Post Music: Celebrating Independent Venue Week

THEY are the lifeblood of local music scenes all over the world and, for a third year running the industry is getting together to remind people how important independent music venues are.
The Seagulls play the 360 Club in Leeds on Friday night.The Seagulls play the 360 Club in Leeds on Friday night.
The Seagulls play the 360 Club in Leeds on Friday night.

The kind of venues involved provide many artists with their first experience of playing live in front of an audience.

For fans, it is somewhere to get up close to artists and bands that one day, could have moved on and may well be playing stadiums and festivals.

Hide Ad
Hide Ad

Using public funding from Arts Council England, IVW brings together the venues along with breaking and established artists, promoters, labels, media, and bloggers.

The Seagulls play the 360 Club in Leeds on Friday night.The Seagulls play the 360 Club in Leeds on Friday night.
The Seagulls play the 360 Club in Leeds on Friday night.
Richard Watson, who runs the 360 Club at The Library. Picture: Tony Johnson.Richard Watson, who runs the 360 Club at The Library. Picture: Tony Johnson.
Richard Watson, who runs the 360 Club at The Library. Picture: Tony Johnson.

To mark the week on PostMusic, we run down all the venues in Yorkshire who are taking part in the event and hear from Richard Watson, owner of Leeds’s 360 Club which is staging two IVW nights this Friday and Saturday.

We also here music from the eight local acts that will be performing at the 360, as well as grabbing a few words with Wolf Alice’s Ellie Rowsell, whose band are ambassadors for the event.

List of events in Yorkshire over the next seven days to mark Independent Venue Week

Bradford

Ceiling Demons play the 360 Club in Leeds on Saturday night as part of Independent Venue Week.Ceiling Demons play the 360 Club in Leeds on Saturday night as part of Independent Venue Week.
Ceiling Demons play the 360 Club in Leeds on Saturday night as part of Independent Venue Week.

The Live Room at Saltire - Friday 29th January: Tim O’Brien

Halifax

Hide Ad
Hide Ad

Arden Road Social Club - Friday 29th January: Hunck + Postcards From Jeff + Moth Loves The Flame

Hebden Bridge Trades Club - Thursday 28th January: Frankie & The Heartstrings

The Seagulls play the 360 Club in Leeds on Friday night.The Seagulls play the 360 Club in Leeds on Friday night.
The Seagulls play the 360 Club in Leeds on Friday night.

Friday 29th January: HB Soundsystem (AKA Hookworms) perform Sound of Silver

Saturday 30th January: Edwin Collins

Sunday 31st January: Linden

Hull

Fruit - Friday 29th January: No Nothings + Love Buzzard + Sister Strange

Hide Ad
Hide Ad

The New Adelphi Club - Tuesday 26th January: Eagulls + LIFE + more

Richard Watson, who runs the 360 Club at The Library. Picture: Tony Johnson.Richard Watson, who runs the 360 Club at The Library. Picture: Tony Johnson.
Richard Watson, who runs the 360 Club at The Library. Picture: Tony Johnson.

Thursday 28th January: Night Flowers + Dead Hormones + Serial Chillers

Leeds

The Library/360 Club - Friday 29th January: Happy Daggers + Marsicans + The Seagulls + Meihaus

Saturday 30th January: Fold + Ceiling Demons + Rawschah + Terra-ist

Sheffield

The Harley - Monday 25th January: Adam French

The Leadmill - Tuesday 26th January: Minus The Bear

The Plug - Tuesday 26th January: Matthew E. White

Friday 29th January: Kitty Daisy and Lewis

Wakefield

Hide Ad
Hide Ad

Unity Works - Friday 29th January: Thomas Wilby Gang + One Day After School + Climbing Alice + Charlie Padfield

York

Fibbers - Tuesday 26th January: Halo Blind + Fronteers + The Pylons

Wednesday 27th January: FM + No Hot Ashes

Thursday 28th January: The Talks + China Shop Bull + The Magnificent Seven

Friday 29th January: Rick Witter & Paul Banks (Shed 7)

Saturday 30th January: The Bastard Sons + RSJ + Dead White Doves + Pantheon

Sunday 31st January: The Lake Poets + Boss Caine + Zak Ford + Ryan Spendlove + Edwina Hayes

The Fulford Arms - Monday 25th January: The Drink + Frog + Missing Kids

Related topics: