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Music Performance

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Launchpad is teaming up with Wakefield Exchange to present a brand-new series of showcase gigs, shining a spotlight on incredible musicians from across Yorkshire.


Visit WX on Thursday 18 December 2025, 7pm–10pm for an evening of outstanding live music. The full lineup is below, don’t miss it!


Galaxians


Galaxians formed in 2012 when Matt Woodward and Jed Skinner moved to form a group that updated the sounds of the 80s dancefloor for the modern age. The pair soon emerged with EP releases on New York’s Dither Down Records and Atlanta label Rotating Souls and three self-organised UK/EU tours between 2013 and 2015. A significant development in the band’s style came with the addition of singer Emma Mason in 2016, whose powerhouse vocals lit up the band’s 2017 debut LP Let the Rhythm In.


The album caught the attention of the national music press – Clash Magazine described the album as ‘[a] tour de force of exuberant club energy’ – while the Huffington Post labelled it ‘dazzling’. The single ‘How Do U Feel?’ was also featured on Stuart Maconie’s show on BBC 6 Music and on Radio 2. A remix of the single also appeared on award-winning label Future Disco’s Technicolour Nights compilation album; Lauren Laverne’s compilation of the week in May 2019. At the end of that year the band were one of 38 acts awarded funding through Help Musicians UK’s Do it Differently scheme.


For their self-released second album, Chemical Reaction (2020), Galaxians stripped back the music and pumped up the vocals, with Mason’s unstoppable voice elevating the group to a fully formed musical act. Clash described it as ‘[a] storming, potent, extremely direct return’, whilst MOJO magazine gave the album a 4/5 review. The band collaborated with House of Ghetto’s, Darren Pritchard, and renowned BBC documentary filmmaker Clare Tavernor on the video for the album’s title track.


With the departure of Mason in 2023, Galaxians takes the form of a collective for their 3rd (as yet untitled) album, with new full-time singer Beccy Young (CHAT), and Sinead Campbell collaborating across the nine tracks. This new batch of songs reflects a maturity and highlights a musical direction informed by Latin Freestyle, 80s pop and the UK street soul of the early 1990s.


Tiger Island


Tiger Island are a garage punk band from Leeds/Bradford. We’ve been playing our fast n sleazy tunes around the North of England since 2021, have two EPs out and are working on our debut album, which is due out soon. For fans of big riffs, crazy synths, pounding drums and tunes you can actually dance to.


Augustin Bousfield


Augustin Bousfield is a relentlessly creative musician and producer from Bradford who turns his hand to all sorts of musical projects with an unending supply of tunes and nagging sonic quirks – from thrashing skronk duo Mucky Sailor to psychedelic pop outfit Gurgles, via supporting roles with kosmische rockers NOPE and psychfolk guitarist Henry Parker.


Venue opening hours

Monday : 9:00 am - 6:00 pm

Tuesday : 9:00 am - 6:00 pm

Wednesday : 9:00 am - 6:00 pm

Thursday : 9:00 am - 10:30 pm

Friday : 9:00 am - 10:30 pm

Saturday : 10:00 am - 10:30 pm

Sunday : 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Access facilities

  • Accessible Toilet
  • Assistance Dogs Welcome
  • Baby Changing Facilities
  • Changing Places Facility
  • Hearing Aid Loop
  • Wheelchair Accessible

Venue Details

Find us at

Union Street, Wakefield, WF1 3AD

Email

hello@wxwakefield.co.uk

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