Westside Cowboy – It Goes On
There seems to have been an inevitability about Westside Cowboy from the get-go. Thankfully, it has seen them harness that rolling upward trajectory and deliver an incredibly accomplished debut album that does justice to their release journey and live shows so far. It felt inevitable because since forming in 2023, Jimmy Bradbury (vocals, guitar), Reuben […]
Sisters: at Wharf Chambers on Wednesday 29 July
Five-piece band Sisters use their post-punk, gothic-darkness to light up the midweek in Leeds, with a confident and bewitching set at Wharf Chambers. It’s a hard grind for a lot of new bands when you first set out on a career in music in this country; the finances of running a band on the smaller […]
Alastair Clark: On The Record Comedy Gig at The Vinyl Whistle, Headingley on 30 May
When you think of comedy gigs, a record store in a suburb out of the centre of Leeds doesn’t necessarily spring to mind as the most obvious setting on the face of things. The Vinyl Whistle in Headingley though isn’t a standard record shop. Since moving to its new premises around the Covid period and […]
Art School Girlfriend @Brudenell Social Club Community Room with Kloyd on 15th April
Polly Mackey (Art School Girlfriend) has come a long way from her first show at the Brudenell Social Club in 2018, to a busy headline gig in the Community Room tonight. Aside from the obvious changes in her offstage relationships, at the time with then headliner Japanese House (Amber Bain) which now sees her married […]
Gorillaz: at first direct bank arena Leeds on 25 March
Midweek arena gigs don’t scream party time on the face of it. In particular, those that have twelve songs from the latest album, an album which is based around the two key components losing their fathers recently. While the twenty-four-song set may have plucked half of it from the recent, critically acclaimed album ‘The Mountain’, […]
