Line-Up
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Anatomy
13th January 2019Formed through the local poetry and assorted music scenes, Anatomy use the power of resist...
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Årabrot
29th January 2019Kjetil Nernes of Haugesund, Norway is the only permanent member of Årabrot, who emerged f...
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Arcades
29th January 2019Returning to action after the tragic passing of guitarist Matt Gore last April, Leicester&...
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Black Honey
12th January 2019Having delivered on their live promise with one of the standout sets of Handmade 2016, the...
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Blood Youth
13th January 2019Harrogate’s post-hardcore heroes visit Handmade on the back of their second album St...
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C Duncan
29th January 2019The Glasgow-raised son of two classical musicians, Duncan studied at the Royal Conservatoi...
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Can’t Swim
13th January 2019The Keansburg, New Jersey band join us on their UK tour after releasing second album This ...
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Childcare
13th January 2019With a tour support for Bastille behind them and a debut album impending this should be a ...
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Crows
13th January 2019Coming to Handmade to support debut album Silver Tongues, released in March on Joe Talbot ...
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Dark Dark Horse
13th January 2019Jamie Ward and James Stafford have been ploughing their furrow of genre blurring pop-elect...
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Decade
13th January 2019Ironically marking their tenth anniversary this year, Decade’s 2017 second album Ple...
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Doe
13th January 2019“Doe makes snide exasperation sound like a party” according to NPR, which abou...
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Dream State
13th January 2019The Swansea melodic post-hardcore band struck viral gold in 2017 when single White Lies ra...
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Earls
13th January 2019Earls are a “skum” punk two piece from Halesowen. Ballads and love songs are n...
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Estrons
29th January 2019High amongst the most exciting bands to emerge from the ever fertile Cardiff scene in rece...
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Fivehead
13th January 2019They refer to themselves as “Post-Space” and boast a confrontational live show...
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Frauds
29th January 2019Croydon duo Frauds’ take on stripped down punk, mostly heard so far on 2017 album Wi...
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Fresh
29th January 2019Describing themselves as “punx from London who love emo, shredding, touring, oat mil...
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Heavy Lungs
13th January 2019It’s likely you’ll best know Bristolians Heavy Lungs from the very direct patr...
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Hotel Lux
13th January 2019Formed in Portsmouth but incubated in the same South London scene as Shame, Yak and Goat G...
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Ibibio Sound Machine
12th January 2019Merging West African disco, funk and highlife with modern electro, drum’n’bass...
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Itoldyouiwouldeatyou
29th January 2019Bringing progressive personal socio-politics to an emo scene that’s not often been r...
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Jamie Lenman
12th January 2019Having laid low for several years after cult post-hardcore heroes Reuben split, the rakish...
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Jo Quail
29th January 2019An internationally acclaimed composer and virtuoso cellist, Quail cites Trent Reznor and J...
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JOHN
13th January 2019JOHN are a duo from Crystal Palace, both called John, who belie both the ordinariness of t...
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Kermes
29th January 2019Leicester queer indie-punk standouts Kermes’ debut album of last year We Choose Pret...
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Lice
13th January 2019Lice are from Bristol, so of course they have IDLES connections – in fact they’...
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Life
13th January 2019The Hull punks described 2017 debut album Popular Music as “an album that demands at...
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Magique
13th January 2019Magique, who followed a set at last year’s Handmade by playing the main stage at Tru...
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Martha
29th January 2019Queer straight edge vegan anarchist DIY pop-punks from Pity Me, Durham, the all-singing qu...
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Metronomy
12th January 2019Handmade are very pleased to be able to say that headlining this year’s festival are...
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Mono
29th January 2019Celebrating their twentieth anniversary this year by releasing tenth studio album Nowhere ...
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Orchards
13th January 2019Self described as a “glittery gateway drug”, Brighton’s Orchards have fo...
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Parting Gift
29th January 2019Manchester five piece Parting Gift are a lot of informed people’s idea of a band set...
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Petrol Girls
13th January 2019Featuring British, Austrian and Lithuanian members and named after a reputed 19th century ...
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Rich List
13th January 2019A band with plenty of individual experience around the Leicester scene, Rich List purvey a...
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Rozi Plain
13th January 2019An alumni of both the celebrated Fife folk label Fence Records and its successor Lost Map,...
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S.T. Manville
29th January 2019Manville’s previous projects have seen him span much of the left of centre musical s...
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Saint Agnes
13th January 2019East London’s Saint Agnes draw from the warped end of the blues rock’n’r...
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Spoort
29th January 2019“Your new favourite band” the quartet, who grew outwards from a Hinckley base ...
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Superlove
29th January 2019Formed only around a year ago, Bristol-based trio Superlove match big sunny party choruses...
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Sweetbellechobaby
13th January 2019Alex and Darren describe themselves as “lucid pop” and have been described as ...
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The Futureheads
29th January 2019Arguably the most interesting, inventive and exhilirating of the British so-called “...
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The Lids
29th January 2019Earning an ever growing and increasingly fervent fanbase, the brother fronted local trio&#...
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The Sherlocks
12th January 2019We keep hearing that “rock’n’roll is coming back”, but the band fr...
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The Snuts
29th January 2019When you’ve drawn comparisons early on with Oasis, Arctic Monkeys and Kings of Leon ...
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Venue Profile: Attenborough Arts Centre
13th March 2019In the run up to Handmade 2019 we’re looking at the venues that are making up the fe...
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Venue Profile: Firebug
13th March 2019Between now and the festival we’re taking a look through the venues that are a part ...
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Venue Profile: The Cookie
15th March 2019With a matter of weeks until the festival opens it’s doors, we look at another ̵...
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Venue Profile: The Shed
28th February 2019Between now and the festival we’re going to take a look at some of Leicester’s...
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Venue Profile: The Y Theatre
5th March 2019Between now and the festival we’re going to take a look at some of Leicester’s...
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Yr Poetry
13th January 2019Alexei and Junior (also of itoldyouiwouldeatyou and Sunshine Frisbee Laserbeam respectivel...