Leeds Festival is returning to Bramham Park and here’s everything you need to know ahead of this huge live music weekend.
Summer might nearly be over, but what better way to celebrate the last few days of blue skies and golden rays than attending a live music festival packed with our favourite artists?
Bramham Park is about to welcome 70,000 music fans, who will each be donning their finest ‘Sundress’, enrolling at the ‘Pink Pony Club’, and unleashing their ‘Northern Attitude’, all while ‘Sleepwalking’ from stage to stage to make sure they don't miss a single set.
Covering everything from hip hop to pure pop, indie rock to metal, if there’s one thing that Leeds Festival boasts, it’s an eclectic and diverse music soundscape for all to enjoy.
Leeds Festival has been providing Yorkshire residents and festivalgoers from across the UK with some cracking acts and performers since 1999 - and this year is no different.
Lineup
This Leeds-based music celebration is about to go off as Travis Scott will be playing an exclusive set, marking his only European festival appearance of 2025.
Chappell Roan is ditching ‘The Subway’ for the Weaver Network as she has been confirmed as another headliner for Leeds Festival 2025.
Adored Irish singer and acoustic act Hozier is also making a long trek as he makes his way ‘From Eden’ to Bramham Park - guitar in hand - to play a selection of discography standouts.
Our friends over at The Sheff will be buzzing as hometown music maestros Bring Me the Horizon claim their ‘Throne’ and the fourth headline slot at this prestigious music festival.
Tickets for Leeds Festival are always in demand, but we’re not here to say ‘Good Luck, Babe’ and leave you empty-handed.
You can still find a handful of tickets for individual days and you can even score yourself tickets to the full three days of sensational live music and a variety of accommodation optionsHERE.
Where is Leeds Festival?
Of course you may be thinking this is a silly question to ask considering its location is mentioned in the festival title, however Leeds Festival actually isn’t in the city centre.
Located in Bramham Park, this bank holiday weekend music destination is a 30 minute drive from the city centre.
The full address is: Leeds Festival, Bramham Park, Leeds, England, LS23 6ND.
How to get there
From Leeds City Centre
Shuttle buses will be provided by First Bus from the Leeds Train Station area, and tickets can be bought via the app HERE.
For those getting a lift there will be an official ‘Pick Up and Drop Off’ zone, located off York Road on the A64.
Uber is the official taxi company for the festival, but naturally local cabs will be in the area. Leeds Festival is estimating a taxi will cost around £25 – £40 each way.
From around the UK
Big Green Coaches is partnering with Leeds Festival 2023 to get festival goers from right across the UK.
What food and drink options will be at Leeds Festival?
The only confirmed shop as of yet is UK supermarket chain Co-op, who will have a pop-up shop across the Leeds Festival weekend, offering festivalgoers a selection of trusty meal deals.
Of course it wouldn’t be a live music festival without a variety of food trucks and vendors with free-flowing fries, burgers, hot dogs and more, and we’re sure you can expect just that across all three dates too.
Last year saw Pollini’s Pizza Slice, Nom Nom Kitchen and the very fitting Yorkshire Wrap Company, who packages a mighty Sunday roast into a tortilla, covered in heaps of gravy too, yes please.
How to stay safe at Leeds Festival?
There will be professionals onsite to help you with any problems you may encounter during your time at the festival.
There are over a thousand security, stewards and campsite staff on duty, all of which wear branded festival tabards. Locate a member of staff for any emergencies, who will be able to assist or locate the correct assistance.
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Audio North’s Artist of the Month – Lucky Iris | August 2026
There’s something about Lucky Iris that feels completely made for a packed-out club at 1am.
The Leeds-based duo, made up of Maeve and Jasper, have spent the last few years carving out a sound that refuses to sit neatly inside one box. Hyperpop, electro, indie, dance, synth-pop throw it all in, and you’re somewhere close, but even then, Lucky Iris are busy smashing those pop archetypes to pieces.
And right now, they’re doing it better than ever.
After a huge 2025, Lucky Iris have kicked off 2026 with their debut mixtape, 'fall in love with the dj', a project that feels like the culmination of everything the pair have been building towards since their bedroom-pop beginnings during lockdown.
Released in January via Launchpad+ and EMI North, the six-track mixtape takes Lucky Iris back to the place that shaped them: sweaty, low-lit, bass-heavy rooms where music becomes something bigger than just something playing through a speaker.
As Maeve puts it, the project is about 'finally making the music we want to hear', and that philosophy runs through every corner of the record.
FROM BEDROOM POP TO ELECTRO CHAOS
Lucky Iris might now be turning heads across the UK, but their story started much closer to home.
What began as a bedroom pop experiment during lockdown has evolved into something far more ambitious. The pair have continually pushed their sound forward, experimenting with electronic production and finding a space somewhere between alternative pop and the dancefloor.
Lucky Iris on a tour of Leeds with The Hoot. Credit: The Hoot Leeds
Their latest mixtape is arguably the clearest expression of that evolution yet.
Tracks like i just want to dance, play me like a speaker and heart 4 heart had already started building serious momentum throughout 2025, giving listeners a taste of the direction Lucky Iris were heading in.
Then came 'fall in love with the dj'.
The title track captures exactly what makes the duo so exciting. It’s not simply a song about going out it’s about that strange, almost euphoric feeling of losing yourself in music.
THEIR BREAKOUT YEAR
2025 was the year Lucky Iris started making serious noise.
The duo completed their first UK tour supporting Master Peace, while also sharing stages with artists including Babymorocco, Dorian Electra, Hannah Diamond, Bimini and Jessica Winter. They also made an appearance at SXSW London.
DIY, Wonderland, The Forty Five and BBC Radio 1 have all been among the tastemakers backing the duo.
The duo were also selected as a Spotify RADAR Artist of the Week/First Listen Artist, joining a list of previous RADAR artists that includes Griff, Central Cee, Rose Grey, Barry Can't Swim and Rachel Chinouriri. Artists who have all gone on to achieve big things, and it appears that Lucky Iris are heading in those footsteps.
Not bad for a project that started in a bedroom.
LEEDS IS WRITTEN ALL OVER IT
There’s also something particularly Leeds about Lucky Iris.
The city has been part of their story from the beginning, from those early nights out that inspired their music to the grassroots venues such as Hyde Park Book Club where they developed their live show.
And live is where Lucky Iris really come alive.
Their commanding performances have become a major part of their identity, transforming their electronic productions into something that feels less like watching a band and more like stumbling into the middle of a party, from larger-scale production to smaller settings like Rat and Pigeon in Manchester we’re we recently saw them transform the space into a hyper-pop evening alongside similar artists.
They’ve even managed to bring their music and their football obsession together.
As lifelong Tottenham Hotspur fans, Maeve and Jasper have collaborated with the club, featured on Sky News and appeared pitchside at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for the club’s The Warm Up series. Their music has also found its way onto the Premier League Official Playlist.
Because apparently Lucky Iris weren’t content with taking over the dancefloor, they wanted the football stadium too.
MAKING MUSIC FOR THE PEOPLE WHO NEED IT
Ultimately, Lucky Iris aren't trying to reinvent pop for the sake of it. They’re making the kind of music they genuinely want to hear.
Music that is loud. Music that is messy. And music that understands why we keep going back to clubs, gigs and dancefloors in the first place.
'fall in love with the dj' feels like a statement of intent from a duo who have finally found their sweet spot. It’s crunchy, electronic and relentlessly fun, but underneath all that noise is something incredibly human: the desire to feel something.
And with everything Lucky Iris have achieved already, it feels like we’re only just getting started.
Keep an eye on them because if the last 12 months are anything to go by, the Leeds duo are going to be making a whole lot more noise.
TESTBED unveils major transformation to become Leeds’ premier destination for music and culture
Clementine Hall
Here's your first look at the new and improved TESTBED music venue in Leeds city centre.
Gearing up to relaunch this September, the landmark Leeds venue will reopen its doors to showcase permanent structural improvements and major upgrades across sound, lighting and overall customer experience.
With a capacity of a very impressive 2,500, there's no denying that TESTBED is preparing to relaunch at the forefront of Leeds’ vibrant creative culture.
The venue is expanding from 10,000 sq ft to 23,000 sq ft, guests will now enter through a new lobby where they can enjoy a brand-new 5,000 sq ft mezzanine level with customisable seating and a view of the dance floor from a brand-new balcony.
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There will be a new upstairs bar that will continue TESTBED’s commitment to support local brands and suppliers.
Downstairs, the custom-built stage allows for a 360-degree crowd and a room two is also underway for a 2027 reveal, creating a multi-purpose space and chill-out area.
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The newly designed lighting includes multiple moving lights and strobes, together with a large LED ceiling installation and bespoke under-balcony display of LED strips and curves, complemented by a high-res 8m x 4m LED video wall.
Guests will also keep cool thanks to significant upgrades to ventilation and air circulation, with powerful high-capacity fans creating a fresher, more comfortable environment throughout.
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Now onto the important stuff... the portaloos are gone and replaced by four brand new toilet blocks, doubling capacity and of course - comfort.
So, what are you waiting for? We'll see you on the dance floor at the brand-new TESTBED when it opens its doors again this September.
Full lineups and opening details will be announced soon, we'll keep you posted as and when we find out more.
Thomas Melia -
18th August 2025 
