Despite being voted Most Promising Irish Band in the Hot Press readers' poll this time last year and tipped for the top by Snow Patrol too, Belfast band Leya...

Self-confessed softies Leya have long been a hit with Hot Press readers. Now the rest of the world is starting to cop on as well.

The four piece aim to make big, anthemic music, an approach that walks a thin line between success and overblown failure. Watch You Don’t Take Off ...

Leya have been looking for the right song to fit their ambition for a while now, with the result that they’ve always sounded a bit hollow. 'In Our Hands'...

It will no doubt persuade listeners to place themselves 'in their hands'.

If Leya have one thing in their favour, it’s the self belief to make grandiose, epic music at a time when the emphasis has been on keeping things tight and...

Belfast rockers Leya were unable to perform at the Oxegen festival on Sunday, when singer Ciaran Gribbin was suddenly taken ill with suspected food poisoning.

Belfast’s Leya are possibly just the kind of band who will benefit from all this new technology, enabling them as it does to take their music straight to...

Having supported the likes of Relish and Interpol, Belfast-based rockers Leya have now signed with prestigious Dublin label Rubyworks. Plus the usual...

With a new label deal and upcoming live dates, Belfast-based Leya are shifting things up a gear

The Northern Ireland band take things up a notch with two management deals

You might not have heard of Leya, but Elton John, Ronan Keating and Jools Holland have. Peter Murphy meets the band who are putting Bangor on the...