Highly revered alt-rock hero Jamie Lenman visited the new Parish in Huddersfield for the closing night of his twice delayed Summer Acoustic tour. One of perhaps the last lot of seated, socially distanced shows to be played as we head back into unrestricted times. The old Parish venue saw some incredible shows but having moved across town this was the first chance to check out their new location and it’s clearly an upgrade. It looks like it has bags of personality and is definitely a venue that’s going to see some action. Opening the evening was Kurt from Keighley’s Sounds of Swami, who dished out a cracking set of Fugazi-esque acoustic punk rock songs before swiftly exiting the building to head to his own birthday party which he’d had to duck out of at short notice. Had this not been a sea...
