Events

All welcome for this casual but serious evening of chess.

Technical Difficulties is Sowerby Bridge’s original experimental music open mic held on the third Wednesday of Each Month. FREE ENTRY Please send us a message if you want a slot! We have a PA installed, two tables and somebody to plug you in… Whether you’re into alternative hip hop, dark ambient, free jazz, freak folk, […]

Al's Django Party is a gypsy jazz quartet featuring ace guitar virtuoso Martin Chung (also of Dana Ali Band and Wadcutter).

An informal group to practice your conversational French – Everyone welcome!

The Calderdale Do-It-Together all-dayer is the first event brought to you by the Youth Music collective; Starting at 1pm, It features 2 stages and a stacked lineup; Preskooler, Atlas, James Jackson, Alloy, The Memory Club, Doogle, and headlined by Testament and Leo Brazil. With an after dark DJ Adam Statham playing all the best techno […]

The Horse LoomBreathtaking folk guitar and vocals from Northumberland’s Steve Malley of John Peel and Fugazi favourites Crane and The Unit Ama. Compelling acoustic fingerstyle mastery touching on Jansch / Basho / Kottke punctuated by dark storytelling.https://lowpoint.bandcamp.com/album/the-horse-loom Andrew DR AbbottInstrumental compositions for (baritone) acoustic guitar from Halifaxhttps://andyabbott.bandcamp.com/album/live-from-clover-hill at Puzzle Hall Inn, 21 Hollins Mill Lane, […]

All welcome for this casual but serious evening of chess.

On the fourth Tuesday of the month the music stops and we pay attention to the spoken word. There has been poetry at the Puzzle Hall since the Nineties, with breaks when the pub was closed. Sometimes we are a small seminar group bringing work we love, and want to discuss, including our own writings. […]

An informal group to practice your conversational French – Everyone welcome!

The Short Causeway is a three piece from Hebden Bridge formed by childhood friends after a sweet and sweaty Trades Club gig. Claudie plays guitar and sings, Hayden is on bass, and Rufus bangs the drums. Together they bring jangly, clean guitar parts and bright and glossy basslines accompanied by contemplative lyrics, all pulled together […]

Manchester new wave outfit Midnight Gallery came to life in 2020 amidst the hush of the pandemic, developing their sound at the forefront of modernising post-punk, with a shared enthusiasm for 80s musical influences and the distinctive sounds of the North. Drawing parallels with artists such as Joy Division, Echo and the Bunnymen and Interpol […]

The Calderdale Fantasy Orchestra is a community project based in the Calder Valley which brings together 50+ musicians, professional and amateur, to create a kaleidoscopic symphonic brigade.Their eclectic repertoire covers film soundtracks (Morricone, John Barry), rock and pop favourites (Leonard Cohen, Beatles, Bowie, Radiohead), and some more obscure treasures. Think psychedelic loveliness, rousing choral noise, […]