Ah, Live
at Leeds; that traditional klaxon heralding the start of summer, the
day when happy crowds wander our streets with sunglasses perched over
their smiles, and a pint outside seems like a realistic possibility
for the first time in a long time....or that's how it usually is.
This year the day dawned grey and wet, the thermometer in single
digits and the look was more bulky layers than bare shoulders. Queues
may have been a little more subdued, we may have lingered a little
less in the city's green spaces pouring over programmes, but the
assembled masses were no less up for this the 9th annual event. With
more than two hundred bands in over twenty venues, it promised to be
the most varied so far, with acts ranging from chart bothering
popsters to up and coming grime stars, delicate acoustic songstrels
to spoken word artists.
