Insight » Live at Leeds Preview
Leeds is the place to be this weekend, as it gets taken over by over 150 bands across 13 venues for the annual Live at Leeds festival. If you’re going, check out our tips on what not to miss and if you’re not hurry up and grabs some tickets, real sharpish like.
Japanese Voyeurs:
Sure you’ll feel like you’re watching a pastiche of 90s MTV2 grunge rock, but when it’s this fun, who cares about influences?
Rolo Tomassi:
Their hardcore-come-prog sound might not be for everyone, it’s certainly a little alienating on record, but once you see them live it’ll all make sense, trust me.
Male Bonding:
You don’t have to be a male to enjoy Male Bonding’s punchy lo-fi pop songs, and with their debut album out soon, now’s your chance to catch a preview.
Fool’s Gold:
With eleven members covering a number of instruments and their Afro-pop sound, it might look like Notting Hill carnival went slightly off course. But you’d be real fool to miss their set.
Wolf Gang:
Wolf Gang aka, Max Elliogott’s love-tortured echoey vocals are beautifully atmospheric, while sounding suspiciously like daytime radio pop with its big uplifting simple choruses. If you can leg it over from Fool’s gold, it’ll be totally worth it.
Gold Panda:
That 9pm slot is a total nightmare, it gets real ugly from here deciding between some great acts, so be sure to tell us who you’re seeing down below, but for me it’s got to be Gold Panda. Who knows exactly how to define this London-based producer, with his startling range of samples from chopped up ragas to sombre floating piano and Dilla-styled beats. See what you want, but there’s nothing quite like Gold Panda.
Hurts:
They look like they’ve escaped from a GQ covershoot, if you can see past the slick hair and tailoring they’re actually pretty decent synth-pop.
Well that’s my few tips, but obviously there’s a hell lot more going on; so what am I missing out? What’s your most anticipated act? Holla down the comments box, people.
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9pm- my vote is for Darwin Deez.
Not sure I can go, but in the past he’s made for lots of fun. If you like smiley, happy, can’t-stop-dancing it does not get more simple than this!
Good call Sara, ‘Radar Detector’ is pure pop brilliance, maybe the best pop single so far this year. And killer tache too. He’s playing next week in the Duchess, so you could catch him then instead.
The Bacchae, The Bronx, 65daysofstatic and Invasion. Just an opinion.
RENAISSANCE DOLLS!!!