Handmade Festival

Handmade Festival A totally independent music and Arts festival in Leicester, UK. Hey. We’re Handmade. Follow us on Twitter & Instagram:

We’re a totally independent music and arts festival that takes place on May bank holiday in the city of Leicester. Our aim is to find the best new and forward thinking music, comedy, art, film, performance and photography and bring it all together for one weekend. The festival is curated by some of the city’s best loved independent venues and promoters, all of whom have been involved in putting on

events for decades, working tirelessly to bring great things to Leicester. We wanted to create an arts festival the city could really be proud of together. During the first four years of the festival we’ve seen sets from Deaf Havana, We Are Scientists, 65daysofstatic, Swim Deep, Los Campesinos, Dry the River, Dutch Uncles, Slaves, Bo Ningen, And So I Watch You From Afar, Shonen Knife, Eagulls, Honeyblood, Iliketrains, Rolo Tomassi, Nine Black Alps, Three Trapped Tigers, The Twilight Sad, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Sam Duckworth, Johnny Foreigner, Tangled Hair, Tellison Sky Larkin, Sulk, Maybeshewill and Her Name Is Calla, with comedy performances from Robin Ince, Rob Deering, James Acaster and many more.

And we're sold out for the final time. See you on Sunday!
28/04/2023

And we're sold out for the final time. See you on Sunday!

ONE WEEK TO GO.Get the last tickets for the last ever Handmade right here:
23/04/2023

ONE WEEK TO GO.
Get the last tickets for the last ever Handmade right here:

Buy tickets and see event information for 10 years of Handmade .

GOOD NEWS: A whole host more names added to the 10th Anniversary Handmade Festival line-up includingBig Special, Breakfa...
27/03/2023

GOOD NEWS: A whole host more names added to the 10th Anniversary Handmade Festival line-up including

Big Special, Breakfast, Bronze Age, Chief Springs, Dum language, EYRE LLEW, Freya Rose, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly., Grace Petrie, Jasmine Kennedy, Johnny Foreigner, Jools, Maybeshewill, Mouse Teeth, October Drift, Other Half, Pitpony, Prima Queen, Robocobra Quartet, Sang Froid, Scumbag Lion, Soft Lad, Sorrell, S T Manville, Straight Girl and The Wytches with even more to come.

Find tickets here:
https://www.gigantic.com/handmade-tickets/leicester-various-venues-in-leicester/2023-04-30-12-00

SAD NEWS: This will be the last ever Handmade Festival. We're very sad to see it go, but absolutely delighted to be bringing you such an incredible collection of artists for our final year.

Some snaps of the incredible Soot Sprite & Olund at Duffy's Bar & Firebug respectively!Photos by Matt Cawrey.
10/08/2022

Some snaps of the incredible Soot Sprite & Olund at Duffy's Bar & Firebug respectively!
Photos by Matt Cawrey.

Okay, Bye & Gimic opening the upstairs stage at Firebug.📸: Matt Cawrey
08/08/2022

Okay, Bye & Gimic opening the upstairs stage at Firebug.
📸: Matt Cawrey

Handmade 2022 📸 Robin Hardman
06/08/2022

Handmade 2022
📸 Robin Hardman

Another small schedule update ahead of the weekend. Due to an injury wych elm are no longer able to play (get well soon ...
03/08/2022

Another small schedule update ahead of the weekend. Due to an injury wych elm are no longer able to play (get well soon guys!). Yr Poetry and Pylons bump up.

And we’re sold out! Thank you so much for supporting our little festival. See you all on Saturday!
02/08/2022

And we’re sold out! Thank you so much for supporting our little festival. See you all on Saturday!

We are an absolute hairs breadth from being sold out for 2022. Find one of the last tickets here:
30/07/2022

We are an absolute hairs breadth from being sold out for 2022. Find one of the last tickets here:

Buy tickets and see event information for Handmade 2022.

CLASHFINDER! There are a literal handful of tickets left for Handmade 2022 - find them at https://bit.ly/Handmade22On ar...
27/07/2022

CLASHFINDER!

There are a literal handful of tickets left for Handmade 2022 - find them at https://bit.ly/Handmade22

On arrival please head to the front entrance of Firebug before you do anything else and exchange your ticket for a wristband. Then feel free to wander between Firebug and Duffys as you wish.

Food is served in Firebug all day until 3am but please note it can get busy so we recommend ordering early or late!

We anticipate some venues operating at full capacity - make sure you arrive early for the sets you most want to see to avoid missing out.

26/07/2022

We’re looking for a couple of volunteers to help with Handmade Festival in return for food, drink and some amazing bands. If that sounds like something you’d be in to doing, drop us a line to [email protected]

75% of tickets sold for our intimate return on Sat 6th August. Come hang out for old times sake!Tickets: https://bit.ly/...
29/06/2022

75% of tickets sold for our intimate return on Sat 6th August. Come hang out for old times sake!

Tickets: https://bit.ly/Handmade22

Buy tickets and see event information for Handmade 2022.

Handmade is back with an intimate 2022 event that goes back to our roots bringing the best new music to Leicester city c...
20/05/2022

Handmade is back with an intimate 2022 event that goes back to our roots bringing the best new music to Leicester city centre.

Tickets: https://bit.ly/Handmade22

Thanks to PPL - Phonographic Performance Ltd & PRS for Music

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Hey. We’re Handmade. We’re a totally independent music and arts festival that takes place on May bank holiday in the city of Leicester.

“Bigger and better than ever before” - Drowned in Sound “A world-class festival” - GQ “Huge tunes? Good times? Big grins? Yup” - Kerrang “Every guitar band worth their salt is playing Handmade” - NME During the first seven years of the festival we’ve seen sets from Frightened Rabbit, Metronomy, Futureheads, We Are Scientists, Idles, Twin Atlantic, Drenge, Circa Waves, Deaf Havana, 65daysofstatic and many more... Follow us on Twitter & Instagram: @HandmadeTotally


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