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16th September 2026 19:30
Wharf Chambers
Wharf Chambers is a members’ club and you need to be a member, or guest of a member, in order to attend. Please visit https://wharfchambers.org/membership/. Membership costs £2 and requires a minimum of 48 hours to take effect.
£7/13 No one turned away for lack of funds.
Wharf Chambers
Wharf Chambers is a members’ club and you need to be a member, or guest of a member, in order to attend. Please visit https://wharfchambers.org/membership/. Membership costs £2 and requires a minimum of 48 hours to take effect.
£7/13 No one turned away for lack of funds.
Anna Peaker
Aubrey Taeuber
9th September 2026 19:00
All Souls’ Church, Blackman Lane
Thanks to Sarah H for helping with the poster & booking.
£10-ish No one turned away for lack of funds.
All Souls’ Church, Blackman Lane
Thanks to Sarah H for helping with the poster & booking.
£10-ish No one turned away for lack of funds.
Returning in the same duo formation as last time on the organ / snare & voice.
Jean-Luc Guionnet (solo)
Jean-Luc’s first solo saxophone set for Free Music Lessons.
Rhodri Davies
Legendary Welsh harpist spanning both the improvising world and composed.
24th August 2026 19:30
The Packhorse (Woodhouse Ln, LS2)
£7/13 No one turned away for lack of funds.
The Packhorse (Woodhouse Ln, LS2)
£7/13 No one turned away for lack of funds.
Sound poetry for the future, processing voice through new and old means.
Niloofar Asghary
No-input mixer zoning.
Áine Reynolds
Dance & spoken word improvisation.
William Burroughs
Sampler vocal mashing hype.
26th July 2026 19:30
The Attic, Sheaf St.
£7/13 No one turned away for lack of funds.
The Attic, Sheaf St.
£7/13 No one turned away for lack of funds.
Solo - Sardinian launeddas - three pipe/reed instrument, blown through polyphony.
Madison Greenstone
Solo - Polyphonic clarinet wizardry, circular breathing and psycho-acoustic phenomena.
Lukas De Clerck
Solo - Ancient Greek aulos re-imagined into a telescoping form, potentiality of ancient instrument or creation of something new?
25th June 2026 19:30
Patrick Studios (Project Space), LS9 7EH
£5/10 No one turned away for lack of funds.
Patrick Studios (Project Space), LS9 7EH
£5/10 No one turned away for lack of funds.
Solo saxophone, timbral instrument explorations.
DJ Samething
Performance from Everyday Samething's DJ Samething, attempting to repurpose elements of spiritual hustle-culture back into a non-ironic meditative experience.
Avonghshakrda
Rising Leeds star Liam’s sampler-performance has gone down a treat at Conception, expect some sort of rethinking of audience-performer relations.
Thomas Carroll
Solo feedback electronics through USB PC speakers, textural and droney perhaps. Reactive to space.
13th May 2026 19:30
Wharf Chambers
Wharf Chambers is a members’ club and you need to be a member, or guest of a member, in order to attend. Please visit https://wharfchambers.org/membership/. Membership costs £2 and requires a minimum of 48 hours to take effect.
£7/13 No one turned away for lack of funds.
Wharf Chambers
Wharf Chambers is a members’ club and you need to be a member, or guest of a member, in order to attend. Please visit https://wharfchambers.org/membership/. Membership costs £2 and requires a minimum of 48 hours to take effect.
£7/13 No one turned away for lack of funds.
Duo of Michał Fundowicz (Tumeric Acid, Molt Fluid) & Joe Coghill
Liminal Haze
Duo of Craig Stewart Johnson & Ross Scott-Buccleuch, big ol’ dense fog.
Hardworking Families
Solo of Tom Bench, tape stuff?
16th April 2026 19:30
Wharf Chambers
Wharf Chambers is a members’ club and you need to be a member, or guest of a member, in order to attend. Please visit https://wharfchambers.org/membership/. Membership costs £2 and requires a minimum of 48 hours to take effect.
£7/13 No one turned away for lack of funds.
Wharf Chambers
Wharf Chambers is a members’ club and you need to be a member, or guest of a member, in order to attend. Please visit https://wharfchambers.org/membership/. Membership costs £2 and requires a minimum of 48 hours to take effect.
£7/13 No one turned away for lack of funds.
FML perenial Jean-Luc Guionnet (named by Seymour Wright in the Wire as “One of the great living saxophonists”) joins d’Incise and Cyril Bondi’s swiss duo Diatribes.
Zhao Ziyi
Mastermind behind You and Me Festival. From the burgeoning Beijing scene. Simple sounds, solitary being.
Daniel Glenn Padgett & Mia Windsor
Playing Daniel’s piece Twine Song
Alex Izaak Milling
Local guitar, recently with Territorial Gobbing. Perhaps traditional style improvisation, interest in space.
19th March 2026 19:30
The Adelphi
Co-promo with Float
Poster by Martin Samways
£7/13 No one turned away for lack of funds.
The Adelphi
Co-promo with Float
Poster by Martin Samways
£7/13 No one turned away for lack of funds.
Percussion / accordion duo action, scattershot, fast-moving, but precise
Caius Williams
Big ol’ bass recontextualised through various spaces, collabs in Crosspiece, and with Tara Cunningham also muy bien
intrnt_usr
Spacey sine computer music