O! REJOICE! Throw your arms to the planets and put aside your doubting mind!
As we move ever closer through the spring into solar climax, our gears are turning widdershins - we are only here to help you.
We have two gigs in the merry month of May:
Next Sunday (03/05) we return once more to Sounds From The Other City (@sftoc@witchthebeauty ), downstairs at The Old Pint Pot
A couple of weeks later on a steamy Monday night (18/05) we share the black stage of The Peer Hat (@thepeerhat ) with some stinky punks and contrarians of all sorts, namely - Bombstrap (@bombstrap.rotterdam ), Grief School (@grief.school ) and National Crisis (@national_crisis )
Photos from our gig at The George Tavern a couple of weeks back by @shootthevibe
Tickets on DICE now- On April 9th, All Spells presents an evening of experimental folk and more, featuring the bog-trawl of Sodden Pelt, banjo and guitar duo The Pegwells, Chermansog’s electronic noise-folk horror and The Late Joe Bowman’s experimental maximalism. This will be an evening best described in the most pretentious way as ‘immersive’; artists will perform on the floor amongst the fog and dim light of @thegeorgetavern - You are welcome to stand where you like and soak in the music however you wish. Between each act records will be selected and spun from the artists perfoming and the All Spells collection to create a consistent atmosphere of the folk spirit in all its forms; expect noise/drone/electronic/country/folk/alternative and much much more.
featuring @sodden_pelt@thepegwells@chermansog and @thelatejoebowman
on the 18th May we shall be returning to ye olde haunt The Peer Hat to support pure evil demon punks @bombstrap.rotterdam with the help of geo-political toy terrorists @national_crisis
May the creator on high help you all.
Tickets available now
Seasonal Greetings to all from everyone at Chermansog.
We hope that you all have had a reflective and restorative solstice and that you can find some light at this darkest time of year. Now is the time for clinging to hope, for new beginnings and for the burning of the old world, inside and out.
One small announcement: from now on this account will exist purely for updates and content related to the project Chermansog. If you want to follow me (Hadden) personally then my new account will be @lunar.bog . Chermansog began as a solo project back in 2018 but since then it has evolved a lot and has become an entity I wouldn’t dare attempt to control by myself. In the future I’d like to expand the project to be more communal and collaborative than it already has been becoming.
We have some great announcements coming in the following weeks and days, as well as big ambitions for 2026. Lots of love. Love is the Law. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and more love
THIS SATURDAY!
We shall be supporting the dark mires of boggy sound that is @godot_music at the wonderful Cafe Blah, Withington. We shall (if all goes according to plan) be joined by a very special guest on percussion and will be playing alongside fantastic acts such as @dimmd_band and @dulldrumsband . Hope to see you there.
£5 tickets and no one turned away for lack of funds x x
📅 Saturday 11th October
📍 Windrush Centre, 70 Alexandra Road
⏰ 4:30-7pm
JOIN US FOR WORKING CLASS FOLK
A gig Of, For, and By working class folk!
We are proud to present 5 amazing folk and trad artists from across the North at this year's The World Transformed. Featuring; Jennifer Reid, Lucy & Hazel, Chermansog, Brown Wimpenny, and Ancient Hostility, this evening of music will take you from ballads about freedom to industrial folktronica to reels which you just can't resist dancing to!
At The Windrush Centre in Moss Side, entry is free, although requires a ticket to The World Transformed (link in the bio or at /events/theworldtransformed/1807764 ). We will be start at 4:30 PM sharp. There is a bar onsite.
The World Transformed is a national festival of social ideas, culture, and history. It is taking place 9-12th October across Hulme.
We want to thank The Musicians Union for their support in staging this event.
Hi all, tomorrow evening (Sunday 20th) I’ll be DJing again at @cafeblah ; I’m going to start doing a ‘record of the month’ type thing, listening to one record in full and then just playing other bits, bobs and curiosities until the end. For this first month we’ll be listening to ‘Escalator Over The Hill - A Chronotransduction’ (1971). This intense and eclectic record, dubbed as a jazz opera, is the work of composer Carla Bley and poet Paul Haines and performed by The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra. Pulling on such disparate genres as free jazz, Indian classical, rock n roll and theatre music, the record also features a stacked lineup featuring Don Cherry, Jack Bruce (Cream), Don Preston (Mothers of Invention), Charles Haden, John McLaughlin and a then-unknown Linda Ronstadt amongst a host of other talent.
Although this can be a challenging listen in places (apologies in advance to those who just want to get a quiet coffee in Withington on a Sunday), this is a fascinating recording and a truly astonishing achievement.
I’ll be starting at around 6.30 ish, would be delighted if you joined me in listening to one of my favourite records. God bless.
Greetings!
We’ve got TWO gigs next week, both at complete different ends of the Chermansog spectrum.
Tuesday 10th June - supporting @exagentband at The Rat & Pigeon
Saturday 14th June - we play Frivolous Fields, a day festival by @thetraditionalexchange & @mud_cic at Platt Fields Market Garden
Looking forward with great anticipation to the coming week. See you all soon.
📸 - @willhard.ing
some really nice photos from our most recent gig at Rat & Pigeon for @sweetfacemcr a while back. Photos by @willhard.ing .
We’ve got some more gigs coming up in June , looking forward to getting back it
