ADRA Promotions presents
Saturday August 30th 2025
Water Damage (USA- Cardinal Fuzz/12XU)
‘Maximal repetition minimum deviation’ double-drumming drone rock collective with members of Swans, Spray Paint, Black Eyes, Bhajan Bhoy on Cardinal Fuzz / 12XU Records. 'a rare mind eraser for our increasingly plugged-in times' - Pitchfork
https://cful.bandcamp.com/album/water-damage-repeater
Solderer
Members of Beige Palace/Thank/Territorial Gobbing atonal gone-off-core.
https://solderererer.bandcamp.com/album/normal-style
Lands & Body
Instrumental Baritone Guitar and Drums Duo from Halifax / Leeds
https://andyabbott.bandcamp.com/album/dark-mild-ep
At Wharf Chambers, 23-25 Wharf Street, Leeds
£14/£10 (plus booking fee). Tickets at
https://www.skiddle.com/e/40913250
7:30pm doors.
Wharf chambers is a members club, you must be a member or a guest of a member to attend - for more info go to wharfchambers.org
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Water Damage
Using the motto, “Maximal Repetition Minimal Deviation,” Water Damage create glowing fields of drones that pretty much suck you right in and boil you alive. They prefer if each of their sonic ideas takes up a whole reel of tape, and once they start they don’t look back. Everything proceeds towards an imaginary end point that is only achieved when the tape starts flapping.
The members are all vets of various projects – Spray Paint, Black Eyes, USA/Mexico, more eaze, Thor & Friends, Marriage, Swans, SUR, Astral Spirits Records, among others. Their approach to the form is less front-loaded than most of their peers, and the surface of their sound is sometimes ruffled by aural events of an un-drone-like nature. But the main gush is usually a blend of harmonic tones and textures pointing towards a goal that is just out of ear-shot, just over the next bluff, and perhaps forever just beyond our reach.
"Water Damage create a transcendent euphoria by repeating a single riff for 40 minutes, with only minimal (yet frequently devastating) deviation. One minute is curious, five strange, perhaps verging on boring; but everyone in the room eventually flips as that noise becomes as vital as air, as hypnotic as the peerless masters of trance The Master Musicians of Joujouka. An absolute revolution."
- David Hutcheon & Ian Harrison, MOJO, Nov 2024
"Loud, relentless, unrepentant: Lock into that tug of war, and you may forget where you are, how you are, who you are. It feels fantastic, a rare mind eraser for our increasingly plugged-in times."
- Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, April 2024
"While it is conceptually outlined and a degree of discipline is involved to keep it on track this is not clinical, cerebral art music, it’s hot ‘in-the-red’ minimalism, blown out and overwhelming. The impulse is elemental and seemingly eternal, ecstatic trance music for beyond the rational space. It taps the unconscious, it’s pre-language. Or post language, or simply outside of it. It doesn’t tell stories, there’s no narrative, only sound. It is music of love, music of purity, of the stretched elastic moment. In this sense it’s holy, a channel to the divine."
"Raw, anxious energy committed to tape, Water Damage dispense motorik, long-form psychedelia that spits and crackles, bending into new shapes and sizes every time you listen. It makes them one of the most exciting experimental concerns walking the face of this god forsaken earth."
- Simon Kirk, Sun13, April 2024
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IG:
https://www.instagram.com/wwwaterdamage/
https://cful.bandcamp.com/album/water-damage-2-songs
https://cful.bandcamp.com/album/water-damage-repeater
https://waterdamage12xu.bandcamp.com/
https://waterdamageatx.bandcamp.com
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Solderer
"Solderer are a noisy Leeds-based supergroup who earlier this year released their debut record; self-described as an 'anarcho-slump dirge' of 'warped…pickled egg hardcore.' Through their strangeness, skewed catchiness, and heavy rhythms, and their combination of, noise, psychedelia, and more, they rise far above mere an imitation of Melt Banana and Butthole Surfers. Solderer is Beige Palace’s Kelly Bishop and Ant Bedford on vocals and drums respectively, Thank and Beige Palace’s Freddy Vinehill-Cliffe on bass, and former Thank electronics maverick Theo Gowans on guitar. Together they make – alongside a slight whiff of Thank’s immediacy and the minimalism of Beige Palace – a totally different beast whose heavy hardcore and fun, frantic egg punk is pushed punishingly to the fore."
- James Kilkenny (Louder Than War)
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Lands & Body
In 2024 - over 20 years after making their debut as noise-rock duo That Fucking Tank, James Islip and Andy Abbott returned with new project Lands & Body. The gear remains the same - baritone guitar played through multiple amplifiers and drums. The approach, however, has matured like a fine Cask Ale. Math-rock riffs have become interlocking fingerpicked patterns and rhythms, ear-bleeding noise has given way to spacious dynamics. Double-digit song lengths and twin-neck guitar appearances up the prog factor. The signature Tank groove and interplay underpins an expanded palette of influences drawn from post-rock, minimalist folk, free jazz and desert blues. In a scene of reformations, legacy acts and ‘classic album replays’ James and Andy have decided to leave the past where it belongs and start afresh, the same but different and in the process carved out a new genre of dark mild-core.
"Accomplished and considered – and a natural, organic evolution of the duo’s sound from those post-millennial early days of TFT. " - Dirty Sunbeams
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