• Alpaca Redemption + Groves

    Alpaca Redemption are a four-piece Indie/New Wave Pop band from Kiel, Leipzig and Todmorden. The guitar swings from frantic electric climbs to soft intricate melodies. Vocals are inspired by the raw and mystical ways of Irish folk songs and the lyrics find beauty in the bittersweet of dreams that may never be fulfilled. "Shouldered by […]

  • Devil’s Jukebox – The Last Ever Gig!

    THIS IS IT - OUR LAST EVER GIG!!! All good things must come to an end... and the evil ones too...Yes Folks, it's the last ever Devil's Jukebox gig. We'll be celebrating twenty years... by stopping playing, at the lovely Puzzle Hall Inn in sunny Sowerby Bridge. Come along and see the filthiest people alive […]

  • Improv At The Puzzle

    Audience and players VERY WELCOME. These are open playing sessions where weird and wonderful pieces are improvised by the group using some light direction and guidance on the playing. Donations welcomed: Bring Instruments and if needed little amplifiers and come down and join in with the improvisations. Arrive by 1.30pm to be ready to play […]

  • We Three Things

    We Three Things are 3 songwriting friends from Otley who share a love of indie, folk and the kind of close harmony singing not heard since Crosby Stills and Nash left the building. Combining the skills of three very different but complimentary songwriters -Tim Marshall, Nick Wood and Matthew Sturgess ( aka former Puzzle Hall […]

  • Chess Night

    All welcome for this casual but serious evening of chess.

  • Technical Difficulties

    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

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

  • French Fridays

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

  • Calderdale DIT Alldayer

    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 Loom (solo guitar / songs from Northumbria) + Andrew DR Abbott

    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, […]

  • Chess Night

    All welcome for this casual but serious evening of chess.

  • Poetry And Spoken Word Evening

    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. […]