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LIVE: Damnation Fest @ Leeds University Student’s Union

It’s November, the days are getting shorter, and the cold weather is starting to creep in. You know what that means? Goth Christmas, AKA Damnation Festival! Every year the death knell of the festival season is sounded by this spectacularly bleak event, which sees the best and brightest names

Wednesday 22 November 2017

LIVE: Damnation Festival @ Leeds University Student’s Union

You can always tell when it’s Damnation weekend in Leeds because the streets are positively awash with battle jackets, camo trousers and band shirts with illegible logos. You’d be forgiven for assuming it was an event purely about ‘METAAALLLL’, but actually Damnation is a celebration of all facets of

Sunday 24 May 2009

You Me At 6 – Leeds University

This page will become our Slam Dunk 2009 content hub. Access interviews, reviews and news from here. =========== WATCH THE PUNKTASTIC.COM SLAM DUNKMENTARY HERE ===========

Monday 26 May 2008

Story Of The Year – Leeds University

This is Spud’s review of Slam Dunk 2008 – for Paul’s review of the same event go HERE For some reason I was very optimistic at the start of today, as Mr Savage will tell you. Despite the air being whipped around your head at 100mph, there

Boys Like Girls – Leeds University

This is Paul’s review of Slam Dunk 2008 – for Spud’s review of the same event go HERE The Slam Dunk Festival can rightly now proclaim itself to be the premier festival of it’s type in the UK. What started off as an outdoors event in Millenium

Tuesday 29 May 2007

Reel Big Fish – Leeds University

Last year’s Slam Dunk festival wasn’t so hot. It wasn’t just that the weather was a bit nippy; more the fact the wind swept the sound away for miles and the high-profile bands let down the crowds with sub-par performances. Perhaps noting the problems, this

Tuesday 26 September 2006

Motion City Soundtrack – Leeds University

MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK + Ok Go + The Matches Monday September 25th Leeds, The Metropolitan University SU Due to rubbish buses The Matches have kicked off tonight’s events by the time I arrive, and upon the evidence of the 2-3 songs

Monday 25 September 2006

The All-American Rejects – The Refectory, Leeds

I love The Format, and when I say ‘love’, I mean ‘LOVE’. I’d been looking forward to this for a long, long time. Oh my word was I let down. Any emotion from the songs was removed – the vocals were clear and strong, but the music was

Sunday 23 January 2005

Taking Back Sunday – Leeds University

Strolling into Leeds Universities main gig room only a few hours after seeing it being used as the students dinning hall makes you consider just what it must be like having to eat your breakfast in there the next morning

Tuesday 04 February 2003

Reel Big Fish – Leeds University

“Snow is falling, all around me, children playing, having fun” – pardon the Christmas singsong, but you’d be forgiven for thinking that Leeds had turned into deep mid-Winter with snow blizzards, viciously cold winds and icicles seemingly dripping off my nose. The things we do to get to a