Benjamin Francis Leftwich and more for Brainwash Festival

happening next month in Leeds

By Scott Williams | Published: Mon 19th Sep 2011

Brainwash Festival 2011 - Benjamin Francis Leftwich
Photo credit: Karen Williams

Brainwash Festival 2011

Friday 14th to Sunday 16th October 2011
Brudenell Social Club and Royal Park Cellars, Leeds, Yorkshire, England MAP
£15 for weekend, day tickets £8.50

Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Sam Airey, Howard James Kenny, Circles, Wot Gorilla?, and Idea Shower are the latest additions to the Brainwash Festival line-up.


Benjamin Francis Leftwich
Benjamin Francis Leftwich
They will join the likes of The Icarus Line, Maybeshewill, Lite, Marble Valley, Lite, Kong, Dananananakroydand Mojo Fury, Hunting Bees, Shields, Cowtown, Bearfoot Beware, Cave Birds, Super Luxury, Mahogany Handglider, and A-Sun Amissa at the sixth Brainwash Festival which returns to the Brudenell Social Club, and the Royal Park Cellars, in Leeds. The event takes place over three days this year from Friday 14th until Sunday 16th October 2011.

The line-up now looks like this:

Friday (Upstairs @ The Library): Dananananaykroyd, and Castrovalva.
Saturday: The Icarus Line, Lite, Maybeshewill, Kong, &U&I, Shapes, Young Liar, Cowtown, NGOD, Juffage, Blacklisters, Mojo Fury, Circles, Howard James, Kenny, Sam Airey, Wot Gorilla?, Bearfoot Beware, Idea Shower, and Mahogany Handglider.
Sunday: Let's Buy Happiness, Echo Lake, Marble Valley (Steve West from Pavement), Tubelord, People In Jars, Humanfly, Trio Vd, Arthur Rigby & The Baskervylles, Blood Oranges, Antlered Man, False Flags, Hunting Bears, Shields, A-Sun Amissa, Cave Birds, and Super Luxury.

Tickets are priced at £15 for weekend tickets, with day tickets priced at £8.50. To buy tickets, click here. This is an over 18 event.

The festival always has a charity element each year, raising money for the likes of Oxfam and Sheffield Children's Hospital in the past few years. This year Brainwash are in the process of setting up a teaching program with local musicians, aiming to provide free music lessons to those young people who would normally struggle to get any.


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