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This list was last updated: 22/2/20
There are also quite a few jazz bands that are not listed here. Plus a number of function and party bands that have not been included in this list.
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Bands with names that begin with “The” are listed using the next word in the name.
Bands from Leicester and Leicestershire
will be listed below in alphabetical order as the registration forms come in.
‘original’ means ‘own composition’; ‘covers’ means songs written by someone else
In the list below, entries are given in order of the name of the band (with a link to the band’s website or Facebook page), the place where most of the band’s members are resident (which should be either in Leicester or Leicestershire), the type of music played and whether that music is normally based on the band’s original songs and/or covers of other people’s songs.
Bands that play in Leicester a lot, but whose members are not Leicester/shire residents, may be included in the group at the bottom of the list, even though they are not resident in the local area.
Al Sansome & The Dezerters (Leicester) Blues/Jazz
Albion, The (Leicester) Indie rock
Alex Harding (Leicester) melancholy solo guitar music. Really into 80s/90s Emo and Alternative indie. Original.
Andy Griffiths (Leicester), folk, Americana, both covers and original songs
Andy Wales band (Leicester) Pop, Blues/jazz, Classic rock. Both covers and originals
Anoa (Leicester) Indie, rock and roll, alternative
Arcades (Leicester) Rock
Arc Isla (Leicester) Alternative, Indie
Audible Light (Leicester) electronic, jazz and world music touches. Original songs only
Autumn Dawn Leader (Loughborough) Indie, Folk.
Aztec Temples (Leicester) Alternative rock, Indie. (Now defunct. See the band’s Facebook page for more details.)
Barracuda (Leicester) Indie, alternative
Before The Crash (Coalville) Alternative, both originals and covers
Brandy Thieves, the (Leicester) Gypsy, ska-infused punk rock
Burnout, The (Leicester) Alternative, Indie, Punk, originals songs and covers
Chambers (Leicester) ‘Our genre is our own.’
Common Strays (Leicester) Alternative, indie, original songs only
Courtney Askey Music (Leicester) Alternative
Dan Wright Music (Leicester) Indie/Blues/Jazz/Folk.
Dancing Wumasters (Loughborough) Alternative, Indie, Ska/reggae, Blues/Jazz
David Wyatt band (Leicester) Alternative, Indie, Pop, Blues/jazz, Folk, Classic rock. Original songs only.
Dawson Smith & The Dissenters. (Leicester). Classic rock, Americana, both covers and originals.
Day of the Moon (Leicester) indie.
Dreams of Carnage (Leicester) Alternative, Punk
Dust & Debris, (Leicester) Rock, blues, country, soul. Covers and original songs.
Earls (Leicester) Alternative, punk, grunge original songs
Echolocation (Leicester) Avant (garde) rock
Eden Avenue (Leicester) Alternative rock, metal, original
Elysian (Leicester) Blues, Jazz
Excellent Adventures, the (Leicester) rock, pop
Fazed, The (Leicester) Indie. Original songs only
Ferris (Leicestershire) Alternative, rock, pop
Feverkicks, the (Leicester) Alternative, Pop, Blues/jazz, Grunge, Classic rock.
Finches of Attica (Leicester) Alternative rock
First Wave (Leicester) Punk
Fivehead (Leicester) Alternative. Original songs only.
Fractions (Hinckley) Metal, original songs.
Fullfathom5 (Leicester) Indie
Gallows High (Leicester) Alternative rock, mainly original songs, some covers.
Gestalt (Leicester) Punk, Electronica. Original songs only.
Goldwater (Leicester) Alternative. Original songs only.
Graves (Leicester) Grunge. Original songs only.
Graystarr (Leicester/Coalville) Classic Rock.
GÜNK (Leicester) Grunge.
Gu-Ru (Leicester) Alternative, Electronica, Blues/jazz. Original songs only.
Hammer of the Gods (Leicester) Classic rock tribute to Led Zeppelin
Harri Giorgio and the Well Behaved young men (Leicester) Underground
Hartland Country (Leicester) Americana, both covers and originals.
Heartland Roots Band, The (Leicester), Americana, both covers and originals
Hell’s Addiction (Leicester) Hard rock
Homeless Shakespeare & The Pigeon Theatre (Leicester) Alternative, Ska/reggae, Blues/jazz, Rap/dub/hip-pop, Both original songs and covers.
Jesse Wright Band (Leicester) Pop, blues/jazz.
Jesuscarfish (Leicester) Alternative, punk (original songs only)
Jimmy Amnesia (Leicester) Indie.
Jouska (Leicester) Alternative, Indie, Punk, Grunge
Kafkadiva (Leicester) Pop, original songs only
Kill the Mammoth (Leicester) Alternative, indie
Kismet (Leicester) Pop, cover songs only
Lambone Splinter (Leicester) Alternative, Indie, Pop, Folk.
Linden Tree (Leicester) Alternative, original songs only
Lids, the (Leicester) Indie.
Lightning, the (Coalville, Tamworth, Nuneaton), Pop, Classic Rock.
Lockdown (Loughborough) Classic rock covers band.
Man Bear Pig (Other Leicestershire) Punk, Grunge
Midnight Dogs, the (Leicester) Classic rock, original songs only
Mojohand (Leicester) Pop
Monachopsis (Leicester) Metal. Original songs only
Monochrome Days (Derby/Loughborough) Pop
Monuments of Rock n Soul, the (Leicester)
Myoptik (Leicester) Electronica, original only
Nightcrawlers (Leicestershire) Classic rock
No More Heroes (Leicester) Alternative
Oceans Apart (Leicester) Alternative rock, new five-piece rock band
Ohana (Leicester) Alternative indie rock, original songs only
Our City Fires (Leicester) alt-rock. Mainly originals songs.
Out of Karma (Leicester) Alternative ska and reggae. Original songs.
Paul J. Roberts (Leicester) indie, alternative
Po! (Leicester) Indie, Pop
Produkty, (Leicester), Naïve Art Rock
PYRVMIDS (Leicester) rock, original (have called it a day. No longer active. See Oceans Apart, above)
Racketeers (Leicester) Rock and roll, folk, indie
Rawkus Redz (Leicester, Shepshed) Hard rock with a metal edge
Replica (Leicester) Alternative, indie, pop covers
Revival (Leicester) Alternative indie, original songs
Rip the Sky (Loughborough) Blues/Jazz
Royal Arcade (Leicester) “dreamy jangle core nu gaze”
Ruby Doos, the (Leicester) Americana, covers and originals
Scrubs, the (Leicester) Grunge, both originals and covers
Sedations, the (Leicester) Punk
Sepia Sun (Leicester) Alternative, Electronica, Grunge.
Skam (Leicester) Rock.
Smack Jack (Leicester) Psychedelic grunge. Original songs.
Southside Rebellion (Leicester) Punk
Stonepark (Leicester) Indie, ska, reggae, pop. Covers only.
Supercrazybrain (Leicester) Alternative, Indie, Classic rock, original songs only.
The – bands whose names begin with ‘the’ are listed under the next word in their name.
Surrealists, The (Leicester) Alternative, Punk, Hardcore. Original songs only.
Temple of Lies (Leicester) Metal, Rock, Stoner Rock, Grunge
Times To Kill (Leicester) Alternative, Electronica, Hardcore. Original songs only
Timmas (Leicester) Two-piece.
Traps (Leicester) Indie
Try Subversion (Leicester) Punk. Original songs only.
Unseen Underground (Leicester) Post-punk, alt-rock. Both covers and originals
Waldorf (Leicester) Indie, grunge. Original songs only.
Way Out, the (Loughborough) Folk
Weallfallsilent (Leicester) Indie rock
We Be Beasts (Leicester) Alternative, indie.
We Give In (Leicester) melodic punk, pop punk
We Tried Kylie (Leicester) Pop.
Whatdafunk (Leicestershire) Funk, Funk Jazz, Funk Rock Soul, Disco. Covers but with a twist.
Whiskey Rebellion, the (Leicester) Folk
World Can Wait, the (Leicester) Alternative, Metal (no longer active)
Yodaclub (Leicester) Alternative. Based in Northants but for playing purposes our base is Leicester.
Zeppelins, the (Leicester) Classic rock.
Nearby bands
Kynch (Nottingham) Punk rock/pop punk. Kynch regularly play at Leicester venues.
Scumbus (Peterborough) Punk
Gypsy (Kettering) Alternative, Electronica, original songs only.
Don’t fret if your band is not there yet; it takes quite a while to work through the inputs.
A new list is being prepared for singers, soloists and acoustic duos. If your act is not in the above list, it is possible it will appear on the other list.
See also:
Singers and solo artists of 2017 to2019.
