A Reality Tour, a double album of live material from the 2003 concert tour, was released in January 2010.

Probably the most ambitious and perhaps significant work to date is Ingwe ( 2003 – 2009 ) by Georges Lentz ( written for Australian guitarist Zane Banks ), a 60-minute work for solo electric guitar, exploring that composer's existential struggles and taking the instrument into realms previously unknown in a concert music setting.

* 2003 – During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the club ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 200 others.

The 2003 mockumentary A Mighty Wind was made by most of the same people behind This is Spinal Tap and Best in Show and was also done as a documentary of three 1960s folk bands doing a reunion concert.

On 30 June 2003, Caron traveled to San Francisco to appear as the special guest star in The Songs of Alan Jay Lerner: I Remember It Well, a retrospective concert staged by San Francisco's 42nd Street Moon Company.

On March 26, 2003, ten days after Rachel Corrie's death, Smith appeared in Austin, Texas, and performed an anti-war concert.

A triple CD live album and dual DVD, Rush in Rio, was released in late October 2003 featuring an entire concert performance recorded on the last night of their Vapor Trails Tour, November 23, 2002, at Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Bobby Hatfield was found dead in his hotel room in Kalamazoo, Michigan on November 5, 2003, half an hour before he was due to perform a concert with Bill Medley at Western Michigan University's Miller Auditorium.

The version of the song was recorded with Kronos Quartet, with Greg Cohen, Philip Glass, and The Dalai Lama at the benefit concert " Healing The Divide: A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation " at Avery Fisher Hall, recorded on September 21, 2003.

In the concert documentary film, released in 2003, Danko can be seen intoxicated participating in a drunken jam session with Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir and Joplin while singing " Ain't No More Cane.

They again attended and performed at Pavarotti's benefit concert in Modena, Italy in May 2003.

In early 2003, Psyche played a concert for another debut in Finland.

After the Canadian pianist Louis Lortie was removed from the Steinway Artist roster in 2003, he complained in a newspaper article that Steinway is trying to establish a monopoly on the concert world by becoming " the Microsoft of pianos ".

Despite the difficulties of 2003, 100th Window sold over a million copies and was toured extensively ( including Queen Square, Bristol-a one-off sell out concert set up in the city centre park, which was seen as a homecoming ).

Most of the live performance segments of the 1970 film, " Gimme Shelter " were filmed there, and a concert on the " Licks Tour " in 2003 was broadcast live on HBO and later released on DVD.

2003 saw the release of the band's first DVD, Via Chicago, a black and white concert film released by Lo-Fidelity Records.

Billed as " Larry Norman's Last Concert ", on October 18, 2003 the Church of the Nazarene in Beaverton, Oregon organized a concert to celebrate Norman's 45 years in music, and to raise funds for Norman's medical bills.

In 2003, Anka came back with an exclusive concert in Bologna, organized by Italian company Mapei during the CERSAIE exhibition.

A concert suite drawn from the film has remained popular ; as of 2003, there are about half-a-dozen recordings of it in print.

* Fund raising concert in aid of diabetes uk 7 June 2003 at Besbrode Pianos Leeds

In 2003, Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor and Chris Barber reunited with the band for John Mayall's 70th Birthday Concert in Liverpool — the concert was later released on CD and DVD.

The Vandals performing for US troops in Sadr City, Baghdad in December 2004, with substitute drummer Byron McMackin. In July 2003 the Vandals filmed a live concert album and DVD at the House of Blues in Anaheim as part of Kung Fu's The Show Must Go Off!

His last concert was a benefit concert for the Atlanta Opera on October 25, 2003.

In 2003, the band began hosting the annual " 3 Doors Down and Friends " benefit concert, through the band's own charity The Better Life Foundation.

After more appearances for Leeds, Milner signed a five-year contract with them on 10 February 2003.

A shortage of available rolling stock to meet increasing demand led Arriva Trains Northern to lease Class 37s and Mark 2 carriages from EWS to top and tail a daily service from Leeds to Carlisle for 12 months from September 2003.

Sheffield Wednesday's other main rivals are ( 2 ) Barnsley and ( 3 ) Leeds United according to a supporters poll conducted in 2003.

Another channel, Wellbeing, a joint venture with Boots, modelled on Granada Breeze was broadcast from The Leeds Studios, although Granada made some programmes, closed in 2003.

As of 2003, Atkinson teaches art at the University of Leeds.

After a successful run by the Leeds Library Theatre Company, touring the United Kingdom in October and November 2003, the play was turned into a television drama starring Mark Gatiss and Julia Davis, broadcast in October 2006 on BBC Four as one of a series of culinary-themed dramas.

The former regional franchisee Arriva Trains Northern initiated a twice daily Leeds – Glasgow Central service in 1999 ( calling at Settle, Appleby, Carlisle, Lockerbie and Motherwell ), but this was withdrawn at the behest of the Strategic Rail Authority in 2003, and there remains no link from Yorkshire or the East Midlands to Glasgow over the line.

Reid was out of work until March 2003, when he was appointed interim manager of Leeds United after the dismissal of Terry Venables.

For the 2003 – 04 season Moyes signed Kevin Kilbane from Sunderland, James McFadden from Motherwell, Nigel Martyn from Leeds United and Francis Jeffers returned on loan from Arsenal.

* Jeffrey L. Forgeng, The Medieval Art of Swordsmanship, A Facsimile & Translation of the World's Oldest Personal Combat Treatise, published jointly with the Royal Armouries at Leeds, The Chivalry Bookshelf, 2003 ; ISBN 1-891448-38-2

In the 2003 close season, the resignation of Graham Taylor at Aston Villa saw Graham's name mentioned by the media as a possible successor, but again nothing came of it, with this vacancy being filled by David O ' Leary, who had played under Graham at Arsenal and worked as his assistant at Leeds.

In July 2003, Kershaw was awarded an honorary doctorate of music by the University of East Anglia, and in 2005 he was similarly honoured by his old university, University of Leeds, having failed to graduate originally.

Its first annual conference was in 2003 following the 2002 merger of the Leeds Left Alliance ( formed by Mike Davies, Celia Foote, Garth Frankland and other former members of the Labour Party ) and the Green Socialist Network ( whose origins lay in the former Communist Party of Great Britain ).

The party's first annual conference was in 2003, after the merger of Leeds Left Alliance ( mostly a collection of former Labour Party members ) and the Green Socialist Network ( whose origins lay in the Communist Party of Great Britain.

There was also a venue at the Merrion Centre in Leeds which opened in November 2003 but closed in June 2004.

Financially, the Leeds trouble affected the club for more than a decade, as Bournemouth were prevented by local police from staging home games on Bank Holidays ( traditionally a popular day for football ) until a game against Shrewsbury Town on 21 April 2003.

* Honorary Doctorates of Law: University of Strathclyde 1992, University of Teeside 1993, Keele University 1994, Lancaster University 1994, Leeds Metropolitan University 1995, University of Bristol 1997, University of Wolverhampton 1997, The Open University 1997, University of Abertay Dundee 1997, Tavistock Centre under the auspices of the University of East London 1997, University of Derby 1998, University of Leicester 1998, University of York 1999, National University of Ireland 2000, University of Aberdeen 2000, Oxford Brookes University 2001, Caledonian University 2001, Robert Gordon University 2002, Judicial Academy of Russia 2002, Polytechnic University of Tomsk 2002, Middlesex University 2003, De Montfort University 2004, University of Sheffield 2005, University of Staffordshire 2005, University of Paisley 2005, University of Edinburgh 2005

In 2003, he replaced the deceased Lord Milner of Leeds as one of the ninety elected hereditary peers that are allowed to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act of 1999.

* Arthur James Michael Milner, 2nd Baron Milner of Leeds ( 1923 – 2003 )

Tukshop of Southampton started the commercial importing of Tuk Tuks into the UK in 2003 which resulted in many people being inspired to set up taxi type operations in a number of cities including Blackpool, Brighton and Leeds.

By comparison, Leeds United who reached the semi-finals of the Champions League in 2001 have suffered from financial difficulties which saw them narrowly avoid going into administration in the 2003 – 04 season but ended up losing most of their top players and were relegated.