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Leeds’ School of Rock are releasing songs with the Hallé about climate change
LS18 Rocks and the Hallé Orchestra have collaborated on three songs together and plan to release their music after their successful performance at Leeds Town Hall.
LS18 Rocks and the Hallé Orchestra plan to release three climate protest songs after their performance at Leeds Town Hall.
Earlier this week, the Leeds equivalent to the School of Rock, LS18 Rocks, performed with the renowned Hallé Orchestra and plan to record and release their music for all to listen to.
The songs were performed in the Albert Room at Leeds Town Hall on the Saturday 23 October and were inspired by travel across the Pennines.
The Horsforth music school played alongside the famous Hallé Orchestra, effortlessly merging classical instruments like the flute and trumpet with heavy rock instruments.
LS18 Rocks is a real life School of Rock based in Horsforth. / Image- LS18 Rocks
Think electric guitars, bass and keyboards with ranging vocals amplifying their important message about cutting greenhouse gases and carbon emissions.
Musical Director Jonnie Khan of LS18 Rocks described the experience as a "totally inspirational experience" and commented on the positive impact the collaboration had on the students.
"It has been wonderful to see how the two genres have been able to blend".
Urgency, a poster from the Horsforth band. / Image: LS18 Rocks
The musical collaboration came after the by internationally-known 2020 Christmas song from LS18 band, entitled Virtual Hugs.
The festive song was a tribute to the young people's grandparents and produced a very timely and humbling musical experience for all that had the chance to listen.
Virtual Hugs was picked up by press around the world and afterwards LS18 were able to resume work on their climate change project entitled Up In Flames, which the Hallé were part of.
Recognising the importance of climate change for younger generations, the well-resourced music school gave their students a chance to express themselves and spread an important message through song.
Neither party in the collaboration have announced a release date for their music but we can't wait to listen to their songs about climate change soon.
After closing for the entire second day, The Warehouse stage at Leeds Festival has once again been forced to evacuate.
One of the most anticipated dance acts of the day has been cancelled due to health and safety concerns just moments before the set.
Sheffield DJ Silva Bumpa was due to take to The Warehouse stage today at 1:30pm, but the set was cancelled due to overcrowding.
It's not the first time this has happened at Leeds Festival 2026, as yesterday Omar+'s set was cancelled due to the same issue and the stage was subsequently closed for the rest of the day.
The Warehouse stage is completely new for this year, and supposedly is designed specifically for dance music...which is quite ironic.
Announcing the news to Instagram, Silva Bumpa said: "So so sorry Leeds Fest but due to over crowding my set was cancelled last min I was just behind the stage and got told right before such a massive shame."
Prospa, another prominent DJ who's set was cancelled at Reading on Friday afternoon, spoke up on the situation: "We are disappointed in The Warehouse stage closure at Reading Festival. We were told it wasn't possible to play whilst on the way. This was due to too many people outside the stage.
"We have seen this happen before at larger festivals in the UK. It's time to double the capacity of tents or put dance music on the main stage."
It comes after another dance stage, LS23, was closed mid-set last night due to a health and safety hazard when all the lights suddenly switched off and ravers were forced to evacuate.
If yesterday is anything to go by, we wouldn't be surprised if The Warehouse was closed for the rest of the day which means anticipated sets from Rossi and Mall Grab will also be cancelled.
‘Actually lost for words’ – huge artist speaks out as Leeds Festival set is cancelled due to overcrowding
Clementine Hall
For the second day in a row, a huge set has been cancelled due to overcrowding at Reading and Leeds Festival.
Day two of the festival and there's some pretty disappointed ravers hanging their head as one of the biggest dance music sets of the day is cancelled.
Omar+, a rising British electronic DJ and producer, was due to play on the brand-new Warehouse stage at Reading yesterday and Leeds today.
Yesterday's set was cancelled last minute due to overcrowding, and low and behold the same has happened here in Leeds.
Announcing the sad news to his story, Omar+ said "Actually lost for words. My Leeds set has been cancelled due to overcrowding."
He then went on to show a screenshot of a text message, reading: "I've never seen something like this in my entire life where two shows back to back are cancelled due to overcrowding."
The Warehouse stage is completely new for this year, and supposedly is designed specifically for dance music...which is quite ironic.
Prospa, another prominent DJ who's set was cancelled at Reading yesterday, spoke up on the situation: "We are disappointed in The Warehouse stage closure at Reading Festival. We were told it wasn't possible to play whilst on the way. This was due to too many people outside the stage.
"We have seen this happen before at larger festivals in the UK. It's time to double the capacity of tents or put dance music on the main stage."
It comes after another dance stage, LS23, was closed mid-set last night due to a health and safety hazard when all the lights suddenly switched off and ravers were forced to evacuate.
Sophie Smith -
27th October 2021 
