Music at Bishops' House

01/07/2025

Ticket Alert!
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Just 5 Tickets left for SIROM in November!
Some left for Pumice Thursday and Aly Eissa on Friday.

30/06/2025

We have two great gigs this week at Bishops' House.
🦋 Thursday - from the New Zealand underground no-fi pop legend Pumice. Glenn Donaldson sums it up best:
"broke-down sounds, slowed-down Magic Band rhythms, crumbling chord organ hymns & tragic ballads that reach deep into the very soul of Flying Nun/Xpressway/Root Don Lonie For Cash anti-pop pop music.”"
Support comes from Little Skull, also from NZ bringing portastudio rock, folk and noise.
🦋 Friday - the incredible oud-playing wonder that is Aly Eissa (The Handover). We are stoked that Aly has returned so soon after the sold-out Handover show in March. Improvisation rooted in the Egyptian classical and folk traditions.
Support from Adra (Andy DR Abbott) and his mesmerising Music for Psychiatric Wards project.

29/06/2025

Music at Bishops House , this week ...

You want "Out There", we have "Out There" possibly on a limb.....

From New Zealand and Egypt.

NZ has long been a rich source of influential underground music. think of The Chills, The Bats, The Clean, Roy Montgomery........etc
This Thursday 3rd July, we bring you Pumice. Pumice return with an exquisite experimental bathroom sink pop sound, dubbed Phylis. Anything could happen fragility is a core component of these songs.
Little Skull completes the evening. Dean Brown's long running solo project. He plays all instruments, even if it sounds like he is barely touching them and yet his obscure personal fingerprints are all over the place. His instinctive spontaneous playing finds ways to make them glow and fizz and ripple

On Friday 4th Aly Eissa (Cairo) returns after a transcendental performance earlier tis year as part of The Handover . (if you were there you know) This time Aly performs solo OUD with a suite of songs entitled "The Fruit Fly" Sounds mundane ...we think not!

In The Fruit Fly, Aly Eissa presents a singular, immersive journey—one long, continuous composition that weaves together meditative, repetitive motifs with expansive, evolving melodies. Inspired by the simple, often overlooked beauty of fruits, the piece honors life’s fleeting pleasures and the moments of stillness within it. Through intricate oud playing and subtle improvisations, Eissa invites the listener into a deep, reflective space, where time becomes elastic and the sound becomes a living, breathing entity.
https://alyeissa.bandcamp.com/album/the-fruit-fly

We try.... Come hear, see..It'd be great to see you there.
BYOB
Doors 7.00pm
Music 7.45pm

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28/06/2025

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If you are Glasto'd out and in need of real musical nourishing, we have acool evening in store at Bishops House. Chilled in every way.

Expect experimental ambience and sonic explanations...
From Wales and Sheffield,with love.
Tickets available otd.
Doors 7.00pm
Music 7.45pm
Byob.. Not £8 a shot@!!

27/06/2025

Experimentalism Bishops House, tomorrow 28th.
Composer Susan Matthews brings an Audio Visual performance to the 16Cth House in Meersbrook Park.. A boldness and fragility of sound to dive into. Support from Manon McCoy, Harp explorations to make you wonder......
It'll be cool, it's not Glasto.......
Come hear/see.
Doors 7.pm
Music 7.45pm
Byob

26/06/2025

A night of experimental beauty. Grab your ticket. It'll be cool in vibe and temperature..

24/06/2025

Two nights until Johnny Campbell comes a-roving to Bishops' House.
Sadly Chris Butterfield is unable to make it this time (we will reschedule!) but Johnny will be playing two 45 minute sets and we are sure there will be plenty of tales of his recent Pennine Way tour for walking fans.
Expect rough-hewn trad-folk sung with passion with "the spirit of the folk clubs running in his veins" (Folking) or "A Modern-day Billy Bragg" (Tradfolk)
Thursday 26th June 7pm Tickets available. BYOB.

23/06/2025

"The Heat is On!" to quote Glen Frey and we have two cool gigs this week at Bishops' House.

Thursday 26th Johnny Campbell, writer and singer of singular Northern Trespass Songs covering a multitude of subjects. Folk at it's best
Saturday 28th, Neo Classical /Ambient Composer Susan Matthews brings Haunting Experimentation to a perfect space. With Manon McCoy equally breaking new ground with harp strangeness.
All gigs :
Doors 7.00pm
Music 7.45pm
BYOB

NB Tickets for Aly Eissa half gone. Oud Mantras and meditations....
Sirom 12 tickets left!
Just Announced Emma Tricca and Pete Astor..... two amazing songwriters in one room...

We are purveyors of the weird and wonderful in a 16th century house.

22/06/2025

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20/06/2025

Two great gigs this coming week at Bishops House. Folk and beautiful strangeness.
On Thursday 26 June, Johnny Campbell and Chris Butterfield bringing a particularly Northern vein with music and a talk about Alfred Wainwright the legendary fell walker. A touchstone for many.
https://youtu.be/YSFwYXIcnSY
Saturday 28th sees Susan Matthews Susan Matthews. Susan is a UK based composer/musician, known for her intense, ambitious, hypnotic harmonies and industrial noise creations.
Also playing local Experimental Harpist McCoy. Manon is particularly interested in the uses of spaces both musical and physical, often designing pieces that rework the performer-audience dynamic. Her works bring with them a strong sense of storytelling and sharing of space.

Doors 7.00pm
Music 7.45pm
Byob
It'll be cool to see you there.

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17/06/2025

Still staying cool at Bishops; House wit some great music coming up.
Next week, Thursday 26th, we have Johnny Campbell and Chris Butterfield, Johnny is steeped in the right to roam movement and plays beautiful but robust songs of the current scene. Chris will talk about Alfred Wainwright the legendary fell walker and author, his life and Legacy

On Saturday Susan Matthews / Manon McCoy bring
Ghostly minimalist piano hauntings abstract and beautiful and extraordinary harp and electronic re imaginings.

We have just announced Emma Tricca / Pete Astor two extraordinary songwriters. It's been a long time coming for Emma, Pete is a favourite bringing, old and new songs, classics all.

15/06/2025

Just catching our breath after a whirlwind end of May /Early June.
If you were at one of our Bishops House gigs, Thank You, we don't take it for granted and will keep the vibes flowing g.
Next Up Johnny Cambell a true troubadour mining a rich Furrow of rooted folk and Chris Butterfield with a talk about The Legend, Alfred Wainright.
It's good to delve into a slightly different ditch of earth.
Some really exciting artists from across the globe coming up, Including Emma Tricca and Pete Astor . Arrgh!!!
Keep Cool
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Have a gander.