Last show of the year!! Phil Rochester takes us into 2025 with a banging show! 01 - China Shop Bull - Av It - A good looking bunch, except that one, he's minging. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlVyXaS_9cQ 02 - Beer Snobs - Otley Run - Any time / Any place / Up in space / On your face - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq0w8Cqb088 03 - Unstable - The Pain - Nicer than a bunch of nice things in a nice sack - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us_hhVbIhiw 04 - Nick Kirby Briggs - Flowers Bloom Bright -The wonderful Nick Kirby Briggs has combined his songwriting talents and beautiful voice to produce this tribute to his late wife, the lovely Mandy Kirby Briggs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FywA- n_x_D8 Wow - just gorgeous ❤❤❤ All money raised through downloads/streaming (Nick tells me it's on iTunes , Spotify & Amazon Music) will go to MacMillan Cancer Support, or you can donate directly via Nick's Justgiving page: https://www.justgiving.com/page/nick-briggs-1730389264696 05 - Contrail - Pillows - Monday 16 December 2024 - Doors Open: 19:30 - Starts: 20:00 - Tickets £5 (£5.50 with booking fee on seetickets.com) - With: Contrail / Welfare State / Dan Gifford - Leeds-based contrail are your dad’s new favorite band—delivering a dynamic mix of melancholic introspection and chaotic energy. The five-piece alt-rock outfit will sweep you away with their wispy vocals, blazing saxophones, and crushing guitars. Contrail’s deeply personal lyrics explore relationships, mental health, and grief, touching on the existential dread of modern life. Drawing inspiration from 90s legends like Radiohead, Elliott Smith, and American Football, as well as modern alt-heroes Title Fight and Alex G, Contrail’s sound is as thought-provoking as it is emotionally charged. 06 - Welfare State - Red - Monday 16 December 2024 - Doors Open: 19:30 - Starts: 20:00 - Tickets £5 (£5.50 with booking fee on seetickets.com) - With: Contrail / Welfare State / Dan Gifford - Joining the bill are Welfare State, a Leeds based Post-Punk five piece with wider influences of Shoegaze. The band, new to the scene, are already a mainstay and have established a strong following. 07. Dan Gifford - Dandelion - Monday 16 December 2024 - Doors Open: 19:30 - Starts: 20:00 - Tickets £5 (£5.50 with booking fee on seetickets.com) - With: Contrail / Welfare State / Dan Gifford - Finally we have Dan Gifford: Fusing the songwriting influence of Neil Young, Elliot Smith and Nick Drake with the guitars of Nirvana. Any fans of Wunderhorse or Fontaines DC will fit right in. Dandelion is a symbol of hope with lyrics to match. 08 - Moonfleet Chamber Ensemble - We Tore Up The Plan - He's been tying his own shoelaces for at least eight years now. - https://moonfleetmusic.bandcamp.com/? fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3CchrtrWLgHIP3tEa1WY7kGTjO-0f4GufyxpwgHXv- TCCLR5tAketUzUs_aem_x9qf8zgkNeveFapUnrx5gQ 09 - Versus - PR3TEND (Acoustic) - Lending Rooms - 20th December - Ticks £9 adv on Skiddle - With: Versus / Carta Black / Luster / Aimee Francis - If you shake the lead guitarist hard enough he glows in the dark. 10 - Aimee Francis - BROKEN RECORD - Lending Rooms - 20th December - Ticks £9 adv on Skiddle - With: Versus / Carta Black / Luster / Aimee Francis - Coming over from Australia to do the this show with Versus. They'll be flying down there to do some shows with her next year. If you cheer loud enough after her songs she'll give you a kangaroo with a boomerang in its pouch and one of those hats with all the corks on it. Maybe some Fosters. She's Australian like that. 11 - Brand New Bag - Beeston Boogaloo (live at Domino) - Hair Of The Dog - Brudenell Social Club - Saturday 4th January 2025 - 6PM - £7.50 - the city's funkiest faces. BNB formed in 2023 for an on-going residency at Leeds' hottest late night spot for all things jazz, funk & soul, The Domino Club. Born from a collective of musicians and rappers that coalesced around the Funk'd Up Jazz-Hop live jam sessions that popped up around the city since 2015, BNB bring funky and soulful dancefloor flavours to jazz clubs, warehouse raves & festivals, and parties of all kinds, all pumped with a beating heart of UK Hip-Hop. Melding flavours from jazz-funk, funky & neo soul, disco and all things groove with the attitude of conscious hip-hop, BNB bring the party at any occasion. Already headlining Unity Day 2023 & taking bookings at some of the finest funk events and festivals including Beat-Herder Festival 2024 and regularly taking the roof off The Domino late night shows, BNB have been described as "Fabulously Funky", "The ultimate party dance band" and “funky hip-hop heroes”. A truly professional act, Brand New Bag are equally able to get on the good foot and get those tailfeathers shakin’ in the cool sophistication of the finest jazz clubs, or to bring the party at some of the U.K’s biggest dance music events, festivals, or any other place to party. Brand New Bag are the perfect polished high ...
