Leeds Festival: Night 1 – Thursday
Thursday night at Leeds Festival proved to be a seriously strong way to open the weekend, on the new flagship stage, The Grid. The Lathums set the tone before Kasabian took over and delivered a headline performance packed with nostalgia, energy and plenty of big moments. The Lathums brought their familiar blend of heartfelt indie […]
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 […]
Exploding Flowers: at The Lending Room on 12 August 2026
The Great British summertime. Much like recent warmer days, Leeds has sagged beneath a 30-degree heat dome. But inside The Lending Room on a particularly muggy Wednesday evening in Woodhouse, the air was thicker still: part sauna, part greenhouse, but exactly the right conditions for Exploding Flowers to bloom. I was first acquainted with Exploding […]
The Maccabees, Everything Everything, Maxïmo Park: at Kirkstall Abbey on 31 July
The Maccabees prove some reunions really are worth the wait. Some bands return because the timing feels right. Others return because the demand is impossible to ignore. Watching The Maccabees close their summer run beneath the spectacular ruins of Kirkstall Abbey, it felt like neither. This was five musicians rediscovering the chemistry that made them […]
