Three of our number – namely Ashtray Navigations, Hunting Lodge and Seth Cooke (of Hunting Lodge and Dethscalator) – will be playing at the BRITISH WILDLIFE FESTIVAL this coming March.
In addition to our own representatives, the entertainments on offer at said festival include Max Tundra, Part Chimp, Bilge Pump and the improbably mighty Mugstar (the last of whom this writer at least regards as one of our nation’s finest bands).

As the reader will no doubt have observed, the dates of this festival shortly preceed those of our Lord’s death and rebirth, and overlap with the observations corresponding to his trials in the desert. As such this author took the liberty of consulting the Jermyn society’s ecclesiastical consultant, mr Adamson, from whose lips the assurance came that attendance of these festivities will not compromise any attendee’s lenten commitments, indeed, some of the entertainments are suitably acerbic that they may – at the readers discretion – be taken in lieu of self flagellation rites.

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British Wildlife Festival is set in and around Leeds’ musical and cultural institution The Brudenell Social Club. With this years focus on bringing together a multitude of alternative and underground genres. In addition to this we will also have two extra stages, an experimental stage in the club’s Snooker Room, and next door in the Royal Park Cellars holding an extra day on Sunday 28th March at Nation of Shopkeepers.

Previous incarnations of the festival have included the likes of Quack Quack, Dj Scotch Eggs’ Drum Eyes, Thomas Truax, Action Beat, I’m Being Good, Capillary Action, The Leeds Improvised Music Association, Hunting Lodge, Kylie Minoise amoungst a heap of alternative and experimental bands from Leeds, the UK & overseas, no wonder British Wildlife Festival was once quoted ‘the arty side of Leeds’ musical arse’.