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First things first: if you’ve got free time this weekend, there’s a treat in store every day. Tonight [May 2], Reginaphiles Peggy Sue return to the City Screen Basement not long after their successful support of Mumford & Sons, before Fibbers presents York Music Live on Parliament Street over the afternoons of Sunday and Monday. Tomorrow [3] sees indie folksters Slow Club headlining, with the lyric-led Northern soul of Skint & Demoralised leading the pack on Monday [4]. Get yourselves down there for a 12:30pm start (headliners due on at 5pm).
Other upcoming highlights in York include Blur’s Graham Coxon [Fibbers, 8], neo-classical master Yann Tiersen, of Amélie soundtrack fame [Duchess, 10], Icelandic revelation Teitur headlining his first UK tour [Duchess, 25] and much-lauded punks Titus Andronicus [Junction, 29]. Our own BOB winners Magnapow! [28] bring their carnival atmosphere to the Duchess, and the City Screen Basement plays host to a night of new folk from the likes of Jeremy Warmsley and Pengilly’s [25].
Step over to Leeds for a bunch of indie shows, including Patrick Wolf [Cockpit, 20], The Hours [Cockpit, 23] and Deerhunter [Brudenell, 24]. Also at the Cockpit is one-man blues phenomenon Son of Dave [8], whereas other venues see visits from reggae veteran Horace Andy [Leeds Uni, 28], technically brilliant Marnie Stern [Brudenell, 17] and acclaimed Mercury nominees Portico Quartet [Brudenell, 20]. For something transcendent, Swedish ambient artist Library Tapes is playing at the Holy Trinity Church on the 28th. Worth checking out.
Full listings: Duchess ǀ Fibbers ǀ City Screen Basement
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