Competition: Win 2x tickets for Cocoon in the Park!
Cocoon in the Park 2013 Competition If you’d like the chance to win 2 free tickets to Cocoon in the Park this year, all you have to do is answer the following question. Send your name and answer to clubs@leedsstudent.org. Competition closes May 10th. Where is Cocoon in the Park DJ Richie Hawtin’s place of [...]
Festival Preview: Cocoon in the Park
Cocoon in the Park 2013 Where: Temple Newsam, Leeds When: Saturday 13th July Who: Sven Vath, Ricardo Villalobos, Richie Hawtin, Craig Richards Price: £45 / £75 (V.I.P.) Cocoon in the Park returns to Leeds this year, celebrating its fifth birthday with the help of some of the biggest DJs in electronic music today. The lineup [...]
Festival Preview: Insomni-Fest 2013
Insomni-Fest 2013 Where: Beaverworks When: Sunday 5th May Who: Alexis Raphael, Julie McKnight, Tom Zanetti, Tom Garnett, Ko Kane, Cause & Affect, Graham Dixon, Francois, Mark Longbottom, Billy Kenny, Corrupt, Midas T, SAS, DJ Browny, DJ Jordz Price: £20 / £40 (V.I.P.) Curiously there’s been a few nights billed as “Insomni-Fest 2013″ this year already, [...]
Festival Preview: Unknown
Unknown Festival Where: Rovinj, Croatia When: Tuesday 10th September – Saturday 14th September Who: Live: Actress / Clean Bandit / Disclosure / Django Django / East India Youth / Factory Floor / Four Tet / Henrik Schwarz / Jagwar Ma / Jessie Ware / Lindstrom / Lulu James / Moderat / The Horrors / Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs [...]
Review: System
System Marcel Dettmann, Tini Mint Club Saturday 26th April Having celebrated its fifth birthday earlier this year, System have built a strong reputation in Leeds for playing host to some of the biggest artists in the sprawling universe of house and techno, booking such giants as Sven Vath, Jeff Mills and Ricardo Villalobos over the [...]
Review: Bigger Than Barry w/ Oneman
Bigger Than Barry Oneman Mint Club Tuesday 30th April Formerly an institution of Leeds’ midweek clubbing scene, the infamous Bigger Than Barry returned to its native home under the hallowed LED canopy of Mint Club last Tuesday, once again enlisting the talents of Rinse FM’s DJ Oneman for their return. Oneman’s distinctive brand of genre-hopping [...]
Feature: Nightlife in Valencia
A year abroad in Spain has offered many opportunities for checking out the clubs over here, which has at times proved a frustrating task. Spain is an odd place, in so far as Ibiza is internationally regarded as a home of dance (or, more specifically, house) music, but yet just a short trip over the [...]
Review: Hospitality
Hospitality Sub Focus, High Contrast, Danny Byrd, Camo & Krooked, Wilkinson, Mele, Kito O2 Academy Friday 19th April With the likes of modern day drum & bass poster boy Sub Focus billed alongside the Hospital Records’ veterans, the classic DnB student event in Leeds returned to its familiar confines of the O2 Academy in Leeds city [...]
Review: Mono_cult 6th Birthday
Mono_cult 6th Birthday Dixon Scuba Prosumer Oneman Saturday 2nd March Canal Mills In the six years since Mono_cult made it’s humble beginnings on a Sunday afternoon in the The Lounge terrace, it has grown to become one of the largest, most established, forward-thinking electronic music nights in Leeds, as well as throwing parties in Hideout [...]