Wharf Chambers

Skint As (working class cabaret)
2025-08-16 19:00 - 23:00 (Europe/London)
A Cabaret night celebrating Working-Class artists through drag & live music
Skintas well into it’s second year of events is back after a short break for more!
Sliding scale ticket options starting at £3 – you can buy in advance here: https://www.citizenticket.com/events/skint-as/skintas-5/
There will also be tickets on the door with options to pay either cash or paypal – NO ONE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS.

Lit! Crazy! Movie!
2025-08-16 23:59 - 2025-08-17 04:00
“Bringing you bangers that will make you say “Last night was a movie”. Rap, rage, rock, grime? Who cares. It’s gonna be crazy. If you wanna get turnt you should turn up! Free to all (party to the people).”

Genres: RAP, GRIME, ROCK

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b0uter leaving party
2025-08-17 18:00 - 22:00
I’m heading to Denmark and putting on this free night of musicians I love/ have been inspired by whilst in Leeds and beyond. 6 bands, 6pm-10pm mega adventure. Reunion of a certain Jsplain, special guests from Copenhagen, and much more.

Dirt Dyke Dive
2025-08-19 19:00 - 23:00
A pop-up dyke bar. – Free event!

bughotel album launch
2025-08-20 20:00 - 23:00
Join lofi indie folk artist
bughotel (and special guests!) in celebrating the release of their long overdue debut album.
Tickets: https://www.outsavvy.com/event/29232/bughotel-album-launch

I LOVE PUSSY (cats)
2025-08-21 19:00 - 23:00
A night celebrating pussy (cats) and raising funds for Alfie’s cat rescue! Held at Wharf Chambers, this show will celebrate all things camp and show of some of Leeds greatest queer performers!
Tickets: https://www.outsavvy.com/event/28834/i-love-pussy-cats-

Molch, Dawn Terry, Wire Worms
2025-08-22 19:30 - 23:00
Molch: Doomed & blackened monk rock from the southern wastes.
Dawn Terry: New aeon priestess armed with accordion and axe.
Wire Worms: Eschatological folk from the dark heart of Leeds.
(facebook/insta): @hawthonn
TICKETS ON THE DOOR

choccy biccy x GotBit Fundraiser
2025-08-22 23:59 - 2025-08-23 04:00
GotBit Productions and Choccy Biccy come together for a special fundraising night in solidarity with Palestine. This event features a full female and non-binary lineup showcasing multi-genre bass music. All proceeds from the night will be donated to support humanitarian aid efforts in Gaza.
GENRE(S): multi-genre bass music ( jungle, footwork, trance and hardcore)
TICKET LINK
PROMOTER
INSTAGRAM: @gotbitproductions and @choccy__biccy

Jackie O Motherfucker, Lo Egin + Sour Faced Lil
2025-08-23 19:00 - 22:30
Jackie-O Motherfucker was founded by Tom Greenwood in the mid 90’s, the group has had more than forty members over the years drawn from the U.S. experimental scene, notably Natalie Mering, who now records under Weyes Blood, briefly on bass. The current line up is a 4 piece lead by Tom Greenwood. Jackie-O Motherfucker’s music draws from a variety of subgenres including various folk musics of the world, drone, free jazz, psychedelia, and noise rock, and is heavily improvisational in its nature. The group has had recordings released by many different labels including Fire Records, Ecstatic Peace, Feeding Tube Records, ATP Recordings and their own U-Sound Archive and has been on several international tours including several performances at All Tomorrow’s Parties Festivals by way of Sonic Youth. The band played the 2002 and 2004 festivals curated by Sonic Youth and the 2007 festival curated by Thurston Moore
Tickets: https://www.seetickets.com/event/jackie-o-motherfucker/wharf-chambers/3410464

License To Jungle
2025-08-24 17:00 - 22:00
License To Jungle pays a visit to Wharf Chambers for the first time. A venue very close to our heart and one the crew has frequented many times over the years, we’re excited to be hosting an evening session this August bank holiday Sunday. Expect laid back ambient vibes into breaks into jungle from Diverge, Solo and Speedwax, finished off with a special headline appearance from Manchester’s Yyre (FKA DJ Soyboi)
Tickets on sale soon!

ADRA Promotions presents
2025-08-30 19:30 - 23:00
Water Damage (USA- Cardinal Fuzz/12XU)
‘Maximal repetition minimum deviation’ double-drumming drone rock collective with members of Swans, Spray Paint, Black Eyes, Bhajan Bhoy on Cardinal Fuzz / 12XU Records. ‘a rare mind eraser for our increasingly plugged-in times’ – Pitchfork
https://cful.bandcamp.com/album/water-damage-repeater

Solderer
Members of Beige Palace/Thank/Territorial Gobbing atonal gone-off-core.
https://solderererer.bandcamp.com/album/normal-style

Lands & Body
Instrumental Baritone Guitar and Drums Duo from Halifax / Leeds
https://andyabbott.bandcamp.com/album/dark-mild-ep

At Wharf Chambers, 23-25 Wharf Street, Leeds
£14/£10 (plus booking fee). Tickets at https://www.skiddle.com/e/40913250
7:30pm doors.

Demons (1985)
2025-09-03 18:30 - 23:00
Part of Scalarama Film Festival 2025. A collaboration between Lamberto “son of Mario” Bava and giallo king Dario Argento, this is a gooey, bad-taste thrill ride about audience participation gone wrong. After being offered free tickets by a mysterious masked man, a motley crew of cinemagoers become trapped when the horror movie they’re watching starts to seep into real life. Featuring gory practical effects, a hair metal soundtrack, stilted dialogue, and the vomiting, neon-eyed demons themselves, Demons is an experience you won’t forget. Content warnings: strong bloody violence, drug use.
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/such-sights-to-show-you-presents-demons-1985-tickets-1556688951559?aff=oddtdtcreator
Event page: http://instagram.com/suchsightsleeds

DEATH PILL (Ukraine), NU (Yorkshire), SLUTCH (Wigan)
2025-09-04 20:00 - 23:00
DEATH PILL (Ukraine) Hardcore punk grrrlz band from Ukraine on tour with their second album Sologamy — a raw, raging declaration of selfhood, survival, and defiance
NU – Neu crust punk from Yorkshire and New Zealand. Redefining heaviness
SLUTCH – Noisey young punks, two 17 year olds and a 12 year old, from Wigan releasing their first EP!

Bandcamps
Death Pill – https://deathpillgrrrlz.bandcamp.com/
Nu – https://nujorvik.bandcamp.com/album/to-obey-natures-command-in-the-choice-of-its-haunts

Slutch – SLUTCH

Tickets on the door – CASH ONLY

Canadian Freakazoid Takeover!
2025-09-05 19:00 - 23:00
Hamilton Ontario freakzone comes to Leeds for a night of uncanny wonk and gleeful derangement!
Man Made Hill : Orange Milk Records LSD casualty Randy Gagne serves up a completely bent take on Synth funk sleaze, no wave and uneasy listening!
Please : The legendary Becky Katz’ solo phantasmagoric surreal electronics + fever dream voice project!
Nape Neck : Leeds’ very own premier Leedswave / angular Beefheartian post punk trio!!!

Tickets on door!

Rat Mode ‘25
2025-09-06 14:00 - 22:30
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!
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