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…

It’s been an exciting week in Leather’oville as we launched our Facebook page and in just a few days have achieved 100+ likes! Thank you to all our lovely friends and fans for your support.

Plans are afoot for our second festive extravaganza between Christmas and New Year. We’ve booked a very special venue and we’re working on arranging some very special guests.

Last year our show at The Winning Post was a huge success and led onto a year of gigs; big, small, fun and downright peculiar. We’re hoping this year’s shindig will round off the year with a flourish and lead us into more of the same in 2014.

In the meantime, what a great gig last Saturday at The Golden Ball! We’ll be playing there again in December.

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!

The band is making some very special sandwiches for The Galtres Festival – bringing Celtic and Gypsy closer together in a new set. We’ll be there all weekend so come and find us at the Arts Barge Project.