Leeds Lit Fest Wins Best Literary Festival

Leeds Lit Fest has won Best Literary Festival in the Saboteur Awards 2020. The Festival took place on Wednesday 4 March – Sunday 8 March, with over 100 events in 35 venues across the City and with over 5,000 people attending. Sabotage Reviews set up the Saboteur Awards in 2011 to raise the profile of […]

Leeds International Festival – L20

L20  was scheduled for the end of April, running on into May, with the overarching theme ‘Generation Future’.  The deferred dates at the time of writing have not been decided. Organisers hope Generation Future will act as a catalyst for response, in other words, that applicants will ponder on what this means to people in […]

Review: inner city electronic 2020

Eleven venues, a mind-blowing fifty-one artists – and you love and want to see 90% of them.  Where do you even start?!  When Inner City Electronic Festival lands in Leeds it is beautifully VAST!  We have a great deal to thank RalphLawson for, not just his two decades of loyal service to electronic underground dance […]

Leeds Lit Fest – Adventure Walk 2020

The 2020 edition of Leeds Lit Fest is in full swing. The festival, which runs from March 4th to March 8th, promises to be unlike any other literature festival in the UK.  It offers unusual and unexpected events, exciting and enlightening exhibitions and wonderful writing workshops across the City. The 100 plus events on offer […]

Cocktails in The City

Cocktails in The City took residency at Leeds Town Hall this weekend. I experienced my first cocktail festival late Friday afternoon. Luckily, I made some notes.  Feeling very small, I walked into the town hall greeted by the King of Organs standing powerful like a doorway into heaven. Colour-changing lighting illuminated the hall, giving it […]