Leeds Festival

Pulled Apart by Horses in first wave of bands for Live at Leeds festival

Taking place over the bank holiday on April 29th to 1st May 2011 with none other than Leeds’ own Pulled Apart by Horses, The Duke Spirit and Anna Calvi being the first of many bands to be announced and more to come over the next few weeks.

In its fifth year, Live at Leeds has quickly become an institution in the Leeds calendar taking place in 11 venues. This year we welcome the O2 Academy to the vast array of venues including The Brudenell Social Club, The Cockpit, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds University, Nation of Shopkeepers, Holy Trinity Church, The Well and The Faversham.

The Unconference will happen on Friday 29th April which will feature guest speakers which is being organized in partnership with Leeds University and Leeds Metropolitan University. Saturday sees the multi-venue wristband event and Sunday details are to be announced soon.

The first wave of Live At Leeds 2011 bands;

Pulled Apart By Horses, Anna Calvi, The Duke Spirit, Aloe Blacc, Young Knives, Slow Club, Cocknbullkid, The Chapman Family, The Whip, Kassidy, Trophy Wife, Spark, Tribes, Fixers, Yaaks, Cloud Control, Swimming, Kong, Dutch Uncles, Cosmo Jarvis, Katzenjammer, Lanterns on the Lake, Cloud Control, 2:54, Gabrielle Aplin, All The Young, The Lines, Marcus Foster, Still Corners, Starlings, Young Legionnaire, Various Cruelties, Findlay, Films, Sissy and the Blisters, Polarsets, Foreign Office, Tall Ships, Stalking Horse, These Monsters, Wot Gorilla?, Castrovalva, Double Muscle, Aviaries, Love at Death Beach, Hail Animator, Sam Airey, Maggie8, Circles, Soul Circus, Little Parades, Milk White White Teeth, Club Smith, Runaround Kids, Insect Guide, Blacklisters, Loose Talk Costs Lives, Escort Knights, Yonderboy, Just Handshake’s We’re British, Honour Before Glory, Blood Oranges, Adult Jazz and Arthur Rigby and the Baskervylles plus more artists and special guests to be announced over the next few weeks.

For only two shows The Libertines reunite for Reading

THE LIBERTINES reunite for their only two shows anywhere in the world. The band will be receiving ‘around £1.5million’ for the performance. THE LIBERTINES came to prominence at the onset of the noughties and it’s fitting that this year’s Reading and Leeds Festival will see in the new decade with a performance from one the most important British bands of the past twenty years. The Libertines are to reform after years of speculation to play Reading and Leeds Festival as the original four-piece with duel vocalists and guitarists Carl Barat and Peter Doherty, drummer Gary Powell and bassist John Hassall. The band gave the world a kick in the proverbials, they played their own game, their own way, by their own rules and consequently paved the way for plenty of imitators but never equals. They split in 2004 and Carl Barat went off and formed Dirty Pretty Things with Peter Doherty doing likewise with his Babyshambles ensemble. These, their Only Shows Worldwide are unmissable for any music fan. www.thelibertines.org.uk

A hero with a thousand favours hits the streets of the UK .

Leeds Festival gets its own ‘Favour Man’ A hero with a thousand favours hits the streets of the UK . A locksmith, first-aider, newsagent, beautician and haberdasher all wrapped in one, ‘Favour Man- a professional, 24 hour Good Samaritan will be hitting the streets and UK festivals to provide help to all those in need of a favour. Created by v, the National Young Volunteers Service, Favour Man will be equipped Continue reading →