Author: Adam Graver
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Live: The Amazons – Key Club, Leeds
Towards the end of 2018, one of the most beautiful shows I’ve been at, to date, took place at the Brudenell Social Club. The Amazons played to a sell-out crowd in support of Joe Glew, a young man who died from Leukaemia, not long before the show. It was a…
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Live: White Lies – O2 Academy, Leeds
It seems like an age ago that the gloomy, dark, To Lose My Life was released by London band White Lies. In 2009 they were a band that seemed set on creating dark post-punk sounds and their debut charted at Number 1 in the UK Charts in some style. Ten years on, the band…
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Y Not Festival releases first names on bumper lineup: White Lies, Anteros, Sea Girls, YMA6
Y Not Festival returns with the UK’s biggest indie line-up of 2019, featuring rising stars alongside a range of musical icons. Crossing the Peaks to kick things off are local legends, Elbow. The critically-lauded Mancunian band, lead by frontman Guy Garvey, are known for their beautifully soaring anthems such as…
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Truck Festival Announces First Wave of Artists: Don Broco, YMA6, Foals
From July 25th – 28th, Truck Festival will once again return to its beloved Hill Farm in Steventon for the 22nd edition of the UK’s longest running and most cherished small festival. This year Truck is thrilled to welcome local legends Foals back to Hill Farm – twelve years on from their last appearance…
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Stereophonics join Foals and Noel Gallagher at This Is Tomorrow
Welsh rock royalty Stereophonics will be joining Noel Gallagher and Foals as headliners for this year’s eagerly anticipated event. Led by the enigmatic Kelly Jones, one of the UK’s most prolific singer-songwriters, the band will perform on the festival’s new site of Exhibition Park on Sunday 26th May. Stereophonics’ This is Tomorrow date follows the band’s 2017 gold-certified album ‘Scream Above The…
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Live at Leeds adds over 80 acts to lineup: The Snuts, Spinn, The Sherlocks included
Renowned as the unrivalled home of music discovery, scooping awards and plaudits across the board as a springboard for the latest and greatest new talent – Live At Leeds returns in 2019 with the definitive new music lineup of the year, bringing together the bands and artists primed to soundtrack…
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Tramlines Festival Reveals Phase 1 Line Up: Sea Girls, Lewis Capaldi, Oddity Road, Easy Life
Sheffield’s biggest ever party,Tramlines Festival, has announced the first wave of acts to play its 11th edition from Friday 19th – Sunday 21st July at Hillsborough Park. Headliners include Two Door Cinema Club (Friday), Courteeners (Saturday) and Nile Rodgers & Chic (Sunday), plus a slew of other top talent in the form of Manic Street…
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50 Acts added to Reading and Leeds Lineup – Circa Waves, Wombats, Frank Carter
Reading and Leeds Festival has today lifted the lid on another fifty acts who will play at this year’s event – with chart heavyweights Charli XCX, Royal Blood (UK festival exclusive), CHVRCHES, Lil Uzi Vert, Enter Shikari, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes (UK festival exclusive), Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals (UK festival exclusive) and You Me…
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Kendal Calling Announces Huge 2019 Lineup: Courteeners / Gerry Cinammon / IDLES
After selling out for thirteen years in a row, the UK’s most picturesque festival announces another huge lineup for2 019. Courteeners, Doves, Manic Street Preachers, NileRodgers & Chic and Orbital will headline a four-day weekend of music, arts, comedy, food and drink in the Lake District’s Lowther Deer Park between 25th – 28th July. Courteeners have a new album on the horizon…
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Live: The Wombats – First Direct Arena, Leeds
It’s 2019 – 12 years since the release of The Wombats’ debut record A Guide To Love Loss and Desperation and what a rollercoaster of a career it has been so far for the Liverpool indie-rockers. Saturday night saw the band headline their first arena show in Leeds, marking a huge step for the band, signalling a…
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Single Review: VENUS – Deranged
It’s not often I get genuinely “blown away” by debut singles. On the whole they’re often safe, just a glimmer of a band’s real potential and don’t really sound too ambitious. It’s not often I swear in my reviews either – it just isn’t professional – but that being said…how…
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Wombats Live Show: First Direct Arena – 26th January – SOLD OUT
The Wombats are about to embark on their highest profile and biggest UK headline tour to date. Six huge shows across the isles, including a night at Leeds’ First Direct Arena this Saturday, will see the 2019 tour further cement the band’s meteoric rise to one of the country’s biggest guitar acts.…
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Isle of Wight Announces First Wave: Noel Gallagher, Biffy Clyro and George Ezra to headline
FIRST ACTS ANNOUNCED FOR THE ISLE OF WIGHT FESTIVAL 2019 The incredible Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds headline the opening night of The Isle of Wight Festival 2019, returning to the Festival for the first time since 2012. Chart-topping British singer-songwriter George Ezra will headline the Main Stage on Saturday…
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This Feeling Big in 2019: BUTE
Of the vast list of artists This Feeling chose to be in their Big in 2019 list, one I hadn’t come across prior to the names being announced, was Welsh indie band BUTE. Hailing from Cardiff, the four piece are a band that seemingly have a range of influences from…
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Live at Leeds Festival – Exclusive Line-up reveal show
LIVE AT LEEDS FESTIVALANNOUNCE ‘EXCLUSIVE 2019 LINE-UP REVEAL’ SHOW – THU 31 JANUARY 2019 – LIVE AT LEEDS FESTIVAL is to reveal another 60+ artists of its 2019 line up at a special launch show later this month. In proud association with Independent Venue Week, the ‘Exclusive Line Up Reveal’ event will take place…
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Feature: Kilnsey Green
Yorkshire is a region thriving right now when it comes to new music and fresh artists experimenting with styles and genres. Leeds is a hotbed for bands and solo artists, York is producing some fine young talent, and an emerging area of West Yorkshire, is without doubt Bradford and Bingley,…
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Interview: Jack Perrett
Writing a series of features focusing on all the great artists This Feeling have picked to make it “Big in 2019” is a ridiculously exciting plan and one that has already led me to speaking with some of the great musicians in their long list of 30. One of the…
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Single Review Sounds like a Storm – Law and Order
2018 was, to put it simply, an incredible year for Leeds band Sounds like a Storm. With a slot on the NME stage at Reading and Leeds Festivals a major highlight for Sennen Ludman and co, the Yorkshire four piece are fast becoming the band to watch from the big city. Their latest…
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News: Rifffest 2019 adds Adore // Repel to lineup
LEEDS LENDING ROOM | SATURDAY 26 JANUARY 2019 | 5pm – 11pm Following the recent announcement of Brooders Presents … RIFFFEST, the band’s first one-day festival celebrating the best and the brightest that the Yorkshire, Humberside and Lancashire areas can bring for a feast of riffs for all to come…
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Live: Razorlight, O2 Academy, Leeds
Fresh from the release of Johnny Borrell’s bands’ first studio record in 10 years, we headed to Leeds to see how the new tracks of today held up with the indie classics of yesteryear. Olympus Sleeping was released in October giving fans plenty of time to get familiar with the new songs…
The Setlist & The Script 