Not a thing.

11/06/2024

Help us choose which album to cover at... well, Album Covers.

Voice your opinion on the poll: Which album should we cover at the next Album Covers - Friday 19th Jul 2024?

11/06/2024

I've a couple of slots for large(Ish) upbeat bands on Saturday 6th of July. It's a new night, and a bit short notice, but I thought I'd see if anyone was free?

Message me for details :)

09/06/2024

Extremely excited to announce SOLOS at .leeds - a brand new night featuring SIX solo performers playing from 8 til late.

For our first outing we're very happy to be featuring (in alphabetical order):

Elena Maya

Eva Kiss

Isaac Malibu

Katerina

Kiu .music

Sair

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Everyone will be playing 30 minutes of their original music + some covers. In case you've not made it to Casa before, it's a very chilled, mostly seated venue. We'll be fairylighting the whole scene, it'll be blissful.

Casa will also be serving small plates from their menu of amazing Latin fusion of Colombian, Venezuelan, Peruvian and Mexican dishes, so come down early and make a night of it.

Tickets are a flat and ridiculous £5 both online and on the door. it's not a huge venue though, so if you're coming DEFINITELY get a ticket in advance as we'd hate to turn you away at the door.

Book via notathing.co.uk or here: https://notathing.co.uk/event/solos-casa-leeds-featuring-elena-maya-eva-kiss-isaac-malibu-katerina-kiu-sair/

Last time we did a shout out for solo performers, we were absolutely swamped. So we're really pleased to be able to make some spaces for some of the amazing solo artists in Leeds. If you'd like to get on the performer shortlist, come down to the show and say hello! :) xx

03/06/2024

It was close... But in the end, it's Jazz Beef. Thanks to everyone who voted.

Watch this space for more info.

(I'll try and find a way to do Songs In The Key of Leeds still, just might be next year.)

02/06/2024

Which night should I run at HPBC on Friday 8th November 2024?

24/05/2024

23/05/2024

Very excited to have just taken receipt of this sparkly beauty from a very lovely drummer in Knaresborough... On its way to become the new house kit for :)

It's just a shame I don't know any drummers...

14/05/2024

So... It turns out if you put a shout out asking for 4 solo acts, you get DOZENS of enquiries.

It's fair to say that I definitely will have filled the available slots - I just need time to work through the messages, thanks to everyone who got in touch.

I think to be fair, I'm going to pick people I've not previously put on, so sorry to people I already have booked but hopefully you understand.

Also though... Please could people signpost me to nights and promoters that put on mainly solo acts, so I can share a bunch of them? There's obviously an absolute ton of need for spaces of this type, and you think they'd be easy enough nights to run?

I realise I don't really know any cos I don't get out that much apart from my own gigs (kids, work etc...)

28/04/2024

Very happy to share the video from Friday night's Album Covers: Abba Gold - it was a very special night, with a house band, some amazing performances, but also just the warmest most welcoming atmosphere I think we've ever had. It was exactly what we are going for with these nights.

Thanks to everyone who came, watched, and performed.

Lots of folk performing at Album Covers: Abba Gold in April 2024, at the Fox and Newt Pub, Leeds.00:00 Dancing Queen05:12 Knowing Me, Knowing You09:06 Take A...

19/04/2024

+++TONIGHT+++

Dumb Luck! at

with

Flounder

Sans Solis

Contrail

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Doors 7.30 - Bands til 11 - Bands playing tunes after

£6 online/on the door. Tickets via notathing.co.uk, via our bio, or here:

https://notathing.co.uk/event/dumb-luck-flounder-sans-solis-contrail/

01/03/2024

Hello! Here is the video from last Saturday's Risk A Verse: Songs from Your Parents... some brilliant performances, and such a brilliant night.

If you have been thinking about coming down - or performing - the next Risk A Verse is on the super cheery theme 'Songs with a Death In' and it's on Saturday 25th May 2024. We'll have an event page up very soon 😃

Lots of folk performing at Risk A Verse in February 2023, at The Fox and Newt, Leeds, UK.The theme was music you got from your parents.00:00 Dan - Matty Grov...

20/02/2024

So you know we built a ticketing system, right? And said that we would hopefully be able to offer it to people to use for their gigs - free of charge, only paying Stripe fees making it cheaper than pretty much anyone else...?

Well just after that got in touch about a lovely event she's running at - a 20 year anniversary (howtf?!) of Amy Winehouse's first album Frank. She'll be performing 'An Ode To Frank' including some absolute modern classics.

She also super kindly agreed to be a guinea pig for the new ticket platform... So there we are, first ticketed event by someone else hosted on nothing.co.uk!

If it all goes smoothly, I'll hopefully be able to offer the same to other people running events soon. In the meantime, head to notathing.co.uk to get tickets now for An Ode To: Frank - and other upcoming events.

17/02/2024

+++ TONIGHT +++

Ocean Floor
Runa
Bubblewrap .band
+ Rae Brazill (DJ Set)

Royal Park Cellars, LS6, Leeds

£5 on the door

Doors 7.30

12/02/2024

Enormous thanks to Kawaiiyasu and Nautilus for two storming sets last night at

Nautilus playing hard and heavy with the fuzzy fusion, followed by Kawaiiyasu with an actually mesmerising set of the most inventive jazz I think I've ever seen. Everyone seemed absolutely at the top of their game, it was a joy to be able to see that happening.

Never has a single sq**rt of Lynx deodorant been so beautifully timed... I really hope the video captures the majesty of that moment.

Thanks to and + + .sukiyaki ... And to for sound skills in an unexpectedly tough setup!

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Next up for Put Yourself Out There, it's heading back to next Saturday, where we're going left of field into a night of indie pop, rock n' roll and alt-rock. Featuring .band + + + (DJ set) - we've the room til 1am so come lively.

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Oh and if you missed the announcement, the next night is Tuesday 19th of March - a farewell (for now) gig for with support from .band & - with all proceeds going towards Benji's top surgery... That's going to be an amazing night, guaranteed.

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11/02/2024

Very happy to say that our next gig at isn't really our gig at all, it's a farewell gig for the amazing

I'm really quite sad to have only heard them for the first time at our last HPBC gig, and then to discover immediately that they are taking a break. They absolutely smashed it at the Breaks night... So we're really happy to be able to help out with their last gig for a while.

It's also fundraising for an excellent good cause - Benji's top surgery... In fact if I wasn't at my own gig right now, I'd be at the other gig taking place tonight at Wharf Chambers for the same cause.

Support on the night will be provided by the incredible .band as well as that I've yet to hear, but I'm looking forward to very much.

Tickets are £7 advance or £8 on the door, link to those in our bio.

Xx

11/02/2024

+++ TONIGHT +++

Put Yourself Out There comes home for Sunday tea to .

Tonight's menu features black tar Jazz from Kawaiiyasu - misters .sukiyaki and - with effectively angular support from Nautilus

As always, we'll be playing the freshest/randomest tunes before, between and after. Doors are at 7pm, and it's free entry. Sela will be providing the vibe and the nicest pizza in town.

Come say hello!

05/02/2024

https://youtu.be/LIjfPWGcHs0

The whole of Album Covers: Hounds of Love from Friday night... brilliant performances all round! Thanks so much to everyone who came, watched, performed and sang-along.

Next up in April - Abba Gold!

Lots of folk performing at Album Covers: Hounds of Love in February 2024, at the Fox and Newt Pub, Leeds.00:00 Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)06:08 Ho...

02/02/2024

Tonight is the return of one of the OTHER events we put on (but don't talk about as much) - the free community event Album Covers at

It's a night where regulars and newbies - mostly amateurs - sign up to perform tracks from a classic album start to finish. It's a singalong welcome night with the lyrics projected on the wall, and everyone is super friendly and non-judgey. Doors are free, and newcomers are always welcome.

Event details are in our bio - doors are at 7.30 and it's free!

Xx

https://facebook.com/events/s/album-covers-hounds-of-love-by/374708465219899/

02/02/2024

Tonight, it's the rescheduled singalong play through of Hounds of Love by Kate Bush

Doors are 7.30, free entry x

https://facebook.com/events/s/album-covers-hounds-of-love-by/374708465219899/

25/01/2024

An absolutely massive THANK YOU to everyone who watched, played, danced, chatted, drank, helped out, and was generally lovely last night at

Aside from the 6 mild heart attacks I had through the night, for a pretty new format I feel like it went amazingly well. Someone (possibly Plantfood) called it something like 'a festival, in January, in one night' which is kind of how it felt to me... Friendly unpretentious vibes, incredible mix of different music and everyone just getting involved.

If you need evidence of how vibrant and supportive the Leeds music scene is right now, hows this - just as band four (of nine) were starting their set, the kick drum broke... As in the pedal went through the skin. I didn't even know until part way in.

By the fifth band, literally 17.5 minutes later, a new kick drum had arrived and was swapped over in real time. I don't even know who did that, or where it came from, everyone just went 'we need this, let's sort it.' Thanks to whoever it was!

As always we recorded and video'd everything so we hope to have tracks popping up here and on our YouTube across the next week or so... Fingers crossed, I've not checked the video or audio yet. Big thanks to as always for working so hard to give us all incredible sound in hardcore circumstances, and thanks in advance to for the mammoth mixing task ahead (oh, and doing doors all night.)

Love and respect to everyone... Let us know what you thought, whether this type of night is 'a thing', what you'd change and whether we should do another one. I'm going to go sleep for 2 years. Joke... I have school run in 10 minutes. :D

23/01/2024

+++ TOMORROW! +++

Put Yourself Out There returns to Hyde Park Book Club tomorrow for a ridiculous idea of a night - hopefully ridiculous in only good ways, right?

We have an awesome line up of performers doing mini-sets of only the higher BPM stuff from their sets, and a few folk doing 'one night only' line-ups and experiments.

In between we'll be playing the big tunes, but you better take it in turns going for drinks because we'll be keeping the swaps

20/01/2024

+++ TONIGHT @ 7.30PM +++

It's the return of Put Yourself Out There at Royal Park Cellars in LS6.

Massive thanks to Umer for stepping in to fill the space at last minute, he'll be opening for the amazing sh!hua and Murgatroyd, so come down early if you want to show your love.

We'll be playing fresh tunes before, during and after in our little private cellar space - we even have our own little bar and everything!

Doors are at 7.30, it's £5 on the door (card or cash) and all door fees are going straight to the band as always.

Hope you can make it down! xx

gatroyd

19/01/2024

+++ LAST MINUTE PERFORMER SLOT AVAILABLE +++

Unfortunately due to illness (well, hospitalisation!) the have been forced to pull out of tomorrow's gig at ... Sorry guys, we were looking forward to hearing you xx

What that means is that we have a last minute slot available if anyone is free and fancies it? You'll be opening for the awesome .gatroyd and

Drop me a message as soon as you can if you can play xx

18/01/2024

Here's the second track from last Sunday's Put Yourself Out There - this time from the massive Billy Goulding Sextet with their first headliner (I believe?) Not that you'd know...

This is their opener from the night - we don't normally share openers, but THIS was some opener.

Openheimer.

The full set is live now on the PYOT YouTube channel along with Yoshikawa's - and they are both bangers. https://youtu.be/ICIvLay8dW4

Thanks so much to and band, and to for playing... and to for inhouse noises amplification and for later reduction of previously amplified noises.

17/01/2024

Thanks so much to everyone who came down to Put Yourself Out There last Sunday to Billy Goulding Sextet and Yoshizawa noisy jazzing up the place. :D

As always, we video and multi-channel everything we can, and share the sets to the PYOT YouTube. Link to that in our bio... honestly, like 25 hours of bands on there already, it's crackers.

Happy to share this track from - their closer, previously played at the Royal Albert Hall which if you don't know it is kind of like Sela but with less good pizzas. :P

Full set is live now on YouTube - https://youtu.be/V_AX9_uNaYc

14/01/2024

+++ TONIGHT FROM 7PM +++

We're back tonight for Put Yourself Out There

Performances by Billy Goulding Sextet & Yoshizavwa, fresh new tunes before, between and after... Plus good vibes and excellent Sela pizza.

Doors are 7pm, all done by last bus.. and as always, it's free! Come check us all out xx

14/01/2024

+++ TONIGHT FROM 7PM +++

We're back tonight for Put Yourself Out There 😁

Performances by Billy Goulding Sextet & Yoshizawa, fresh new tunes before, between and after... Plus good vibes and excellent Sela pizza.

Doors are 7pm, all done by last bus... and as always, it's free! Come check us all out xx

12/01/2024

Hey... Unfortunately, has had to drop out of this event... We'll miss you x

It does mean however that we have a spare DJ slot, so if anyone fancies playing some fitting tunes before, between and after these lovely folk then please drop us a message x

11/01/2024

Hello everyone... Due to illness we're having to rearrange the date of the next Album Covers to Friday the 2nd of February - same start time, same venue.

Apologies for any inconvenience caused xx

Album Covers: Hounds of Love by Kate Bush

13/12/2023

Second track share from Sunday's night at - from headliners Hyowa Project.

played a super tight set, and this is the closer - which ended up rocking out more than I think even they expected. :)

The full set is now live on the Not a thing. YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/

Thanks so much for playing and coming down - to this gig and ALL the gigs in the last year - it was a great vibe for the last gig of 2023... here's to a banging 2024!

(And thanks again to for real world sound and for excellent soundscapery.)