With less than a week to go to Live at Leeds, the full schedule is now up and we’re poring over it and circling and crossing bands all over the shop. With the venues spread across the city, and over 200 acts to choose from, a bit of planning goes a long way. If you’re up for seeing three of the biggest headliners – Jess Glynne, Circa Waves, and Corinne Bailey Rae – you’d better have mastered self-cloning or be able to bend time, as they’re all on at the same time, at the O2 Academy, the University Refectory, and HiFi Club respectively.
Some smart scheduling does mean that some high-profile acts are on earlier in the day and throughout the afternoon, with Mystery Jets kicking off the O2’s running at 4pm. Chances are it’ll be packed out, so it’d be wise to get down early for them.
It’s not all about timing, either, as there’s a fair distance between some of the venues: the best venue in the north, if not in the whole country, The Brudenell Social Club is way out towards Headingly / Burley Park, while The Wardrobe is out on the far side of the A61.
The breadth and depth of the line-up is the festival’s real strength, with Future of the Left (Key Club, 9:30), We Are Scientists (Leeds University Stylus, 10:30), Band of Skulls (Leeds Beckett, 10:15), The Boxer Rebellion (The Faversham, 11pm), The Duke Spirit (Leeds Beckett, 7:30), Ghostpoet, (The Wardrobe, 9:30) and Ratboy (Brudenell Social Club, 11pm) all being names to reckon with, as well as emerging talents like Asylums (Key Club, 6:15), Autobahn (Leeds Beckett, 6:30) and Clean Cut Kid (Stylus, 6:30), Girli (Headrow House, 4:30) and Fizzy Blood (Key Club, 1:30), there’s no shortage of choice.
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Whether you elect to stay in one place (the two stage set-up at the Beckett and University, as well as The Wardrobe and Brudenell mean you can watch bands back-to-back simply by walking into the next room) or leg it round town to tick off as many venues as you fancy, you can’t go wrong – and being indoors, not even the weather can spoil it.
Which leaves just one question: how is it only £32.50?
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