As well as playing a key part in the stories of some of the city’s best known bands including the Kaiser Chiefs, Embrace, and Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Old Chapel Music CIC - a not for profit community interest company which manages the studios in Holbeck - supports young people, up-and-coming artists and community groups, giving them access to the same facilities as established bands.

Residents since 1997 when as teenagers they were known as Parva, the Kaiser Chiefs still rehearse at Old Chapel Music Studios and have their own room in the extension they helped to fund in 2013.

The Wise Women manifesto was created by Dr Gillian Dyson-Moss, Dr Anne Schiffer, Dr Joanna Leah, and Lizzie Coombes, academics at Leeds Beckett’s Leeds School of Arts, to give voice to creative female researchers, especially those who feel frozen out as older women or as ‘early career researchers’.

The project has been funded by Research England and the Leeds Beckett Equity and Inclusion Research Fund.

Leeds Town Hall has announced it will be giving people the once-in-a-lifetime chance to become a permanent part of the city’s musical history by adopting one of their historic organ’s newly-refurbished pipes. It could well be Leeds’s quirkiest gift idea and the perfect present for the music-lover who has everything.

The pipe project is the latest phase of landmark plans to completely revamp the historic, Grade I listed building including its stunning organ and the beautiful Victoria Hall performance space.

As part of LEEDS 2023's signature project My LEEDS 2023, our 33 Neighbourhood Hosts  are planning celebration events in each ward of the city and are looking for people in their communities to apply for a small grant to show off their talents or create activities as part of it.

Taking place in parks, village halls, high streets and shopping centres, the events will shine a light on the creativity found on our doorsteps.