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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New BBC TV drama starring Bel Powley and Harley Squires to be filmed in Leeds this spring
The BBC has announced a brand-new crime drama set to be filmed in Leeds and Hull.
We all love a BBC drama, and luckily for us one is about to be filmed right here in Leeds.
The new drama will be titled Shy & Lola, starring Harley Squires from The Night Manager and Bel Powley from The Diary of A Teenage Girl.
The six-part series has been described as a "dark comedy" about two women caught up in a murder in the criminal underworld.
The plot follows an unassuming pair in a small coastal town in northern England where the pair both realise they have a hidden talent for crime.
The series synopsis states: "As they build an operation that threatens to blow the local bad guys out of the water, opposing futures beckon – using their earnings to fund a fresh start, or becoming the new bosses in town."
The show is based on a popular French TV series and is written by Amanda Coe, an acclaimed English screenwriter and novelist.
Amanda Coe spoke about the announcement: "With such a rich and spiky central relationship at its core, Shy & Lolais a dream of a show to write, full of fun, action and emotion. I can't wait to see our hugely exciting cast and director bring it to life."
Rachelle Constant, executive Producer for Clerkenwell Films, said: "Amanda has written a brilliantly bold series centred on a dynamic female duo, which blends dark comedy with propulsive storytelling.We’re thrilled to have Hayley and Bel as our leads, alongside an exceptional cast and crew."
The new series will begin filming in Leeds and Hull this spring and will air on BBC One and iPlayer and we'll absolutely be tuning in.
Turnstile to play their only UK headline show this year at Halifax Piece Hall
Clementine Hall
Turnstile will headline the Halifax Piece Hall this summer, their only UK headline show.
The Grammy-winning hardcore group have just announced a very special show at historic venue the Halifax Piece Hall.
As part of the venue's huge summer season, Turnstile will take to the stage on Wednesday 26 August marking a whopping 41 shows at the Piece Hall's calendar so far.
The group pulled huge crowds at Glastonbury festival last year and scooped up two Grammy Awards earlier this month, using their platform to thank fans who "swung in the dark" with them.
Nicky Chance-Thompson MBE DL FRSA, CEO of The Piece Hall Trust, says: “2026 will see Turnstile playing at some of the world’s most iconic festivals and then here in Halifax at UK’s most iconic heritage venue.”
“We always aim to deliver for the full spectrum of music lovers in Calderdale and knowing how passionate our rock and metal community is, this gig will be off the scale – truly unmissable!”
Alongside Turnstile, Halifax Piece Hall will welcome the likes of Hollywood Vampires, Paul Weller, Bowling For Soup, Skunk Anansie, Garbage, Empire of the Sun, Sex Pistols, Mcfly, CMAT and Jimmy Eat World this summer. What a season it's going to be.
Baltimore’s hardcore heroes will head to West Yorkshire to play TK Maxx presents Live at The Piece Hall on Wednesday August 26.
Tickets go on sale this Friday 27 February at 10am, and you can get your tickets here.
Find out more about what's going on at the Halifax Piece Hall this summer here.
Georgina Pellant -
11th May 2021 
