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Play that funky music live, boy
Leeds grad succeeds in the music industry
Former Leeds Graduate, Scott Dean, is taking the music industry by storm in the UK's National Music competition, Live and Unsigned. Scott, 26, moved to Leeds in September 2000, where he studied for four years to gain a BA Hons. degree in Popular and World Music. Whilst in Leeds he fronted two bands, Ridgeway and Kryah, which have both helped to develop and establish the style which he now delivers as a solo artist. He has managed to grab the attention of the judges of the 2009 Live and Unsigned competition, making his way into the Area Finals, meaning he's only one step away from competing in the Grand Final. Live and Unsigned is the UK's national music competition for unsigned acts to compete live. With over 10,000 registrations for the second year running, it's the biggest music talent search for original acts in the UK. The overall winner of the competition wins a recording and management contract with Future Music, with an investment of up to £20,000 to release their single including professional studio time, promotional campaigns and more.… Continue reading...
Ones to watch in music this year
The LS2 Music team keeps you in-touch, up-to-date, down-to-earth, left-of-centre, and south-of-the-b
Six of the best for the year to come. Read more
Posted in LS2 » Music » Ones to watch in music this year
Academy Opening
Kaiser Chiefs play homecoming gig
Academy venues are famous the country over. It was about time Leeds got one of its own. LS2 were very kindly invited along to the grand opening... Read more
Posted in LS2 » Features » Academy Opening
Calling The Shots...
LS Interviews I Call Shotgun following their gig at The Faversham last week
LS Interview Exclusive Read more
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Mirror Mirror
The Society of the Advancement of Inflammatory Consciousness (Cochon)
Concept albums are difficult beasts. The fictional society portrayed from various perspectives in this debut is imaginative and colourful, but seems contrived and lacking in any real point. The songs themselves, however, are engaging enough to render the concept redundant... Read more
Posted in LS2 » Music » Mirror Mirror
Anberlin
New Surrender (Universal Republic)
First listening to New Surrender's opening track "The Resistance' one thought echoes in the cranium: another band jumping onto the "emotional rock' band-wagon (what else does one expect from the producer of Fall Out Boy, Yellowcard and New Found Glory?). However, this Miami-based quintet has (mostly) proved my Numbskulls wrong. Read more
Destructors 666
Malleus Maleficarium (Rowdy Farrago)
How much do you like witches? Yes, they're cool and all with their broom transportation and mastery of the cauldron, but does your love extend to sitting through eight consecutive musical numbers dedicated their way? Read more
Posted in LS2 » Music » Destructors 666
A Cuckoo
Destination Unknown (Le Grand Magistery)
Described by Mojo as "delightfully twisted', this new Yorkshire artist has successfully delivered a piece of art that's as creepy as it is wonderful. Read more
Two Minutes to Midnight
The Precarious State of British Metal
Always the same pattern. "What kind of stuff you into?' The fundamental building block of musical small talk is voiced and I see it all playing out in my mind - pre-emptive déjà vu. "Metal,' I say... and things go one of two ways. If I'm lucky, I'll get a look down a nose emitting a snort of derision. If I'm not, I'm confronted with a facial expression of shock and disgust not unlike the response I'd expect upon brandishing a knife and advocating bunny sacrifice. (Not that I'd ever do that of course: kittens are a far more satisfying challenge.) Yes, I am probably exaggerating, but I guarantee any metal fan will be faced with this situation on a shockingly regular basis. Unfortunately, I'm not here to offer a support group - that's a different meeting. Read more
Posted in LS2 » Music » Two Minutes to Midnight
To gig or not to gig: Paddy Considine's tough decision
Paddy Considine is famous for his powerful portrayals in front of a camera. Now he's turned his attention to performing on stage with his new band. He talks to LS2 about their struggles for credibility, music videos and inhibitions (or lack of).
"Before I had a band I called myself Riding the Low," Paddy Considine growls in his elusive midlands accent, explaining the genesis of his recently-formed group's moniker. For a man who made his name in film - perhaps most famously as Richard in Shane Meadows' 2005 classic, Dead Man's shoes - this switch to music will come as a surprise to many. Yet Considine is at pains to impress that the area of artistic expression to which he has now turned his focus was within him all along. "After my wife bought me a guitar about 15 years ago I just started writing songs. I didn't know how to play guitar but I learnt and started putting things together and ended up writing about 50 different songs and sketches, different bits and pieces. Now I'm at a point where I just wanna do what the hell I want." Read more
Posted in LS2 » Features » To gig or not to gig: Paddy Considine's tough decision
Mr Hudson - Good Boy Gone Bad?
A lookback at the transformation of Mr Hudson
On this, the week ‘White Lies’, the latest offering from indie muso turned hip hop bad boy, is released it seems only right to have a nostalgic look back at the really rather remarkable rebirth of Mr Hudson.
Read morePosted in LS2 » The Music Blog » Mr Hudson - Good Boy Gone Bad?
Cold Cave - Love Comes Close
The New Album
This dark electro-pop outfit is the brainchild of Wesley Eisold - famous for a noisy quarrel with the guy from Fall Out Boy about stolen lyrics, eventually settled out of court to Eisold's financial advantage.
Read morePosted in LS2 » Music » Cold Cave - Love Comes Close
Half Man Half Biscuit
Live - Stylus 15/10/09
These 1980s indie-punk pioneers are generally considered one of those bands that are criminally underrated amongst today’s youth, but are massively respected by their once-cool dads.
Read morePosted in LS2 » Music » Half Man Half Biscuit
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Because
When last we saw la belle Gainsbourg, she was mutilating herself in a most private place at the behest of malevolent directing genius Lars von Trier in last year’s harrowing Antichrist. This, hot on the heels of a near-fatal brain haemorrhage, has hardly left her in the best mindset to record the follow-up to 2006’s critically acclaimed 5:55.
Read morePosted in LS2 » Music » Charlotte Gainsbourg
Miike Snow
Stylus 08/02/10
Having undertaken production duties for artists from Kylie Minogue to Kelis and securing a grammy for work on Britney Spears’ ‘Toxic’ along the way, it’s not surprising how confident and exciting a show Miike Snow puts on.
Read morePosted in LS2 » Music » Miike Snow
Times New Viking
19/03/10 - Brudenell Social Club
The audience at the Brudenell tonight seem divided. Upon hearing that Times New Viking were playing in Leeds, local music forums were swamped with accusations that the headliners were ‘the worst band ever’ and that they epitomise everything that’s wrong with the current trend for attempts at shit-fi sound quality. The gig also happens to boast a strong line-up of support acts, meaning that most of these aforementioned Negative Nancys are biting their tongues and turning up anyway.
Read morePosted in LS2 » Music » Times New Viking
Topman CTRL Student Tour
Review
Channel Four's collaboration with Topman has granted students all over the country with free exclusivity to gigs presenting the most exciting up and coming bands in their area.
Read morePosted in LS2 » Music » Topman CTRL Student Tour
Local Natives Talk to Leeds Student Music
INTERVIEW
Local Native's bassist, Andy Hamm, talks to Leeds Student Music in the midst of festival touring.
Read morePosted in LS2 » Music » Local Natives Talk to Leeds Student Music