Author: Ramsey Janini

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…

‘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…

This month in Todmorden we’re delighted to welcome Otis Jordan into the fold. Otis is an experimental guitarist who works with field recordings and constructed instruments to forge a sonic vision that is eerie, jauntily melodic and entirely his own. https://otisjordan.bandcamp.com http://www.otisjordan.com “Like watching The Faust Tapes live” – Graham Massey, 808 State Before and…

Hello all! This month’s Todmorden guest set comes from a brand new duo of Simon Prince and Johnny Hunter. Both are fabulous musicians and frequent visitors to the Manchester Noise Upstairs events. You may know Simon from his many appearances with Wolfscarers, and other groups. He’s a fiery tenor sax player who’s equally as fiery…

The Noise Upstairs returns to the Lion for an 8th month (and counting) on Tuesday 24 September. This month we’re delighted to welcome newly-formed Pollen Count as our guest act. Before and after their set we’ll pull names from the hat to jam. As ever the night is free, and we’ll start to gather from…

Hello all. Our next Todmorden event will be one day after the bank holiday and three days before Tor Fest 2019. Heather is in flower on the hills, and life is good in Tod.   This month we have not one but two special guests. Our musical guest this month is Gloomy Planets, playing their…

This month we’re delighted to welcome Hedge Fund Managers to The Noise Upstairs Todmorden: Room frequency jamming and detune protocols narrowcast with scramble emergency code relay evocation. Corrupted crosstalk chaos pacification. Ritual derangement within self-aware pathways and unsigned posts, establishment of mutiny in the order: schismatic schematics. Dishabited apparatus delivery quotients of mediated protean focus…

The Noise Upstairs Todmorden will feature a collective from my favourite record, coffee, book and vintage clothing shop this side of the Mississippi – The Magic City. True to the spirit of night, they’re not totally sure about who’ll be playing, or what they’ll play. But the mood music in recent days suggests that we’ll…

This month’s guests are Ecka Mordecai and Kate Armitage. Both of whom have played for us in Manchester separately, so we’re excited to hear them together in Tod! Ecka Mordecai is sound artist and composer currently based in Todmorden. She composes for ‘cello using graphic scores and text, as well as creates sound objects. Kate…