FULL-STACK DIY MUSIC COLLECTIVE

The robot needs home collective was begun in 2004 by members of the band maybeshewill as a vehicle to release their first ep.

Over the following 20 years the collective has grown in scope to become more than just a label, and now encompasses live shows, merchandise, touring services and a whole lot more.

SELECTED SHOWS:

Poppy Ackroyd, Alarm Bells, Alcest, David Allred, Alma, And So I Watch You From Afar, &U&I, …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, The Appleseed Cast, Arcane Roots, Arms and Sleepers, Ólafur Arnalds, A Sudden Burst of Colour, A Winged Victory For The Sullen, Axes, Battles, Blacklisters, Black Peaks, Blakfish, Blanck Mass, Bloc Party, Body Hound, Boris, Brawlers, British Theatre, Peter Broderick, Burnt by the Sun, CLT DRP, Colour me Wednesday, Dad Rocks, Dananananaykroyd, Daphne and Celeste, Delta Sleep, Deux Furieuses, Devil Sold His Soul, Dream Nails, Dry the River, Sam Duckworth, Dutch Uncles, Earthtone9, El Ten Eleven, Electric Eel Shock, Errors, Natalie Evans, Foals, Foxing, Frank Turner, Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly., Gnarwolves, Haiku Salut, Heck, Her Name is Calla, The Horrors, iliketrains, Itoldyouiwouldeatyou, Johnny Foreigner, Katatonia, Conrad Keely, Kids in Glass Houses, Ladytron, Lambert, Listener, Lite, Little Wings, Katie Malco, S.T. Manville, Maps and Atlases, Jonah Matranga, Max Raptor, Maybeshewill, Lubomyr Melnyk, Micachu & The Shapes, Mimas, Mono, Kelly Moran, Nathan Fake, Nine Black Alps, Norma Jean, Nervus, Nordic Giants, Oceanside, Olympians, Orphaned Land, Palmreader, Part Chimp, Peaness, Personal Best, Grace Petrie, The Physics House Band, Polar Bear, The Polar Bear Club, Poly-Math, Proper., Raging Speedhorn, Recreations, Reuben, Rival Consoles, Rolo Tomassi, Samoans, Sepultura, She Makes War, Shonen Knife, Sikth, Skindred, Slow Magic, Sour, Stars of the Lid, Laura Stevenson, Svalbard, Tall Ships, Talons, Tangled Hair, Tellison, Tera Melos, These Ghosts, This Will Destroy You, Thought Forms, Three Trapped Tigers, Tides from Nebula, Totorro, Penelope Trappes, Tricot, TTNG, The Twilight Sad, Mick Turner, Vasudeva, Venetian Snares, Vennart, Vessels, Waking Aida, Wallflower, We Were Promised Jetpacks, WSTR, Yearbook, Yndi Halda, Yourcodenameis:milo & many more.

HANDMADE FESTIVAL

We’re proud to have been one of the founding partners of Leicester’s Handmade Festival - alongside The Cookie and Firebug. Running from 2013 to 2023 it brought some of the best new and established artists to the city including Frightened Rabbit, Idles, Metronomy, Circa Waves, Twin Atlantic and Drenge.

Awards & Recognitions

Best Independent Promoter (Local Impact) (Nominee)
LiveUK Awards 2018

Best Mult-Venue Festival (Nominee)
LiveUK Awards 2018

Best Small, Grassroots & Metropolitan Festival (Nominee)
UK Festival Awards 2017

Best Independent Festival (Nominee)
Association of Independent Music 2017

Indie Promoter of the Year (Nominee)
Live Music Awards 2016

Golden Welly Award for Best Independent Festival (Nominee)
Association of Independent Music 2016