A bank holiday weekend is always a prime time for a music festival, and Live At Leeds has, in its history, become a respectable magnet for mainstream artists.

18 months and 30-odd miles from York's tiny venue Stereo and The Vaccines play to nearly 4000 ecstatic fans in Bridlington's opulent Spa. During that time the band have gone global and learnt a few things (including, to their relief, that Yorkshire crowds aren't in fact chanting "your-sh**" at them).

We sent Jerel Stephen Lane to New York to catch Rammstein and then give us his personal account of their live show - here's what he thought (with some lovely photos added in). Beware the massive foamy sexual organ, Jerel... beware.

The Easter bank holiday weekend sees the Corporation in Sheffield host the second Resistanz Festival. This event is the creation of Phyll Pearman and Leighton James-Thompson - their objective has been simple - to forge a grand festival line-up with bands and DJs to cover all the sub genres in the modern day industrial music scene, and with a line-up of 15 international bands and 16 DJs over two days there is definitely something for everyone here. In the following review, we select our best bands from the fest, and talk about the venue, accommodation and people of Resistanz 2012.