Leeds Festival: Saturday – Charli XCX Fontaines DC and more…..
After the relatively dry day yesterday where only spots of rain fell rather than the heavy showers and thunderstorms forecast, it’s not a surprise that we get some of those downpours today. Thankfully, it does little to dampen the spirits of the thousands who are here to party and, judging by the number of Fontaines […]
Leeds Festival – Friday: Paris Paloma, Florence + The Machine, Violet Grohl, Blossoms…..
It’s twenty years since I last came to Leeds Festival and it’s fair to say that a lot has changed in that time. The venue itself for starters: it was at Temple Newsam back in the day but has found a permanent home at Bramham Park near Wetherby since then and it seems to be […]
Westside Cowboys Instore at Jumbo Records 25th August 2026 by Kev Trotter
Instore gigs, signings and appearances aren’t a new phenomenon that have sprung up recently; there is of course a rich history of record shops and bands putting on performances together and treating fans to an intimate, smaller gig. Live album/EP shows are though definitely a growing industry trend both in terms of the record shops […]
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 […]
