2013 has been a great year for Leather’o – we’ve had such a great time! We’ve done more gigs than ever, three weddings, The Galtres Festival for the first time with this line-up (to add to the considerable festival experience among the band members!) and we’ve added lots of new material – some original and some arrangements of traditional tunes. We’ve made new friends and played in new venues. The on-stage energy has never dropped!

A huge thank you to everyone who’s come and listened, danced and stamped their feet! Special thanks to the fellow musicians who have shared the bill with us (or us with them) and to the promoters and venues who have put us on.

We hope to see as many of you as possible at our last gig of 2013 at The Black Swan in York on Saturday 28 December. Our gigs are always shown on the home page of our website and 2014 is filling up already – see you at a gig, soon!

Happy New Year!
Angela, Bob, Elaine, Linds and Steve – Leather’o

A great trio gig by the gang (while the other two were away for the weekend). How many encores?!?

How many of The Guardian’s Top Ten Craft Beer Pubs in York have Leather’o played in (or drunk in, for that matter)? Well, quite a few, as it turns out! And we have an honorary member working at one of them!

Tickets here!

We wouldn’t usually publicise a gig so far in advance but we’re really excited about this one. We’ve got a tradition of putting on a gig between Christmas and New Year and this year it will be in the upstairs room at The Black Swan, famous for hosting its award winning folk club.

We have some of our great friends like Aimie J Ryan and Sarah Dean playing, plus singer song writer Bryony Drake and the fantastic Over The Yardarm. We have so many people playing that we’ll be starting early at 6pm.

It’s a very intimate room so we are selling tickets in advance, they cost £5 + 70p P&P.

Now, having pasted in all those links, I can work out the league table of which of us has the most LIKES on Facebook. So, the competitive bit me is thinking competitive thoughts…

Our next two gigs will be Lunchtime at The Londesbourough in Selby on Sunday 22 September as part of the Selby Little Festival and Saturday night 28 September at The Golden Ball in York.

We played a short set at The Golden Ball last month, warming up for The Galtres Festival and there was a great atmosphere (as well as the most torrential rain! – we got soaked!). This time we’ll be playing a full length set including the new material we’ve added recently.The Golden Ball is a community pub, owned by its regulars. The interior is absolutely gorgeous and the beer’s great. It’s one of the most intimate live music venues in York (along with our favourite, the Snickleway) – hope you can join us there on the 28th of September!

We had such a great time at The Rook and Gaskill last night! Thanks to everyone who came down to listen to us!

Big thanks to Aimie and Mikey for playing!

My favourite Facebook postings in response to the gig were:

“Folking Awesome Night”

“And Aimie Ryan and Leather’O were awesome at The Rook.
Brilliant.!”

and finally “Leather’O were amazing and we …had nice bread with pâté pickled onions and tomato”

Stop Press: Our gig on 14 September has been moved across the road to The Rook and Gaskill in York (under new management, by the way!) and as a result we will be coming along with our full five-piece line up plus support from our great friend, singer-songwriter Aimie Ryan.

We had a great time at The Galtres Festival. Thanks to everyone who came to watch the two sets we played on Saturday and Sunday – hope you enjoyed the sandwiches!

The band will be making a rare daylight appearance on The Knavesmire in York on 1 September. Even rarer – out of respect for the venue,  the great and wonderful Bison Coffee Tent – we will be drinking rehearsal fluid. We will be in illustrious company. Join us!