Johnny James

Poor Creature reimagine centuries-old folk songs with dreamlike textures, earthy harmonies, and a subtle, timeless pull.

Bloom fuses Manchester and Japan’s creative energies in music, dance and fashion, imagining bold futures for shared histories.

Part post-punk grit, part gothic spectacle, Dog Race are a strange and compelling presence in the UK’s alt underground.

Celebrating the release of their debut album, The New Eves bring their raw, ritualistic folk to Leeds’ Hype Park Bookclub.

Call Super and Objekt, two of electronic music’s most distinctive voices, join forces for an extended back-to-back.

Part prayer, part protest, part dancefloor séance – Lyra Pramuk brings her otherworldly live show to The White Hotel.

Smart, eccentric, and gleefully out of step with trends – Bristol quartet Sans Froid bring their tangled, piano-led art-rock to Leeds.

The North West’s most fun new band rolls into Jacaranda this July, fresh off the back of their debut EP No and a place on the NME 100 list.

Refract returns to Waterside this July with a genre-spanning music programme that’s as playful and unpredictable as the festival itself – and much of it is completely free.

From bhangra to breakbeat, Summer Sounds brings global grooves and community energy to Keighley’s Cliffe Castle Park.

Internet blackout fantasies, displaced mermaids and a filmmaker turning wolf. This all dayer explores experimental fiction filmmaking from three continents.

Take a storybook journey from Manchester into Brontë country and the limestone folds of the Yorkshire Dales – landscapes that have shaped some of England’s most enduring fiction.