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SUMMARY:BPOC Folk Club from The Black British Folk Collective
DESCRIPTION:The Peer Hat is very proud to present the BPOC Folk Club from The Black British Folk Collective…the wonderful Angeline Morrison is part of this thing and it’s no surprise. \n  \nWhat’s important\, is that it’s absolutely FREE.
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/bpoc-folk-club-from-the-black-british-folk-collective/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260611T193000
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SUMMARY:THE WATTLES WITH REMOTE & CLAYMEN
DESCRIPTION:From beginnings as a duo in Sydney garages\, THE WATTLES have grown into a distinctive indie rock band\, balancing bedroom-lit vulnerability with climactic\, expansive impact. Blending soft indie with grunge textures\, alt-rock energy\, their music feels dynamic\, nostalgic yet new. Frontwoman Lucy’s songwriting turns unspoken conversations into important moments. Now based in Brighton\, UK\, The Wattles are heading north on their debut UK headline tour\, joined by a lineup of incredible independent artists in each city.\n\n“Capturing the same broad and shimmering aesthetic as acts like London Grammar and Wolf Alice\, ‘The Wrong Idea’ makes for an extremely powerful listen.” — Mystic Sons\n\n\nCLAYMEN are a four-piece Post-Punk outfit based across Manchester & Leeds. Reaching from many different sources of inspiration\, their sound is malleable like clay – but hardens if you leave it in the sun.  \n  \nREMOTE Two British 23-year-olds\, Ruben and Alex\, make up remote\, a Manchester-based duo known for their blend of alternative and bedroom/indie-pop. They first crossed paths in February 2020 during the closing weeks of Sixth Form\, just before the pandemic. What began as a creative outlet soon became a lifeline: producing music remotely during lockdown not only shaped their sound but also gave the band its name. Influenced by artists such as Olivia Dean\, FINNEAS\, and Role Model\, the pair have developed a style that seamlessly blends indie-pop\, alternative\, and singer-songwriter sensibilities.
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/the-wattles-with-remote-claymen/
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SUMMARY:Evil Wet Hen Presents-MOONFACE // Phoneutrian & Zaron Mizmeras // Catastrophe Assistant
DESCRIPTION:Evil Wet Hen Presents-MOONFACE // Phoneutrian & Zaron Mizmeras // Catastrophe Assistant\nMOONFACE \nShady billionaires make plans to colonise and mine the solar system\, and our nearest celestial neighbour has something to say about it. \nA dark clowning show performed by actor\, lunar jester and physisist in training Meg Hodgson with live sound from Livvy Lynch\, ‘MOONFACE’ is a funny and exuberant love letter to our rocky satellite that explores what it means to be human. \nExpect burlesque and drag-style numbers\, testimony from survivors of human-made disasters\, and movement inspired by the gravitational interactions between Earth and moon. \nPlease note that this performance contains partial nudity\, and performance contains moving lights and loud sounds. \nMeg Hodgson instagram and Website \nLivvy Lynch- instagram\, Soundcloud and Website \nPhoneutrian & Zaron Mizmeras \nStunnin’ AV performance from the hearts and minds behind stupendously original Sheffield based collective Interworld Media. \nWith previous takeovers at Sheffield DIY Institutions- Hatch\, Gut Level and Hope Works- expect to be transported to another dimension via dazzling visuals and ethereal soundscapes. \nInterworld Media Bandcamp and Website \nZaron Mizmeras \nPhoneutrian \nCatastrophe Assistant \nLowly ambience pedlar. \nContact Evil Wet Hen at- evilwethen@gmail.com \nKeep ABREAST of future endeavours at- evilwethen.com \nEvil Wet Hen Mixcloud \n£10 OTD \nNOTAFLOF \n\nTICKETS: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/evilwethen/2134476
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/evil-wet-hen-presents-moonface-phoneutrian-zaron-mizmeras-catastrophe-assistant/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260522T230000
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SUMMARY:RELEASE THE GOATS
DESCRIPTION:The Night was started by me\, Geeduvella and my partner Ste spandex. This is a house and techno night\, which you should expect some high energy sets and packed dance floor and we have great line-up ready for the 22nd of May! \n  \n£5
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/release-the-goats/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260521T193000
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SUMMARY:CULT OF OCCULT WITH UNDER & BROOKDALE
DESCRIPTION:A key reference of the sludge and doom underground\, CULT OF OCCULT forges sonic rituals exploring descents into mental suffering. \n“There’s just no way around it\, CULT OF OCCULT is one of a kind among the French scene. Rare are the interviews with the quartet from Lyon and let’s just say that their reputation usually precedes them. Truth be told\, Cult of Occult couldn’t care less about scene gossip and is only here to deliver earth-shattering\, bleak music which leaves the listener wondering what the hell just happened. Leaning more towards the musical entity than the traditional band\, Cult of Occult focuses on making its sound evolve with each album and lets the music speak for itself.” \n  \nUNDER Metal weirdos Under blend noisey experimentation and off-kilter groove to bring something unsettling and… fun? Currently performing tracks from their new album “What Happened in Roundwood”\n\n  \nA Mancunian born Bleak Psychedelic experience\, BROOKDALE are a two piece experimental doom outfit\, specialising in long form performances exploring avant-garde melodies\, industrialised noise and a genre bending cohesive experience that is truly unique with every performance. See them perform a take on their newest release “ACCRETION” Live now. \n 
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/cult-of-the-occult-guests/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260513T193000
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SUMMARY:SARRAM WITH CRUCKLE & THOUGHT UNIVERSE
DESCRIPTION:S A R R A M is the instrumental avantgarde solo project of the Sardinian based Valerio Marras\,\nactive since 2017. A crushing but yet graceful composition where heavy ambient\, electrodoom\,\ndronejazz and minimal post-rock blend to invite the listener to an intense sound journey.\nS A R R A M is actually on tour to promote his fifth record “Pàthei Màthos”\, a deep sound\njourney sorrounded by ethereal voices (by Lili Refrain & Dalila Kayros)\, floating cellos (Tobias\nVethake)\, pulsing soundwaves\, crushing and doom-ish layers: an authentic mix of experiences and\nfeelings. Valerio Marras has released albums for Subsound Records (It)\, Midira Records (D)\, Talk\nAbout records (Sardinia) playing intensely all over Europe including appearances at LEM in Spain\,\nDunk!Festival in Belgium\, Moving Noises and Schwarzer Herbst in Germany\, Who Needs Lyrics\nin Slovakia\, KME\, Signal fest\, Paolo Fresu’s Insulae Lab\, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Sassari etc\,\ncollaborations with MAN museum and Ciusa Musem in Nuoro\, Museo Nivola in Orani\, MUA in\nSinnai\, Luca T. Mai (ZU)\, Lili Refrain\, Thisquietarmy\, Dalila Kayros\, Tobias Vethake\,\nAnimamundi\, opening concerts for – among the others – Killing Joke\, The Dillinger Escape Plan\,\nRussian Circles\, Alessandro Cortini (NIN) and many others.“Pàthei Màthos” won the discographic prize “Mario Cervo” 2024.\nExpect a performance poised between heavy ambient\, dronejazz\, electrodoom\, spoken words\, tape loop and postrock. \n  \nTHOUGHT UNIVERSE  is the brain child of Dr. Mark Iain Pilkington; composer and performer of electroacoustic music. His practice encapsulates both sound and image to extend spatial imaginings between real and virtual space. The coupling of sound and image are applied to electroacoustic composition\, installation\, and screen-based works. Forging immaterial and creative labor through a network of interwoven and augmented territories\, his work increasingly queries the way operations carry great critical and creative potential. Seeking new modes of critical engagement that incorporate multiple narratives through non-digital and digital aesthetic informs the direction of his pedagogy. His theoretical research focuses on the relationship between artistic genres and their respective aesthetic theories with reference to electroacoustic music\, sound synthesis\, visual music\, coding\, philosophy\, and film. His practice especially focuses on audio-visual composition using real and virtual entities to explore time and space. His work has been performed\, exhibited and screened at conferences and festivals globally. ICMC\, ARS Electronica\, ZKM | Karlsruhe\, MANTIS festival and the Open Circuit Festival. Interdisciplinary work is carried out collaboratively with artists and composers.  \n  \nCRUCKLE are a Rochdale raised heavy techno+cute noise duo. Highly experimental \, analog & improvised. \n  \n 
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/sarram-with-cruckle-thought-universe/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260506T193000
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SUMMARY:JAKABOL WITH WUPIE & TRIAL TAPES
DESCRIPTION:The Guardian once described heavy folk-prog chameleons JAKABOL as “bucolic one moment\, psychotic the next.” The Bristol based experimental outfit carve their own path through a kaleidoscopic\, genre bending\, musical world. They are as at home in the landscape of pastoral folk as they are in the maelstrom of heavily distorted metal and psych rock freak outs. \n  \nINSTAGRAM | SPOTIFY | BANDCAMP | YOUTUBE \n  \nLive show promotion footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmD906_M_CM \nVideo download link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ex4RQCbHPYvR2tRgAGgRsolmQy7fgaYE/view?usp=drive_link \n  \nManchester based alt-rockers WUPIE\, is a group project formed and fronted by Ross Bagley. With influences ranging from jazz\, electronica\, and folk; wupies music is a dynamic mix of woozy guitars\, ambient soundscapes\, and loose-limbed rhythms – all tied together with humble songwriting and melodic sensibility at its core. \nTRIAL TAPES began during what songwriter Jack McNally calls “a euphoric and quietly transformative” stretch between 2022 and 2024. Having returned to Liverpool after over a decade in Brighton\, newly out of the closet and starting over\, he began writing songs in isolation\, reconnecting with music as a form of catharsis and discovery. \nBlending warped guitars\, motorik drums\, and lush analogue synths with emotionally candid lyrics\, Trial Tapes delivers a sound that’s raw\, scuzzy\, and quietly defiant. Influences range from Kim Deal and Jai Paul to T. Rex and Courtney Barnett\, all reinterpreted through a distinctively queer lens. \nTrial Tapes’ debut EP 5 Notes is set for release on May 5th 2026. \n  \n 
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/9607/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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SUMMARY:TONDEUSE//INDUSTRIES//NATHAN STOKER
DESCRIPTION:TONDEUSE is a duo formed by the artist Estelle Chaigne and the sound tinkerer Bertuf. On Sundays when they come out of their garden shed\, the neighbour can hear in the distance a few melodies lost in the white noise of their electric machines. Listening closely\, they might discern snippets of ethereal\, sung electronic pop accompanied by sawtooth or sinusoidal waves. And sometimes a rhythm\, but not too much\, and sometimes a voice\, but not too loud. Music on a cushion of air. \n  \nINDUSTRIES is an electronic music project by Markus Hetheier. His music explores and subverts musical structures and ranges from field recordings\, distorted sounds to harmonic melodies and large beats. Together with Norrisette\, he co-runs the queer electronica night FLUFF (amongst many other ventures). He’s a beaut. \n  \nNATHAN STOKER is a trumpet player and producer whose dizzying talent sees him plumb ever more haunting sonic worlds\, evoking rain slick neon and flickering post modern hallucination. A Peer Hat favourite.
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/tondeuse-industries-nathan-stoker/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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SUMMARY:SUEP//CLOVIS WORST OF BOTH//BRUBEN
DESCRIPTION:Jog on mate!!! 4 squid for a 24 carrot golden gig?! \nThat’s right we are going back in time on our hoverboards to a time where you can get into a gig for less than a pint at the Peer Hat\, Manchester!! Indeed for £4!!! \nWHEN?? MONDAY 13TH APRIL \nWHO?? \n* SUEP coming up from London featuring LEGS\, LEGENDS and LEGUMES \nhttps://memorialsofdistinction.bandcamp.com/album/shop-2 \n* CLOVIS WORST OF BOTH Our Angus spreading the gospel in his own way. \n•BRU BEN Bruce and Ruben clasping their sweaty palms and squeezing their eyes shut and seeing what plops out \nTICKETS??? Either on the door or follow this link to buy online…..https://tastesupremestore.bigcartel.com/product/Suep-the-peer-hat\nhttps://www.instagram.com/p/DWET8IVAmf4zxu8FxRCqBuJQtvOyK8j_-GPsDI0/?igsh=eW9wdnNrd25uMWh0
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/suep-clovis-worst-of-both-bruben/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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SUMMARY:THREE FOR SILVER & GUESTS
DESCRIPTION:Three For Silver is a tatterdemalion ensemble of rotating musicians led by Lucas Warford\, “the acid baby of Tom Waits and Les Claypool\,” as NW legend Baby Gramps called him. It’s an aggressively original band that is impervious to easy description. PR people often use phrases like Mythic Americana\, Doomfolk\, or Apocalypso. Some of those are pretty good\, but they still just feel like the desperate necessities of someone forced to fill out a form labelled “genre”. \nThree For Silver features one-of-a-kind instruments you’ve never seen playing styles mixed in ways you’ve never heard. The band has hit the road since 2013\, and their monomaniacal devotion has already led them all over the USA and the world\, from Accordion Festivals in Vienna to Modern Music Expos in Russia\, and even partnering with the US State Department for ongoing cultural exchange tours to countries thirsty for truly original American music. \nThree For Silver returns with a new album and a new sound! This tour debuts their 7th album “Oh! For a Muse of Fire”\, and finds the band tighter than ever before. This long revolving and mutating band has settled down for a moment to feature the line-up of Lucas (strings)\, Mark\n(drums)\, Del (woodwind)\, and Strangely (accordion). After honing a batch of new material throughout the fall tour of 2025\, they went directly into the studio to capture themselves at the height of tightness.“ Oh! For a Muse of Fire” is a freak rock nautical voyage featuring punchy songs\, unlikely\ninstruments\, and\, as ever\, Lucas’ signature vocal growl and virtuosic bass. It’s been said that life is about learning to dance in the rain\, but given the state of the world\, this album rather asks if we can polka in a firestorm.
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/three-for-silver-guests/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260310T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260310T233000
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SUMMARY:KELPY CATHEDRAL//3A3N3D3H3I//BAMBI BIMBO
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to another night merry-meant at The Peerhat. What will you smell there? The scent of lemons? What will you see and hear? \nKELPY CATHEDRAL (New York) \nTheir music is high-velocity transgender reckoning\, driven by the desire to transmute personal grief. They create polyvocal landscapes\, weaving sampled melody\, caustic pop hooks all mangled to make a beautiful destiny. \nhttps://linktr.ee/kelpycathedral\n3A3H3N3D3I (Leipzig) \nTrans non binary scream angel performing harsh fast ectstatohymns. No one is free until everyone is free \n3a3h3n3d3i \n \nBambi Bimbo (Mcr)\nA humanoid squid making deep belly ocean techno throbbers\, dripping with echoes and singing delays . Conjuring a a murky soup of Manchester’s live electronic undergrowth
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/kelpy-cathedral-3a3n3d3h3i-bambi-bimbo/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260207
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260208
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SUMMARY:MANCHESTER FOLK HORROR VIII
DESCRIPTION:Already\, Manchester Folk Horror 8 is upon us. Whilst the internet continues to debase ideas which turn us on for an a minute or a moment \, we are forced to dig ever deeper to find what it is we seek. To be occult means to hide or conceal. It seems there are very good reasons for that\, not least the dynamics of cringe limbo. So yes\, we indeed\, dig deeper\, reaching for something increasingly unknowable\, and yet all the more enticing for that. \n“Beauty is the beginning of terror” is a more or less a quote from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Poem\, The First Elegy. To gain a sense of it: \nWho\, if I cried out\, would hear me among the Angels’\nOrders? and even if one of them pressed me\nsuddenly to his heart: I’d be consumed\nin his more potent being. For beauty is nothing\nbut the beginning of terror\, which we can still barely endure\,\nand while we stand in wonder it coolly disdains\nto destroy us. Every Angel is terrifying. \nWhy should this be so? Certainly it seems\, in a more prosaic manner\, that beauty is disdained in the arts. What is important to the various bodies which determine the art economy\, that is to say\, the worth of art\, is not that the work be beautiful\, but rather that it mean something…and not only that it mean something\, but that it mean something very particular; that it tell the story of a chosen history in its recording and in the minds of the appreciators and connoisseurs who are both propagator and consumer. \nEvery year I make the same distinction regarding Folk and Horror. That folk is tradition\, an old truth\, often forgotten…and that horror arises from the traumatic reunion with the forgotten. Is it too much of a stretch to place beauty in this category? No. We argue there is something of beauty which robs us of power; which makes a rude mockery of our utilitarian rationalisations. Beauty is not the merely cosmetic\, but the apprehension of cosmic rightness. A hinted at meaning so overwhelming in its extra human authority\, that it should annihilate us utterly were it to notice us\, as we notice it. \nIt is the suggestion of the Absolute. “Be not afraid”\, says the angel\, but they are surely laughing in the awful fashion of angels because they must know that we have no choice. All at once our suspicions regarding the order of things are proven right\, even as we are rendered into ash at the moment of revelation. Think of the death of Semele\, mother of Dionysus\, as when tricked into demanding Zeus reveal his true form\, was consumed by lightning. Or the strange protagonist of Machen’s The White People who falls into a beautiful and horrible truth. The line\, “I have always believed Wonder is of the soul”\, finishes that story. Beauty\, likewise\, is found there and with it come all the hosts of heaven and all the hosts of hell. \nOur line-up this year reflects this fragile and strange dichotomy: \n  \nFOUNDLING is an evolution of Erin Lang’s musical projects ‘Erin Lang & The Foundlings’ and ‘Feral & Stray’. These projects have been blessed with the creative input of a collective of incredibly talented visual collaborators and musicians.\nFor Manchester Folk Horror 8\, Foundling summons a live work shaped around Rainer\nMaria Rilke’s declaration that “beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror.” Here\,\nbeauty is not ornament\, but a pointing to something ancient\, vast\, fragile\, and\nconcealed. A hint of cosmic workings glimpsed only briefly\, before it overwhelms.\nWorking between composition and improvisation\, Foundling (the project of Canadian-\nborn\, Berlin-based sound artist Erin Lang) weaves harp\, voice\, percussion\, and\nresonance into a slow\, ceremonial unfolding. Tones are sustained like held breath;\nmelodies surface and dissolve; voices hover between invocation and warning. The\nmusic engulfs.\nThis is folk horror not as spectacle\, but as reunion. The return of something long buried.\nThe terror does not arrive with violence\, but with quiet recognition. Beauty appears as a\nreflection\, moving from radiance to unease as darkness rises.\nThe performance moves as a rite rather than a concert. Time loosens. Silence thickens.\nSound becomes a veil\, then a tearing of it. Angels and monsters are indistinguishable\nhere\, both are singing with terrifying clarity.\nFoundling offers this music as an act of remembrance and surrender: a passage into\nwonder\, and the quiet terror that follows when we let go into the shadowy parts of myth\nand memory. \n  \nUnderneath the Earth is the debut album from CHIMEHOURS; a hauntological music project for the dislocated present day. Taking inspiration from Max Porter’s novel Lanny\, the album digs into themes of nature\, myth and community\, with an edge of folk-horror. Drones\, drums and gritty guitars are juxtaposed with woodwind\, strings and ethereal song. The album takes musical influence from the likes of Liz Fraser\, Broadcast\, Sun O))))\, Beth Gibbons\, Bibio and Johan Johansson\, and atmospheric cues from The Wickerman\, The Fog\, and Enys Men. \nChimehours is a collaboration between beck goldsmith and jon dix. The pair have previously performed in bands together and composed music for award-winning film and television. They conjured up this foray into cinematic\, horror-flecked contemporary-folk to explore their love of the supernatural and the other-than-human. Chimehours raid the vaults of 70s cinema and trad folk soundscapes to riff on contemporary anxieties and ecological yearning. The result is a collection of all things earthy\, gorgeous and grotesque. \nhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/18OkGUCAP7b6sbxO03BhYy3fR7fMy_3iP/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=115688569080569517044&rtpof=true&sd=true \nJOSHUA ARNOLD AND THERINE are a folk duo from the North West\, consisting of multi-instrumentalist Joshua Arnold and vocalist Therine. They perform traditional folk music of the British Isles showcasing themes of the dark and macabre blended with elements of drone and noise music alongside original drone folk pieces and historically accurate charms and prayers from their first album. \n  \nZOLATEC creates music that is both intimate and spiritual\, exploring themes of heartbreak\, identity\, and existential drift through raw and immersive performance.\nGrowing up in Leicester to South Asian and Caribbean parents\, Zolatec played steelpan for most of her life. It wasn’t until the COVID lockdown that she first ventured into electronic music\, opening up a new direction in her sound.\nDrawing from trip hop\, breakcore & witch house\, her music production style has evolved into a diasporic fusion of breakbeats\, shoegaze textures\, and experimental sound design – anchored by ethereal vocals and live steelpan.\nShe aspires to gift her sound to the grassroots community and create meaningful connections through music. \n  \nTHE DARK ARTS RESEARCH KOLLECTIVE CORDIALLY ANNOUNCES: MUSIC OF THE ULTRATERRESTRIALS. Pray attend\, dear listener\, to a most singular entertainment. From the curious archives of Mr. Doug Skinner’s Music of Elsewhere is drawn a selection of airs and strains\, reputedly heard amidst the haunts of beings not of our common sphere—those sprites and sylvan folk\, piskies and trolls\, kelpies and banshees\, whose legends have long beguiled the imagination. These melodies\, once whispered in glen and hollow\, are here presented anew\, refracted through the glass of experimental art\, and rendered for your auditory delight. Come\, partake of this rare occasion\, wherein the harmonies of the unseen shall mingle with the inventions of modern fancy. \nThe DⱯRK Ensemble features\, \nChristopher Gladwin\, an interdisciplinary artist and musician whose work spans electronic music\, sound art\, and performance. Since 1999\, he has produced\, published\, and performed internationally under projects including Team Doyobi\, The Wyrding Module\, and ANZAK. His practice has featured at contemporary arts events and galleries such as the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts\, Manchester City Gallery\, the Post-War Festival of Art & Culture in Iraq\, New Moves International\, and Kinetica Art Fair. Gladwin’s current research explores the intersections of sound\, technology\, and Occulture—subverting modernity and challenging rationalist paradigms. His work brings together esoteric ontologies\, ritual\, and occultism with electronics\, the scientific imaginary\, and dance music culture\, creating hybrid forms that question dominant narratives and evoke alternative ways of knowing. \nKatie Chatburn is a composer\, sound artist and orchestral arranger with an interest in boundary crossing musical collaborations. In 2017 she founded Ignition Orchestra and has since conducted and arranged for projects that bridge classical and other musical forms\, including starting the Garage Classical project with DJ Spoony. She has worked as an orchestral arranger for artists including Paloma Faith\, The Sugababes\, Aloe Blacc\, Neil Hannon\, Shaznay Lewis\, The Streets\, Katy B\, Ayanna Witter-Johnson and Lady Blackbird and worked for orchestras including Chineke Orchestra\, The BBC Philharmonic and the BBC Concert Orchestra.  Alongside composing for various TV and film commissions\, Katie is developing an original voice as a sound artist and working towards a PhD at MMU. Her focus is on the development of creative sound installations and interventions that explore the relational potential of the city soundscape. \n  \nSONGS OF GREEN PHEASANT is a true rarity\, an emanation of its own subject and a perfect encapsulation of our theme. \n“A schoolteacher from Oughtibridge\, a residential village on the outskirts of Sheffield\, Duncan Sumpner has released a string of records under the name\, Songs Of Green Pheasant\, without ever quite stepping into the light. The project’s origin story speaks volumes about his elusive approach. A demo that Sumpner sent to Fat Cat in 2002 became a fixture on the label’s office stereo. But when they decided to get in contact to offer him a record deal\, the email bounced back\, and it took them years to track him down. Unhurried\, unshowy\, utterly unconcerned with attention: all it asks from us is to still our brains\, and simply listen.” UNCUT\n“…exists somewhere in that wide open space between folk\, psychedelia\, post-rock\, dream pop\, and experimental music\, albeit with a homespun quality that avoids genre clichés.” OPUS\nSongs Of Green Pheasant is a true rarity\, an emanation of its own subject and a perfect encapsulation of our theme. \n  \nTHE MANIFESTATION GROUP are concerned with demonstrating and investigating the phenomena of songs as distinct\, agential entities. They have continued to develop their studies\, having spent time uncovering the phenomenology of a possibly fictional 60s folk band\, The Lesley & Charles Quartet\, to be presented in the year’s first quarter. \n  \nCHELSEA HARE is Tom Hollingworth and we consider him to be amongst the top three or four musicians we have ever had the joy to encounter. He remains the only musician to have played the Manchester Folk Horror event on every year of its existence “Disarming\, uncanny moments of theatricality sit comfortably alongside more downbeat moments of introspection. Tom’s incredibly funny and poetic lyrics provide a tremendous thread through the blizzard of fairly schizophrenic musical styles… but Tom’s voice is unmistakably his own.” NARC magazine \n  \nCHERMANSOG Exploring the ties between the ancient and the modern\, the organic and synthetic\, from the open landscapes of Yorkshire to the dark enclosed clubs of Manchester. Chermansog draws from magic and traditional English folk music\, blended with influences from dance\, metal and noise. \n  \nCHARLOTTE CLEGG (MSc\, MBACP) is a psychotherapist\, an unapologetic hedonist\, and an absolute nightmare.\nProudly and often defiantly Northern\, whose hobbies include pole dancing\, being authentic and outspoken in the face of The Establishment and collecting curiosities and taxidermy\, she will be taking us on an exploration of the psychological reasons why we crave folk horror\, in all forms\, across civilizations in all corners of the globe. \n  \nTHORN WYCH sings in tongues and plays free form improvised devotional music using instruments purposefully crafted from Sacred tree branches and other imbued objects. These are fed through a chain of lofi effects machines\, creating atavistic hymns and hypnotic dances\, in praise of our Supreme Mother\, Empress of Essence\, The Holy Spirit Asherah. Hers is the breath that moves through all things and the light that remembers itself in us. \nThorn Wych’s debut album “Aesthesis” was released on the label Hoodfaire in November 2024. \n“sounds and song that pull post-industrial and traditional music into a ghostly\, mesmerising fog that’s wholly unique. ”\n– World of Echo \nhttps://hoodfaire1.bandcamp.com/album/aesthesis \n  \nLEUCOTOME: Omnioscillating industrifolk fey femme cult of the apocalypto-medieval era. \n  \nTOOT is an electronic noise/drone artist from Levenshulme. His work describes fragments of half-forgotten history and haunted urban crevices\, through a filter of everyday life in the post industrial north. \n  \nVIVEKA GOYANES says about her work “From textile art to editorial publishing or photography\, creativity has always served as a reflection of a lifelong search in which the artistic act represents a transformation\, not just from a physical perspective through symbolic art pieces\, but also from an emotional and spiritual one. \nMy idea of creation can be described as alchemical\, seeking a betterment of the environment and a correspondence and balance between the inner and outer worlds\, the physical and the psychological\, the past and the present and the self and the community. Manifesting change is the ultimate goal.” \n  \nOLIVER BRIDGES a filmmaker based in Liverpool and Edinburgh\, presents IRREDUCIBLE MOTHER \n  \nDAVID BIRCHALL David Birchall a guitarist and organiser living in Manchester\, UK. He was born in Leicester and went to a comprehensive school built on top of an Anglo Saxon cemetery. \nHe has performed in the UK\, Europe\, Russia\, Palestine\, USA & Japan. His work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3\, BBC Radio 6 Music\, SWR in Germany\, WFMU in the US & ABC in Australia. \nHe is notorious in The Peer Hat for organising the monthly Curious Ear series for improvised music which he co-founded with Andrew Cheetham. \nHe’s still convinced the practical musical experiences of free improvisation and consensus/dialogue social forms it models offer us one of the best ways through all this\nFor Folk Horror Fest he will be performing a special live soundtrack to his Derek Jarman inspired film cycle “Journeys to Peak District Stone Circles” \n  \nHEDGEBOUND CERAMICS  https://hedgeboundengland.co.uk/pages/about-us \n  \nMEGAN BRIERLEY artist based in Salford \n  \nSIMON NUNN a film-maker from Norwich\, presents THE GROVE \n  \nSAM PAY presents his film Nerualgia \n  \nMADELINE YOUNG presents stunning and disturbing tapestries that are as primordially profane\, as they are sublimely beautiful. \n  \n  \nWith thanks to the Weird Studies Podcast\, for whom an idle listen one afternoon\, inspired this particular iteration of the Manchester Folk Horror Festival.
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/manchester-folk-horror-viii/
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SUMMARY:ZOË HESELTON WITH CREEPY CRAWLY & NATHAN STOKER
DESCRIPTION:ZOE HESELTON is a British-born poet\, songwriter\, guitarist\, and singer based in Strasbourg. Her music – steeped in traditional\, folk\, blues\, and flamenco influences\, spoken word poetry\, and a wide range of eclectic and experimental inspirations – is both intimate and vibrant. Performed with a fierce yet sensitive electric guitar\, her music moves between vulnerability and power\, exploring themes of darkness and healing. Moving between melody and dissonance\, her songs are litanies for survival\, poems of tenderness and rage. \nReleased in April 2025 on the Teenage Menopause Records label\, her debut studio album ‘Another Kind of Suicide‘ was the result of a decade-long writing process. For the project\, she assembled a band she named Sister Outsider— after a poem by Audre Lorde. The group features Inès Rousset (bass)\, Merve Salgar (tanbur)\, Lise Barkas (hurdy-gurdy)\, Liliane Chansard (vocals)\, Quentyn Risjeterre (bells)\, and Harutaka Mochizuki (saxophone).\n\nCREEPY CRAWLY is the project of Bristol-born and Manchester-based musician Rachel Cawley\, weaving bittersweet narratives through shimmering\, multilayered songwriting. Her distinctive crystalline vocals guide listeners through ethereal dreamscapes\, moments of eerie unease\, and the satisfying crunch of ’90s alt-rock melancholy. \nGrowing up in the rural West of England\, her music is\, in part\, inspired by a childhood soundtracked by folk revival artists and traditional British folk music. But the pull of the city was huge and\, aged 18\, she moved to London and submerged herself in the many worlds of music available to her there – working at venues\, writing for music magazines\, temping at record labels – and going to a lot of gigs. But\, as it so often does\, London spat her back out. And so\, during a period of self-reckoning with the question of “how the hell did I get here?”\,  living a life that seemed frighteningly ordinary\, she returned to writing songs – tracing out the path of how she found herself in a place she didn’t want to be – and armed with newfound hope and resilience\, plotting a route back out of it. \nThe result of this reflective work is her debut album ‘Like a Real Thing’\, which will be self-released on May 30th 2025 and draws from a diverse palette of influences including Scott Walker\, Big Thief\, Laura Marling\, Anne Briggs\, Cat Power\, Breeders and Heatmiser. \nNATHAN STOKER is a trumpet player and producer whose dizzying talent sees him plumb ever more haunting sonic worlds\, evoking rain slick neon and flickering post modern hallucination. A Peer Hat favourite.
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/zoe-heselton-with-creepy-crawly-nathan-stoker/
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SUMMARY:CLARKE CAMILLERI & JUDE BROTHERS WITH LAZI BONES & ALEX AKIBA
DESCRIPTION:A very special night at The Peer Hat\, as favourite\, CLARKE CAMILLERI returns in the company of multi-instrumentalist JUDE BROTHERS to create something very beautiful and unique together. \nClarke Camilleri is a roaming song-maker whose music resists easy labels. His writing is eclectic yet unmistakably his own\, shaped by the many musical worlds he’s wandered through. \nRaised in Nottinghamshire and steeped in the echoes of the UK blues and folk revival\, Clarke grew into a true troubadour—rolling from country to country\, banjo slung over his shoulder\, carrying songs like companions. “I love the access that being a musician gives you into other lives\,” he says. “I like being brave with it and seeing where it gets me.” The result is a body of work woven from countless stories—some light\, some heavy\, all deeply human—that ripple through his songs. \n \nJude Brothers is a folk derived singer-songwriter from Arkansas\, with a penchant for whimsy and tender heartedness. Brothers’ distinct writing style is marked by congenial contrasts: passionate & playful\, calculated & relaxed\, approachable & quirky. \nTheir lyrics communicate a simultaneous existential dread and intoxicating thrill of living and loving\, a practice in raw and shameless vulnerability shared through song. All of this is transmitted through nimble vocal frolicking- a shapeshifter voice crawling\, leaping\, pirouetting through a mystical landscape of their own creation. \nLocal support from: \n  \nLAZY BONES Mike Wilson\, legendary Mancunian musician and incredible fellow will be gracing us with his idiosyncratic playing. \nALEX AKIBA  is a folk musician hailing from Disley. Blending introspective lyrics inspired by nature\, with intricate fingerstyle guitar\, Alex’s sound evokes the subtle emotional depth of artists like Nick Drake and John Martyn.\nWith a growing presence in the North West’s folk circuit\, Alex has performed at various pubs and cafes around Lancaster and Morecambe. Notably\, he supported Daudi Matsiko at More Music and is scheduled to perform at the Middlewich Folk and Boat Festival (2025) on the John McAteer Stage. \n 
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/clarke-camilleri-jude-brothers-with-lazi-bones-alex-akiba/
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SUMMARY:ATTRITION WITH LEUCATOME & SCHKEUDITZER KREUZ
DESCRIPTION:ATTRITION are pioneers in what has become known as darkwave. Formed in 1980 in Coventry\, England\, influenced by a mix of punk ideology and experimental art aesthetics\, they emerged as part of the early ’80’s UK Industrial scene alongside contemporaries Coil\, Test Department\, Legendary Pink Dots\, In The Nursery\, Portion Control et al.Founder Martin Bowes has steered the band through a 42 year career\, fuelled by a succession of critically acclaimed albums…a selling over 100\,000 to date. The band has regularly toured Europe\, North America and South America\, Russia and Asia\, appeared at major festivals and had their music included on a number of TV and film soundtracks….Through their career Attrition have worked with musicians as diverse as psychedelic veterans The Legendary Pink Dot’s to punk legend TV Smith to Franck Dematteis of the Paris Opera.\n“Attrition have always been a nexus of industrial fury\, gothic drama\, ambient structural finesse and classical chamber orchestrations. Stunning in scope\, character and intellect\, Martin Bowes has been a paragon of true creative prowess\, holding in two hands the past and future of music\, and smashing them together with a calculated and charismatic menace. Bowes builds his dark industrial music with all the compassion and attention to detail of a classical musician…”\n\nLEUCATOME: Omnioscillating industrifolk fey femme cult of the apocalypto-medieval era.\n\nSCHKEUDITZER KREUZ “One human and some machines making noise\, in the face of it all”\, is a mutant post-apocalyptic hybrid: an intersection between harsh\, confronting\, mechanical noise and the comparatively raw\, organic materials of hardcore\, crust\, and d-beat punk. It is a noise wrought from the anguish and despair of Antipodean punk veteran Kieren Hills\, from a cabin that he built in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales\, Australia.
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/attrition-guests/
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SUMMARY:QUEEN'S PLEASURE WITH DAYTRADING AND ENUMA ELISH
DESCRIPTION:QUEEN’S PLEASURE is an impertinent semi-psychedelic classic four piece garagerock outfit\, based in Amsterdam. Driven by a brutal and poetic desire for love\, Queen’s Pleasure sounds like a mix of Dandy Warhols and Blur\, with the power of The Ramones and the melancholy of The Smiths. A ‘Wall of sound’ delivered with an energy you can expect from a group in their late teens. After releasing two records\, making multiple TV and radio appearances\, doing sold-out clubtours and sharing the stage with major acts like Noel Gallagher\, Wunderhorse and The Undertones\, they turn over a new page with their new work. More than ever\, they are in complete control over every aspect of the music while simultaneously experimenting with new sounds and production techniques. \n  \nENUMA ELISH their name from a Babylonian creation myth. Entering this band’s world is to tunnel deep into cavernous esoterica. Crafting vibes that are atmospheric and at times downright creepy\, one nestles into a compellingly uneasy soundscape\, cinematically analogous to a psychological horror film. See 90’s Swans or Rush. \n  \nThrough a mix of melodic choruses and heavy guitar riffs\, DAYTRADING are a Manchester based 4-piece on the rise. Bending genres through alt-rock to indie sleaze\, there’s something to get your head banging.
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/queens-pleasure-with-daytrading-and-enuma-elish/
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SUMMARY:BEAUTIFY JUNKYARDS WITH THE MANIFESTATION GROUP
DESCRIPTION:Once again\, The Peer Hat is honoured to host BEAUTIFY JUNKYARDS. One of the greatest bands of their kind\, they are a band built to play on the Black Stage. \nOn this unique UK tour\, Beautify Junkyards will be presenting their latest album “NOVA” released on Ghost Box Records\, an album that featured on Shindig magazine top10 best 2024 albums. \nAn exciting psychedelia-infused electronic\, for fans of bands like Broadcast\, Stereolab and White Noise. \n“The hole left by the late Trish Keenan’s hauntologic pop project Broadcast feels greater and more profound by the day. Unusually\, the group who come closest to filling it is a band from Lisbon. On Nova\, Beautify Junkyards lean further into the sampleadelic\, accentuating their bleary psych with florid sound design and hallucinatory textures.”\nUNCUT \n“This exceptional Portuguese cosmic folk outfit may be the best band you’ve never heard of…. An enjoyable recording from this talented group. Highly recommended!”\nThe Big Takeover \n“…the more melodic end of the ‘hauntological’ genre scale with their mix of troplcalia\, ’60s pop and warm synth tones”\nMojo \n“Latin rhythms\, electronic fizzles and melodies that flit like an elusive butterfly\, playfully refusing to be pinned down.”\nElectronic Sound \n“On their fifth studio album\, Portuguese collective Beautify Junkyards delve deeper into electronic abstraction and forge a sound that’s richer\, more nuanced and enticing than ever before.”\nShindig \n  \nTHE MANIFESTATION GROUP return following an enforced absence. A bewildering variety of styles compete to be heard as the collective look to state their case regarding the personhood of music with an ever evolving sound. Wildly cinematic\, The Peer Hat is most pleased to welcome them back. (As you would expect) \n 
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/beautify-junkyards-guests-2/
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED TUPENNY BUNTERS 'THIS IS HOW IT ENDS TOUR 2025'
DESCRIPTION:Dave and Fi Dulake became TUPPENNY BUNTERS in 2012\, the same year they got married. Fi had been the Hammond player in Dave’s previous band\, The Virgo Intacta\, who were on The White Stripes “Satan” tour as 1st support. Parallel to running a notorious Southend music pub\, The Railway Hotel\, the duo\, after naming themselves after Regency prostitutes\, set about capturing the sound they perceived\, a piano dripping garage/pop wall of melodies and chord shifts. Their first album was recorded live to a Studer in the cellar of the pub. They released it on their own label\, Dansettual.  Called “A Tuppenny Upright”\, the results\, while sketchy\, present them well. At times\, the piano (a Bluthner upright) threatens to cuddle you to death\, at others it appears to be absently flipping you off\, and the drums are tuned high\, dirty and loonar. If they were cleverer\, or could be bothered\, they’d be prog. Cooler\, or if they both dressed like Fi\, they’d be psyche\, and if they didn’t constantly feel the need to burst into song\, for their sheer sonic nerve they’d be garage. The Bunters songwriting is all the way down the cracks between Pete Ham\, Syd Barrett and Lionel Bart\, but their live performance sits precariously on a web spun by X Ray Spex\, The White Stripes\, Wings and\, well\, Sparks\, I guess – in that\, you’re never quite sure who to watch. She smashes shit out of the kit with her hair going everywhere\, while he\, 20 years older and desperate to keep up\, pounds the Fender Rhodes and screams his fucking head off\, trying always for a snarling Steve Marriott but coming off more like an enraged Dean Friedman. Then they swap\, and now you’re totally on the back foot\, cos now he’s laying into the kit\, and she’s up…her intense brown eyes staring you down; melodies from an age way before her time and a piercing\, shrieking voice that only ever seems at home above top C.   Fingernails scraping down a Marmite smeared blackboard. You won’t go to the bar though\, cos then there are the songs\, which\, possibly against your better judgement\, will tick one of your boxes. They’ll take you on an uncomfortable switchback ride through pop music’s wheat and chaff\, and just when you think you’ve dissed it or nailed it\, when you think “I can hear a bit of 10CC and The Damned in there…” then Billy Childish pops in with Julie Andrews and you still won’t know whether they’re tossers or visionarys. A review for Dave’s “Butterfingers” album in The Face back in 2003 called it “annoying and refreshing in equal parts”. \n  \nNow it’s the HOW IT ENDS tour. Hopefully not too soon! \nINDIAN PALE MALE is former Frazer King genius\, Nathan McIlroy’s latest project. Following a period of self imposed exile\, Nathan has returned–and Manchester is better for it. Now armed with a single piano\, IPM is a unique\, funny\, sometimes tortured\, sometimes jazzy excursion which\, if McIlroy chooses\, will only go on to garner further acclaim. He’ll be playing with the full band tonight\, so look out \n  \nFinally MANCUNION emerge as mystery players\, hotly tipped by the Bunters themselves. SKYMOUTH has no idea what they sound like so let’s GET IT ONNNNNNNNNN
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/tupenny-bunters-this-is-how-it-ends-tour-2025/
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SUMMARY:LOS FUCKIN SURFER SMOKERS & GUESTS
DESCRIPTION:A gig from nowhere\, but no less unmissable! \nLOS FUCKIN SURFER SMOKERS area Colombian band formed in early 2017 in Bogotá by Sergio Arias and Alejandro Reverend. LFSS blends Surf\, Western\, and Retro music with influences from traditional rhythms such as Cumbia\, Psychedelic Chicha\, Brass ensembles\, and Swing. In 2024\, the band celebrated a major milestone with a 25-date UK tour from August to November\, performing at major festivals such as Shambala and smaller events like Convoy Cabaret and Griffstock. They played venues across cities like London\, Bristol\, Nottingham\, Brighton\, Cardiff\, and more\, delivering unforgettable performances alongside renowned artists from around the world. \nYETII is a two-piece powerhouse that delivers a unique blend of fuzz rock.\nThe pair balance sharp bursts of raw energy with fuzz-laden escapist jams.\nHailed by their audience as bigger than the sum of its parts and a live show to lose yourself in.\n2025 has seen YETII debut at Desertfest London and the release of their latest EP A Full Rotation   less \nSUMMAT NOT RIGHT Recently formed genre-defying group with post-punk\, no wave\, psych\, and electronic influences\, cutting their own niche in the Manchester grassroots.
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/los-fuckin-surfer-smokers-guests/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Peer Hat":MAILTO:nick@thepeerhat.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250729T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250729T223000
DTSTAMP:20250707T104156Z
CREATED:20250701T134651Z
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SUMMARY:ADAM FINCHLER with CREEPY CRAWLY & OLIVER LOUIS
DESCRIPTION:New York‘s ADAM FINCHLER works across music\, video and DIY art\, but no matter the medium\, his work all stems from a creative desire to explore the stranger side of life to better figure out its complexities. “Adam has always found a way to take the absurd and elevate it to an art\,” as Don Giovanni Records co-founder Joe Steinhardt so succinctly puts it. Whether Finchler is playing drums for Sea Urchin (Ba Da Bing Records)\, making videos for the likes of Ought and Charlotte Cornfield\, starring in them for Katie Von Schleicher\, or releasing clickbait videos and a book “of haunted hayriders’ quotations overheard by the grim reaper himself\,” his overarching mission shines through. \n“Like the Beatles on NyQuil” \nCREEPY CRAWLY is the project of Bristol-born and Manchester-based musician Rachel Cawley\, weaving bittersweet narratives through shimmering\, multi-layered song writing. Her distinctive crystalline vocals guide listeners through ethereal dreamscapes\, moments of eerie unease\, and the satisfying crunch of ’90s alt-rock melancholy. \nGrowing up in the rural West of England\, her music is\, in part\, inspired by a childhood soundtracked by folk revival artists and traditional British folk music. But the pull of the city was huge and\, aged 18\, she moved to London and submerged herself in the many worlds of music available to her there – working at venues\, writing for music magazines\, temping at record labels – and going to a lot of gigs. But\, as it so often does\, London spat her back out. And so\, during a period of self-reckoning with the question of “how the hell did I get here?”\,  living a life that seemed frighteningly ordinary\, she returned to writing songs – tracing out the path of how she found herself in a place she didn’t want to be – and armed with newfound hope and resilience\, plotting a route back out of it. \nThe result of this reflective work is her debut album ‘Like a Real Thing’\, which will be self-released on May 30th 2025 and draws from a diverse palette of influences including Scott Walker\, Big Thief\, Laura Marling\, Anne Briggs\, Cat Power\, Breeders and Heatmiser. \nBORN in the Lake District\, raised in a creative Manchester household\, Oliver began playing the drums at age 7; teaching himself bass and guitar from the age of 16. Self recording from his home studio\, Oliver first released music with radical expression\, under the name ‘A Polar Rose’\, where he first experienced the catharsis of sharing music. Emerging as OLIVER LOUIS\, he took to the Manchester live music scene\, combining naïve lyricism with mature acoustic fingerpicking; all the while\, expanding his recording techniques behind closed doors. Here he was able to combine non-traditional percussion with modern technology\, transporting folk music into the realm of psychedelia.
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/adam-finchler-guests/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250712
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250713
DTSTAMP:20250707T100442Z
CREATED:20250513T112646Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250707T100442Z
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SUMMARY:MIFFF'D
DESCRIPTION:BEING A FESTIVAL OF SOME (THOUGH BY NO MEANS ALL) OF THE BEST MANCHESTER MUSIC AND AN UNSUBTLE REMINDER REGARDING ONE’S PLACE.\nZOLATEC //ADJUSTMENTS// CRUCKLE //MAZ & THE PHANTASMS// DJINN DHARMA // LAUREN YOUNG//KILL BUFFALO BILL// TRANCENDENTAL EQUATION// DUNCAN SUMPNER\n£10 OR DONATION
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/mifffd/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Peer Hat":MAILTO:nick@thepeerhat.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250711T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250711T223000
DTSTAMP:20250707T141957Z
CREATED:20250707T141957Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250707T141957Z
UID:9151-1752262200-1752273000@thepeerhat.co.uk
SUMMARY:WE ARE MANCHESTER PRESENT: SOULIST//FRANK & THE BEATS//ROSIE LANDON
DESCRIPTION:The final We Are Manchester Live event until our festival in September! If you didn’t get tickets to see the Gallagher Brothers\, and are feeling angry/frustrated/relieved about that (delete as appropriate)\, then join us for a night of love music at one of our favourite Manchester venues!\n\n\n\nSoulist is a rock and roll band based in Manchester.\nOriginal songs blend 90s Britpop\, Rock\, Pop\, and even a bit of Country.\nFilled with catchy melodies that are easy to sing along to and hard to forget.\nThere’s something in their set for everyone.\n\n\nFrank & The Beats are rising on the Manchester scene. Mixing post-punk with elements of blues\, folk and psychedelia\, the band’s songs combine philosophical musings with infectious hooks. The band are fast gaining a reputation for putting on high energy shows throughout Manchester’s finest grassroots venues and aims to spread its wings further to the rest of the UK throughout the year.\n\n\n\nRosie Landon Music has been described as a fusion between Taylor Swift\, Olivia Rodrigo\, Avril Lavigne and Paramore; creating soulful melodic lyrics with the assistance of a strong rhythm.\n\n\nRosie writes about intense feelings around regret\, heartbreak and jealousy.\nRosie has a her debut EP on it’s way (18th July).\n“Echolalia” will be the first ever music release; consisting of three energetic and emotive Rock songs.\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.instagram.com/wearemanchesteryes/\nhttp://twitter.com/wearemanchester\nhttps://www.instagram.com/neckofthewoodsfest/\nhttps://www.facebook.com/Wearemanchesteryes/\n\n\n£6 ADVANCE!
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/we-are-manchester-present-soulist-frank-the-beats-rosie-landon/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250609T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250609T230000
DTSTAMP:20250411T112626Z
CREATED:20250411T112549Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250411T112626Z
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SUMMARY:ERIC CHENAUX WITH ZOLATEC & DAVID BIRCHALL
DESCRIPTION:ERIC CHENAUX is a Canadian guitarist\, songwriter\, singer and sound sculptor. He has released seven full-length solo albums on the Montréal imprint Constellation\, charting an adventurous and uncompromising path through avant-folk and out-jazz compositions increasingly rooted in a unique and elemental juxtaposition of fried\, frazzled\, semi-improvised guitar and smooth\, clear tenor balladry. Chenaux has been called “a musician like no other” by Tiny Mix Tapes; his solo work praised by The Quietus as “stunningly beautiful\, genuinely inimitable\, whose reputation will only grow with time.” Gracing the cover of The Wire magazine in 2017\, the feature article declared: “A singer and songwriter possessed of angelic sweetness and clarity accompanying himself with largely improvised\, visceral guitar textures that seem intent on undermining and obscuring his own songs. It’s the need to communicate tussling with the urge to obfuscate; lucidity versus opacity; form against chaos.” \n\nZOLATEC is an experienced pannist and music producer. Inspired by music ranging from metal to dub\, she uses software to fuse these influences into her own dark & melodic compositions\, creating a unique live set performed differently each time. Breakbeats stutter in dark soundscapes\, cut with steelpan polyrhythms\, ethereal vocals and shoegaze textures. Wide basslines pay homage to sound system subs\, shaping dynamic build-ups and heavy drops. \n  \nDAVID BIRCHALL is a guitarist\, free improviser and composer living in Manchester. He has performed in the UK\, Europe\, Russia\, Palestine\, USA & Japan. His work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3\, BBC Radio 6 Music\, SWR in Germany\, WFMU in the US & ABC in Australia. He’s still convinced the practical musical experiences of free improvisation and consensus/dialogue social forms it models offer us one of the best ways through all this.
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/eric-chenaux-with-zolatec-david-birchall/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Peer Hat":MAILTO:nick@thepeerhat.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250604T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250604T223000
DTSTAMP:20250512T103321Z
CREATED:20250512T102810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250512T103321Z
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SUMMARY:LOUIS LAURAIN WITH ARTHUR BICKERS & NATHAN STOKER
DESCRIPTION:LOUIS LAURAIN(1984) is a trumpet player\, living in South of France. His work lies at the borders of experimental music\, electro-acoustics\, Jazz\, traditional music\, visual and performative arts. While developing an original language on his instrument\, he seeks\, threw solo or collaborative projects\, an innovative and personal way of playing and thinking about music. In the past years he collaborated with Eliane Radigue\, Pierre Bastien\, Stephen O’Malley\, Umlaut Big band\, Olga Koziel\, Axel Dorner\, Guy One\, Perrine Bourel\, Xavier Charles\, Yves-Noel Génot\, John Tilbury\, Nicolas Collins\, Zombie-Zombie\, Pierce Warnecke …\nHe performs regularly as a solo. He is also a member of the Berlin band DIE HOCHSTAPLER\, the French-Polish group LUMPEKS\, the duo TDTNDG and The Duo C.N.T With Pierre Bastien. He has toured in Europe\, Asia\, Africa\, North and South America and Russia. \nWITH ARTHUR BICKERS & NATHAN STOKER
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/9049/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Peer Hat":MAILTO:nick@thepeerhat.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250514T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250514T230000
DTSTAMP:20250421T122119Z
CREATED:20250414T141355Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T122119Z
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SUMMARY:XAV CLARKE WITH LIEI & YCLEPT
DESCRIPTION:XAV CLARKE is a UK based artist\, composer\, and songwriter\, who’s musical style could best be described as imaginative\, playful\, and fantastical with a wondering sophistication and curiosity that welcome listeners into his rainbow world of complex sounds\, textures\, and emotions.\n\n\n\n\nAs an HMMA and 2 x MASA nominated composer\, Xav has written songs\, music and score for numerous animated series including the BAFTA winning The Amazing World of Gumball\, the latest offering from Cartoon Network\, the Sci-fi adventure; Elliott From Earth (for which he received a Music + Sound Awards Nomination) Hanna-Barbera’s The Heroic Quest of the Valiant Prince Ivandoe\, and most recently the Joseph Gordon-Levitt produced Wolfboy and The Everything Factory for Apple TV+ \nAway from animation\, Xav scored and written original songs for the intimate and darkly humorous feature documentary Red Herring\, premiering at Sheffield DocFest 2023.As a musician Xav produces his unique brand of psychedelic pop with bands Itchy Teeth\, Captain Fix & The Midnight Honeys\,Starfish Men and Mozart Estate. Playing in bands and writing songs since a teenager\, Xav has spent as much time in his bedroom making records as he has touring Europe with his band and experimenting live. As a guitarist Xav has appeared in Danny Boyle’s film Yesterday\, performed on soundtracks and been lucky enough to work with acclaimed composers Daniel Pemberton and Michael Giacchino.Xav’s debut solo album\, the psychedelic and dreamy ‘magic arrow’ was released last year\, and he is currently working a follow up and a soundtrack release to Red Herring simultaneously. \nHe is also scoring a forthcoming animated series for Nickelodeon. \n  \n\n\n\nLIEI is a solo artist who creates an evocative\, retro-futuristic soundscape\, contrasting lo-fi analogue textures\, with the use of a theremin\, against glitchy electronic rhythms. Taking influence from her dual Chinese-Irish heritage\, Liei draws upon themes of migration\, displacement and belonging\, taking listeners on a strange\, other-worldly sonic journey\, reminiscent of dreamlike neo-noir cinema. \n  \nThe output of Manchester artist YCLEPT is queasily textured and pallidly atmosphæred. They are currently working on their first record under this new alias. The music they produce and perform is at turns vibrant and cold\, and densely detailed \n\n\n 
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/xav-clarke-guests/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250507T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250507T230000
DTSTAMP:20250507T102059Z
CREATED:20240916T185751Z
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SUMMARY:ROLLER DERBY (HAMBURG) WITH ADJUSTMENTS
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating their own introversion\, deceleration\, contemplation and depth\, the album marks the climax in the four year history of ROLLER DERBY. Founded by Philine Meyer and Manuel Romero Soria\, the duo have worked at building a wide following\, honing their craft of creating exquisite dream-pop; now ready to share a collection of songs that is both profound and uplifting in equal measure. Embodying a sparkling bittersweet mix of joy and melancholy throughout\, When The Night Comes showcases the duo’s ability to meticulously interweave the luscious celestial vocals of Meyer with glistening multi-layered soundscapes and raw textures to create something truly captivating.\n\nOffering stirring meditations on themes ranging from accepting change (‘Ready To Forget’) and enduring personal challenges (‘Silver Jet’)\, to the emotional highs and lows of an intense relationship (‘Dreams’)\, musically the album evokes a sense of nostalgia – with clear shades of ‘80s synth-driven pop and fuzzy ‘00s indie – whilst creating a fresh\, innovative sound which is utterly unique to Roller Derby.\n\n\nADJUSTMENTS play noisy pop with vulnerable lyrics\, syrupy hooks and gravelly guitars that will make your heart sing and ears ring in equal measure. The Manchester-based trio (with roots in Cardiff and Bradford) first release is Bendy A/Who You Want. Both songs are honest and confrontational – they reflect the heat and hurt of the arguments we have with ourselves and the people we care about.
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/roller-derby-hamburg/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Peer Hat":MAILTO:nick@thepeerhat.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250501T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250501T230000
DTSTAMP:20250416T144013Z
CREATED:20250402T115311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250416T144013Z
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SUMMARY:MANU LOUIS & GUESTS
DESCRIPTION:Once more with excessive feeling\, we bring back Peer Hat talisman\, MANU LOUIS. He’s been travelling with us from the beginning and represents something of that searching spirit that this place seems to value so much. Without further ado\, let’s bio him:\nIt’s hard to find a profile like Manu Louis in music….\nBelgium born\, now Berlin based\, he studied composition with legendary composer Fréderic Rzewski\, electronic music on the internet\, and dancing during his concerts.\nA Passionate singer\, and knob agitator\, he also plays the guitar in his own unique punk jazz way…\nEqually at home working with electronic dance\, classical or jazz musicians\, Manu has performed his stuff from completely acoustic solo up to 200 wind players and everything in between.\nIn his music (fortunately\, as is the case today for many young musicians) style doesn’t exist. He mixes things that cross his path\, and creates new adventures of provocative and decontextualized juxtapositions. His general blueprint remains the same throughout\, but the ingredients he uses vary; from dissident chanson française\, genial dilettante\, avant-garde composers\, new beat\, old hits\, art-pop & hard bop.\nUnder his name\, Manu has released three LP’s and several 7’’ on Igloo Records\, Le Pacifique records and New Pangea. Recent years saw him perform his electronic solo shows more than 500 times in Europe and Asia (including: Bimhuis [Amsterdam]\, Fusion Festival [Lärz]\, Tremor Fest [Acores]\, La Casa Encendida [Madrid]\, PopKultur [Berlin]\, Tsutavo o Nest [Tokyo]\, DDC [Beijing] and Contrapop [Ramsgate]). Travelling with a village of electronic instruments\, and video projections from pop stars to animals\, he delivers passionate performances that switch gear into impromptu discotheque.\nRecently\, Manu has collaborated with Front de Cadeaux\, Héctor Arnau\, Ilan Manouach\, Systaime\, Escif\, Dawanggang and Carl Roossens.\nWith Sylvain Chauveau\, he co-founded Zero Carbon Records (an impossible label converted into ‘no oil/no electricity’ tours). With Mary Ocher\, he has co-curated the Underground Institute Festival (Berlin). And with Adrien Lambinet\, he co-directed ‘Music for Trees’\, a tribute to Garrett List.\nManu also gives workshops\, lectures\, makes DJ sets\, and has done mixes for Kiosk Radio\, Hotel Radio Paris\, Gonzai\, Noods\, Jolt Radio and Reboot FM.\n\n\nIf Amy Winehouse and Tom Waits had a love child with a sweet\, sweet voice\, that blessed infant might not sound unlike LAUREN YOUNG. An accomplished classical pianist who can turn her hand to jazz\, blues and self-professed “nightmare pop”\, Young creates a strikingly original sound\, colouring her self-penned songs with an expansive emotional palette. But this is not painting by numbers! From big lush arrangements to whispered heart-break lullabies\, the pain\, the joy and the wonder are as real and tangible as Young’s Stockport roots. A rare jewel in Manchester’s grimy crown.\n\nPSYCH LANDFILL are a brand new project. Scuzzed out\, mind battered Velvet Underground demo tapes merge with the sound of Japanese psych fuzz terrorists\, Les Rallizes Dénudés\, spiced with a hint of Scott 4. Ones to watch!
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/manu-louis-guests/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250423T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250423T230000
DTSTAMP:20250312T144353Z
CREATED:20250310T145340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T144353Z
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SUMMARY:THE RAZORBLADES//VELVET TUXEDO//PSYCH LANDFILL
DESCRIPTION:THE RAZORBLADES are a three piece from Wiesbaden / Germany\, offering high energy surf punk that ranges from the Californian twang of Dick Dales to the surf punk of the Turbo ACs to modern rockabilly à la Brian Setzer. Wild\, sweaty\, energetic and faster than the police allows… sounds like DICK DALE on speed\, the Pulp Fiction soundtrack in turbo mode or a 120 mph car chase on the California coast with loud punk rock on the car radio…no seatbelt attached! \nAn ecstatic stage show and loud guitars are included for free 🙂 \nSince 2002\, the trio around mastermind Rob Razorblade has been driving along the world’s highways and has impressed people at over 700 concerts in a wide variety of locations: sweaty clubs\, on the beach in Huntington Beach\, in a Roman fort or at a rock’n’roll wrestling show. Everywhere people danced to Rob Razorblade’s oceanic guitar melodies and ended the evening with ringing ears and a huge grin on their face. \nWithout stylistic blinders\, THE RAZORBLADES not only inspire die-hard surfheads on 9 albums\, but also make skaters\, rockabillys\, punk rockers\, skins and indie boys and girls happy… \n  \n\nLatest Peer Hat favourites\, Yorkshire four piece\, VELVET TUXEDO are a guitar driven band and with an energy that only an exposed electrical socket could hit you with. That is if you would be so daring as to touch it…\n\n\nSurfing the ragged waves of US 60’s Garage and resurrecting the energy from the British Freakbeat scene circa 65/66\, Velvet Tuxedo offer sounds that risk turning you away from the standard pop charts to delve deep into a record store’s “rare finds” box in search of something best played in cloud of purple haze.\n\n\nPSYCH LANDFILL are a brand new project. Scuzzed out\, mind battered Velvet Underground demo tapes merge with the sound of Japanese psych fuzz terrorists\, Les Rallizes Dénudés\, spiced with a hint of Scott 4. Ones to watch!
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/the-razorblades-velvet-tuxedo-psych-landfill/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250416T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250416T230000
DTSTAMP:20250401T144240Z
CREATED:20250326T152328Z
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SUMMARY:EKHO by JOHN DORR with BURN INTO SLEEP & NATIONAL CRISIS
DESCRIPTION:JOHN DORR is a British born French based composer and performer. After graduating in 2012 with a BMus in classical music he created the instrumental neo classical band Stems\, releasing 4 albums and a BFI funded live soundtrack for the George Melies silent film A trip to the moon\, touring Europe several times and performing over 400 concerts. More recently he composed the soundtrack for Between the lights which garnered favourable reviews in The Guardian and Variety magazine. He will be performing an  immersive concert (EKHO) based on Ovid’s Echo\, with songs influenced by the parallels between the ancient myth and the modern world of digital communication. \nBURN INTO SLEEP David McCLean\, Manchester’s dark star\, puts together a new cast of noir stained spelunkers. An excursion not to be missed. \nNATIONAL CRISIS Adrian and Char are two improv artists who perform together in multiple improv bands – Fraud Couture & Gout\, whilst regularly performing as a duo. Expect circuit bent toys\, drone\, sax and contradictory\, cohesive forms of chaos.
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/ekho-by-john-dorr-with-david-mcclean-national-crisis/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Peer Hat":MAILTO:nick@thepeerhat.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250409T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250409T230000
DTSTAMP:20250310T143631Z
CREATED:20250304T150246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250310T143631Z
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SUMMARY:KAČKALA & WITH OLIVER LOUIS & INDIAN PALE MALE
DESCRIPTION:KAČKALA (pronounced kotch-kolla)\, the unorthodox\, all-women vocal band from Czechia and the U.S.\, is thrilled to tour the UK for the first time in April 2025. Their mad girl\, sad girl\, and bad girl original compositions are full of complex arrangements and rich harmonies. Kačkala’s spirited songs inspire emotion\, empowerment\, and sometimes\, revolutionary thought. Their mesmerizing live performances have dynamic presence and fierce energy in any venue. \nAn idiomatic\, unclassifiable creation bringing furious words of wisdom to you in their tunes\, femme fatale liberation songs and a few morbid numbers thrown in for good measure. Through a mix of empowering mad girl\, bad girl\, and sad girl original compositions\, international flair\, and a dash of homemade choreography\, Kačkala creates dynamic and theatrically entertaining performances. \n  \nBorn in the Lake District\, raised in a creative Manchester household\, Oliver began playing the drums at age 7; teaching himself bass and guitar from the age of 16. Self recording from his home studio\, Oliver first released music with radical expression\, under the name ‘A Polar Rose’\, where he first experienced the catharsis of sharing music. Emerging as OLIVER LOUIS\, he took to the Manchester live music scene\, combining naïve lyricism with mature acoustic fingerpicking; all the while\, expanding his recording techniques behind closed doors. Here he was able to combine non-traditional percussion with modern technology\, transporting folk music into the realm of psychedelia. \n  \nINDIAN PALE MALE is former Frazer King genius\, Nathan McIlroy’s latest project. Following a period of self imposed exile\, Nathan has returned–and Manchester is better for it. Now armed with a single piano\, IPM is a unique\, funny\, sometimes tortured\, sometimes jazzy excursion which\, if McIlroy chooses\, will only go on to garner further acclaim. Check it out.
URL:https://thepeerhat.co.uk/event/kackala-guests/
LOCATION:The Peer Hat\, Faraday Street
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