LIF19 – Plant Styles at Laynes
Thomas Chalk is all for kicking kale out of the kitchen, but found much to enjoy at his first Leeds Indie Food event of the year. Plant Styles’ entry to the Leeds Indie Food Festival programme was a sharing menu of plant-based dishes, consisting of three courses – a starter, 5 sharing plates and a […]
Less is almost more – Live at Leeds 2019
Another year, another Live at Leeds. I’ve covered this for a few years now and I’m finally getting better at pacing myself. When I first started, the temptation was to try and see as much as possible; trudging the streets of Leeds back and forth, trying my best to mentally map the quickest route from […]
L19 – Simon Anholt
I stepped in to cover this event for a colleague and I am so glad that I did. It proved to be interesting beyond my expectations and thought-provoking to the same degree. The subject was huge and worthy of a degree course in itself and so justice couldn’t be done to it in the […]
L19 – Dr John Cooper Clarke
Last night I went to my first event at Leeds International Festival 19 and it was brilliant. It was a stage show whose headliner was the redoubtable Dr John Cooper Clarke, but before he trod the boards we were treated to spoken word performances from Toria Garbutt and Mike Garry, both of whom appear regularly […]
Ellie Ingram – A Masterclass in Sass.
Sassy, now there’s a word I don’t find myself using much, but it was the first word that came to mind as Ellie Ingram walked on stage at Belgrave Music Hall for Live at Leeds. Having sadly missed her last visit to Leeds in 2018, it’s been a while since I’ve seen this girl own […]
