Festival Review: Sunday at Leeds Festival – Kenny Hoopla, Chalk, Sleep Token and The 1975 put in some great sets (Sunday Gallery)

By John Hayhurst
By John Hayhurst August 29, 2023 News, Reviews

Just how many fabulous acts on at the final day of the Leeds Festival this year? Far too many for us to see all of them. But we did see quite a lot!

Words Bill Adamson – Photos John Hayhurst

The BBC Introducing Stage gave us Chalk, then a Leeds band with a French name, L’Objectif, Glasgow’s Lucia and the Best Boys, Pixey and a not-so-secret second set from Baby Queen.

We spent a lot of time at the Festival Republic Stage for Glasgow Rockers Anchor Lane, Scouse punks High Vis, Zand who is a purveyor of “ugly pop”, the rather marvellous Mothica, Soft Play (formerly Slaves), Kenny Hoopla with the most energetic set of the weekend and masked up Sleep Token, just how weird were they?

We also managed to see quite a bit of action on the Main Stages kicking off with Baby Queen with her first set of the day, Holly Humberstone, Inhaler, Easy Life, the 1975 and the Killers who closed the whole event off.

Sadly we missed Arlo Parks, not so sadly we also missed Jedward!

 

 

 

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John has been to gigs for over 30 years and he travels all over for festivals. Genres range from folky female singers to bloodbath metal whores - Live for the Music!