Renowned as the first place to hear the essential sounds of the year ahead, Live At Leeds returns with over 40 acts added to the line-up in May that includes some of the most exciting names in modern music and the hottest breakthrough bands on the UK music scene. Live at Leeds is your chance to find your new favourite artist in a day of live music across the city.
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.
Joining a line-up today that already features DMA’s, Pale Waves, Easy Life and Ezra Furman are London’s SHAME, the band that rose to prominence off the back of album ‘Songs of Praise’ released in 2018 and featuring 6music favourite ‘One Rizla’. Part of a rising alternative indie scene including Idles and Fontaines DC, Shame come to Live at Leeds following final studio sessions for their sophomore record.
Ahead of the release of their hugely anticipated sixth studio album ‘A Billion
Heartbeats’ due to drop later this year, Mystery
Jets will be setting the stage alight once again having had their Live at
Leeds debut back in 2016. Set to redefine themselves with their latest release,
the London based indie sextet are famous for hits including ‘Two Doors Down’
and ‘Young Love’ and are exploding on to the line-up with a legacy dating
nearly 15 years.
Also taking the line-up by storm is Ghostpoet. The two-time
Mercury Prize nominee will be seducing the Live at Leeds crowds with his
ambient alternative hip-hop once more having performed at the festival in 2016.
The South-London born artist doesn’t shy away from exploring his personal
observations on love and life in his music. A characteristic that has gained
him praise and popularity over a decade of steady graft his set is bound to be
a memorable one and highlight of the day.
Also on the line-up are alternative indie-pop quintet Fickle Friends, Bedfordshire based wonderkid Alfie Templeman, acoustic-pop sensation Rhys Lewis, rock ballad queen Brooke Bentham (who recently toured with Sam Fender), the effortlessly smooth vocals of the young Porteferry songwriter Ryan McMullen and the unapologetically raucous The Wytches.
Live at Leeds is well known for giving new artists their first show in the city before they go on to conquer the world and this announcement welcomes a new crop of exciting artists arriving in Leeds for shows early in their careers. These include Dirty Hit’s very own bedroom pop sensation Oscar Lang, The Illicets who are selling out shows across the country with their electric live performances, Junodream who recently starred in a ‘Live at Leeds Ones to Watch’ showand the effortlessly charming and warm sounds of Manchester based duo Chappaqua Wrestling.
Shout out goes to Leeds label / Management Company Dance to the Radio who are bringing a host of new acts to the festival including Bradford alt-glam-rockers FLING, brooding singer-songwriter Jake Whiskin, 3-beat records signed alt-pop producer Sfven, plus the already announced star-gazing-pop producer Leo Cosmos and post-punk 6music faves Low Hummer.
This year will see new partners join the Live at Leeds family with Abbie McCarthy (Radio 1) hosting her ‘Good Karma Club’ as a stage at the festival as alongside other established partners such as Music:Leeds, Yorkshire Music Forum and BBC Introducing West Yorkshire
The starting gates to the summer ahead, Live at Leeds 2020 soundtracks a city soaring with the best in new and now.
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Live at Leeds Booker Joe Hubbard comments on the recent additions:
“We’re delighted to announce the addition of 70 artists to Live at Leeds 2020. Joining DMA’s and Pale Waves are Shame, making their first appearance back in Leeds since a storming show at Stylus! Fickle Friends return with new material – their new single’s Pretty Great. We’ll have Mystery Jets – good news for all those who missed out on tickets to their sold out Wardrobe show, and a big scoop in twice-Mercury nominated Ghostpoet, who will be releasing his highly anticipated fifth album in 2020. As always with LAL there’s a host of exciting new talent, Alfie Templeman, Chinatown Slalom & Oscar Lang are all ones to watch for sure – and some of the best local acts about with Sfven, Jake Whiskin, Beauty School and Leo Cosmos amongst plenty there.”
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Artists announced:
SHAME MYSTERY
JETS GHOSTPOET FICKLE FRIENDS
RHYS LEWIS RYAN MCMULLAN
THE WYTCHES
BROOKE BENTHAM FLING THE ILLICITS AARON SMITH
ALFIE TEMPLEMAN OSCAR LANG
PATRICK MARTIN CHINATOWN SLALOM HIMALAYAS
CHAPPAQUA WRESTLING
MOLLY PARTON
KATY J PEARSON MODERNLOVE CHATREUSE
CONRAD RICHARD FAIRLIE CURTIS WALSH WARGASM
SPYRES ELM ON VIDEO JUNODREAM ANDREW CUSHIN ZOONI
EVE OWEN RESPONS THE CLOCKWORKS MAYA LAW GEORGE COSBY THE WHA
POLLY MONEY MABES WUNDERHORSE TALULAH RUBY VAUGHAN
DRUG STORE ROMEOS MATILDA
MANN SOCIAL CONTRACT BAMILY
CHARLOTTE PHOEBE GREEN YOUR SMITH BABA ALI
MARIE WHITE SPQR
TEEN JESUS AND THE JEAN TEASERS BEAUTY SCHOOL
COACH PARTY NICK WILSON LOLA YOUNG
BRAD STANK GHUM JAKE WHISKIN
BROODERS DENSE ENGLISH TEACHER LIO
PRIESTGATE SFVEN SKYLIGHTS VAN HOUTEN