Festivities

With the festival season fast approaching now seems like a good time for a run through of the festivals hitting up Leeds over the next few months.

Fuse Leeds 2009//25 April - 2 May
Fuse is a contemporary music festival that celebrates the vibrant music scene in Leeds with a selection of specially commissioned pieces and exciting collaborations. Highlights look set to include The BBC Big Band performing new arrangements of hits by The Wedding Present, Spanish Bombs: A tropical tribute to the Clash and Dub Echoes - a new film on the history of dub featuring Lee Perry, King Jammy, Kode9 and Roots Manuva. Check the website for the full line-up of events.

Live at Leeds//1-3 May
Live at Leeds is a three day festival that brings you the best in local underground talent. I wrote a post about it a while ago which you can check out if you like. For more info and a list of confirmed bands go to the Live at Leeds website.

Stag & Dagger//22 May
Stag & Dagger is a festival taking place in three different UK cities on three consecutive days. Its coming to Leeds on 22 May and promises to deliver "one night of new music, DJs and partying". James has been following the festival pretty closely and gave you a list of confirmed bands a few weeks ago.

Leeds Festival//28-30 August
I don't think I need to say much about this behemoth of a festival. Weekend tickets sold out within 24 hours, a few day tickets are still available. It does looks like you're in for a good time if you did manage to get your mits on a ticket with Radiohead, The Prodigy and The Maccabees on the bill and loads more to be announced.