Stuart Pearce // Nervous Twitch // Cry About It // The Richard Nixon Project
2025-01-11 19:00 - 23:00 (Europe/London)
I’m Not From London presents…
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Sat 11th January at Wharf Chambers

STUART PEARCE
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9.45 pm

The Midlands’ premier beat combo. Composite: dialectical materialism w/conventional instrumentation “As a Forest fan, I couldn’t understand why I hadn’t got around to seeing the band Stuart Pearce before! The already packed room seemed to suddenly expand and make room as more folks arrived, eager for them to take the stage. It may have been cold outside but The Chameleon crowd were turning up the heat for this sold out occasion and the chance to see their final Nottingham show in 2023. How best to describe the Stuart Pearce band: I’m settling for ‘The Fall if they were still around’, a band I’ve always loved. An explosion of brash aggression and raw sounds, think of Mark E Smith on one of his best nights and you’re somewhere near these guys. Raucous Rock collides with gritty chaos; however the anarchistic sounds are all managed into a near perfect delivery every time. If you’re making a list of must see bands in 2024, please consider these guys at the top. ” – Bassey/ Leftlion Magazine

https://stuartpearce.bandcamp.com/

NERVOUS TWITCH
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9.00 pm

Blending 1960s pop with a classic punk sound and ethos, Nervous Twitch have been a staple of the local music scene in Leeds since the release of their first EP, ‘Bad Reputation’, back in 2013. In the intervening years, the group has undergone various line-up changes and have released multiple albums and singles via various different independent record labels, including Odd Box and Punk Fox. Stalwarts of the Leeds music scene, lovely people and a must for fans of The Beatles, Shangri-Las, The Kinks, The Ronettes, TV Personalities, Jesus and Mary Chain. https://noisedelaysrecovery.com/nervous-twitch/ https://nervoustwitch.bandcamp.com/

https://linktr.ee/Nervoustwitch

CRY ABOUT IT
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8.15 pm

Your new number favourite melancholic indie punk band from West Yorkshire!

https://linktr.ee/

THE RICHARD NIXON PROJECT
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7.30 pm

The Richard Nixon Project is an indie punk band from the UK, forged in the fiery crucible of a ruthless Tory regime. With a mix of irony and outrage, these self-proclaimed “gentle old men” channel their unrelenting fury into catchy, provocative anthems. Their sound is a playful yet piercing critique of the political landscape, embodying the spirit of a boyband you never knew you needed. A standout track, “Eric Pickles is a Tory Cunt,” perfectly encapsulates their irreverent style and biting humour, making them a beloved fixture in the underground punk scene. Don’t look for them on the internet. They don’t want to be found.

£7 advance/ £10 on the door

Get your advance tickets here!

https://www.gigantic.com/stuart-pearce-tickets/leeds-wharf-chambers/2025-01-11-20-15

Licensed bar
Don’t Be A Dick
WHARF CHAMBERS IS A SAFE SPACE

Wharf Chambers Members’ Club is committed to creating an environment in which we prioritise each others’ safety and harmful or marginalising behaviour is not tolerated.

https://wharfchambers.org/safer-spaces/

Seven by Seven
2025-01-12 15:00 - 21:00
Seven by Seven is a friendly open decks vinyl playing session. You can bring along and play us seven of your 7” 45rpm vinyl singles – hence Seven by Seven – or just come and listen to others play. The 7” 45rpm format is the only limitation. We don’t dictate the type of music – you can play whatever you want to, and we relish that variety!

No DJ skills are needed, and our ethos is – no pressure, no competition, no egos.

Please get there early to put your name down. We draw names out for the running order and later arrivals may be too late to be drawn. We also sometimes reduce the number of records that some people can play if we have high numbers attending – but we do try to fit in as many seven record sets as possible.

Seven by Seven is a non-commercial operation. We run our sessions purely for the joy of playing and listening to records as a shared experience.

FUCK ME I'M OLD: Queer, Single, and Over 40 (and that's FINE)
2025-01-12 20:00 - 22:00
Being LGBTQIA+ and over 40 isn’t easy. Especially when you’re trans, single, and A Bit Weird. A one-person show about getting older without growing up.

From shagging disrespectful twinks to embracing your inner Golden Girl, ‘Comedian’ River Scott shares stories and jokes while exploring how attitudes to life, sex, and relationships change in middle-age. (It was this or therapy, and this was cheaper.)

Includes: gender-neutral dirty talk, dealing with grey pubes, and how it feels to be the same age as grown-ups. Also, lots of nob jokes and swearing.

River Scott is a multi-award-winning writer, broadcaster, and tart. They host the long-running podcast Probably True: Stories of Queer Life and Even Queer-er Sex, they identify as non-binary, and they genuinely didn’t expect you to read this far.
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Karlsen // Mainwaring // Reuben + Casling //Clarke // Blandina // Milling +Rory Maslen
2025-01-15 19:30 - 23:00
Opener
Rory Maslen – Bass, electronics (@rorymaslen._)

Group #1

Casling //Clarke // Blandina // Milling

Iris Casling – Upright Bass (@iriscasling)
Desmond Clarke – Wind, electronics(@des_r_clarke)
Alex Izaak Milling – Guitar, electronics(@alexiizaak)
Gaia Blandina – Cello (@baiaglandina)

Group #1b
Karlsen // Mainwaring // Reuben

Emil Karlsen – Drum kit (@emil__karlsen)
James Mainwaring – Saxophone (@jmainsax)
Federico Reuben – Electronics (@fedreu)

Katya Shirshkova // Odie Ji Ghast & David Birchall // Bird Brains // Local Bliss
2025-01-16 19:30 - 23:00
Midwinter Whining abound as per. Another free-wheeling collection of the musically confused. This time all rooted in the gob. Choral layering, free rock improv, mouth sounds and computer slurp and operatic drama hurrah!
no one turned away for lack of funds as alwasy
4 to 8 quid sliding scale
Katya Shirshkova
Vocal resonance relooped and layered into slow building choral pieces from the echos and fragments of religious harpings on in grand spaces transformed into something focused and shifting. Timeless in a way that if you found it etched into an Edison tube you wouldn’t bat an eye
“Katya Shirshkova is a France-based performance artist, vocalist, composer and lecturer. She works in the field of experimental music on the border between academic avant-garde, sound-art and folk traditions, mainly with voice and choirs, applying interdisciplinary methods in her practice.
Katya is going to perform a vocal piece “Le Heron”, minimalistic in its approach of work with only voice and looper. Katya re-records her own voice and creates a type of sonoric clusters, which give an effect of synthetic sound, but reached only by resources of the voice, its natural beatings and electric amplification.
“Le Heron” was created and produced at La Box residence/ENSA Bourges (FR) and was recently released as a split album w/ David Maranha on Stellage label (GR).”
Odie Ji Ghast & David Birchall
Two maestros of the freeeeee-rock-music. Dipping into the endless running water of human expression with a pail or two of pure sound. No genre studies or wry jazz-brain-addled noddling. You just feel it yano
Bird Brains
Slowly untangling murk and residue off the inner-brain-wall through activating the computer and brainstem to mouth direct soundfeedback and response. Gestering towards tape wonk self-burnt CDrdom and Minton huff but to doom metal atmos ends
Local Bliss
Baritone drama in the deep abyss. It’s so cold. Infrared! What if I freeze? And drop into the darkness?

Psychogroovey Geodance Eternal: An Exploding Rock n roll Roadshow Starring Pseudo Cunt
2025-01-17 20:00 - 23:00
PSYCHOGROOVEY GEODANCE ETERNAL: An Exploding Rock n roll Roadshow
starring PSEUDO CUNT

Kicking off our sordid soiree is -THORN WYCH-, lo-fi fragmented folk with instruments handmade from tree branches. Haunted, sinister drones, glitched electronics and vocal incantations that reestablish the coordinates for England’s Hidden Reverse. Sounds and song that pull post-industrial and traditional music into a ghostly, mesmerising fog that’s wholly unique.

Next up we welcome -VIVID TADPOLE-, an audiovisual storyteller trio who use performance, sound and projection to invoke lurid rituals of sex, the internet and crude cyber-paganism.

For the grand finale, the night will descend into a cacophonous crescendo with superstars -PSEUDO CUNT- taking to the stage for the final stop on their world tour. Freewheeling hep cats in a funky apocalypso. Go babies go! Unspool them signifiers in spectacular collapse! Keep on grooving down you freaky beatniks!

Wharf Chambers
Seventeenth of January
Eight Til Eleven
Eight Quid Waged, Four Quid Unwaged
None one turned away for lack of funds

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Free Music Lessons - Zhu Wenbo, Zhao Cong, Sun Yizhou
2025-01-18 19:30 - 23:00
Hey hey we’re back in the new year with some of the most amazing musicians going right now over from Bejing. Genuinely unmissable night this one!
Expect some top non-music-music, object action.
Zhu Wenbo: runs Zoomin’ Night https://zoominnight.bandcamp.com/, releases all over the place, collaborations with Li Song who played our outside gig 2024.
Zhao Cong: releases on Zoomin’ night, presses précaires, Hitorri, master object, no-input manipulator.
Sun Yizhou: runs Aloe records https://aloerecords.bandcamp.com/
has collaboarted withe some FML favourites such as Tim Olive, Zheng Hao, (and upcoming Yan Jun). Check out his feature in The Wire this month.
(poster by https://melatonin.straw.page/)

Contort Yourself
2025-01-18 23:59
After a successful night at the beginning of 2024, Contort Yourself finally returns to Wharf Chambers, Leeds, for another all-vinyl DJ set spinning all the best floor-fillers from across the world of no wave and post-punk.
Presented by DJ Benfrombradford, the event will start at 23:59 on Saturday 18th January and run through until 4am on Sunday morning!
Expect to hear the likes of: James Chance & The Contortions, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Suicide, ESG, Sonic Youth, The Slits, Liquid Liquid, Gang of Four, and much more!
TICKETS HERE

DISASTER BAIT X SIGMUND VOID
2025-01-19 18:30 - 21:00
a night of high energy punk noise from Bradford based ear destroyers Sigmund Void and Knaresborough based digital dirt outfit Disaster Bait.

T40: Clothes 4 Clothes
2025-01-22 18:00 - 22:00
T40 Collective brings you Clothes4Clothes !! We are doing a clothes swap on Wednesday 22nd January, the first of our more sober focused events this year. So if you’re ready to get a new wardrobe or get rid of some garments, bring your clothes and come hang out with us at Wharf Chambers. We will also be selling a selection of our merch to raise money for more free events.

Yaz Dale/The 4’33”/Cellophane
2025-01-23 19:30 - 23:00
A night celebrating women, non binary and queer people in the alternative music scene

Skint As
2025-01-25 19:00 - 23:00
SkintAs is a cabaret night aimed at platforming and celebrating working class artists. This, our 5th event, will be a mix of drag, burlesque and live music performed by local working class artists.

We are a DIY collective and therefore do not have any funding or reserves for this night, though we are hoping to build that over time. If you can afford to put in an extra few of quid via the sliding scale options we’d really appreciate it as it would help to ensure we can pay ourselves and all our performers a fair wage, as well as help us put on future events 🙂

Please note no one will be turned away for lack of funds. If you are unable to afford a ticket please drop us a message on instagram @skintas_drag or email skintasdrag@gmail.com and we will add you to the free guestlist, no questions asked.

Wharf Chambers is a members club, you must be a member or guest of a member to attend. Membership costs £2 per year. For more info and to sign up please visit wharfchambers.org
GET TICKETS HERE

Phucse Fest
2025-01-25 23:59
Outsiders. Public health risks. Fine artists. Dirty cum sluts. Bitches who would win a filth challenge. Comedians. Clowns. Marionettes. Romeos and Juliets. People who feel uncomfortable in wigs and corsets. Gender fuckers. Dick suckers. Piss drinkers. Shit talkers. The token hires at gay clubs. Cunts who don’t feel appreciated by drag mainstreams. Fluid movers. String breakers. Stick and pokers. Zeitgeist ignorers. Blood stained blouses. Chest scars. The politically emancipated. Furries. Everything everywhere all at once. People who fuck for money. People who fuck for nothing. Onion eaters. Nudists. Queer perverts. Chainsmokers. Fat hairy mammals. Dolls. Dykes. Girlboys and Boygirls. Your worst nightmare. That Little Itch. That big bald bitch. We are PHUCSE FEST

This show is strictly 18+ and contains an act involving full nudity and some real sexual acts involving insertion. Prior warnings will be given for those who wish to leave the room when this happens, with an emphasis on consent. We will be checking IDs, asking you to read our safer spaces policy as well as covering cameras with stickers on the door prior to entry. We have a professional photographer to take pictures on the night.
FOLLOW DRESS CODE TO UNLOCK THE FULL EXPERIENCE. See @phucsefest on ig for more details

TICKETS HERE

CineClub Azúcar present: Teatro de guerra (Cinema of War), Lola Arias, 2018
2025-01-26 18:00 - 22:00
The first CineClub Azúcar – a space to watch and discuss Latin American cinema and moving-image works. We begin with Lola Aria’s Teatro de guerra.
Teatro de guerra (Theatre of War) is a delirious essay on how to represent war, performed by former enemies. Lola Arias brings a group of veterans from the Malvinas/Falkands war together, three British and three Argentinian, to discuss, rehearse and re-enact their memories 35 years after the conflict. Using a theatrical framework, they work together in pairs or in dialogue with the camera, to confront their memories, each other and the war that binds them.
The Malvinas/Falklands War lasted from April to June of 1982 and took the lives of 655 Argentinian and 255 British soldiers. It ended in Argentina’s military defeat and in territorial claims on both sides that remain contentious to this day.
Content guidance: Discussion and reenactment of war.

Hot food available from 6PM.
Film starts 6.30PM
£4 entry / No one turned away for lack of funds // Tickets also available on the door. If you want to purchase a free ticket, please email azucarcreativespace@gmail.com

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Bohman Brothers / Yol / Gris Marguerite / Liam Cook / Guzak Ombudsman
2025-01-28 19:00 - 23:00
The Bohman Brothers

Adam Bohman and Jonathan Bohman have been recording together since their early teens and playing live since 1984.

Their repertoire includes a combination of sounds created in the moment and distinct compositions including songs. They use unconventional instruments, household objects, dislocated text from found, literary and commercial sources and collaged layers of recordings. They have regularly collaborated with filmmaker Peter Strickland, making appearances in his films Berberian Sound Studio and In Fabric.

Yol

Found objects bashed and yelled anguish shouted

Gris Marguerite

Multi-instrumental spliced sound and visual horrors from Sarah McWatt and Wesley Loveday

Liam Cook

“Liam is from Leeds and has a laptop and a microphone. Every time i try to write this set it sounds like i’m trying to badly do mogwai on vsts”

Guzak Ombudsman

“A little girl of gigantic proportions”

£8/5/PAYF entry 28.1.24 7pm

Lots Of Hands Album Launch
2025-01-29 19:30 - 23:00
We’re welcoming back Newcastle songwriting duo Lots Of Hands to their former home of Leeds for a celebration of upcoming album ‘into a pretty room’ — their debut on Fire Talk Records

A special band, loved for a reason, reminiscent at times of Elliot Smith or Alex G but entirely themselves. A collage of reworked demos, freewheeling session standouts, and swatches of instrumental electronics, their album is incredible. Can’t wait to hear it live

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Leeds Free Music Showcase
2025-01-30 19:00 - 23:00
Leeds’ young improvisers collaborate in a large group for the first time

Leeds Improvised Music Showcase: Harvey Parkin-Christie/Nika Ticciati/Teruki Chan/Alex Izaak Milling/Sol Christopher/Harry Souter
2025-01-30 19:00 - 23:00
A group of young musicians who have been at the centre of developing improvised and experimental music around Leeds over the last 4 years, bouncing off the incredible free music that already exists in the city, and to build connections with electronic and alternative musicians. Joined by two huge influences on all of us, James Mainwaring and Emil Karlsen. Coming together on a single bill for the first time as a showcase of our style, and to pay tribute to each other and to our teachers.

Alex Izaak Milling – Quad Amp Solo Guitar

Nika Ticciati – Solo Synthesizer and Vocals

James Mainwaring – Solo Bass Saxophone

Teruki Chan/Harvey Parkin-Christie – Barbarian Jazz – Sax/Drum Duo

Sol Christoper/Harry Souter/Emil Karlsen – Electric Free Guitar Trio

Eusexua Release Party
2025-01-31 11:59
This event will be in celebration of the release of FKA Twigs fourth album, Eusexua. This is defined as the feeling of losing time to being absolutely alive. It is making love to the booming thud of culture. We want to offer you a unique listening experience with the full run through of the album, queer performance art & dj’s spinning tunes to provoke Eusexua.
TICKETS HERE

exhale kitchen takeover
2025-01-31 19:00 - 22:00
Fri 31st // 7pm // £5-£7 // exhale kitchen takeover
local community-events collective exhale will be taking over the wharf chambers kitchen on a semi-regular friday basis. expect a delicious bowl of vegan goodness served to you at affordable prices.perfect for a cosy night at the inn or a stomach-liner for your big night ahead. check their page (@exhale.lds) for more information.

LEEDS PSC FUNDRAISER
2025-01-31 20:30 - 23:00
WIND UP BIRDS / GURGLES / CONTAINER DRIVERS. ALL PROCEEDS GO TO LEEDS PALESTINE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN. ENTRY £5 OTD

Cabaret Fundraiser for BENT Collective
2025-02-01 19:30 - 21:30
Leeds Queers Against Fascism are proud to present this evening of Caberet. Expect standup comedy, moth burlesque, drag, live wrestling, live music and of course… The UNEXPECTED.
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Love Muscle w/ Fiyahdred
2025-02-01 23:00
Love Muscle’s first party of the year with London’s finest – Fiyahdred! Residents on the night will be Littlejoe and Michael Upson, expect sweaty euphoria and lots of snogging all night long!
Expect: House, Techno, Funk, Soul, Amapiano, Dancehall
Please read the ticket info on the LM events pages. Tickets from behind the bar at Wharf Chambers or by email for guestlist & out of towners – lov3muscl3@outlook.com
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Spill ‘Mr. Blue’ Single Release Show (UK tour finale)
2025-02-02 19:30 - 22:00
On 2nd Feb, Spill from Brighton will headline The Wharf Chambers in Leeds as a part of their Debut UK Tour, the ‘Mr. Blue Tour’ & will be joined by their good friends Smasha Monocle (Leeds) & Divorce Attorney (Brighton).
Spill has been playing shows in Brighton, London & Northampton honing their live set, filled to the brim with an infectious energy crafted carefully by the band. From lullaby-esque verses weaved carefully into massive psychedelic crescendos, Spill’s live shows have something for all music lovers to enjoy.
“Mr Blue” is a hauntingly atmospheric yet beautiful track that takes listeners on an emotional journey through introspective and often turbulent shades of melancholy. Blending elements of grunge and post-punk, this creates a unique soundscape that feels both deeply personal and universally relatable. “Mr Blue” is a sonic portrait of loneliness without hope, speaking to anyone who’s ever found themselves lost in thought, looking for a moment of clarity.
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Punk'n'Phunk
2025-02-05 19:30 - 23:00
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Punk’nPhunk returns for a second round bringing you the sweetest selection of leeds rock and punk to energise the dancefloor.

Ambient Leeds: Rebelski // Black Brunswicker // Alan Brown
2025-02-06 19:30 - 23:00
Join us at Wharf Chambers and immerse yourself in a mesmerising night of ambient music!

Rebelski
Ambient compositions with a keen eye for detail and a deep understanding of sonic space

Black Brunswicker
Ambient folk melancholia, interweaving soft fingerpicked guitar with lush ambient textures

Alan Brown
Original instrumental storytelling

Wharf Chambers is a members’ club and you need to be a member, or guest of a member, in order to attend this show. To join, please visit their website. Membership costs £2 and requires a minimum of 48 hours to take effect.

Ticket link: https://skiddle.com/e/40510944

SLEUTH GANG HEADLINE + Draags & Limowreck
2025-02-07 19:30 - 23:00
Pandemonium are excited to be back for 2025 with an absolutely stacked lineup for your viewing pleasure. Headlining the night are Sleuth Gang. A 7 piece outfit who have developed an electric mix of harcore punk and hip-hop that’s beginning to make a name for itself on the Leeds music scene and beyond. Celebrating their first headline in the city they’ll be performing songs from their recently released EP ‘Sleuth Season’ which received exceptional critical reception across the UK.
Joining them on the Wharf Chambers stage will be Leeds locals Draags and Limowreck. Draags have made a name for themselves on the local scene with their highly anticipated single dropping in 2024. They’re about more than music and are never to be missed.
Limowreck are relatively new to the scene but have put themselves firmly on the list of ones to watch with their interesting blend of post-punk grunge.
To get these three on the same stage is quite a feat and the perfect way to kick off another year of Pandemonium.

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The funkraiser
2025-02-07 23:59
An all vinyl funk and soul event to fundraise for the Calais food collective, a charity that provides food and water access to displaced people living on our border who have to face police brutality and human rights violations daily. Come down for a boogie for a good cause!
TICKETS HERE

Listening Is Resistance
2025-02-08 14:00 - 17:00
Uncovered from old shops and markets across the West Bank, this archive compiles vinyl records and tapes along with stories of their production, distribution and relevance to Palestinian history. Founder Mo’min Swaitat tells us about the origins of the project.
Palestinian Sound Archive ******
Palestinian Sound Archive is a celebration of music, spoken word and album artwork from historic Palestine, mainly from the 1960s – 1990s. It is part of Majazz Project, a Palestinian-led record label and research platform founded by actor, director and filmmaker Mo’min Swaitat in 2020.
Over several years, Swaitat amassed an extensive archive of cassettes and vinyl records from Palestine and beyond, spanning everything from field recordings of Bedouin weddings to revolutionary albums from the First and Second Intifadas, instrumental tracks, poetry, soul, folk songs and jazz. Many of these were acquired from a former record label in Swaitat’s hometown Jenin, in the north of the West Bank.
Palestinian Sound Archive was born out of the archive and is focused on sampling, remixing and reissuing vintage Palestinian and Arab albums, shedding new light on the richness and diversity of Palestinian and Arab cultural and musical heritage.
Swaitat comes from a long line of Bedouin musicians and storytellers, and the archive references his rootedness in music as a means of celebrating one’s culture and sense of belonging. He plays everything from jazz to funk, soul to dabke, field recordings to spoken word, and folk to electronic music from Palestine, the broader region and across the Global South.
This event explores archival practice as a decolonial methodology and act of resistance, through sharing archival sounds and images that preserve and document Palestinian heritage, culture and resistance.
This listening session features sounds from the Majazz Project, Paluestinian Sound Archive and friends, with merchandise on sale to support the project.

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Hangout party
2025-02-08 18:00 - 22:30
Come celebrate the achievements of the Hangout youth CIC with free food, karaoke, a mini raffle. Free entry but option to pay donation for the charity – suggested donation £5. Trans and queer youth of Leeds forever!
