Drag Me Out
2025-06-21 19:00 - 22:30 (Europe/London)
Pack your bags, we’re off to the isle of Fernando! Liv Vicariously and DAFT! Events are returning from hibernation to bring back one of our fan favourites – DRAG ME OUT!!
This is an interactive, live gameshow putting a queer twist on the 2000s reality TV staple, Take Me Out. The lead contestants? A league of drag artists bringing comedy, campery and charisma to win the ultimate prize – your hearts!
Tickets – https://www.outsavvy.com/event/27533/drag-me-out

Polevaulter + Fashion Tips + Error Control Tickets
2025-06-22 19:30 - 23:00
Polevaulter + Fashion Tips + Error Control for a night of noise punk experimentation
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Slapp Stikk // Smiling Politely // Runeweaver // Destroya
2025-06-25 19:00 - 23:00

Extra Life // The Thicket // M-G Dysfunction // Pleb
2025-06-26 19:30 - 23:00
Brooklyn experimental rockers Extra Life return to Leeds in support of their new album ‘The Sacred Vowel’. Plus The Thicket, M-G Dysfunction and Pleb.

Tickets here – https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Leeds/Wharf-Chambers/Extra-Life/40825444/

BOUND Fashion Ball
2025-06-27 19:00 - 23:00
BOUND MAG PRESENTS The Fashion Ball for Sherman Rabbit’s 23rd Year of Life
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DREAMLAND X CYB3R
2025-06-27 23:59
Dreamland is BACK once again at Wharf to bring you another ethereal hyperpop party… This time, we are bringing down selectors across the north from the Sheffield nightcore collective CYB3R!!
GENRE(S): Hyperpop, Nightcore, Trance
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Opal's Wound Club vol. 6: This Should've Been Vol. 5 :(
2025-06-28 19:00 - 23:00
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Rat Party
2025-06-28 23:59 - 2025-06-29 04:00 | Wharf Chambers, 23-25 Wharf Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS2 7EQ, United Kingdom
Brace yourselves for the party of the summer…. Rat Party invite Pauli Cakes, K22DLR & ASHTREY to wharf chambers to take you on a sonic journey of pleasure.
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GENRE(S): Techno, Experimental

🎬Free screening of Space to Breathe🎬
2025-06-29 19:00 - 22:00
The film is set in a utopian future where Black and Indigenous ancestors have succeeded in prison abolition!
Join No More Exclusions Leeds (NME) in this community event to learn more about what we do and how you can get involved ✨

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A night of alternative music celebrating the youth music scene in Leeds.
2025-07-02 19:30 - 23:00
A mixed genre night including Electronic, Rock and Folk Music.
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Drop Dead Gorgeous - film screening
2025-07-03 18:30 - 23:00
Drop Dead Gorgeous

In the small town of Mount Rose, Minnesota, a teen beauty pageant is about to unleash a fury of very unladylike behaviour. For in this contest, going after the crown is not just a fairy-tale dream but an all-out war where you win any way you can… or die trying.

American satirical black comedy film directed by Michael Patrick Jann and starring Kirstie Alley, Ellen Barkin, Kirsten Dunst, Allison Janney, Denise Richards, Brittany Murphy, and Amy Adams.

Cake, Tunes and antics and treats will be happing alongside the screening.

Dress code theme – Beauty Pageant, Mid West Princes, USA A (Not) Okay. Encouraged but not enforced.

tickets – https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/poisoned-peach-cinema/drop-dead-gorgeous/e-qdpjgx

Cum to the Cabaret - The Butch's List
2025-07-05 19:00 - 23:00
Welcome sinners, ‘crafty bawds’, ‘maiden-sellers’ and others who know the truth that ‘mony and cunny are good commodities’….
Prepare your finest corset and wash out your sheepskin-condoms, its time for a night of sex, scandal and debaucheries.
Inspired by The Harris’s List, the guide to the best and most desirable sex workers in 17th c London, Cum to the Cabaret are delighted to announce our upcoming show, celebrating the historic sex workers who began the burlesque and cabaret scenes…….It’s time for The Butch’s List!
Cum and join us for BURLESQUE, LIVE SEX ACTS, STRIP DANCING, PERFORMANCE ART, LIVE MUSIC and more!
To quote Harris himself, ‘as a treat to the fair votary of love, and a spur to wanton youths’, King Butch has been travelling across this not-so-great land to find you the best, most debauched and unvirtuous men, women and creatures of the night.
Hosted by the exalted Koko Popperz, winner of the 2025 Mama’s Drag Battle and self-proclaimed ‘Leeds-based wench’ and featuring a lineup of the most desirous and delightful harlots, molly’s and dancers of Leeds, you will leave spent, satisfied, and begging for more.

Get your ticket now! Click here: Cum to the Cabaret – The Butch’s List at Wharf Chambers Cooperative Club event tickets from TicketSource

T40² Birthday Party
2025-07-05 23:59 - 2025-07-06 04:00 | Wharf Chambers, 23-25 Wharf Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS2 7EQ, United Kingdom
It’s T40‘s 2nd birthday and we want you to join us as we celebrate the past 2 years of unforgettable memories with a special theme dedicated to all the amazing nights that got us here!!! From After Hours sleepovers, Wild West showdowns, elegant excess and medical mischief- this is your chance to rep your favourite past theme or mash them all together!
And it’s not just our birthday, it’s the amazing Anita Biff’s birthday who will be celebrating with us!!! For anyone who brings a birthday card for Anita Biff, you’ll be entered into a giveaway for 2x tickets to our next club night!
GENRE(S): Fundraiser, Drag, DJs
INSTAGRAM: @t40.collective
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Onlooker/Value of Nothing/Unified Action/Yuppie Supper
2025-07-06 19:00 - 23:00
Stellar line up featuring:
Value of Nothing -post radge hardcore from Leicester
Unified Action – hardcore punk from the N East
Yuppie Supper – Leeds based. Really quiet then really loud
Onlooker – angry garage in a major key all the way from Teeside

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Ambient Leeds: Duty // Gribbles // Djamtomorrow
2025-07-09 19:30 - 23:00
Join us at Wharf Chambers and immerse yourself in a mesmerising night of electronic music!

Duty
Varied synthi and Berlin School elements inspired by a love of melodic synthesiser-driven 1980s and 1990s music

Gribbles
“British electronic music wizard” making ambient, retrowave & electronica with inspiration from Lincolnshire dialects and more

Djamtomorrow
Music exploring the richness and complexity of the sounds within mbira from Zimbabwe using multiple effect chains and loops

New album of Ambient and Experimental Music – https://jamtomorrow1.bandcamp.com/album/unfamiliar-ritual
Regular Livestream, ambient and experimental mbira electronica – https://www.twitch.tv/djamtomorrow
YouTube channel with videos and links to traditional mbira players and tutorials – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRgNT-RJYxTQ-2XD8Ds4-gg

Ticket link: https://www.skiddle.com/e/41012477

A Very Queer Cabaret
2025-07-10 19:00 - 23:00
A evening of everything Queer and Musical Theatre. Featuring a selection of local performers, singing your favourite pop and musical theatre tunes!
Doors at 7pm, Start at 7:30pm.
Tickets: https://www.seetickets.com/event/a-very-queer-cabaret/wharf-chambers/3440436

Heinous Hands Presents: Flower Corsano Duo // Pedraum Agahi // Territorial Gobbing
2025-07-11 19:30 - 23:00
£10 – 5 low or unwaged :: or just name your price :: NOTAFLOF

Flower Corsano Duo is Chris Corsano (improv drum extraordinairre played with the likes of Bill Orcutt and Bjorn) and Mick Flowers (guitar sizzler in Vibracathedral Orchestra and Sun Burned Hand of the Man traveller) return in unison to the Wharf boards. Single sound forever pouring shamisen movement and drum clouds rolling over the horizon. Let it happen

Pedraum Agahi is a solo performance on the Santour – the Iranian hammered dulcimer. His set features arrangements of Iranian classical music and traditional folk songs from across the Middle East, subtly infused with Western influences. Performing across the UK with his band ‘Eadala’, but without the rhythm section, his solo arrangements evoke a mystical atmosphere, exploring the rich timbre of the Santour.

Territorial Gobbing is the solo vehicle for scattershot experiments in creative music. This time Dan Moi twang and autotune vocals are layered into dense emotive psych drone somewhere between tape noise, slowcore and SoundCloud rap

HEAVYWEIGHT – Lavender Gray EP Release gig
2025-07-12 19:00 - 23:00
Official release party of their brand new EP “Heavyweight”.
Lavender Gray is a queer punk band born and raised in the North, emerging from
rebellion and the unapologetic nostalgia of the early 2000s. With anthemic vocals
and a ‘say it how it is’ attitude, The band embrace both vulnerability and strength, channeling resistance in
every performance.
With support from Supermarket – “the one stop shop for all your music needs”, National Citizens and
Wooshy.
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Horizontal Bop
2025-07-12 23:30 - 23:59
Horizontal Bop is a night built around genre-blending and breaking musical boundaries – a space where DJs and artists can express the full spectrum of their influences. The name reflects the intention to shift perspectives, think differently, and open up sonic and social possibilities – to bop horizontally rather than follow expected paths.
This night is about mixed music, mixed genres, and blurring lines. Expect a mix of future garage, UK bass, house, and techno, woven together with music rooted in different cultural traditions – from Middle Eastern textures to African rhythms, South American grooves, and more.
Wharf Chambers Co-operative Club is a members’ club, and you need to be a member, or a guest of a member, in order to attend. To join, please visit wharfchambers.org. Membership costs £2 and requires a minimum of 48 hours to take effect.
GENRE(S): Future Garage, UK Bass, House, and Techno
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Passion Killers // Clit Split // Ivy Hughes-Dennis
2025-07-13 13:00 - 19:00
Formed in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, in 1979, Passion Killers blended working-class punk energy with pop sensibilities and vocal harmonies to create upbeat songs that were as catchy as they were defiant. Channeling anger and frustration towards authority, inequality, and the looming threat of nuclear war.
They self-released a series of DIY cassette recordings, selling them in school playgrounds and at local youth club gigs. One of these tapes found its way to Crass Records, leading to their track ‘Start Again’ being featured on the seminal Anarcho-Punk compilation – ‘Bullshit Detector Volume Two’.
Both founding members, Mave Mills and Harry Hamer, later became part of Chumbawamba.
Now, after more than 40 years, Passion Killers return to the stage this year for the first time since their last gig at Southfield Hotel, Middlesbrough, June 24, 1984.

Plus Leeds feminist band Clit Spit and solo performer Ivy Hughes-Dennis

Tickets here – https://wegottickets.com/event/660024

Seven by Seven
2025-07-13 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.

On the Cinder/Cherry Fuzz Club/Character Actors
2025-07-16 19:00 - 23:00
On the Cinder ( Buffalo, New York) appear at the Wharf Chambers as part of their first ever UK tour. Supports from the Leeds based Cherry fuzz Club and Character Actors.
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Free screening of Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker (2022)
2025-07-17 19:30 - 22:00
In this film, Chris McKim rearticulates a rich archive to present a powerful documentary on artist, writer, and activist David Wojnarowicz.
McKim’s archival work begins with the film’s title – a reference to homophobic doodle which Wojnarowicz found and incorporated into a painting of the same name – and takes us through a treasure trove of tape recordings, videos, Super 8 films, and other ephemera. These fragments, articulated together, capture Wojnarowicz’s rage, wit and tenderness, as well as an entanglement of art, life and politics. In the process of portraying Wojnarowicz, McKim also presents an image of New York at the height of the AIDS crisis and a US political context that’s staged to resonate today.

Content warnings: representations of sex, drug use, homophobia, domestic violence, sexual abuse, and AIDS-related illness and death. It is free to attend this event but please consider making a donation to the sexual health charity Yorkshire MESMAC by clicking here.
Vegan food will be available to buy at the bar at from 18.00.
Wharf Chambers is a members’ club and you need to be a member, or guest of a member, in order to attend. To join, please visit our website. Membership costs £2 and requires a minimum of 48 hours to take effect.

Corporate Pride
2025-07-18 19:00 - 23:00
This Pride, DAFT! Events is here with a show promising to keep it queer, dirty, and downright messy. We’ll be taking the p*ss out of corporations, and fighting rainbow-washing and the sanitisation of Pride, all while showcasing our top picks of incredible performers from Leeds’ queer community.
Ticket: https://www.outsavvy.com/event/28259/corporate-pride

Dirt Dykes
2025-07-18 23:59
A pride party for dykes
Accessibility access from 23:45pm, general admission from midnight. Until 4am.
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SamaBhav UK
2025-07-19 17:30 - 23:00
SamaBhav is a travelling film festival that brings together cinema, conversation, and community reflection. It grows from the decades-long work of Men Against Violence and Abuse (MAVA), Mumbai, and is hosted in collaboration with the South Asian Heritage Trust as part of South Asian Heritage Month 2025 theme of “Roots to Routes.” Each event in this series offers films, keynotes, and collective dialogue across cities and civic spaces in the UK.
SamaBhav creates a space to reflect on how masculinities are shaped by migration, caste, kinship, memory, and the challenges of accountability. It invites audiences to engage with the complexities of gender, queerness, care, and justice without expecting simple solutions. SamaBhav encourages participants to ask: What do we inherit? What do we resist? What are we becoming together? SamaBhav invites you to be part of a shared journey. This is an opportunity to build connections, reflect on difficult questions, and participate in conversations that can ripple into civic life, education, and community practice.
https://www.instagram.com/mava.india/
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/samabhav-uk-tickets-1452236792339?aff=ebdsshcopyurl&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=creator-collections&utm-share-source=creator-collections

NOX III
2025-07-19 23:59
The scene is set, the veil will unfurl….
Join us again this July for the third edition of NOX. Dry bones will clack to the sounds of late 70s proto goth, 80s weirdo goth obscurities, darkwave, deathrock and other haunted atmospheric sounds from the crypt.
None of the tired, wheeled out husks you’ve heard a thousand times before.
Catch u whirling in the incense and fog
GENRE: Goth
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Horse Loom / E.M. (Empress Maud), Gris Marguerite, Matthew Hedley Stoppard
2025-07-23 19:30 - 22:30
Having had a 6 year hiatus, The Unit Ama guitarist Steve Malley is taking tentative steps to playing solo again with Horse Loom. With incredible and intricate guitar playing and a deep, warm voice, Malley weaves dark folk tales hewn out of the coal face and lives blighted by struggle. With a mixture of traditional folk songs and some of his own doing, his playing is described as ‘beautiful, stark and heartfelt’, and is a must for fans of Bert Jansch, Davey Graham and John Fahey.
‘Northumberland’s best kept secret’ The Wire
‘Unique marriage between British folk music, avant garde guitar-playing and punk rock spirit’ Supersonic Festival

Introducing Horse Loom is Matthew Hedley Stoppard with a selection of his own poems which focuses on ancestral hurt, birds, weeds and stones. His first collection – A Family behind Glass – (Valley press) was a Guardian readers’ Book of the Year. His poems have appeared in Butcher’s Dog, Iota, Magma, and Shearsman, and he has appeared on programs for BBC radio 3, 4 and 6. His second collection of poetry – The Garland King – (Valley Press) explores the traditional customs and rituals of working /labouring classes.

A reincarnation of Empress Maud, E.M. is a solo project from Kathy Gray (Nape Neck/Gullet Obvs/Mia La Metta). Semi-improvised, E.M will perform archaic incantations using percussive instruments and vocal chanting. Straddling the medieval and the futuristic, E.M’s performance will engage you, stimulate you and challenge you.

Multi instrumentalisation and spliced sounds Gris Marguerite conjure an immersive and ominous experience featuring a malevolent triangular portal to the darkest depths. Utilising the big screen and a macabre and ambiguous sense of theatre, Sarah Mc Watt (sound/physical horrors) and Wesley Loveday (film/editing) also use processed assorted woodwind, a tuned bicycle wheel, vocals and percussion, smoke, jelly, foil, feathers, body parts and the grotesque to create a brooding and unsettling modern day gothic fairy tale. You might need a stiff drink after this!

Entry £5 >>>£8>>>£10

QUEER CLOTHES SWAP AND CHILL
2025-07-24 17:30 - 21:00
It’s summer! Which means you’ve likely got some clothes to throw out, or you want to explore a new look! Come join us for our queer clothes swap and chill – no donations are required and entry is completely free and pick up or clear out some clothes!
http://Instagram.com/bitebackevents

Queer Panic 5: The Glitter Ball
2025-07-25 19:00 - 23:00
Don your sequins, shimmers and body glitter We’re having a BALL!

An evening of Drag, Music, Games, Prizes, a Costume Contest and our regular Charity Raffle!

Hosted by Anita Wyrd & DJ Derriqué
Poster by Gwen Barr (Elle Lypsis Dot Dot Dot, whose on Vaginal Rest)
Starring: Crip Ladywood, King Butch, Mhad Mheezie, Nefarious De Vile, Packin’ Heat, Sue Pertrooper, Vicky P.

Tickets: https://www.citizenticket.com/events/dragonhide-studios/queer-panic-5-the-glitterball/
