Pizzagirl @ Hyde Park Book Club, Saturday 30^th November

21 year old Liverpudlian songwriter Liam Brown brings his Pizzagirl alter-ego to the Hyde Park Book Club at the weekend. His debut album first timerwon acclaim upon release a couple of months back, delivering fully on the promise exuded by his early singles and EPs, with his Eighties-influenced post-punk/new-wave sound never sounding nostalgic or cynical. (TICKETS)

Blanck Mass @ Headrow House, Sunday 1^st December

As one half of British noise duo Fuck Buttons, Benjamin John Power has been responsible for some of the most confrontational and excoriating experimental music in recent memory. However, under his Blanck Mass solo moniker, he’s now released more albums by himself than as part of his parent band. With this year’s Animated Violence Mildcarrying on his rich vein of form, Power brings the project’s mesmerising live show to Headrow House on Sunday night. Wear earplugs! (TICKETS)

The Comet Is Coming @ Brudenell Social Club, Tuesday 3^rd December

With his involvement in numerous acclaimed projects, Shabaka Hutchings is the spearhead of the recent British jazz revival. Having released another more new music with The Comet Is Coming in 2019 – March’s full-length album Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mysteryand recent companion EP The Afterlife– Hutchings is taking the band on tour around the UK this winter. Tickets for their midweek show at the Brudenell have sold out, but maybe you know somebody with a spare…

Bad Breeding @ Mabgate Bleach, Thursday 5^th December

Stevenage-based punks Bad Breeding have finally started to get noticed a bit more in 2019, with this summer’s third album Exiledboth expanding their raw anarcho-punk palette and attracting more attention, with playlisting on Radio 6 representing a deserved breakthrough. They come through Leeds on Thursday evening at Mabgate Bleach, just north-east of the city centre. (TICKETS)

IDLES @ O2 Academy Leeds, Thursday 5^th December

Well done if you managed to snaffle tickets for this one – following a breathtakingly successful three-or-so years that’s seen them release two critically acclaimed albums, including Mercury-nominated second LP Joy As An Act Of Resistancelast year, and a Glastonbury-slaying performance in the summer, IDLES are completing a well-earned victory lap around the UK this winter, but one that also promises some new music. Expect the atmosphere at the O2 Academy to be fervent, to say the least.

Primal Scream @ O2 Academy Leeds, Friday 6^th December

Ever since they started nearly four decades ago, Primal Scream have always been an odd band, responsible for some of the most cutting-edge music of the Nineties and Noughties (Screamadelica and XTRMNTR, respectively) but also some of the most good-time, homely and functional (‘Rocks’, ‘Country Girl’). 2019 has seen them look back across their career with two career-spanning singles compilations titled Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll, and the corresponding tour comes to Leeds’ O2 Academy on Friday night. (TICKETS)