Handmade is very pleased to announce that we will be curating the first of three White Noise Christmas events in Leicester this year.

Performing in the spectacular surroundings of Bishop Street Church will be Her Name Is Calla, Dark Dark Horse, Silent Devices and Gallery 47.

Entry is £6 with all profits being donated to the Red Cross Typhoon Haiyan appeal.

Keeping the handmade ball rolling, we’re excited to announce that our next ‘pop-up’ show will be the incredible A Winged Victory For The Sullen at Bishop Street Church, Leicester.

Comprising Adam Wiltze (Stars of the Lid / Sparklehorse) and Dustin O’Halloran (Sofia Coppolla’s Marie Antoinette Soundtrack), AWVFTS are veterans of the Erased Tapes stable (Olafur Arnalds, Nils Frahm etc.).

Modern Classical is perhaps the most accurately broad term for what they do. The Guardian described their debut album as “The future of the late-night record you’ve always dreamed of” and “Like bathing your ears in musical honey”

Working in partnership with The Robot Needs Home Collective and Firebug, we’re sure this will be one spectacular show, and we hope you can make it.

Tickets are available from See Tickets.

Check out this incredible orchestral performance filmed in Belgium…

Because we don’t want you to have to wait a whole year for some more awesome music in an unusual venue, Tomorrow (Wednesday 5th June) we are putting on the fantastic Icelandic instrumentalist Olafur Arnalds in the spectacular setting of Leicester Cathedral.

Working in partnership with The Robot Needs Home Collective and Firebug, we’re sure this will be one spectacular show, and we hope you can make it.

Tickets are still available from: WeGotTickets and a number will be held back for on the door - but don’t hang around as they’ll go fast!

Check out this intimate and endearing set from Olafur filmed live at Iceland Airwaves.

Well, what a lovely weekend that was. Massive thanks to absolutely everyone who performed, contributed, curated or volunteered (especially the volunteers. They were all super cool to give up their weekends to make something that previously only existed in our heads).

Picking anyone out seems unfair, but we are an enormous amount of debt to Liam Sexton, Stephen Jones, Kieran Brindley, Joe Williams, Matt Daly, Jamie Ward, Alex Jackson, Fraser West, Russell Daly, Ollie Petch, Sam Walker, Joe Moran, Amber Gibbs and the rest of the Attic arts chaps, Rachael Smith, David Wilson Clarke, Scott Choucino and their army of photographers, Adnan Ahmed, Grace Petrie, Joe Phipps, Tinny and Nick at the cookie, Andy Wright, Holly Holdsworth, Lauren Barrow and all the Demon FM folk, Natalie Beech Shona, Nick, Alex and an absolute army of other people who constantly reaffirmed how awesome our city can be when everyone chips in.

There will be a tonne more content going up on this site over the coming weeks as we slowly post all the videos and interviews that our awesome friends at Demon Media captured throughout the weekend.

Once again, thank you so much for being involved, even if it was just by buying a wristband and watching something cool. High fives all round.

Although we’ve taken all weekend and day tickets off sale online, you can still pay ‘on the door’ by heading to the Firebug Wristband Exchange point from 5pm onwards today.

Don’t forget that however you’ve brought your ticket, you need to head there in order to swap it for a wristband.

As we’re mere days away from the start of the festival, we thought we’d write a quick list of important things you need to know!

I’VE GOT MY TICKET/TICKET CODE! WHAT NEXT?

Whether you have a day ticket or a weekend one, whether you bought it online or in person HEAD TO THE FIREBUG WRISTBAND EXCHANGE FIRST. The lovely volunteers there will swap your ticket for a wristband. DO NOT go straight to any other venue - they’ll just have to send you back there. That cool?

I’VE NOT GOT MY TICKET - WHAT DO I DO?

Okay, so you have a couple of (well, three) options.
1. Buy one online from WeGotTickets. The link is over there on the right. There is a 10% booking fee.
2. Buy one in advance BEFORE Friday from either Firebug or The Crumblin’ Cookie. There’s no booking fee or anything. Sweet, right?
3. Buy one ‘on the door’ by heading to the Firebug Wristband Exchange. They’ll slap one straight on your wrist. Bare in mind that if we’ve sold out for that day this won’t be an option. These tickets are also slightly more expensive than advance ones.

WHAT ARE THE AGE RESTRICTIONS?

Firebug is 18+
The People’s Photographic Gallery is 18+
Bishop Street Church is All Ages.
All other venues are 14+

If you have any other questions, drop us an email to [email protected] or tweet at @handmadetotally. We’ll get straight back to you.

Handmade will be the second ever sow from Leicester’s haus, who formed from the remnants of Minnaars. Blisteringly current but with a air of Retrospective synth pop, their debut EP is on the way.

Hosts Jack Campbell, Matt Holmes and Joe Ross-Williams present exciting emerging and established comedy talent every evening throughout the festival at Duffy’s Bar.

FRIDAY
Dan Wallbank, Robert Kemp, Rueben Williams-Smith, Daniel Nicholas and Midlands Comedian of the Year Finalist 2011 Ben Briggs.

SATURDAY
Jay Quinn, Nick Elleray, Sean McHugh, Matt Watts, Lena Stranks, Lea Rose Emery and a headline set from circuit favourite Rob Coleman.

SUNDAY
Farrell Mackenzie, Martin England, Jo Ogden, BBC3′s Ruth Bruce, Tickled Pig finalist Callum Scott, and a special appearance from Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2004 Matt Hollins.

An absurdist and chaotic sampler of the sketch show like no other, featuring the talents of Leanne McKie, Barnaby J Thompson, Ian Hall and Lindsey Warnes-Carroll.

This show is an insane mix of bizarre characters, stupid dancing, warped celebrities and apocalyptic rave, quite unlike anything else you’re likely to see’ Leicester Comedy Scene

Nominee : Best Show - Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival 2013

The fantasmagorical fabulist returns to the Firebug! Comic artist and comedy cult hero Richard Peel brings another round of arcane fables in his own imitable style.

‘Someone I would happily recommend anyone to see’ Leicester Mercury

Featuring a special guest appearance from scientist and philosopher Professor Steen Stornstein