Review: Private Empire, YouVee, Hardware…. Arches Social on 29 November
What better way to spend a Saturday night than supporting your local scene? Last weekend, I had the absolute privilege of swinging by one of the new hotspots for community, The Arches Social. Based down Brussels Street, a stone’s throw away from the Corn Exchange, this volunteer-run nonprofit started up this past summer with the […]
Live at Leeds in The City 15 November 2025
Three years ago, I was invited to check out what the hoopla was about when it came to Live at Leeds: In The City. A line-up with a massive variety of lesser known or unsigned talents, all of which I didn’t know for the most part, it turned out to be a warm spell in […]
Leeds Festival 2025 @ Bramham Park…Saturday 23 August
What began as a humble jazz gathering in the year 1955 became perhaps the leading force in the United Kingdom’s entertainment calendar. From humble beginnings as the Beaulieu Jazz Festival, catered out of Reading, the past fifty years have been marked by a wild and rapid transformation. Over the decades, it ascended into a rite […]
Fast Money Music: at The Wardrobe, Leeds, on Saturday, 5 July 2025
You get in, you get out – that’s how you make money fast. With a quick getaway, Fast Money Music came, they saw….. and then drove The Wardrobe into a frenzy on a summer’s night in the City. From the San Francisco Bay Area, Nick Hinman has often had visions of a platform in which […]
Live at Leeds: In The Park 2025 – Temple Newsam, Leeds, West Yorkshire – Saturday May 24. Part 3
I’ve been privileged with the virtue of covering Live at Leeds In The City two times in recent years. This summer presented a new opportunity. It has been truly something to have championed the uprising channel of artists breaking through the glass ceiling. It’s been affirming to see artists such as Wunderhorse, Kid Kapichi, Pigs […]
