Leeds Gigs in January 2020

The Big Moon The Big Moon have announced details of a run of in-store (and out-store!) events to coincide with the release of their second album, Walking Like We Do, which is due 10th January via Fiction Records, and a support tour with Bombay Bicycle Club also set for the new year.  The Big Moon will head to Leeds’ Crash Records @ […]

The DARE Art Prize – Applications Close on 30 January

Opera North and the University of Leeds recently announced the Third DARE Art Prize, which challenges artists and scientists to collaborate on new approaches to the creative process. The £15,000 prize is part of a groundbreaking partnership between the University and Opera North, in association with the National Science and Media Museum and The Tetley, […]

Music and Poetry at Hyde Park Book Club on 16 December

Skint & Demoralised,  a West Yorkshire post-punk band, returns to Hyde Park Book Club for what will be their last gig of the decade. Earlier this year, they made their first appearance in 6 years with their comeback single ‘Boro Kitchen 4am’.  It was released on 29 March, the original date for the UK’s divorce […]

80s Classical With the Orchestra of Opera North returns on 24 July

It was joyous last year and it will be spectacularly so on 24 July 2020, with the 60-piece Orchestra of Opera North being joined in person by some of the chart-topping artists of the 1980s at 80s Classical.  Jimmy Somerville, Belinda Carlisle, Go West and T’Pau’s Carol Decker will be there as 80s Classical returns […]

Night of The Living Dead

imitating the dog and Leeds Playhouse are co-producing Night of The Living Dead – Remix.  It’s a unique shot-for-shot recreation of the 1968 zombie movie. Night of The Living Dead began as a low-budget, independent horror film, telling the tale of seven strangers who take refuge from flesh-eating ghouls in an isolated farmhouse.  51 years […]