Leeds Festival Fringe is a 7-day grassroots music festival held across several music venues in Leeds in the week prior to Leeds and Reading Festival. It was created in 2010 to showcase local talent before the main festival hits town.
Throughout the week, local promoters, bands, fanzines and on-line music communities all have their "takeover" of Leeds Festival Fringe thus bringing everyone who works all year round to benefit the local music scene together under one banner during one week.
The first year was very successful with over 120 performances, over 400 musicians playing in one week.
2010 The 2010 event took place between 19 and 25 August.
Venues Carpe Diem The Well The New Conservatory Royal Park Cellars The Elbow Room The Dry Dock The Hop and The Northern Monkey.
Hosts All Sorted Records The Beat Surrender Broken Heart Underground Bootscraper Claire Cameron Band Grain Division Hound Dog Promotions Liverpool Bands and Friends Lyrically Justified The Red Pills The Rhubarb Bomb Yorkshire Music Collective and Yorkshire Underground Band Show.
Artists
Acid Drop Acoustic Jim Adam Findlay Adelaide Harlequin A Last Concern Alvin Purple Angry Vs The Bear Audit Control Beat The Red Light The Beau's Belleville Ben Peel Beretta Suicide Bernadette Dales Black Diamond Bay (UK) Black Water The Blind Dead McJones Band Bludger Bootscraper Caesar Stars The Captives China Shop Bull Chris Martin Chris Sharp Claire Cameron Band Claw of Panther Codego Confined Within Cotheria Cupboard Wolves Danny Gruff Diamond Dac Charnley The Dirty Jeans Down The Machine Egypsy 4 Day Weekend El Camino Elephants on Acid The Famous Class The Freewheel Faux Romantics Fight The Frontline For The Ride The Fuzz Gaia Gentle Breeze Gerry Cooper Ghosts In The Nightclub Giraffey Fantastic Hemingway The Idles IMP The Insight Jack and Gill's Daughter Jasmine Kennedy The Jaw-Line of Julianne Moore JB Butterfield
Jen Armstrong Music Johnny Powell Jonny The Firth Kath and The Mighty Menace Lifescreen Lou Gibbs Louise Distras Luva Gunk Man Get Out March of the Defiants Matt Bentley The Melodicas New Reed Merry-Go Mi Mye Miranda versus The Crok Mondo Cane Montauk Island The Moves Mr Gary C Mutiny For Hire New York Alcoholic Anxiety Attack Old Man Pie Pastel Jack Philip Cockerham Quiet Rebellion Radio Gypsy The Red Pills Redstar Revenge of The Psychotronic Man Road To Horizon Runaround Kids Scott Anthony Wainwright Secret Circuits Secrets of Kaplan Silverlode The Shrinks The Sickmen of Europe The Sighting Spiders Eat Vinyl The Spills S.S.S.S.S. Standard Fare State of Error The Stella Frays Steph Stephenson The Swindells The Tabbs Tag-Team Preacher The Temps The Tender Hooligans 13 Lights Time of Hibu Volcanoes We Run Riot We Say No The Wick Effect X-Ray Cat Trio
2011 The 2011 event took place between 18 and 24 August.
Venues Carpe Diem The New Conservatory Milo Empire The Dry Dock The Well The Northern Monkey The Ship The Grove Baby Jupiter
Hosts All Sorted Records Bad Brains The Beat Surrender Bootscraper Grain Division Hound Dog Promotions I 'heart' Indie Lyrically Justified Metal Fringe Northern Torch The Red Pills Yorkshire Music Collective
Artists
AB Negative A Day For Heroes A Kick Inside Alice Ostapjuk Anna Fur Laxis Anita Maj Arizona Bay The Artists Ashe Vendetta Ashwin Thomas Banditos Bang Bang Romeo Ben Peel & The Wool City Folk Club The Big I Am The Blind Dead McJones Band Bludger The Boneyard Bootscraper British Racing Green Catfish and the Bottlemen Cats for Peru Chasing Dragons Chris Martin Claire Cameron Band The Coopers Crysis The Dangerous Aces Dan Burnett The Dawnriders Deadwall Deep In The Mire Diamond Dac Charnley Dirty Fakirs Disco Machine Gun DJ Ryan Carter Down The Machine Dr. Sketchy Echo Town Eclectic Sparks Eden Every Dying Moment Fade Away 4 Letter Holiday Further From The Truth Gerry Cooper The Guilt Charm Hail To The Eskimo Happy Red Tractors The Idol Dead Idiot Box I Said The Spy Izzy Thomas Jack's Attic John Parkes Jumping Ships Karma Slave
Katy Haymer King Headlock Leeds Burlesque Leesa Mae LeeSun Little Black Hearts Louise Distras Marsicans Matt Bentley Medicine Bow The Mexanines Michelle Nadia Middleman Miranda vs. The Crok Mishkin*The Mo-Mos Mr. Gary C Neve NGOD Northern Torch Ols Moore & The Gypsy Dogs One Stop Railway The Paper Smiles The Peppermint Hunting Lodge Penguin Pocket of 3 Project Metropolis Propane Penny PseudoNympho Raw Peaches The Red Pills Redwire Road To Horizon Rupert Stroud Ryan Mitchell-Smith Ryder Scott Wainwright Seas of Green Sebastopher Sharp Darts Silverlode 16-Bit Revival Skint and Demoralised Spiders Steph Stephenson Stolen Peace The Soul Circle Gang So What Robot Sunday For The Suspect The Swindells TestTone3 Ti Amo Tomorrow We Radio Town Street Seamonster Two Sevens Two Trick Horse
References Leeds Festival Fringe Website
External links
Fringe Benefits by The Unsigned Guide Leeds Festival Fringe is a First - BBC Leeds Leeds Festival Fringe starts today - The Guardian Leeds Festival Fringe Preview - Yorkshire Evening Post Leeds Fests Little Brother by Leeds Uncut Leeds Fringe Rocks The City