Leeds indie-kids Streetlights gave us the pleasure of performing live and giving us an interview on our April Unity Day broadcast. Here’s your chance to listen again…
Another Sunday and another ELFM broadcast. This Months broadcast was as interesting as ever, my personal highlight has to be the “United as One” show which showcased the life of young African’s in Harehills. As well as some genuinely funny chat, they played a mixture of music genres - from African through to UK Grime.
Once again our friends from the Leeds Kurdish Community Association put on an interesting mix of music and chat - it’d be interesting next time to hear about the Association’s work as well as the influence of Kurdish culture on the area. Finally we reprised the popular “In the Boudoir” show. Shared between 3 local acts we had live music from Streetlights, Maggie 8 and ODi. They all sounded amazing from my view point (in the studio listening through headphones) and the interviews were quite enlightening as well. All 3 acts had to choose some tracks to be played after their live set, again some interesting choices - some unexpected.
What could be better for the next broadcast? More people sticking around after their slots, I know we’re all volunteers but the bands that come along later in the day need our support, more people in the room would make the performances even better - it would make clearing up afterwards easier as well!!
Roll on the next internet broadcast on Sunday June 1st.
If you want to learn more why not come along to the next meeting on May 21st? Full details can be found here.
Andy
Leeds Country-folksters joined ELFM on the 30th March to play a live acoustic set and tell us what they’ve been up to.
For more info on Escapades click here
York band Paris Commune joined ELFM on our 30th March broadcast for a chat and to play a couple of acoustic tracks.
To find out more about Paris Commune take a look at their myspace by clicking here
ELFM caught up with Iranian flamenco guitarist Ramtin Montazemy to discuss life as a musician and as a refugee, he also treated us to amazing music.
For two more pieces of music from Ramtin check out his other podcast by clicking here.
