Handmade Festival 2018 will be returning to Leicester’s O2 Academy over May day bank holiday weekend or two days of the finest music, comedy, art, film, performance and photography hand-picked and carefully curated by Leicester’s independent venues and promoters.  

Circa Waves, Drenge, The Big Moon, Idles, Little Comets, Dinosaur Pile Up, Protomartyr, Future of the Left, Turbowolf, Girl Ray, Findlay, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Anteros, Sports Team, Spook School, Grace Petrie, The Orielles, Thought Forms, Weirds, Indoor Pets, Easy Life, She Makes War, Rascalation, Her's, Strange Bones, Black Futures, Mellow Gang, Magique, Natalie,Evans, Crosa Rosa, Babe Punch, Eyre LLew, and Soft Boys & Girls Club.