Leftfield Tickets

Short Biography
Leftfield announce their biggest UK tour in over a decade. After a series of stunning headline performances at some of this year's hottest festivals including RockNess, Benicassim, L.E.D. and Creamfields, Neil Barnes returns with a new live show that's set to reverberate the length of the UK this autumn. Barnes will be joined by original vocalists Djum Djum, Earl 16 and Cheshire Cat for a tour that will demonstrate once again why Leftfield Live is one of the must-see live music experiences on the planet.

The tour which kicks off on Thursday 18 November will see Leftfield perform in Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, Bournemouth, Plymouth, Bristol and culminate in a homecoming show at London's O2 Academy Brixton on Friday 3 December.

Leftfield' Neil Barnes comments:  "The reception we received over the summer at the festivals was amazing. Now we can't wait to get out there again this autumn and bring the full Leftfield Live experience to the rest of the country. Let the bass roar."

The band trailblazed their unique sound in the early ‘90s and took John Lydon back to the top of the charts.  The band whose debut album ‘Leftism' became a modern classic, was also voted one of the greatest albums of all time by Q magazine. A band whose follow-up album ‘Rhythm & Stealth' went to number 1, spawned the techno anthem ‘Phat Planet', and that Guinness advert with the horses. Revealed as the loudest band ever to play O2 Academy Brixton, Leftfield's show made such a seismic impact that it remains the benchmark for live electronic music to this day. Leftfield can take recognition for inspiring some of the world's biggest dance acts, including The Prodigy, Chemical Brothers and Underworld, and also Sasha, who acclaims Leftfield as "writing the commandments on electronic music". Now Leftfield are back...

This is set to be one of the biggest, loudest, and most emotional tours of the year, taking dance music back to its roots with one of electronic music's true originals.

Thursday 18 November    O2 Academy Leeds

Friday 19 November        Manchester Apollo

Saturday 20 November    Glasgow Barrowlands

Thursday 25 November    Liverpool University

Friday 26 November        O2 Academy Bournemouth

Saturday 27 November    Plymouth Pavilions

Thursday 2 December     O2 Academy Bristol

Friday 3 December          O2 Academy Brixton

Saturday 11 December    Tripod, Dublin, Ireland

In-depth Biography
The production team which brought house music back from the brink of commercial mediocrity, Leftfield made it safe for artistic producers to begin working in a new vein termed progressive house. Paul Daley (a former member of A Man Called Adam and the Brand New Heavies) and programmer Neil Barnes combined the classic soul of early Chicago and New York house with the growing Artificial Intelligence school of album-oriented techno to create classic, intelligent dance music. When legal hassles over ownership of the Leftfield name prevented the pair from recording their own music after the release of their debut "Not Forgotten," they turned to remixing, establishing their early reputation for reworking tracks by artists ranging from Stereo MC's and David Bowie to Yothu Yindhi and Renegade Soundwave. Finally, with their courtroom battles successfully behind them, they formed their own Hard Hands label in late 1992 and issued the single "Release the Pressure," featuring reggae vocalist Earl Sixteen; "Song of Life" followed, and in 1993 Leftfield scored their first major hit with "Open Up," recorded with John Lydon. Their debut LP, Leftism, was released in 1995; the long-awaited Rhythm and Stealth followed four years later. With only two albums under their belt, Leftfield decided to split in early 2002 to focus on solo projects. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi