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DAY AND WEEKEND TICKETS: https://wegottickets.com/f/26353Fifteen years. That's how long we'll have been doing this by the time the 2027 edition rolls around, our third weekender growing ever upwards and outwards.
Saturday runs from 2pm to around 10.30pm followed by an indiepop disco with some special guest DJs at Duffy's Bar (round the corner on Pocklingtons Walk) until gone 1am. Then we reconvene on Sunday from 3pm to 8.30pm.
ALSO: we're adding a FREE warm-up on Friday 26th February at Duffy's, with PINK OPAQUE (Sheffield synth spangliness), VELVET CRISIS (unapologetic garage punk from the Riotous Collective stable), MY LO-FI HEART (Sheffield DIY electronics) and THE SUNBATHERS (landlocked shoreline wistfulness), TBC but likely 7pm to around 10.30pm.
SATURDAY:
LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS
Emerging out of Belfast, Language Of Flowers spent the mid-2000s gaining a reputation for their their post-C86 band of classic janglepop songwriting. Reforming in 2025 they don't play live that often, which makes a return to where it partly began a special occasion.
BRITISH BIRDS
Our co-headliners' DIY observationally mounted psych-garage-pop stew is gathering speed around their third album and first on Skep Wax, Murmurate, Oscillate, and their energetic live reputation spread through supporting BC Camplight, The Lovely Eggs and The Bug Club.
STUART PEARCE
Caustically abrasive Nottingham post-punks whose two albums have drawn The Fall comparisons that don't really cover their political lyrical edge or influences that traverse jangle, electronics and the US 80s underground.
SIMON LOVE
'The One True Prince Of Wales (in exile after abdication)' is what the former/occasional leader of The Loves called 2026's fourth solo album, his pop nous sharpened to a literate, alternately cynical and self-lacerating point.
HIBBETT & CHRISTOPHER
Like Love, MJ Hibbett is making his third proper appearance at Leicesterval, this time in a new guise as pathos-laden almost crooner collaborating with Chris T - T on piano, stripped back but no less effective in his humorously observational eye.
PRECIOUS METALS
Gaining a reputation in their Sheffield base for their psychedelically inclined lively, spiky post-punk stewed jangliness, they describe themselves as "Cate Le Bon fronting the B-52s" and you're going to love them.
FALLING AND LAUGHING
Around for about twenty years all told and only releasing an album in 2026, we've wanted to get the Birmingham duo for a while, their indiepop attack buffed by quiet-loud dynamics, wry lyrical content and sheer affability.
MISSKICKS
Another product of the reliable Riotous Collective, MissKicks are noisy and scrappy in the best way, "inspired by the drama of everyday life", having supported Tulpa and NYC riot grrls Mona Freaka in 2026.
SUNDAY:
THE SPOOK SCHOOL
Eleven years after a memorable Leicesterval debut they're back, not just to Leicester but from the moon with an upcoming album Like A Heartbeat, "explor(ing) themes of gender identity, queerness, and self-acceptance through energetic, melodic pop that blends humour with emotional honesty." Last time they played the Midlands they sold out a bigger room than Firebug. You'll want to be there.
CURRLS
Unapologetically charismatic garage-punks from Brighton, Lamacq, Huw, Marc Riley and Radio 1's Alyx Holcombe have all got behind their raw and uncompromising huge hook-laden melodic attack, "encouraging listeners to embrace self-love and resilience".
GAY SKELETON CLUB
The empathically queerpunx trio have at time of writing one single out but we've fallen for their melodic indie-punk, their glorious snappy songs about skeletons, cats and far less good things brought to Fightmilk support and Skep Wax's Pets Sounds compilation.
COURT JESTER
The new identity of Leicester mainstay Courtney Askey, Court Jester is a vehicle to bring bedroom synths and electronics to contemplative lyrics and send both in unexpected directions, in their own words "part pop, part doom, part dance".
COUNT JAAKOLA
London-based Finn Tiia Jaakola, who was Allo Darlin's live keyboardist on their last UK tour - their Paul Rains is part of her live band - makes DIY dreamscapes of synthpop ethereality that often nods to classic pop shapes.
Please bear in mind that the upstairs venue is only accessible via stairs, whilst the downstairs area has only one step up to the entrance.
Leicesterval has always been, is and always will be a friendly and inclusive space. Sweeping The Nation Presents... fully supports Firebug's safe space policy. No violence, harassment or any other form of discrimination or oppressive behaviour will be tolerated. Please contact venue staff if you feel it necessary.
ALLDAYER ALUMNI 2012-2026: The 10p Mixes, Ace Bushy Striptease, ACHB/Alexander and the Christopher Hale Band, adults, Anguish Sandwich, August Actually, Autocamper, Boarder, Boilers, Breakup Haircut, Bugeye, Charmpit, cheerbleederz, Chemtrails, Chorusgirl, Cowtown, Dancer, Daniel & Norbert Dentressangle, David Leach, Dayflower, Emma Kupa, Evans The Death, Fan Rights, Fever Dream, Fightmilk, Finnmark!, Flowers, Fortitude Valley, Good Grief, Haiku Salut, Hillary & The Democrats, Jetstream Pony, Jitterz, Joey Chickenskin, Junk Whale, Just Handshakes (We're British), The Just Joans, Kid Canaveral, Knitting Circle, Lande Hekt, Lardpony, Lilith Ai, The Loves, Mammoth Penguins, The Marlinas, Martha, Mascot Fight, ME REX, Mighty Kids, Milky Wimpshake, MJ Hibbett (& the Validators), Model Village, Mowbird, Murder Club, My Lo-Fi Heart, Nervous Twitch, Oh Peas!, Owl & Mouse, Panic Pocket, Peaness, Personal Best, Pet Crow, Pete Astor, Pete Green, Pillow Fort, Pink Opaque, Po!, Project Overload, Rainbow Reservoir, The Rosie Taylor Project, Sassyhiya, The School, Seabirds, Simon Love & the Old Romantics, Sonic The Comic, Spearmint, The Spook School, Steven Adams & the French Drops, Suggested Friends, The Sunbathers, Superman Revenge Squad, Swansea Sound, The Sweet Nothings, T.O.Y.S, Tender Trap, Throw Like A Girl!, Tigercats, Trust Club, Trust Fund, Tugboat Captain, Two White Cranes, The Understudies, Velvet Crisis, The Verinos, Virginia's Wolves, Vom Vorton, White Town, The Wind-Up Birds, Wolf Girl, Yeah Yeah Noh
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