Our Seventh Happening to mark the turning of the old year and the welcoming of the new. Old artists in new shapes, new artists making a live debut, and the curiously curated confection that makes our Happenings uniquely unique.

Popsneon & Esme

Taking their edgy and soulful electronic mood-music live, this is a one-off performance showcasing debut EP “Back To The Start”, released on Spanish nu-disco / Balearic imprint Rare Wiri Records, and tracks from the newly-completed second EP. Esme’s hauntingly beautiful voice and brutally honest song writing has morphed with Nottingham-and-beyond legend Popsneon to forge a new sound… definitely dance floor based, but with equal parts post-punk and dark-wave. Lights down low for this one.

Curtain Twitcher

Tea, Cakes and the (Wo)Man Machine

Curtain Twitcher could only have emerged from Sheffield. A female electronic duo whose corrupted downtempo and post-Balearic chug pulses, throbs and twitches with full-fat noises and bolshy Moogery, this is music that doesn’t behave itself. It’s human, appealingly analogue and more Delia Derbyshire than DAF, more Tangerine Dream than Depeche Mode, and definitely not your average bloketronica. Debut album released 7 November 2025.

Echoplex

Echoplex has a manifesto close to Delia’s heart – an attempt to capture the ethereal beauty and magic that is all around us in nature – in the seasons, the sun, the moon, trees, birds, standing stones. Using drones, found sounds, layering, echoes, delay, happy accidents, harmonies, space and calmness, Echoplex examines the possibilities of the natural harmonic structures and sounds that can be found within a guitar.

The Friends of Delia

At the start, around the edge, one-off, experimental performers and performances, never to be repeated.