A truly excellent first wave of bands have just been confirmed by the Handmade Festival, which is returning to Leicester’s O2 Academy for two days of music, comedy, art, film, performance and photography on 29th and 30th April 2017.
Twin Atlantic, Frightened Rabbit, British Sea Power, Pulled Apart By Horses and Idles are some of the stand-outs to be confirmed, and co-organiser John Helps is thus unsurprisingly happy to share the news. “It feels so good to finally get this announcement out in to the world,” he says.
“Handmade has grown every year since we started it in 2013, but this feels like our biggest step to date as we move in to the main room of O2 Academy Leicester, as well as the many other spaces around the Academy and Attenborough Arts Centre.”