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Leftfield

November 2022

  • Neil Barnes of Leftfield

    Leftfield: This is What We Do review – mighty, all-embracing workouts and more

    Born out of a tumultuous time in Neil Barnes’s life, this heady mix of bangers and righteous sounds is a keeper

October 2022

  • Left to their own devices … Neil Barnes (left) and Adam Wren in the studio making This Is What We Do.

    Leftfield: ‘Having a colonoscopy was like being in a nightclub’

    If the UK electronica pioneers’ new album sounds urgent, that’s because Neil Barnes has faced divorce, depression and a cancer scare. ‘I thought: if I don’t get it done, I never will,’ he says

February 2018

  • John Lydon on stage with PiL in 2009.

    My songbook
    John Lydon: 'I didn’t want to be a comfortable, Mick Jagger-type naughty pop star'

    From the Sex Pistols to the various iterations of PiL, via collaborations with Afrika Bambaataa and Leftfield, the legend, innovator and butter salesman picks the best of his output in the latest instalment of our songbook series

October 2017

  • Nadine Shah - Rebecca Cleal Simple Things Festival 2017

    Simple Things festival review – neo-glam, power punk and the giddy glow of trance

    From HMLTD and IDLES to Nadine Shah and the British Paraorchestra, the festival season wound down with an eclectic lineup – and no need for wellies

May 2017

  • Return of an old friend … Cheshire Cat at Barrowlands, Glasgow.

    Leftfield review – bone-quaking revival of a dance music revolution

  • ‘Damon Albarn said one track was so loud, he felt it vibrating in his throat’ … Neil Barnes, left, and Paul Daley

    How we made
    How we made Leftfield's Leftism

August 2015

  • Super Furry Animals at the 2015 Green Man festival.

    Green Man festival – home-town heroes and hot tubs steal the weekend

    Super Furry Animals take Saturday with a gloriously long set, while a dazzling St Vincent proves that Green Man just gets better with age

June 2015

  • New rave: Cream at Amnesia in Ibiza. The Liverpool club launched its first night on the island in 19

    It was 20 years ago today: the year British dance music went wild

    Yes, Britpop hit the headlines, but that was only part of the story. In 1995 dance music came of age, and a wave of hedonism hit the fields and clubs of Britain. Here some of the major musicians and DJs involved share their memories of an explosive year
  • Neil Barnes of Leftfield

    Leftfield review – dance music nirvana

    As loud and as distinctive as ever, the 90s techno act has not so much moved forward as waited for the rest of the world to catch up

    • Leftfield: Alternative Light Source review – a masterpiece of texture

    • Leftfield: Alternative Light Source review – beauty and ecstasy on 90s dance act's impressive return

    • Album streams
      Leftfield - Alternative Light Source: Exclusive album stream

August 2014

  • Julie Shanahan in Pina Bausch's Sweet Mambo at the Edinburgh international festival.

    The sound of Pina Bausch

    As Sweet Mambo is staged at the Edinburgh festival, Wim Wenders, music adviser Matthias Burkert and artists including Madeleine Peyroux reflect on Tanztheater Wuppertal’s eclectic soundtrack. By Chris Wiegand

July 2011

  • Festivalgoers in robot outfits atSecret Garden Party 2011

    Secret Garden Party 2011 – in pictures

    From mud-wrestling to a bouncing Blondie performance, we bring you the best bits from this year's Secret Garden Party in Cambridge

June 2010

  • Leftfield

    Academy, Sheffield
    Being lectured about "one love" by a baseball-capped rapper called Cheshire Cat is somehow very 90s, but in the crucial department, Leftfield have got the grooves, writes Dave Simpson

February 2010

  • Leftfield to reunite for monster comeback

    For their first gig in a decade, the dance music pioneers are to peform a live set on the shores of Loch Ness

September 2005

  • Leftfield, A Final Hit

    (Sony/BMG)

May 2000

  • Sounds barrier

    Anyone moaning that today's young people don't benefit from the character-building war and pestilence of earlier generations should pay a visit to the modern endurance test of a Leftfield concert.

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