Wharf Chambers

It Came From Planet Wharf
2025-06-14 19:00 - 23:00 (Europe/London)
Step onto the spaceship and join Ding Frisby for his first headline in this spider system, with extra special interstellar guests Them There Cowboys and ZOLATEC.

Cosmic outfits encouraged.

Ding Frisby
Ding Frisby is an intergalactic, guitar-wielding drag thing writing songs for queer aliens everywhere. Described as a “space-age thrill ride” and “Bowie meets Victoria Wood”, Ding combines cosmic loops with shape-shifting stories of life on Earth, all while channelling the radical campery of classic schi-fi villains.

Whether he’s sharing his DIY music videos, singing at rallies or working on an intergalactic gig-theatre show, Ding’s big on local queer community and hosts Out + Loud queer open mic where he originally crashed in Huddersfield.

Them There Cowboys
Strap in, Strap on, and get Strapped Down for Them There Cowboys. They will have you jumpin’, singin’, cryin’, and dancin’ to the dam tootinest queer cuntry music in the world. Queer cuntry music that imagines a brighter, queerer and anti-colonial tomorrow! Queer cuntry music by three non-binary cowboys who put the West on trial and take Americana to task! Beau Disco, Six-Finger Slick and Rene Rose are three good ol’ theys with a taste for the honkiest and tonkiest tunes that make your ass shake, your heart sing, and your fist raised.

ZOLATEC
Breakbeats stutter in dark soundscapes, cut with ethereal vocals, dreamy polyrhythms and shoegaze textures. Speaking from an underrepresented South Asian-Caribbean perspective, ZOLATEC explores existentialism, exclusion, and heartbreak, with an emphasis on authenticity in sound design.

“My music addresses the shortfall of authentic steel drums in music. This island instrument was standardised in the 1930’s and is thus relatively new. Whilst there is some digital representation of steelpan in current music, my aim is to bring this instrument to people live, showcasing its true beauty and dynamics. As one of the very few active steelpan musicians in the North West, I want to support this instrument in getting the recognition it deserves.”

The venue has step free access via the back and ramped access into the event space. There is an accessible bathroom. Some seating will be available and can be reserved in advance by emailing atomicpresentslive@gmail.com

No one turned away for lack of funds.
Curated by Atomic in partnership with Middle Floor and Wharf Chambers.

TICKETS HERE – wegottickets.com/event/659282/

3 YEARS OF GBOSA
2025-06-14 23:59 - 2025-06-15 05:00 | Wharf Chambers, 23-25 Wharf Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS2 7EQ, United Kingdom
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GENRE(S): Jersey Club

Axe Drax Intro Talk
2025-06-15 15:00 - 17:00
Did you know that your energy bills are polluting marginalised communities in the US, and it is all being marketed as renewable energy?
Come along to the Axe Drax intro talk to find out; What is Drax, how are they using greenwash to uphold their image and how we can stop them.

3pm to 5pm sunday the 15th of June
https://www.instagram.com/axe_drax/
https://axedrax.uk/

Kou // GGHED // Ashtray Navigations // Vicky Sparrow
2025-06-15 19:00 - 22:30
Kou – “Broken art-folk dreamscapes from the mystery crew behind that beloved Nina Harker LP. Cats purr, sleepy vocals drift, and warped drum machines stumble through surreal, Lynchian terrain. Think Faust Tapes meets Blue Moon via detuned brass, droning organs, dada pop, and stoned vocal experiments. Echoes of 70s/80s Euro art-prog (Battiato, Pierot Lunaire), 90s US surrealism (Bongwater, Royal Trux), and damaged DIY folk. It’s a bewildering, brain-rewiring trip—brief, brilliant, and beautifully strange.” – All Night Flight

“GGHED are Gaute Granli & Gabriela Gonzalez AV (NO/BE). Over the past two years, the duo have worked on merging their respective artistic realms into a singular psychedelic audio-visual performance. Using an improvisational approach to live music and video, they strive to create an experience that eludes the senses—where image and sound coalesce, reacting to each other in an attempt to merge the two into a single multisensory output. Gaute’s swerving, unpredictable use of guitar, electronics, and vocals is visually transliterated by Gabriela’s real-time video compositions—the one influencing the other in subtle, disquieting, and ultimately inextricable ways.”

Ashtray Navigations – Active for over 30 years, the most prolific outlet of underground powerhouse Phil Todd (now a duo with Mel O Dubshlaine). Hovership guitar skree and pulsating synth pattern majesty. One of the richest discographies around!

Vicky Sparrow makes poemy performance pieces that play with looping textures, echoey tensions and uneasy repetitions, producing a liveness that ambivalently unsettles itself between poetry, sound performance and experimental music, in the service of a re-sounded horizon. Working across poetry, sound, performance and criticism, Vicky teaches in Nottingham, and lives in London.

£8/5/PAYF June 15th 7pm

Drainolith (Montreal) / Territorial Gobbing / Bela Spit
2025-06-16 19:00 - 23:00
Canadian weird music legend Alex Moskos AKA Drainolith (NNA Tapes/American Tapes) brings his signature dislocated brand of futureshock blues, no wave and stumbling electronics to Leeds for the very first time, featuring Gretchen and Sydney from Tristwch Y Fenywod as his backing band! Alongside local obtuse music don Territorial Gobbing who will be greasing the strings for a special shredder set and (relatively) new Leodisian angular and sassy queer no wave/perverted punk upstarts Bela Spit!
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Vanity Fairy w/ Gladboy & Martin Manning
2025-06-18 19:30 - 23:00
Vanity Fairy
She’s recently opened for The Last Dinner Party at their biggest headline show to date, has been championed by BBC 6, DIY, CLASH, NME, Apple Music and CHANEL: you may not know her name yet, but Vanity Fairy seems destined to transcend her underground cult status.
Between her shimmering vocal falsetto (which has been compared to everyone from Barry Gibb to Kate Bush) and onstage theatrics, the iconic disco darling is earning a reputation as one of the most mesmerising live performers around.
Following support slots for Warmduscher, Katy J Pearson, Audiobooks, Lime Garden, Insecure Men, Girl Ray, Pip Blom and more, Fairy dropped her sophomore EP ‘Top of the Pops’ on Moshi Moshi records April 2024.
The EP spins a nostalgia-laden world that plays with kitsch-pop tropes and revels in the hedonistic indulgences of classic disco. But there’s also something strange at work here. Far from content to ape her be-dazzled Studio 54 idols, Fairy adds something new to the mix. It’s a bittersweet, playful, wistful sensibility that works itself out in a sound that both reveres and toys with the music she loves with all her heart.
Though she sparkles on record, Vanity Fairy is undeniably best experienced live. ‘A spectacle in the truest sense of the word, her show spans high camp theatrics, 80’s indebted synth-pop and sultry disco bangers… unavoidably infectious and utterly joy inducing’ – DIY.
Gladboy
Junkedelic misfits Gladboy have one of the underground’s most unique and frenetic live shows. Confounding, sometimes ear-piercing, but always melodic, they’ve enjoyed supports with the likes of The Orielles, The Regrettes, Laundromat, Jeffrey Lewis, The Cool Greenhouse, Willie J Healey, Starcrawler, English Teacher and Brix & The Extricated.
‘This is art-pop – think Bowie, early Talking Heads or Pulp – that veers into psych and dream-pop but always has a roughness and bite that gives it an edge’ – Outline Magazine
Martin Manning
Conjured from a dream, the multi-faceted Martin Manning emerges from our subconscious.

Haunting the waterways of Yorkshire with harps and broken drum machines, they recite poetry of the mother hill. These Avant Pop Megastars forge fractured dance music with pop at its hearth, evoking shades of Cabaret Volatire, Dean Blunt & Arthur Russell.
“What a year to be alive, as Martin Manning turns 45!”

Tickets here –
Vanity Fairy x Gladboy x Martin Manning Tickets, Wed 18 Jun 2025 at 19:30 | Eventbrite

Alphabet soup
2025-06-19 19:30 - 23:00
A steaming bowl of some of the best LGBTQIAA plus comics on the circuit for your entertainment. An inclusive, hilarious night of comedy.

Conception 3 (Experiment-all Open-mic)
2025-06-20 19:30 - 23:00
Friday 20th June

7:30pm Social

8:00pm Start

Free Entry (Donations Appreciated)

What’s the big idea?

Conception is an experiment-all open mic, aiming to promote creative thinking and the furthering of ideas. New concepts, works in progress and other happenings will be prioritised over completed acts.

There are a limited amount of available slots on the night, so please use the submission form on our website if you’d like to book in advance:

https://conceivedconception.neocities.org/

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.

The SketGala
2025-06-20 23:59 - 2025-06-21 04:00 | Wharf Chambers, 23-25 Wharf Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS2 7EQ, United Kingdom
Leeds Annual Queer Red Carpet Party
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PROMOTER(S): Nurve and BArb D’Wyre
GENRE(S): Fashion, Drag, Club night, Queer, Fancy Dress

Drag Me Out
2025-06-21 19:00 - 22:30
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.
