Saw the (always amazing) #Lau as part of the Lau-Land weekend at Opera North in #Leeds.
It was a similar set to the last time we saw them in Saltaire about 18 months ago - but as that was one of the best gigs that I've been to, I didn't mind one bit. A mesmerising and innovative approach to Celtic folk.
(It feels rude to take pics during the concert so pic is from beforehand with their fab banner.)
Thoroughly recommend seeing Lau live - I like their recorded stuff but live is something else.
I must say I'm really enjoying the new English Teacher album. It's probably best thought of as post-punk but it defies easy categorization. It's as often chill as it is skronky and the vocals are talky but melodic. Their secret weapon is Lily Fontaine, the young, black, female poet they have as a vocalist/lyricist. The album is a real grower. It shouldn't be my thing at all but I'm really digging it https://englishteacher.bandcamp.com/album/this-could-be-texas#NewMusic#NowPlaying#PostPunk#Leeds#Bandcamp#EnglishTeacher#Music
Saw the Brett Domino Trio film at the Hyde Park Picture House tonight - it's very funny. It's like the Weird Al film except really awkward and I suspect mostly true. They did a Q&A after the showing which wasn't supposed to be in character but had enough awkward moments that it was hard to be sure. #BrettDominoTrio#Leeds#HydeParkPictureHouse
Managed to hammer a header on an R Pi Zero 2W from #RaspberryPi store #Leeds . So M.A.R.S. rover from @4tronix_uk will boot up faster. Thx for your help @themagpi
Visited the #raspberrypi store in #leeds for some supplies. Giant Raspberry Pi in window. See the actual Rasp Pi4 on top for reference. Workshops on all this week because school’s out. See eventbrite.co.uk .
If you're in or anywhere near Leeds, try and see the "A Hip-Hop Journey - 50 Years of Kulture" exhibition at Leeds City Museum before it finished next weekend! Made the trip across to see it today and it was excellent 👍🏿
Most long-distance services on the East Coast Main Line #ECML 🇬🇧 from #London King’s Cross are being worked by #LNER#Azuma trainsets. Today’s 1703 service to #Leeds however saw an #InterCity225 leaving from platform 2, hauled by a class 91 electric - 91107 “Skyfall”.
And yes, I know, pltf. 2 not the most famous one here at #KGX.
Ever wanted to do spatial clustering of orign-destination (OD) data? Well you may want to now! University of Leeds Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) and Alan Turing Institute PhD student Hussein Mahfouz has created this early-stage visualisation of spatial clustering of these zone-zone flows 🏗️ Case study of #Leeds. Looks beautiful AND useful 🎉
In this week’s collection for @Flipboard's #photography newsletter, The Shot, #Leeds photographer @simonwiffen has curated stories about photographers on movie sets and how they play with light and composition.
While scrolling through my phone last night, I stumbled upon this photo. Take a peek at beautiful Leeds featuring the Central Library and City Town Hall, where I said 'I do' five years ago.
Nostalgia & love! 💕
Very happy to have submitted a paper to #GISRUK 2024 in my home city of #Leeds. It was a collaborative effort by me, ITS Leeds colleague Zhao Wang, Will Deakin from Network Rail and Josiah Parry from Esri. All open and reproducible of course thanks to Quarto template by Steph De Sabbata: https://github.com/sdesabbata/quarto-gisruk Details: watch this space!