• – 25 November 25

    – 25 November 25

    are Dan Bridgewood-Hill, Ramsey Janini and Daniel Weaver, improvising with synths, samplers, double bass, flute and spoken words. The use of amplified and processed acoustic instruments creates layered worlds, where the earthiness of here-and-now sounds form a bridge to shape-shifted dimensions made possible by electronics.   Who – 25 Nov 25 When Tuesday, November 25,…

  • K. Deliniate – 28 Oct 2025

    K. Deliniate – 28 Oct 2025

    Primitive mutant electro-spasms for analogue synth, drum pad and vocals. Inspired by the likes of Suicide, Ike Yard and Metallux Who K. Deliniate – 28 Oct 2025 When Tuesday, October 28, 2025 7:30pm – All Ages Where The Golden Lion (map) Fielden Square Todmorden, England OL14 6LZ

  • Schisms – 30 Sep 25

    Schisms – 30 Sep 25

    Schisms are a sub standard pub rock band (cauldron and coldbath rock band) from the North of England. https://schisms.bandcamp.com/music   Who Richard Chamberlain – 30 Sep 25 When Tuesday, September 30, 2025 7:30pm – All Ages Where The Golden Lion (map) Fielden Square Todmorden, England OL14 6LZ

  • The Noonan Trio: Inherit a Memory Tour – 11 December 2025

    The Noonan Trio: Inherit a Memory Tour – 11 December 2025

    Matthew Bourne – Piano Michael Bardon – Double Bass Sean Noonan – Drums, Vocals, Compositions About Maverick science meets its match with The Noonan Trio’s first album, Inherit a Memory. The combo explores the outer boundaries of musical radicalism, speculatively blending jazz rock, improvisation, and rhythmic storytelling. The Noonan Trio features Sean Noonan on drums…

  • ZALDUA / JASNOCH / BECK – 13 November 2025

    ZALDUA / JASNOCH / BECK – 13 November 2025

    Alistair Zaldua – violin John Jasnoch – fretless guitar Mick Beck – bassoon A recently formed trio with a lively and nimble approach to improvised music. New ideas are constantly being developed – some from scratch, some as responses to what has gone before. The group has a wide ranging and engaging sound. Alistair Zaldua…

  • Casserley / Corringham / Miura – 9 October 2025

    Casserley / Corringham / Miura – 9 October 2025

    Lawrence Casserley “…the certainty is that Lawrence Casserley can be more innovative and creative than many of the ringleaders of the young generation of ‘laptoppers’.” Rui Eduardo Paes Lawrence Casserley (born Essex, England, 1941) has devoted his career to the creation and promotion of live performance electronic music in a wide variety of ways for…

  • Eggblood – 11 September 2025

    Eggblood – 11 September 2025

    Eggblood Working with found defunct machinery and sound archive. Flexible and flammable slipped disc and tape medium… Pushing and pulling at the the arse end of the edit @ the end of the pier… Submerged, sampled, and squeezed into a machine bummed requiem… Some Past/recent works/broadcast: Radiophrenia (Glasgow), XMTR (LDN), Duuu Radio (Paris), Radio ON…

  • Jolly/Redhead/Zaldua/Furniss/McPherson 14 August 2025

    Jolly/Redhead/Zaldua/Furniss/McPherson 14 August 2025

    Peter Furniss (clarinet) Amy Jolly (cello) Henry McPherson (keyboard, strings, voice, potential instruments) Lauren Redhead (accordion, maybe voice) Alistair Zaldua (e-violin) This musicians in this ensemble first came together in May to perform a concert of compositions by some of its members at Levenshulme Old Library in Manchester. All experienced composers, improvisers and collaborators, they…

  • Mouldy Soul and Elle Bell – 29 July 2025

    Mouldy Soul and Elle Bell – 29 July 2025

    Mouldy Soul is the sound of an inter dimensional Octopus with tentacles made of lasers, undulating in a ferocious sea of confusion. A spore laden sonic wizard, mostly known for generally wyrd, and slightly wonderful, even charming when he can be arsed. Elle Bell, some would describe as one of the Lillies in the Valley,…

  • Bonjour Claude – 10 July 2025

    Bonjour Claude – 10 July 2025

    Bonjour Claude – Dr Amy Jolly and Dr Amy Sargen – are an experimental duo who create dynamic works through their shared performance practice. The duo came about through research into collaborative practice at RAM and RNCM respectively. Over four years, the pair have moved fluidly between their respective performer/composer roles to create a unique…

  • Gilank – 24 June 2025

    Gilank – 24 June 2025

    Gilank is a duo of Bradford-based experimental electro-acoustic musicians, Alice Gilmour and shi Blank.  They work with an array of loopers, pedals, synths, MIDI controllers, and acoustic instruments including violin, flute, and bass guitar. They formed in 2024 having met at Bradford Sound Artists which meets monthly.  Sharing classical music upbringings followed by a rejection of…

  • Verbo I Voda – 12 June 2025

    Verbo I Voda – 12 June 2025

    ‘It’s a completely beguiling new album with shredded and reconstituted Ukrainian folk songs…’ by Kate Molleson from BBC3 New Music Show. It’s an unforgettable performance which involves most unexpected vocals from mumbles and extrem vocals to lyrical operatic soundscaping followed by enigmatic sound pallet of lap steel guitar. Verbo I Voda is a duo formed…

  • Richard Chamberlain – 27 May 25

    Richard Chamberlain – 27 May 25

    Inverted guard room and doorwarden extraordinaire.   Who Richard Chamberlain – 27 May 25 When Tuesday, May 27, 2025 7:30pm – All Ages Where The Golden Lion (map) Fielden Square Todmorden, England OL14 6LZ

  • David Birchall & Alistair Zaldua – 8 May 2025

    David Birchall & Alistair Zaldua – 8 May 2025

    “Electric violin and guitar duo who explore various territorial regions possible with the two instruments when improvising; free clatter densities, velvet underground hum and skronk and mid-century reverse tape and glissando experiments rescued from the cutting room floor.“ (John Jasnoch, Notes and Sounds) // David Birchall is a guitarist, free improviser, composer and organiser living…

  • Pete Turner  – 29 April 2025

    Pete Turner – 29 April 2025

    Noise Upstairs regular Pete Turner brings modular and granular tones and drones. Who Pete Turner – 29 April 2025 When Tuesday, April 29, 2025 7:30pm – All Ages Where The Golden Lion (map) Fielden Square Todmorden, England OL14 6LZ

  • GFH Trio – 10 April 2025

    GFH Trio – 10 April 2025

    A first outing for this newly formed trio, including a welcome return to the Noise Upstairs by one of the founders of the night. John Garner is a musician, educator, and PhD candidate based in Congleton. A tireless experimenter, well-versed in multiple traditions, John has forged a radically unique voice as a violinist, combining a…

  • John Haycock – 25 March 2025

    John Haycock – 25 March 2025

    John Haycock is an accomplished kora player having trained with Gambian griot and kora master Jali Nyonkoling Kuyateh for over 10 years. John’s musical inquisitiveness  has led him to embrace the fusion of elctronic and woodwind elements in his compositions and live performances to create captivating and emotive soundscapes. Influenced by luminaries of ambient music…

  • Herbie Hopkins – 13 March 2025

    Herbie Hopkins – 13 March 2025

    Herbie Hopkins is a songwriter from Leeds. Renowned improviser and drummer, Mark Sanders, described his work as ‘adventurous and daring’. His new single, ‘What Am I Doing Here? (lie)’, is about anatomy, nocturnal landscapes, and supernatural self-discovery. Recorded by Chris Sharkey (engineer), accompanied by Matthew Bourne (piano) and Harry Souter (guitar, percussion); ‘What Am I…

  • Fecund Mulch and friends 25 February 2025

    Fecund Mulch and friends 25 February 2025

    Joe Brookes x Henry McPherson x Maria Sappho x Tom Hawkins x Colin Frank present a slideshow of improvised fragments. Expect burbles, skrinkles, clomps, crash (!), wubwubwub, pewwww, crknckrncr, boinggg, and grgrgrgrgr through the medium of percussion, electromagnetic resonance, prepared autoharp, CELLO, recorders, duck call, viola, deeply resonant guitars, and other agential objects. “Henry McPherson…

  • Odie Ji Ghast & David Birchall – 13 February 2025

    Odie Ji Ghast & David Birchall – 13 February 2025

    Voice and guitar duo soon to be known as Minimum Age. Expressionistic source joy in free rock music; comparisons sideways to Linda & Sonny Sharrock- an imaginary Joan Labarbara/John Frusciante duo trying to get a scratched CDr of 00s nu metal and math rock to play on a discman. Who Odie Ji Ghast & David…