Offshoots: The Hypocrites, Yoshizawa & Tallulah Howarth (LJF)

Offshoots is an event with the aim to promote new and unusual jazz and improvisational music across Leeds. We aim to provide an inclusive environment for any musician to play the music they create. This Offshoots features: The Hypocrites, an experimental avant-garde girl band and Yoshizawa, an eerie prog band that strive to create refreshing musical landscapes that connect and communicate to audiences. Recently playing at the royal Albert hall in London with an orchestra, they strive to create a new conversation within music to a range of music enjoyers. Bandleader Amelie Yoshizawa writes to express without words and to create voices for the working class in art again. Tallulah is a poet and multidisciplinary creative based in Leeds, currently studying an MA in Writing Poetry at Newcastle University. She has forayed into noisemaking with the riot grrrl EP about foraging, Dog Vomit Slime Mould, and experiments with looping spoken word soundscapes. In 2019, they were shortlisted in the top five for the BBC Young Writers Award. Their work is observational, intimate and politically-motivated. People with student tickets must bring student ID