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Preview: Long Division Festival, June 12th-14th
04 June 2015

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With even the smaller outdoor festivals being incredibly expensive in a time of austerity and being at the mercy of the wildly unpredictable weather, the rise of the metropolitan festival can only be a good thing. The celebrated Live at Leeds is now well established, Tramlines in Sheffield has earned itself a substantial reputation, and this year saw the first Live at Glasgow.

Long Division, established in 2011, may be a little smaller, but it’s perfectly formed, and across the eight participating venues (and some spectacular spaces there are too, in particular the Theatre Royal and Westgate Chapel) across the town, the lineup is nothing short of outstanding.

Friday night sees the mighty British Sea Power play their first ever show in Wakefield at Unity Works, with support from The Grand. It’s a cracking taster for the main event, which sees more bands than you could ever see or hear in a week play in the space of just 12 hours.

Ash are undoubtedly worthy headliners: an undisputed singles band, they’ve got more than enough hits to their credit to please a festival crowd… Here’s hoping someone master himan cloning in the next few days because they’re on at the same time as Future of the Left, who are guaranteed to whip up some guitar-driven frenzies. There’s no shortage of quality throughout the evening, either, with the feedback-laden surf pop of Menace Beach, ramshackle cockflashing indie noisenicks Fat White Family and manic screamo grunge-pop purveyors Pulled Apart by Horses all featuring on the Unity Works main stage before them.


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It’s worth getting down during the afternoon to see Leeds grungers Allusondrugs in the main room at Unity Works, too. On the other stages, Her Name Is Calla’s brooding, emotive and expansive post-rock will likely make for a suitably intense experience in the Theatre Royal, where The Horn The Hunt are also on earlier.

Taking a moment’s pause to note how many of these acts have received a thumbs up from W&H through the years without being too smug about it, we’d also ring our itineraries with the slots for layered-up loop maestro Napoleon III, the critically-lauded Sweet Baboo, the brilliantly charming Ryan Spendlove and the noisy political punk racketeers Kleine Schweine.

For just £25 for a Saturday ticket, you really can’t go wrong – whatever the weather. See you down the front!

Full lineup, schedule and tickets at longdivisionfestival.co.uk/

  author: CHRISTOPHER NOSNIBOR 04 June 2015