The second part of our November selection.
LYRA at First Direct Arena on 22 November
Rising pop talent LYRA has released her brand new single “29 Box”, out now via Rubyworks Label. Watch the video here. She supports Westlife on their UK arena tour this winter.
LYRA is enjoying success with “Edge of Seventeen“, which achieved over 1 million streams across all platforms, garnered 28.5m global radio impacts, hit Top 10 in the official UK commercial dance charts and held 14 weeks on the Irish National airplay charts and 13 weeks on the Top 10 Irish Homegrown charts.
HOLLY HUMBERSTONE at 02 Academy on 23 November
Holly released her critically acclaimed second EP The Walls Are Way Too Thin, last year, Holly has become the UK’s next great songwriting talent, with over 260M global streams. Nominated for the Ivor Novello Rising Star Award 2021 and 2022, as well as being chosen as YouTube’s next Artist On The Rise and Deezer’s Focus artist after coming runner up in the BBC Sound of 2021.
YARD ACT 24 November at 02 Academy
Yard Act have built a sound that speaks inherently to their birthplace of Leeds, West Yorkshire and ties together observations from all walks of modern British life. Across the course of 2020 and into early 2021, the quartet released four increasingly coruscating, hilariously dark singles with ‘The Trapper’s Pelts’, ‘Fixer Upper’, ‘Peanuts’ and ‘Dark Days’ all securing BBC 6 Music airplay, and developing a remarkable, ever-increasing fanbase. Pulling off a debut album in a pandemic isn’t easy, but Yard Act made it work with their debut album The Overload receiving 4* reviews from the likes of NME & The Guardian.
FLORENCE + THE MACHINE at First Direct Arena on 25 November
Florence + the Machine released her 5th studio album Dance Fever, earlier this year, hitting the number 1 spot in the UK charts on release, marking her fourth album to achieve this feat.
PLACEBO at 02 Academy on 30 November
25 years and 13 million album sales have seen Placebo examine the human conditions, for all its flaws and all its beauty.
Cover photograph: Leeds’ Yard Act Credit Phoebe Fox.
