Artist: Elvis Costello
Venue: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Date: 29.5.22
Not an ‘Imposter’ but very much the man himself with an intimate perfomance of mirthful memoirs and music from his latest album: ‘The Boy Named If’. One of those unique evenings that make Brudenell Social Club so special.
Setlist: The Death of Magic Thinking / Stranger in the House / Bullets for the New Born King / Mr. Crescent
Artist: Yard Act
Support: John Moss [DJ Set]
Venue: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Date: 27.1.22
A late night final push the get Yard Act’s debut album ‘The Overload’ to the top of the charts upon release week. Crew cajoled the crowd into buying additional copies of the album with cassettes being the only remaining format as the chart sales deadline loomed.
In the end the album entered the charts in the highly commendable no. 2 position with ‘Night Call’ by Years & Years claiming the top spot.
Setlist: The Overload / Witness (Can I Get A?) / Payday / Dark Days / Pour Another / Rich / Tall Poppies / Human Sacrifice / The Trapper’s Pelts / 100% Endurance / Land of the Blind
Artist: Yard Act
Venue: The Vinyl Whistle, Headingley, Leeds
Date: 25.1.22
And so it begins; the year of Yard Act and their assault on the charts with their debut album, ‘The Overload’. Cracking on with an afternoon appearance and signing session at The Vinyl Whistle as part of an intimate instore tour.
Setlist: Witness (Can I Get A?) / Rich / 100% Endurance / Pour Another
Artist: IDLES
Venue: Leeds Beckett University
Date: 7.9.21
Through a combination of missed opportunites or COVID cancellations, IDLES had evaded me as a live act up untl this point. But it was worth the wait.
Hot, sweaty and intense; the long overdue ‘Ultra Mono’ album launch gig was all I had hoped it would be. As a frontman, Joe Talbot is menacing and mesmerising in equal measure – he looks like he’d blow your house down and then give you a hug.
Setlist: Colossus / Grounds / Mr. Motivator / Mother / Anxiety / 1049 Gotho / Samaritans / Divide and Conquer / War / Reigns / Faith in the City / Television / Kill Them with Kindness / Love Song / Never Fight a Man with a Perm / Danke
Artist: The Cribs
Venue: Brudenell Social Club
Date: 2.9 21 [Originally scheduled: 15.11.20]
Another much dealyed and belated album launch show for the band’s ‘Night Network’ album, which was released during the COVID lockdown. Originally planned as an acoustic set, The Cribs decided that a long awaited return to their spritual home should be a full-on gig, and rightly so!
Setlist: Goodbye / Running Into You / I’m a Realist / Our Bovine Public / Never Thought I’d Feel Again / Diamond Girl / I Don’t Know Who I Am / Siren Sing-Along / My Life Flashed Before My Eyes / Come On, Be a No-One / Shoot the Poets / Screaming in Suburbia / Swinging at Shadows / Be Safe / Mirror Kissers / Men’s Needs / Pink Snow
Artist: Fontaines D.C.
Venue: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Date: 1.8.21
Previously postponed by COVID, the long awaited album launch show for ‘A Hero’s Death’ was the first of two sets to take place at Brudenell Social Club that evening.
Many people hadn’t been to a gig for 18 months, so this was an incredible return to live music and a reminder of what we’d all been missing. It was over before we knew it but the whirlwind energy whet the appetite for things to come . . .
Setlist: A Lucid Dream / Televised Mind / Big / I Don’t Belong / Oh Such a Spring / Sha Sha Sha / Boys in the Better Land / Too Real / A Hero’s Death
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Artist: Foals
Venue: Leeds Beckett University
Date: 24.10.19
Just five months after the launch gig for ‘Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 1’, here we were again for ‘Part 2’. Leeds Beckett SU was predictably packed for the earlier of another two album launch shows. As before, pre-ordering the album from Crash Records, Leeds resulted in a ticket to an exclusive gig.
The highlight had to be Yanis Philippakis on one of his trademark walkabouts; in this case running the length of the room and climbing the stairs to play guitar from the gantry, just a few feet from where I was standing.
The effort and energy to perform two shows in a single evening results in such gigs being fast and furious with no faffing around. Just the way it should be.
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Artist: Foals
Venue: O2 Academy, Leeds
Date: 23.5.19
For the previous decade, Foals had eluded me as a live act. Chances to see them play live seemed few and far between. However, the release of ‘Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 1’ brought them to O2 Academy, Leeds for an exclusive album launch show.
An incredible gig with the band playing the newly released album in full, along with a few old favourites and a preview of things to come. Bring on Part 2 . . .
Setlist: Moonlight / Exits / White Onions / In Degrees / Syrups / On the Luna / Cafe D’Athens / Surf, Pt.1 / Sunday / I’m Done with the World (& It’s Done with Me) // Mountain at My Gates / My Number / Black Bull / Inhaler
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Artist: Drahla
Support: XAM Duo / The Shakamoto Investigation
Venue: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Date: 3.5.19
Launch gig for Drahla’s first album: ‘Useless Coordinates’.
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Artist: You Tell Me
Venue: Jumbo Records, Leeds
Date: 16.1.19
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Artist: Razorlight
Venue: Headrow House, Leeds
Date: 31.10.18
Johnny Borrell and David Ellis performed a lunchtime acoustic gig to promote the launch of Razorlight’s ‘Olympus Sleeping’ album.
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Artist: Suede
Venue: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Date: 22.9.18
The second of two exclusive performances to celebrate the launch of Suede’s latest album; The Blue Hour. The early show featured a selection of new songs, whereas this late show saw the band ‘shaking their bits to the hits’ as they performed their third album, Coming Up, in its entirety.
The set appropriately ended with Bret Anderson walking amongst the crowd for a rendition of Saturday Night.
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Setlist: Trash / Filmstar / Lazy / By the Sea / She / Beautiful Ones / Starcrazy / Picnic by the Motorway / The Chemistry Between Us / Saturday Night
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