QWAK club

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QWAK club is a sporadic night at Bristol's magnificent Cube Microplex, hosting extremely high-calibre national & international artists doing all sorts of batsh*t insane stuff of significant cultural worth to a very small number of enthusiasts.

11/06/2026

QWAK club #24 - Saturday 27th June 2026 ℂ𝕌𝔹𝔼 ℂ𝕀ℕ𝔼𝕄𝔸
£11 / £6 +bf

Completely nonsensical bill featuring three acts visiting Bristol for the first time. The event will launch an exhibition of new artwork by Laurie Owens and if the weather is good - they'll be the opportunity to imbibe cocktails and performances (maybe) in the Cube's delightful garden.
band - New trio venture from Sophie Cooper (trombone logic extender), Flo Christman (drums!) and Tom Hawkins (gravel voiced cello) Long form dub adjascent lock in improv'd noise minimalism. One listen through this and you'll appreciate why we've invited them down: flosound.bandcamp.com/album/beneath

THE SPRIGS - Slap-dash free-folk trio currently celebrating the release of their first long player proper: 'For Red Riverbank' out last month on one of our favourite labels - Bison Records. Characterised by Time is Away as a ‘Beautifully scrappy meeting point between diaristic real-world clatter and a particular strain of folk-pop romanticism’.

THOMAS CARROLL - Mostly works in improvisation, performing using feedback electronics and scavenged devices (‘some-input mixer’). Sometimes he performs pieces that are closer to ‘composition’ by some definition. He runs Free Music Lessons, a gig series in Leeds; and co-runs Conception, an experimental open mic night in Leeds. Releases on: Marginal Frequency, Infant Tree, Kirigirisu, Why Keith Dropped the S, Teorema di Gasparo, Sawyer Spaces.

ROBERT RIDLEY-SHACKLETON - What makes a party a party? RRS makes a party a party. Our beloved Cardboard Prince has just funk'd up Glasgow and Edinburgh and is now back in the mothership for his first home performance in a little while.

+++ An exhibition of recent artwork by the psychedelic mind warrior egg
+++ 🚰🎀Hebe DJ in the bar!
+++ Cocktails in the garden!

QWAK club is usually a carefully curated event series from The Cube Microplex, bringing eclectic avant garde sounds, visuals and performance together with a fun and inclusive atmosphere.

Cheaper concessions tickets are limited and for those who would struggle to afford the price of a standard ticket.

Part of Everywhere At Once.

13/05/2026

Weds 20th May 2026

WAQK club presents:

DUVEL MORTGAGE
(Adam Bohman, Jonathan Bohman & Sophie Sleigh-Johnson)

Not so fresh from Bury St Edmunds, Duvel Mortgage’s special brand of country music is ready to tackle the territories of England. Advancing in their customary triangular fashion, at times on their knees, they will effect a peregrination from the City of Bristol to The Vale of Pewsey by way of Northern Gloucestershire. Duvel Mortgage are keeping the score as they begin to investigate The Chalcotribe Mysteries. Tracing a fine line between elemental terrors and Brass Rubbings, these sacred arts can rub you up the wrong way. What price, rest?

RICHARD THOMAS
Usually spotted in Bristol performing with Secluded Bronte. Will perform a solo 10 minute set immediately before Duvel Mortgage. Not received any indication of what to expect.

TAPSEW
High drama duet of sewing machine and tap dance, amped up and projected featuring long-term BEEF'ers Sam Francis, Eliza Lomas, Kathy Hinde plus Matthew Olden. Scissors on thread; needle through cotton; metal via body on floor. The sounds of the machine and tones of the floor played out in tap, creating pace, tempo and rhythm in repetition and unification. 'The escapism of showbiz with the repetitive labour of industry…'

PATSY DELVE
The drag alter-ego project of Bristol based musician Noah Radley. Drawing inspiration from the likes of Cindy Lee, Velvet Underground and The Paris Sisters, PD harkens back to a time and place barely remembered; red-tinted hues, dusty highways and corners of dark late night bars.

Doors open at 7.30pm with music beginning at 7.45pm.
Advance tickets £10 / £6.50 + bf via Headfirst

15/04/2026

WAQK club presents:

DUVEL MORTGAGE

Not so fresh from Bury St Edmunds, Duvel Mortgage’s special brand of country music is ready to tackle the territories of England. Advancing in their customary triangular fashion, at times on their knees, they will effect a peregrination from the City of Bristol to The Vale of Pewsey by way of Northern Gloucestershire. Duvel Mortgage are keeping the score as they begin to investigate The Chalcotribe Mysteries. Tracing a fine line between elemental terrors and Brass Rubbings, these sacred arts can rub you up the wrong way. What price, rest?

+ PATSY DELVE
+1 tbc

Wed 20th May @ Cafe Kino

30/03/2026

QWAK club # 23

KULKU
+
RACHEL MUSSON

Plus DJ Benny in the bar

Weds 1st April

Doors 7pm
Finish at 10.30pm

Tickets £14 // 11 + bf via Headfirst

17/03/2026

QWAK club # 23

is a musical phenomenon, a deep-cutting ceremony of primitive music at its best. The band, around lead singer Wenzlovar, keeps evolving their sonic imprint - an Orff instrumentation and drums are the pounding heart of this musical dervish. Acoustic perpetuum mobile is fed by a deep submersion in exploring the sound spectrum of wood, brass and voice. Musical bonds with minimalists like Moondog, Neu or Can. Expect a 90 minute epic from the Berlin based septet.

Having spent over a decade deeply immersed in improvised music, saxophonist has gradually developed a solo practice incorporating composed elements with field recordings and processed sound and it is this side of her practice she will present for this performance at the Cube. Fans of Annea Lockwood, Claire Rousay or Laura Cannell take note.

DJ in the bar

Weds 1st April
Doors 7pm, live music starts at 8pm.
At The Cube Microplex ()
Tickets £14 / £11 (low income) + bf available on Headfirst

QWAK club is a carefully curated event series from The Cube Microplex, bringing eclectic avant garde sounds, visuals and performance together with a fun and inclusive atmosphere.

Cheaper concessions tickets are very limited and for those who would struggle to afford the price of a standard ticket.

08/01/2026

QWAK club # 22

Thur 5th February 2026
Doors 7.30pm
Ticket £13 / £10 concessions +bf available via Headfirst
at the Cube Mircroplex, Bristol

Three live sets: the debut performance from the duo of the UK’s Rian Treanor & Japan’s wind instrument virtuoso and goat cohort Rai Tateishi; ferocious computer music of Sheffeld’s Eye Measure; and bowed cymbals from Bristol-based multi-instrumentalist Luigi Marino.

03/01/2026

QWAK club 22

Thur 5th Feb
Tickets on Headfirst

23/03/2025

QWAK club # 21
Thurs 17th April. Doors 7pm.
Tickets £13 (£9 unwaged/ concessions) + bf

KULKU - Formed in Berlin at the turn of the millennium, Kulku have evolved as a highly unique and free-formed collective of musicians that make trance-inducing, jazz-entwined, percussive and soulful (mostly) acoustic music that takes cues from the rhythmic propulsion of Jaki Liebezeit’s Can, the street-folk of Moondog, the minimalism of Steve Reich, and the droning rock n’ roll of the Velvet Underground, forming a sound that they themselves have coined ‘No-Age’.

Expect a showcase of the unique identity the band have been developing for more than two decades; a sound crafted through experimentation and innovation with primarily acoustic instruments; droning harmoniums, repetitive and phasing xylophones, timpani, cello, scrap metal and woodwind reeds, all sitting alongside soulful saxophones and the voice of frontman Andreas Riska, singing in both German and English.

A phenomenal live group - this will be a memorable one!

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MOSQUITO FARM began in 2022, an artists band and collaboration between Maddie Banwell and Grace Black. Their performances include many handmade instruments - mechanical, electronic and acoustic, alongside props and devices to play them with. Some forms are unrecognizable as instruments, while some resemble more conventional strings, drums or machines. These create sequences of drone and percussion, switching between microtonal harmonies and more chaotic layered rhythms with harsher sounds. Their performance is as much object theatre as music - their physical presence is choreographed around parameters to construct or collapse their set up, veering between intensity and awkwardness.

Recent performances include Supernormal, Kraak Festival (Belgium) and LUFF (Switzerland). So far, Mosquito Farm is mostly experienced live, however they have 2 tracks on SELN’s compilation ‘The Last Londoner’ from 2023, and a track on The Wire Magazine’s ‘Below the Radar’ compilation in November 2024. They are currently working towards a solo release with SELN later this year.

Plus DJ Benny spinning tunes in the bar before, between and after the two live acts.

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