Wharf Chambers

A.R.S.D.I.Y and Cops and Robbers Present
2026-04-22 20:00 - 23:00 (Europe/London)
Hexakaidecagon –
Rumours about Hexakaidecagon have been seeping out of unexpected places. They are the Ruby Slippers, the Grand Ole Opry and The House on the Rock. Hexakaidecagon is an upside-down power couple, they are a whirlwind survey of knocking in the night and rushing tides. A typical concert performance could include an array of percussion sourced from a dump, glossolalic jibber-jabber, a radio telescope, long lists spoken with big voices, and FaceTime calls to Mom & Dad. Hexakaidecagon is a duo that shares band members with Benicio del Trainwreck, Asparagus Piss Raindrop, Dome Riders, Peeesseye, etc. They are absolutely thrilled to welcome situations in which possibilities overpower intentions.

Guttersnipe –
Leeds’ premier and pre-eminent XFCER (XFCER: Xenofeminist crisis-energy rock)* duo. Slamming at full speed to multi-dimensional oblivion in a hi-definition lurid dream-mare spewed out by Uroceras Gigas & Tipula Confusa.

Debutantes –
Charismatic and multi-talented members of Bella Spit interlaced with Fritz Welch in a happening to behold.

Tickets on door £10 waged + sliding scale

Please Please You & Heinous Whining presents EarthBall
2026-04-23 19:30 - 23:00
EARTHBALL are a wild ensemble from Canada, mainly based on Vancouver Island. EarthBall’s live shows epitomise their commitment to spontaneous composition, offering audiences a unique experience with each performance. The last two years have seen EarthBall release their debut LP ‘It’s Yours’ and a live album entitled ‘Actual Earth Music – Volume 1 & 2’ featuring Chris Corsano and Steve Beresford on Upset The Rhythm. This winter they returned with their best effort to date ‘Outside Over There’ – a gathering of sound at the forest’s edge; where feedback, saxophone screams, and ecstatic vocals dissolve the boundary between chaos and clarity. Perhaps John Olson of Wolf Eyes sums up the album best: “Outside Over There is an eight-track odyssey that unfolds like a dreamscape, where whispered incantations brush against the shadowy fringes of the cosmos, and wild, Cézanne-inspired rock anthems erupt like geysers of color in the midst of a western warm and wet rain storm… culminating in the sprawling eleven-minute masterpiece, ‘And The Music Shall Untune The Sky,’ aptly dubbed the Earth Crusher. A creation so utterly deconstructed and intertwined with the pulse of nature itself that if AI was called upon to conceive ‘Outside Over There’ anew, it would just spit back, “F.U. in Tree Font”. An enchanting invitation for even the flat-earthers to join the circle, if only just a little.”
https://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/outside-over-there
Tickets:https://pleasepleaseyou.seetickets.com/event/earthball/wharf-chambers/3564597

2FUNKiE House Party
2026-04-24 20:00 - 2026-04-25 04:00
We’re back – 2FUNKiE House Party! It’s our resident hosts Birthday bash, and what better way to do it than with our people. Let’s move, let’s groove! The trusty 2FUNKiE vibe with free love and funky beats, this time – paying homage to the rich history of House Music.
Hosted by our very own @kingunkownamazon We’re serving up a psychedelic blend of funk, soul, old school house, hip house, Chicago house, nu disco, afro house, funky house, jazz, global, hip hop, disco, and more – all the sounds that make you feel groovy baby
At 2FUNKiE our motivation has been and will continue to be prioritising QPOC artists and voices, whilst raising money for grassroots causes providing aid in Palestine, the DRC and Sudan.
Set list:
x3 DJ’s and x3 Performers to be announced
Plus a stall held by the wonderful artist, Abigaia & more artists TBA
Dress code: Think 80’s / 90’s house party playing funky house music. Bright colours & Whatever you’re most comfortable in.
If you’re strapped for ideas, check out our upcoming mood boards. 🙂
We encourage people of all backgrounds to our events, whilst maintaining we are a QPOC priority space. Please be mindful of the type of tickets you choose to purchase 🙂 All people are welcome; Identities will not be policed!
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 their website. Membership costs £2 and requires a minimum of 48 hours to take effect.
So get ready to shake that groove thing, as always, It’s gonna be crazy sexy cool!
Tickets: https://www.citizenticket.com/events/2funkie/2funkie-house-party/
Socials: https://2funkie.sumupstore.com/

Shooting Tzars Expo #004: Crying Loser, Richard Carlson Band, Oliver! by Oliver
2026-04-25 19:30 - 23:00
Shooting Tzars Promotions present a Shooting Tzars event via Shooting Tzars Presents; the promotional wing of Shooting Tzars Records:
Shooting Tzars Exposition Extraordinaire #004: Crying Loser – We host Cork avant-garde noise rockers Crying Loser, touring their debut album ‘The Ick’ . Featuring live musical performances from a premium selection of artists, we welcome Richard Carlson Band (Sheffield) and Oliver! by Oliver (Sheffield) .
Richard Carlson Band: “Richard Carlson Band: Drawing inspiration from unlikely icons including Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and classic showmanship, their sound is bold, irreverent and impossible to pin down. Expect a performance that’s lively, chaotic, and full of character: strange, entertaining, and offering a fresh perspective on what a live band can be.”
Oliver! by Oliver: ‘Oliver! by Oliver.’ is the synthetic reimagining of the woes and joys attributed to the historical boy we know as Oliver Twist, set to a backdrop of electronica and drum machines.Expect romance and passion, villains and crime, synthesizer and linn drum.
Tickets: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/shooting-tzars-presents/t-xdddngo

Pigeon Drop-in session
2026-04-26 15:00 - 16:30
If you are a trans or nonbinary person self-medicating hormones, come along to one of our friendly sessions led by your peers. We offer harm-reduction information, free injecting equipment, and a non-judgemental space to chat to other trans people.
Instagram: Pigeon_Leeds
Bluesky: @pigeon-leeds.bsky.social
Mastadon: @Pigeon_Leeds

Dystopia Gently: Chimeras Tonight release tour
2026-04-29 19:30 - 23:00
Birmingham queer alt rock band Dystopia Gently release their first single “Chimeras Tonight (Too Mercury)” in March 2026 and are visiting DIY venues around the country to celebrate. Combining elements of garage rock, psychedelic rock, and shoegaze with band members’ classical and jazz training for something new every minute. With support from indie rock Jeanpool, grunge/shoegaze Tied House, and Manchester’s indie/punk Sophie and the Silhouettes.
Poster designed by Veronika Neputina @neptunyxa
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Queer Fear and Fermented Films Present: Alucarda
2026-04-30 19:00 - 23:00
Alucarda has lived for years as a cult whisper – passed between devotees on bootleg tapes, glimpsed in late-night television schedules, name-dropped in horror listicles. Screened in the UK the first time in 10 years, it arrives on Thursday 30th April, to a chamber dungeon near you!*
*Wharf Chambers, Leeds
Loosely based on Sheridan Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’, ALUCARDA hails from the golden age of Mexican horror. Packing in nudity, nunsploitation, blasphemy, Satanism and sexual hysteria aplenty, Queer Fear and Fermented Films are honoured to screen this rarely screened cult queer horror gem in the UK, with special permission from the filmmaker’s family.
Behind the high stone walls of a nineteenth-century Mexican convent, two orphaned girls meet. One arrives clutching her faith like a shield. The other is Alucarda. Together they stumble upon a Satanic ritual in the forest, when something ancient and hungry follows them back inside the convent walls.
Juan López Moctezuma’s delirious masterpiece is one of the great lost films of world horror. A fever dream of Satanic possession, religious ecstasy, and blazing transgression, it sits in the company of the finest Gothic cinema – yet for decades it has been seen by almost no one in this country. Until now…
Summon your ticket here to attend – it’s PAYF or £5 suggested.
The event also includes a secret spooky short ahead of the main feature presentation + a raffle following the film!
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THANK 10th Birthday Party
2026-05-02 19:30 - 23:00
Dirty Otter & Adult Baby present TEN YEARS OF THANK (Leeds edition). Yes, somehow it has been a full decade! On the tenth anniversary of their first ever gig, Thank will play a birthday show at Wharf Chambers, with support from Self-Immolation Music and Clitspit. Expect brand new material alongside some old faves.
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Cyanide Pills, Geoffrey Oicott ,The War Lovers
2026-05-03 18:30 - 22:00
Hometown Punk Rock legends, and to quote Geoffrey Oicott ” Leeds’ greatest ever Punk Rock band” the Cyanide Pills come to the Wharf Chambers as part of an exclusive 3 date tour for the release of their Singles compilation album. Support will be the aforementioned Geoffrey Oicott, to open the gig we have The War Lovers who are over on tour from New York.

Tickets: https://www.seetickets.com/event/cyanide-pills-geoffrey-oicott-the-war-lovers/wharf-chambers/3598636?src=event-page-share

Vanity Children Presents: MYSTERY BAG
2026-05-06 19:30 - 23:00
Come join Vanity Children, Jarred and Giant People for a night of indie punk/rock debauchery from your local freaks and geeks. Come dip your hand deep into the mystery bag. Pull it out. Display your prize ! Up to the skies ! Rattles those bones, shake that behind ! We want to make you dance, we want to make you smile, we want to make you go all night ! Everyone welcome, we can’t wait to see you there.
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Frock U Cancer 3.0
2026-05-09 18:30 - 23:00
Frock U Cancer 3.0 is back hotter than ever. A drag night for a worthy cause. All proceeds will be donated to St Gemma’s Hospice.
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Seven by Seven
2026-05-10 15:00 - 21:00, 2026-06-14 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.

Free Music Lessons - Euro Herc, Liminal Haze, Hardworking Families
2026-05-13 19:30 - 23:00
Euro Herc
Duo of Michał Fundowicz (Tumeric Acid, Molt Fluid) & Christian Schiefner (Chemiefaserwerk, Falt), doing tape collage goodness.
Liminal Haze
Duo of Craig Stewart Johnson & Ross Scott-Buccleuch, big ol’ dense fog.

Hardworking Families
Solo of Tom Bench
MORE INFO HERE

Ambient Leeds: SARRAM // Dead Space Chamber Music // Null Assembly
2026-05-14 19:30 - 23:00
Join us at Wharf Chambers and immerse yourself in the best dark, strange and hypnotic soundscapes Europe has to offer!

SARRAM
Joining us from Italy, SARRAM creates crushing yet graceful compositions where heavy ambient, electronica, doomjazz and minimal post-rock blend to invite the listener to an intense sound journey

Dead Space Chamber Music
Powerful and atmospheric music incorporating improvisation, use of ‘found sounds’, vocals spanning medieval Middle English, Latin and Welsh, elements of dark ambient, post-industrial, avant-classical, sacred chant and dark-folk

Null Assembly
Field recordings, sample manipulations and guitar drones telling tales of mortality and capturing the true sounds of a situation or place

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Folk in the Chambers
2026-05-21 19:30 - 23:00
Folk in the Chambers features many great sights and sounds: Georgie Rix’s incredible fiddle and mandolin, playing traditional melodies and singing songs of times long gone; the beautiful, introspective songs of Lucy Cowling, accompanied by lush string arrangement; Fenton Lennox’s brand of driving American, English and Irish folk, played elegantly on melodeon, banjo and guitar; and finally, to close the night is the new sound of folk mixed with jazz, rock, psychedelia and electronica from Payne-Heneghan:Lander:Selwood:Bailey.
MORE INFO HERE
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Dolls Dykes and Divas
2026-05-22 23:59 - 2026-05-23 04:00
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Vipertime x Moron Butler - a jazz/punk album launch
2026-05-27 19:00 - 23:00
Leeds aggro-jazz group Vipertime and Kent-based post-punk band Moron Butler launch their new collaborative album ‘Vipertime & Moron Butler’. Lyric heavy, hard edged and combining the acerbic attack of Gang of Four, the motoric drive of Can and the abstractions of John
Coltrane, the album is released 20th May on Hastings label Property Of The Lost. Expect a set from each band plus plenty of cross-pollination.

More info here and here

Tickets: https://www.seetickets.com/event/vipertime-x-moron-butler-jazz-punk-album-launch/wharf-chambers/3605208

Kakihara, Bite the Bullet, Bailed Out
2026-05-29 19:30 - 22:30
Come down to Wharf chambers for the start of Kakihara’s weekender!!
Tickets: https://www.seetickets.com/event/kakihara-bite-the-bullet-bailed-out/wharf-chambers/3595242

Transgenre: Bands vs Burlesque edition
2026-05-30 19:00 - 23:00
A Transgenre special edition – it’s Bands vs Burlesque!
A night of heavy/post-punk bands and alternative Burlesque artists.
Tickets: Transgenre: Bands vs Burlesque Tickets

Drag Possessed: Icons In Decay
2026-06-05 19:00 - 23:00
Beauty rots… Legends crumble… Idols fall… Get your tickets you don’t wanna miss this iconic resurrection…
Tickets: https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Leeds/Wharf-Chambers/Drag-Possessed-Icons-In-Decay/42260910/#about

Part Time Punks
2026-06-06 14:30 - 22:00
A day of Indie-Pop, Punk, New Wave, and everything in-between! Featuring bands:
Ceiling Demons
Indignation Meeting
i-nichi
Litterbug
Nervous Twitch
Quick Romance
RRRapid-Kool
Silver Biplanes
Tickets advance £14 OR £18 OTD
Tickets: https://www.jumborecords.co.uk/tickets-single.asp?event_id=33099

The Revolving Door: F*** The GIC Event
2026-06-10 19:30 - 23:00
We’re fundraising for the exciting documentary about the history of the GIC “The Revolving Door.” Come support trans, intersex, and queer artists to tell stories about our past with cool bands and drag acts. #
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-revolving-door-f-the-gic-event-tickets-1986070851380?aff=oddtdtcreator

THE DSM IV
2026-06-13 19:00 - 23:00
THE DSM IV are a Liverpool based three piece feat. Guy McKnight (The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster). An unpredictable powerhouse, he leads the audience on a journey of goth adjacent noise rock and synth pop. A seething lead guitar cuts through a wild mesmerising live energy. Support comes from Leeds’ own DEATHTRIPPERS who take you to a classic 80s land of Lynchian-esque dreams with their purist celestial goth new wave style. Finally, first on the bill are CELLAR MESSIAH; local psych shoegazers traversing existential dread via sonic topologies. Expect full immersion!
Tickets: https://www.crashrecords.co.uk/products/dsm-iv-the-13-06-26-wharf-chambers

Hot Rockets!
2026-06-14 19:00 - 23:00
Do-it-yourself presents… Hot Rockets! Three bands ready to blast into your stratosphere!
MORE INFO HERE
Tickets: seetickets.com/event/hot-rockets-gig-night/wharf-chambers/3619826?preview=true

Get Into the Vouv
2026-06-18 20:00 - 23:00
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A Void // Mango in Euphoria // Hitlist
2026-06-19 19:30 - 23:00
It has been a long while but at long last A Void return to Leeds for a headline gig. Main support from French compatriot Mango in Euphoria who stunned the Wharf in December 25 with a magnificent performance. Leeds based Hitlist are newly signed to Monomyth Records, they go from strength to strength with each gig , get there early to catch them.
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BLYTH POWER / THE METATRONS / THE LOST SQUIRRELS
2026-06-21 14:00 - 19:00
BLYTH POWER were formed in 1984 by singer and drummer Joseph Porter, formerly of Zounds and The Mob. Forty-odd years later they are still surprising audiences with their evolving blend of folk and punk rock. Joseph, Annie, Ben, Dion & Hugo are celebrating the Summer solstice by returning to their favourite Leeds venue after a two-year absence.
THE METATRONS are a delightfully fuzzy Riot-Pop guitar band from Hertfordshire. Polly is the singer, Rico is the bass player, Steve is the drummer and Simon plays the guitar. This gig is part of a wider tour to promote their fifth album “The Ever Present Now” due in June 2026, and we’re delighted to be hosting their debut at Wharf Chambers.
THE LOST SQUIRRELS are Harry, Peter, Gilbert and Finlay, West Leeds teenagers who combine catchy choruses, bouncy guitar riffs and downright bizarre subjects in a beautifully eccentric manner. This is their first time at Wharf Chambers too – although you may recognise singing drummer Peter from his other band, Indignation Meeting.
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JUMBO RECORDS
https://www.jumborecords.co.uk/tickets-single.asp?event_id=33162

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Maebe
2026-06-25 19:00 - 23:00
Bristol math-rock riff merchants Maebe play Leeds for the very first time in support of their third album Brain Paint. They’re joined by Bradford noise generators Trigger Thumb and Leeds post-hardcore types Death Rituals. FFO: StrangeForms, ArcTanGent, wonky riffs
Tickets: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/maebe/t-ejjvdvo

Air Drawn Dagger // Kit Major // Your Personal Vendetta
2026-07-05 19:00 - 23:00
01977Punk Promotions are proud to be able to present this outstanding line up at the Wharf Chambers. Headliners Air Drawn Dagger are a band of huge quality and who could potentially just suddenly explode and be huge. Kit Major are a Major capture ( excusing the awful pun), over from LA for a short tour; just check out how good they are….it could be big venues costing loadsa money the next time they hit the UK. Your Personal Vendetta made a huge impression at the Wharf in September 2025 for their debut gig, its great to have them back as part of this line up

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