{"id":815,"date":"2010-05-03T22:17:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T21:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/?p=815"},"modified":"2010-05-03T22:17:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T21:17:48","slug":"live-at-leeds-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/?p=815","title":{"rendered":"Live At Leeds 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

So the weekend just gone I spent pretty much all day ambling round Leeds from one venue to another drinking grog and watching live music as part of the annual Live At Leeds<\/a> festival.\u00a0 With 170 bands across 13 venues it was always going to be difficult trying to catch all the bands we wanted to see whilst minimising the traipse.\u00a0 An out of town start with a city centre finish seemed the most sensible approach so with that in mind (and with a modicum of hometown duty) we began the day with a couple of Wakefield bands at The Packhorse<\/a>.\u00a0 Support your local noisemakers and all that.\u00a0 First up were The Spills<\/a>.\u00a0 Their Pavement with a Yorkshire twang drew in a decent sized crowd and didn’t fail to impress.\u00a0 Set highlights, Faux Pas Ha Ha and Holiday with it’s Milligan-esque nonsense chorus ensured a bright start to the day.\u00a0 Buy their stuff on iTunes<\/a> (or don’t.\u00a0 You’re the consumer after all).\u00a0 A quick ale refill was followed by 6 piece Piskie Sits<\/a> who played a blinder.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Frontman Craig was certainly up for it.\u00a0 Beer in hand, chatting about girlfriend trouble, the blossom trees, thinly veiled barbs on the promoters and the promise to be drunk by the time the later set at Escobar comes round he (and the rest of the band for that matter) still delivered a quality performance.\u00a0 Fans of Dinosaur Jr and the aforementioned Pavement are encouraged to check them out at The Well<\/a> on 22nd May.\u00a0 Tell them I sent you and watch them say “Who the fuck is Sull?” as they don’t actually know me.<\/p>\n

After a fueling up with a dessicated cheeseburger over the road in The Library<\/a> we peregrinated to the Faversham for final local lads, New Vinyl<\/a>.\u00a0 Things didn’t start too great with Danny having to work his way through close to 25 microphones before finally finding one which worked for the entire set to be plagued by sound gremlins.\u00a0 I blame the sound engineer.\u00a0 He was ginger.\u00a0 Anyway, the lads soldiered on nonetheless and even with feedback which would kill a cow it’s hard to suppress songs like Stephanie<\/a>.\u00a0 A quick walk down to Leeds Uni Refectory to catch The Bronx meant we caught part of self proclaimed “riff-bastards” These Monsters<\/a>, who quite rightly were fucked off at having to perform in front of an Hadouken banner despite them not being on until after 4 bands and in 5hrs time.\u00a0 Anyway, Hadouken don’t have to balls to combine saxophone, metal riffs and screaming like These Monsters did so they can knackers.\u00a0 The Bronx<\/a> followed with a full on hardcore punk attack which blew my brothers mind to smithereens.\u00a0 Play them<\/a> to your Gran.\u00a0 Trust me, she’ll love them.<\/p>\n

The next intended band were Egyptian Hip Hop at The Cockpit but one them had the squits or somesuch so instead we watched the first few from Shakinouts<\/a>.\u00a0 Despite the wanky name they weren’t half bad albeit in a typical british indie band kind of way.\u00a0 Faint praise?\u00a0 Make your own mind up eh.\u00a0 Then it was on to Manchester’s Everything Everything<\/a>.\u00a0 Already tipped as one of the sounds of 2010 in the BBC’s annual poll<\/a> these guys do seem to be trying something other than the aforementioned typical cookie cutter indie band.\u00a0 The falsetto vocals, syncopated beats, electro tinged, art school nods might be a bit much for some, pretentious perhaps, but you can’t argue they’re different.\u00a0 Now we’re nearly ten sheets to the wind, and the final surreal twist in an impressive day comes in the form of Hurts<\/a>.\u00a0 Not that they themselves are particularly surreal.\u00a0 Take Ultravox, Heaven 17 and Gary Numan as your primary influences, shove them down a morose Berlin catwalk and you’re more than halfway there.\u00a0 Then throw that into the surroundings of Holy Trinity Church<\/a>, add beer and proceed to dance on the pews and you have a genius neon-Gothic Blade opening sequence.\u00a0 The venue really complemented their sound and unless I get to see them in a church again, I’m not sure I’ll bother.\u00a0 The night ended with a few swift flagons of mead in A Nation Of Shopkeepers<\/a> where I managed to hear Frankie and The Heartstrings<\/a> performing through a wall somewhere in there.\u00a0 All in all a brilliant day out with much kudos to the promoters for what must have been a logistical nightmare to arrange.\u00a0 Same thing next year?\u00a0 Yes please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So the weekend just gone I spent pretty much all day ambling round Leeds from one venue to another drinking grog and watching live music as part of the annual Live At Leeds festival.\u00a0 With 170 bands across 13 venues it was always going to be difficult trying to catch all the bands we wanted … Continue reading “Live At Leeds 2010”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}