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Leeds band The Hair make the final of the Red Stripe Music Awards
Leeds band The Hair have reached the final six of the nationwide Red Stripe Music Awards, after they impressed judges from The Fly, Music Week, Barfly and Red Stripe at the Faversham in March.
"Live Music Updates" set to return to 96.3 Radio Aire...
Good news in the regional commercial radio world! After a couple of years spent in the wilderness the popular local "Live Music Updates" are soon to be back on the airwaves via 96.3 Radio Aire.
Nerve Engine: Underneath The Sprawl
This is the second release from the multi regional band and once again self recorded in keeping with their independent attitude.
Chichino announce the release of their debut single
Chichino have announced the release of their debut single "Every Little Thing", via the London-based record label The Junk Label, on 19th February.
This month, soulful dance/rock act Kava Kava became probably one of the very few UK bands yet to tour China!
Promising name I thought. Very Jack Kerouac, but with cunning regional twist with the old M62 and that.
Mary-Jane: What I Came Here For
I first heard Mary-Jane on Manifesta's (the people behind the now sadly deceased Bar Phono's Pussy Whipped club night) brilliant little compilation of all things riot grrl in Yorkshire - the not so catchily titled - ...and besides everyone knows it's not just boys fun.
Leeds bands and music fans lose the popular BBC Raw Talent radio show
With immediate effect BBC Radio Leeds has decided to cease broadcasting Raw Talent, the weekly two-hour programme of new regional music presented by Hull's Alan Raw and produced by Katie Noone for BBC Radio Humberside.
I just made it to Rio's in time to catch Cursed Diamond doing a pretty decent a cover of "Fell In Love With A Girl" for their final song.
Feldspar win 'Local & Unsigned' 2008 competition
Following the success of the 'Local & Unsigned' competition launched by Park Lane College Leeds and Radio Aire in 2006, the competition was this week held for the third year running.
Various Artists: Across The Pennines VI
The heightened sense of regional pride in The North can become a bit absurd sometimes. Then again, on the strength of the deeply Northern music on the sixth Across the Pennines compilation, perhaps a little superiority complex is allowed.
It is now hard to dispute that the Leeds music scene (the guitar driven part of it at least) is in the rudest health it has been in for quite a while.
My day started off surreally, an early morning phone call from my old dear asking me if I've heard of a band from Sheffield, called Milburn?
Victoria Holdsworth talks to Terrorvision's Tony Wright in Sheffield during the band's 2007 tour
John McGee gets all giddy and silly and drunk and strange things happen while watching bands. Forgive me if I come on like a drunken raconteur but that's where the story begins, like all good stories should, in the pub, over a formerly nursed pint of cider now in smithereens on a tiled floor.
The scheme brewing in the collective mind of ˇForward, Russia!, Leeds' pioneers of screeching, mercurial noise, is a simple one. It goes like this...