Photos: Slowthai, Billie Eilish, The Amazons and more play Leeds Festival 2019

Our final gallery from last weekend’s Leeds Festival revisits performances from Slowthai, Billie Eilish, The Amazons and many more.

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Slowthai was at another festival as he continued to build on this year’s Mercury Prize nominated debut album Nothing Great About Britain, which looks like being one of the strong favourites to come out on top when the ceremony is held in London next month.

“It’s definitely fitting that where there is a person who gains respect by compassion and not the mis-use of power that figure is female; on Northampton’s Child Frampton’s mum is the hero, a role model depicted not in a landslide of sentiment, but against a starkly autobiographical depiction of temporary homelessness and domestic abuse,” our album review reads.

“Opening up and showing weakness like that in the sometimes macho world in which urban music lives is a brave choice, one that backs up releasing work called Nothing Great About Britain and parodying the country’s rigid institutions, especially if you see them as being the problem not the solution.”