Artist: Curtis Harding
Venue: Brudenell Social Club
Date: 26.3.22 [Cancelled]
The last of my postponed/cancelled COVID gigs. Let’s hope that we never return to such dark and devastating days. Thankfully many live music venues survived lockdown and the aftermath of COVID complications but some simply couldn’t carry on. Hard times lead to hard decisions.
Artist: Billy Nomates
Support: Straight Girl
Venue: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Date: 5.10.21
One woman, a laptop, boundless energy and infectious enthusiasm. Sometimes less in more.
Artist: The Smyths
Venue: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Date: 23.9.21
Meat is Murder, 35th Anniversary Tour. Once again, The Smyths ‘unite and take over’ Brudenell Social Club for their annual three night residency. This time performing my favourite album by The Smiths. A rare chance to hear this collection of songs performed with such panache and authenticity.
Artist: Johnny Marr
Venue: Leeds University Stylus
Date: 20.9.21
Johnny takes to the stage and tells the crowd that this is the first time he’s played live since before lockdown. Some of us have already braved the return to live music but for many others it’s also their first gig in a long time. But this is Johnny Fuckin’ Marr, masterfully delivering a set of solo sounds, The Smiths and Electronic classics, so everything is going to be alright.
Setlist: Hideaway Girl / Panic / Spirit Power and Soul / Tenemant Time / New Town Velocity / Rubicon / Night and Day / Get the Message / Getting Away with It / The Headmaster Ritual / Sensory Street / This Charming Man / Walk into the Sea / Hi Hello / How Soon is Now? / Armatopia / There is a Light that Never Goes Out / Easy Money // Counter Clock World / Some Girls are Bigger than Others / Bigmouth Strikes Again
Artist: Skylights
Support: Narrow Margin
Venue: Leeds University Stylus
Date: 11.9.21
It’s a sports casual cacophony as the Leeds lads and ladettes venture beyond Elland Road for an away fixture at the Uni. It’s unusual to hear the chants of the terraces bellowing around the students’ union.
Skylights are an accomplished band, somewhat eclipsed by their casual football following and Leodian leaning. This was the most laddish gig I’d been to since the demise of The Bridewell Taxis.
Setlist: Britannia / What You Are / Nothing Left to Say / Lifeline / Take Me Somewhere / Outlaw / Driving Me Away / YRA / Darkness Falls / Enemies
Artist: New Order
Support: DJ Tintin [DJ Set]
Venue: The Piece Hall, Halifax
Date: 8.9.21
A superheated summer’s evening, the music of New Order (and Joy Division), lights, lasers and the beautiful backdrop of the Piece Hall. The Haçienda meets the Happy Valley. My only regret was arriving too late to see Lonelady’s support set.
Setlist: Regret / Age of Consent / Restless / Ultraviolence / Ceremony / Your Silent Face / Tutti Frutti / Be a Rebel / Guilt is a Useless Emotion / Sub-culture / Bizarre Love Triangle / Vanishing Point / Plastic / True Faith / Blue Monday / Temptation // Atmosphere / Transmission / Love Will Tear Us Apart
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
Artist: Jumbo Chords
Venue: The Vinyl Whistle, Headingley, Leeds
Date: 24.7.21
The inaugral gig of Jumbo Chords (although not the full line-up).
Stripped back melodic sounds and thoughtful songwriting. A taste of things to come . . .
Gig poster designed by yours truly.
Artist: IDLES
Support: The Big Moon
Venue: Millennium Square, Leeds
Date: 8.7.21 [Cancelled]
With large public gatherings still banned at the time, another gig bit the dust. The knock-on effects of endless cancellations made rescheduling such large scale events an impossibility.
Gigs Are Back
Date: 23.5.21
Location: United Kingdom
It’s been a long, long time but gigs are back.
‘Access All Areas’ art print available from my Etsy shop: https://tinyurl.com/ykyh34ue
Artist: The Smyths
Venue: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Date: 23.5.21
Following a 14 month enforced hiatus, due to COVID restrictions, it was amazing and slightly emotional to return to Brudenell Social Club. A socially distanced (sit-down) Sunday afternoon saw the welcome return of The Smyths and live music.
Safety in small numbers required limited capacity and table service but it all felt very safe and civilised; like a band doing ‘a turn’ at an old school working men’s club. Perhaps matinee shows should become part of the new normal?
Artist: Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Venue: First Direct Arena, Leeds
Date: 18.4.21 [Originally scheduled: 12.5.20 / Subsequently cancelled]
Another great gig that was never to be. With social gathering and international travel in stasis during COVID lockdown, such events became an impossibility. Sadly this tour was never rescheduled.
Artist: Baxter Dury
Venue: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Date: 23.3.21 [Originally scheduled: 17.4.20 / Subsequently cancelled]
Rescheduled time after time and then cancelled due to COVID restrictions. In a world without live music we were compensated with a live streamed gig from Baxter Dury’s home. Dark days and strange times.
Artist: Nightmares On Wax
Venue: Leeds Town Hall
Date: 20.9.20 [Originally scheduled: 1.4.20 / Subsequently cancelled]
This should have been an awesome night. We had central front row balcony tickets for a special 25th anniversary, orchestrated performance of ‘Smokers Delight’, against the beautiful backdrop of Leeds Town Hall. The tour was only due to visit select worldwide locations with Leeds being the hometown gig.
The real life nightmare of the COVID lockdown put and end to this dream.
Artists: Various
Venue: Leeds Festival [2020], Bramham Park, Leeds
Date: 28.8.20 [Cancelled]
The combination of Rage Against the Machine and IDLES would have made it worth enduring a day with Generation Y. Cancelled due to the COVID lockdown.
Artist: Gary Numan
Venue: Live from the Drive-in, East Yorkshire Airport
Date: 21.8.20 [Cancelled]
Here in my car, I feel safest of all . . .
Under lockdown the gig scene was in stasis. It seemed like large gatherings in hot, sweaty venues wouldn’t happen for the foreseeable future – but for a moment there was light at the end of the tunnel.
A drive-in gig, where everyone stayed in their own car, within a designated grid square, safe and sound from anyone else. Such social distancing seemed like an alien concept but in a world without live music it was a viable option. However, it was never to be. With COVID levels going from bad to worse, lockdown ensued and all plans were grounded.
Artist: Various
Venue: Bluedot [2020], Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire
Date: 23-26.7.20 [Cancelled]
Having thoroughly enjoyed a day at the prevoius year’s Bluedot festival, we booked tickets for the full 2020 event . . . little did we know what was to come that year. As the entire live music scene (and much else in life) was halted by a global pandemic, the festival was postponed for a year.
Assured of a similar line-up when things got back to normal, we held-on to our tickets but 12 months later COVID chaos still reigned. Spikes in virus levels, the need for quarantine ‘bubbles’ and near-impossible international travel scuppered any plans for large gatherings with international line-ups. As tickets rolled-over for a second year, we decided to cut our losses and cash them in.
After an enforced 2 year hiatus, Bluedot triumphantly returned with a very similar line-up in 2022. Sadly on this occasion we missed-out and Björk remains on my ‘must see’ list.
Artist: Baxter Dury
Venue: Royal Albert Hall [Online]
Date: 17.4.20
In the early days of the first COVID-19 lockdown there were no gigs. Venues had to close their doors. Artists and audiences had to stay at home and live music was no more. However, musicians are an innovative breed and quickly adapted, using online tech to collaborate and stream live performances to their homebound fans.
This live session (streamed from Baxter Dury’s home) took place on the evening when I was originally very much looking forward to seeing him play at Brudenell Social Club. It was also my first ever virtual gig. Simply not the same but at the time we took whatever live music we could get. Hats off to all of the artists who kept music alive in those long lockdown days.
Artist: Prettiest Eyes
Support: Dense
Venue: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Date: 10.3.20
I judged a book by its cover, and it paid off. Knowing nothing about Prettiest Eyes, I went to this gig because the flyer caught my eye. I wasn’t disappointed by the usual Brudenell seal of approval.
Little did I know that this would be my last gig for over a year, as COVID-19 and lockdown life quashed the live music scene.
Setlist: La Maldad / Prance / Don’t Call / Mira Nena /. / LSD / Marihuana / Alright, I’m Ready to Go / The Eye / Sorry / The Shame / It Costs to Be Austere
Artist: Morrissey
Venue: First Direct Arena, Leeds
Date: 6.3.20
With typically misjudged mirth, the bequiffed buffoon strides on stage with a mock cough and splutter; thanking the crowd for being brave enough to venture out. Morrissey is making reference to COVID-19, which is swiftly spreading but at the time is dangerously underestimated. To paraphrase the man himself, ‘Oh, we could smile about it then but in time it would be terrible’. He then proceeds to power through the best live set I’ve ever seen him perform, rarely relying on The Smiths’ back catalogue. Often one to offend but never one to disappoint.
Setlist: You’ll Be Gone / I Wish You Lonely / The Boy with the Thorn in His Side / Jim Jim Falls / At Amber / Morning Starship / Lady Willpower / That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore / Once I Saw the River Clean / If You Don’t Like Me, Don’t Look at Me / Munich Air Disaster 1958 / World Peace is None of Your Business / Seasick, Yet Still Docked / I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris / Home is a Question Mark / Love is On Its Way Out / Back on the Chain Gang / Never Again Will I Be a Twin / I’ve Changed My Plea to Guilty / Some Say (I Got Devil) / Jack the Ripper / Jacky’s Only Happy When She’s Up on the Stage // Half a Person / Irish Blood, English Heart
Artist: Moses Boyd
Support: NikNak [DJ Set]
Venue: Headrow House, Leeds
Date: 5.3.20
Lights down low (hence no photos); it was all about the music as Moses Boyd and his band performed the Mercury nominated ‘Dark Matter’ album at the suitably intimate Headrow House. The cool is born again.
Artist: The Wants
Support: IMI / Novymir
Venue: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Date: 1.3.20
I wanted to go to a gig. I went to a gig. Do what you want.
Artist: Hyde Park Brass
Support: In the Morning Lights
Venue: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Date: 21.2.20
Where there’s muck, there’s Brass. The north’s finest brass funksters got down and dirty with their unique sound and style. Brudenell was packed with a hometown crowd who have seen these guys go from strength to strength over the last few years, mixing their own ballsy brass tunes with ‘full-blown’ covers of club classics.
Artist: Twin Temple
Venue: The Key Club, Leeds
Date: 23.1.20
Started the year in magnificently macabre style with some santanic doo-wop. (Perhaps a sign of dark things to come). Who knew that grovin’ with the goths could be such fun.
Artist: Dirty Laces
Support: Skylights
Exhibition: Bands F.C. x Dorothy
Venue: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Date: 27.12.19
Brudenell Social Club provided the sights and sounds for my final gig of 2019. The Community Room hosted football inspired graphics from Bands F.C. and Dorothy. Meanwhile, Dirty Laces and local favourites, Skylights took to the stage in the Main Room. Two bands who are destined for good things in the year to come . . .
Artist: The National
Support: Jenny Lewis
Venue: First Direct Arena, Leeds
Date: 8.12.19
Even from the second tier of Leeds’ largest live music venue, there’s an intimate warm winter feel to The National’s emotive music. They’re a band who still connect with their audience despite the scale of success. Chances to be part of that audience are few and far between, and the band seem to make every evening a special occasion. Each date of the tour had a beatifully bespoke poster design.
Setlist: Rylan / You Had Your Soul with You / Don’t Swallow the Cap / Bloodbuzz Ohio / Guilty Party / Hey Rosey / Oblivions / Where is Her Head / I Need My Girl / This is the Last Time / Apartment Story / Day I Die / The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness / Light Years / Pink Rabbits / I Am Easy to Find / Graceless / England / Fake Empire / Humiliation / Mr. November / Terrible Love / About Today / Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks
Artist: The Comet is Coming
Support: Leafcutter John
Venue: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Date: 3.12.19
Jazz, funk, electronica, psychedelic rock: call it what you want. It’s hard to pigeon-hole such a band but a full house at Brudenell knew what’s what.
Artist: Chris Difford
Support: Matt Abbott [Nymphs & Thugs]
Venue: The Constitutional, Farsley
Date: 1.12.19
Merry memoirs, tales and tunes from times with Squeeze and a little festive cheer.
Artist: BOB
Support: The Beer Snobs
Venue: Wharf Chambers, Leeds
Date: 26.11.19
Bands come and go. Your favourites call it a day and you sadly accept that you’ll never see them play live again. Never say never . . .
BOB return for a ‘one off’ tour of intimate venues, in towns and cities where they always had a loyal following. Sadly, The Duchess is long gone from the Leeds live music scene but Wharf Chambers is a fitting substitute.
BOB sound like they never went away. Their old songs are timeless and new additions to their setlist perfectly fit the bill.
Great to see some (literally) old faces in the crowd from teenage gig years gone by. The BOB Barmy Army marches on . . .
Artist: Wolfgang Flür
Support: Peter Duggal
Venue: The Crescent, York
Date: 22.11.19
Once a robot, always a robot. No bad thing for the seminal prototype.
Artist: The Chemical Brothers
Support: 2manydjs [DJ Set]
Venue: First Direct Arena, Leeds
Date: 21.11.19
Some gigs need an arena. Lights, lasers and crystal clear block rockin’ beats. Incredible visuals, big bouncing balloons and two gigantic robots. The brothers always work it out.
Setlist: Go / Free Yourself / Chemical Beats / MAH / Bango|EML Ritual / Swoon / Temptation|Star Guitar / Gravity Drops / Got to Keep On / Hey Boy Hey Girl / Eve of Destruction / Saturate / Elektrobank / No Geography / Escape Velocity|The Golden Path / Don’t Think|Under the Influence|Get Up On It Like This / Dig Your Own Hole / Wide Open / Galvanize / C-H-E-M-I-C-A-L|Leave Home|Song to the Siren / Block Rockin’ Beats // Got Glint? / Catch Me I’m Falling / The Private Psychadelic Reel
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Artist: Kate Tempest
Venue: Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds
Date: 12.11.19
For the first of the evening’s two intimate shows, Kate Tempest walked on stage and made a simple request. In such a small venue she could see right into the faces of the audience and would rather not perform to a crowd of cameras. She therefore asked us to take one shot for social media and then put our phones away, which we duly did.
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Tempest took a moment to compose herself and then unleashed an astounding word-perfect set of poetry and rap from her ‘Let Them Eat Chaos’ and ‘The Book of Traps and Lessons’ albums. The powerful lyrics were beautifully set to the haunting beats and keyboards of Clare Uchima.
As the gig ended there was momentary silence from an awestruck audience, still processing the barrage of wise words and meaningful messages of a truly mind blowing performance.
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Artist: Steve Mason
Support: Pictish Trail
Venue: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Date: 8.11.19
The alpha male of The Beta Band exuded cool and charisma with a set of new solo material and a few old favourites.
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Artist: Dead Naked Hippies
Support: HAMER
Venue: Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds
The cellar at Hyde Park Book Club really lends itself to up and coming indie bands with attitude. Great to see the space packed-out with a clued up crowd for this gig.
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Artist: CUD
Venue: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Date: 25.10.19
When in Rome, Kill Me [30th Anniversary]: Time marches on and the ever-loyal legion of CUD troops fall in line.
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No longer do chants of “you fat bastard” come from the crowd, as few of us are the skinny young things that we used to be. However, the music is timeless.
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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: Henge
Support: The Evil Usses
Venue: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Date: 17.10.19
Earlier this year I’d missed seeing Henge at Bluedot Festival but the enthusiastic sound of the crowd made me think I should have been watching.
On this night, Henge touched/beamed-down to Brudenell for a gig like no other. I’m not a fan of novelty bands but Henge are a truly alien exception. Their never faltering facade, endless energy and knowing humour had the whole room wanting to believe that the band are actually from another planet – which, of course, they are!
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Artist: Working Men’s Club
Support: Roxy Girls
Venue: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Date: 16.10.19
Working the club into a synth-heavy heavenly frenzy.
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Artist: The Murder Capital
Support: Happy Couple
Venue: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Date: 14.10.19
Elbow were playing in the other room at Brudenell on this night. However, those in the know were elsewhere watching The Murder Capital hold their own in the Main Room. A moody and moving set to launch their much anticipated debut album.
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Artist: Snapped Ankles
Support: Nuha Ruby Ra / Adrena Adrena
Venue: The Crescent, York
Date: 11.10.19
Never rooted to the stage, the ‘tree men’ roamed the room at regular intervals during a raucous set. At one point, the singer ended up performing from behind the bar.
Solid support slots from the unique audio-visuals of Adrena Adrena and the mesmerisingly outré Nuha Ruby Ra.
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This was my first visit to The Crescent, York – a brilliant independent community venue and an instant favourite, with it’s laid-back vibe and friendly staff.
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Artist: Richard Hawley
Support: Studio Electrophonique
Venue: Warehouse 23, Wakefield
Date: 27.9.19 (Rescheduled from 19.6.19)
The intimate venue of Warehouse 23 was packed to the rafters for a rare appearance from Richard Hawley. Expectations were high; Hawley and his band didn’t disappoint, with a masterful performance and knowing northern banter.
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Artist: The Smyths
Venue: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Date: 20.9.19
On the Leeds side streets that you slip down: ‘Mockrrissey’ & co return to Brudenell, and the late ‘80s, with their tributary melancholy mirth.
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Artist: Pixies
Support: The Big Moon
Venue: O2 Academy, Leeds
Date: 17.9.19
No holding back as Pixies opened with ‘Gouge Away’ and ploughed-on through an epic 38 song set. Some would argue that less is more, but when you’ve waited so long to see a band play live, you take what you can get. Disappointingly, their expansive setlist didn’t include ‘Debaser’.
There’s no ticket for this gig, as in their infinite wisdom O2 Academy venues decided that e-tickets are easier to manage and more cost effective. Such a decision shows how corporate venues are all about maximum profit and don’t understand the intricacies and mementos that accompany and enhance gig culture.
Setlist: Gouge Away / On Graveyard Hill / Classic Masher / Head On / Rock Music / Isla de Encanta / Crackity Jones / Bone Machine / Velouria / Snakes / This is My Fate / Catfish Kate / Cactus / Blown Away / Where is My Mind / Nimrod’s Son / Bird of Prey / Havalina / Death Horizon / Here Comes Your Man / Ready for Love / Brick is Red / Mr. Grieves / Silver Bullet / Vamos / In the Arms of Mrs. Mark of Cain / Caribou / Hey / Los Surfers Muertos / No. 13 Baby / Dead / I’ve Been Tired / Long Rider / Monkey Gone to Heaven / St. Nazaire / Wave of Mutilation / Tame // Daniel Boone
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Artist: POZI
Support: Failyer
Venue: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Date: 15.9.19
A Sunday evening in September and student season isn’t yet in full swing. So I head down to a free gig at ‘The Brude’. A chance to sink a beer from the quiet bar and see something different.
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Artist: POW!
Support: Hot Snack / Dixon
Venue: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Date: 9.9.19
I was there!
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Artist: Föllakzoid
Support: Jellyskin
Venue: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Date: 6.9.19
Pretty much picking up where the last Föllakzoid gig left off, with a cool and continuous groove, played in a pitch black room.
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Artist: Dead Kennedys
Support: Catholic Action
Venue: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Date: 8.6.19
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Which key members can leave a band before it becomes a tribute act? The purists argue that there is no Dead Kennedys without Jello Biafra – but based on tonight’s gig, the haters are cutting off their nose to spite their face.
With most of the classic lineup in place and Ron ‘Skip’ Greer on vocals (since 2008), the band sounded as authentic as ever and performed a raucous ‘best of’ set, in the packed-out venue.
Jello has dismissed the current Dead Kennedys lineup as “the world’s greediest karaoke band” – but to quote Gordon Gekko; “greed is good”, as was this gig.
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Setlist: Forward to Death / Winnebago Warrior / Police Truck / Buzzbomb / Let’s Lynch the Landlord / Jock-O-Rama / Kill the Poor / MP3 Get Off the Web / Too Drunk to Fuck / Moon Over Marin / Nazi Punks Fuck Off / California Über Alles / Bleed for Me / Viva Las Vegas / Holiday in Cambodia / Chemical Warfare
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Artist: Dead Naked Hippies
Venue: Music: Leeds – Live in the Square, Millennium Square, Leeds
Date: 3.8.19
A couple of dozen people stand in Millennium Square on a Saturday afternoon. The event seems poorly publicised and sparsely attended. Those of us who made the effort to turn up get to see one of Leeds’ best and edgiest upcoming bands. Dead Naked Hippies attack each and every gig like it matters – and that is why they’ll go on to pack venues to the rafters.
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