UPCOMING
Sunday Feb 15th 2026
ADRA promotions and Puzzle Hall Inn present…
Foundling (Canda / Berlin)
Ambient psychedelic experimental-pop from sound artist, composer and harpist Erin Lang.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk4hR-LVdhs
Marlene Ribeiro
Hypnotic psychedelic dream-pop made of looping acoustic instruments and electronics on Rocket Recordings
https://marleneribeiro.bandcamp.com/album/toquei-no-sol
at Puzzle Hall Inn, 21 Hollins Mill Lane, Sowerby Bridge, HX6 2RF
4pm – 6pm.
FREE ENTRY with donations for acts gratefully accepted
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Foundling is the evolving musical project of Canadian-born, Berlin-based composer, vocalist , and harpist Erin Lang, whose work explores the space between composition, improvisation, and deep listening. Known for emotionally subtle songwriting and expansive sound design, Foundling’s music moves fluidly between experimental pop and ambient forms.
The Guardian UK: “-their album Equilibria is an intriguing mix of dream pop, junkyard minimalism and glittery ECM jazz, pitched somewhere between Julia Holter and David Sylvian. “Following the release of the band’s fourth studio albumEquilibria(2024), Foundling entered a more open and contemplative sonic terrain with Artemisia, an ambient, harp-and flute-led work released via Shadow World Records.
Artemisia is largely instrumental, incorporating spoken word and improvised passages that emerge from carefully structured harmonic frameworks. The music balances intention and openness, allowing each performance to unfold differently in response to space, resonance, and collective presence.
In concert, Foundling’s performances emphasize immersion and attentiveness. Harp, voice, flute, and subtle electronics move between composed motifs and free, intuitive exploration, creating soundscapes that feel both grounded and alive. These performances often feel closer to listening rituals than traditional concerts, inviting audiences into shared moments of stillness and intensity.
Lang has toured extensively across Europe and North America, including over 70 performances supporting Agnes Obel at venues such as the Berlin Philharmonie, Le GrandRex, and Le Trianon in Paris, and has opened for Timber Timbre internationally. She has collaborated with Roger O’Donnell (The Cure) Lasse Martin (Lykke Li, Jónsi) Mark Lawson (Arcade Fire) and Mario Thaller (The Notwist, Lali Puna).
Alongside album releases and touring, Lang’s practice occasionally extends into sound-focused presentations for festivals and community spaces, informing her concert work while remaining rooted in live performance. For Fans of Harold Budd, Alice Coltrane, Grouper, Midori Takada, and Laraaji
https://foundlingsounds.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXv54y0-iws
Marlene Ribeiro
A travelogue that unites physical and inner space, a series of trance states rendered in vivid colour, a delirious portal into the ether. Marlene Ribeiro’s debut for Rocket Recordings and first album under her own name is all of this and much more. Toquei No Sol is a fresh new chapter for this unique artist, by far the most melodic and transcendent outing yet for her hypnotic dreampop.
This is only the latest release in a long history of sonic experimentation for Marlene, which includes her previous work as Negra Branca across a series of releases on labels such as Tesla Tapes and Zamzam and a long period as a member of audial iconoclasts and Rocket mainstays GNOD, not to mention collaborations with the like of Valentina Magaletti and Thurston Moore.
Toquei No Sol is also a record with a very distinctive and potent sense of place, paradoxically despite having been woven together from recordings made in Ireland, Wales, Portugal, Madeira and Salford. It’s genesis came via a visit to Marlene’s maternal grandmother Emilia, whose influence as well as the sounds of her kitchen in Portugal can be heard on the album’s first track ‘Quatra Palavras’.
“Emilia ended up getting excited about me being able to record things there and then and – total news to me – told me she used to sing a lot when she was younger to the point of getting offered studio time but refusing it as she was fearful of what that could imply in those times” relates Marlene “From that point I planned to include her in this record as sort of the chance she never had of getting her voice out there.”
Elsewhere, a disarmingly catchy and irresistible grace is married to a utilitarian approach to sound and texture. The ritualistic “Sangue De Lua de Lobo” (first released on a Sofia records compilation Songs Of The Lunar Eclipse) contains random objects from Marlene’s then-garden in Ireland, whereas on the drifting, beatific ‘Forever’ the percussion tracks are constructed from the sounds of pots and pans in her own Salford kitchen.
Yet at all times her fleet-footed approach to melody rings through even as the tracks conjure visions of heat-hazes, meditative spaces and late-night epiphanies. Although listeners may hear echoes of the loop-driven psychedelia of Panda Bear’s Person Pitch or the incantatory ululations of Pocahaunted in these beguiling soundscapes and magick-strewn mantras, the truth is that the aesthetic here is very much Marlene’s alone.
“It’s all a big misty haze of nostalgia, playfulness, self-reflection and hopefulness” is what Marlene reckons herself. Yet Toquei No Sol is also a transporting vision from an artist both returning to her roots and looking out to new celestial horizons.
Saturday Feb 14th 2026
ADRA promotions and Puzzle Hall Inn present…
The Unit Ama (Newcastle – Tusk/Gringo Records)
Adventurous free-running post-hardcore / post-punk / jazz trio from the North East pushing the guitar/bass/drums/vocals envelope for more than twenty years.
https://theunitama.bandcamp.com/album/toward
Lands & Body
Halifax/Leeds baritone guitar and drums duo. Progressive, hypnotic, instrumental noise-folk from That Fucking Tank-ers.
https://andyabbott.bandcamp.com/album/charsi-karahi-ep
at Puzzle Hall Inn, 21 Hollins Mill Lane, Sowerby Bridge, HX6 2RF
8pm (live music finished in time for last trains to Leeds/Manc).
FREE ENTRY with donations for bands gratefully accepted
Sunday January 25th 2026
ADRA promotions and Puzzle Hall Inn present …
Haress (Bishops Castle – Wrong Speed Records)
Hypnotic folk-influenced post-rock from the Shropshire Hills for fans of Papa M and the Cragg Vale Coiners.
https://haress.bandcamp.com/
Andrew DR Abbott
Shoegazing psych-ambient fingerpicked solo guitar from Halifax in Fahey / Ashra / Fripp territory.
https://andyabbott.bandcamp.com/
at Puzzle Hall Inn, 21 Hollins Mill Lane, Sowerby Bridge, HX6 2RF
3pm – 5pm
FREE ENTRY with donations for bands gratefully accepted.
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Haress
Skylarks is the third album from acclaimed Shropshire collective and the much-anticipated follow-up to 2022’s Ghosts. Dark, traditional and magically cosmic sounds from deep within Rural Britain.
“Far above the skylark sings
And beats the air with joyful wings
Till all the sky with music rings
At high noon of the day”
With 2022’s critically acclaimed album “Ghosts”, enigmatic Shropshire group HARESS marked out their own place in a growing landscape of artists navigating the worlds of the traditional and the rural in new ways.
“Ghosts” led to the normally reclusive Haress venturing out from their base in the Shropshire Hills for live performances with the likes of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Shovel Dance Collective, Big Brave, Steve Von Till and appearances at Supersonic and Krankenhaus Festivals – not to mention making fans of everyone from Kevin Martin to James Holden in the process.
“Skylarks” is perhaps the natural conclusion of these past few years for the group. Whereas previous Haress recordings have embraced something of the unknown in the process of their making, “Skylarks” sees a well-travelled group of musicians carefully craft expansive and expressive pieces of music in a powerful and instinctual way. The music here might be long but it never sprawls out of control. The telepathy present in live performance has been harnessed and used to carefully compose and arrange these four pieces, narrating a journey through landscape and time that is as powerful as it is beautiful.
Inspired by found folk songs, the power of nature and the power of community, and Ben Myers’ brutal tale of resistance The Gallows Pole, Haress have created a genuinely epic soundtrack to a world both past and future, real and imagined. The ambience and atmosphere of the recording (expertly captured by Phil Booth of JT Soar Studio on location in the group’s hometown of Bishop’s Castle) is entirely natural, the sound of an ensemble playing live in the room around you. The only vocal interjection this time comes from a choir of voices, replicating the communal singing that has been the centrepiece of Haress live performances. When the voices emerge it feels truly euphoric and heavy. Not heavy as in metal, but heavy as in the Earth itself – a primal, joyful gut punch to the system.
“This blissed-out psychedelia is not quite pastoral – there’s nothing twee about these unwinding grooves – yet evokes water and wood, light and shadow, a place of forgotten labour and the absent human form with a beguiling grace” – Luke Turner on Ghosts, The Quietus Albums Of The Year 2022
“That timelessness of the old sounds but with an added tripped out modernity and dissonance hooked into the past by the power of drone is magical and exhilarating stuff – they are truly spellbinding – ancient and modern like British ragas or a damp searching for the soul of England take on the desert blues of a Tinariwen” – Jon Robb reviews Krankenhaus Festival 2023, Louder Than War
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Andy Abbott is an artist, musician and writer who lives in West Yorkshire, UK. His output as ‘Andrew DR Abbott’ centres on instrumental compositions for solo guitar.
Andy is best known for his deafening guitar work in the leftfield rock bands That Fucking Tank and NOPE with whom he has toured internationally on the DIY underground circuit, as well as mainstream gigs supporting Foals and appearances at Leeds and Reading festivals.
With his solo projects he has shared stages with Gwenifer Raymond, Richard Dawson, William Tyler, Dean McPhee, The Horse Loom, Alison Cotton, C Joynes, Nick Jonah Davis, David Thomas Broughton, Edgars Rubenis, Bhajan Bhoy, Sirom and Ex Easter Island Head.
Both his ‘Live on Daisy Hill’ cassette (released by Bloxham Tapes in 2018) and ‘Dead in Chellow Dean’ album (released by Cardinal Fuzz in the UK and Feeding Tube Records in the USA in 2019) use fingerpicked guitar, field recordings and handmade instruments to reflect the darker facets of life in the postindustrial North.
In 2020 Andy wrote and recorded the final part of the Daisy Hill trilogy ‘Erewyrehve’ and released this on his own ADRA Records imprint on vinyl in 2021. This was followed by a limited lathe cut 10-inch ‘Live from Clover Hill’ e.p released by Sonido Polifonico in 2022, and a contribution to Michael Chapman tribute album released by Tompkins Square Records in 2023.
In 2024 and 2025 he released an album of recordings influenced by his time as a musician in residence in acute psychiatric wards across Yorkshire under the alias ADRA. His current set is a long-form fluid composition for 12-string and baritone acoustic guitars layered over field recordings that aims to reflect the light and shade of the Calder valley.
“A minor 21st century folk masterpiece … Abbott ignores the comfort of pure folk structures and bluesy scales, twisting his lush folk guitar into something brimming with potent pangs of a serrated kind of poetic discontent.” – The Quietus
“This is another gorgeous release from Andy who has taken an imaginary place as a theme but has clearly used the inspiration on his doorstep in real life and added a little musical fairy dust to transport the listener and the landscape to another place. The everyday, everywhere becomes somewhere special and memorable in Andy’s hands.“ – The Terrascope
“a beautifully structured hour of ambient music; reflective and calm with endlessly unravelling layers.”
– Uncut, 2024
PAST
2022
Sunday 27th Feb: Dean McPhee and Andrew DR Abbott at Good Mood, Halifax
Weds Oct 12th: Price Attack and ADRA at The Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
2023
Sunday March 5th: Antidote w/ Sirom and ADRA Ensemble, Victoria Theatre, Halifax
Weds March 22nd: XAM Duo and Game_Program at The Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Wednesday April 12th: Alison Cotton and The Isolde Chord The Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Saturday April 8th: Kontiki and ADRA at Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Wednesday May 24th: Astral Social Club and Anna Peaker at Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Friday June 9th: Objections and Secret Pockets, Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Friday 16th June: Dearthworms and Nape Neck at The Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Friday July 21st: The Unit Ama and Sophie Cooper at The Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Friday August 11th: Beige Palace and M-G Dysfunction at The Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Sunday 20th August: Calderfornia Daydreamin w/ Vibracathedral Orchestra, Menko, ADRA Ensemble, Bulbils, Madalitso Band (Malawi) at The Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Sunday 27th August: Antidote w/ Gwenifer Raymond, Chris Sharkey, Dean McPhee at The Victoria Theatre, Halifax
Monday August 28th: Cowtown and That Fucking Tank at The Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Sunday Oct 1st: Sir Richard Bishop and Hawthonn at Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Friday Nov 3rd: Easter and Crumbs at The Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Sunday Nov 12th: Moonmot (Switzerland) at The Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Sunday Nov 26th: Haress, Gareth Hardwick, ADRA Ensemble at The Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
2024
Friday Jan 19th: Reciprocate and Lands & Body at The Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Sunday Jan 28th: Antidote w/ Samandtheplants and Soft Noise Ensemble, Victoria Theatre, Halifax
Saturday Feb 1st: Apollo House at Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Sat/Sun 17th/18th Feb: Glow w/ Game_Program, Anjanna and more, Fire and Water, Sowerby Bridge
Friday March 1st: Cadet Massive (France) and The Tall Trees at Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Friday March 15th: Caja de Ordenacion Numero 4 (Spain) and Stef Kett, The Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Sunday March 17th: Antidote w/ Agathe Max, Marlo De Lara, Geraldine Snell at The Victoria Theatre, Halifax
Friday April 12th: Fantome Jospeha (France) and Augustin Bousfield at The Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Thurs April 18th: Bhajan Boy and Futurist Bags, Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Sunday 28th April: Antidote w/ Ichi, Thorn Wych, Wire Worms at The Golden Lion, Todmorden
Monday April 22nd: Edgars Rubenis (Latvia) and Andrew DR Abbott at The Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Thursday May 16th: Stinking Lizaveta (USA), Darsombra (USA) and Lands & Body, Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Friday May 31st: ANTA, Sans Froid, ADRA at Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Sunday June 30th: Antidote Alldayer w/ Ustad Noor Bakhsh, Holodrum, Holly Blackshaw, Pefkin, Expo 92, Death-static, Primitive Percussion Orchestra at Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Saturday 24th August: Reflections w/ Galaxians, Marlene Ribeiro, Game_Program, Belle, at Fire and Water, Sowerby Bridge
Saturday 5th October: Savak (USA) and The Unit Ama, at The Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Sunday Oct 6th: Antidote w/ Calluna Sun, Kinaara, Aby Vulliamy at Bankfield Social Club, Elland
Saturday 12th Oct: Omni Selassi (Switzerland), Holodrum, Lands & Body, Wharf Chambers, Leeds
Sunday Nov 3rd: Antidote w/ Ex-Easter Island Head, Kar Pouzi, ADRA at Victoria Theatre, Halifax
Weds Nov 27th: Edgars Rubenis (Latvia), Marlene Ribeiro, ADRA at Imaginary Wines, Todmorden
Sun 8th Dec: Kogumaza and XAM Duo, Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
2025
Saturday 11th Jan: Mums and Callis a The Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Saturday 18th January: Kontiki at The Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Sunday 19th Jan: Antidote w/ These Towns, The Exu, Zandra at Trades Club, Hebden Bridge
Sunday 16th Feb: Bhajan Bhoy and ADRA, Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Tuesday 18th March: Kal Marx (USA) and Thank, at The Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Sunday 23rd March: Phil Tyler and Henry Parker, Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Sunday 30th March: Antidote w/ Billy Mahonie and Lands & Body at The Grayston Unity, Halifax
Sunday 30th March: Antidote w/ Rattle, Bulbils, The Silver Field at Victoria Theatrre, Halifax
Saturday 5th April: Treat Life w/ Holodrum and more at Fire and Water, Sowerby Bridge
Sunday May 25th: Antidote w/ Emergence Collective, Dean McPhee, John Haycock at Victorea Theatre, Halifax
Sunday 8th June: Floating World Pictures and Helicopter Quartet at The Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Fri 27th June: Sweet Williams and The Bricks, The Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Sat June 28th: Anjanna, The Short Causeway, Dan’s Girlfriend and more, Fire and Water, Sowerby Bridge
Thurs July 3rd: Lower Slaughter, Slow Knife, Lands & Body at The Golden Lion, Todmorden
Sun July 20th: The Horse Loom and Andrew DR Abbott, Puzzle Hall Inn Sowerby Bridge
Sun 27th July: Antidote w/ Ibantuta (Basque Country), Hameed Brothers Qawwal at Victoria Theatre, Halifax
Thurs 21st August: Theresa Kelly and Small Gauge at The Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Sat August 30th: Water Damage (USA), Solderer, Lands & Body at Wharf Chambers, Leeds
Sat 6th Sept: Duotor, Satnam Galsian, Wire Worms, George Daniels, dbh, Sowerby Bridge Town Square
Sun 7th Sept: Antidote w/ Bridget Hayden and The Apparitions and Ancient Hostility, The Victoria Theatre, Halifax
Sunday 19th Oct: Dean McPhee and ADRA, Dukes, Halifax
Thurs 6th Nov: Henry Parker and Farjado (Gran Canaria), Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Sun 16th Nov: Antidote w/ Sirom (Slovenia) and ADRA, Victoria Theatre, Halifax
Weds Dec 3rd: Kar Pouzi, Misery Bacon (Norway), ADRA at Nan Moors, Todmorden
2026
Sun Jan 18th: Raymond Macdonald and SA Malley, Dukes Halifax
Andy Abbott / ADRA Projects 