Alumni band Sketches to perform at Leeds/Reading Festival

Alumni band Sketches will perform on the BBC Introducing stage at this weekend's Leeds and Reading festivals. Sketches – BA Popular Music Studies graduates Matt Hutt, John Arkell and Luke Rodgers alongside BA Music Production graduate James McBrien – formed while students at the College. The band have released two limited edition 7" singles - Slow Start/Fevered Foals & Bleed Victoria - and featured on the Fierce Panda Zip It Up EP. The band releases a limited edition EP at the end of this month. From the BBC Introducing website: "Sketches' expansive sound, complex rhythms and soaring falsetto vocals have seen them compared to the likes of Wild Beasts and The Temper Trap. 2010 has been festival-tastic for the Leeds four-piece so far, with appearances as The Great Escape, Live At Leeds, Camden Crawl, Dot To Dot and Y-Not already under their belt. In their own words, they make "widescreen, melodramatic pop that is equal parts twitchy, tetchy and tense - like a triple espresso caffeine-rush at a funeral". Enough said." More information at www.myspace.com/sketchesband www.bbc.co.uk/music/festivals/readingandleeds/2010/artists/sketches/  Image credit: Liam Henry