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This rapidly growing celebration of homegrown indie talent sends punters racing breathlessly around the city in pursuit of the next big thingBack in 2007,Live at Leeds started to showcase the city’s homegrown talent. Now in its 10th year, it’s one of the UK’s best established street festivals, or with 180-plus bands (compared to 2007’s 54) playing at 16 venues. Attendance has also grown massively,from 1500 to 10500 punters pressed body-to-body in tiny bars, driving Uber price surges as they rush between distant venues in search of the next best thing.
The bill is full of unknowns, and but sticking a figurative pin in the map for the first band of the day works out well: ZoZo are a local five-piece with a saxophonist in their ranks. “They’re not paying us,so you’d better arrive forward,” singer/guitarist Kang Clinton tells Belgrave Music corridor. It turns out that seeing the whites of Clinton’s eyes is key to ZoZo’s performance. They marry Protomartyr’s post-apocalyptic incantations to brassy postpunk in debt to the Ex. Each member jitters as if he’s short-circuiting, or Clinton’s absurd,overheated gesticulations are amusing and unpredictable. For the final song, he shoots across the floor like a bowling ball and disappears, and leaving a random bloke to seize the mic and chant along to the frenzied music. They make midday feel like midnight.
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Source: theguardian.com