Wharf Chambers

Tongue Depressor // Mia Windsor & Teresa Winter // K U D U // Þórisson
2024-12-10 19:30 - 23:00 (Europe/London)
Heinous Whine rolls onto into the embers of 2024. There’s enough wood stockpiled before the entire year goes out and here’s a piece of kindling for you. Deep drone and atmospheric blackened evening soundworlds on a Choooosedaynight
8 quid or 4 low or unwaged or pay what you feel xx
Tongue Depressor return once more from the apparently black-metal-album-cover forests of New Haven, Conneticut. I’ve never been but can only presume from the dread murk these two swirl and congeal. The sound of the Thing out there in the Woods. Tape whirr, contrabass up to violin tension and bagpipe circular huff abound and inside the lining of your head you get it?
Mia Windsor & Teresa Winter both excellent soloists in thir own rights arriving in similar ethereal realms from different starting point but now all together all at once. Layered voices, resonances and organ drone into music that could go on forever and maybe already is?
K U D U // Þórisson electroacoustic blownout guitar shred and improv twistings thrugh a quadrophonic setup with anti-extra rhythmical drumming to tether it

A Night of Local Alternative: Oxford Comma // Dave Dray // Araya // Grace & Millie
2024-12-08 19:30
a taste of alternative is happening at wharf on 8th of December as local band Oxford comma are headlining there first ever gig alongside great supports like Dave Dray, Araya and Grace & Millie
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Seven by Seven
2024-12-08 15:00
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.

T40: CLVB PENGUIN
2024-12-07 23:59
Step into a nostalgic throwback to the rawr xd era with T40 Clvb Pengvin. We’re going back to our roots with the ultimate Y2Slay winter wonderland to end 2024! Immerse yourself in the shimmering aesthetic of frutiger aero with iconic DJs and stunning performers. Cozy up in your fluffiest leg warmers and dance the night away on the 7/12/24 at wharf chambers!!!
TICKETS HERE

Dirt Dykes Christmas Formal
2024-12-07 19:00 - 23:00
Our most anticipated show of the year, the Dirt Dykes Christmas formal, is back! Don ye gay apparel and come on down to Wharf Chambers for a night of Christmas Cabaret!
In response to a lack of spaces for people like us, we aim to create a space that is EXCLUSIVELY FOR LESBIANS AND OTHER QUEER PEOPLE OF MARGINALISED GENDERS. We centre all those who identify as DYKES. We ask all cisgender men, and all straight cisgender women, to consider that this is not an event for them and to not attend.
We will not be policing this policy at the door, so no person needs to worry about justifying their identity in order to be granted entry.
This is an 18+ event.
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PSG X Scribe X Spoken Word Soc Open Mic
2024-12-06 18:00 - 21:00
OPEN MICS ARE BACK! ️
On Friday the 6th of December, Leeds PSG, The Scribe, and LUU Spoken Word Society are collaborating for an Open Mic night at Wharf Chambers . From 6 to 9pm the mic will be yours to share poetry, music, short stories, and any other audio experiences. No artistic/performance experience is needed and all abilities are welcome to share!
Tickets are available via Universe (Link in bio). Proceeds will be donated towards Palestine evacuation funds.
Can’t wait to see you all there for what will be PSG’s big end of term fundraiser!
Accessibility: Wharf Chambers has a ramped, wheelchair accessible back door, accessed via the alleyway to the left of the front door.

Please Please You & Brudenell Presents… One Leg One Eye
2024-12-05 19:30 - 23:00
As a founding member of Dublin experimental folk group Lankum, Ian Lynch explores submerged leylines of music and song. Forging a musical path that is all at once dark, mysterious and foreboding, but ultimately transcendental. His new solo project One Leg One Eye sees him taking a fresh approach to musical arrangement culminating in a sound that is more rooted in the raw aesthetics of second wave black metal than contemporary folk.
The project was born across 2021, a period in which Lynch was able to enjoy the freedom of experimenting and explorating different paths of sound design without expectation or pressure. Seeking out interesting settings to record music and gather field recordings, there are several environments, external and interior, whose respective essence have seeped into the spirit of the music and come to represent Lynch’s artistic approach and development with this singular debut album, …And Take The Black Worm With Me.
Rediscovered spaces in Dublin and the familiar enclave of his bedroom are intrinsic to the distinct and sometimes harrowing atmosphere conjured throughout the album’s five enveloping compositions. One particular location, an abandoned factory where his father worked when Ian was a child, provided a space of great inspiration and intrigue during this time. Lynch frequently visited the large abandoned warehouse and sang with his shruti box, contented in his solitude. ‘I’d Rather Be Tending My Sheep’, grew into existence from those initial sessions, eventually finding a home as an emotive centrepiece to the album. Reflecting on the overall recording of …And Take The Black Worm With Me, Lynch says, “Everything I was doing with these songs was all kind of new to me; experimenting with different sounds, textures and palettes and seeing what I could come up with by piecing it all together. I spent about a year making the album. I loved the whole process because it was basically just me in my bedroom recording everything. The experience of recording like this and having my own time to do it was amazing. I could focus on recording a specific element and happily spend all day working on that one part, doing it as many times as I wanted. At the end of the day if it didn’t feel right, I could just try it again the next day. When you’re on your own you can spend as much time as you want on particular parts until you feel that it’s absolutely perfect. I found that to be a really liberating experience. It was probably my favourite experience recording music.”
The collection of songs (and their chronology) featured on …And Take The Black Worm With Me tell a story unique to Lynch’s experiences with anxiety and recognising his shadow self. Whilst the album became an outlet of personal expression for Lynch, the overarching themes and subsequent journey to confront one’s internal dichotomy of light and dark before accepting this inherent duality is universally shared. The eerie and often unsettling world contained within the album’s texturally dense opener ‘Glistening, She Emerges’, driven by the captivating drone of distorted uilleann pipes, immediately immerses the listener in this transportative work. It descends with a great heaviness, yet woven throughout the arrangement is a fascinating and indescribable entity that draws you further into this otherworldly dimension.
This mood continues as the tracklist progresses and transitions into Lynch’s haunting realisation of ‘Bold and Undaunted Youth’ which further demonstrates a cinematic influence to Lynch’s compositional style. Sonically, Lynch effectively builds an impressively vast terrain with brilliantly murky lo-fi recording techniques and an unshakable curiosity to move beyond conventional structures and play with the timbre of the instruments available to him. From recording hurdy-gurdy or concertina to tape and experimenting with loops and effects pedals to stitching field recordings together, there’s an intimacy established between Lynch and his audience established through the simultaneously eerie and beautiful tones courting through …And Take The Black Worm With Me. This culminates in ‘Only the Diceys’, the extraordinary closing track in which we reach a place of resolution mapped into the album’s narrative structure.
Mixed by longtime collaborator John ‘Spud’ Murphy in his Dublin-based Guerrilla Sounds Studio and mastered by Harvey Birrell …And Take The Black Worm With Me features contributions from Ruth Clinton (Landless) on church organ and vocals by Laurie Shanaman (Ails, Ludicra). Of Shanaman’s participation, in particular, which further illustrates the lo-fi and DIY ethos to the recording, Lynch says, “Laurie is my favourite black metal vocalist of all time and so I reached out to her hoping to have her involved in some way. She did, and she features on the opening track by providing some incredible screams. She recorded them into her phone and sent them over to me; what appears on the album is literally a phone recording of her screaming in her kitchen!”
…And Take The Black Worm With Me continues Ian Lynch’s groundbreaking work with Lankum; recontextualising traditional forms and generating new spheres of music in his wake, confirming his status as one of the most interesting and innovative artists working in Ireland today.

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.”
“You must be a member or guest of a member to attend. Joining costs £2. See wharfchambers.org/membership
