Category: Performances

For our first gathering of the new year (remember that?) we’re delighted to welcome our first (as far as I know) non-human guests: Tor Robot Band is a new project from illustrator and musician Jake Blanchard. Jake has designed, built and programmed a band of musical monsters with most of the instruments specifically built to…

This month we’re hosting a Todmorden Year End Special. Everything will be a little bit different, but just like it was before. The plan is to welcome back : – – Sonic Potlatch 19. Long-form improvisation. Unspectacular collaborations for liquidating time. Expand hearing: new ears for new messages liberated from tradition, cut free from the…

This month we welcome Richard Knight back to the NUS stage, who last guested in DIGITAL FORM, sitting at home, but inside a screen (virtually real, seen by real you). Before and after the set we’ll have our regular jams, so pop your name in the hat if you want to play x See ya…

With her own unique hand crafted wooden instruments, Thorn Wych will attempt to communicate with beings from a different realm. Free entry – 7.30pm – everyone welcome – put your name in the hat if you want to play x Who Thorn Wych – 25 October 2022 When Tuesday, October 25, 2022 7:30pm – All…

Hi noisy folk. Below is what I know. Sounds perfect, aye? Hi Ramsay,That’s good with me and the rest of the chaps! There is going to be a string instrument joining us! Mick bardon, i don’t know whether he’s on Upright bass or cello… I’ll ask! But him and Joel (Wind instruments) will be able to…

This month we welcome Noise Upstairs legends Ripsaw Catfish! They’ve got an amazing new album out – check it out through Cath’s website (linked below). As ever drop your name in the hat to join the jams before and after their set. Anton might pull a few names out for old time’s sake. He’ll also…

Inverted guard room and doorwarden extraordinaire. Instrument: Guitar Home: Lancaster Power: 10 Speed: 9 Volume: 10 Who Richard Chamberlain – 26 July 2022 When Tuesday, July 26, 2022 7:30pm – All Ages Where The Golden Lion (map) Fielden Square Todmorden, England OL14 6LZ

This month we’re thrilled to welcome Noise Upstairs legends back to the stage – Wolfscarers. Simon Prince and Keith Jafrate formed Wolfscarers in 2010 as a tenor sax duo, and have assembled a number of different line-ups for the group since. For their upcoming set at The Noise Upstairs in Todmorden they revert to the…

The Dissonance Collective return to the Noise Upstairs for their Todmorden debut. Their aim with every performance is to fill a designated moment with unplanned sound. The fluctuating line-up is as undefined as the music they play and promises an unexpected experience. The collective have shared 8 objects to date; their most recent, ‘Marrowbones’, was…

This month we’re in for a treat from Spaceship: A musician, sound artist and educator based in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, Mark S. Williamson’s work is often made in response to his environment, with his most recent major release, Outcrops (by his project Spaceship), being recorded within, and on the subject of, the geology of the…

This month we’re delighted to finally welcome Peat, and their ombrogenous tones from the moors. Before and after the set will be our regular jams – so bring your instruments and put your name in the hat if you want to play. Hope to see you there! Word of the day : Ombrogenous : (of…

PHANTASY is an encounter between two kindred spirits, forging a relationship through Dadaist amateur theatrics, guitar-drum call-and-response, the blurring of the personal and the performance, and cheap drum machines. Inspired by the likes of COUM transmissions, early Soft Cell, ‘Happenings’, Nervous Gender, MARS, tongue-in-cheek saccharine 80s synth pop and Leeds’ Guttersnipe & their adjacent projects.…

The Universal Veil is a duo comprised of Sam McLoughlin (Twisted Nerve/Pre-Cert Home Entertainment) and Folklore Tapes head honcho David Chatton Barker. Their improvised live performances with their own handmade “ritual instruments” are by turns meditative, trancelike, joyous and surreal. Unusual sounds are spontaneously generated, recycled and transmuted into a deeply strange, magical and psychedelic soundscapes.…

This month for our first Tod birthday we welcome Pizdetz. Georgios Stenos Frantzios and Stephen Summers from Noisy Toys bring a collection of re-animated miscellany and a cello upstairs. Springs, strings and interesting things with fans and pans and something else that we haven’t found yet that would rhyme with them as well. The audience…

For the first Todmorden session of 2020 we’re delighted to welcome Lisa Lavery. She’ll be performing an improvisational piece of hers which was initially a sound collage commissioned by the Calderdale branch of Yorkshire Sound Women Network. Inspired by and called ‘The Valley’, it’s made up of ‘sounds of the salon’ – hairdryers, clippers, polystyrene…

  SOUND OF LEAM is HARRY DAWES ( trombone, theremin, electronics,) and SIMON PRINCE ( saxophone, flute.) Harry & Simon have made music together in theatre & dance, in processional & celebratory music, in Soca & improvised music bands, in large groups & in duet. They have performed together from Bangkok to Belgrade, from Aarhus…

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the pub, A creature was playing electric golf club. Or something like that (I’ve got things to do!) The long and short of it is that The Noise Upstairs Todmorden is having a Christmas party on Christmas Eve and you’re all invited. We’ll hopefully feel like celebrating…

Pollen Count is a new trio of Lou on vocals & loops, Richard Knight on no-input mixer and Keith Jafrate on saxophone, three very different musical personalities each with their own approach, and all active in the Calder Valley’s vibrant music community. Using a mixture of prepared material and improvisation, their music is not fixed…