The indie folk darlings are coming to Leeds this autumn.
Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay (Tunng) have announced they'll be coming to Leeds' Brudenell Social Club for a special show on 2nd September.
The announcement comes as the pair, who collaborate together under the moniker LUMP, share their first new music of the year with fans.
The new album Animal is the pair’s first new release since their acclaimed eponymous 2018 debut and is due to be released on Chrysalis/Partisan Records on the 30th of July.
To coincide with the exciting new release, they'll also be undertaking a short UK tour - making stops at just 5 UK cities on the way, Leeds included.
Due to appear at the Brudenell Social Club on 2nd September, they'll open the tour at Manchester's Gorilla on 31st August before finishing at London' venue Scala on September 6th. Other stops include Bristol and Brighton.
Brudenell Social Club
For those unfamiliar with LUMP's debut LP, it veers away rather drastically from the work each artist creates apart. Described as sonically “vivid and sort of psychedelic,” Lindsay's music often falls into strange time patterns - inspired by the sea on his doorstep and their waves, which he says "go in circles of seven."
Recorded whilst Marling was working on her Mercury Prize and Grammy Award-nominated album Song For Our Daughter, she says working on LUMP material felt liberating and distinct.
“It became a very different thing about escaping a persona that has become a burden to me in some way,” she says.
“It was like putting on a superhero costume.”
Recorded at the Lindsay’s home studio in Margate, Kent, both felt the pressure to create an album as instinctive and magical as their first.
“There’s a little bit of a theme of hedonism on the album, of desires running wild,” says Marling.
“And also it fed into the idea we had from the start of thinking of LUMP as a kind of representation of instincts, and the world turned upside down.”
Tickets for the Leeds headline show is on sale now via www.lump.world.
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Leeds pizza shop hailed ‘exceptional’ and ‘best in the UK’ by major reviewer
A Leeds pizza takeaway has received a glowing review from popular review duo.
Edges Pizza opened up their first permanent spot in Leeds back in June this year, after making a name for themselves slinging out pizzas at multiple pop-ups across the city.
Owners Grace and Edge from Harrogate opened Edges Pizza two years ago, taking inspiration from trips to New York over the years.
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Their pizzas are a love letter to the class New York slice, think thin and crispy rather than chewy and floppy. But above all else, think absolutely delicious.
And now, they've caught the attention of a major review page, with Bite Twice Food Reviews (a page with almost 300k followers) paying Edges a visit.
The food review duo of Gerry del Guercio and Paul Delany popped up in Holbeck beneath the arches to get their hands on a pizza, and the outcome is brilliant.
In the video, Bite Twice said that the pizza is 'f**cking exceptional' and up there with 'one of the best pizzas in the UK'.
Before even taking a bite, they said: "On aesthetic, I don't think anywhere in the UK is doing pizza like this".
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Then after the first bite, they go on to say: "There are very few pizzas in the UK that create this, I’m a little bit blown away".
As Londoners themselves, they go on to say that Edges is 'easily hitting with the best that we’ve got down south'.
And if that's not high praise enough, they sign off the video saying: "Leeds has got an absolute gem. I give this a stamp so hard my foot went through the pizza. Edges. Don Level."
Yorkshire-set Christmas film by Leeds director starring Richard E. Grant set to hit UK cinemas next month
Clementine Hall
A brand-new Christmas film is hitting cinemas nationwide next month - and it’s a proper Leeds success story.
Jack Spring directed his first feature film at just 19 years old and has spent the last decade carving out a career in independent film, as well as co-founding Leeds-based production company Shush Films.
His first movie, Destination: Dewsbury, was shot just down the road in - you guessed it - Dewsbury. And after moving to Leeds from Grimsby, Jack became determined to build his business from the city, putting down roots and growing his production company here.
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Now, after years of working on independent projects, Jack has taken his biggest leap yet with a brand-new Christmas film, Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint.
Set in Yorkshire, Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint follows Aubrey Flint, a reclusive model soldier painter with a lifelong hatred of Christmas, who is sentenced to community service at Willow Lodge - a retirement home on the brink of closure.
Roped into helping with a chaotic production of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Aubrey clashes with its interesting set of residents...
And the cast is about as star-studded as it gets, featuring Richard E. Grant, John Bradley, Celia Imrie, Adjoa Andoh, Sophia Di Martino, Adrian Rawlins and Kiell Smith-Bynoe.
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The heartwarming festive comedy will hit cinemas nationwide on Friday 6 November - a huge milestone for a Leeds-based director and production company, taking a homegrown Yorkshire story to audiences across the country.
You just can't beat a proper wholesome British Christmas film, so you can best believe we'll be watching in the cinema, popcorn in hand.
Georgina Pellant -
11th May 2021 
