Rat Mode ‘25
2025-09-06 14:00 - 22:30 (Europe/London)
Rat Pakk’s annual gathering of noise, anarchy and mayhem – this year bigger
(but not necessarily better) than ever! An all day festival featuring 9 (yes 9!) of the sickest f****in’ bands
the North has to offer right now!
Featuring Kerosene (Doncaster), Lavender Gray (Leeds), Johnny Cosmic and the Night Terrors (Leeds),
Ancient Good Stuff (Manchster), Mince (Leeds), Gaydar (Newcastle), Draags (Leeds) Slash Fiction
(Sheffield) and our very own Rat Pakk!
Tickets: https://www.skiddle.com/e/40715825

Opal's Wound Club vol. 7
2025-09-10 19:00 - 23:00
A night of industrial, performance art, and magick Will made manifest through ritualistic praxis.
Tickets: https://thesoft.bigcartel.com/product/wound-club-vol-7-w-fashion-tips-faghag-le-petit-mort-tsuzogos-british-premonitions-bureau

Film screening: She is Conann (2023)
2025-09-11 19:00 - 23:00
As part of Scalarama Leeds 2025, Tiger’s Leap screens She is Conann (2023).
The third feature film by Bertrand Mandico – preceded by The Wild Boys (2017) and After Blue (2021) – the film presents an extravagantly violent, female-led riff on Conan the Barbarian. Following Conann through her various lives, it traces her bloody metamorphoses, growing barbarism, and Saphic love. A queer sci-fi thriller that is equal parts gory and lush.

Content warnings: blood and violence.
Vegan food will be sold at the bar from 18.00
Doors 19.00
Screening begins 19.30

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/she-is-conann-scalarama-leeds-2025-tickets-1591777893529?aff=oddtdtcreator

Bad Owl Presents... Sans Froid + A-Tota-So + Beluga
2025-09-12 19:30 - 23:00
SANS FROID: Art-Rock from Bristol. A-TOTA-SO: Math-Rock from Derby. BELUGA: Jazz-Rock from Leeds.
Tickets – https://wegottickets.com/event/655891
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/events/1226030745755713

ENTRANCE
2025-09-12 23:59 - 2025-09-13 04:00 | Wharf Chambers, 23-25 Wharf Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS2 7EQ, United Kingdom
An evening of hypnotic hard dance
GENRE(S): Trance, Techno
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Drag Possessed: The Frist Chronicle
2025-09-13 19:00 - 23:00
Just A Humble Drag Show, Just A Bit More Possessed…
Are You Brave Enough To Attend The First Chronicle Of Drag Possessed?
We Don’t Bite…Hard, Mwahh!

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The Georgia Diamond Show!
2025-09-14 06:30 - 23:00
Get ready for a night of sparkle, sass, and sensational live vocals as Georgia Diamond hosts her signature cabaret extravaganza!
This showgirl serves glamour and powerhouse pipes, joined by a fierce lineup: the iconic Trash, electrifying Stefani, dazzling Opal Rose, sultry Sian De Paul, and of course, the diamond in the spotlight — Georgia Diamond herself.
Live vocals, fierce looks, and full fantasy — this is drag done right.
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Seven by Seven
2025-09-14 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.

Dirar Kalash (solo) // Kalash Bedford Maslan Trio // Holome // Alex Izaak Milling & Territorial Gobbing
2025-09-15 19:30 - 23:00
Doors 7:30pm
£5/10/15 suggested donation or name your price
ALL FUNDS RAISED WILL BE SENT TO PALESTINIAN MUTUAL AID GROUPS
Heinous Whining spasms back to life for a one-off show for Palestinian multi-instrumentalist creative music polymath Dirar Kalash. Dirar will be playing solo as well as in trio with local Leeds weird-music-nose-grinders Ant Bedford (Beige Palace, Solderer) and Rory Maslan (Kiosk, Puppigutz etc) + psyched guitar bedlam from Holome (50% of Phantasy) and new duo from Alex and Theo….
Dirar Kalash
Dirar Kalash (b. 1982) is a musician and sound artist whose work spans a wide range of musical and sonic practices within a variety of instrumental, compositional and improvisational contexts. Kalash also extends his practice into inter-disciplinary theoretical research. He has produced several solo and collaborative musical albums and is active as touring musician, in addition to that he also created several sound installations, live audio-visual performances, and photography projects.
A dab hand at piano, oud and saxophone but constantly treading new ground in electronics all while collaborating with the likes of Ka Baird and John Tilbury. He’ll be performing both solo for sax (and possibly electronics) and in trio with Ant Bedford (non-linear drumming rewriter from Beige Palace and Solderer) and crooked jazzed out bass bend from Rory Maslan (Kiosk, Puppigutz and constant free improv collabs)
https://albayan.bandcamp.com/album/malcolm-x-in-gaza

Holome

Solo venture from art life living musician and maker of thingser Aubrey (50% of no-waved queerstryonics duo Phantasy) absolutely red line battering guitar strings into obsidian dark blocks of sound. Built and unbuilt at your leisure

Alex Izaak Milling & Territorial Gobbing

New congealing duo of sharp eared electronic explorative improviser Alex Milling and tape gnawing luddite Territorial Gobbing. AIM’s been cutting teeth switching from quadrophonic Frithesque guitar disassembly into pure mic, vocal corner pickings now entangled with recent T Gobbing ventures into autotune dan moi vocal drone. Sink into it
https://alexizaakmilling.bandcamp.com/album/all-his-angels
https://scatterarchive.bandcamp.com/album/hermit-card

Gabriel Minnikin, Gem Andrews, Serin
2025-09-16 19:30 - 23:00
Gabriel Minnikin – Gruff baritone-voiced Canadian maritime folk-rock mainstay
A uniquely talented Canadian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Gabriel Minnikin has been a mainstay in the Maritime music scene ever since breaking in with The Guthries in the 1990s. Gabriel has established himself as an in-demand artist not only in his own right but playing with the likes of Blue Rodeo, Bahamas, Gordie Sampson, Buck65, Kinley Dowling, KD Lang and Diana Jones.
https://gabrielminnikinhfx.bandcamp.com/album/anne-lorraine
Gem Andrews – Scouse-via-Newcastle alt-country for the girls, gays and theys
Born in Liverpool, raised in Newcastle, musician Gem Andrews makes music that is deeply rooted in alt-country and British folk, with her fiercely independent voice carrying inflections of Patsy Cline, Lucinda Williams and Kate & Anna McGarrigle. Gem currently lives in Newcastle upon Tyne with her wife, and two small children
https://gemandrews.bandcamp.com/album/north
Serin – Sad boi folk
Serin is a Leeds-based queer/trans songwriting/folk duo, made up of Wren Boon and Lucy Bacon. Combining vocal harmonies, powerful violin melodies and gentle guitar, they perform original and traditional songs from the UK and US. They sing about gender, queerness, birds, and home/belonging. Serin are releasing their debut EP ‘Canary’ in October 2025.
https://serinmusic.bandcamp.com/
Tickets: https://wegottickets.com/event/662072

Hidden Hand presents: Häxan (1922)
2025-09-17 19:00 - 22:30
Screening of the 1922 silent horror film ‘Haxan’ centered on witchcraft, superstition and religious hysteria is brought to Wharf Chambers with a live doom-laden score.
Hidden Hand presents the occult classic Häxan: a monochromatic descent into paranoid vindication, where dissidents are ostracised and persecuted by the state. Once banned and censored across the world, Benjamin Christensen’s fictionalised documentary spans the Middle Ages to the 20th century, offering a haunting reflection on the machinery of unquestioned power.
Featuring an exclusive, one time only performance from underground heavy metal act ‘Werewolves on Wheels’, with pay-as-you-like tarot readings, this is a must-see countercultural event.
Tickets: https://www.skiddle.com/e/41272393

Don't Worry + Tiger Island + 1 more TBA
2025-09-18 19:00 - 23:00
Indie rock band Don’t Worry (Specialist Subject Records) return to Leeds for the first time since 2022 after just releasing their brand new 3rd album Idealism, which has been supported by NPR Music, BBC Radio, and more. Expect select tracks from the new album alongside favourites from previous releases. Support comes from Tiger Island with one more act to be announced soon
Tickets: https://www.seetickets.com/event/don-t-worry-support/wharf-chambers/3410455

QUEER CHILDHOODS: How pop culture turned me gay
2025-09-19 19:00 - 23:00
How pop culture turned me gay, the third and final instalment in our queer childhoods cabaret events. A night of drag to celebrate what made us question our sexuality and/or gender growing up.
Tickets: https://ra.co/events/2233905

TESTBED: 01
2025-09-19 23:55
A night of underground rap, house, drum and bass and electronic music with performances from local rappers and DJs in Leeds.
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Peace, Love, Uni-T40, Respect
2025-09-20 23:59 - 2025-09-21 04:00
Presenting the new dance sound of Leeds: Peace Love Uni-T40 Respect! From handbag house to happy hardcore, this 90s rave up is all you need to bring the second summer of T40 love to a close! We are back on 20th September bringing unique levels of audial creativity to Wharf Chambers ready to celebrate the trans identity through performance and sound!
All profits for this event will be used to fund our next project later this year so help us create a new era for T40 Collective and come and support!
TICKET LINK
GENRE(S): clubnight, rave, happy hardcore, house, gogo, performance
PROMOTER: T40 Collective

Clothes Swap
2025-09-21 15:30 - 19:30
Clothes swaps are a great way to explore your style, help others and save clothes going to landfill.
SOMETHING NEW FROM OUR PREVIOUS SWAPS- we will have a tailor onsite doing alterations (on the day only), making packers, adjusting binders etc
We try to recycle clothes where possible but we really appreciate it if you could check that donations are clean and in good condition.
You’ll be able to drop clothes off from 3 but we won’t allow anyone in to swap from 3.30 to make sure we’ve set everything up. The bar will be open as normal during the event.
If you don’t have clothes to swap but you want to take clothes, that’s fine, you can pay £2 per item instead. We’ll be taking donations to Trans Support Hub CIC which helps us keep these events free for those who can’t afford an entry fee.
There will be a changing room and mirror.
We’ve already got plenty of donations from our previous events so there will be lots off choice and we always keep a range of sizes, but it’s even better if you can hang out in the bar and make multiple visits because we expect to get further donations throughout the day.
WE REALLY APPRECIATE TRANS SPECIFIC DONATIONS SUCH AS BINDERS, CHEST ENHANCERS, GAFFS, PACKERS ETC.
We’ll be taking pictures to promote the work we do and future events, please let us know on arrival if you don’t want us to take your picture.
ENTRY ON THE DOOR WILL BE £2
Can’t wait to see you all there!
GET TICKETS HERE

Nina Garcia (FR) + Arnaud Rivière (FR) + Pleb (UK)
2025-09-23 19:30 - 23:00
NINA GARCIA (FR)
Miraculous solo shredding from the electric maverick formerly known as Mariachi. Nina Garcia’s dynamic guitarwork amasses immensity through minimalism, using an electromagnetic microphone to create great tensions from the smallest of gestures. Shades of noise, drone, post-punk and blues converge and collapse around the artist and instrument’s dance.
PLEB (UK)
Slow, synergised sorrow from a guitar-and-drums sludge duo playing in the tradition of void enjoyers Corrupted. Spun off from Give Over, Pleb grind metal down to its rawest form, schlepping sparse, despondent riffs through a chorus of amps, thumps and growls.
ARNAUD RIVIÈRE (FR)
Arnaud Rivière’s scrapyard experiments are a loving tribute to repaired and repurposed sound. Equipped with a decrepit, fixed-up turntable, along with as many devices he can fit in a single square foot, he creates ecstatic, jumpstarted noise that’s all about the physical connections between performer and object.
£8 advance / £12 on the door
£5 unwaged / no one turned away for lack of funds
Tickets: https://wegottickets.com/event/669682

Re-Animator (1985) Film Screening
2025-09-24 19:00 - 23:00
DEATH IS JUST THE BEGINNING…
Obsessed with defeating death, brilliant but deranged medical student Herbert West invents a glowing green serum that can reanimate dead tissue. Roping in his sceptical roommate and fellow student Dan Cain, the two perform increasingly dangerous experiments on dead bodies that spiral out of control. Loosely based on a H.P. Lovecraft short story, this deliciously camp, darkly comic cult favourite blends grotesque, glistening body horror with outrageous slapstick – a descent into madness and joyous chaos!
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/re-animator-1985-film-screening-tickets-1597351604649?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

Ashes To Soil Tour
2025-09-25 19:00 - 23:00
Nomadic Rituals, a trio from Belfast, Northern Ireland, has been delivering a powerful mix of sludge and doom metal since 2012. They are a hidden gem in the UK metal scene. Since their inception, they have been pushing boundaries to produce distinctive and immersive sounds that blends elements, including psychedelic and progressive patterns, yet keep unbridled heaviness at their core. Their intensity is distinct, powerful and impactive. Nomadic Rituals latest release, ‘Fust’ in 2025, under Cursed Monk Records, is a compelling affair that creates expansive, hefty soundscapes from substantial elements, conveys an immense sludgy weightiness, and showcases a significant and formidable presence.

Bile Caster have been ripping concrete across the UK in recent months with their brand of horrifically hefty slow sludge. Akin to Primitive Man and Torpor, they released their first album ‘Writhing Between Birth and Death’ in 2024 (Road To Masochist)

Acceptance (formerly Fatalist) are existentially harrowing, atmospheric black metal catharsis from Leeds. With the release of their forthcoming album “Crucifixion of Orchids” in 2025 (Road To Masochist) attendees can anticipate a powerful and immersive sound experience.

Support – UBURU
Tickets: https://roadtomasochist.co.uk/gigs

Arch Femmesis/Gaydar/Your Personal Vendetta
2025-09-26 19:30 - 23:00
Tickets: https://www.seetickets.com/event/arch-femmesis-gaydar-your-personal-vendetta/wharf-chambers/3449777?fbclid=PAVERDUAMSbsNleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABp-zd_WXYV1t1_NCec4HXQytFO14Vk-T1z41lAp7tZqJk-o4CrDZUrmnmswA0_aem_h0Z3XqFZ7r_TOMJqzYNAjw

SEVERIN
2025-09-26 23:59
A night of sleaze, soundtrack, erotica, rock and roll, 60’s garage and more..
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Yum Yum: The Return
2025-09-27 19:00 - 23:00
Yum Yum is BACK and camper than ever! Featuring some of Wharf’s favourite drag acts, and some newer faces to fall in love with too. Hosted by everyone’s favourite gobshite: Vicky P!
Tickets: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/yum-yum-events/t-yaoxmqk

Law's a Drag: "F*** For Women Scotland" Cabaret!
2025-09-28 19:00 - 22:00
Local drag artists are teaming up with legal academics at Law’s a Drag to show the Supreme Court and EHRC what we think! Support trans and nonbinary siblings! Featuring stunning drag performances, information about YOUR rights, and fundraising to fight back!
insta @lawsadrag
bluesky @lawsadrag
website lawsadrag.org.uk

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Film screening: Heart of a Dog (2015)
2025-10-01 18:00 - 23:00
Centred on remembrances of Laurie Anderson’s late, beloved, piano-playing dog, Lolabelle, Heart of a Dog presents an enchanting, essayistic reflection on storytelling, death, memory, and experience.

Vegan food will be sold at the bar from 18.00
Doors 19.00
Screening begins 19.30
The price of admission is £5 (minus booking fees).
If you would like to support this film club and future screenings, please buy a ‘supporter’ ticket (£8 minus booking fees).

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1715798231699?aff=oddtdtcreator

Free Music Lessons -- Haptic, Hell on Hearth, Thomas Carroll
2025-10-02 19:30 - 23:00
Haptic
Across two decades of restless experimentation, the Chicago trio Haptic (Steven Hess, Joseph Clayton Mills, Adam Sonderberg) has earned a reputation for meticulously assembled recordings that are complemented by unpredictable, often riveting live performances. They’ll be joined by Linda Jankowska for this performance.
Hell on Hearth
Sean Wárs has a truly monolithic set of releases over the last few years, ‘unsettling ambient’ or perhaps the sound of a giant metal door with bad things behind it being opened very slowly.
Thomas Carroll
Probably I’m going to mess around with electronics in some capacity.
More info here
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"An Intergalactic Affair"
2025-10-03 19:00 - 22:00
Good Emotions invite you to don your spacesuits and journey with l
them into the cosmic unknown with “An INTERGALACTIC AFFAIR!” Expect Music, Comedy, Drag, Art and Aliens in this high concept low budget sci-fi cabaret!
On Instagram: @goodemotionsarts
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FUNDRAISER GIG FOR LEEDS PSC
2025-10-04 19:30 - 22:30
COWTOWN, RACKET BALL AND NORMAL VILLAGE
Tickets £5 on the door

Fightmilk ft. We Are the Weirdos and efemel
2025-10-05 19:00 - 22:00
London’s loudest chaos pop merchants, Fightmilk, are coming to Leeds with a bunch of bangers from their newest (and excellent) album No Souvenirs under their belt. Known for their infectious hooks, jagged indiepop, and choruses you can shout to, Fightmilk promise to bring Wharf Chambers a night of spiky chaos pop for lovers.
“a joyous riot from start to finish” (Kerrang)
“Rom-com songs of lust and betrayal, charging guitars and soaring, shouty choruses. Fightmilk has them all.” – Echoes And Dust
“With Contender, Fightmilk truly are contenders in the album of the year contest” 9/10 – Noizze
FFO: Weezer – Cheekface – Superchunk – The Breeders – Bully
We Are the Weirdos bring their defiant, deeply personal punk-pop/post-hardcore cocktail to the stage. Expect fearless lyricism, wide-ranging influences, and the kind of sing-along joy you’d expect from a band born in the busking stages of 2000 Trees.
FFO: Against Me – The Wonder Years – Holding Absence
efemel are a Leeds-based queer country punk band who’ll make you dance and cry.

Tickets: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/friendsofbebepromo/t-dvnezqr

Monarkki - Hive Mind
2025-10-08 19:00 - 23:00
Join Monarkki and her guest acts for a night of niche references good music and Widget. (She’s probably going to mention Finland at some point too)
Tickets: https://www.fatsoma.com/e/9x00iurq/monarkki-presents-hive-mind

Ambient Leeds: Liz Hanks // rhubiqs // Guy Richardson
2025-10-09 19:30 - 23:00
Join us at Wharf Chambers for magical night of immersive soundscaping!

Liz Hanks
Minimalist cello explorations of the loss of nature in the urban environment and forgotten natural worlds.

rhubiqs
Far-reaching electronic and ambient sounds that provide immersive soundscapes for listeners to lose themselves in amidst thought-provoking textures, samples and field recordings.

Guy Richardson
Music as a temporal, spontaneous art form drawing inspiration from Delia Derbyshire, Brian Eno, the Berlin School, Craven Faults and Hinako Omori.

Ticket Link: https://www.skiddle.com/e/41262650
