The Leadmill

Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of a Different Class!

British indie outfit the Rifles rose to popularity in the mid-2000s with a jaunty garage rock & roll sound that's equal parts Jam-like swagger and a playfulness not unlike contemporaries…

The Wired are an indie pop four piece from Sheffield. Over the last 7 years the boys have played shows all over the UK, major festival stages and sell out…

After two successful years of sell out tours, a critically acclaimed album,& incendiary festival appearance across Europe, The Moonlandingz founders and co-songwriters Adrian Flanagan (Eccentronic Research Council) & Dean Honer…

Fever are James Harrod, Mitchell Capes, Joe Gray, Sam Howell and Ellis Keogh. Formed in late 2019, this five-piece are the latest cultural ambassadors flying the flag for the city…

Founded by Emily Stancer in 2018, Women of the Seven Hills is a celebration of female-identifying musicians in Sheffield and further afield. The event was created to showcase the vast female talent in the city, underrepresented in…

15 years is a long time when your band is called Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly a product of its time, as much you and I; The Chronicles of a…

The Liverpool four-piece's new single is an anti-anthem for a generation nobly stirred by the cruelty of horse racing and the gambling industry propping it up. “I don’t care if…

John Harold Arnold Bramwell, to give him his full name, is perhaps best-known for his time as the songwriter and frontman of Manchester three-piece, I Am Kloot. However, he also…

Martha Wainwright is beginning again.   The beguiling performer and songwriter returns with Love Will Be Reborn, out in August. Not since 2012’s Come Home to Mama has a Martha…

In May we were sadly made aware of the passing of close friend of the venue, Ant Allen. As a much loved member of The Leadmill family for over 7…

The release of Maverick Thinker marks an exhilarating new beginning for UK roots-rock trio William the Conqueror, one that casts a bittersweet glance back while thrilling at the possibilities of…

Estevans are a 4 piece Alternative Indie band from Guildford, England. Lead by songwriter Guy Ferris, singer Oscar Post and drummer Ollie Thomas who started making music together from age…

Really fucking good’ - Indie Shuffle ‘A tribute to British awkwardness’ - Wonderland Magazine ‘I love this band’ - Annie Mac Is the juice worth the squeeze? Is the honey…

Formed from the fruits of a solid foundation built over years of touring and writing, October Drift have cemented their place as an important new presence, with their heavy, pop-inflected…

ECHOBELLY, considered by many as one of the major players in the British BritPop scene, are about to embark on a “post lockdown” UK tour in September and October 2021.…

Over the course of their extraordinarily accomplished discography to date, Django Django have constantly headed left where others have gone right. Recently described by The Guardian as “making music that sounds…

at Yellow Arch Studios.   Today, July 2nd, London-based blues/soul artist Kat Eaton shares her debut album ‘Talk To Me’.   Whereas some debut albums show artists still finding their…

For Oscar Lang, playing music has always been his way of making sense of the world around him. Since childhood, his love of sound and melody has been a constant,…

Emerging from the same art/design cauldron that produced fellow Leeds legends Soft Cell, Scritti Politti, and The Mekons, CUD were the pre-Britpop answer to doleful shoegazing bands – fun-loving, light-hearted,…

What do you do when your band is flying high and playing the best shows you’ve ever done, only for the country to go lockdown? That’s the situation that Saint…

To celebrate its 15th Anniversary, the band are set to release 1000 special edition double LPs of their seminal debut album 'Well Well Well' - a record which has never…

“Hard-hitting lyrics and sunny, feelgood grooves” THE GUARDIAN “The Skints are very much a band on the cusp; they are at the top of their game right now” LOUDER THAN…

Salem is the musical project of Creeper frontman Will Gould and longtime friend Matt Reynolds of Howard’s Alias, Skylar and Drawings. The duo released their self-titled debut EP in October…

To celebrate its 15th Anniversary, the band are set to release 1000 special edition double LPs of their seminal debut album 'Well Well Well' - a record which has never…

Love. It’s an emotion that rules our lives whether we like it or not. It can make us feel like we can take on anything or feel like every single…

With her new album Revel In The Drama due for release 3rd April via Bella Union, Ren Harvieu has today shared a sultry video for current single “Yes Please”.   Of the video,…

Raw and raucous, SPRINTS are a post-punk four-piece from Dublin. They combine guitar-driven hooks, motoric rhythm and emotive lyricism to create a unique sound that pulls from garage, grunge, punk and beyond.…

Fat Bob & The Cureheads were started by Gary Clarke back in 1990 when he had come to the end of a summer busking around Europe playing songs by The…

Beginning as Dana Margolin’s sadcore bedroom project, Porridge Radio developed into an idiosyncratic post-punk 4-piece after she moved to Brighton and met her future bandmates. They inelegantly knot together Margolin's…

The Snuts are a Scottish indie rock band formed in 2015, originating from West Lothian, Scotland. The band consists of Jack Cochrane (vocals and guitar), Joe McGillveray (guitar), Callum '29'…

The Dualers are a 9-piece Jamaican Rhythm & Blues band from South-East London. They first hit the headlines when the single ‘Kiss on the Lips’ stormed in to the UK…

At Sidney & Matilda. Built up of anthemic indie singles, including ‘Chemistry’ and ‘Addicted’, and racking up over 2 million Spotify streams in the process, this foursome have established themselves…

If you write David Keenan’s story down and read it back to yourself it feels almost too good to be true. The Irish kid from a council estate in Dundalk,…

Tigercub are an English alt-rock and alt-pop band from Brighton. Formed in 2011, the band released their debut album ‘Abstract Figures In The Dark’ in 2016 via Alcopop Records and…

They’ve been hailed as “a representation of our gut feeling, savage and merciless” and at the same time, called “folk in the grand tradition of it being the peoples sound.”…

Atomic 80s are a Sheffield based tribute act of the much maligned decade that was the 80s. This authentic looking and sounding act covers a diverse range of artists such…

Sheffield's very own Everly Pregnant Brothers will play a very special 'Judas' show, they'll be going all-electric, no ukes for one night only! The Everly Pregnant Brothers were formed after…

IMPORTANT: Statement from Teenage Fanclub: “This is probably the least unexpected news we could be delivering right now, but unfortunately due to the ongoing pandemic, we have reluctantly been forced…