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@wattsnoise.bsky.social

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Artist and noise maker. Ogre in a wizard costume. COMMISSIONS OPEN Art: jameswatts.art Bands: Plague Rider / Lenz / Lovely Wife / Dolmen Dweller / Dybbuk / All The Heavens Were A Bell / Shrimp / etc Record Label: panurusproductions.bandcamp.com

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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · Apr 28

COMMISSIONS OPEN

I’ve spent the last month getting everything set up and now I could really do with getting some commissioned work in.

You can check out my portfolio here: jameswatts.art

And the print shop is still open here: jameswatts.bigcartel.com

More info that I can’t fit in a post below:

Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 12h

Buymeacoffee: buymeacoffee.com/james_watts

BigCartel: jameswatts.bigcartel.com

Website: jameswatts.art

James Watts is Weird drawings and strange sounds.

Artist and musician based in Newcastle Upon Tyne.I do daily drawings, illustrate for (mostly) bands, and put on and play in weird musical projects. Help keep me ticking over. If you're interested in m

buymeacoffee.com

Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 12h

Drawn a big fella.

Listened to Nadja during: nadja.bandcamp.com/album/cut

Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 1d

Drawn a creature.

Listened to Aphex Twin during: aphextwin.bandcamp.com/album/i-care...

LINKS

Buymeacoffee: buymeacoffee.com/james_watts

BigCartel: jameswatts.bigcartel.com

Website: jameswatts.art

A flesh coloured alien creature against a sand coloured backdrop. It has a long featureless head and two arms ending in tentacle like fingers. It stands on four legs splayed out from a central torso, which is wrinkled and has what look like plates running up the front. To the right is a block of interlaced straight lines, with what looks like some kind of abstract script below it.

Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 12d

Drawn a sun dweller.

Listened to Nadja during: nadja.bandcamp.com/album/desire...

PRINTS: jameswatts.bigcartel.com

BUYMEACOFFEE: buymeacoffee.com/james_watts

A portrait or a vaguely humanoid figure in oranges, yellows and red. The head is a featureless lump bar a line of black gem like eyes and the torso is fluid and lumpen. It looks as if the character is within somewhere very hot, as if it lives inside a sun.

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𝖘𝖊𝖆𝖓 𝖜á𝖗𝖘 @wwrrssddrrwwss.bsky.social · Aug 2

I’m playing a gig for @free-music-lessons.bsky.social at wharf chambers in leeds on the 2nd october.

Alongside HAPTIC ( @stevenhess.bsky.social ) and THOMAS CARROLL ( @snufkin.bsky.social )

more info: snufk.in/free-music-l...

Gig poster:

FREE MUSIC LESSONS
£7/13 NOTAFLOF
October 2nd at Wharf Chambers 19:30

HAPTIC

HELL ON HEARTH

THOMAS CARROLL

Wharf Chambers is a members' club and you need to be a member, or guest of a member, in order to attend. Please visit wharfchambers.org/join.
Membership costs £2 and requires a minimum of 48 hours to take effect.

Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · Aug 4

I remember seeing something that she was looking for live members a while back

Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · Aug 4

*slowed down wrestling soundtracks in a windowless flat*

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Sumlin @sumlin.bsky.social · Jul 21

New on Wrong Speed Records!

"Here Comes The Mind, There Goes The Body" is the long-awaited debut album from the mighty HUMAN LEATHER

Watch the video for "Dark Depths And Surface Tension" HERE:

youtu.be/UR61qWeckwM?...

Human Leather - Dark Depths and Surface Tension - (Official Video)

YouTube video by Wrong Speed Records

Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · Jul 19

Oh there’s always a promoter and a venue, and if it’s sometimes you get lucky and they do things, but as I’ve got close to ‘professionals’ of late the attitude seems to be that the gig gets booked and that’s it unless you chase. And apparently that’s because someone can do the chasing as a job now?

Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · Jul 19

Apparently promoters don’t send you the specifics for a gig anymore and you are supposed to ‘advance’ it which is something someone can charge for doing. Remember when people did this stuff because they cared about it and it thought it was good?

DIY or Die etc etc

Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · Jul 19

Wild that there’s a whole industry of ‘booking agents’ who’s job it is to email about booking bands and a whole industry of ‘events promoters’ who’s job it is to say “ok”, and then nobody does anything unless prompted and people charge to send emails

The Music Industry is fucking leprous isn’t it.

Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · Jul 19

Can’t wait to get loads of splinters forever.

Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · Jul 19

Similarly I really like the recording on Life Metal and Pyroclasts but I kinda wanted them to do more with it? I feel like maybe the point at the moment is to get at the distilled down to it’s essence drone stuff, but I was really into the various guests and collabs etc around Monoliths time

Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · Jul 19

Yeah I generally like all their stuff but post Monoliths it felt maybe less adventurous? Didn’t spend a lot of time with Kannon and I’ve just found the record moving so I’ll have to give it another go

Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · Jul 18

Can I just make a sofa? Can I just screw some bits of wood together into a sofa shape and put cushions on? Does that work?

Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · Jul 18

Their best album, I reckon

Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · Jul 18

Used to use this as a nap soundtrack for ages because the spoken word at the end properly jolts you awake.

Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · Jul 16

Wait, if there is already one of these, and I was the second, then I would be Corn 2.

Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · Jul 16

I do already have a knitted yellow balaclava, so I’m part way to corn.

Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · Jul 14

If enough of us are willing to risk looking like huge dorks who suck then maybe we can normalise it

Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · Jul 9

ChatGT, what do I do if I’m struggling with weed dependence?

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Necro Supernaut XIII @necrobutcher187.bsky.social · Jul 9

here's a full pair of sketchbook pages for you, please enjoy these fun drawings, show people, learn to enjoy the down time, relax, listen to yourself breathe, wear a helmet

Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · Jul 8

Actually got in just in time for #portfolioday - here’s some recent and not so recent squiggling.

A line drawing of a warped skull in black and white ink on blue paper. The skull stretches across the page into a tendril like form

A digital painting of a yellow/red amorphous mass. Eyeballs stare from crevices in the surface, and it is behind details for a gig featuring Horrendous, Crypt Sermon and Plague Rider, at the Black Heart on the 10th August

An ink drawing of a surreal psychedelic ship against a marbled background. The ship is made of curved organic forms in yellow with blue orbs attached to or hovering around the main hull. In the background is a rendition of the room Lapetus.

A cloud hovering against a Paul’s turquoise back drone. Straight spear like lines point downward from the cloud, with arrow heads at the end of them

Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · Jul 7

Got a new spot completely sorted out and moving stuff underway - horrors of rental industry dealt with for the foreseeable and better environment on the horizon etc etc.

So what I’ve decided to do is get paralysingly anxious about another thing and sit on the sofa not sorting anything instead.

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terry t gerbs @heinouswhiner.bsky.social · Jul 7

Territorial Gobbing - BLUE METAL

Weekly album mission continued. Jandeked acoustic blues + blak metal screams + glossy synths into short songs and long spaceoffs

territorialgobbing.bandcamp.com/album/blue-m...

BLUE METAL, by Territorial Gobbing

territorialgobbing.bandcamp.com