Hyde Park Book Club – Hosting Events at Leeds Lit Fest
HydePark Book Club is hosting a series of events at this, the second year of Leeds Lit Fest. Here’s a flavour: 4 March in the snug – Say It With Your Chest have for two years delivered a variety of words-led events, including workshops and featured poets. For Leeds Lit Fest, it’s back to the […]
The 1975 – at First Direct Arena on 17 February
Hailing originally from Wilmslow and now based in Manchester, The 1975 will release their fourth album ‘Notes on a conditional form’ on 21 February, just after their appearance at Leeds First Direct Arena on 17 February, part of their latest UK tour. The band’s genre has been described as pop rock, although there has been […]
The Turn of The Screw – at Leeds Grand Theatre on 15 February
Opera North’s groundbreaking trailer for this spine-chilling tale explores the creative potential for immersive storytelling through digital technology. The trailer is the result of a collaboration between creative studio Lusion, composer James Bulley, Audio Lab at York University – and the Orchestra and Chorus of Opera North. Bringing together spatial recordings made at Yorkshire Sculpture Park […]
William Doyle at Headrow House on 19 February
William Doyle used to record under East India Youth and received the Mercury prize nomination in 2014. Under his own name, he released his first album ‘Your Wilderness Revisited’ in November 2019. The album’s theme is British suburban life, inspired by personal experience…..although he eventually saw more than stereotypes, realising something much more revealing. Your […]
David Wax Museum – at Oporto on 4 February
The sound of husband and wife vocal harmonies will fill Oporto on 4 February, along with the Mexican stringed instruments, melodic hooks and blasts of brass of David Wax Museum’s latest record, Line of Light. The album refocuses on the band’s two co-founders, weaving the personal with the political, the global with the spiritual, chronicling […]
