Festival News: Live At Leeds returns with it’s final line-up
With an already impressive line up announced at Live At Leeds, the final line up has now been announced. It’s the best place to find the latest emerging talent. Taking place in May, there are the most exciting names in modern music and breakthrough bands.
Previous artists that have appeared at Live at Leeds in the early stages of their careers and gone on to huge achievements include Brits Choice Winner Sam Fender (now headlining arenas and released a number 1 album ‘Hypersonic Missiles’), Pop Sensation Sam Smith, worldwide festival headliners The 1975, online star Freya Ridings, Glastonbury headliner Stormzy, and Ed Sheeran, who recently returned to Leeds for the biggest headline shows in the city since 2006 at Roundhay Park.
DMA’s, Pale Waves, Easy Life, Shame and Ezra Furman have already been announced and now The Coral, a band that were trailblazers of a guitar-band revival in the early 00’s and have been festival favourites ever since with huge hits like ‘Dreaming of You’ and ‘In the Morning’ will be joining the line up.
Liverpool’s The Night Cafe will also be joining following their huge Leeds Festival slot in 2019 whereas Brighton’s The Magic Gang will be performing too, along with the rousing anthems of Spector, alt-indie from Genghar and the new band from The Vaccines frontman Justin Young and Timothy Lanham; Halloweens.
Furthermore you will find London’s multi-instrumentalist King Charles, Singer-Songwriter Lewis Watson, and three raucous indie bands from the North in Twisted Wheel, The Reytons and Red Rum Club.
Live At Leeds takes place on the 2nd May 2020, tickets can be purchased here: https://www.liveatleeds.com/
Words by Narzra Ahmed