Tickets are selling fast for a major retro music festival happening in Leeds this summer.
Let’s Rock: The Retro Festival is returning to Temple Newsam, in Leeds, this summer. Happening on Saturday, June 17 we’ll see headline performances from Soft Cell and OMD.
Others lined up to perform include Tony Hadley, Midge Ure, Slim Jim Phantom (Stray Cats), The Farm, The Real Thing, Hue and Cry, Roland Gift, Heatwave and many more. If you’d like to go to Let’s Rock Leeds 2023 tickets are on sale now and you can buy them here.
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The Let’s Rock team host a number of festivals across the UK each summer. Discussing their pleasure at headlining in Leeds, Marc Almond and Dave Ball, from Soft Cell, said today: “We are delighted to be headlining so many Let’s Rock festivals in 2023.
“We’re playing Northern Ireland, Shrewsbury, Exeter and Southampton for the first time ever as Soft Cell, as well as in our spiritual home of Leeds, and look forward to seeing everyone at this great festival.”
Let’s Rock offers unpretentious non-stop fun, with legendary musicians performing hit after hit to a crowd of all ages many of whom come dressed in their finest 80s fashion. After two challenging, pandemic-hit summers, in 2022 we saw the return of a full schedule of Let’s Rock festivals for the first time since 2019, drawing a combined audience of over 150,000 across the 13 festival sites. For 2023, Let’s Rock has partnered with the national digital radio station Absolute 80s.
Let’s Rock organisers and founders Nick Billinghurst and Matt Smith said: “It was truly humbling to have everyone back at Let’s Rock this summer after two difficult years, and it means the world to us that our loyal audience has stuck with us. We’re already looking forward to 2023 and are proud to announce what we hope you’ll agree is a spectacular line up for Let’s Rock Leeds.”
In addition to their music and fun, Let’s Rock supports the charity work of Child Bereavement UK. The organisation supports families and educates professionals when a baby or child of any age dies or is dying, or when a family is facing bereavement. Since partnering with UK Live in 2014, Child Bereavement have managed to raise over £800,000 at the Lets Rock Festivals.
Child Bereavement UK community projects manager Lorna Murchi said: “I’m absolutely delighted and incredibly grateful to everyone who attended the Let’s Rock festivals and gave so generously in aid of Child Bereavement UK this year. Every bit of change popped in a collection tin, wristband or raffle ticket purchased and auction bid paid, adds up and makes a huge difference to the bereaved children, parents and families we support across the UK. To give some perspective, £130,000 could fund our national helpline for over four months, giving a lifeline to families when they need it most. Thank you for your wonderful support this year.”
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