Monthly Archives: February 2012

Nation of Shopkeepers Associated Festival : Beacons 2012 – First Acts Announced – New Site

Share The Nation of Shopkeepers associated festival Beacons, in the Yorkshire Dales, announced the initial acts this morning, including Roots Manuva, Ghospoet, Junior Boys, Factory Floor and Shopkeepers DJs! Buy tickets at the link below, and if you have a Regulars Card you can get a discount. They’re also doing an ace deposit scheme!   We’re really excited to see [...]

No Bones

[ April 14, 2012; ] 10pm - late / Free Entry Our famous resident party, nothing pretentious - Expect to hear Azealia Banks / Tyler the Creator / M83 / Battles / Tom Vek / LCD Soundsystem / Friends / Caribou / Death Grips / Chairlift / Big K.R.I.T / Toro Y Moi / Washed Out / M.I.A / Frank [...]

Pale Seas, Arbeia and The Spirit of John – live on Wednesday 7th March

Share   A lovely night of weird folky stuff with three smashing acts. Expect hear lots of hushed whispering and open toes sandles, most likely there’ll be some beard action going on too.   Click play above to listen to ‘Sleeping’ by Pale Seas.   paleseas.com

Dutch Uncles – live on Thursday 8th March

Share Click play above to watch the video for ‘Face In’ by Dutch Uncles.   Dutch Uncles need no introduction to Leeds, they have the winning formula of great disjointed pop songs ala Josef K, ESG and the jerky playfulness of Friendly Fires or The Maccabees, this is their SXSW warm up so come down and feel free [...]

Willis Earl Beal – live on March 3rd

Share   Recently signed to XL Recrdings label Hot Charity, Willis will be doing a handful of low key UK shows, this is his first trip to the UK so its his first time in Leeds. Expect him to be quite the buzz this summer!   Willisearlbeal.com

G/A/M/E T/I/M/E

[ April 13, 2012; ] 10pm – 3am / Free Entry Game Time has already cemented its size 13 Nike Dunks into Leeds clubbing mythology by being the quickest night to be ripped off by every other promoter. This is the original and number one Game Time with free Kool Aid and Fried Chicken. Expect Crunk, Hyphy, Dirty Hip Hop and [...]

Runaround Kids

[ April 11, 2012; ] 8.30pm / Free Entry Runaround Kids / Plus Guests George Garthwaite, Jack Winn and Rob Burnell are Wakefield's Runaround Kids. They play fast and have gained a strong following across the North for their live shows, including support slots with Jeffrey Lewis and Dinosaur Pile-up. Their first EP Kiss Chase was released on Philophobia Music last year [...]

Got Games Easter Special

[ April 8, 2012; ] 4pm DJs / 7pm Quiz / £1 per person / 9pm Films We’re excited to bring you our new weekly quiz hosted by Leeds’ very own Alister Tant (DJ of the year 2011). Its £1 per person to take part, there’ll be good prizes of beer and rubbish prizes of £1 pound shop tat, just depends [...]

Capture The Flag

[ April 7, 2012; ] 10pm – late / Free Entry Ben and Barrie sip tea and spin modern indie American classics such as Of Montreal, Arcade Fire, The Decemberists, Pixies, Pavement, Postal Service, Royal Trux, Elliott Smith, Afghan Whigs, Lemonheads, Beck, Bikini Kill, Yo La Tengo.

Push It

[ April 6, 2012; ] 10pm – 3am / Free Entry The return of the trigger finger flexing unpretentious Hip Hop night thats gonna be throwing out stuff like Jay-Z, Run DMC, Kanye, Grandmaster Flash, Nas, De La Soul and anything aimed to make your legs move. Free fist pumping and high fives all night.

No Bones

[ March 31, 2012; ] 10pm – late / Free Entry Our famous resident party, nothing pretentious - Expect to hear Azealia Banks / Tyler the Creator / M83 / Battles / Tom Vek / LCD Soundsystem / Friends / Caribou / Death Grips / Chairlift / Big K.R.I.T / Toro Y Moi / Washed Out / M.I.A / Frank [...]

WELUVMUSIC Presents

[ March 30, 2012; ] 9pm / free entry Breton / Troumaca / Plus Guests Weluvmusic present a special one off party with hotly tipped act Breton who just came off tour with Ghostpoet and have had a radar pice on NME recently, they sound a little bit Foals, a little bit Battles a little bit Tom Vek. The party starts at [...]

LIMN – The Art Party

[ March 28, 2012; ] 9pm / Free Entry Come along and drink, dance and draw. 8ft visual illustrations done by guests artists every month. Plus forward thing electronica and digital music. limnlimnlimn.co.uk