of sweaty pits, massive singalongs and all round good vibes. Whether you were moshing your face off, screaming every word or just chilling with a heavily overpriced …
Say Psych: Live Review – The Moonlandingz @ Brudenell Social Club, Leeds 08.05.2025
The Moonlandingz have returned, seven long years after their debut. When they first emerged from Valhalla Dale they were a semi-fictional band bringing forth sticky squelchy pop songs to offer solace and punishment in the months following the Brexit vote and Trump’s first victory. Adrian Flanagan, Dean Honer and Lias Saoudi aka The Moonlandingz conspired with …
Live Review: The Lottery Winners / The Covasettes / Jonny Blade – O2 Academy, Leeds 27.02.2025
Words and photos by Phil Wright Thursday, 27th of February, took me to the Leeds O2 Academy for a night with ‘The Lottery Winners’. The Mancunian quartet just keep going from strength to strength with brilliant catchy songs and Thom Rylance holding an awesome stage presence. Thom’s humour is so on point, taking the mick …
Live Review: Circa Waves / Peace / Corella – O2 Academy, Leeds 25.02.2025
Words and photos by Alfie Dook Things have been ramping up for music in 2025, and while there are many great tours to come in the summer, some bands haven’t waited around to treat us, most noticeably for me personally and a lot of people, has been the Circa Waves Death and Love 2025 tour. …
Say Psych: Track Review: Divorce Finance – You Can’t Say Whore on the Radio
After a purge amongst the ranks, Leeds’s premium country band Divorce Finance have returned with comeback single ‘You Can’t Say Whore on the Radio’. Self-recorded on cassette between their practice room and new member Prize Pig’s bedroom (because producers keep trying to turn them into some polished ‘post-punk’ [fka Indie-Rock] product), Divorce Finance are back …
LIVE REVIEW: FAT DOG / TRUTHPASTE – PROJECT HOUSE, LEEDS 10.11.2024
Truthpaste open procedings in a venue that, even just after doors opening, is literally buzzing with excitement about tonight’s headliners. Truthpaste bring an eclectic mix of guitar, saxophone, violin, computer generated drum beats and vocals. They’re folky, poppy, jazzy, arty and completely unique. It’s doubtful you’ll hear/see/experience another live act that sound even remotely like …
Live Review: The Last Dinner Party / Lucia And The Best Boys / Kaeto – O2 Academy, Leeds 24.09.2024
There was no guessing where many people were going tonight in Leeds. The city centre was filled with glamour, with an invasion of flowy dresses, long hair tied in ribbons, and rainbow-laced Dr. Martins. Once inside, the audience was serenaded by classical and show tunes over the speakers between the acts, as tonight we have …
Live Review: Let’s Rock 80s The Retro Festival – Temple Newson, Leeds 22.06.2024
By Phil Wright Let’s set the scene. Saturday 22nd June, red hot day and 11,500 ‘party goers’ descend on Temple Newson in Leeds for a day of 80s music. What a magical day this was set to be, with a stellar line up off some of the greatest artists from the 80s. DJ Andy Crane …