Three Incredible Acts To Perform At Darley Street Market As Part Of New Live At The Courtyard Festival

Live at the Courtyard lands at the Darley Street Market this August, bringing you three days of incredible live music to Bradford City Centre.

Taking place on Friday 14th, Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th August, each outdoor concert will see an amazing headliner and support entertaining the crowd, with an outdoor bar and food offer, plus more to be announced.

On Friday evening Pulled Apart by Horses will be performing. Pulled Apart By Horses have earned a reputation as one of the UK’s most electrifying live bands, an adrenaline fuelled cult built on trust, intensity and shared scars. Their shows teeter between precision and total mayhem. They blur the line between band and audience, valuing that connection from day one. Frontman Tom Hudson rarely stays onstage; face to face and unpredictable, he turns every corner of the venue into part of the performance.

On Saturday evening we will welcome Lucy Spraggan. Lucy Spraggan started her journey as a music artist when she was very young, performing and wowing crowds with her self-penned tracks at every open mic and acoustic night in her hometown. In 2012, she entered the X Factor and went onto be the first contestant in history to score a Top 40 single and album before the live shows aired. She has reached over 210 million streams on Spotify alone with over 443k monthly listeners and sold over 150,000 albums. Lucy Spraggan’s latest album ‘Other Sides of the Moon’ opened at 6 in the album sales chart, 7 in the record store chart and 2 on the independent albums chart. Her 8th studio album, which can be heard here, is a collection of reimagined, reworked classics from her 7 previous records, plus brand-new songs; a brilliant mix of old and new Lucy.

On Sunday afternoon The Hoosiers will take to the stage. The million selling Indie-Pop icons first released their debut album ‘The Trick To Life; in 2007 on RCA Records and the band achieved rapid success hitting No.1 in the UK charts and spawning countless singles including the Top 5 hits “Worried About Ray” and “Goodbye Mr A”. Since then, the band’s debut sold in excess of 700,000 copies in the UK alone and they’ve embarked on multiple sold-out tours and graced stages at the likes of Glastonbury, Isle of Wight Festival and BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend.

Each act will perform for an hour, and support acts will be announced soon.

Doors on Friday 14th August and Saturday 15th August will be at 7pm and on Sunday 16th August doors are at 1:30pm. Music will start around 45-minutes after doors.

Tickets are £18 (Friday), £20 (Saturday) and £24 (Sunday), plus booking fees.

A Bradford Markets spokesperson said: “We’re looking forward to welcoming three amazing acts to the Darley Street Market Courtyard this summer as part of our first outdoor festival.”

Tickets are available at https://www.bradford-theatres.co.uk/darley-street-market

More about the artists

Pulled Apart by Horses

Pulled Apart By Horses have earned a reputation as one of the UK’s most electrifying live bands, an adrenaline fuelled cult built on trust, intensity and shared scars. Their shows teeter between precision and total mayhem.

They blur the line between band and audience, valuing that connection from day one. Frontman Tom Hudson rarely stays onstage; face to face and unpredictable, he turns every corner of the venue into part of the performance.

From sweat soaked clubs to festival stages, Pulled Apart By Horses create something raw and communal.

With five albums behind them and fresh noise brewing, they’re as lean, loud and unhinged as ever.

Lucy Spraggan

Lucy Spraggan started her journey as a music artist when she was very young, performing and wowing crowds with her self-penned tracks at every open mic and acoustic night in her hometown. In 2012, she entered the X Factor and went onto be the first contestant in history to score a Top 40 single and album before the live shows aired. She has reached over 210 million streams on Spotify alone with over 443k monthly listeners and sold over 150,000 albums. She is proudly an independent artist, in charge of her career and in control of every aspect of the recording and creative process. 2023 saw Lucy release her memoir Process, an instant Sunday Times bestseller that entered the chart at #2 and has gone on to sell over 15,000 copies. The book saw her reflect on her life till now, opening up about some of the biggest and most raw moments she's experienced and detailing her journey from childhood to X Factor to finding her balance in her 30s.

Lucy Spraggan’s latest album ‘Other Sides of the Moon’ opened at 6 in the album sales chart, 7 in the record store chart and 2 on the independent albums chart. Her 8th studio album, which can be heard here, is a collection of reimagined, reworked classics from her 7 previous records, plus brand-new songs; a brilliant mix of old and new Lucy.

The Hoosiers

The million selling Indie-Pop icons first released their debut album ‘The Trick To Life; in 2007 on RCA Records and the band achieved rapid success hitting No.1 in the UK charts and spawning countless singles including the Top 5 hits “Worried About Ray” and “Goodbye Mr A”. Since then, the band’s debut sold in excess of 700,000 copies in the UK alone and they’ve embarked on multiple sold-out tours and graced stages at the likes of Glastonbury, Isle of Wight Festival and BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend.

Now they speak of ‘Compassion’, out May 15th. An album born in a flash: five torrid days in Angelic Studios. Where it all began. A facility built by long-time producer and friend, Toby Smith, whose loss they carry. It’s an album that joins an ongoing conversation in a culture wrestling with the hangover from the “manosphere”. Its message taking a hammer to the jaw of self-hate masquerading as self-improvement  (“looksmaxing”), when what’s required is self-love and compassion for others. Hard-hitting tracks like “Don’t Hang Your Head” carry a tonic, a timely message that you are enough and you are loved.