Experimental rock band (Martin Teff, Tim Mitchell, Tom Evans, Lee J. Malcolm, Peter Wright) who formed in 2005, and have since played over 100 gigs, a few festivals, released two 7"/download singles & recorded a full length album, White Fields and Open Devices (iTunes link, CD available through website/myspace)
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Born in 1982 to an English father and a French mother, Fran Rodgers was raised with her twin sister in an old mining town in Nottinghamshire. Hours spent listening to her parents records inspired a love of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and, later, the likes of Nick Drake, Nick Cave and Jeff Buckley. Following a move to Leeds in 2000 Fran discovered a passion for singing and, self-taught on the guitar, she began to write. Like many of her influences she performs alone, transporting the listener into the fragile world she paints of love, loss and hope.
Dinosaur Pile-Up is the lo-fi Indie Pop project of Matt Bigland (formerly of Mother Vulpine) from Kendal who is based in Leeds. He writes all the songs which he records on an 8-track recorder. The live band is made up of Tom on Base and Steve on drums. Their self-released single 'My Rock N'Roll' was a 'single of the week' on the Zane Lowe show on Radio 1.
The Lodger was formulated by Pontefract-born songwriter Ben Siddall inside a Leeds bedsit. After a few 7-inch singles on a variety of independent labels such as Angular Records and Dance to the Radio, a debut album titled
Black Wire were an English indie rock band from Leeds, UK. The band members were Daniel Wilson (Vocals), Si McCabe (Guitars, backing vocals), Tom Greatorex (Bass) and Danny Prescott (Drums). Black Wire formed in January 2003 and played their first gig within a month of forming, at the Leeds club night Pigs. They then went on to tour excessively playing with such bands as Bloc Party, The Libertines, HARD-Fi, The Cribs, Kaiser Chiefs and The Futureheads.
The Butterfly’s only influences are; Volcanoes, ABBA, Joy Division, the stock-market, Hits from the 60s and 70s, Mr Leo Tolstoy, Carravaggio, Tool, Prince, Mr Oscar Wilde, Michael Jackson, Michael Patton, and the Beano 1989-1994. Having foraged in this fertile cultural undergrowth, the Butterfly pick the juiciest morsels and produce exciting, accessible mini rock-operas. At a performance of the Butterfly, the listener will be thrilled, serenaded and terrified in equal measures before they have to drag themselves back into reality.
Khuda are an instrumental two-piece from Leeds. They have been making noise together since March 2007 and have progressed their sound greatly since then, releasing two EP's to date. The main comparisons (although their sound is relatively unique) are with the likes of 5ive, Don Caballero, Russian Circles etc... and with pleanty of new material in the works and plans for a third release coming together, Khuda are planning to tour as much as possible in 2009.
DISTORTION NOISE AGGRESSION D.N.A (formerly Nex Offendo) is a brand new british heavy metal act based in the city of Stoke-on-Trent in the Midlands of England. The band was originaly formed by vocalist Ian Bennett and guitarist and backing vocalist TJ Higgs, two credited musicians who have performed in previous bands such as Immortally Damaged and are also working with other projects such as the industrial metal group Whore Corps and black cyber metal act Nuppraptor.
"Vinnie has a distinictively original vocal style, the production is raw, and i'm feeling it" G Love (G Love & Special Sauce) Bounding are Leeds' newest and finest Blues-Hop funksters. Led by the charismatic Craig 'Vinnie' Whitehead and backed by The Stars, a group of local faces all with their own blossoming musical careers going on in one way or another aside from this quirky quintet! Sascha Boehm - No-Title Magazine