MAY
MONDAY 21st MAY 19.00 – 23.00 – Direct Hit!(USA)/The Priceduifkes(BEL)/Pudge/Martha/Mike Foster
If you enjoy noisy, catchy music played by enthusiastic tourists then you’re in for a treat at this one.
DIRECT HIT (Wisconsin, USA)
Super fun Lifetime-influenced midwesterners on their first international tour. Keeping Spraynard’s fast & friendly pop punk shtick but with a faster, boozier harmony. Get pumped.
THE PRICEDUIFKES (Nijlen, Belgium)
If old Alkaline Trio & The Ergs! joined forces you’d get these spirited Belgian slackers. Another debut overseas tour; expect a boisterous set full of three minute, non-diluted cheer.
PUDGE (Sheffield)
Over from sunny South Yorkshire, it’s these refined pop punk chip eaters. Their singer is a microwave technician and they have short songs with catchy basslines.
MARTHA (Durham)
Durham city DIY pop featuring members of ONSIND & Fashanu. Layered melodies juxtaposed with progressive and relatable song topics that fans of Discount Horse Records will be familiar with. Absolutely incredible.
MIKE FOSTER (Hertfordshire)
Flat-capped & formerly of Leeds, he’ll be playing songs from his timeless EP. Look forward to the ex-Pacer bass player’s cheeky tales.
£5 otd
TUESDAY 22nd MAY 5.30pm – 7.30pm – GUERILLA ORCHESTRA
Guerilla Orchestra is the orchestra with no auditions and no conductor. Anyone is welcome to come along, although you will find it much easier to join in if you can read music.
Guerilla Orchestra isn’t the sort of orchestra where you get funny looks if you do mistakes while you are playing. It is more for fun. Also, there is a bar, so you can have a drink while you play if you like.
Nobody is ‘in charge’ as such. Decisions about what music to play and how to play it are made by whoever turns up on the day. We usually have a little selection of music from the library to choose from, and one of our members is working on transcribing some music for us to play specially.
Please bring a music stand if you have one.
THURSDAY 24th MAY 7pm – Screening of ‘The Battle of Orgreave’
The Jeremy Deller/Mike Figgis/Channel 4/Artangel film of the re-enactment of the battle between striking miners and police during the 1984-85 miners strike.
FRIDAY 25th MAY 7pm – 11pm – BLOKE + Jack Plug (Son of Sam) DJ set
£5/£4 concs/NUS
SATURDAY 26th MAY – Eurovision Party
A beautiful night of romance, intrigue and cosmopolitan spirit featuring your favourite stars of EUROVISION 2012!
A projector will broadcast Eurovision 2012 as we sit back and sup cocktails from across the continent.
There will be a sweepstake.
Dressing up theme – your favourite Eurovision stars past, present, future or fictional. ( We’ve got the cheeky girls and tatu confirmed in attendance)
Donations on the door
Viva Europa!
MONDAY 28th MAY – Becky Lee and Drunkfoot – CANCELLED
Apologies
TUESDAY 29th MAY 20.30 – 23.00 – Experimental Pop Band + The Horn The Hunt
£4
A rare chance to see these critically acclaimed, Peel-favourite, off-kilter popsters.
Some people say it’s alternative pop, eclectic and stuff like that.
Current album Vertigo coming out on Wear it Well records.
Previous releases on Swarfinger, Bungalow, City Slang, Cup of Tea and Cooking Vinyl Records.
The Horn The Hunt
David Lynch Pop Party 4 with special guests Rammstein, Kate Bush and Babes in Toyland
thehornthehunt.com
WEDNESDAY 30th MAY 20.00 – 23.00 – FOREIGN OBJECTS + PERSPEX FLESH + EXECUTIVE LEGS
FOREIGN OBJECTS
Sassy, catchy hardcore punk from Boston, MA, USA. Much loved by MRR and anyone with ears on their head. Elements of riot grrrl, jerky post-punk, garage-rock and driving hardcore come together perfectly on their debut LP “No Sensation”
PERSPEX FLESH
New Leeds hardcore band, doing a mix of stompy, mid-paced heaviness and fast, straight up hardcore really well, with great atmospheric echoed vocals. ex/ current members of Brain Dead, Closure, Broken Arm, the list goes on…
EXECUTIVE LEGS
Insane, strange & enjoyable post-punk jams, I think a previous description for them says it best: “If a riot broke out in Prisoner Cell Block H and the guards had only casio keyboards to defend themselves it’d probably sound like this.”
Food from 7pm
£5
THURSDAY 31st MAY 20.00 – 23.00- Stig Noise Soundsystem (Liverpool)//Etai Keshiki (Leeds lads)//Mr Marcaille + 1 More TBC
Night Fortress presents…
Stig Noise Soundsystem (Liverpool)
Stig Noise MMX- aka Stig, Stig Noise Sound System, Stig Of The Dump – has been an active creative musical outlet since around 1998. Managing to exist without plan or delusions of commercial success. Stig Noise is a unique noise. Found through self taught ways and an early introduction to movements such as D.I.Y, No Wave, Hip Hop, Jazz and Noise music mixed among the last whatever thousands of years of everything and anything. The resulting sound is a celebration of all that is fun in music’s bizarre and often undefineble code. Features members of Americans, Indica Ritual, Mother Earth etc
Etai Keshiki
Ever evolving no-wave noise-core from Leeds featuring the best and most enthusiastic players on the scene.
Mr Marcaille
Totall insane super heavy one man band cello freakshow. The perfect brainfuckin’ accompaniment to headliners STIG NOISE.
& 1 TBC
£4
JUNE
FRIDAY 1st JUNE 19.30 – 23.00 – THE DALAI LAMA RAMA FA FA FA // HOOKWORMS // RUNNERS
First ever UK tour for these young psychedelic Parisians. Super droned out, shoegazing neo-psych.
You know the drill, and you’re probably well bored of this bullshit by now. 412th show in Leeds
Pulsing, driving, synth’d out techno-kraut from LS6 supergroup. Future robot music to soundtrack the fight scenes in Mad Max.
£5 otd
BANK HOLIDAY SUNDAY 3rd JUNE 20.00 – 23.00 – NORTH AMERICAN WAR (glasgow)// PALMS// BEARDS// D. MILLARD
Glasgow primitivists deliver charmingly sleazy fuzzy-alt trawlings with off-kilter song-structures and eerily evocative vocals to throw you off the ‘there’s-a-lot-of-this-now’ scent. Not a US 90s indie band. New 7″ out on Winning Sperm Party.
Slampt-style indie from Glasgow, less Brit, more gothic americana. Like Sally Skull or something darker. Featuring an ex-member of Divorce and a current member of Gropetown, they’ve a 7″ coming out soon on Watts of Goodwill.
Beards
Minutemen-esque bass and guitar work, Beefheart stomps, strangely gaited time signatures and reconstituted post-punk sounds are sandwiched within their unexpectedly danceable order of experimental punk.
D. Millard
Internationally revered puppet master, story teller and D’astro poet laureate performs solo guitar/keyboard/voice jams in cabaret style since 1998. Top.
£2
MONDAY 4th JUNE 19:00-23:00 Monthly Table Football Tournament
WCCC Table Football Tournament
On the first monday of every month we have the WCCC Table Football Tournament.
You and your team-mate must register on the night before 7pm at which point a league will be drawn up and kick off will be at 7.30pm. We’ll have 2 tables on the go so that we can fit in lots of games and finish by 11pm. It will cost each team £2 to enter (that’s a quid each) and there will be some kind of amazing prize for the winners. Good luck!
TUESDAY 5th JUNE 19:00-23:00 FICTIONS OF EVERY KIND: RIOT
Welcome to an engaging evening of thoughts and ideas, of discussion and inebriation, and of getting drunk and pretending it counts as ‘being cultured’.
Our invited speakers at ‘Riot’ are:
Benjamin Judge Writer of short, very short and very very short stories, and the ‘brains’ behind Stegorcrater Press.
Jenny Oliver recently-published GRIST anthologist telling true tales of a life lived in Chapeltown against a backdrop of the ’81 riots
The band are Radio Partizan, ‘anger fuelled political rampage with the use of non-standard English’.
This event will incorporate the first ever Fictions: Word Soup. At Word Soup you’ll bring tiny morsels of fiction to put into somebody else’s mouth. Short pieces of 60 words or under will be drawn quick-fire out of a raffle, and read by volunteers from the audience. It’s a chance for you to share your work without the additional fear of reading it out yourself. Please come willing to contribute to Word Soup with your words and your voice.
£3
WEDNESDAY 6th JUNE 19:30-23:00 Bolide, Collider, Temperatures
Bolide
Compared to The Art Ensemble, Le Forte Four, the Magic Band, Sun City Girls, or Smegma featuring Albert Ayler, in their own words Bolide are a chaotic Brighton-based EAI sextet that formed for a one-off performance at the Colour Out of Space Festival and have so far failed to disband.
Collider
Avulsive, weaponised improvisation; blunt force trauma, chemical burns, serated edges. This superhero team-up features Matthew Bourne, Dave Kane and Chrisses Bussey & Sharkey.
Temperatures
London duo consisting of rattling free percussion, kraut grooves, gurgling synth oscillations and spider-fingered murky bass fuzz. One of Thurston Moore’s favourites.
Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern
Operating somewhere between Sheffield and Manchester, Takahashi’s are a sonified paint & canvas trio consisting of Angela Guyton, Rodrigo Constanzo, and Anton Hunter
UltraHumanitarian
Heroic drum kit freakout and Moog Voyager spaceout from Andrew Forknell (Monster Killed By Laser, A Century of Trees) and Bang the Bore janitor Seth Cooke (Defibrillators, Hunting Lodge, Ganbatte).
£4 on the door
FRIDAY 8th JUNE 20.00 – 23.00 – POLARIS// PICORE// NO GUTS
£5
A very rare chance to see Polaris. They’ve re-learnt their set for the gringo records 15th anniversary gig in Nottingham [see- Gringo Records] and have decided they may as well slot a Leeds gig in whilst they’re at it. Consistently excellent live and renowned for their musicianship Polaris were making post-rock long before the rest of the country caught on and long before post-rock was the most overused tag around. You might have seen members of them in recent times playing in Bilge Pump, Quack Quack or Executive Legs.
Plus a welcome return to leeds of Zaragoza, Spain’s, heavy, intense rockers, Picore.
Leeds’ sludge punks, No Guts, complete the bill.
TUESDAY 12th JUNE 5.30pm – 7.30pm – GUERILLA ORCHESTRA
Guerilla Orchestra is the orchestra with no auditions and no conductor. Anyone is welcome to come along, although you will find it much easier to join in if you can read music.
Guerilla Orchestra isn’t the sort of orchestra where you get funny looks if you do mistakes while you are playing. It is more for fun. Also, there is a bar, so you can have a drink while you play if you like.
Nobody is ‘in charge’ as such. Decisions about what music to play and how to play it are made by whoever turns up on the day. We usually have a little selection of music from the library to choose from, and one of our members is working on transcribing some music for us to play specially.
Please bring a music stand if you have one.
WEDNESDAY 13th JUNE 8pm – 11pm – KIN’OMO
Wonky Productions presents a Queer film scenario.
Probably screening Don’t need You — the herstory of riot grrrl
The fridge under the kitchen wagon — Story of a Berlin Queer trailer park
Free/ donations welcome
THURSDAY 14th JUNE – PAFRAS (Positive Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers) FUNDRAISER – DOWNDIME// BISCUITHEAD AND THE BISCUIT BADGERS + more TBC
CHARITY GIG – featuring Downdime
Biscuithead and the Biscuit Badgers and more tbc
Raffle!
SATURDAY 16th JUNE – 14.00 – 23.00 – Ceolchoirm II – Art For Blind Records All Dayer
The second Art For Blind Records all dayer.
Broken Arm
http://brokenarmyo.bandcamp.com/
Wooderson
http://wooderson.bandcamp.com/
Drunk in Hell
http://www.myspace.com/drunkinhell”
Bird Calls
http://www.wearebirdcalls.co.uk/
Saturday’s Kids
http://www.saturdayskids.org/
La Boite Diabolique
http://laboitediabolique.bandcamp.com/
Burgheist
http://bhurgeist.bandcamp.com/
Beards
http://www.myspace.com/beards2000
Endless Rope
http://endlessrope.bandcamp.com/
Vinegar Strokes
http://vinegar-strokes.bandcamp.com/
£6 in
SUNDAY 17th JUNE 19.00 – 23.00 – All Eyes West (Chicago, USA), That Fucking Tank, Mucky Sailor, Matadors
WYSAS presents
That Fucking Tank (classic noise rock from Bradford / Leeds) – only Leeds gig for a few months.
All Eyes West (grunge power from Chicago IL) – quintessential indie grunge trio from the USA featuring Jeff Dean on guitar (The Bomb / Dead Ending).
Mucky Sailor (duo skronk from Bradford / Leeds) – father / son progressive cruise ship band gone wrong
Matadors (rock n’ roll, Leeds) – four piece guitar driven riffs with an unabashed Status Quo influence
7pm start. £5 entry.
TUESDAY 19th JUNE 20.00 – 23.00 – NOOSE (USA)// MOB RULES// THAWED OUT & 1 TBC
NOOSE (Chicago, USA)
The Vegan Straight Edge. For those who enjoy the musical stylings of SSD, Brotherhood and Outburst. Their new 7″ on React is a rager! If you miss them then you’re probably a moron.
MOB RULES
Hardcore for eggheads. Read books. Buy the LP.
THAWED OUT
Premium hardcore all the way from Brum. For fans of Void and Born Against.
+ 1 more tbc.
£5
WEDNESDAY 20th JUNE – Radical film night: NOISE AND RESISTANCE (2011, 90min, Germany) with
Director Francesca Araiza Andrade.
films.
“Noise and Resistance” is an inspiring journey through Europe’s
contemporary utopia, to subcultural places of desire where unity derives
from autonomy along with the best punk sound you’ve heard for years.
Trailer+Info: http://www.noise-resistance.de
With short film about Japanese student movements from 1968 – today, by Jason Kirkpatrick. See: http://actioninasia.wordpress.com/
THURSDAY 21st JUNE – DJ SNIFF
details tbc
SATURDAY 23rd JUNE 19.00 – 23.00 – BILGE PUMP / KOGUMAZA / HOOKWORMS / NOPE
Bilge Pump
The greatest of all Leeds underground rock groups. Rarely, if ever will you walk away from a Bilge show unsatisfied. Everyone likes them because they are the best. Gringo put out their records.
Kogumaza
Outstanding washed out psych-rock from Nottingham on Low-Point records. Feature members of Wolves (Of Greece), Bob Tilton, Lords etc. New split 7″ with HOOKWORMS out soon on Gringo Records.
Hookworms
Self contained, highly efficient Spacemen 3 inspired psych-rock from Leeds. Also on Gringo records. Debut pretty much sold out now but watch out for the split with KOGUMAZA on Gringo soon.
Nope
Repetitive dark psychedelic noise sludge with occasional glimpses of light. One guitar, two drums and plenty of synth splatter. Features members of THAT FUCKING TANK, MUCKY SAILOR and RUNNERS. New album out very soon on Obscene Baby Auction Records.
£4
MONDAY 25th JUNE – Cercle des Mallissimalistes (Fr)
Cercle des Mallissimalistes (Fr)
details to follow
WEDNESDAY 27th JUNE – BEAUTY PAGEANT/MORAL HOLIDAY/ETAI KESHIKI/ TRANSHUMAN
Hypnowave unleash an evening of fast and bulbous delights, featuring…
Beauty Pageant (Newcastle) – Unhinged no wave girl/boy racket blazing through on tour. FFO Coughs. Member of Bong. Totally skronked out and raging.
Moral Holiday – Phil Todd of Ashtray Navigations busting out some Suicide or Caberet Voltaire style skew.
Etai Keshiki – Fast and furious mangle of noise, no wave and punk. Used to be pretty ropey, now a semi-legit riff unit.
Trans/human (Sheffield) – Improvised noise techno made with a guitar and drums.
£4 in.
SATURDAY 30th JUNE 20.00 – 23.00 – ZAIMPH / MICHAEL FLOWER & NEIL CAMPBELL / BRIDGET HAYDEN/ MORAL HOLIDAY
Weirdo Guise presents…
ZAIMPH (US musician Marcia Massett)
MICHAEL FLOWER AND NEIL CAMPBELL
BRIDGET HAYDEN
MORAL HOLIDAY
£5