We cornered The Clause and Garage Flower at Leeds Festival

The wristbands are off, the wellies are drying out and Bramham Park is a field again. Before the weekend blurred into one, we sat down with Birmingham’s The Clause and Leeds’ own Garage Flower to find out what Leeds Festival looks like from the other side of the barrier.

It has been a week since Leeds Festival 2026 packed up and left Bramham Park, and if your ears have stopped ringing you are doing better than most of us. Florence, Charli, RAYE and Dave took the big slots, the Sunday thunderstorms took the rest, and in between there were two sets in The Ballroom that we are still thinking about.

We took a camera to both.

The Clause: Friday

The Clause arrived at Leeds with a debut album already under their belt. Victim of a Casual Thing came out last October, and the Birmingham four-piece have spent the months since turning it into a live show that fills a tent by mid afternoon. Friday in The Ballroom was the proof.

We caught them shortly after they came off stage, still buzzing and, by their own account, not entirely sure what day it was. Watch the full interview below.

Garage Flower: Sunday

Garage Flower are a different story. Formed in 2025 by a group of mates who met at Leeds City College, they had been a band for about a year when they walked out to open The Ballroom on Sunday. Their first single, also called Garage Flower, only came out in August. Their second, Summer, was due out today.

The short version of how they got here: last summer Bonehead from Oasis shared a clip of one of their tracks on Instagram, their following jumped from a few hundred to several thousand overnight, and the Leeds Festival booking followed. The long version is in the interview. 

They played first on the last day, before most of the campsite had surfaced, and still pulled a crowd. That is not nothing. Keep an eye on them.

Until next year

Leeds Festival 2027 is confirmed for 26 to 29 August at Bramham Park. Tickets are already on sale, and if this year is anything to go by, the best bit is not always on the main stage.

You can find our day by day coverage of Leeds Festival 2026 here.