Live at Leeds In The City have shared the full line-up for their 17th edition taking place later this year.
Live at Leeds In The City, being held in November for the first time, will host over one-hundred artists across the West Yorkshire city’s famed independent venues, for an essential showcase of the very best in new music.
Leading the announcement is New York soft rock sibling quartet Infinity Song, alternative indie multi instrumentalist Marika Hackman and Oxford-born songwriter Willey J Healy, amongst a host of the country’s most anticipated upcoming artists completing the final lineup for this year’s festival.
They join previously announced avant-garde Manchester rockers Everything Everything, contemporary indie troupe The K’s, singer-songwriter and rising-star Alfie Templemann, rap and grime MC Casisdead, mighty Wrexhamites The Royston Club, and Leeds’ own Mercury Prize winning outfit English Teacher (main image).
Live at Leeds In The City will also mark the first hometown show for English Teacher since winning the Mercury Prize win for their critically acclaimed debut record ‘This Could Be Texas’. The band opened last year’s festival, performing at The Wardrobe to a capacity audience. Having flown the flag for the vibrant selection of artists Leeds has to offer, English Teacher return to their roots this autumn to top the bill at the award winning festival.
Committed to supporting artists in Leeds, Live at Leeds has added a number of the City’s most exciting new artists to this year’s line-up with the likes of Jellyskin, Spielmann, Claudia Fenoglio, Wolforna, Kiosk and many more.
A long-running mainstay on the Leeds cultural calendar, over several years the Live At Leeds team have built a trusted reputation for championing new music; both in discovering and nurturing national grassroots talent, and also their steadfast commitment to platforming local artists from the West Yorkshire area, handing them their very first opportunities to perform in front of capacity festival crowds.
Live at Leeds In The City will take place across a host of the City’s venues, including Leeds Beckett SU, LUU Stylus, The Brudenell Social Club, The Wardrobe, Belgrave Music Hall, Headrow House, Hyde Park Book Club, Oporto, The Key Club, Northern Guitars, Doghouse, Santiago Bar and more, with the multi-venue format offering the audience a unique opportunity to curate their own perfect day of live music.
Since its inception in 2007, Live At Leeds has showcased an impressive array of incredible artists over the years, with their cutting-edge approach bringing burgeoning talent to intimate venues in Leeds ahead of their upwards career trajectories – including Stormzy, The 1975, Wolf Alice, Lizzo, Ed Sheeran, James Blake, Kae Tempest, Mumford & Sons, AJ Tracey, Alt-J, Loyle Carner, Bombay Bicycle Club, Metronomy and more.
Announced 11 September
Infinity Song / Marika Hackman / Willie J Healy / Somebody’s Child / Moonchild Sanelly / Overpass / Heartworms / Swim School / Cardinals / The Kites / Old Mervs / Luvcat / Shambolics / Bluai / The Manatees / Koj / Keo / Yard / Alfie Castley / Lewis Fitzgerald / Slow Fiction / Disgusting Sisters / Gia Ford / Julia Wolf / Charlieeee / Finn Forster / Jasmine.4.T / Basht. / Baby Said / OneDa / Adore / Mynk / My First Time / West Side Cowboy / Phoebe Green / Beattie / Soapbox / No Windows / Esmerelda Road / Benjamin Steer / Nadia Kadek / Talia Rae / Esme Emerson / Stanleys / Bug Eyed / Slate / Kenzo Jae / Public Order / Allie Sherlock / Annika Kilkenny / Fred Roberts / Bea Stewart / Aimee & The Parade / Ain’t / Terra Twin / Tough Cookie / Sun King / Hungry / Ferester / The Pill / Daisy Veacock / Neckbreakers / Indoor Foxes / Lala Hayden / Big Sleep / Mitch Sanders / Ike Thomas / Odhran Murphy / Ruby Duff / Ten Hands High / The Jacques / Aerial Salad / Bayboards / Work In TV / Connor McGlave / Woahgetter / Aiko / The Mercians / Fake Dennis / Flat Moon / Helle / Kiosk / Lucy Robinson / Mince / Muck. / No Wukkas / Normal Village / Shrimp Eyes / Until Joy / Aimee Fatale / Claudia Fenoglio / Jellyskin / Life Aquatic Band / Runa / Silver Tongued Wascals / Spielmann / Vera Sacra / Wolforna
Previously announced
Everything Everything / The K’s / Alfie Templeman / Casisdead / The Royston Club / English Teacher / Stone / Lime Garden / Master Peace / Abby Roberts / 49th & Main / L’Objectif / Whitelands / Van Houten / Pentire / Soft Launch / Alessi Rose / Kynsy / Unpeople / Us / Trout / Freak Slug / Humour / Chloe Slater / Nectar Woode / Essence Martins / Daydreamers / Arxx / Balancing Act / Girlband! / Mould / Blossom Caldarone / Oliver Keane / Hallan / Gans /Annie-Dog / Hana Lili / Alien Chicks / Lily Lyons / Ebbb / Plantoid / The Guestlist / Joshua Epithet / The Kairos / Ben Ellis / Human Interest / Fuzz Lightyear / Gravy
Joe Hubbard (Live At Leeds festival promoter) “It’s great to reveal our full line-up for Live at Leeds in the City! I’m super happy with the artists, venues and partners who make up this poster, and having newly crowned Mercury winners English Teacher up there really tops it off. I honestly can’t wait to watch it all unfold in November, always the highlight of the year.”
Main image: English Teacher at The Wardrobe for LAL 2023. Photograph by Sam Corr.
