Urban Gristle poetry hour with Tom Priestly. Rounding up spoken word and poetry gigs and nights from around the region! Settle in, make a brew and enjoy!

An absolute belter of a show! Phil Rochester rounds up the best live music for the next 2 weeks from around Leeds.

001 - Casino Havana - Now Or Never - Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds - Monday 18th November 2024, £5.00 - Grow / Casino Havana

002 - Suckle - Take Me There - Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds. Wednesday 20 November 2024 - £8 - Suckle / Little Hand Feet

003 - Perfect Teeth - Blue Paint - Wharf Chambers, Leeds - Friday 15th November 2024, £4.40 - Playing with: Slash Fiction / The Yatch Club / Student Slasher Film / Perfect Teeth

004 - Student Slasher Film - Hilbert's Hotel - Wharf Chambers, Leeds - Friday 15th November 2024, £4.40 - Playing with: Slash Fiction / The Yatch Club / Student Slasher Film / Perfect Teeth

005 - Ast3ria - I don't Need You - Lending Room, Leeds - Friday 15th November 2024, £9.00 - Jude Elliot / The Kaleidoscopes / ZOMBIE KALIMBA / Ast3ria

006 - Zombie Kalimba - Daughters - Lending Room, Leeds - Friday 15th November 2024, £9.00 - Jude Elliot / The Kaleidoscopes / ZOMBIE KALIMBA / Ast3ria

07 - Wicked Are The Branches - Tombstone Eyes - The Pack Horse - 16th Nov - With: Argham / Shindig

008 - Argham - Nocturnal

- The Pack Horse - 16th Nov - With: Argham / Shindig

009 - Shindig - Two Step - The Pack Horse - 16th Nov - With: Argham / Shindig

010 - Little Hand Feet - Better, How? - Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds. Wednesday 20 November 2024 - £8 - Suckle / Little Hand Feet

011 - Northern System - Slow Down - Royal Park, Leeds - Thursday 21st November 2024, £8.00 - Northern System / Family Art Club / Matthew Pearce

012 - Bad Luck Crowd - Vanishing Act - Lending Room, Leeds - Friday 22nd November 2024, £9.00 - Crossover / Bad Luck Crowd / Soup Of Truth / Cellophane

013 - About Faces - Heaven Sent - A Leeds band has set out on a mission to play a different venue in Leeds on every day of November. Indie five-piece about-faces have set out on the mission in support of their latest single ‘Guestlist’ and as a way to pay homage to their home city and highlight the challenges faces by Northern bands. The group, which formed two years ago and has amassed a solid local fanbase, will be playing pubs, venues and bars around the city, as well as busking in the city centre and supporting Hard-Fi at Leeds Stylus during the busy month. Lead singer Sennen Ludman said: “We thought it was a bit crazy but we wanted to do something that was wholly about Leeds.

014 - Heritage - The Suits - Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds - Saturday 23rd November 2024, £8.50 - Heritage / Blodeuynn / Romy Taylor

015 - Romy Taylor - Momentum - Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds - Saturday 23rd November 2024, £8.50 - Heritage / Blodeuynn / Romy Taylor

016 - Syteria - Debt Generation - Fox & Newt, Leeds - Saturday 23rd November 2024, £7.00 - Syteria / heed Case / omoia

017 - Omoia - Beyond These Eyes - Fox & Newt, Leeds - Saturday 23rd November 2024, £7.00 - Syteria / heed Case / omoia

018 - Rookie Numbers - Requiem (For A Pint) - Eiger Studios, Leeds. Saturday 23 November 2024 - £6.05 - Rookie Numbers / Jamurai / Draags

019 - Dissidents - Out Of The Clouds - Oporto, Leeds - Thursday 28th November 2024, £4.00 - Dissidents / Sun In Suburbia / The Dulakes

020 - Vaquelin - The Bona Fide Money Laundering Company - Royal Park, Leeds - Thursday 28th November 2024, £12.00 - Support TBC

021 - Hobson - Loaded Gun - Lending Room, Leeds - Friday 29th November 2024, £9.00 - Hobson / Kid Nowhere / Maisie Jo / Ceejay

022 - Maisie Jo - Pubwatch Blues - Lending Room, Leeds - Friday 29th November 2024, £9.00 - Hobson / Kid Nowhere / Maisie Jo / Ceejay

023 - Gurgles - Gubbins - Fox & Newt, Leeds - Saturday 30th November 2024 - Moose Wrench / Gurgles / MultiVac

024 - Substandards - I Still Lie - Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds - Saturday 30th November 2024, £5.00 - April Tapes / Substandards

025 - April Tapes - Those Days - Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds - Saturday 30th November 2024, £5.00 - April Tapes / Substandards

00C - Acceptance - Globe - Mabgate Bleach, Leeds - Friday 15th November 2024, £10.00 - Torpor/host Body/a-sun Amissa/acceptance - Used to be called Fatalists

027 - Curious City - Playground - The Pack Horse - Cloth Cat Open Mic - Free Entry - Thursday 21st Nov

028 - Les Gillon & The Agents Of Karma - Anger - The Pack Horse - Cloth Cat Open Mic - Free Entry - Thursday 28th Nov

Lock up your ear muffs and whack up the speakers for another show from Arthur with a top playlist with plenty of music from Leeds and some from further afield. On this week's list is:

1 The Space Monkeys – March Of The Scarecrows

2 The Real People – Open Up Your Mind (and let me in)

3 The Smiths – Oscillate Wildly

5 The Pipettes – Judy

6 Belle & Sebastian – Judy & The Dream Of Horses

6 Allo Darlin’ - History Lessons

7 HerOrangeCoat – Ballard 3 (Jamacia ‘59)

8 Biscuithead & The Biscuit Badgers – Tweed Jacket

9 Cud – Under My Hat

10 Flies On You - Poor Excuse

11 Forward Russia– Nine

12The Pat Fulgoni Blues Experience – Confusion Blues

13 The Burning Hell - Canadian Wine

14 Canadians In Space – Derek Diamond & Emma Lane