In Conversation With Drenge – Live at Leeds 2019
Jim Phelps chats to Eoin from Drenge after their Live at Leeds performance, as another Festival band, Marsicans, start to shake the room below. Jim How’s it going? Eoin It’s good, yeah. It’s weird because we spoke to you before our last one in Leeds and now after this one. They are two totally different […]
Leeds Indie Food Festival – Our Pick of Events Still to Come
Leeds Indie Food Festival 19 is now well under way and the events so far, such as Somme v Cicerone at Bundobust, LIF19 Collaboration Menu at Fettle, Little Bao Boys Beer Launch at North Brew Co Leeds Taproom and Plant Styles x Laynes at Laynes Espresso, have all been a resounding success. A review of […]
Kate Tempest – Exhausting, Thrilling and Emotionally Ravaging
The genius of spoken word artist and Brit Award winner Kate Tempest lies in how masterfully her work marries the personal and the political, micro and macro. Her solo performances are cinematic; panning outwards to survey the whole of society’s frivolities and failings through a wide-angled lens, then zooming close up on a shared moment […]
L19 – The Changing Face of UK Film and TV
Say what you like about the Leeds International Festival but they do get some amazing contributors. Last night I attended my third L19 event this year, a discussion on The Changing Face of the UK Film and TV Industry hosted by the BBC presenter Terry Christian. He can justifiably be named as one of those […]
L19 – Sport 2.0
After speaking to Amy Williams MBE, I was intrigued to learn more about how technology is used in sport to enhance performance. So, on behalf of Leeds Living, I attended ‘Sport 2.0’, one of the events being held as part of the Leeds International Festival. This full-day conference, hosted by Professor Greg Whyte, promised […]
