Guest reviewer Penny Brazier attended this year’s Live at Leeds Unconference and picked up some handy hints and tips for anyone aspiring to get ahead in the music industry. Read on…

Guest reviewer Hayley Scott spent a day enjoying the musical delights that Live at Leeds had to offer. Here is her take on the festival and the performances that she witnessed.

Guest reviewer Sam Monk enjoys an evening of cultural enrichment courtesy of German Leider at Howard Assembly Rooms.

Roving reporter Sam Monk takes a look at this weekend’s Live at Leeds festival and gives us his top tips for a good day/night out.

Guest reviewer Mark Tomlinson went to see 2:54 at the Cockpit and came away musing about the importance of band names!

Guest blogger Mark Tomlinson enjoyed a bit of country-folk-blues and gorgeous harmonies courtesy of Nashville’s The Civil Wars. Read all about it!

Guest blogger Sam Monk gives us the low-down on The Wave Pictures’ recent appearance at the Brudenell Social Club.

Guest reviewer Sam Monk (@smonk78) waxes lyrical about the endlessly talented sisters from Sweden that comprise First Aid Kit.

Guest blogger Penny Brazier talks to the editor of the forthcoming ‘Rhubarb Bomb’ book and asks how the music scene in Wakefield is getting on. Very well it seems…

Nicola Chapman profiles the singer-songwriter known concisely as ‘Mr Gary C’ and previews his forthcoming EP and launch night at the Northern Monkey…

Nicola Chapman catches up with Tom Bailey of the Arts and Minds Network to talk about how their forthcoming music event will help local people living with mental illnesses.

Guest reviewer Tom Bradley (@tombradley11) popped down to Bar Risa to experience their weekly acoustic session and caught up with two of the evening’s performers.

Guest reviewer Sam Monk takes a trip to the Brudenell Social Club and reports back on Beth Jeans Houghton’s recent gig.

Guest reviewer Nicole Paciello takes us on a journey to the magical, musical grotto that is the Brudenell Social Club games room and a night with singer Cass McCombs.

Nicola Chapman discovers that physical exercise can be fun after all at an aerobics class with a difference.

Nicola Chapman exhibits some journalistic nous by investigating the current ‘Leeds Playlist’ movement and asks why it has been such a popular concept on the tweeting scene.

Nicole Paciello (@nicoledandy) hotfoots it down to the Brudenell to watch post-punk four-piece The Men, take some photos and write a blog piece for your delectation. Enjoy!

Nicola Chapman meets the woman behind the soon-to-be inaugurated Leeds Music Hub (@leedsmusichub) , and finds out that the city has a wonderful musical future in the making.

Paul Clarke worked 9 to 5 to explain why he so admires a genre of music often dismissed as both too camp AND right-wing… Stand by your man!

Guest blogger Nicole Paciello (@nicoledandy) and old hand Nicola Chapman (@nicochapo) venture into The Nation of Shopkeepers for a night of Vice. Photography also by Nicole – check it!

“It’s fun, it’s silly and captures the imagination”. Nicola Chapman talks to seasoned promoter, part-time hat wearer and full-time funster Jonny Strangeways ahead of Black Lace’s triumphant return to the Brudenell Social Club.

Nicola Chapman (@nicochapo) gets educated on the zine scene by Jean McEwan (@Jeanmcewan) with her tribute to enigmatic artist Henry Darger

Nicola Chapman reviews ‘Sound It Out’, a documentary about the last surviving independent record store in Teeside.

Following on from Mike McKenny’s excellent preview of the Bradford Animation Festival, Nicola Chapman (@nicochapo) takes a look at what the event offers for families and children on Saturday 12th November.

Nicola Chapman catches up with The Lovely Eggs (again!) to discuss music, mental health and medieval houses…

Guest blogger Nicole Paciello (@nicoledandy) takes us on a pictorial and musical journey around Leeds, the city she now calls home.