27 - 37 Cookridge Street, Leeds, LS2 3AG
Sunday to Thursday 12 ― late / Friday and Saturday 12 ― 3am
Doors 8pm / Free Entry
Zola Jesus is the endeavor of a solitary girl named Nika Roza Danilova to simultaneously combat and invoke the approaching apocalypse using the only weapon/offering she has; her voice. After a decade of opera study and a musical awakening involving such varied inspiration as Billboard bubblegum, classical arias, no wave, avant industrial, she was able to thread her influences into a sound uniquely her own.
Born and raised in the backwoods of Wisconsin, Nika Roza was literally raised by wolves (well proximally anyways). Trained as an opera singer from a young age, she applied to Julliard. At 10 years old. Rejection didn’t slow her down though as she went on to complete high school in three years and is set to graduate from university with a double major in French and philosophy in the same amount of time.
Beginning her musical output at the age of 16, she released: two 7”s, an EP, a live recording from WNYU, and a split with neighboring Madison headtrips Burial Hex, on Sacred Bones, Troubleman, Die Stasi, and Aurora Borealis respectively. It was her debut full length for Sacred Bones last summer, however, that suddenly grew Zola Jesus’ profile exponentially. Her video for “Clay Bodies” debuted on the Fader and her likeness was plastered all over the interblog. The Spoils made dozens of year-end lists including: The Wire, Pitchfork, The Fader, and Dusted.
8pm – 3am / Gig £4 adv / Club - £3 and £2
Depreciation Guild are led by Pains of Being Pure at Heart drummer Kurt Feldman, they mix 8-bit synth melodies with swaths of guitar fuzz. For fans of Postal Service, Radio Dept or most things on 4ad before 1994. Followed by No Bones (see above for details).
6pm / Free Entry
Local independent comic shops guys OK COMICS run this monthly night of drawing and getting pissed up, its pretty fun and needs to be checked out. Also go check their shop out in Thorntons Arcade in town its ace!
9pm – 3am / Free entry
A weekly cosmic and eclectic mix of Disco, Hip Hop, Reggae, Soul and progressive inner city sounds from Horace James and Tom Thorpe. Sounds like A Tribe Called Quest doing the wild thing to Minnie Ripperton. Think Gil Scott Heron, Lee Scratch Perry, Arthur Russell and you’re almost there.
9pm – 3am / Free before 10pm then £3 and £2
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8.30pm / Free Entry
A night of devil worship, human sacrifice, earth shattering riffs and mushroom induced madness for the grim price of nothing!
Expect to hear: blood ceremony // church of misery // witchcraft // electric wizard // sleep // pentagram // wooden shjips // torche // baroness // orange goblin // weedeater // monster magnet // priestess // the freezing fog // boris // om // high on fire // kyuss // sunn 0))) // witchfinder general // st vitus // gentlemans pistols // circulus // earthride // burzum // black mountain // wolves in the throneroom // mastodon // the sword // guapo // goatsnake // darkthrone and more
7.30pm / £5 advance
Aidan Baker is a musician and writer currently based in Toronto, Canada. Classically trained in flute, he is self-taught on guitar, drums, and various other instruments. As a solo artist, Baker explores the deconstructive sonic possibilities of the electric guitar as a primary sound source, creating music that ranges from experimental to post-rock to contemporary classical. He also performs in the experimental collective ARC and the ambient/doom metal project Nadja.
Doors - 8pm / Free Entry
Islet are a four-piece Cardiff experimental rock band. Islet comprises of members (or past members) of The Victorian English Gentlemens Club, Attack + Defend, Fredrick Stanley Star, and Them Squirrels. Their debut ‘mini album’, Celebrate This Place, was released on June 14th to positive reviews. Much was made in the press of the band’s success despite a lack of online presence, however Islet now have an official band website (isletislet.com). Since forming, Islet toured with Los Campesinos!, played Swn Festival 09, were part of Huw Stephens’ ‘Happy Huw Year’ Tour, have supported Teeth Mountain and Lovvers, and have featured on BBC Radio Wales and in the NME.
Check the new website HERE!!
Tickets are available now for our Halloween Party Part II which is actually on Halloween itself. There is a party on the saturday also which’ll be announced soon. The Sunday party will feature Happy Birthday who are signed to sub pop and have recently(ish) released an album over here. Also Hookworks will be playing and there will be more to be added shortly. Tickets are £5 advance and will fly out so grab one now.
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO HAPPY BIRTHDAY
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