Live At Leeds has announced a new outdoor festival edition for 2022 to accompany their usual “In The City” festival. Since it launched in 2007, the festival has showcased bands across multiple venues in Leeds city centre on May bank holiday weekend. Although this year’s event was pushed back to October because of the coronavirus pandemic which then opened up the idea to organisers that they could in fact host two festivals rather than just one.

On November 1 organisers updated their social media to announce the news of a new “In The Park” version of Live At Leeds, which will be held at Temple Newsam on Saturday, June 4, 2022.

Live At Leeds’ traditional “In The City” edition will still continue alongside the outdoor festival but is now set to take place on Saturday, October 15, 2022. The first announcement of acts for the new outdoor LAL is due out next week.

It comes after the northern leg of Slam Dunk Festival moved from its home of Leeds city centre to Temple Newsam back in 2019.  In addition to this, there will also be a whole host of 80s music legends coming to Leeds for another outdoor music festival. Let’s Rock: The Retro Festival will also be taking place at Temple Newsam, next year on June 25 not long after the LAL outdoor festival. The lineup will include the likes of Wet Wet Wet, Billy Ocean, Tom Bailey, Nick Heyward, Go West, Nik Kershaw, Belinda Carlisle, and many more.

This year Live At Leeds 2021 included performances from big names such as The Big Moon, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Sports Team and Lynks.

In a review for this year’s event, NME wrote: “One of the country’s largest multi-venue, inner-city festivals, the pandemic seems to have not only affected Live At Leeds’ usual May timing, but the calibre of its booking. The top-of-the-billing bloke-fest feels like a shame, but nonetheless, Yorkshire folk are a stoic bunch. With the opportunity for all-you-can-eat gig-hopping on a crisp Autumn day, it quickly becomes a question of how quickly you can hotfoot it around the city buffet.”